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History from the files o) The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
ind 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Doc. 27, 1952 (Friday)
Rialto theater, opened to
the public in 1017, will close
its doors permanently, due to
lack of western-type films and
increasing compe ti 1 1 o n of
drive-in theaters.
County assessor's staff will
stay on to assist Assessor
elect Robert G. Fowler; staff
includes fowlers opponent,
Chief Deputy Assessor An.
drew Hawver.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 27, 1942 (Wednesday)
Rogue River National for
est officials receive orders to
increase work week from 44
to 48 hours because of short
age of staff members caused
by war.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "In po
lite circles, It Is regarded as
'highly offensive" to Hitler
to call him 'Mr. Sclilckcigru
ber.' Impolite circles have a
name for him, Just as offen
sive, and accurate besides."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 27, 1932 (Friday)
Total of 28 traffic accidents
reported in Medford during
December.
Searchers find no trace of
airplane believed to have
crashed In Dead Indian area
cast of Ashland.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 27, 1922 (Saturday)
District Attorney Rawles
Moore under quarantine at his
home after children contract
mild case of diphtheria.
Famed wrestler "Strangle!-"
Lewis slates tentative date for
match in Medford.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 27, 1912 (Monday)
Large number of Medford
residents leave for annual
niid-winlcr Junket to San
Francisco and Los Angeles
aboard "special electric light
ed" train.
Six out of eight road dis
tricts in Jackson county vote
special levies for new road
construction during 1013.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is eacellcnt; tivo ef
sii is good.
1. A quarlrr section of land
is made up nf how many
acres'
2. Which stale was settled
first. Florida, Massachusetts
or Delaware?
3. What is the area of a
triangle which has a base of
three f i rt and an altitude of
five feet?
4. If one walks one tnilr
at the rale of two miles per
hour, and rides four miles at
eight miles per hour, how
long will it take to go 5
milcv.'
5. With what type of cases
does an appellate court deal?
8. How many cubic feet are
there in a cord?
7. What city in thu U. S.
la known as the largest rail
road center?
8. Who wrote the "Just So"
stories?
B. Land resting between
crops is called what
10, Under w hat Federal De
pnrtnient is the Bureau of
Public Roads' i
Answarsi 1. ICO acrtt, 2.
Florida. 3. 7'j square fast.!
4. Ont hour. S. Appeals from
lower courts. 6, 121 cubic i
feel. 7. Chicago. I. Rudyard
Kipling. I. Fallow. 10. Do-'
pnrtmeni of Commtrct.
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wa1iociaiion
UtCi.Mot.ri il. 14M
Birth Control Poll
The San Francisco
polls its readers on questions of public impor
tance, to find out how they feel.
The most recent poll concerned the issues of
birth control, and the results were printed yester
day. The poll isn't very scientific, being a random
sampling and limited to those sufficiently inter
ested to respond. But the results are interesting,
nonetheless.
The first question pointed out that the State of
Illinois will provide birth control information and
contraceptive devices to mothers and married
women on relief. Of those answering the "Do
you approve?" question, 95 per cent said yes; 4
per cent said no.
e
LJEAVY majorities also approved U.S. gov
ernment assistance to nations that request
birth control information and supplies, and the
use of birth control information in public schools.
Ninety four per cent
control is necessary to offset threats of increased
poverty, hunger and warfare; 59 per cent said
population control is needed to oppose the spread
ot communist exploitation of misery; and 'i3 per
cent thought population control is needed to
minimize the chances of war.
The paper didn't say how many responses it
had to its poll, except to say there was "an excep
tionally large number ot
TIHETHER this is a
' tion of the beliefs
cannot, of course, be known. But it is an indica
tion, which is supported
more Americans are coming to regard birth con
trol both as moral and proper, as well as nee
essary.
It also means they
talk about it than in the
hush topic, along with such taboos as illigitimacy
ana venereal disease.
The Chronicle commented editorially:
"... The Government of the United Stales retains
the ancient diffidence where official action in the area
is concerned; this it displayed last week by abstaining
from a vote in the General Assembly on a proposal
for United Nations dissemination of birth control in
formation to nations requesting it. (The proposal was
killed, 34 lo 34, with 32 abstentions.)"
JMOST physicians are prepared to impart birth
control advice to their patients if requested.
Some organizations, like the Planned Parenthood
Foundation, do likewise. Druggists, if asked, can
offer advice.
But, in large part because it is an area where
diffidence and ignorance are combined, vast num
bers of people, even in the United States, are
unaware how unwanted births can be prevented.
The archaic birth control laws found in some
parts of the nation, principally New England,
were put on the books by early-day Protestant
legislatures. But now, oddly, they are largely
kept in force by Catholic pressures.
DISCUSSIONS and implementation of birth
control measures is further hampered by re
ligious questions. The Roman Catholic church is
opposed to birth control by "unnatural" methods,
although there are signs that this attitude is soft
ening just a bit. And it is plainly evident that
many good Roman Catholics do not feel them
selves bound by the church's attitude.
Actually, the urirencv
ing widely disseminated is less in the United
States, where it CAN be obtained by anyone wish
ing it, than it is in other major portions of the
world, such as Latin America, where ignorance
and clerical pressures have played a part in bring
ing about the fastest-rising
and in southeast Asia, where tradition, ignorance
and illiteracy are the major problems.
It would appear that only official agencies,
such as the United Nations or the governments
involved, are in any way equipped to do much
about it.
We strongly believe that the "official" atti
tudes displayed so far are both short-sighted and,
in light of the Chronicle's poll, wholly unrespon
sive to the beliefs of the people of this nation.
-E.A.
Proposed Constitution
The final report of the Oregon Constitution i
Revision Commission has been completed and
printed. Some :?,000 conies are now beinir dis-(
tributed. Five single copies are available to any
one requesting one from the Commission's office,
Room ottO, Capitol Building. Salem, Ore.
It is the commission's hope that it will be
widely road and studied, For only if enough peo
ple take an active interest in the proposed new
document will it have any chance for passage.
Copies of the report have been sent to circuit
and district judges, public and private libraries,
department heads, county offices, school librar
ies, to the state libraries, governors ami supreme
courts of the 50 states, and to major universities.
THE report not only contains the text of the
proposed new Constitution; it also includes
explanatory matter approved by the 17-member
commission to give its thinking concerning the
various changes, why they were made, and'what
eitect tlioy would have. i
The commission was not unanimously in fa-,
yor of all the changes, but was near-unanimous1
in recommending the document as a good one.
worthy of serious consideration.
We suggest that it receive study by all those
interested in effective state government. E. A J
Chronicle occasionally
believe that population
votes cast.
fairly rough approxima-
of the American people
by others, that more and
are more willing now to
past, when it was a hush
of such knowledge be
birth rate in the world,
MLDrOrtU
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Saturday Evening Post"
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edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted tor publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
0 inted in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
oaper; In fact the contrary is olten the case.
Unjust UN
To the Edtor: Arnold Eu
gene Jenny (MT 12-23-62),
among other things, feels the
role of the United Nations in
the recent Cuban crisis was
"indispensible." Well, the So
viet Union vetoed any action
in the Security Council; the
question never even reached
the "talking" stage in the
General Assembly; U Thant
traveled lo Cuba and was
quickly slapped down: outside
of this. President Kennedy
prudently avoided the UN.
He knew decisive action was
needed immediately, and such
action could not be expected
from the UN. Instead he turn
ed to NATO and OAS -here
he obtained the needed, im
mediate and virtually total
support.
Now there was a certain
amount of information marie
public throughout the world
through the vivid demtnstra
tions seen on TV; but even
A. E. Jenny will admit this
kind of information can be
spread world-wide, through
the means of a little satellite
in outer space. The point to
be made is that when it comes
to needed action that bene
fits the Western interests (se
curity), and especially the in
terests and security of the
United States the UN is im
potent, Mr. Jenny made reference
to the Congo and Katanga.
Here the.UN is in direct vio
lation of its own Charter. All
of Mr. Jenny's ra,:onaliza
tions aside; if the UN wants
to justify its intervention in
Katanga, it must change its
Charter to allow it. and this
the UN will not do. Its actions
in Katanga are "aggressive''
not "peace keeping." But just
imagine what would be the
result of spending the $150
million a year (needed ' sup
port UN aggressive military
action), on wise economic pro
grams for the Central govern
ment in the Congo: There
would be no loss of blood; no
more bombing of hospitals,
etc.; the Congolese would be
put on sound financial foot
ing - and immense prestige
would be reaped by a dying
United Nations.
Tshombe of Katanga has
chosen to refuse to submit to
unjust aggression of the UN
forces. For such courage U
Thant is Insisting Tshombe
be crushed, and sorrowfully,
the United States seems re
signed to help slump out an
other ally.
Robert J. Howard,
702 Bcekman st ,
Medford
Brotherhood ;
io me cniun. .in. uoii,iad that never has known
still clings to his pet phobia. I nuu.h f.,,Pdl)m , ncv(T c;m
explaining away the opinions kmm. Bnv frccdom as ,ni!
of others as a result of Micir it ., jn tm, Krip (,r thp
personal phobias. "Physician mn!,,or wnosf. hold llpoIl jt
heal Thyself." As for the re- w.s )l!n,or,cd hv the lac0
marks of Mrs. Henderson and . at ,,p p,;,v n( pjR5
Mr. Weaver, they were rele
vant and to the point.
Taxes In arrears are quite
common, but here in Jackson
county wc have a sheriffs de
partment which can and dors
enforce lawful ordinances.
Where is the sheriff's de
partment of the UN? The
mouse has squeaked and now
the bear will pay his luxes.
Or will he? Don't hold your
breath until he does. sir. And
don't hand me tint old cliche
about world opinion, which
our stale department is so
busy bowing to. Russia show
ed us what she thought of
world opinion when she com
menced nuclear le-ting dur
ing the meeting of so-called
"non-aligned nations." Yugo
slavia, one of Ihoso "non
aligned nations" afler 14
years and two billion dollars
of aid is ' still communist
aligned, if the back-slapping
in Moscow recently is any
indication C o in nitmiMS al-
wa stick together and their
MAIL 1 mount.. McurUrtU. OHLUuN
name and address of the writer,
aim, as always is world domi
nation. Their only differences
are how to go about it.
I have re-read the article
on the F.A.O. In the Novem
ber Readers Digest. It illus
trates my former remark
about the some good which
the UN has done.
Since you have that copy of
the Readers Digest I think
you should read the article on
page 169, from which I quote,
"Senator Dodd expressed their
views when he called for, 'an
America that recognizes the
present cold-war conflict as
the supreme crises of western
civilization, that sees the com
munists as an implacable foe
totally dedicated to our de
struction'." So, Mr. Jenny, it appears
that you are the one who has
neglected his homework.
Along this line I recommend
a subscription to National
Review. A good dictionary
liberal ought lo explore both
sides of the issues, not merely
the one he favors.
You must feel that I'm not
only irrelevant but irreverent
as well since you question the
genuineness of my profession
of brotherhood. As you must
know that in order to be
brothers, men must have the
same father. It is obvious that
I cannot be a brother to those
who reject the Father and
treat his fellow human beings
contrary to the words and
example of Jesus Christ. I
strongly doubt the sincerity
of the advocate of any broth
erhood which accepts at face
value the lies and deceptions
of world communism.
James K. Shafer
Route 2. Box 210X
Medford.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written (on Mon
day), there can be no doubt as
lo the Big Slory. Especially
if you watched last night the
landing of the first mercy
plane and the discharge of its
cargo ot ransomed Cuban
boys who were laken prison
ers at the ill-starred battle of
the Bay of Pigs a year and a
half ago.
It was a never-to-be-forgotten
picture. There was the
overflowing joy and relief ot
those whose boys were back
in a land whose people are
FREE. There was the heart
break in the faces of those
whose boys were not on that
first plane.
And there was the tragedy
of Ihe millions rpmaininir in
njs glamorously beautiful is-
HOW W
freed?
ERE these boys
They wrre ransomed.
That brings back the long
slory of the Barbary pirates.
They captured men and ships.
They held them for ransom.
Each successful ransoming
enterprise led to other ran
soming enterprises
The business of capturing
and holding for ransom was
made profitable by the fact
that it was cheaper for the
great nations of Europe to
pay the ransom than to go to
war and wipe up the Barbary
Pirates.
Ii continued until a young
and bold nation sent In a
young and bold leader who
wiped up the Barbary Firatt'S
and put an end to the shame
ful business. The then young
and bold nalion was the Uni
led Sut.-s of America and the
young ard bold leader was
.Stephen Decatur.
Neutral Afro-Asians
Negotiations Favoring Communist China
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Inalyst
In hot and steamy Colom
bo, Ceylon, representatives of
six Afro-Asian countries were
seeking a
cooling solu
tion to the
Sino - Indian
border war.
At the close
of their three-
t i? d a y meeting
I 1 ear'y this
I jji 1 month they is
eoA leaaj u e d a re-
newiom m a r k a b 1 e
statement which could only
lend comfort to the Red Chin
ese. Represented at this meet
ing of self-appointed peace
makers were Ceylon, Cam
bodia, Burma, Indonesia,
Ghana and the United Arab
Republic.
El
Matter of Fact sy
lei New York Herald
THOSE AWFUL PLEASURES
Avon. Conn. - lUPb - Her
hair would be streaming be
hind her. She would be wear
ing only a
thin night
gown for
she had sur
prisingly lit
tle p h y sical
modesty, con
sidering her
Victorian
bringing up.
She would he
brandishing a
covered with
Alsnp
horse collar
sleigh bells, with a power to
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
ie Field Enterprises Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Of all the human reactions,
laughter has the broadest
range of feelings-it can sig
nify the deepest sympathy
with, or the greatest scorn
for, the kindness that includes
ourself in the laughter, or the
sadism that sets us apart and
above.
The sad paradox of pub
lic Ufa is that democracy
degrades statesmen into
politicians, while autocracy
hardens them into despots;
into those who try loo hard
to pander lo the popular
taste, or into those who ig
nore and condemn ihe pub
lic needs.
The striking difference In
the mortality rate between
men and women (in which
women are much less apt to
succumb to such diseases of
stress as heart attacks) is
largely explainable, to my
mind, by the fact that women
can relieve their stress by con
tiding anxieties to women
friends, while men common
ly have no such release from
tension.
Why do children seem to
"catch" the bad habits of
their associates, and never
their good habits: or. at
the larger question in moral
philosophy, why do vices,
like disease, seem to be
contagious, while virtues,
like good health, are not?
One of the most astute ob
servations in social psychol
ogy was made by Emerson,
when he said: "Society is a
masked ball, where everyone
hides his real character - and
reveals it by hiding."
Translation is the most
treacherous of endeavors;
to translate any language
properly, we must know
not only the bare "mean
ing" of words, but their
overtones and undertones:
I remember a sign in Eng
lish I saw in the window
of a Parisian dress shop
some years ago: "Gowns
for Street Welking."
Genuine repcnlcnce is a
rare emotion; most o' us re
pent the discovery of oi mis
deed, not the misdeed itself;
and the true test of character,
a someone has said, is what
we would do if assured that
we would never be found
out.
When we are young, we
desire desperately to be
loved "tor ourself"; as we
grow older, we learn that
if we are loved it is often
"despite ourself."
Zealousncss is a passion
that can be controlled and
directed only by wise men:
but. unfortunately, it is found
mostly in fools. (Which re
minds me of Siintayana's apt
definition of a "fanatic" as
"a man who redoubles his ef
forts after he has lost sight of
his goal.")
There is no modern equiv-
lent for that fine old ar
chaic description of cer
tain type of young man as
is "whippersnapper."
1. ' : lP,
Nowhere in the closing
statement was there a men
tion of Communist aggression.
Rather, the six called upon
the disputants to settle their
quarrel and thus preserve the
peace and non-alignment of
Asia and Africa.
They suggested negotia
tions be undertaken on a
basis which would restore
territory to India in the north
east but which would require
India to agree to a demilitar
ized buffer zone in the west.
Such an agreement would
leave the Chinese in virtual
control of the Ladakh area
of Kashmir. Indian Prime
Minister Nehru's reaction was
understandably cool.
Red China's massive attack
against border areas tradi
tionally claimed by India
stirred fear throughout South
east Asia and the statement
Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
drown the noise of a whole
herd of reindeer.
"Merry Christmas, Merry
Christmas. Time for stock
ings! Time for stockings!" she
would cry.- And with this
reveille at 6:30 a.m. (in the
pitch darkness of the early
winter morning) the old
Christmases at the farm used
to begin.
Christmas, as one grows
older, is always a ghost-haunted
time. This loving, life
enhancing grandmotherly fig
ure from Christmas past is
a memory so vivid that she
all but belongs to Christmas
present, even though, thank
God, Christmas present does
not begin before dawn. The
memory is puzzling, too, for
she so obviously enjoyed
rousing the whole house to
the eager, greedy bustle of
Christmas morning.
1?-HE children loved the pre---
dawn start; the other
grown-ups, one is justified in
suspecting, did not really like
it at all. Then why did she,
the oldest of the grown-ups
of that long past time, visibly
take such intense pleasure in
her role as the unique hcar
ald of Christmas Day, whose
bell call, so to say, was the
great day's official grand
opening?
Her enjoyment, it is clear,
did not flow from an indis
criminate capacity to enjoy
anything. In fact she was the
inventor of a valuable phrase,
which can be strongly recom
mended to those who are wise
enough to try to distinguish
between real enjoyment and
the synthetic brand. Rather
plaintively, she would speak
of "those awful pleasures."
For her, the awful pleas
ures were the highly formal
ized, semi-public amusements
of the rich people of her day.
She loved picnics, innocent
parlor games, and charades
above all, large, jolly, con
versational parties of all
sorts, and people of any kind
except pompous people. But
she did not like dressing up
and showing off.
IROM this list, it can be
seen that one man's (or
one woman's) awful pleasures
may be another's ecstacies of
delight. All parlor games, how
ever brilliant and complex or
childish and happy, seem to
this reporter amusements in
vented in a suburb of hell,
whereas any picnic, even with
ants in the stuffed eggs and
sand in the salad, is intense
ly pleasurable if shared with
other true picnic-lovers (a spe
cial, particularly amiable
branch of the human race,
one must add).
Then, too. pleasures that
bnce were real, like that pre
dawn rising for Christmas
Day at the ase of eight or
nine, may become the very
opposite of pleasurable when
one gets too far from the age
of eight or nine. And other
pleasures, that once seemed
truly awful, quite suddenly
become intense and real.
Shooting, for instance,
tends to be an awful pleasure
if you are so astimatic you
cannot hit the side of a barn
and have no special appetite
for intense physical discom
fort. Then one day, with
heavy heart, to please an over
insistent host, you set out w ith
the grim foreknowledge that
all the warm things you have
put on are not going to keep
you warm enough: and quite
suddenly, frostbite ceases to
matter.
The birds remotely calling
and coming In against an iron
sky; the cold pale light on
the water of the marshes: the
somber autumn colors grad
ually emerging from the dark
monochrome that first meets
the eye these things work
their magic. What was an
awful pleasure becomes a
memorable enchantment.
IN THE same fashion, mere
ly pretty buildings and ob
jects lose their power to en
chant, and a maturing taste de
mands an element of magic,
or splendor, or haunting evo
cation. And this magic may
well be mingled with another
Suggest Border
issued by the six was re
flection of that fear.
For if India could not de
fend herself, then how could
she help others?
If the proposals put for
ward by the six neutrals were
not an invitation to peace at
any price, they were at least
close to it.
When President Kennedy
described Red China as this
decade's greatest threat to
world peace, he voiced an
opinion held by many.
In Colombo, the neutrals
were expressing the fear that
the present Chinese cease-fire
along the disputed border
merely is a breather, a wait
ing period for the time when
weather and supplies are
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE PACT OF NASSAU
The Pact of Nassau makes
two main points. One is that
no European nation can af
ford to build
an independ
ent n u c 1 e ar
force. The sec
ond point
that, neverthe
less, the art
of making nu
ll 1 e a r weap
ons, the know
how and the
facilities,
Lippmann
should be maintained and not
allowed to die out in Britain
and in France.
As this is written we do
not know for certain that
Great Britain will accept the
agreement, and it seems un
likely that France will accept
it. For it is true that the pact
is a formal ratification of the
American contention, which
is that the command of the
nuclear forces of the Alliance
cannot be divided.
What is more, in view of
the overwhelming American
preponderance, there can in
fact be no such thing as truly
independent national 'orces
or, though this is somewhat
fudged in the telling, a Euro
pean NATO force which is
independent of the United
States.
rTHE American prcponder---
ance may be good or bad.
But it is a fact which cannot
in the foreseeable future be
changed very much. Taking
the figures which Mr. Dean
Acheson uses in the current
sort of discomfort almost as
acute as the discomfort of a
duck blind for who can
be truly comfortable in the
presence of a superb remind
er of a cruel cult, like the
great man - cradling, tiger
formed ancient Chinese
bronze in the Sumitomo col
lection, or the oddly similar
earliest Central American
sculptures, by the old Olmecs,
of man cradling, strangely
grinning jaguars?
For each person, then, aw
ful pleasures and true pleas
ures are differently marked
off, according to the individ
ual's age and experience and
bent and formalion. Yet one
rule always holds. True pleas
ure always demands effort
whether physical effort, or
effort of understanding, or ef
fort to participate, or. in the
humble case of really good
bread, the simple effort of
mastication.
From Christmas past to
Olmec sculpture, it is a very
long way indeed. Yet no one
who has gone through many
Christmases can fail to think
about the vexing problem of
awful pleasures versus real
pleasures. So much in Christ
mas ought to be awful. But
maybe the rule is that when
the very young take real
pleasure, it becomes real for
everyone. Maybe that explains
the enthusiasm in that long -
ago ringing of sleighbclls De -
fore first light.
AFTER-CHRISTMAS
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China, whether under the)
emperors or the Reds, never!
has recognized as permanent
ly lost any territory it once
held.
And jusl as the Reds have
attempted to cloak in legality
their border aggression
against India, the same argu
ment might be used for the
whole of Ladakh, regardless
of any cease-fire or a demili
tarized zone.
Ladakh once was part of
Tibet, now incorporated into
Red China. Chinese conquest
of Ladakh would give them
the Zoji La pass, where an all
weather road leads straight
Into India.
"Foreign Affairs," the United
States will this year spend on
nuclear weapons alone as
much (SIS billion) as all the
European NATO countries
combined are spending on all
their defenses.
The British, who have
worked hard and have spent
a good deal of money, have,
achieved a nuclear capacity
which may be about 2 per
cent of the American. Their
nuclear power, which is car
ried by manned bombers, i.
or will very soon be Incapabla
of penetrating the Soviet air
defenses.
France, which Is not so ad-"
vanced as Britain, r.ay in a
few years succeed in making
herself the nuclear equal of
Britain today. If all goes well,
France will have another 2
per cent of the American ca
pacity. But in a very few
years the French force, which
consists of manned bombers,
will be obsolete.
Ic is misleading to talk ot
such small forces as independ
ent. Even a European NATO
force drawing on all the
wealth and resources of Eu
rope would in a good many
years possibly reach 10 per
cent of the American force
today. Is it conceivable that
such a force could independ
ently make a nuclear slrika
against the Soviet Union with
out the full cooperation of the
American 90 per cent? The
initiative in and the veto on
the use of nuclear weapons is
unavoidable and necessary,
given the facts as they are.
'THE hard facts of the silua--
tion sound unpleasant, par
ticularly when an American
stresses them. It would ba
better if on both sides of the
Atlantic we could coive to
treat the hard facts not as the
end of the story but as the
beginning. Within the terms
of the Pact of Nassau it will
be quite feasible to develop'
an intimate partnership in
science, technology, c::pertise,:
production facilities, training,'
planning, targeting strategy,
and the formulation of mili
tary doctrine. Apparently, be
cause both Britain and France
are already nuclear powers,
this partnership would not re
quire an amendment of the
Atomic Energy Act.
Looked at this way. which
is I believe the way tlv Pact
is meant to be looked at, Brit
ain and France would be giv
ing up nothing more than an
illusion, thai in the Western
Alliance a very small nuclear
force could in fact be inde
pendent of the preponderant
nuclear force. In place of the
illusion of independence they
would gain a close partner
ship in the development and
the planning of the prepon
derant force of the Allian-e."
On reflection, this nay not
be so unattractive to our Eu
ropean allies. They would be
trading independent forcer
which do not now exist for
1 participation in the planning
1 and development of forces
I which in fact do exist.
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