WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 5, lfl2
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Diamonds Subject Of Bank Executive
Diamonds come in three
distinct colors, green, blue
and yellow, and have grain
like wood, Douglas P. Huegli.
Portland bank executive said
in a talk here Tuesday before
the Medford Rotary club.
Huegli, who is assistant
vice president of the Oregon
Bank with headquarters in
Portland and is head of the
business development depart
ment of that institution,
spoke at a luncheon meeting
at the Rogue Valley Country
club.
Following a brief outline
of the diamond industry, a
moving picture turn was
shown telling of the "Ro
mance of Diamonds." The ex
acting stcp-by-step process ot
cutting and polishing dia
monds was shown.
Huegli displayed replicas
of the famous Hope and Tif
many diamonds along with
other types of this precious
stone. The Oregon Bank is
showing the replicas now at
the East Main st. branch at
701 East Jackson st. as a
means of dramatizing the
75th anniversary of this pi
oneer Oregon banking system.
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