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History from the files ot The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 12, 1952 (Thursday)
A hearing on a petition to
permit the sale of Ashland
radio station KW1N at public
auction will be held Dec. 22.
Some 110 men will work
from dawn to midnight or
later between now and Christ
mas to handle the "rush"
which is starting to hit the
Medford post office.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 12, 1942 (Friday)
Donald Milton Bowers,
Medford, first local youth to
register for 18-year-old draft.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Con
siderable excitement was
caused this morning by the
rumor the Espee passenger
train from the north arrived
on time."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 12, 1932 (Sunday)
Portland man urges merger
of Jackson, Josephli.e, Coos,
Curry and Douglas counties to
cut expenses; would abolish
office of county sheriff
throughout state.
Medford bakery schedules
city-wide yo-yo contest; two
prominent businessmen slated
to act as judges.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 12, 1922 (Monday)
Two men held In Grants
rasi jail, accused of stopping
and robbing drivers on Med
ford - Grants Puss highway,
escape.
Crater Lake National forest
officials report 67 fires were
started by lightning on na
tional forest land during 1022.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 12, 1912 (Wednesday)
Mrs. Anna Conklin is first
woman ever to register to vote
In Medford city election.
Total of 77!V cars of fruit
shipped from Medford during
1012 season.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is escellentj five of
sht Ii good.
1. What are the two poles
or the horizon called?
2. Do mulberries grow on
bushes or on trees?
3. What Is the name of Ihe
chief mountain range of Mex
ico? 4. What was the relation
ship between Louis 14th and
Louis 15th?
5. What letler represent',
one thousand in Roman nu
merals? 6. What climatic zone lies
between the Tropic of Cancer
and the Tropic of Capricorn?
7. Who in I'liRland is com
parable to the United States
"Uncle Sam"?
8 What is the chief river in
Russia'
II. Salomon Grundv was
born on Monday; on what day
4 A
myt'io"mrding 10 ",ch"w "di ' "'''ent fog has cost in lost retail
10. In the event neither
candidate In a Presidential
election receives a majority of
the electoral vote, how is Ihe
President chosen?
Answers: 1. Zenith and na
dir. 2. On trees. 3. Sierra Ma
dre. 4. Grandfather and
grandson. $. "M"'. 6. Torrid.
7. John Bull. 8. Volga. 9. Sun
day. 10. By the House of Rep
resentatives. in the evmt neither
HELL'S ROADS CLOGGED
Hell, Mich.-iUPb-The roads
lo Hell today were clogged
with snow. Three-foot drifts
were reported in Angela Pass environment to any significant degree over the,
and hatans Hills near this: ,u t -it i- ,t Y? . ,.
village northwest of Annjweatncl llc vvl11 s;iv(? himself countless tragedies
Arbor. I and inconveniences, and billions of dollars. E.jt. 1
DECEMBER 12. 1962
Controlling
"I'll bet," a co-worker remarked the other
day, "that if we spent as much money on fog
removal as we did on developing the atomic
bomb, we'd be able to get rid of this nasty stuff."
She is undoubtedly correct.
Even now, fog can be cleared under certain
specific conditions. But not all types of fog, in
all conditions. The kind that can be cleared is
the "super-cooled" variety, which, when seeded
with particles of dry ice, tends to precipitate as
rain or snow.
There have been enough repeated successes
with such fogs, locally and elsewhere, that suc
cess can be predicted under the right circum
stances. IT WAS DONE on a number of foggy fall and
winter days here several years ago, and it was
done here again yesterday.
The trouble is that the technique is limited.
It works only in a fairly restricted area, and it
works only on very cold fog.
And otten, low-lying
and cover large areas.
been worked out which
successful in dispersing
promising results have
mentally.
But, as our colleague
fog dispersal were carried on with enough sup
port, there is every reason to believe a successful
technique could be found.
A TTEMPTS to modify and control the weather
"go far back, even before recorded history.
At first they consisted of "hope, faith, magic
and ritual," according to the 1957 report of the
federal government's advisory committee on
weather control. Rain dances, sacrifices, spells,
incantations all these were employed with
degrees of success entirely dependent on one's
prejudices and beliefs.
Among the first of the "scientific" attempts
to modify weather were those using cannon and
other applications of gunpowder, on the experi
mental theory that noise would induce clouds to
part with their rain. The results were, as might
be expected, inconclusive.
DUT IT was not until the advent of the airplane
that wider applications of scientific principles
were attempted, again with somewhat incon
clusive results.
Medford was the site of a number of such ex
periments, and some of them were promising.
Two younc fliers. Gene Kooser and Harvev
Brandau, were in business
ati.uilt vivjuua 1UI LUC WICVCI1L1U1I UL ildll, auu,
experimentally, for the dispersal of fog and pro
duction of rain.
While they were thoroughly convinced of the
success of their efforts,
renewed after several seasons.
IN ADDITION the power company (then Copco)
I'pfninOfl o firm tn cnorl . nlnilrla witVi efltrol
iodide from ground generators in attempts to
increase wintertime snowlall over their mountain
watershed power sources.
statistically, some success was indicated, but
not enough to cause the
the work.
Since that time, interest in physical control
of the weather has been evidenced only spor
adically, although basic research which may ulti
mately lead to new methods and techniques is
being continued. There is no "crash program,"
however, and it may be years before any degree
of success can be expected.
NE of the most promising avenues of research
is that aimed at a better understanding of
weather processes themselves, and here a prin
cipal tool will be the observations of weather
satellites.
While these are primarily used for weather
observation and forecasting,' they also are pro
viding information about weathor'patterns world
wide never before so comprehensive nor explicit,
and there is reason to hope that a far deeper
understanding of what causes weather to happen
will result.
Too, research into the effects of solar radia
tion on the world's weather will assist in this
general understanding.
THE DAY is far off when the weather, world
wide, will be amenable to human control.
But the day is approaching when a wider un
derstanding of weather will provide far more ac
curate forecasts, and, hopefully, when some de
gree of local and temporary control can be main
tained. Certainly the economics of the weather are
such that we could afford to spend more money
on researches. It would ln intnivsitino- tn U-nmv
saies, in aiuomooue accuieius and fatalities, in
tune and tempers lost,
irritations of every sort.
The figure would be
THE weather has been
There was the mighty
was the flooding and high water of Dec. 2; there j
has been the heavy fog of the past week weeks.
Man's chief defenses from the weather still
as 5,000 years ago remain his clothes anil his I
buildings. j
If he ever learns to extend his control of his'
the Weather
fogs are relatively warm,
No techniques have yet
have been completely
them, although some
been obtained experi
remarked, if research on
here for several years,
their contracts were not
firm to continue with
in delays, hazards and
considerable.
"unusual" this year.
storm of (let. 12; there
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No Comment
To the Editor: I submit
without comment the follow
ing letter from the office of
the Rehabilitation Commis
sion, The American Legion
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Frisch: Thank
you for your letter of Oct
29 addressed to Past National
Commander Charles Bacon.
It was very kind of you to
make known to Commander
Bacon your views with re
spect to the utilization of
buildings at Camp White for
Veterans Administration hos
pital purposes.
This subject has been under
consideration for several
years, and the major objec-
tions to such utilization is
that they are considered un-
suitable for hospital purposes
according to present stand
ards, and the cost of bringing
them up to the required stand
ards would be practically pro
hibitive.
Another major factor is
that due to the location, it
would be very difficult to
staff the hospital with the
needed professional and tech
nical personnel.
Again, I must emphasize
that we are happy to receive
your views and would like to
say that certain members of
the Oregon Congressional
Delegation have been very
much interested in this sub
ject for a long time.
Nicholas Lynch Jr.,
Assistant Director,
National Rehabilitation
Commission in Charge
of Field Service.
David Frisch,
White City, Ore.
"Deerslaying"
To the Editor: To continue
the discussion on the deer, elk
and bird situation in Oregon,
I have talked with hunters on
this subject and many feel as
I do about the following:
1. The game commission
needs to hear directly from
more hunters (without having
to answer each and every
letter).
2. The game commission
and game people are to be
congratulated for the many,
many hours they have put in
in the past in the interest of
the best game management
they knew how (and in the
face of private interest groups
and other pressure).
3. Hunters want to see game
management as it is (in the
hands of the state), not one
big hunting club for indi
viduals and out of staters, but
want certain items and pro
cedures corrected and amend
ed in the interest of what
needs to be done and what the
hunters want.
4. The game commission
should, in the future, poll
hunters, as they have In the
past, only more, and see also
what they want. In the inter
est of better management and
future hunting in the state of
Oregon, after all, what group
knows better than the hunter
himself what action needs to
be taken. (The hunter, in the
interest of better hunting, will
be more likely to furnish an
unbiased comment or state
ment). 5. If the game commission
feels the hunting season
should be lifted (pulled off)
for one year In the Interest of
the overall hunting picture,
then lift the season when need
ed regardless of how a few
hog hunters howl.
H. Shorten season on deer,
elk and pheasants by one
week.
7. Slop spike killing and set
forked horn or better law, ex
cept when hunters' choice
year In effect.
8. Hunters' choice law every
other year, (lie entire big
game season (like in some
other states', in order to take
pressure off the bucks but
still enable hunters to harvest
does and take home meat.
9. Let the elk herds rebuild
for two years then open sea
son only every other year, in
order to keep elk population
up where it should be
10. Allow only Oregon
hunters to hunt In Oregon (ex
cept every fifth year).
11. Most children under 14
(unless they are serving to
help their family) are too emo
tional as a whole to hunt deer
and should not be allowed to
hunt big game because they
have a tendency to wound
more game than they kill.
12. Make It illegal to have
a rifle in a vehicle with shells
In either chamber or maga
zine, In order cut down road
hunting, and accidents. Fail
ure to comply would cost
heavy fine.
Most hunters know whit
the situation off the road is
like, so if you want something
done, form "Hunters. Inc.'' by
forwarding this article, (sign
ed on the back) to the Oregon
Slate Game Commission, tt:t4
S W. Alder, P.O. Box 4138.
Portland, Ore
P K Watson
Merrill. Ore.
Where the Exorcists?
To the Editor: The Rev.
llesbrough. president of Notre
Dame, recently informed the
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
National Science Foundation
that people had become sec
ondary in technical advance.
The good Father and his scien
tific confreres are evidently
not conversant with the why
of our demotion. I am one of
the few fools that God has
joyously recognized and used
in this century and this little
epistle may confound the
wise. Our world is not going
to hell 'tis merely that our
great scienti-progress is guid
ed by the devil.
The good man has never in
vented anything. He has al
ways been satisfied with the
things God made. But Satan
restlessly roams the world,
often seizing on simple minds;
transforming temples into
awesome labratory. He there
fabricates and exploits latent
spiritual power into intricate
futuristic vision for our tech
nical tomorrows. This little
"on the spot" expose of the
origin of invention may read
like scienti-fiction; merely re
member true Romance is far
more wondrous.
Having raped a captive
mind and lightly materialized
his "miracle," the devil now
projects his spirtual pattern
into the brain of some waiting
restless genius who "invents"
it and sells the finished phys
ical marvel in the world mart.
It is hailed as a forward mark
in man's scientific victory!
God created the sun, moon
and the stars in Heaven, Now
our courageous souls seek
them physically in dubious
vehicles which orglnated in
the machinations of the pow
ers of darkness. All of which
makes us fools invite you to
remember the current presi
dential joke wherein the re
porter asks John F. Kennedy:
"When do we put a man on
the moon?"
"Whenever Goldwater is
ready," replies the President.
The truthful answer is
"Whenever the devil is
ready."
The Vatican Council recon
venes next September, it
would be well were the as
sembled prelates aided by
all our Protestant brethren
both present and absent to
crusade for a full exorcism of
science before our heroic as
tronauts venture further in
what is actually man's most
asinine and dangerous antic
since we departed the apes
and God gave us soul.
William Thomas Cuddy
V. A. Domiciliary
White City, Ore.
Comments
To the Editor: Since read
ing Mr. Jenny's comments and
opinions, I have attempted to
summarize them so I can com
ment. It happens that I even
agree with him occasionally.
I have summarized as follows.
If I misunderstood, I know
you will correct me.
1. He is against "Aginners
which sort of makes him one.
2. He believes Scripture, in
its context.
3. He feels that the pecu
liarities of "Aginners" ought
to be examined.
4. He is "Agin" nudism.
5. He is for the U.N.
6. He is for chlorination
and fluoridation.
7. He doesn't smoke.
8. He believes all men are
brothers.
Here, summarized, are my
comments on his opinions and
a few opinions of my own.
1. Our differences of opin
ion, make us all Aginners.
2. Scripture used in context
is the greatest gift man has
if he will heed it.
3. Since lie is agin agin
ners, lie is one and we can be
examined together.
4. Since I wouldn't make a
very good looking nudist
cither, 1 won't tirade for or
against it.
5. I'm Agin the U.N. While
it has done some good, it has
also done immense harm. Just
because a rattlesnake is good
to its young doesn't recom
mend it as a playmate for our
children. What harm you say?
It has done harm by not hav
ing members who are willing
to pay their share of its cost.
How great is an organiza
tion? Like a chain, only
as strong as Its weakest link.
It has done harm by Its being
so ineffectual, about Hungary,
about Tibet, about the Congo,
where it wages war in viola
tion of its own charter; about
tioa, about Cuba.
6 I'm for chlorination, agin
fluoridation.
7. I don't smoke either.
8. Christ is my creed, all
men are my brothers, and I
pray for strength to love my
neighbor as myself. While do
ing this, I do not forget that
there are those actively en
gaged in enslaving their
brothers. Incarcerating them,
killing them, not like human
beings hut like mad dogs.
Their aims are clear, and al
ways unchanging, victory at
all cost, even the cost of their
own lives These arc the peo
ple we have to fear, they and
their dupes and fellow travel
ers. People who speak of tips
As Tension Eases, New Cracks
In Western Alliance; U.S. Criticized
By PHIL NEWSON
UPI Foreign News Analyst
It is unfortunately custo
mary that when cold war
pressures ease, cracks also be
gin to appear
in the West
ern a 1 1 1 e s'
NATO shield.
The present
is no excep
tion. In fact, as
the 15 NATO
foreign minis
ters gathered
LS
xewsom for their
three-day meeting in Paris
there seems to be more than
the usual amount of bicker
ing, disagreement and recrimi
nation. The United States still feels
the European NATO nations
are dragging their feet in
meeting defensive require-
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Grim note in the news:
During the week end just
past, accidents claimed a to
tal of 19 lives in Oregon.
Thirteen lives were lost in
traffic accidents. There were
five drownings. One person
was killed in a logging aacci
dent. As this is written, not
enough time has elapsed for a
painstaking search of the rec
ords, but it is believed that
this past week end may have
set a new Oregon high mark.
THIS question arises:
Why so many fatal traf
fic accidents on this particular
week end which was not a
holiday period? It was just an
average Friday-night-to-Mon
day-morning.
This answer occurs:
During the past week end,
tlie weather was such as to
create unusual hazards for
drivers. There was much fog.
The pavement in many places
was frosty. In other places, it
was ICY. Frost and ice on the
pavement create fearful haz
a r d s especially when
speeds are too high for safety
under such conditions.
And
The summer is just ending.
The winter season is just be
ginning. Drivers have not yet
had time to recondition their
reflexes to the changed driv
ing conditions.
ANYWAY (
This grim fact stands out:
TOO MUCH SPEED is al
ways dangerous.
WHAT is too much speed?
It can't be measured on
the speedometer. Under prop
er driving conditions rela
tively high speeds are rela
tive safe.
are often called crackpots by
those who, if only half as in
telligent as they like to ap
pear, would see what an op
ponent we are up against.
I m thankful that we can
air our opinions in the free
press of a free country, but
let's remember that it did not
get that way by pacifying our
former opponents or by turn
ing on our fellow Americans.
Let's keep our country free.
our minds alert, and our pow
der dry.
James K. Shafer
Route 2, Box 210X
Medford.
Time To Begin
To the Editor: How wonder
ful is God's gift to man, the
"Prince of Peace" whose birth
we celebrate at this season.
From Him we may receive
the gift of that unspeakable
Peace of Mind and Heart that
makes life so worthwhile in
spite of earthly woes. Being
so. why do we not put more
effort into pointing the way
to Jesus, so all may know
Him and be blessed with His
love, peace and guidance?
Surely it is evident by now
that man has not the wisdom
to bring peace to earth. Man
has not the wisdom to elimi
nate disease from the earth,
for though he conquers one,
two seem to take its place.
Man seems unable to rid the
world of any of its many evils.
God's Way of Love. Truth and
Righteousness is the only way
to achieve success.
He sent His Son Into the
world that we might see with
our own eyes the wav to
"Peace on Earth, Goodwill to
ward Men." He told us in the
kingdom of God there would
be no tears, no pain, no heart
aches. He warned us the only
way to bring the Kingdom to
earth was through Love.
Truth and Righteousness.
Are we holding up the good
life on earth by not walking
in Jestis's way ourselves?
Since man's way has failed so
completely, should we not try
God s way? It is a task for
each of us, not Just the other
fellow. When we all are con
cerned about loving our fel
low man and exercising Truth
and Righteousness. God will
help us to have the "Peace
on Earth" we all want. Isn't
today a good time to begin?
Frances Ray
Ralston, Wash. a
ments. This applies to Den
mark, Belgium and Holland,
and especially to France
where President Charles de
Gaulle flatly has refused to
meet NATO commitments and
is suspected of deliberately
weakening the alliance.
The United States continues
to oppose De Gaulle's indepen
dent nuclear program but ap
parently has dropped efforts
to persuade De Gaulle to
abandon it.
The U. S. view is that Its
own nuclear power is suffi
cient to protect the alliance
and that a limited striking
force such as might eventual
ly be built by France is dan
gerous and worse than nothing
at all. -
Believing that placing a
nuclear trigger into too many
hands simply increases the
possibility of war, the United
JENKINS
But when driving condi
tions change, SPEEDS MUST
B E REDUCED. Otherwise,
death must haunt the high
ways. That fact stares us in the
WHAT to do about it?
The answer, of course, is
better driving. But what can
we do to improve the quality
of average driving?
One answer, of course, is
MORE HIGHWAY POLICE.
All of us are aware of the
fundamental fact that when a
POLICEMAN IS IN SIGHT
we tend to drive more care
fully. But providing ENOUGH
traffic policemen to create a
situation where a cop Is AL
WAYS in sight is a financial
impossibility.
CO-
We must hope that with
time and effort the average
quality of driving on our high
ways will improve. That's a
Poilyanna attitude, to be sure.
It's equivalent to saying that
THE GOOD WILL BE HAP
PY. But, at least, this is true:
The good driver is apt to
live longer than the reckless
driver.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises. Inc.
WHAT A MAN "NEEDS"
A student at a Western
college, where I was lecturing
recently, asked me what was
wrong with
Marx's form
ula for a soci
alistic society:
"Prnni a a n Vl
il according to
ability, and to
each accord
ing to need."
W' j What is wrong
' with the
Harris Marxian form
ula is its economic determin
ism: it ignores the psycholog
ical aspects of man's life. For
instance, what does it mean
to say "according to need"?
"Need" is not an economic
factor; it is a psychological
one. Except for the totally de
prived, a "need" isn't what
we lack-it is what our neigh
bors have. There is no end to
our "needs" on the psycho
logical ladder; anyone whose
income has doubled in the
last 10 years can testify that
his "needs" have grown to
absorb the difference.
That people should be
rewarded on the basis of
their utility to society is a
thesis I cannot quarrel with:
and one of ihe black marks
against capitalism is its
frivolous system of rewards,
in which an indifferent
perfume salesman can make
more than a good teacher.
But allocating an income
on the basis of "need" is a
will-of-the-wisp. Pursue our
needs though we may, we
can never gratify all of
lherrs for new ones keep
arising as we satisfy the old
ones.
In physical terms, man
doesn't "need" much more
than a cave, a lire, and a
dead animal to eat and
skin. Beyond these, all our
needs are culturally and
psychologically conditioned.
The American "needs" a
can in the suburbs, he often
White House Seeking
Broadcast Permission
Washington-iin-The White
House is seeking permission
tor radio and television cover
age of President Kennedy's
speech Friday night to the
Economic Club of New York.
The club has a rule against
broadcasting its meetings. But
press secretary Pierre Salin
ger said Tuesday the White
House was exploring the pos
sibility of broadcasting the
speech because of the New
York newspaper strike.
States nonetheless has offered
to help Europe create a
nuclear striking force within
NATO.
But this also meets opposi
tion, especially among small
nations unwilling to assume
the cost.
Britain enters the confer
ence nursing at least two
grievances.
One is the belief that De
Gaulle primarily is respons
ible for her current difficult
ies in Brussels negotiations to
enter the European Common
Market.
She also is seething over
a recent remark by former
U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson that Britain's "at
tempt to play a separate pow
er role is about played out."
Drummond Reports
(Walter Llppmann Is In Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
TIME FOR INITIATIVE
Berlin The fact that Cuba
has upset the time-table of
Mr. Khrushchev's next move
against Berlin does not mean
that the danger is lifted or
that the Soviets are abandon
ing their objective to drive the
West out of this divided city.
That is not the dividend we
have earned from Cuba. The
dividend is that the Soviets
now know they face determin
ed resistance, and we have
gained some time in which to
be better prepared diplo
matically and militarily.
Instead of asking ourselves
what the Kremlin is likely to
do next, the need and the
great opportunity is to use
the Soviet disarray to create a
situation in which the Krem
lin will have to be asking
what the U.S. is going to do
next.
The question is how to use
the initiative which is now
open to us, how to transform
what, until Cuba, was almost
always a negative, passive pol
icy into a positive, forward
policy in waging the cold war,
MY OWN conviction is that
for years we have been
far too timid in negotiation, in
advocacy, and in action. We
must get off our let's-try-to-hold-our-own
stance in deal-
J. Harris
"needs" two cars, although
he would do much better to
walk.
When a man starts his
career, his needs are small;
as he progresses, his needs
increase, not merely because
he marries and has children,
but because his expectations
rise with his income. What
seemed a satisfactory apart
ment a few years ago now
seems a cramped tenement;
what seemed a pleasant sum
of disposbabie income now
seems a pittance.
The perspective of money,
unlike the perspective of
space, decreases as we ap
proach it; what looked like a
vast sum when we were far
from it becomes, on closer in
spection, a modest stipend.
Entertainers, for example,
who rocket from $50 to $5,000
a week have usually found
that after a while they "can
hardly get along" on their
wealth.
Because the Marxian ap
proach is based on purely
economic factors, it has had
its greatest (and only) appeal
in economically backward na
tions, where the people ima
gine that a rise in real income
will satisfy their "needs": in
more developed and sophisti
cated lands, it can be seen
that what we "need" exists
in the mind and passions,
not in the things themselves.
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While Acheson spoke unof
ficially, his remarks brought
a sharp retort from Prima
Minister Harold Macmillan.
Britain also is disturbed
over reports that the United
States intends to drop its air-to-ground
Skybolt missile pro
gram in favor of the 6,000
mile, land-based Minuteman.
The British had counted on
Skybolt for their own bomb
ers. It is probable also that U. S.
Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara will come under
some fire for initial U. S.
handling of the Cuban crisis.
Some European spokesmen
have complained that the
American action placed them
in nuclear jeopardy without
consultation.
ing with the Communist press
ures on the free world. There
are things which can be done,
like the following:
NEGOTIATION Over
Berlin, for example, we are
still negotiating wholly on
Soviet terms. Moscow propos
es that we get out of Berlin
and when we say no, Mr.
Khrushchev says in effect,
"Well, let's be reasonable; you
make a proposal about how
you should get out of Berlin."
Whereupon, we look over a
shopping list of Soviet de
mands and see what we can
accept that will do us the least
harm. No one has put this bet
ter than President Kennedy
when he described the Soviet
tactic in those words: "What's
Russia's is theirs; what's ours
is negotiable."
We haven't changed. Let's
add our shopping list to the
agenda and refuse to discuss
any Western concessions with
out a Soviet equivalent. Why
shouldn't we demand that
West Berliners have the right
to visit their relatives in the
East zone? Why shouldn't the
razing of the Berlin wall be
on our agenda? Why should
we support the end of West
ern colonialism everywhere
and refrain from demanding
the end of Soviet colonialism
in East Germany?
Some U.S. policy-makers
will argue that all this is un
relaistic, that such demands
can't be seriously advanced
because we know they are un
acceptable. Unacceptable to
whom? To the people of East
Germany? No. To the Rus
sians? Yes, at present. But
that does not keep them from
making unacceptable demands
upon us. Why should our in
terests be negotiable and
theirs never? Why allow the
Soviets the whole initiative
in fixing the agenda of nego
tiation just because they claim
the right to do so? Let's put
our own shopping list on the
agenda or stop shopping.
ADVOCACY Now that Ilia
whole neutral world is
feeling the bite of Communist
aggression in India and wit
nessing it at the Berlin wall,
the need today is not to step
back but to step up our advo
cacy of self-determination for
the captive nations in all of
Eastern Europe. This is the
time to confront the Asian
and African members with the
full story of Soviet nco-colon-ialism
and neo-imperialism in
Eastern Europe at the UN and
elsewhere and seek their mor
al support for its end. Let's
see that the truth about Mos
cow's colonial hold on Hun
gary is put before the UN as
sembly so that the truth Is not
buried in silence.
MILITARY ACTION Mo
mentarily the Soviets have
called off their attempts to
nibble away Western rights in
Berlin one bite at a time. They
will begin again. The time for
writing more protests is past.
The need is to meet every in
cursion by appropriate force
and to reply in kind.