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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the t.les ol The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31. 1953 (Thursday)
"Mayor" Duane Goodman,
Mcdford Hlli senior, and Ins
elected and appointed stall
were "getting accustomed
this morning witli Hie rou
tine of running the adminis
tration of. a city of 18,000 pco-
PlMrs. Bercth Hopkins, Old
Military rd., resigned last
night as chairman of the
Jackson county Republican
central committee.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31. 1943 (Tuesday)
Impasse reached in war de
partment's negotiations Willi
city of Mcdford to lease the
$1,300,000 municipal airport
for the army.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A pair
of Alaska robins showed up
on the courthouse lawn Mon
day. Both wished they had
stayed in Alaska."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31. 1933 (Thursday)
Ashland Justice of Peace
L. A. Roberts Issues warrant
for arrest of L. A. Banks, ed
itor of Mcdford News, on
charge of libel.
Mrs. Mildred Carlton clec-
n.-...-i,lnnt nf JilrksOn
County Public Health associ
ation.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31, 1923 (Friday)
Gov. Walter Pierce visits
In Mcdford; slates he plans to
"annex" Jackson and Klam
ath counties back from north
ern California.
Mcdford students attend
classes in church building
when high school becomes ov
ercrowded by 430 students.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 31, 1913 (Sunday)
New York capitalist an
nounces plan for S220.00O de
velopment of Sterling mine in
Applcgatc.
Quick action by Mcdford
fire department extinguishes
fire on West Clark st., believ
ed to have been slatted by
"firebug."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior
seven or eiqhl it etcellsnt; live or
sii Is good.
1. Was The Slur Spangled
Banner designaicd the Na
tional Anthem in ini4, ltllll
or 11131?
2. Who said, "Am 1 my bro
ther's keeper'.'"
3. On which continent is
Kenya?
4 Which stale ol Hie Union
has the greatest area?
5. Which aincnrimcnl of Iho
Constitution provided tor the
direct election of Senators?
li. All varieties of lizard
are venemous; true or false?
7. Of which slate is Jeffer
on City the capital?
8. Did Hawaii originally be
come an Integral part ol the
U. S. by annexation or by pur
chase? fl. Are Import duties collect
ed by the Olficc of Internal
Hevenuc, or the Bureau of
Customs?
10. Who Is known as the
"Father of the Navy""
Answers: 1, 1931. 2. Cain.
3. Africa. 4. Alaska. 5. Seven
teenth. 6. Faltt. 7. Missouri,
B, Annexalion treaty. 9. Cut
lomi. li, John Bsrny. 0
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Talk Sense About Taxes
"The time has come to talk sense about state
taxes," State Sen. Don S. Willner of Portland
declares.
And, in an article in the Portland Reporter,
he proceeds to do so clearly, emphatically and
succinctly. We commend his comments to our
readers. His 14 points follow:
1. The median Oregon family earns about $6,000
a year and pays S582 in federal income taxes and S91
in slate income taxes.
2. Oregon fundamentally has a fair stale tax sys
tem based on the ability to pay.
3. The average citizen spends much more for lux
uries than he pays in state income taxes.
4. Most of the proposed increases in the federal
budget are for new weapons or the exploration of
space.
5. Most of (he proposed increases in Ihc state bud
get arc for the continuation of existing programs,
particularly in the area of education.
6. More money is needed for slate support of edu
cation because there are more students to be educated.
7. There is little the average Oregonian can do
about his major lax burden, the federal income tax,
since there is no way to refer the federal tax to a vote
of the people.
8. The stale income tax, on the other hand, can be
referred lo popular vote and defeated, as was the last
lax increase voted by Hie legislature in 1959.
9. Too often the taxpayer reads against the stale
income lax and existing state programs, which he can
defeat, when he is really unhappy with the federal in
come lax and the cost of the cold war, which he can
not reach.
10. Thus Ihe legitimate needs of the school children
of Oregon for slate funds may be jeopardized this
year because Ihe people are burdened by the billions
spend by the federal government.
11. Prudence and economy in spending tax dollars
are among Ihe highesl duties of a public official. A
legislator should vote on state expenditures with the
same care as if the money was coming out of his own
pocket.
12. Education and other budgets must be severely
tested to determine whether they reflect genuine need.
13. Once the level of need is determined, then and
only then can Ihe decision be made what taxes have
to be levied.
14. History may well judge this legislature, and the
citizens who have the right to refer tax measures, by
our willingness to pay lor essential public services,
especially the needs of the youth of Oregon.
ALL of what Senator V illner said is true, and
,tir,t;l tinniiln vvlin ll o vo flmllo'hf ulinll! Illomill-
ter will have to agree. But, sadly, too many people
have not thought about the matter; have not
bothered to inform themselves of the needs; have
meivly registered their opposition to increased
taxes without acknowledging the need for them.
The story of why more money is needed, par
ticularly m education at all levels has been
told many times, but it bears retelling.
It is simply this: There are more children
to be educated, and there is more need for im
proved quality in education. If the cost of liv
ing has increased, the cost of a good education
has increased more rapidly. E. A.
Withholding Repeal
Speaking of taxes, there is a movement under
way (doomed, fortunately, to failure) to abolish
the withholding feature of the federal income
tax.
The theory is this:
The majority of all taxpayers make their pay
ments through deductions from their regular pay
check, thus never actually see the money, and
tend to think in terms of take home pay, rather
than full salary. This is a relatively "painless"
way to pay. Hut, if they hail to save up over a
year in order to make a lump-sum payment of
their entire income tax, either quarterly or annu
ally, they would realize how much they are pay
ing. The resulting screams would cause Congress
to cut down unnecessary spending.
TMIIi theory, in all probability, is true.
Hut those who would test it, by eliminating
withholding, are thoroughly irresponsible.
How much of the spending of the federal gov
ernment is "unnecessary"? Some, probably. Hut
one man's "unnecessary spending" is another
man's "vital program." tine man's "waste in
government" is another man's "necessary expen
diture." Despite all the talk, we cannot convince our
self that (.'ongress is dominated by reckless was
trels and wild-eyed spenders. Certainly each
appropriation measure undergoes the most
searching scrutiny, and we doubt that there are
many spending programs that do not have ade
quate justification.
IVyiOST of the spending, as a matter of fact, is
1T1 for war for wars past and for military
and space needs designed to prevent war if pos
sible, or for defense if needed. Would any real
iist cut this amount significantly? If so, where?
jit is to make these decisions that we must trust
the judgment of our elected representatives.
! Likewise, who eould cut where, and how
iinuch, from welfare payments, health research,
'highway construction, air traffic control, and 'he
! others? Here too is where the collective judg
ment of the Congress is entrusted. We may dis
agree with specific programs, but we must also
realize that they probably represent the will of
the majority.
Any proposal which could lead to a massive
tapacr' revolt the repeal of withholding
could ilo ju4 that ould imperil the nation's
.cwit.T iikl Uuiliji'. K, A. 0
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"Dam Yankee South Carolinians, Georgians,
Lousianians, Tennesseans, Arkansans, North
Californians, Floridians, Texans, Virginians "
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aK fell '9nWrx:M
Reform Movement, Sparked by Shah of
lran Revives Hope for New Progress
Ml
Communications
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although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted lor publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper, in fact the contrary is often Ihe case.
Game Management cently that an atomic war be
To the Editur: in the news
lately, we have seen a great
deal of fuss and furor over
the hunling of docs in Oregon.
Although this issue may not
seem important to the aver
age citizen, the consequences
attached lo the outcome of
Ihe issue could be. Perhaps
250,000 people in this state
enjoy the sport of deer hunt
ing, and many more indivi
duals derive income from il
(motels, sporting goods stores,
etc.). The quality of the hunt
ing experience and the proba
bility of success materially af
fects a lot of people.
For this reason we must
weigh the arguments on this
controversy with objectivity
and reason.
Groups of hunters all over
the state arc attempting lo
force the game commission to
stop doe hunting. Those per
sons who arc sentimentally
opposed to hunting arc not in
volved in this battle because
their arguments are honest
ly based on emotional sympa
ly for wild animals. But for
hunters and others who are
interested in sound game man
agement; who consider deer
as a crop lo be harvested,
this battle is very much in
their sphere.
The game commission, bas
ing its management of the
deer herd on scientific princi
ples, the best available biolog
ical information, and surveys
to determine population and
range trends have adjusted
hunting seasons to produce
maximum healthy numbers of
deer, while at Iho same time,
taking other factors such as
agriculture and forestry into
consideration.
To those who oppose the
game commission's manage
ment practices and want to
change lliem by petitions lo
the governor and bills in the
legislature, I would say; yes
the game commission lias
probably made some mistakes.
Who hasn't? Bui if you force
the game commission into
management practices a n d
seasons on the basis of peti
tions, votes and emotionalism,
you will have utter chaos.
You cannot petition oil and
water lo mix for obv ious reas
ons, and you can't petition a
doer herd lo be numerous and
healthy. It takes scientific
management by trained and
experienced biologists, who
see the wond.s and the animals
more oflen than once every
hunting season.
At last Saturday's ineciiitg
tween tile United States and
Russia would involve 75,000,
0UII deaths in the first 18
hours. That is not just his per
sonal opinion, nor is it a parly
line statement.
1 think the speakers and
letter writers to whom I re
fer would do well to ponder
the following excerpt from
the writings of the imminent
astronomer. Dr. Harlow
Shapley, Dean Emeritus of
Harvard University:
"From the scientific prog
ress on many fronts emerges
the need for ever new atti
tudes toward religion and
philosophy. We need an ethi
cal system suitable for now -for
this atomic age - rather
than for the human society
of 2000 years ago.
"We need a new set of
principles for the guidance of
today's deciders and today's
actors on the international
stage. The scientists' atom
has made good will, good fel
lowship, social justice more
than ever necessary if degra
dalion or even extinction is lo
be avoided. To our problems,
especially to our multiracial,
multinational problems,
peaceful approaches arc de
manded. Angry men cannot
resolve our social and politi
cal dilemmas. Big national
angers tan no longer be tol
erated if man is lo survive.
For anger leads to action and
reaction and to counter - re
action. If atomic war tools
are available to angry and
vain and slupid men, and are
used - then a grim final cur
tain will close the human
play un this planet. It will be
truly a judgment day - a day
of our own bad judgment. The
galaxies will continue lo o
latc without concern for little
planet No. 3 and ils highest
life (which is not quite high
enough)."
Clarence M. Crews
47IIU North Pacific
Highway
Central Point, Ore.
Detroit Fluoridates
To the Editor: In view of
the continuing interest in the
efforts of responsible groups
to fluoridate our fluoride
deficient water, the inclosed
news item from the Dental
Times may he of significance
to your readers.
Il has been the policy of
the municipal governments of
Ihe large cities to do exhaus
tive siiiriies of all available
data before accepting fluorida
tion as safe and ellcctivc. U
is interesting In note that ihe
on doe hunling. sponsored by I community leaders ol Detroit
the Oregon Fish and t;.ime
Council at Ihc I'pper Apple-!
gate Grange, the niimr com-j
mission was badly abused
verbally by the anti-doe hunt
ers. Bui tor all tile heal gener
ated, il w as ev ident thai (hoc
people had no concrete evi
dence on which to base their
complaints.
When the day comes that
they can present some scic'i
lihcally valid tacts to back t:p
their arguments, Ihen reason
able people will listen.
I'nlil then, my ;uiuo is
not In sin any petciens so
se.ullily ha. ked by t.i, Is as
Ihe doe petitions, and it ou
favor deer ni.ili.igeieiit en
a scientific basts, let our
voices be heard
Fdi;ar A. Kupillas
l;il7 Winchester ave
Medlord
Judgment Day
To the Kdiloi. Fn'in Oicc
to lime, since nun in- to 'Ins
arc, i. I have he.itd r.niiii ui
dresses or iv.i,( letters in vuir
"I'eiiiinunic.i I ion'' celu m n s.
inveighing ac.nnst peacriul
coexistence villi !!usm,i I'nc
speakers and wiiuis een
quote scripture ui suppon of
the supposed vniue ot then
contentions.
Yet tin tact is clear In o'i,1
eisptitc lii.i! Ilic (liriii.riir ;o
pe.icetnl d'evMt nee I lui
tual evcimiii.iM.'H. l'i-!,1ci
Kennedy has sl.ned re--
have concluded that it is
David P. Englcson,
D D S ,
IM I'raer Lake ave.,
Medlord
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Editor's note: The article
lollnws:
I'litoi id.itecl water will be
pipe ! to more than three and
a hall million people in the
lv:;vit area beinnin some
li ne in 1 ! li -4 This was prc
dic:e, by Dr William Travis,
chairman of the Fluoridation
Committee "f t'ie Detroit Dis
trict IVnt.il Society, after the
Cc Council voted 7 to 1 last
m!i!':i to fluoridate tiie city
water siipp'y. The succes.-'iul
veic i!iin.'ed a 14-year cani
p.in by Detroit dentists and
chei coiumuiuiy loaders
Wild Cats
'l'ii the h'dlb'! U nil ha e
t i1- epic speaks' column. I
i'''.ild appicciale our pub
lishiii Ihis
An open Idler to Hep John
Dell, nb.u k
With so many really i'li
poi lam nv.iMilcs m Ihe Scn
alo ,i:'d Ih'iisr, our w iki ani
mal coiitiol measure sounds
tiem these
pre: Iv
si.unino:
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lip 111,-1 e
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Vivo ad
run,
:io
.oiltrel is a unit
ies am! counties.
Iciisl.iimn to set
more bureaus.
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e , 'overage -nut
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By PHIL NEWSOM
UP1 Foreign Newt Analyst
From the air, flying north
ward from the Persian Gulf
to Tehran, the land below ap
pears as arid
and desolate
as the moun
tains and val
leys o f the
the moon.
Then there is
Tehran spraw
ling outward
from the
crowded mar
ket places to
the modern buildings of the
university and to spacious
new apartment houses.
In the southwest of Iran
are Arabs still living in the
days of the slave traders. In
the north, on the borders of
Russia, are Turkish-speaking
descendants of the Aryans.
On the land live 17 million
of Iran's total population of
21 million, cultivating tiny
plots or grazing livestock.
Perhaps two million of them
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(ci Field Enterprises, Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
The men who succeed in
Iheir own lifetime are gener
ally those who know how to
play upon the weaknesses of
other men; but those who
achieve immortality are the
ones who know how to call
upon the strengths of other
men, not merely for their own
time, but for centuries to
come.
Speaking of the different
sorts of success, it seems to
me that reputation is a bal
loon thai must be blown up
by others, not by oneself;
the man who blows up his
own balloon inevitably
gives the one extra exhala
tion of breath that bursts
the balloon into fragments.
Much, if not most, of the
trouble in personal affairs is
caused by people who make
difficulties for themselves
when they really have no
choice.
Once we assuage our
conscience by calling some
thing a "necessary evil," it
soon begins to look more
and more necessary and
less and less evil thus do
societies, in every age, jus
tify anything from slavery
to atomic-bomb tests.
When politicians ask citi
zens to make "greater sacri
fices" for their country, I am
always reminded of Uncle
Remus's fine command: "You
do do pullin'. Sis Cow, en I'll
do rie gruntin'."
If the conservative vice
is narrowness, the liberal
vice is self-righteousness; as
Anatole France said of a
liberal of his day: "He flat
tered himself on being a
man without any preju
dices; and this pretension it
self is a very great preju
dice.'' Progress in understanding
is so slow for the principal
reason that in order to ask the
right questions, one must al
ready know a good share of
the answers.
It is a public myth that
actors must "feel their
part" in order lo project
such feeling lo the aud
ience; only the actor who
has achieved emotional
"distance" from the role
can project effectively
for acting is a form of se
duction, and as Hazlitt said,
"An accomplished coquette
excites the passions of
others, in proportion as she
feels none herself."
The hardest person in Ihe
world to bear with equanim
ity is a prosperous fool.
It is the falsest of meta
phors lo call marriage "a
lottery"; for In a lottery we
choose numbers by chance,
but in a marriage our choic
es are determined by our
unconscious drives, and the
"number" we pick is relet
ed to our deep needs for
gratification or punishment,
or both.
The worst bore is the pro
found bore, who mistakenly
believes that his erudition
makes up for his lack of
charm.
own the land they work, the
others receiving from the
great landowners seed, live
stock and primitive tools and
in exchange pay back to the
land-owners four-fifths of all
they raise.
Occasionally for Iran's rest
less masses there has been
hope, only to be beaten back
each time by corruption with
in the government, by the
landowners, the Moslem mul
lahs resistant to change and
by entrenched power.
This week there once more
was hope, sparked by the most
determined reform program
yet to be undertaken by
Iran's 43-year-old Shah Mo-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Interesting news:
The U.S. Forest Service is
advertising for sale an esti
mated two million tons of old
pine stumps in an area includ
ing a million and a quarter
acres on the Winema, Fremont
and Deschutes national for
ests. These stumps are the re
mains of trees that were cut
for lumber some two or three
decades ago.
It is estimated that by the
time this two million ton sale
is completed an additional
2,700,000 tons of old pine
stumps will be available in
the Winema- Fremont-Deschutes
national forest area.
From there on, a large vol
ume of stumpwood is expected
lo become available each year
from the logging operations
of the past several decades.
WHY IS this so interesting?
For an answer, let's go
back to 1952, when some
3,000 tons of Ponderosa
stumps from old cuttings on
the Deschutes forest were har
vested by the Hercules Pow
der Co. and brought to Klam
ath Falls, where a pilot plant
for the extraction and experi
mental processing of the chem
icals in the old stumps had
been set up.
These chemicals included
rosin, turpentine, pitch and
tar products obtained in the
past by tapping pine, cypress
and other resinous trees and
processing the sap. Rosin is
one of the more important of
these products. It is used in
the preparation of synthetic
resins like ester gum, bake
lites, paints and varnishes,
soap, as a sizing for paper, and
in polishes and waxes.
OVER THE long past, these
have been known as "nav
al stores." The Hercules pilot
operation was designed to test
the feasibility of securing
these products from old
stumps, rather than by tap
ping the trees and processing
the sap.
It apparently proved un
profitable because of low res
in prices prevailing at that
time.
'PHIS situation apparently
I has changed-probably due
to a depleting of pine stump
wood in the Southeastern
states. The U.S. Department of
Agriculure. in a recent report
entitled "The Outlook for
Naval Stores," notes:
"Ponderosa pine in the
Western United States might
provide a new domestic source
of stumpwood for naval stores.
Interest in this possibility is
increasing as supplies of
Southern pine stumpwood diminish."
rpHE HERCULES Powder
-- Company operation at
Klamath Falls a decade ago
was not designed as a commer
cial plant. It was intended
solely as an experimental
project. Its purpose was to
find out what commercial
products could be obtained
from old Ponderosa pine
stumps. The community was
told in advance that when this
purpose was achieved the pi
lot plant would be closed
dovv n.
The investment was some
where in the neighborhood of
a million to two million dol
lars, and when the experimen
tal studies were completed it
was regarded as having been
highly successful. Not only
was resin obtained in commer
cial quantities from the old
Ponderosa stumps, but a w ide
range of other chemical products.
vour hill would require a
separation and or duplica
tion. 3 Such a hill, if Ihe right
people ever get wind of it
could make Oregon a laugh
ing stock in the country.
Whv don't you withdraw
this bill"
Kathleen Gee
3747 SE Uth ave.
Portland 'J, Ore.
S It
is intensely interesting
to learn that the Forest Serv
ice is planning to offer for
sale Ponderosa pine stump.
wood in LARGE quantities
over a long period of time
This initial sale of stump
wood will require installation,
il is announced, of a multi
million dollar chemical dis
tillate plant somewhere in the
area. The sale contract will
require the successful bidder
Editor's note; In the inter- j to show that he lias expended
cs's of fairness, it should be i at least a quarter of a million
pointed out 1 1 the bill in ques- ! dollars for detailed design and
lion is enabling legislation to specifications for a pine dis
ailmv counties winch do not tillate plant,
now have wild eat control to The REALLY interesting
establish it. i2 that it would : part of the project lies in the
not affect counties which now i fact that WOOD CHEMISTRY
'nave such control meviian-1 appears to be finally about to
d
hammed Reza Pahlevi
Ruling by decree, the shah
ordered a nationwide refer
endum to vote on a six-point
program which would end
Iran's landlord - serf system,
give workers a greater share
of national income, provide
"fraud proof" electoral laws
and declare war on illiteracy.
Women participated in the
voting for the first time and
the final count gave the shah
margin of victory of
around 1,000 to 1.
The same elements which
had frustrated reform in the
past, opposed the shah now.
But supporting him were
thousands of farmers and
workers who trekked to Teh
ran to shout support for his
program and "death to traitors."
Students who opposed the
ment trick were attacked and
driven from the university
grounds.
Police broke up an attempt,
ed three-day strike by relig.
ious leaders.
Within the last year and
a half the shah has distributed
to 50,000 peasant families two
million acres of private land.
On the eve of the referen
dum, he announced he was
giving up more than three
million acres of royal land on
the Caspian coast.
The land reform law pro
vides a unique method of
compensation for lands taken
from the owners.
In the past, landowners as
sured tax officials that they
were making little profit from
their land. As a means of de
termining land values, the
government now is going back
program as another go1 em-j to the old tax records.
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
WHAT HAS GONE WRONG
Washington - Gen. de Gaul
le, seems to have the knack
of stirring the American gov
ernment t o
use to the full
its consider
a b 1 e powers
of self - delu
sion. In some
policy mak
ing quarters,
for instance,
the word is
being official-
Alinp ly passed tnai
"we can outwait" the French
President.
If this means anything at
all, it must mean that Presi
dent Kennedy will be in the
White House long after Presi
dent de Gaulle has left the
Elysee' Palace for Colombey-les-Deux
'Engliscs or, just
possibly, Valhalla. The
chances are, of course, just
the other way round.
The General is highly un
likely to oblige the State De
partment by dying. Morally,
power may corrupt, but medi
cally the rule is that all pow
er preserves, and absolute
power preserves absolutely.
With a firm, preservative
hold on almost absolute pow
er, and no constitutional
amendment to set a term to
his Presidency, de Gaulle is
an excellent bet to outlast
Kennedy in office.
WORSE still, the underesti
mate of the terrible Gen
eral's durability is only the
least important of several un
derestimates that now previal
here. The most important is
the persistent underestimate
of the underlying strength of
de Gaulle's position in Eu
rope. To American policy-makers,
who keep fussing about
"world opinion" and are al
ways longing to be liked,
there is something improba
b 1 e, almost inconceivable,
about a strong position based
on complete readiness to be
thoroughly disliked. And de
Gaulle's position is very
strong indeed, precisely be
cause he cares only about im
posing his will, and not at all
about being popular.
He has the leverage to im
pose his will, in turn, be
cause of the wide difference
between the Gaullist view of
the European Common Mar
ket and the German. Italian,
and Benelux view. The Gaul
list view was expressed to
Ihis reporter a few weeks ago
in Paris by Prime Minister
Pompidou. De Gaulle's clos
est collaborator attributed
Europe's superb economic
forward surge entirely to
classical economic causes, and
he denied that the Common
Market had helped at all.
TTOLD1NG Ihis opinion of
" the Common Market. Gen.
de Gaulle clearly believes
that the Europe of the Six
has no value except as a pol
itical instrument - more spec
ifically, as a political instrum
ent that he can use as he
pleases. Holding Ihis opinion,
in fact, he must feel justified
in destroying the Common
Market if it does not serve as
his political instrument.
The other five European
powers, meanwhile, are con
vinced that the forward surge
of the European economy is
entirely attributable to the
Common Market. They credit
it with their present prosper
ity, and they regard it as
the main hope of greater pros
perity in the future.
In these circumstances.
Gen. de Gaulle can go very
far in bullying his European
partners. They will heartily
dislike his use of Europe as
a Guallist political instrum
ent. They will grumble and
complain and make anti-de
Gaulle jokes. But they will be
intensely reluctant to jeop
ardize the supposed source ol
their own prosperity, by flat, '
final, and absolute resistance
to de Gaulle's strong will.
HPHESE points need to be
stressed at this juncture,
for two obvious reasons. First
of all, the existing mess in
the Western Alliance will bo
made immeasurably worse it
the next steps taken by the
American policy - makers are
not based on a truer estimate
of de Gaulle's characler, pur
poses, and strengths.
Before any steps at all are
taken, there should be a per
iod of calm reassessment o
all the factors in the Euro
pean situation. But in the sec
ond place, the Kennedy policy-makers
ought also to re
assess themselves.
Larger numbers of intelli
gent, able, and courageous
men have rarely been as
sembled in the American gov
ernment. But these admira
ble qualities can too easily be
negated if men and situations
overseas are not realistically
assessed. Unrealistic assess
ments have now led to a stag
gering setback of American
policy in Europe, and to tha
gravest crisis within the West
em Alliance since the end
of the last war.
QNE CAUSE of this is mo
chanical. None of his pred
ecessors has chosen better
Ambassadors than President
Kennedy. But none of his
predecessors has so rarely
asked his Ambassadors what
the outlook was, what the re
actions would be, in the
countries to which he has sent
them.
Another cause of trouble,
oddly enough, is that the Ken
nedy policy - makers have an
excessive faith in the ration
altiy of mankind. They bc
live that reasonable views, if
clearly expounded, must tri
umph in the end.
But politics, alas, is rarely
ruled by reason. Pride and
prejudice, petty emotion and
short range interest, more
often take control. Much
more realism is needed, in
fact, along with much great
er sensitivity to local situations.
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