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WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 5, lfl2 8 A British Crusader Sees Disarmament Based on Distrust MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON - By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent . Washington (Special) Philip Noel-Baker, author, British politician and r crusader, is jf . wniie-nairca, m ". W ' polished, and i ri highly articu- 'TTf i late a n d by Smith M'Nrfjf. I contemporary (. - I American ri '.V:' - 4 standards a Tdanfferous radical. With the successful members of 'U.S. political parties hugging the center of the political road, venturing only slightly off to left or right radicals are virtually extinct, a casu alty of the play-il-safc era. Besides being a sort of radical devil's advocate, Noel Baker is a member of the British Parliament, a Nobel prize winner for 1S60, and a crusader for disarmament. Yet during the war he served as Churchill's minister for air, and after the war repre sented his country in creating the United Nations. He has written a hook on the long struggle against armaments called, "The Arms Race." He probably qualifies as a radical here because he con siders as subversive the American-aided abortive in vasion of the Bay of Pigs, Cuba, last year; also he dares to criticize the Ameri can arms buildup under President Kennedy s o m e lliing which met with thun derous bipartisan approval in Congress. Noel-Baker claims It caused the Soviets to revise their military budget upward after Khrushchev had an nounced intended arms cuts. Choice Declared The arms race, he asserts, must be stopped because it is much riskier to have a world full of deadly nuclear wea pons than. to cope with the problems of possible cheat ing by nations who have agreed to disarm. He says we have a choice between end ing the arms race or ending our civilization. But don't we have an arms race because of mutual dis trust? How can we foster the trust needed to permit dis armament? Noel-Baker recalled that after World War I, when the Versailles Treaty called for German disarmament, a com mission was set up in Berlin to execute this feature of the treaty. A high German mili tary officer approached the head of the commission and suggested that their relations be based on mutual trust. "You are wong, General. They must be based on 100 per cent distrust," replied the disarmament chief, according to Noel-Baker. The point is that disarmament can work despite distrust, for interna tional inspection is based on distrust, he said. He is confi dent Khrushchev is willing to permit on-site inspections. Any disarmament treaty must include Communist Chi na to be practical, both from the American and Russian view, he said, so he favors admitting Red China to the U.N. to facilitate such an agreement. He believes the Chinese have capable scien tists and will have nuclear war capability before very long. China's invasion of India showed its military effective ness with tough mountain trained soldiers, he said, but their voluntary pullback and cease fire revealed that China docs not want to embark upon a major war. Castro Demands Seen Why did Russia put mis siles in Cuba? Noel-Baker thinks Castro demanded them from Russia with the argu ment that if the big powers can set up rocket bases as a deterrent to aggressive, then Cuba needs similar deterrent power because of Invasion threats from Cuban exiles In the United Stales. Castro re fused to allow UN Inspection of the removal of missiles from Cuba without similar Inspection privileges In the U.S. Noel-Baker suggested. til Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc. BREAKDOWN OF RUSSIAN BUDGET (First in a series of two) Next Monday, Dec. 10, the Kremlin is slaled to submit to the Supreme Soviet the Russian government's budget for 1963. This budget, like all national budgets, will be aimed at achieving specific objectives and this year Nikita Khrush chev openly admits to the world that crucial goals will be easing the acute scarcities in Russia's economy, spurring lagging industrial production and raising the quality of Russia's shockingly shoddy consumer goods. llnw docs Russia's budget comuare with ours? What are Hie differences between (he way she raises rubbles to cover government spending and the way we raise dollars to cover government spending? ! The differences are fascinating and revealing commentary hn capitalism versus communism. ! To start witii there are fundamental distinctions between whal's included in Russia's budget and in the U.S. budget, j To mnlce the U.S. budget comparable, we would have to ' add to federal government exoendlturet, all our state budgets, all our city budgets, all our village budgets, all -the money spent on private education and most of the . billions of dollars spent by industry to expand and mod . ernize U. S. plants. As Dr Ellsworth Ravmond, professor in charge of Russian Area Studies at New York University and a long time ex pert on Russian finance who spent six years at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, put It in an interview, "the Russians really don't need money except as a medium of exchange nr a budget in the sense we do, since the whole economy is controlled so closely by the government." Still, next week. Soviet Finance Minister Vasily Garliuzvo Is scheduled to unveil a budget which superficially will ap pear much like ours. Incidentally, the budget formerly was presented in Fcbn'nry or March -well after the budcet was under way-. a tlnvnq which prompted many cynical jokes .ihcMit how lil'le the Supreme Soviet had to say annul it. Actually. Raymond says the budget is one document which Parliament healedly debates, fur representatives of each recinn and nationality croup battle to gel more money than allocated t" litem. In the end. though, the Finance Minister's nric'iiat plan usually prevails ) riusvia's planned budget for fttV2 showed revenues at RID rubles one ruble officially equals $1.11 and ex penditures at HO 4 rubles. The Russians never run a deficit in their "peacetime" budget. There always is a surplus, which a finance minister lias explained, Is used to stimulate gov-eminent-financed Industrial expansion. There surely are glaring gaps between surface and sub stance in the Soviet budget hut here Is how Raymond breaks down Hie last one. as officially presented Industry and housing. Industry received the largest chunk With housing desperately needed hut given a relatively minor 5 per cent at most spending for industry totaled :.1 per cent of the lfltij budget Armed forces. 17 per cent, exclusive of a secret category, almost certainly military, of another 6 per cent Education, propaganda and science. IS ncr cenl Social insurance and social security. 14 per cent. Agriculture. 10 per cent Communicetions and trade. 8 per cent. Public health and sports. 6 per cent Administration. I per cent. Administration costs are high er than this indicates but they are paid for in some obscured other way It is simply impossible to compare the budgets, as stress ed above In our I Mill budget. $S7 R billion of the V3 7 billion estimated expenditures Is In go for de(cn-c. International and space activities lint we don't bide a penny of our military spending. While spending for education, health and welfare has been climbing fast, it still takes only VS billion of Hie S'l.l 7 billion total. We're just not comparable The Soviet all-union or federal budget remember, the onlv budget there is in Russia -- absorbs oxer two-thirds of what Hie Russian people earn each year. Raymond mien laics In the US, all taxes take about 30 per rent of na tional inenme. How is the Soviet budget financed This is Thursdays column. s fciiiiine M Hfontti t stew FEARS ENDED - Crewmcmbcrs of the becalmed Nina II wave to a U. S. Navy patrol plane as it flio over the little vessel In the Atlantic Ocean. The sighting 800 miles east off Puerto Rico ended fears that the overdue ship had met disaster. The Nina II is an exact replica of one of the three ships used oy Christopher Columbus when he discovered America. It is retracing Columbus' trail across the Atlantic. (UPI) No Cliche Unturned West's Candidate for Orator of Year Uses Grandfather's Cliches in Talk If' it is? IV est How can there be disarma ment as long as there are un settled tension-ridden issues, such as the future of Berlin? Noel-Baker regards the arms race Itself as the cause of much world tension. He thinks the solution to Berlin can be found only in the re unification of Germany, and he believes this would be ac ceptable to Russia only if a disagreement is implemented, causing Germany to be de militarized rather than armed as it is now. Whether sound or not, these views are rarely ex pressed In this country, virtu ally never by an active poli tician. If Noel-Baker's views are radical, they suggest a different climate of opinion in America's old world ally. Ontario Mechanic's Death Held Accidental Caldwell, Idaho -UIPD- Can yon county sheriff's officers labeled as an accident today the shooting death of an On tario, Ore., mechanic. Dean Leroy Prcuitt, 38, died shortly before midnight Monday when he was struck in the side by a shotgun blast near his Inlaws' farm home at Wilder, Idaho. Officers said Prcuitt had been hunting earlier in the day and apparently was tak ing his shotgun from his car when the gun discharged. Tlie trigger of the gun apparent ly caught on a blanket, dep uties said. By DICK WEST Washington - OIPli - Toward the end of the recent con gressional session, when some issue was be ing used as a political foot ball, Rep. Paul A. Fino, whose back was to the wall, attempt ed to seize the bull by the horns. In a ringing decla ration that I regard as a clas sic of sorts, Fino, a New York Republican, demanded that his adversaries "slop pussy footing around and use some horse sense." I have forgotten the context in which this utterance was uttered, but I should like to revive it now as a means of introducing Ladd Plumlcy, president of the U. S. Cham ber of Commerce. Plumlcy is my candidate for orator of the year (busi nessmen's division), and if the reports I hear are true, he is not being properly appreci ated. Last month, Plumley wrote a speech in answer to President Kennedy's charge that the economic views of many business leaders were based on outmoded cliches of the past. Plumlcy tilled his speech "Cliches My Grandfather Taught Me," and it was really a pip. His grandfather obvi ously had a way with words. He collected in one manu script one of the most be numbing arrays of old saws, maxims and bromides ever assembled. As the saying goes, he left no cliche unturned. Asserting that "a word to the wise is sufficient," and that "you can't teach an old dog new tricks," Plumley nev ertheless espoused a policy of "nothing ventured, nothing gained." Although he did not advo cate "cutting off our noses to spite our faces," he pointed out that "there's no use cry ing over spilt milk" and cited "the unwisdom of locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen." You and I, who can rec ognize a joke when we are hit over the head with one, undoubtedly would delect a iongue-in-cheek quality about Plumley's presenta tion. I am told, however, that the point generally was lost upon the audiences before which he has delivered the speech. One dinner guest was heard to remark: ' I don't see where Plumlcy has any right to crit icize the President for using cliches. He used a lot of them himself." Other listeners apparently accepted the cliche recitation as a serious rendering of the eternal verities. When Plum ley spoke such lines as "bury ing the hatchet and putting our best foot forward," they would burst into applause. The moral of this is: If you're going to be subtle, do it in an obvious way. After, all, you can't judge a cover by its book. New Deluxe 5"x7" PHOTO-GREETING CARDS -COLOR Distinctive, deluxe and personally yours! They're big (5x7 inches), brilliant, and so warm and personal! 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