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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY. tEDFORDJ&&TRlBUNI ""Everyone in BoTuwn-OrejonT Readi Th Mail Tribune" tubijihFcTBally except Saturdays MKUKOBD PRINTING CO. 33 North Kir jit.. PhJ72-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertlalna Manaser GERALD T LATHAM. But Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tclef Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHEB Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mar An Independent Newipaear Inlered ai aecond claw matter it Mediord. Oreioa under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 yearllB OO Daily and Sunday moa 10 00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. IM Sunday Only One year $500 Slntle Copy (Mal edl J0o By Cainei And Motor Houle. Daily and Sunday 1 year Ml .00 . Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1-79 ' Sunday Only 1 mo. wc Carrie andVendora Copy 10o Official Paper of City of Madford Official J"aperof Jackion County ' United Praia International Full Leaaed Wire U. P I Telepho'o Newaplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Franclaco. Loa Angeh-a. Seattle. Portland Den'-er. NlWlAf t PUBLISHtRS ASSOCIATION NATION A I IDITOKIAl ninri. ii uri Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson County Hiitory from the tiles ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Doe. 11, 1952 (Wednesday) Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company today filed an application for a "general re-pricing" of residential and business telephone rc es with the Public Utilities Commis sioner. Christmas vacation periods - Dec. 24 to Jan. 4 - have been announced by the Med ford public school system and by 10 other county schools. v 20 YEARS AGO . ' Dec. 11, 1942 (Thursday) , Mcdford war price and ra tioning office starts receiving applications for "A" mileage gasoline rationing books. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "1-1071-PLOF-5-NOBUCOSWB is the llabbeigasting title of a gov ernment questionnaire. Sub tract your social security num nnw the remainder il the number of canned peaches you will eat In 194J. f 30 YEARS AGO Dee. 11. 1932 (Saturday) Bill Morgan, University of Oregon athlete from Mcdford, named best football player to face UCLA team during 1932. Mcdford Garden club an nounces plans for annual Christmas lighting competi tion; church choirs to tour city singing Christmas carols on Christmas eve. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 11. 1922 (Sunday) Temperature of 31 degrees In Mtdford is hlghcrt report ed for state. Mcdford Mayor' C. E. Gales rumored to be In running for appointment to slate highway commission. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 11. 1912 (Tuesday) Workmen start pouring concrete for new Main street bridsc across Bear creek. Sales at Mcdford public market average $2,000 a week; city business venture called an "unqualified sue cess." Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten certacv d tueerlor; seven or eight It eicalltnt; live til it good. 1. How much money In gold coin is in circulation In -the United States? 2. What islands are famous for their small ponies? 3. What queen celebrated her golden jubilee In 1807 and her diamond jubilee in 1B7 4 What do musicians re fer to when Ihcv speak of ASCAP? 5. What was man's earliest know implement? 6. What is Hie United Stoles Flag called when it Is being carried by a cavalry regiment? 7 Florence Nightengale ob tained recognition of the value of women nurses dur ing what war? 8 What are the first five hooks of the Old Testament railed as a group? 9 Which musical Instru ment is the highest pitched of alp 10. What have Jersey, Guernsey, Aldcrney and Sark in common? Answers: 1. None. 2. Shet land. 3. Queen Victoria. 4. American Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers. 5. A stone. 8. The Standard, 7. Crimean. 8. The Penfaleuch. 9. Piccolo. 10. English Chan nel islands. 4 A. 8 DECEMBER 11, 1882 Federal vs. Local Government There can be no doubt whatsoever that the federal government has, since the mid-30s and even before, played an ever-larger role in the lives of everyone. . - . Taxes have increased ; so have federal "grants in aid" to the states for a variety of purposes in cluding schools! welfare, hospital construction, sewage plant construction, housing, agricultural practices the list seems endless. Most people. . liberals and conservatives alike deplore this federal enlargement. The basic difference is that the conservative looks up on it as encroachment by the federal govern ment on the rights of the states, while the liberal looks upon it as the federal government "taking up the slack" that is, performing necessary functions where the state and local governments have fallen down on the job. AN EXCELLENT case can be made to support the contention that states, counties and com munities have, indeed, simply passed along, by default, many of their responsibilities to Uncle Sam. If, in the first place, they had given adequate support to schools, hospital construction, sewage disposal again the list goes on and on there would have been neither need nor justification for the. federal government to become involved. But the fact that they have not in many in stances done so, and the, fact that the federal government's taxing authority and power are so far superior to those of local taxing units, has resulted in this basic'shift of both authority and responsibility. , , , rVERY TIME a state legislature cuts a budget for state services, there is an added argument for the federal government to step into the void. Every time a school district budget, or bond issue, is defeated by local voters, the call for fed eral aid to schools gets a little louder, . i Every time a pollution problem goes unsolved for lack of local funds, the pressure is applied to the federal government for more aid to reduce pollution, improve sewage disposal, and so on. - Every time a local community has gone with out needed hospital services, the cry went up for federal aid. When state and county funds were Unable to carry the load of welfare cases, the cry is for increasea federal appropriations. THE FEDERAL income tax is probably the most V efficient device in the millennia-long history of taxation, and it extracts vast sums from the pockets of taxpayers in the relatively painless form of payroll deductions, so that a majority of taxnavers don't even think in terms of their full salaries any more, but home nav. This efficient and relatively simple means of tax collection, coupled with the fact that the fed eral rrovernment is so far removed from direct pressure by taxpayers, nas resulted in tins His toric shift of power from local and state govern ments to Washington. It is our view that this trend will not oe re versed unless and until local units of government state, county and city the responsibility for these necessary services and facilities, and the responsibility of paying for them. THEN and only then will the pressures fni- uipi-nauorl forlorol occictonno and rho in evitable federal standards and controls which go with them, begin to diminish. Then and only then will governments resume a more intimate association with its individual components the voters and taxpay ers. Then and only then will more taxing ability be returned from the federal to local units of government. Thus, it seems to us, both liberals and con servatives who want government closer to home, had best work to strengthen it, and see that it gets adequate financial support to do the necessary jobs in education and in all the other areas where it has too often fallen down. Unless and until that happens, no congress is going to deny increasing funds to the federal government to do the jobs the local governments have cither botched or not done at all. E.A. Federal vs. Local Taxes Thinking along the same lines as those above, an editorial writer on the Eugene Register-Guard reasons thus: ". . . In reality, the average Oregon family Is burdened far more by federal taxes than by local; taxes. And so is the average business or Industry. "The only plausible explanation why more furor Is raised about local property taxes is that these are locally controllable: control of federal taxes is difficult. If not impossible. Thus, individuals and organizations arc led In concentrate their opposition 'higher taxes' upon the sort of taxes they can hope lo oppose most successfully. "But do they pause to consider where such tactics must inevitably lead? If local governments, including school districts, are not properly supported by locally collected taxes, the day will quickly come when Ihey will be fi nanced through handouts from Uncle Sam. "Those who think this would lead to true lax conscna lion, to more efficient and less-costly overall government, have lost faith in the traditional American system. Either that, or they fail to see that blind opposition lo local taxes could all loo easily weaken our local governments, forcing them to default more functions and responsibilities In fed eral agencies." There are some things the people must turn to their government to provide. If one level of government won't or can't another one will. The real choice is not high taxes or low taxes, but what kind of services we want, and which kind of government we'd rather have spending our money. E.A. only in terms of take- begin to assume both MEDFORD "You're About All Matter of Focf y jo..Ph au. lei Nw York Herald Tribune Syndicate ' YOU'RE ANOTHER Washington According to reliable report. President Kennedy's meeting with wily A n a a t a I Mikoyan was far more in teresting than it was made to appear at the time. What Mikoyan wanted was some form of by tne Presi Alans public pledge dent that the United States would not Invade Cuba. This was supposed to "wind up" the Cuban affairs, and inci dentally, of course, it was also supposed to give Nikita S. Khrushchev something tangible to point to as a gain from his miscarried Cuban gamble.-. As the world knows, Miko yan had nothing to offer the President in the way of the one-site inspection and verifi cation in Cuba wiiich was such an important item in the Khrushchev - Kennedy b a r bain. Nonetheless, he rather more than insinuated thai the President would be guil ty of bad faith, if he tcfuscd to issue the desired "no inva sion" pledge. THIS gave the President the opening, for which he had no doubt been hoping, to say, "You're another" with great vigor and vividness, And the President not only pointed out with some asperity that the Soviet side of the Cuban bargain had not been ful filled. He also reminded Mi koyan that the bargain in Laos had been flagrantly breached by the continuing non-withdrawal of the North Vietnamese .Communist troop from Laotian territory. While on the subject of So viet bad faith, the Presdent also recalled to Mikoyan the ugliest feature of the whole Cuban affair. This was the lying personal message that the Soviets would never put into Cuba "weapons capable of reaching American tar gets," which Khrushchev and Mikoyan sent to the Presi dent through Georgi Bulcha kov, a subordinate officer of the Soviet embassy here. To this, Mikoyan replied with blarneying Impudence so great that one must almost' admire it. Khrushchev and he, so he swore up and down, really, truly did not regard the strategic missiles that were put into Cuba as offen sive in character, ineir pur pose, he sairt piously, were solely defensive. AS for not having been frank about them with the President, Mikoyan went on, Khrushchev feared that the presence of these Inno. cent defensive weapons in Cuba might be misinter preted and distorted. In the heat of the American Con gressional elections. So Khru shchev had tried to keep the missiles a secret until the elec tion was ovei, when he had meant to tell the President all about (hem right away. It ran be seen, then why the Kennedy-Mlkoyan con versation was not Immedi ately fruitful. Yet it is thought lo have borne some fruit, nonetheless, of a slower-ripening kind. It is thought, In other words, lo have helped to drive home lo the Kremlin that the U.S. Government Is no longer willing to accept the long-prevailing double standard of International be havior. This Is the odd. but widespread viewpoint which tolerates all kinds ot Soviet actions that would universal ly be regarded as totally In tolerable if they were Ameri can actions. The elimination of the double standard Is the obvi ously essential preliminary to any kind ot useful negotia tions with the Kremlin. Ber lin, nuclear tes.s and all the MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON PUyecJ Out ch" other outstanding problems cannot any longer be dis cussed on the familiar basis of: "What's mine is mine, and now let's have a jolly chat about what's yours." ON the other hand, if the Kremlin is at last ready for equal negotiations, the Kennedy policy-makers are convinced that negotiations will be desirable. There has been some Discussion of a quiet, personal approach to Khrushchev by the President, which would have the effect of testing the climate and perhaps opening the way for talks. The Soviet posture is being continuously . altered, mean while, by the ever-deepening split between Moscow and Peking; The Chinese are still observing the convention of calling Marshal Tito of Yugo slavia a "traitor" when they really mean Khrushchev, just as the Soviets still speak of the vile Albanians when they mean the vile Chinese. But the language now being used is downright frenzed. The split has certainly reached a point, in face, at which the Soviets no longer give any weight at all to Chi nese objections to East-West talks. Certain signs also sug gest that . the Kremlin is smoothing away existing ob stacles to talks. ' A most striking sign was the recent conciliatory speech by the East. German Commu nist boss, Waller Ulbricht, with its novel emphasis on the need for "compromises" by both sides in their ap proach to the Berlin problem. In short, it will not be very surprising if the moment of truth which both sides have experienced, leads on this winter to an attempt to do business with one another on a sensibly realistic basis. Communications Many Don't Agree To the Editor: I have writ ten the following letter to Senator Wayne Morse: Dear Senator Morse: Many Democrats are not in accord with the action taken by the central committee in recom mending Mr. Marvin Madden for the position of temporary postmaster for Medford, or the manner in which it was taken. We hope that you will Investigate the background of this action and the "unani mous" recommendation pro posed. We personally favor the candidacy of Al Bradford but feel that the appointment should at least go lo one of the five men who were the choice of the screening com mittee. Mrs. Lester D. Harris 707 South Oakdale ave. Mcdford. Barking of Jackals To the Editor: I would lis ten to the name calling by the Democratic Central commit tee as I would lo the barking ot a pack ot jackals defending a stolen carcass. That committee, in Ihcir handling of the recommenda tion for the position of post master, have Immersed them selves, and their party, in the mosl odious cesspool of po litical filth that this county has experienced. For the screening commit tee to go through the motions ot preparing candidates for the selection, making com mitments as they proceeded, knowing full well it was an empty gesture, was personal cruelty to the candidates in volved. For Mr. Madden lo proceed with his campaign for an of fice of countywide trust and responsibility, knowing equal ly as well that he had no in tention of fulfilling the man date of the voters, was po litical dishonesty. That both the committee and Mr. Madden had their advance knowledge and In-i Relaxed Tensions Signal End of Cuban Crisis; But What's Ahead for Castro? Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Guantanamo is emerging slowly from Ha womanleM, wifeless state. The simple re turn of domes ticity seemsjto establish that the Cuban cri sis is not a cri sis anymore. As wives re joined hus bands on the big naval base, UPI cor respon dent Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Hart it (c- Field Enterprlsea Inc. SICK MINDS Some day, far In the future -if we are permitted a future - all persons who influence the public in a significant and - sub stantial way will first be given a rig id and thor ough psychiat ric examina tion. All judges teachers, ad m i n istrators, new s paper Harris Columnists; all policemen, Army officers, po litical candidates, physicians; all social Workers, magazine editors,' advertising execu tives, labor leaders. In that day, such an exam ination will be as routine as our present tests for physical health and professional apti tude. Today, we will not al low someone with cholera or small pox contaminate those with whom he comes in con tact; in the future, we will not allow the emotionally in fected to handle (and mishan dle) the public. I am not referring to tha ordinary neurotics, which modern society produces by the millions! I am referring to the psychopathic charac ters with a deep and desper ate need lo punish, lo . blame, to justify their tor tured ways by condeming those who follow different ways. Such people are sick as surely as if typhus were bubbling in their blood ' stream. There is a man in my own profession, for in stance, whs fondly Imagines himself to be a good Chris tian, a devoted family man, a bastion of respectability and decency and honesly. And yet, from what he writes, it is evident even to the clinically untrained eye that he is a cauldron of hates and hostilities, of bitter prejudices and over powering pride. Multiply such a personal ity by the tens of thousands in positions of influence, and we can see how the stream of society is pollu ted and poisoned daily, in a quite unconscious way. And nothing can be done, for the human race, is not yet sophisiicaled enough, in technique or insight, to rec ognise and treat such cases of psychopaihology. ' Yet the danger from an Army officer of this type, a school principal, a Criminal Court judge, a Congressman, even a uniformed policeman, is Immense - for evil tends to radiate in a wide circle, while goodness tends lo con centrate upon the private, the intimate, and immediate. And the evil - like thai of Hitler - which is set in motion by unconscious forces is an in fectious ' disease, spreading faster than poisoned water. We have yet to recognize the demonic power of these irrational forces in man, which must be tamed before they conquer us utterly. What happened to the German peo ple was not a political or eco nomic twist, but a pandemic sickness of the psyche, or soul - and it can happen any where, any time, until we learn how to give the antitox in lo the fevered mind. mi BO tention was clearly defined at the recorded session of the Democratic Central commit tee last week. I was one of many Repub licans who voted for Mr. Mad den on the basis of his per sonal qualifications and achievements as County Clerk and Recorder, and his ex pressed intention and desire lo remain lo serve another term. I certainly did not cast my vole, nor did others. Democratic or Republican, so that he might cinch the posi tion for a political appointee of the Democratic Central committee upon his immediate resignation. Mrs. Jack C. Prttrrion Route 4. Box 482 Medford. e. John Goldsmith reported this burst of affection from, hospi tal technician Edwin C. Ad ams, who but for a turn of events might have been en gaged in far less pleasurable pursuits. Said Adams: "We really missed those long-haired mess cooks." Castro's Cuba also seemed to be returning to normal. Scarcely had the last Rus- Washington Report By William 8. White (el United reatura Syndicate GOP V-P TALK Washington In the new Congress opening next month, the United States Senate will 'TT4 become an ac r4r"vJ tive arena for i .-ft-'' 3 R e p u b lican in-jfiSL I vice Pien , v 1 I tial oossibili- y much as it was lor Democrat- presidential possibilities in 1980. Whit ' chamber saw a quiet but in tense struggle three years ago between Senators John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Stuart Symington of Mis souri for the Democratic pres idential nomination. Now, well before the open ing of the new Senate, people are talking, as the saying goes, about two Republican sena tors Thomas Kuchel of California and Thruston Mor ton of Kentucky for the 1984 GOP vice presidential designation. . IN POLITICS, there is spec- A ulation and there is spec ulation. Always it is iffy and sometimes it is also merely idle. In this case, however, it is in no sense idle, nor is it touched with more than an irreducible minimum of iffi- ness. Kuchel and Morton have won the right to serious con sideration, the inevitability of favorable mention, by the most decisive and objective of all tests the test of success in last month's elections. Kuchel swept to reelection in giant California by an enor mous plurality of some 700,- 000 votes while his fellow Republican, 'Richard Nixon, was losing for the governor ship to the Democratic incum bent. Edmund Brown. It was, in fact, the most impressive victory, in voting margin, turned in by any Republican in the country. Morton was returned from Kentucky against what had been supposed to be a very heavy Democratic challenge. Kuchel was always favored to win; what makes him a new factor in the Republican party was the great scope of his triumph. Morton was billed to lose; what elevates him now is that instead of obliging the forecasters, he managed to turn in a solid, if unspectacu lar, victory. .... EACH, moreover, is well within that broad stream of political moderation, or miridleness, from which the GOP in recent years has near ly always chosen its vice pres idential candidate. And nei ther is exactly hurt by the fact that he is a quiet and unassuming fellow in a place. the Senate, which will cut down prima donnas wherever It can for the odd reason that nearly everybody there is him self a prima donna at heart. From this point onward, however, Kuchel and Morton are two very different men. Morton's basic strength is within organized, regular Re publicanism because he has been to his party an outstand ingly good soldier always. As a former chairman of the Re publican National committee, he knows intimately the sources of convention power. Kuchel is not too close to regular Republicanism, but he has perhaps the higher strength of geography. H i s state, California, is about lo become the first in the nation in population and in electoral power. Moreover, as assistant Republican leader of the Sen ate he is in a hierarchial po sition within the party, as Morton is not. This means a larger and readier access to national publicity and a great er opportunity to identify himself closely with the par ty's national record. FINALLY, there is the fac tor that the Senatt has become what it never used to be - a good stand of ground for the growth of presidential and vice presidential timber. John F. Kennedy broke an old truism that the Senate was a great place to become famous in but not to become president from. The 1980 presidential ticket for the first time in history carried the names of two Senate men, his and that of Lyndon Johnson. The sum of it is that a good deal of vice presidential poli tics will surely be involved in the new Senate, regardless of the resent that may be shown In the matter by both Kuchel and Morton. tan bomber departed In its crate from Cuban shores than the government set about con fiscating more businesses and returning to its normal de nunciations of the United States. If this seems like a light approach to' a most serious problem, it is not intended so. Rather it is a sigh of relief echoing In many quarters that the world has managed to emerge relatively unscathed from what could have been its first, and perhaps last, nu clear war. The fact that a firm hand, plus diplomacy, had turned an untenable situation into one of some advantage to the Unit ed States did not, however, provide a total solution nor the answer to several remain ing important questions. One of the most intriguing of these is, what now for Fidel Castro? If the Soviet Union simply used the bearded leader as a means for placing missiles and bombers on Cuban bases and thereby gaining a military ad vantage over the U n it e d States, Castro's usefulness to Russia now would seem to be considerably reduced. Despite the jovial appear ance of Soviet First Deputy Anastas Mikoyan on his de parture for Moscow after a 24-day Cuban .visit, it also seemed obvious that Castro Drurnmond Reports (Walter Lipemann ii in lurapt. fteicee Drummend reverts Item Wuhlneten in hit aeiance.) (c) 142 New Yerk Hauls' Tribune Inc. MEET STALINIST ' ULBRICHT -.,';. Berlin - Herr Walter ui bricht, the Moscow - trained Stalinist, is today the most hatsd Communist dictator in the most resented Communist dictatorship in the entire So viet orbit. The East German govern ment, Installed by force and maintained under the guns of the Red Army, is the most repressive,, iron ruled Com munist regime in all Eastern Europe. There are three reasons why Ulbricht imposed an un limited, unrelieved Stalin esque repression over' the 17 million East Germans. 1 - Ulbricht is doing what comes naturally. He is a Sta linist by choice as well as by necessity. 2 - He wouldn't dare open up his regime even to the modest regulated free d o m s now allowed in Communist Poland and Communist Hun gary, which give public opin ion some latitude of expres sion and influence. He knows that the East German people would blow his regime out of existence if they had the slighest means to do so. He fears his own people as Stalin feared his own colleagues. Ulbricht's repression begets repression. The more he re presses, the more he is hated. 3 - Finally, although the "Wall' stands as an ugly sen tinel of brick and mortar, it is porous to the eyes of the freedom - hungry East Ger mans. While Ulbricht and his regime hide behind the Wall, his people can see and almost touch the joys of liberty which radiate from West Ber lin. rPHIS W why the East Ger man Communujt regime is the worst of all the Soviet colonies. It has at its top an Inveterate and incurable Sta linist. It has at its base a whole people who are hostile and unreconciled and who re fuse to make peace with their rulers. This is the regime which the Soviet Union wants the West to recognize and elevate to potential membership in the United Nations. I do not wish to leave the impression that the East Ger mans are in a mood to turn on their tormentors with their bare hands. They aren't. They . . . floppy arms and leei . . . ifrlnjy halt ... It doesn't de anything . . . yeu knew, a Reeeeey Ann dell!" had proved a hard man to handle, thus further reducing his usefulness. i There is no doubt also that he has been badjy hurt in Latin America. When such a man as Bra zil'i Leonel Brizola, anti-Yankee governor of Rio Grande do Sul state, lashes out at him for "dishonoring" the Cuban revolution, it is apparent that the portrait of an idealistic! champion of the people has been dimmed considerably. As for the United States, the administration opposes now as it has in the past an invasion of Cuba, both for its high cost in lives and for the effect it would have on other American nations. But President Kennedy clearly made known an alter native when, in his announce ment Oct. 22 of the Cuban quarantine, he told the Cuban people: "Many times in the past the Cuban people have risen to throw out tyrants who de stroyed their liberty. And I have no doubt that most Cu bans today look forward to the time when they will be truly free ..." Castro's own history Is one of violence and it teems his end also must be violent. Whether the end comes irom internal revolt or from the outside, the cost still will be high. - - tried it in 1933 - and failed. The regime is physically stronger than it was ten years ago. It has all the means of terror and control in its hands. But even the Wall has not rendered the East German people hopeless or even acquiescent. A. good gauge of their spirit is . the letter which still pour into RIAS, the American radio station in West Berlin, which broadcasts news and music primarily to the East Zone. They dropped sharply for a few weeks aft er the Wail went up. They now run nearly 800 a week, nearly as many as before. To reduce the risk of censorshio, many are mailed to friends in West Germany to be sent on to RIAS. VOU have only lo read a - cross-section of this mail lo realize how detested the Ulbricht regime remains. The East Germans have not lost the power of expression-many of the letters have to be laun dered to go on the air - nor the courage to express them selves. RIAS continues to have a tremendous audience in East Germany despite the repeated Communists campaigns to per suade its listeners that the news and views from the West are the "Poison of the En emy." Periodically squads of police will mount the roofs of homes and apartments to turn the TV antennaes in the opposite direction so West Germany's TV programs can not be seen. Later most of their owners will boldly turn them back. RIAS has succeeded in get ting over to the East Germans a very crucial fact - that Ul bricht refuses to tolerate as much freedom as the people of Poland and Hungary now enjoy. Nothing infuriates the East Zone regime as much as to have the East German pop ulation know that German authors whose works are sup pressed in East Germany, are published in Poland and Hun gary. And that West German newspapers, which are not al lowed over the Wall, can be bought and openly read in Warsaw and Budapest. This is the regime which Mr. Khrushchev wants the free world to Invite into it living room.