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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. IS, 1952 (Monday)
A total of 25 men from
Jackson county have been In-
ducted Into the U.S. Army
ince Nov. 20.'
Mcdford's city council
recommended the purchase of
a tanker truck for rural fire
use, and awarded an airport
paving project at its business
meeting.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 16, 1942 (Monday)
Officers and men of 91st di
vision, stationed at Camp
White, contribute $3,500 to
Medford Community Chest
drive.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Alter
the war, autos will have the
engine In the rear. This will
cause speed idiots to back into
a telephone pole to push It up
where It belongs.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 16, 1932 (Wednesday)
Cold weather causes heavy
damage in Table Rock area;
water pipes break, canned
food damaged and fall wheat
"nipped."
Medford Irrigation district
directors seek plan for lower
ing assessment rate and bet
tering conditions for farmers
in district.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 16, 1922 (Thursday)
Large quantity of "high
quality booze" seized by Med
ford police officers from car
parked on city street.
Annuiil sale of Christmas
trees starts in Ilaymarket
square In city.
SO YEARS AGO
Dec. 16. 1912 (Saturday)
Medford Merchants associa
tion starts campaign for con
struction of cannery here.
Some 100 Medford area res
idents meet at local church to
form permanent organization
to be known as "Good Gov
ernment League.'
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nine er ten cerrett Is superior
seven or aijhl Is eicellsnt; live er
six Is good.
1. Who wrote the Inscrip
tion, "Equal Justice Under
Law," that appears on the
U.S. Supreme Court Building?
2. What do the musical In
struments, violin, zither, and
piano have in common?
3. In what country was the
Red Cross first organized?
4. Of what metal are five
cent coins chiefly made?
5. What common vertebrate
breathes water at one stage of
its life and air later on?
6. When It is nine o'clock
In New York, what time Is it
In Denver, using standard
time?
7. What is the canltal nf
(.atliornia?
8. Name (lie three Presi
dents of the U.S. who have
been assassinated.
fl. What one thing remained
In Pandora's box?
10. Which releases more
moisture into the atmospheie
- an acre of forest or an acre
of water?
Answers! 1. Charles Evans
Hughes. 2. All stringed instru
ments. 3. Switserland. 4. Cop
per. S. Frogs and loads. 6.
Seven o'clock. 7. Secramenlo.
8. Lincoln. Gerfield, McKin
ley. 9. Hope. 10. Forest.
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DECEMBER 16. 1112
Underground Utilities
There is rising sentiment throughout the Pa
cific northwest for putting power lines under
ground. Gradually, it is being made easier and
less expensive to do, in some areas.
In Eugene, the Water and Electric Board, a
municipal corporation, has announced it is will
ing to put electric lines underground in new resi
dential areas, provided the residents pay a $::00
premium.
In Seattle, City Light, another municipal cor
poration, has reduced the cost of underground
electric utilities from $1,500 four years ago, to
a guaranteed maximum of $250 now, and on
some jobs it has run about $120.
a
"NE Portland utility is providing residential
underground service in new home areas at NO
cost, provided at least half of the owners will
agree to use electricity for heating, cooking and
other energy requirements.
"This is a good gimmick," the Corvallis
Gazette-Times comments, "and undoubtedly the
company gets its money back in the long ran."
Here in Medford, underground electric utili
ties are not usual, but more and more are being
developed. One subdivision has all its wires un
derground, at a cost which averages about twice
that of overhead wires.
rEVELOPMENT of better cables, new type
of transformers, and other technical advance
will make it more feasible as time goes by. Even
tually, the cost may well be reduced to a point
where the difference will not be as significant as
the esthetic advantages of underground wires
to say nothing of the safety advantages demon
strated during the Columbus Day storm.
The Eugene Register-Guard comments:
"The day isn't far off when unsightly power poles
poles will be noted only In small towns, backwash
communities. There, in time, the poles may come to be
thought of as quaint. But in progressive communities,
electric lines, telephone wires, TV cables and other
such Inlra-community wiring systems will go under
ground, probably sharing the same conduits as they
often share the same poles now."
Speed the day. E.A.
Art Association
Some davs aco we commented about the cul
tural renaissance in this country how art,
music, drama and similar activities are more pop
ular than ever before.
Locally, there are two organizations which
embody one segment of this movement the
Southern Oregon Society of Artists, and the
Roirue Vallcv Art Association. (There are others,
of course, such as the
Association. Broadway
monic, and so on, but we're sticking with the vis
ual arts today.)
The Society of Artists
implies those professional and amateur artists
who live in this area.
THE ROGUE Valley Art Association, however,
is not entirely, or even largely, composed of
artists. It is an organization or people who may
or may not be painters or sculptors, but who are
interested in art generally, and have banded to
gether to make possible exhibits and other bene
fits which no individual could provide for himself.
The success of such an
in large part, upon its size and resources. The
larger its membership, the more it can do for its
members.
The group, only a few years old, and with
less than 300 members at present, has compiled
a remarkable record of bringing good shows to
its own little gallery on West Main street, in
encouraging interest in art, and in making its
members feel they are real participants in an
important endeavor.
DUT ITS members are fully aware that they
cannot do all the things they would like to
do with the present membership. So they are now
seeking to interest others in joining. They hope
to increase their membership to at least 1,000.
This would provide the size and much of the
resources needed to broaden their field of en
deavors, and expand their activities.
The association now provides a number of
exhibitions each year, some of them outstanding
and all of considerable interest, an art rental pro
gram, a series of outstanding films, classes in
sketching and painting, gallery lectures, an art
information center, information on artistic mat
ters from other west coast cities, a chance to meet
visiting artists, reduced subscriptions for art pub
lications, use of gallery facilities, and the assist
ance of a full time professional director.
THIS IS quite a progra
of this si.e. If the me
i 1 . !.
p p n ni nnn : n v na rn
1 . 1
new Olies added.
If your interests lie in any of these directions,
or simply if you wish to encourage such activity,
your membership would be welcomed. Various
classes of membership, including those for stu-!
dents and patrons, are available.
l.i ,i. ... . . . .. , . . ,
'""J."-' iniormauon
Kogue valley Art Association, The Koirtie Gal-.
lcry, P. O. Pox 7(i:?, '220
tord. L. A.
A neighbor dropped in to observe that fewer
children believe in Santa Clans, but more adults.
Sherman Count v. Journal. .
es
advances
Shakespearean Festival
Theater League, 1'nunar-
is just what the name
organization depends,
am for an organization
mbei-ship were tripled,
.-II 1 . . 1 1
n no crpnnfvi lm mm :
w available lrom me
West Main street, Med-
"I Came In Late. Which Wat It That Was
Un-American Women Or Peace?"
Washington Report
By William
fci United Featur Syndicate
CONGRESSIONAL OMENS
Washington - In this brief
hiatus before the new Con
gross gathers here with the
HE
new year,
there are
mounting
omens that
President
Kennedy's
principal
struggles will
be with the
House of Rep
resentatives -
nrl thai maiw
White ...-v..-....-..,.
he will lose. All that is now
visible suggests it will be
even less hospitable to his
welfare programs - medicare
and so on - than was the
old House. And added now
to this forecast must be an
other to the effect that his
purely economic leadership,
too, will come under much
heavier attack than before.
As this correspondent pre
dicted some months ago, but
with less confidence than
now, there is the strongest
question that he will be able
to obtain that general tax
cut for 1!)63 to which he is
committed. He can hardly do
so, that is, unless he consents
to reduce federal spending
far below what his adminis
tration would think tolerable
- unless, in short, he concedes
to Congress an extraordinary
degree of control over his
budget proposals.
N BOTH welfare and eco
nomic legislation it might
be supposed that he will re
ceive a somewhat more favor
able hearing from the Senate
than before, since the new
Senate will be a trifle more
Democratic in tone. This,
however, cannot at best be
more than a theoretical gain.
For a more friendly general
Senate attitude cannot in any
circumstance compensate for
the root fact that he has lost
ground in the House, in more
senses than one.
Not only will the new
House be slightly more Re
publican than before, in the
mere measure of numbers.
Far more importantly, it will
be conclusively more con
servative - not excluding its
Democratic majority - in
terms of basic reality.
rrilE old "road block" lo
ninny Kennedy programs,
lo employ a hard-used and
dependable cliche, has been
the House Rules committee.
This group is largely able lo
decide on its own bat which
bills shall and shall not reach
the House floor for a vote.
Assisted by all the prestise
of the lute Speaker Sam Ray
burn of Texas, the adminis
tration was able two years
ago to pack that committee al
the onset of the old Congress
to a point where Kennedy
bills were assured a relatively
kind hearing. But this quali
fied reform will now die un
less it is reinstituted by spe
cial vote of the House.
Failing such a vote, the
i committee will automatically
be unpacked all over again
and so return to Its old and
cheerfully "anti-Kennedy'' po-
sition in many matters, not
only welfare matters.
There is sound reason to
question the rapacity of the
present speaker. John W. Mc-1
Corniark of Massachusetts, to .
Irnnn the riiinmitlpp nm-tcnii '
worse yd. from the adminis-,
...e J .f
uuim mhu 'uun, u
I lM could be aocomplishod,
the true nature and value cf
itiie resulting victory would
' be highly debatable,
K llwmi;t hprolc wlf.
r sacrifice and risk-taking
!'"" ""' v''',, bc required
nf thp heri'lnfnre tunilr-rute
,.,, ,..
mittee inciudiiw one who
was only aJdcd to il in the
orig'nal packing. Represeti-
talne Carl Elliott of Alabama
- to go along wiih Kennedy
proposals tins time.
Tie reason is that the more
or less pro-Kennedy Demo-;
crats were badly scared near-
,"
4-
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE,
S. White
ly all over the South in the
elections of November by an
angry tide of conservatism
andor Republicanism; and
nowhere more so than in Ala
bama. The long and short of it is
that while November's elec
tion heartened Mr. Kennedy
as to most of the nation, it
plainly showed that in the
South, Southwest and Far
West, pro-Kennedyism Is a
dangerous attitude to a poli
tician. No matter what his
position in the country at
large may be, the President
has yet to carry the House
Itself for his domestic policies.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
From Moscow:
fremier K.nrusncnev says
he is holding President Ken
nedy to what he called
PLEDGES AGAINST AN IN
VASION OF CUBA and
warned that if they are not
kept we will be compelled
to take such action as the sit
uation requires of us."
Speaking before the Su
preme Soviet (the Soviet ver
sion of a parliament) Khrush
chev stressed that the anti-Invasion
pledge was a main fac
tor in the Soviet Union's with
drawal of rockets and bomb
ers from Cuba.
UROM Washington:
" President Kennedy says
that the United States is tak
ing steps daily to make certain
that Soviet offensive weapons
are not re-introduced into
Cuba. The President also
made It clear that he would
NOT GIVE A PLEDGE
AGAINST INVADING CUBA
is long as the final issues of
the crisis remained unre
solved. WHOM shall we believe?
We must believe our
own leader.
To do otherwise would lead
to chaos and ruin.
1ESIDES
" The communist code of
ethics SANCTIONS LYING
when lying serves a commu
nist purpose. In Lenin's Ten
Commandments of Revolu
tion, the sixth reads: "Truth
does not count unless it serves
an end."
s
MUCH for the war of
nerves that is being waged
between the President of the
United States and the Premier
of the Sovit Union. In such a
war, our lives, our fortunes
and our sacred honor arc
pledged to the support of our
Editorial Comment
150.000 A DAY
Since yesterday at this time
the population of the world
as Increased by l.")0. 000. This
is a net Increase of births over
deaths. By tomorrow at the
same time, there will be an-
other 150.000. s ,
This is the biggest news i
story in the world - bigger !
than space flights, nuclear ex- i
plosions and other events that j
monopolize the headlines I
And it ,apprn evcrv dav !
Kor twQ tnird p(
... t
?"f i" . .!TS : i
' ' ."-.US 411 K (III . Il
is an explosive situaiion. The .
world is divided by this more
sharply than it is by ideologies
Many forms of disease and j
pestilence which formerly
acted as check on popula-
lions have been eliminated by !
medical science, particularly '
In Asia. Teople are living
longer.
lf " hr worlds food sur-
Pluses were snared, they
would probably not provide
adequate nourishment for
everyone for more tnan one
week.
This is the world's graves!
problem, and its most battling
-Seattle Argus.
MEDFORD. OREGON
Drummond
(Walter Lippmann Is in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
WHERE STANDS THE U.S.?
Washington Is the Ken
nedy administration about to
back down on the strong
stand which the United Slates
has always taken to rally the
UN behind its continued con
demnation of the Soviet in
vasion of Hungary and its
imposition by force of the
repressive Kadar regime?
The Hungarian issue is
again onsthe agenda of the
UN political committee. On
the eve of the crucial debate
it is not yet apparent that
the U. S. is prepared to put
its full weight behind another
vigorous resolution assuring
the Hungarian people that the
conscience - if not the force -of
the free world is on the
side of their ultimate libera
tion. The best thing that could
happen is the passage of a
U. S. resolution calling on the
Soviet Union to comply with
the past UN demands that
it abandon its colonial policy,
withdraw its troops from
Hungarian soil, hold free
elections in Hungary under
UN supervision, and let Hun
gary be neutralized on the
Austrian model.
rpHE worst thing that could
- happen would be for the
United States to accept some
weak, pusillanimous resolu
tion which would take the
Soviet-run Kadar regime off
the hook on UN ostracism
and serve notice to the subject
peoples of Moscow's nine cap
tive nations in Eastern Euro
ope that all hope of freedom
and self-determination must
be abandoned.
Ever since the heroic revolt
JENKINS
President. It can't be other
wise if we are to survive.
It mustn't be otherwise.
LET'S TURN now to fiscal
matters In which as
Americans we are privileged
to hold our own opinions.
In Washington, President
Kennedy told his news con
ference that his administra
tion plans to push its program
for an early, substantial tax
cut. At the same time, it looks
like a $100 BILLION SPEND
ING BUDGET will be pro
posed for the 1964 fiscal year.
What does that mean?
It means that his adminis
tration is proposing to spend
more and tax less.
T ET'S PUT it this way:
Suppose you and I were
running a business. Suppose
we were spending every day
more than we were taking in
thus running into the hole
deeper and deeper.
So
We decide lo cut prices, in
the hope that selling more
goods at a loss will pull us out
of the hole.
OUPPOSE we went to our
banker and outlined our
scheme to him.
What would he say?
He would be almost certain
to say this:
"DON'T CUT YOUR
PRICES UNTIL YOU HAVE
CUT YOUR COSTS. If you
cut your prices without cut
ting your costs, you will cer
tainly GO BROKE."
The Play,
By ERIC SEVARIED
Washington - All other ex
planations having failed, my
own theory is that the polar
cap slipped,
tilting the
globe and
shifting t h e
weather. The
July - August
dog days have
moved Into
the November
December per- j
iod. and the I
Mediterranean !
blows across j
North America with its usual !
effects on the nervous svsteni. !
How else explain the recent :
behavior of otherwise shrewd i
and sure-footed men in public j
life - Richard Nixon's self
destructive speech blaming1
his defeat on everybody but
himself: Howard K Smith's;
notion that Alger Hiss's an-j
alysis of his prosecutor's mo-1
lives carried validity; Emmet j
Hughe s revelations of Gen
eral Eisenhower's pet peeves.
confided to Hughes as friend ;
and assistant, not as biograph-!
er; the article by Alsop and :
B.irtlrtt impugning the cour-1
age of Adlai Stevenson while j
rxeluding any Steve nson
statement in his own defense; j
the speech by Dean Acheson. I
life-long Anglophile, which
made his British friends in-;
slant Achesonphobes. j
(Let s leave out the state-!
ment made in Rhodesia y ;
i i
X 4? 1
TZ4
srvarrld
mistral now
Reports
of the Hungarian people in
1956, the U. S. has put Itself
actively behind the strong
stand the UN has taken year
after year.
But this year the advance
U. S. support for maintenance
of the UN condemnation has
not been -'.sible; at most it
has been passive and uncer
tain.
It may take public and
Congressional pressure to per
suade the President and Sec
retary of State Rusk to try
to hold the line against UN
retreat, and some quick foot
work by " Ambassador Adlai
Stevenson to make up for the
time lost by the failure to de
cide U. S. policy before the
last minute.
rpHE latest report of "Hun--
gary Under Soviet Rule,"
prepared by the American
Friends of the Captive Na
tions, the Assembly of Cap
tive European Nations, and
the Hungarian Committee
shows:
That the Kadar regime,
propped up by the continued
presence of 80,000 Soviet
troops, still rules Hungary
with an iron fist.
That while there has been
some superficial easing of re
pression, these concessions do
not involve the restoration of
a single fundamental political
right.
That any action by the UN
and particularly by the Unit
ed States-to "write them off"
would have the most depres
sixe effect on the Hungarians
and tempt them to become re
signed to their fate, because
they would be without
friends.
That if the U. S. acquiesces
in a weak UN Hungarian res
olution the free world will
lose some of its strongest al
lies in the peoples of Eastern
Europe and its position vis-avis
the Soviet Union will be
weaker.
IT SEEMS to me that the
Kennedy administration
and the U. S. Senators and
Congressmen, who in the past
have given their unanimous
moral support to the peoples
of the Eastern European cap
tive nations in their hope for
ultimate liberation, will do
well to heed this conclusion
from the report on "Hungary
Under Soviet Rule."
"The handling of the Hun
garian issue at this session of
the General Assembly is more
important as a barometer of
U. S. policy than the vote of
the Assembly itself. But if the
majority decides to abandon
the strong stand on Hungary
which expressed the con
science of the whole free
world the honor and pres
tige and influence of the UN
itself is bound to suffer.
"It will mean the official
elevation of a double standard
which would press for free
dom and self-determination
for peoples of Africa and Asia,
but deny this to the peoples
of Eastern Europe. People will
forgive the UN for its ina
bility to get Soviet troops out
of Hungary, but they will not
forgive a UN failure to stand
by its own resolutions when
icy are totally defied.
If the United Nations wants
to abandon the cause of self
determination for the peoples
of Eastern Europe, there is
no reason the U. S. should
join the enterprise.
Not the Ploy, Is the
Senator Ellender, because he
sees everylhing in black and
while, anyway, recognizing
nothing grey save some uni
forms of a hundred years ago.)
The great pageant of Amer
ican public life has a built-in
continuity in spite of the aber
rations of the players on the
stage and the scribbling critics
seated on the aisle. The show
will go on and the Kennedy
cast, after its magnificent per
formance in the Cuban drama,
may even move from triumph
to triumph, as they say in
theatrical biographies, al
though some of his players 1
might have to turn In their'
horn rimmed glasses for con- j
tact lenses to avoid splinters
in the eyeball, in case the vil-
lain doesn't blink in the next
stare-down. j
!
A roving critic poking
about the wings of the Wash-1
ingioii stdge quickly becomes
aware that the sweet song of
success from the Cuban per-
formance has been all but i
drowned out by the penny- j
whistle notes of the postlude
as provided by the Saturday
Evening Post.
Everyone involved has been
injured, but there is no point
in repeating at this late date
the inventory of specitic dam-1
ages. It is perfectly clear that
president cannot maintain
an intimacy with any partial-;
lar Washington reporter be
cause of the ever-present dan
ger of embarrassment tojiim-
Matter of Fact ny jo,ePh ai.op
(e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
FRANCE'S "RENOVATION"
Paris - So far as one can
judge, the pallid drama of the
NATO rally can be summed
up m one sen
tence. The
Europeans are
not going to
provide the
a d d i t i o nal
ground forces
that are so
clearly need
ed, and the
Americans are
not going to
Alanp
make the bold attack on the
problem of nuclear control
which is increasingly urgent.
But in default of current
drama, there happens to be a
drama of another sort, more
obscure, far harder to define,
far slower and more various,
which nonetheless deserves
the closest and most respect
ful attention.
' The revival and renewal of
a great nation is, after all, a
highly dramatic event. Once
so prostate and sterile, France
began to renew herself under
the despised, politically ig
noble Fourth Republic. The
key figure in this phase was
Jean Monnet, whose Monnet
Plan was the seminal factor
in France's postwar rebirth.
TT MUST always be remem--
bered that France had al
ready experienced this moral,
physical, and economic re
birth before Gen. de Gaulle
came to power. Without that
immense development, which
had been largely hidden from
the eyes of the world by the
squalid old political facade,
even De Gaulle could never
have played his strange role
on the world's stage of the
statute of the commander in
"Don Giovanni."
Now, moreover, a new
phase is opening. De Gaulle's
first administration was large
ly concentrated on the harsh
task of liquidating the Alger
ian problem. What was done
was resoundingly approved by
the French electorate in the
astonishing recent election.
And now the French Presi
dent, confirmed in power,
with an overwhelmingly man
date, has made "renovation"
the keynote of his second ad
ministration.
"The development of our
country, in its scientific and
technical capabilities, In the
economic domain, in the do
mains of social welfare and
education" - such is De
"Look, lady, I don't
sell
self and because it destroys
the reporter's critical inde
pendence. What needs point
ing out because It is less well
understood is that there are
inherent dangers as well as
solid advantages when the
palace guard is thick with
self-conscious, history minded
professional in t el 1 e c I u als,
blessed and cursed as they al
ways are with "the double
vision."
They lend lo act, not just
for the sake of the action, but
for the newsprint of the pres
ent and the history books of
the future. They are, there
fore, not only highly attentive
to their own witticisms at
Georgetown dinner parties,
but jealous in advance of
their own roles as the books
to come will cast them. With
one eye they are constantly
watching themselves as actors
on the great stage. Washing
ton has not yet reached the
point of pre-war French poli
tics when government was
virtually conducted on each
morning's front pages, but
such men do have a special
relationship with journalists
and this carries built-in haz
ards. Given their intellectual hy
pertension, their intramural
hates as well as their loves
are bound to be intense, and
they are quite unable to car
ry either in silence. I believe
the late Joyce Cary said some
thing to the effect that no :v
Eft
MS
Gaulle's summary of his aims.
The summary is not mere)
empty political talk, either.
rpo BEGIN with, De Gaulle
- himself is not an empty
politician. With all his
Machiavellianism and all his
archaic strangeness, he pur
sues his purposes with obsti.
nate tenacity. He is practical
enough to know that further
"renovation"' is required, to
assure "national prosperity
and power" which his devel
opment program is intended
to produce.
No doubt what is really in
the back of his mind is the
thought that a France, enor
mously rich, with much,
greater economic and techni
cal resources, can then attain
the grandeur which De Gaulla
regards as France's most es
sential attribute. Such a
France will not have to be
content, for example, with the
budget-restricted nuclear pro.
gram of France today. This ha
has even spelled out:
"Modern military power ...
can only result from the in
creasing resources of the na
THE "RENOVATION" that
ic In nrnHiipa !!. . .it
will be very radical indeed.
As is indicated by the choice
of the remarkable Louis Joxe
as Minister of Administrative
Reform,. France's archaic ad
ministrative structure, large
ly designed by the Emperor
Napoleon, is to be rebuilt, root
and branch.
Just to give some Idea ol
the boldness of the scheme,
this most centralized of na
tions is to be provided with
regional development authori
ties with considerable local in
dependence. Thus picturesque
Brittany is to become an in
dustrial area, which it is al
ready beginning to do.
Equally rigorous reform of
the educational structure
(with special emphasis on in
creased scientific and tech
nical education) is also con
templated. All sorts of other
dusty corners are to be swept
out. If one may gauge the
probable end result by what
the Fourth Republic accom
plished without the kind of
strong leadership , De Gaulle
can provide, it seems reason
able to expect a further
change in Europe which will
almost have the effect of
changing the map of Europe.
"TiSr- p - n ft
make 'em ,
'em!"
. 1 just
Thing
dctta among African tribal"
chiefs can equal in savagery
one among western college
professors.
But against the extramural
world outside the palace (Con
gress, for example), they are:
generally united by a bond,
of self - satisfaction, nicely if
unintentionally revealed ia
the Post article. The palace;
atmosphere reflected In those;
references to the "Trollopa
ploy" during the terrible Cu
ban crisis, and to the "dover
and the hawks" merging into-
j the hoves and the dawks. -j
was the atmosphere of "we"
' haopy few." I have not knowiv
i quite this climate in Washinc
' ton before. It may suit Britisiu
affairs of state as conducted
I in Whitehall and Belgravia
! salons, but it fits badly and,
embarrassingly on the Ameri
can body politic.
Perhaps that is the worst
one can av about the Cuban
postlude. The play Itself was
marvelously done. Yet I did
hear one elderly, wise Ameri
can, greater scholar than
any in the palace guard, re
mark: "This has made me
wonder if these are really
serious, responsible men
around the President." '
1 think that they are. Buf
since they are quotation-:
lovers, one can hope they will
remember that the play's theY
thing, not the plov.
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