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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 5, 1953 (Tuoday)
The number of Jackson
county men without jobs In
creased during January, the
local State Employment Serv
ice office has reported.
Twelve Jackson county
men enlisted in the Army or
Air Force during January, the
local recruiting office has re
ported. 20 YEARS AGO
Fb. 5, 1943 (Sunday)
Sen. Earl Newbry a n d
TU'Ds. Frank Van Dyke and
William McAllister, Jackson
county's representat Ives in
state legislature, introduce
bill raising salaries of Jackson
county officials by 15 per
cent.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
acoustics in the courthouse
re terrible. A whisper on the
third floor sounds like hired
man calling hogs on the Ap-
plegate."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 5. 1933 (Tuesday)
Some 106 local business
men and Grange members
take part in "good will" meet
ing at Eagle Point Grange
hall.
State Highway Commis
sioners Leslie M. Scott and
R. C. Washburn and Highway
Engineer R, H. Baldock visit
Medford to conduct hearings
on highway construction
plans.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 5, 1923 (Wednesday)
Ashland school euthorlties
issue orders that school girls
may wear only one ring and
no car rings
Large audience of women
and girls attend stage play
starring May Robson at Page
theater.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 5. 1913 (Friday)
Single tux advocated here
as solution to Jackson coun
ty's monetary problems.
Dr J. M Keene purchases
200 acres of land southwest
of Medford; stales that all
land needs is irrigation and
good rnnris.
What's Your i.Q.7
Nina or fan cerract It luatrior;
taven or eight it excellent; five or
iti ii good.
1. Amiit moths do not eat
clothes; true or false?
2. What was Abraham's only
son s name?
3. A drum major's head
dress is called a beaver, shako
or for?
4. Is the Tropic of Cancer
north, or south, of the Equa
tor?
5. In which country is the
famous Blarney Stone?
6. Carrots arc yellow due
to the presence of chlorophyll
or carotene?
7. Which U. S. President is
reputed to have said, "All I
am, or hope to be, I owe to
my angel mother"?
8. Vhi.t were Caesar's dying
words, referring to the part
played by Brutus in a plot
to betray him?
9. Sponges are classified as
minerals, plants or animals?
10. Define claustrophobia.
Answers: 1. True, 2. Isaac,
3. Shako. 4. North, J. Ireland.
6. Carotene. 7. Abraham Lin
coln. 8. El tu Brule You
too Brutus. 9. Animals. 10.
Fear of. enclosed places,
enclose? places.
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FEBHUARY 5. 11(3
A Policeman Retires
It is a t are breed of man who can take on a
job that is underpaid, often dangerous, more
often boring, sometimes rewarding but often
thankless and then stick with it for 32 years.
Such a man is Paul Morgan, known to his
friends as "Skinny," who retired last week as
captain of Oregon State Police.
He was one of those who joined the force
when it was first organized back in 1931, trans
ferring from the old highway traffic patrol. Only
four are still with the state police, including H. G.
"Fod" Maison, the superintendent, now that Cap
tain Morgan has retired.
WE HAVE long had nothing but the highest
regard for the state police. It has had only
two superintendents, the late Charles Pray anp
Maison. But in these two men, both austere, both
insisting on the highest degree of performance
and discipline, yet at the same time vitally con
cerned with the welfare of their men, the state
has had public service of superior stature.
The same is true with the career men, like
Paul Morgan and his immediate predecessor,
Paul Parsons.
There have been mighty few sour apples in
the state police barrel over the years. Either a
rookie shaped up, or he didn't stay on the force.
The result has brouirht only respect to the men in
blue who have assumed the awesome responsibil
ity for protecting the lives and property of their
employers, the people ot
WE DON'T know what a career police officer
thinks when he retires. Perhaps he looks
forward to more leisure to do the things he's
never had time to do before. Perhaps he is content
to sit and take it easy, or to pursue his hobbies.
But we suspect that there will be times when
he wishes he were back in
long and underpaid hours
courage and brains and
, t , ,, .
it is true mat, in many ways, a policeman s
lot is not a happy one." But of all satisfactions,
the greatest to a man with
hind him must be the inner knowledge of a job
well and faithfully done
Never on
No sooner had we written an editorial describ
ing proposed changes
laws, or Sunday closing
that the Urecron legislature would be more sens
ible, than a "Save a Day
tee announces a plan to
day closing laws.
Dr. G. Herbert Smith,
univereity, says the aim
"simply an effort to maintain what has tradition
ally been a family day in
If tradition has to be
power of the state, it's pretty poor tradition. Tra
dition comes voluntarily, and if the American
people want Sunday as a clay of rest and relaxa
tion, not shopping, it's up to them to come to
their own consensus, not have it forced on them
by a policeman.
HILE we assume that
the highest, it appears to us the clue to
the real source of this movement is contained in
his statement that the state's retailers have been
polud and that he has
overwhelming majority."
This is not., we suspect, a tradition-preserving"
proposal nearly as much as it is an anti-competition
proposal. But if stores want to eliminate
competition, the way to do is cooperatively, the
way banks and financial institutions did when
they agreed to close on Saturdays, after a Satur
day-closing law was defeated a few years ago.
If this measure were to become law, the leg
islature would be guilty of the rankest form of
discrimination and idiocy
the line between what goods and services can be
onered on Sunday and
IT WOULD result, for instance, in a person be
ing able to buy film for his camera, but not a
new camera, even though
me same counter.
One could buy sun glasses, but not binoculars.
You couldn't by hardware unless there was an
"emergency and you had to repair your plumb
mg, heating, cooling
(Would you have to get
you nave an emergency
take your word for it
$5007)
The state would graciously permit you to buy
novelties or souvenirs
You could buy a house but not a car. You
could go to drug stoi c and buy drugs but don't
you dare buy a tube of lipstick or a bottle of
cologne.
VOU COULD buy a set of golf clubs, complete
with leather bag. Lint the majesty of the state
would forbid you to buy a suitcase.
You would be permitted to buy a ease of beer.
But if you were out of stationery to write a letter
to Aunt Minnie (or a letter of protest to your
legislator), you'd be out of luck.
Such proposals as this illogical, discrimina
tory, freedom-smothering are bad legislation,
and lead to contempt of the laws as a means of
preserving order and the general welfare.
If a free American wants to buy or to sell
something on Sunday, or any other day of the
week, that should be his right," and the legislature
should give short sLrift to this silly bill. E. A.
uregon.
harness again, working
and giving his best in
skill.
it.. t; t
a splendid career be
E. A.
Sunday
in Washington's "blue
regulations, and hoping
for the Family Commit
broaden Uregon s bun'
president of Willamette
ox trie measure would oe
America . . .
protected by the police
Dr. Smith's motives are
"the full support of an
in attempting to draw
which could not oe.
both were available at
or electrical systems,
a police certificate that
! Ur would a salesman
risking a fine of $100 to
but not toys.
MEDfORD
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Editor's Note:
As of this morning, more
than two dosen "Communi
cations" are on the editor's
desk. We hope to print all.
or almost all, of them as
space permits. Some are
from people who write reg
ularly, and several persons
have two or more of these
on hand. So if your offering
doesn't appear for a few
days, please be patient.
Doe Eaters
To the Editor: A few years
ago we had a doe on me
Huckleberry Gap road tnai
raised three beautiful fawns
each year, for two years that
I know of.
If you killed this doe, I m
sure it must have tasted real
good.
Bud Struck,
Box 32,
Prospect, Ore.
Dinner Licenses
To the Editor: Attention
churches, social clubs and fra
ternal organizations. Accord
ing to an Oct. 2, 1962 memop
andum received from the Ore
son State Board of Health, a
license is reauired for organi
zations putting on virtually
any kind of a dinner to which
the public is invited. The
memorandum reads in part,
"In dinners or events spon
sored at a school, no license
is required if the preparation
and service Is under the direc
tion of the school lunch super
visor. However, if the public
was Invited 'and the school
lunch supervisor did not di
rect the affair, then the event
would have to be licensed . . .
Neither are we to license an
establishment that serves only
to Its members or invited
guests. But if the public is
invited, even though the or
ganization may be fraternal,
social or religious, a ficense
will be required . . .
Tins is an example of un
realistic thinking plus the
loss of another freedom in
our much touted land of liber
ty. As for basic skills in home
preparation of food, the aver
age housewife today knows
more than some of our much
quoted health authorities.
Most American homes have
the highest standards of sani
tation. Where do the health author
ities think the children of
American are reared - in test
tubes perhaps? Any woman
who has raised a child in iier
home knows the basic sanita
tion ruics. rrom looking over
the greasy spoons which call
themselves and cafes and res
taurants, one begins to won
der where the so-called sani
tary inspectors keep them
selves. This little memorandum
will coiit many churche.' and
clubs the only means cf raid
ing money that they have. Are
the health authorities inter
ested in your health, or in
raising more money through
licenses? The latter, I would
gather.
Mrs. Harold T. Briggs
Whitewater Ranch
Wildervllle, Ore.
Watted Resources
To the Editor: India, a na
tion about one third the size
of the I'p'ted States, has a
population of around 430 mil
lion people, most of them hun
gry, and 223 million cattle,
ell of them holy. The pious
Hindus do not slaughter or
sell these animals for food.
They wander around eating
the vegetation and messing
the streets.
India gels about a billion
a year in foreign aid from
various sources. That is a lot
of aid to give a nation that
wastes its own resources.
O. L. Rrannaman,
3970 Sierra Vuy avc.,
Sacramento 20, calif.
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDfORD. OREGON
Greasy Kid Stuff?"
To The South Seas
To the Editor: In your edi
torial of Jan. 31. you say:
"Talk Sense About Taxes."
That's a good idea. The sense
of the matter is, the federal
government does not need
personal income taxes.
Firstly, personal income
taxes are illegal as any aver
age student of American his
tory knows.
Secondly, this tax has been
increased over the last 20
years without being presented
to the people for a vote. Why?
Because if it was, It would
have been defeated as you
state in your editorial.
Why do you Infer that it is
wrong for the people to op
pose increased taxation? Why
should a person work for two
months a year just to have
"Uncle" take it and throw
it in the wastebasket?
You know as I do, that far
more money is wasted every
year than is derived from in
come taxes. I don't believe
that anyone would complain
about taxes If they were get
ting dollar for dollar use out
of their money. Like the man
said, "There is no more per
manent tax than a temporary
tax."
The legislation on wild cats
Washington Report
By William
(c) United feature Syndicate
CUBA INVESTIGATION
Washington - An inquiry
of enormous implications into
the exact present military po-
r sition in Cas-
iro u u a is
about to be
opened by
the Senate
through one
of its elite
bodies. This is
the prepared
ness subcom
mittee headed
Whlla aena l o r
John C. Stennis of Mississippi.
There are Senate investiga
tions and there are Senate in
vestigations. Some are dis
ruptive headline safaris, in
flaming public feeling and
smearing honest people on the
basis of "verdict first - evi
dence later." Some are of the
finest quality - careful, fair,
searching, pitiless but not
petty, vigorous but nor viru-
lent.
Also certainly, on its rcc-
ord. the inquest into Cuba to
be made shortly by Stennis
preparedness subcommit tee
will be one of these latter, a
service to the highest inter
ests of the United States and
of this hemisphere.
...
ITH.T Senator Stennis Is
interested in is to deter
mine in behalf of the Senate
from our own military and
intelligence sources and from
responsible Cubans, precisely
what Soviet armament re
mains in Cuba and precisely
what capacity it may have to
endanger this country or any
other in the hemisphere.
There is no purpose cither
to haze President Kennedy or
to protect President Kennedy.
There la also no purpose to
second-guess either the Presi
dent's lack of support for the
doomed patriots' invasion of
Castro Cuba in the spring of
1961 or the President's strong
action against the Soviet mis
sile lodgment in Cuba in the
fall of 1962.
What Stennis and his col
leagues - one of the best sets
of men in the Senate and the
most unpartisan when it
comes to national security -most
want to know Is where
we go from here. They are
not too inlerested in wh! did
Historic Events Follow Each Other in
Rapid Sequence; Outcome Still Unclear
' . . . ii.. j a it., .rtrinani imatf hiva mrrmii nn trie n
Br PHIL NEWSOM
UPl Foreign News Analyst
Twice within a span of only
about three months the world
has reached historic turning
points whose
final results
still can only
be guessed. In
the third
week of Oc
tober, the
Red Chinese
launched their
massive attack
nffainat India's
USL1
border, and In
the following week President
Kennedy forced a showdown
with the Soviet Union over
Soviet missies in Cuba.
On Jan. 22, President
Charles de Gaulle and Went
German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer signed a treaty of
friendship and cooperation
which Adenauer declared
would end "400 years of quar
rels, dispute and warfare" be
tween their two countries.
On Jan. 29, De Gaulle tor-
is a perfect example. Mr. Del
lenback is worried about old
alley cats, while thousands of
men are unemployed, while
retarded, average and gifted
children are not getting a
decent education, while the
big men in Salem are mis
managing state government
so bad they put us way into
the red last year and have
the gall to ask us for more
money so they can do it again
next year. Personally, I think
a lot of the men we are send
ing to Salem are sent to the
wrong part of town.
As for the legislation on
cats, if some counties have
control without legislation,
why can't the other counties
obtain it also? If no state
agency is involved, who does
Mr. Dellenback work for,
Montana?
We need a control on "wild
cats," like we need a measure
to keep elephants from stam
nedine downtown Medford.
The Pilgrims left England
because they had lost their
God given freedom and over
taxation. This writer and ap
proximately 20 other people
are leaving the U.S. for the
South Pacific islands for the
same reasons. Anyone Inter
ested, please contact me.
Raymond D. Roberts,
1127 Saling,
Medford.
S. Whit
what to whom in the lost
yesterdays.
If they can sustain this
Spartan course of sheer fact
finding they will have given
the whole nation - not exclud
ing President Kennedy him
self - fresh reason to be glad
that a Senate preparedness
subcommittee exists.
...
IfiOR the problem as to Cuba
is two-sided. It is vital to
have a public audit indepen
dent of that of the adminis
tration as to Castro's present
offensive capabilities. But it
is no less vital not to let some
partisan-motivated and incom
petent Senate group rush into
this sensitive area and tram
pie all over the constitutional
right of any president to run
the foreign policy of the
United States, right or wrong
though his decisions may be
thought to be.
Given inaction by Stennis,
just such a result probably
would have followed. Given
the readiness ot the Stennis
group to act, however, the
strong probability is that be
cause of its demonstrated
competence and responsibility
snd restraint all hands will
be satisfied !o leave the mat
ter in its hands.
And, at the end, the country
will have reason to rely on
the findings of these good ai d
able men - plus one woman.
Senators Stennis, Stuart Sy
mington of Missouri, Henry
Jackson of Washington, and
E. L. Bartlett of Alaska, all
Democrats, and Leverett Sal
tonstall of Massachu setts.
Margaret Smith of Maine and
Barry Coldwatcr of Arizona,
all Republicans.
IF THEY
find that Cuba In
I fact still
poses offensive
menace to this country or
hemisphere, they will simply
say so. If they find that Cuba
in (act poses no such offensive
menace they will simply say
so.
Thur, the verdict may be
nothing less than fateful. If
the verdict Is that Cuba is
still a scat of mortal peril to
this hemisphere it will surely
follow that Cuba in due time
will be invaded and sanitised
- not necessarily by (fi e
pedoed British hopes for en.
tering the European Common
Market.
The events are not Isolated,
are in fact interlocked.
The Chinese attack on In
dia served to emphasize the
growing rift between Red
China and the Soviet Union,
adding weight to De Gaulle's
theory that the Soviet Union
must eventually turn away
from the Chinese and back
to the European family of na
tions. Out of the U. S. Soviet
showdown came Nikita
Khrushchev's new "reason
able" attitude and a lessening
in cold war tensions. These
developments in turn made it
possible for De Gaulle, per
haps sooner than he expected
to move now to implement
his own grand design for Eu
rope. This Europe would exclude
both Britain and the United
States and lead ultimately to
the junking of NATO, upon
which Europe's defenses have
depended.
De Gaulle move against
Britain clearly was political,
and in that stroke he put
off for years, if he did not
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(ci Field Enterprises. Inc.
LOLITA. AND OTHERS
While looking through a
clinical paper called, "The
Effects of Fatherlessness on
the Preadolescent Female," I
ran across the
the unexpect-
e d sentence
"It is not pos
sible to say
that the five
Lolitas' is
this study
would have
developed i n
this manner
.,. but . . ." The
startling appearance of the
word "Lolita" in this serious
paper confirmed my earlier
feeling that author Vladimir
Nabokov has indeed joined
the small band of literary im
mortals who have provided
the language with a new
word taken from a character
in a book.
The list is not a large one.
Shakespeare has given us
"Romeo." Byron provided us
with "Don Juan." Sinclair
Lewis added "Babbitt" to the
language. Conan Doyle gave
us "Sherlock Holmes" as a
synonym for the shrewd pri
vate investigator.
"Lolita" evidently fills a
real need in the language to
describe a certain type of
adolescent girl; "nymphet"
is the generic term, but a
proper name seems more
vivid and fitting.
Not many fictional char
acters become fixed this
way in the speech and cul
ture of a people. Dickens,
most prolific of all with
pungent names for his char
acters, has made it only
with "Fagin."
Dean Swift provided us
with "Yahoo" in "Gulliver's
Travels," but the word is
used mostly by intellectu
als, and has never made its
way Into the mainstream
of speech. Likewise, Gil
bert's "Pooh-Bah" from
"The Mikado" had a great
vogue SO years ago, but has
not maintained its popu
larity. ...
Karl Capek did much bet
ter in his play, "R. U. R."
when his name, "Robot," for
a mechanical man, soon gain
ed international usage. And,
of course, Mrs. Shelley's
"Frankenstein" is securely
lodged in the English tongue
but in a curiously inverted
fashion. "Frankenstein" has
come tu mean me monster it
self, when it was really the
name of its student creator.
Mrs. Shelley gave the mon
ster no name at all.
Stevenson rang the bell
twice with one stroke in his
"Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde."
which we still use to describe
a wildly split personality; and
even so minor an author as
P. G. Wodehouse filled a real
verbal need with "Jeeves,"1
whose name embodies f.he
quintessence of the upper
British servant, a species fast
vanishing from the contem
porary scene.
Sheridan's "Mrs. Malaprop"
still lives, and so does Defue's
"Robinson Crusoe." for any
man stranded alone. Rabe
lais' giant. "Gargantua" has
become a standard adjective,
and "Lothario" Is all we re
member of that author's medi
ocre output. "Lolita." if she
lasts, will be joining a small
and select company of fiction
al characters.
United States itself, but in
vaded and sanitized all the
same.
If the verdict is that Cuba
is only a defensive lodgment
of Communism, the present
slow course of trying to iso
late and cut down Cuba by
measures short of war will
only continue.
actually destroy, the concept
of a politically united Europe
which had been a foundation
stone 'Of Western policy since
the end of World War II.
He estimated correctly, it
seems, that economic reasons
would force his European
Common Market partners to
remain Inside the bloc as a
trading area. Politically, he
coldly reasoned that agree
ment between France and
Germany would force the les
ser powers to cooperate
whether they liked it or not.
So far, events have given
De Gaulle no reason to ques
tion his own judgment. It re
mains to be seen whether he
Matter of Fact
(el New York Herald
WHAT HAS GONE WRONG
Washington - According to
authorltive report, few bloop
ers nave angerea resident
Kennedy quite
so much as
the State De
partment's im
pulsive inter
vention in the
Canadian Par
liament's de
bate on na
tional defense.
It is not clear
who was re
Aitop
sponsible for yielding to the
human, all-too-human tempta
tion to show up Prime Minis
ter Diefenbaker, who clearly
deserved it. What it clear
what should have been clear
from the first is that yield
ing to this temptation only
made a bad business worse.
As the President is angry,
it is to be presumed that
someone will pay for the
blooper. But if the President
is wise, he will ask himself
whether the fault does not lie
deeper than the individual
bad judgement of this or that
official or policy-maker.
The Canadian affair, after
all, comes hard on the heels
of the Skybold affair, which
was very much more damag
ing. And the Skybolt affair
could have been as easily
avoided by a little foresight
as the Canadian affair could
have been avoided by staying
silent.
T-O SUPERNAL powers of
prophecy were needed to
foresee that the U.S. govern
ment would eventually have
to make the offer to share re
maining Skybolt development
costs with Britain the offer
with which the President in
fact opened his Nassau meet
ing with Prime Minister Mac
millan. If that offer had been
made at the end of October,
there would have been no
Skybolt row, for the British
would then have had no pos
sible grounds for complaint
against the U.S.
Instead the Skybolt row
raged through November and
December, doing this country
untold damage with all its
allies. And when the cost
sharing offer was at last made
at Nassau, it was refused by
Prime Minister Macmillan;
for the British had decided in
the interval that they too did
not want Skybolt.
The result, in itself some
what questionable, was the
substitute offer of Polaris
missiles for the British Navy.
This was wrapped up in the
scheme for a multilateral de
terrent, which Gen. de Gaulle
was blandly invite-1, to join.
rNCE again, it was predict
" ed that de Gaulle would
feel he was being treated
lightly. He was duly enraged.
And it is at least an even bet
that this Nassau-born fury
was what drove de Gaulle to
cross the important line be
tween obstructing the British
entry into the Common Mar
ket, which he was already
doing, and positively vetoing
the British entry, which he
thereupon did.
Other cases might be cited.
But it is not needful to go
further, in order to prove that
down deep in the system
USA-USSR
TEST BAM
NESQTIaTIONS
LJTM
ml
1
"We can control that nut, Mae. Cau you
control ttt nut, DeGaulle?"
may have erred on the ques
tion of timing.
Most West Germans would
agree with Adenauer that the
French-German accord if the
"crowning point of my ca
reer." But among influential Ger
man newspapers, De Gaulle's
clear anti-U. S. bias has
aroused deep reservations.
Within Adenauer's own cab
inet there is a deep split.
The Germans do not want
to lose contact, either eco
nomically o r defensively,
with Washington. Final re
sults will depend upon which
has the stronger pull - Paria
or Washington.
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
something is very wrong
somewhere. What is wrong is
not difficult to spot, either.
President Kennedy has not
got a State Department.
In Secretary of State Dean
Rusk the President has a wise
policy-maker, but a man with
no knack and no taste for
executive leadership. Yet ex
ecutive leadership was des
perately heeded; for the orga
nization Rusk inherited,
which had been the most
powerful and creative agency
of government under Harry
S. Truman, was already in
sorry condition when Rusk
took office.
IN THE era of John Foster
Dulles, the effective State)
Department was contained by
the four walls of Dulles's pri
vate office; and in this period,
for various reasons, the rest
of the Department was simul
taneously debased and inflat
ed to the point of dropsy; In
his short, widely underesti
mated term in office, Chris
tian A. Herter fought a suc
cessful holding action, but
that was the best he could
manage.
Thus Rusk's task would
never have been easy, even
for a man with the executive
talents of a Dean G. Acheson,
a Robert A. Lovett, or a Rob
ert McNamara. Before choos
ing Rusk, the President made
the task harder still, in ways
that are too obvious to need
naming. A Secretary unable
or unwilling to assert execu
tive leadership was then in
stalled in a Department de.
based, dropsical, and divided.
This combination has pro
duced what we now see a
non-Department of State.
There are good bits, like
Gov. Averell Harriman's Far
Eastern sector, and there are
very bad bits. But the point is
that it is all in bits. It is not
a unified department, guided
by a common viewpoint im
posed by its leader, and work
ing toward a common aim,
clearly defined from above.
It is a congeries of competing
viewpoints, contrasting per.
sonalities, and conflicting am
bitions. AMONG the New Frontiers
men, there are two popu
lar excuses for this irrational
gap in the middle of an Ad
ministration otherwise not
able for its competence and
coherence. It is said that noth
ing can be done because "the
President is his own Secre
tary of State." Or it is said
that "the real Secretary ot
State" is the President's bril
liant and knowledgeable per
sonal chief of staff for for
eign affairs, McGeorge
Bundy.
But that is nonsense. As the
foreign policy record shows,
the President, and Bundy too,
for that matter, need a de
partment to work with. As
the case of the Defense De
partment shows, that relation
ship is far from impossible.
And as long as the State
Department J really a non-
department, other damaging
affairs will follow the Cana
dian affair, the Skybold af
fair, and all the earlier ones,
quite possibly with end-results
calamitous to the Presi
dent himself.
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