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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1952 (Thursday)
Medford Mayor Diamond
Flynn has called upon other
Oregon mayors to proclaim
Nov. 29 as "Douglas McKay
Day."
With the bloodmobile unit's
visit to Medford changed to
every three months, the quota
for this week's coming visit is
700 pints, Red Cross officials
have announced.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1942 (Friday)
Medford Postmaster Frank
DcSouza announces mail de
liveries in residential areas
will be cut to one a day.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Now
they have run out of buck
wheat for pancakes. '1' h i s
shortage of something that
was never in the product is
one of the meanest tricks per
pctrated by the war."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21. 1932 (Sunday)
Slate Policeman Joseph Fol-
som narrowly escapes death
near Gold Hill when man
opens fire on him at close
range; gunman believed mem
ber of gang of thieve respon
sible for series of Rogue val
ley burglaries.
Ephriiim Stevens, 90, Civil
war veteran and resident of
Rogue River for 42 years, dies
at home.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21, 1922 (Monday)
Name of "New Town'' sug
gested for building develop,
mcnt in North Phoenix area.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
road to Jacksonville is the
only road that has never been
threatened with paving. Not
even good Intentions are wast
ed on it."
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 21. 1912 (Wednesday)
Story in the Mail Tribune
slates: "The city dads Friday
night recognized the women
of Medford, granted t ho fran
chise al the recent cily elec
tion, by the appointment of
Mrs. A. R. Schuster to the city
registration board."
Dr. F. C. Page applies to
city council for permission In
construct a theater and Dr. J.
L. Helms asks permission to
construct two story building
to take place of old Nash Liv
ery stable on Front st.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten cortcct tl superior;
stven or eight is excellent; five ef
tii is good.
1. Which State is partly div
ided by Chesapeake bay.'
2. In what country is the
cily of Hanoi'.'
3. In which year did the
U.S. Congress meet in Wash
ington. D C, for the first Hint?
4. When you order a dinner
in a restaurant, item by ilem.
are you ordering "table d'
hotc" or "a la carle"?
5. Whal color of shirts were
worn by Hitler s original fol
lowers? fi. Name the capital of Ark
ansas. 7. A coolest in which two
teams try to spell words cor
rectly is called a spelling - ?
R. In which Kuropean ci'.y
is the Champs F.lysccs?
0. Spain is bounded on the
west by Portugal and what
ocean'.'
10. "The Flying Dutchman''
opera was composed by
whom?
Answers: 1. Maryland. 2.
North Viet-Nam. 3. 1800. 4. "A
la carle." 5. Brown. 6. Little
Rock. 7. Bee. 8. Paris, France.
9. Atlantic, 10. Richard Wagner.
NOVEMBER 11. 1S82
Mr. Madden Replies
(Editor'g note: When we
Marvin Madden In a Sunday
Medford postmastcrship, we
him. We are glad to give him
rebuttal. It follows.)
To the Editor: Thank you for making this
space available to me to reply to your editorial
of Sundav. Nov. 18. 1962.
, Your editorial concerning the appointment
of a postmaster for Medford along with your per
sonal attack upon me is a clear example of what
I call ' dirty politics.
I have never sought and do not now seek the
postmaster position. I have not applied to the
screening committee which was appointed to
screen such applicants. A number of persons have
suggested my name for the position. When ques
tioned, I have answered honestly, indicating that
as a family man I would be interested if it were
offered because of the financial security accom
panying such an advancement. Similarly, I might
ask if a recently elected circuit judge were 01
fered an advancement to a life time Federal
iudereshin. would vou criticize his acceptance?
However, the position has not been offered
to me and we are enrraired in a matter of specula
tion the subject is academic. I daresay some of
your readers must be puzzled as to the cause of
your impatient attack.
But, your position was calculable for it fol
lowed a pattern beginning witn an editorial
criticism in 1958 because of my refusal to make
an unqualified endorsement of the Home Kule
Amendment" which was on the ballot that year.
Ynn onnosed mv candidacy for clerk in 19o8. You
opposed my candidacy for clerk in 1962. We were
opposed on the issue of the "Home Rule Charter"
in the 1962 primary. You are now opposed to me
as postmaster.
What would you have? I gather that you
would like me to remain in my present position
in order that you may oppose me in 1966. I must
admit, that should I leave local politics, I would
have nostalgic memories of our inevitable op
position. From events that have passed, I can extract
only one cause for your position that is the
Home Rule issue. I know of your association with
certain members of the Democratic party who
were advocates of the Home Rule Charter. I
suspect revenge is the precipitant and I urge you
to deny that you have conferred witn these peo
ple concerning me and the postmastership prior
to writing your editorial. Too, I think you should
make your recommendation for postmaster at this
time. This would further clear the air.
It is my understanding that an appointee for
postmaster will encounter many "tests." The
prime test should be
should remain foremost
desires.
When I filed for county clerk, I intended to
oualifv if elected and I still intend to serve the
people of this county as
JN REPLY, we say only
1. Mr. Madden has been an excellent county
clerk and a fine public
cumbency. He s also a nice guy.
2. Our'lack of support tor his reelection was
based on reasons we considered sufficient.
3. Mr. Madden has not denied that he would
accept the postmastcrship if offered, in contradic
tion to 1ns declaration of candidacy which
pledged him to accept the office if elected, and
to the verdict of 16,627
who reelected him to his
4. Mr. Madden, as an
in the charter election of
appointment, as distinct
ty officers including county clerk, as a denial of
the voters' right to select their own officers. If
ho were to resign as clerk, his successor would
be appointed by the county court. L. A.
Cruel and Unusual
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive
fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments In
flicted." Amendment VIII, Constitution of the
United Slates.
Do 20 strokes of the
well laid on" constitute
ishniont"?
This is still a live issue in Delaware, where a
indue meted out this sentence to a 19-year-old
parole violator. The hitter's attorneys claim they
will fight this all the way to the supreme court,
if necessary, and one of them declared, "The
whole idea is barbaric and inhuman.
The judge, on the other hand, criticized
"bleeding hearts and nice Nellies" for deploring
the flogging sentence, and said, "For some rea
son, a iot of people want to strangle anything to
do with the administration of criminal justice.
jHTl IE judge's comments about the administration
I of justice are familiar.
I They're precisely the same sort of reaction
1 heard in England a couple of centuries ago when
I it was actually proposed that the death sentence
I be abolished in the case of children convicted of
stealing a loaf of bread.
I Though the Good Hook says "spare the rod
land spoil the child," ami though we suspect that
'most youngsters are better off if their parents do
J not hesitate to resort to a spanking in certain
leases, neither seems related to deliberate, official
j torture which is exactly what a flogging is.
I In this case we prefer a bleeding heart to dc
I liberate sadism. E. A.
criticized County Clerk
editorial for seeking the
hoped for a reply from
comparable space for his
qualifications and this
regardless of personal
their clerk.
U. M. Madden
Jackson County Clerk ,
this:
servant during his in
Jackson County voters
present position.
opponent to Home Kule
last spring, opposed the
from election, of coun
lash "on the bare back
"cruel and unusual pun
MEDFORD
I MARKET
tfiM&i&jMi 12, a AmS Times
"Why shouldn't I shout whan asking aboul the price?
The advertiser on TV shouted at me when he told me
lo buy the productl"
... Communications ...
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The Mail Tribune reserve, the right lo edit all letter, with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letter, submitted for publication mu.l not exceed 400 word.. The letter,
printed in lhi. column do not necessarily repra.ent lha views ol the paper; in fact lhe
contrary i. often the case.
Begin Doing
To the Editor: All is not
well in the nation's class
rooms, and this fact is known
by educators and parents
alike. In spite of this, special
ists in education warn that
schools "need to be made
better" due to the knowledge
explosion now taking place.
There seems a chasm between
what we require in education
and what we are receiving,
and this chasm must be
closed, now.
Every parent has "his com
plaint: bad reading grades,
Inability to spell, too much
homework, physical discom
fort resulting from "physical
fitness" programs, the high
cost of public education to
private persons, a seeming
tendency toward regimenta
tion in schools, and more.
Teacher complaints match
these and add others.
I propose a Council for Ef
fective Education composed
of everyone who wishes to
have children obtain the kind
of education necessary to sur
vival and contentment in the
changing world of today and
the unknown world of tomor
row. Such council will study
all phases of education, inter
viewing students for interest-
levels and suggestions, seek
ing out duplications which
are costly in teacher-time and
student-e (fort, determining
public opinion as to what
should be taught and what
must be dropped (for today's
student cannot learn every
thing there is to know, nor
does he need to).
Just credit given to the
teaching profession, still, the
greater American public
known as parents and stu
dents must derive certain sat
isfactions from the education
al system. Less than this is
the experience of people In
nations from which we do not
wish to make pattern. Educa
tion must remain in the
hands of the public which
must care, and must decide
what is to be taught, and how,
and when - at what level.
I volunteer my home as a
first meeting place, and would
like a nucleus of such Council
for Effective Education to
meet as soon as possible. If
you have complaints, sugges
tions, or other such interest,
write or call me and let us be
gin what we can, now. while
we yet may. Phone 772-4513.
Mrs. Virginia Card
R50 Palm st.
Medford
UNICEF Thanks
To the Editor: We want to
thank all those who contrib
uted their time to make the
UNICEF Halloween Program
a success.
The help given by SI.
Mary's School, twelve Med
ford Sunday Schools, one
Gold Hill Sunday School, the
Neighborhood Mothers of
Medford and Central Toint
and the Y.M.C.A., was in
valuable. Congratulations are due to
the Young People of four
Ashland Churches. They did
exceptionally well this year
on their UNICEF Project and.
also, the Methodist Youth Fel
lowship of Talent, whose
members participate enthu
siastically each year
Our thanks to Jorgensen
and Snider Dairies for fur
nishing the I'NICFF collec
tion cartons, the First Nation- j
al Rank of Portland for t heir
help each year and KM ED, i
KHES-TV and the Mail Trib
une for their valuable pub- ,
licity.
We are proud of the chil- j
dren who Trick or Treated 1
for UNICEF. and grateful lor I
jthe generosity of the citir.cn
who put coins in their UNI
! C'FF cartons.
I We appreciate the gifts
j from the Student Body Funds
; of each Medford Elementary
1 school especially since it
gave each Medford child a
'part in helping the sick and
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
I IHQJIvfl WW
n-;m.v;
hungry children of the world.
Mrs. Reese Braley,
Chairman
Mrs. Marrs Gibbons
UNICEF Halloween
Program
Medford Chapter of
OUNA
True Dom Scene
To the Editor: The attempts
of members Oakes and Gillan
to give M-T readers a picture
of the moral climate of our
White City Domiciliary are
so pathetic I will become the
Voice of the Veteran for the
moment. Mr. Oakes does not
know the Dom and Jim Gil
Ian, after lauding his personal
publicity prowess, lacked the
reportorial courage to really
write anything, even when
part of the picture.
Our new Director, C. T.
Jackson, evidently of the mod
em belief that alcoholism is
a disease, is now garbing our
wayward comrades in pa
jamas and bathrobes for puni
tive periods of 30 or 60 days
for intemperance. Since Co
lumbus Day some 40 members
have thus become "patients"
in our very own open clinic
where they are almost con
tinuously under community
observation. Thus, our alco
holics are now "marked men"
and it may well be that Di
rector Jackson's adventure in
punitive psychology will suc
ceed where our chaplaincies
and A.A. were of no avail.
For, despite the camaraderie
always extant in Veteran cir
cles, our "patients" find the
steady scrutiny most embar
rassing. Member Oakes' contention
that 75 per cent of the vets
here are alcoholics is asinine.
They WERE alcoholics, hard
drinking men whose tippling,
in one way or another,
brought them into this mod
ern version of the Old Sol
diers Home. The great ma
jority of our 1,000 members
learned their lesson - mostly
the hard way - and 80 per
cent of our comrades are now
quiet, orderly, well-mannered
men - your respectable neigh
bors. Thev do not drink to
excess, seldom frequent the
pubs of Medford or Eagle
Point and never disturb the
day in any way.
There has been a most
pleasing change in the alco
holic atmosphere of the Domi
ciliary the past year: al the
present rate of reform it will
be as staid as a seminary in
another year. Even now
there's but a handful occa
sionally disturbing the calm
of our pleasant pastoral re
tirement In this comfortable
home that our gracious gov
ernment has alloted us for
the evenings of our oftimes
too colorful lives.
And kindly sign my full
name and address to tins cap
sule conclusion.
William Thomas Cuddy,
V.A. Domiciliary,
White City, Ore.
Greedy Game Commission
To the Editor: Once again
the less well-heeled citizen of
Oregon is about to be kicked
the teeth. Our arrogant
wasteful and ineflicient Fish
and Game Commission would
like to raise the cost of li
censes and permits a few
hundred per cent.
These charges of waste and
inefficiency are well-founded.
Consider the plentiful deer
herds of a few years ago and
what they are today. Even a
game commission man should
game commission man
should know that does are
herds, but just this fall a
hunter with enough cash
could get as many as four
deer. Here the game commis
sion, to garner more dollars
for itself, helps the greedy
game hog at the expense of
thousands of hunters.
Consider the Hart Mountain
archery area ten years ago
as many as 1.400 h.intcrs en
joyed the sport with a plenti
ful supply of deer. A few
OREGON
Dark Clouds Appeari
Between France, Alg
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
It is not surprising that the
first dark clouds are appear
ing over the so-called Evlan
accords which led to Algerian
independence and established
thp nnttern of
"P- future rela
tions between
Algeria and
F r a n c e. Al
gerian Pre
mier Ahmed
Ben Bella tele
graphed his
punch in Ha
vana in mid-
Newjom October when
he endorsed Fidel Castro's de
mand that the United States
give up its base at Guantan
amo. Ben Bella also now is say
ing that the Evian accords
would be revised to meet the
"realities of Algeria."
There is little doubt that
among these "realities" are
years ago our greedy game
commission decided there was
an over-supply of deer so they
sold hundreds of permits to
allow rifles in the area each
fall. Today the deer herds
have been cut so drastically
that less than one tenth of the
archers formerly hunting the
area will bother to go there
now. But the cattle herds have
tripled and there are miles of
new fences in the refuge.
Fishing has also seen its
share of tragic waste of our
license money. Thousands and
thousands of dollars have been
wasted in poisoning and plant
ing lakes only to discover a
few years later that a "mis
take" was made in the type
of fish planted.
A few years ago a petition
containing many signers was
sent to the Fish and Game
Commission requesting an
open public meeting in this
area between the Commission
and interested sportsmen, such
as was held some dozen years
ago. This was flatly refused
for various vague reasons.
Possibly an initiative peti
tion should be secured to
make Fish and Game Com
mission officials elected. Then
these misfits could be easily
removed from office - another
very good reason for retaining
our right to elect government
officials.
M. J. Olsen
Route 4, Box 325
Medford
Burned Up
To the Editor: When I heard
the "open secret" at the Demo
cratic Central Committee
meeting last Thursday night,
that Mr. Marvin Madden was
an active candidate for Med
ford postmaster, I felt humili
ated, deceived, and just plain
burned up. To think that I had
gone out in my precinct and
worked for a man who feels
no responsibility or gratitude
to all the people who went to
the polls and overwhelmingly
selected and elected him to his
office.
Now we all betrayed by his
desire for another office. -Why-?
For mure money of
course. So we, and our parly,
are being sold down the river
for Just plain dollars and
cents, notwithstanding his ex
cellent record in office.
Most of us grassroot folks
set a lot of store by, and take
personal pride in, the men we
elect to office, and we don't
take lightly to having these
attributes tossed out the win
dow. Mr. Madden may not realize
it now, and he may learn it
too late, that once he loses
the faith and confidence of his
constituents, it is gone . . ,
but gone. Nothing is more
ephemeral than public esteem
and affection, and neither he
nor the guy who is hustling
him for this job can ever get
it back.
I don't believe our Demo
cratic Central Committee will
exploit our last smidgen of
intrinsic patronage by recom
mending a man for postmast
er, who, by the very fact he
has not denied his aspirations,
has already refuted his moral
obligations to the people of
tins county.
I wonder if Mr. Madden has
ever heard the fable of the
dog, and the bone, and the
reflection in the water.
Mrs. Max Wimmer
1115 West Second it.
Medford
Paradoxism
To the Editor:
The vegetarians think that
meat.
Is something people should
n't eat;
While others say that leaves
and oats.
Are food (or hungry billy
goals
Rut, I m fortunate, because
I feel.
That either one's just half-a-nieal
George Distill
156 Vashtl Wav
Medford
the provisions by which
France retained for 15 years
her air and naval base at
Mers-el-Kcbir on the Algerian
coast and for five years her
rocket and nuclear testing in
stallations in the Sahara.
France regards Mers-el-Ke-bir
as essential to her Medi
terranean defenses and her
nuclear test sites at Colomb
Bechar and Reggane In south
west Algeria as essential to
her development as a nuclear
power.
Ben Bella has declared he
regards these test sites as a
problem for which it is es
sential "that a solution be
found."
The French are not opposed
to reopening discussions on
some of the Evian agree
ments, but they look with a
very cold eye on any change
in the military status.
Further, they have some
complaints on their own
which are contributing to the
growing strain between the
two governments.
Approximately three-quarters
of the one million French
who lived in Algeria and
were the foundation of the
Algerian economy now are
residing in France. Ben Bella
has appealed for their return
but has at the same time, the
French feel, permitted con
tinued harassment of Euro-
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
NO "SECRETS"
One of the new books that
arrived on my desk this week
as a "review copy" sent by
the publish
ers, is "Gary
Player's Golf
Secret s." I
haven't look
ed at the
book, since I
don't play
golf, but I'd
iike to review
the title-and
Hams others like it.
If there is one thing I know
about a "secret" in skill, it is
that it cannot be imparted
verbally. No actor can tell a
novice how lo act, no writer
can tell a tyro how to write,
and no golf champion can tell
an amateur how to hit the
ball.
Not long ago I was looking
through a book by Marshall
Miles called " How To Win
at Duplicate Bridge." It is
a good book, on its own terms,
but its real title should be
"How Marshall Miles Wins at
Duplicate Bridge." I could
read it every morning and
night for seven years, and I
would still lose at the tourn
ament table - more elegantly,
perhaps, but just as consis
tently. John Crawford has writ
ten a book called "How To
Be A Consistent Winner at
the Most Popular Card
Games." Sam Fry Jr. is the
author of a new book,
"How to Win at Bridge
With Any Partner," and a
doien other "How To"
bridge books are always on
the market.
What, is wrong with all
such book. i. their implicit
assumption that a particu
lar talent, or skill, or
knack can be transmitted
from one head lo another
and this is absolutely
impossible.
In the performing arts,
for instance, a good coach
or teacher can help a stu
dent with technique in sing
ing or acting or flue-playing;
but not through a
book, not through a set of
rules on paper, not through
a list of "lips" or "secrets"
or theoretical problems.
...
The only useful book on
bridge I have read is S. J.
Simon's "Why You Lose at
Bridge." Not "How To." but
"Why." Simon knew that he
couldn t teach anyone how to
become a good player, but he
could point out why duffers
like myself keep going down
i in the same dumb wa
The most an Instructor of
such skilLs can do is to show
pupils how and why they go
wrong; they cannot be shown
how to do it right--for doing
it right is a matter of instinct,
of a certain combination of
qualities that are joined in
just the right proportion.
My chess game, for in
stance. Ims not improved a
particle since lhe age of 16.
although I have read many
books and absorbed a great
deal of chess strategy in all
that time. I have eliminated
a few gross stupidities, but
never have I achieved a glim
mer of brilliance at the chess
board. In a book. Capablanca
imparted his "secrets " to me
a dor.en ears ago- and they
remain secrets as far as my
own 'pathetic game is concerned.
nq Over Agreements
eria; Problems Many
peans and has shown undue
haste in nationalizing French
properties. '
Ben Bella has announced
that Algeria will be a non
aligned Socialist state and this
month he began giving some
indication of his plans.
He said the state would
take over and put into opera
tion 500 factories left idle by
their fleeing European own
ers and operators, take over
large estates, and set up its
Drummond Reports
(Walter lippmann is in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
MOSCOW'S DISRUPTED
TIMETABLE
Berlin - The most signifi
cant consequence of Moscow's
forced recoil from Cuba is now
evident in Berlin.
There is no need to wait
longer to describe it. It is
visible already.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From New Delhi:
The- Chinese communists
have broken through the main
Indian defense line at the
eastern end of the Himalayas,
captured Walong and launch
ed attacks, on two other key
points of the battle line, a
spokesman for the Indian de
fense ministry says as this is
written.
The spokesman added that
the Chinese, after capturing
Walong, near the Burma bor
der, have driven another doz
en miles down the Luhit riv
er, toward the Plain of Assam.
(The Plain of Assam is India's
richest agricultural area. In
dia's richest oil fields are also
in the Plain of Assam.)
QUESTION:
Do you reckon India's Mr.
Nehru thinks as much of the
communists now as he has
seemed to think of them over
the years of the recent past?
Or is he perhaps learning
(the hard way) some of the
basic facts of life?
IN MOSCOW, the Soviet Un
ion defends its withdrawal
from Cuba, which has been
criticised by China, and ac
cuses China of "siding with
the imperialists."
Hmmmmmm.
When thieves fall out. hon
est man come into their own.
So
Let's hope that Communist
Russia and Communist China
keep on telling each other off
in highly uncomplimentary
language.
GETTING closer home. Sat
urday was the deadline
date for filing expenses incur
red by Oregon candidates dur
ing the campaign preceding
the recent election.
Some of the figures are in
teresting. A Salem dispatch,
for example, reports that the
most expensive campaign in
Oregon's November 6 election
was the one which resulted in
the re-election of Senator
Wayne Morse to the U.S. Sen
ate. The dispatch adds that the
final filings show that the
Morse-for-Senator committee
spent a total of $146,181.
Next in line, the Salem dis
patch reports, was the Unan-der-for-S
e n a t o r committee,
which spent $132,322 in the
unsuccessful bid of Republi
can Sig Unandcr to unseat
Morse.
The Morse committee, the
filings show, ran nearly $5.
000 into the red. The Unandcr
committee came through the
campaign with $455 left over.
One might point out that an
interesting partisan conclusion
can be drawn from these fig
ures. The conclusion is this:
Republicans tend to be
more careful with money than
Democrats.
SOME more interesting fig
ures: A U.S. Senator's salarv is
$22,500 a year. A U.S. Sena
ator's term is for six years. A
U.S. Senator s total salary tor
the six years of his term
amounts to $135,000.
Which is to say:
Senator Morse was willini
lo spend $11,181 more TO
GET ELECTED than the TO
TAL amount of his salarv for
1 the six years of his term. Mr.
j Unandcr was a little more
cautious. He spent in his cam
' paign for election $2,678 LESS
I than the total of his salary for
I the six years if he had been
' elected.
But, it must be added, he
; didn t get elected
IT S ALL, of course, perfect
1 ly honest and aboveboard.
The law permits expenditures
of this magnitude. The
amounts were properly re
ported. Still--
One finds it hard to escape
the feeling that when candi
dates are willing to spend to
get elected more than the to
tal of the salaries they will re.
cei e during the entire term of
their incumbency. IF elected,
something is cock-eyed in our
system.
own marketing organization
for citrus fruits and olives.
Ben Bella indeed faces for
midable problems. Shuttered
apartment windows and store
fronts in Algiers testify to the
creeping poverty overtaking
the city. In a national popu
lation of 10 million, two mil
lion are unemployed.
Until the end of this year,
Algeria will be living on tha
French budget. - After that,
she is on her own.
What is visible - and it is a
tremendous dividend - is that
the strong U. S. action in Cuba
is disrupting the timetable lor
Khrushchev's carefully plan
ned course against the West in
Berlin.
The events which the Krem
lin have in motion are now
badly out of gear.
Thev were timed a nunnr.
one here realizes, to take plata
right in the wake of the Amci
ican elections.
REMEMBER that it was
Khrushchev himself who
"promised" that the issue of
what next in Berlin would ba
held in abeyance until tha
American people had gone to
the polls. But that was B. C. -Before
Cuba.
It is now into the third
week after the elections and
the scheduled Soviet move on
Berlin is not in sight.
The only new factor in Mos
cow's stalled timetable is lha
decisive U. S. stand which
forced Mr. K. to remove his
offensive weapons from Ilia
Western hemisphere.
Now the clock on the man
tle of the Kremlin's cold war
strategy is stopped - at least
for a time.
The time can be valuable lo
the West - if well used.
In the wake of the retreat
from Cuba and the dismay it
has caused in Soviet planning,
it is important to keep two
things in mind.
FIRST, when Khrushchev
announced that he would
take no step against Berlin
until after the U. S. election,
this was no open act of bene
ficent generosity. It was a sly
act of cunning designed to
give the Soviets lime to get
their missile bases and mis
siles in place in Cuba. It U
now proved that all this bland
talk about not wanting to
trouble the American peoplu
and the Kennedy administra
tion while they were in tha
middle of a political campaign
was deception. The implica
tion that it would not be quito
nice to distract our attention
from the election was only a
coverup to distract our atten
tion from the buildup of of
fensive arms in Cuba.
Senator Keating, and then
President Kennedy, disclosed
what was happening. Tha
scheme did not work, but it
was not from lack of trying.
We can't afford to forget it.
SECONDLY, we need to free
ourselves from the belief
that in putting missiles and
bombs into the Western hemi
sphere, Khrushchev was de
parting from his policy of
"peaceful coexistence." Cuba
was no departure from the
Soviet version of "peaceful
coexistence." It was an appli
cation of it.
The Kremlin has frequently
combined military threats and
military action with tactics of
propaganda, subversion, and
terror - as in Greece, Turkey,
Iran, Hungary, Berlin, and
elsewhere-in waging the cold
war.
Building the launching sitel
and planting the missiles in
Cuba did not do violence to
the Soviet concept of peaceful
coexistence. These were addi
tional instruments of the cold
war intended to thrust Soviet
power into the heart of tha
free world and to advanca
Soviet domination by every
means short of self-destruction.
VOW that it has backfired,
A' the Soviets are making a
tactical retreat under the bar
rage of "look what we ha e
done to promote world peace!''
This is not an embarrassment
to the practiced Communist.
He carefully calculates the
risk and. when he sees he has
miscalculated the liber of re
sistance, he follows the Com
munist book on tactical re
treat. But everyone here in Ber
lin, in til is focal eye of lha
cold war, is convinced that iho
Kremlin docs not want in tho
near future another showdown
with the United States. Tha
timetable for the next move
on Berlin, which was due n
take place as soon as the mis
sile bases in Cuba were opera
tive, is now badly awry. It
will take some new planning
and new calculation before
the Soviets are ready.
We are now in a position to
use this time to good advan
tage and I will discuss lha
possibilities in another column,