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Medford and Jackson County
History from tha files of The
Mail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40
nd 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 10, 1953 (Sunday)
1 Early action on an applica
tion for construction of a tel
evision station to serve the
Medford and Grants Pass
areas was forecast today in
a stoiy in the Grants Pass
Courier.
Men who constructed the
new Mercy Flights, Inc., hang
ar at the Medford airport, and
firms which donated or sold
at cost materials used to build
it. were honored at a dinner
last night.
20 YEARS AGO
Fob. 10, 1943 (Friday)
Medford VFW post decides
not to hold annual program
commemorating sinking of
battleship Maine because of
travel difficulties brought
about by war.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Espee train from the north
was on time the first of the
.....1. 1 IL. . I 1 .If 1 ,
(VCCA, anu mo Jllijatjv an uui
occurred again the last of the
week."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 10, 1933 (Sunday)
Jackson county Lincoln
club votes confidence in all
county officers and "wave of
agitation" in county is de
plored. Oregon stale game code is
changed to allow anglers to
keep "little" fish.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 10., 1923 (Monday)
Medford moving picture
theaters announce plans to
show pictures of proposed new
armory building.
Local group opposes plans
for construction of new high
school building.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 10. 1913 (Wednesday)
Rogue valley Socialists
2 J..... fin,. ntti iwn'd
"capitalists, war, taxes and
the gold standard."
Local post office officials
report heavy mail load be
lieved caused by approach of
Valentine's day.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten corracl ts superior;
seven or eifiht is escsllettt; five or
sis it good.
1. Name the three former
ly independent Baltic states
that were incorporated Into
the Soviet Union.
2. In what manner did Ju
das Iscariot commit suicide?
3. What is the capital of
New Zealand?
4. Docs one set or sit In a
chair?
5. In which state Is the an
nual Belmont Stakes run?
6. Who was President of
France when the Nazis ob
tained French surrender?
7. Where is the United
States gold depository?
8. In which of Browning's
works Is there a priest Ca
ponacchi? a. i lie name mpiaay is as
sociated with what hymn?
10. Four siates of the U S.
have names that begin with
the letter "w"; can you name
them?
Answers! 1. Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania. 2. Ha hanged him
self. 3. Wellington. 4. Sit. S.
New York. 6. Albert Lrbrun.
7. Fl. Knox, Ky. t. "Ipa Jtlrj
and the Beck." 9. "J-oc' tl
Ages." 10. VrtNngton, 'A'ett
Virginia, Wyoming, Wiscon
4 A -
FEBRUARY 10. 1963
Perfidious England, America
"It is just not true to
of Europe. There are today in lieigium enougn
British craves to prove the contrary."
The voice is that of
Theo le Fevre ; he speaks for that other burope
which remembers Verdun and the Maine, Dun
kerque and Caen and the Ardennes, not for the
"Europe of fatherlands" envisaged by Gen de
Gaulle.
To de Gaulle Britain is the Trojan Horse
which would represent the United States in
the . Common Market, swinging it around to
"Anglo-Saxon" control.
of France and certain sections of the trench
press, "Anglo-Saxon," "insular," "maritime," and
"Atlantism" have become dirty words.
It is not too much to suggest, as the "Financial
Times" of London has done, that de Gaulle has
encouraged "anti-Americanism" in France.
I ITTLE more than a week after the explosive
1-1 Jan. 4 news conference, the French govern
ment television system broadcast a program trac
ing the "special relationship" between the United
States and Britain, questioning the reliability of
the United States as an ally, and depicting Amer
icans as uncultured and insensitive.
And Prime Minister Georges Pompidou on
Jan. 24 contributed to the anti-American theme
by indicating that restrictions may be imposed
on U.S. investments in France.
Very real fear of American encroachment into
the European Common Market was engendered
by the recent deal by which Chrysler increased
its holdinirs in the Simca automobile works from
25 to 63 per cent. General Motors and Ford al
ready are heavily represented in West Germany.
rE GAULLE'S distrust
iroes far back; it may
imagined mistreatment in World War II. In a
press conference of November, 1959, he present
ed what James Reston of the New York "Times'"
calls an "apocalyptic vision" of the United States
and the Soviet Union each
its missiles at the mam
itself be spared."
The French President
ture of Western Europe destroyed from Moscow
and Central Europe from Washington. "And who
can even say that the two rivals, after I know not
what political and social upheaval, will not
unite?"
This is more than "anti-Amerieanism, more
than suspicion. As applied to an ally, it borders
on disloyalty. And it disregards the tact that the
United States has stationed 400,000 ot us tinest
troops in Europe who would be squarely on target
in the holocaust dc Gaulle envisions.
It ignores too, the massive U.S. contribution
to the Atlantic shield, while the r rench contribu
tion remains niggardly.
TXE GAULLE'S anti-Americanism, as a prac
tical matter, puts the whole Western Alliance
in jeopardy. It has opened the terrifying possi
bility of a French-led Europe turning to Russia
to spite the "Anglo-Saxons." The French govern
ment already has had to deny a report in an Olso
newspaper that de Gaulle had offered Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev his own
demilitarized, NATO-less
The uazet van Antwerpen has at least tne
Belgian answer to the threatened dilemma: "If a
choice must be made . . . we still prefer to be
placed under the wings of a powerful America
rather than the influence of France, where no
body knows what will happen after de Gaule has
gone." E.R.R.
Retraining and
A start is being made
flaw in application of
ment and Training Act
lC.Qngress, the jet provided ( hat nl training be
lon-reiaieo ; no explicit, provision was macie ior
basic reading, writing and arithmetic courses.
Most local and state officials thought this
meant that Washington would not allow them to
offer literacy training. But it soon became clear
that such a limitation made it impossible for the
training program to reach the hard-core unem
ployed. About half of those out of work have too
little schooling to pass aptitude tests that would
qualify them for training projects.
MOW, officials have announced they will soon
start a pilot program in the District of Colum
bia built upon basic education. Some 12,500 resi
dents of the District are unemployed, and the vast
majority of thorn are functionally illiterate. To
start with, 50 jobless men and women will be
trained for service and maintenance jobs. Four
fifths of their time will be spent in the classroom
learning to read and write and do simple arith
metic. Federal officials have given unofficial assur
ance that such a program will be acceptable un
der the act. They have decided that basic cduea
tion is job-related; a waitress must read a menu,
writp down an order, add up the bill; a Piaid has
to take telephone messages and read grocery
lists. The District of Columbia example may en
courage other states to put larger doses of basic
education in their retraining programs.
Who can doubt that basic literacy is a prere
quisite to successful training for even the simplest
jobs in a technologically advanced society? There
is a lesson here for educators. Former Labor Sec
retary Arthur Goldberg once noted that the flow
of poorly prepared people into the labor force
must be halted "at the source the schools."
E.R.R.
say Britain is not part
Belgian Prime Minister
Indeed, to the President
of the United States
stem from his real or
"deciding not to launch
enemy so that it should
went on to draw a pic
"grand design" for a
Europe.
the Three R s
on rectifying a serious
the Manpower Develop
of 19(52. As passed by
MEOFORO
"Come On How About Dismantling
Them?"
Matter of Fact
(c) Npw York Herald
CHADAAEYEV AND
"VALERIY"
Washington - A book every
one should read is "One Day
in the Life of Ivan Deniso-
vich" by Al
exander Solz
henitsyn. This
is the deep
etched, darkly
terrible and
pitiless por
trayal of life
in one of Sta
lin's p r 1 s o n
camps, which
has been pub
tisnp
lished in Russia by Khrush
chev's direct permission.
Two English versions exist.
One is the handiwork of the
outstanding young English
scholar. Max Hayward, who
so admirable translated "Dr.
Zhivago." The other was pre
pared in Moscow by the Eng
lish quasi-defector, Ralph Par
ker, whose wife is a she-col
onel in the Soviet secret po
lice. These facts should be suf
ficient to determine the
choice of version.
In one version or the other,
the book should be read, not
just because it is a literary
work of great power and
truth, but also because it is a
highly significant political
event. Khrushchev's decision
to permit publication was, in
itself, a political act, akin
to his macabre decision to re
bury Josef Stalin.
T IKE the public inquest on
"the past that culminated in
the re-burial of Stalin, this
permission to publish - was
also an act of some daring.
The book, like the inquest,
in fact raises grave questions
about the inner nature of So
viet society. Its author's bold
intention to raise such ques
tions may be judged from the
symbols he uses. Considers
the prisoners' construction of
a "socialist community devel
opment," in which the first
stage is putting up an encir
cling barbed wire fence.
Yet one must not be mis
led by the approved appear
ance of this astonishing book.
It means that intellectual life
in the Soviet Union is more
free, but it docs not mean
that It is truly free.
The right balance is sug
gested by another case that
is due to make considerable
noise before long. A member
in good standing of the So
v,1"!'. .."Titers' union, vas
been given the Western
pseudonym of "Valeriy," has
now joined the ranks of So
viet authors who have smug
gled out their works for pub
lication in Western countries.
"VALERIY's" bitter novel,
' "Bluebottle," which con
cerns a disillusioned philoso
pher, differs from Solzhcnit
syn's book in the souse that
it is a direct, frontal attack on
the Soviet system as run by
0 cx.rtifttmtitea
'T In 4 -C
"It's good having the world beck to normal erery
body has a grand design te achieve power. It's like the
good ole pre-war riyil"
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
Khrushchev. It even contains
a long chapter dealing mainly
with a certain "Apostolov,"
who is pictured as a cynical
Communist careerist. Aposto
lov is, in fact, an obvious pen-
portrait of Nikita S. Khrush
chev himself.
The pseudonymous "Val
eriy" not only defied the re
gime by smuggling out his
manuscrips; he also took few
pains to conceal what he has
done from the authorities. He
has now been dealt with by
the simple expedient of de
claring him to be insane and
sending him to a lunatic asy
lum. He Is the second overly-
critical Soviet writer to be
disposed of in this manner.
The other is Essenin Volpin,
th illegitimate son of the
great poet of the early post
revolutionary period, Sergei
Essenin. But although "Val
eriy" is only the second So
viet writer to be rewarded for
excessive outspokenness with
a padded cell, he belongs to
a larger company of Russian
writers.
INDEED, his case almost ex
actly parallels that of the
early nineteenth century wri
ter, Chadaaeycv, who publish
ed a bitter attack on the Rus
sia of Czar Nicholas I. Nicho
ls's police also took the easy
way out, bundling Chadaacy
ev off to the madhouse on the
ground that he could never
Jsave written such things un
less insane.
But in Khrushchev's time,
as in the time of Nicholas I,
even the threat of the mad
house is not enough to con
tain the ferment. Consider,
for instance, the case of Syn
tax, the clandestine literary
journal published by a group
of young intellectuals con
nected with Moscow Univer
sity. It was suppressed, after
an indignant snort in Izvcstia
about the impertinence of
good-for-nothings who at
tempt to climb Mount Par
nassus." But the dead Syntax came
to life .again as Boomerang;
and when this second clandes
tine journal was also sup
pressed, it loo came to life
again under the appropriate
title. The Phoenix. The Phoe
nix may perhaps be dead by
now, although according to
last reports it was still circu
lating its officially disapprov
ed poetry and prose.
All of .lion sugx-sts a
truth of great political as
well as intellectual signifi
cance. The truth is that there
is nothing more difficult than
finding a half way house be
tween the total silence of to
tal terror and the total out
spokenness of total freedom.
It is pleasant to think, at
least for a moment, about
Khrushchev's coping with this
prubicin, if only as a change
from thoughts of Gen de
C'.aulle.
OREGON
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Big question:
What's really going on in
Cuba?
When we told the Russians
back in October to take their
deadly toys and GO HOME
and take their nuclear mis
siles with them did they
do it?
Or are they finagling?
JT'S hard for us ordinary
J- citizens to say with con
viction. The reason it's hard for us
to say and to be SURE that
what we're saying is RIGHT
is that the whole Cuban ques
tion is so heavily loaded with
politics.
If the Russians DID get out
taking with them the whole
kit and kaboodle of their of
fensive nuclear armament
it was a great victory for the
Kennedy administration. If
they DIDN'T if they hid
a considerable part of it out,
in caves and elsewhere, where
it can't be seen by our spies
in the sky it will be very
damaging indeed to the Ken
nedy administration.
That's the politics of it.
WHOM shall we believe?
Well, Secretary of De
fense McNamara, a former" in
dustrialist who is undoubtedly
anxious to get out of politics
as soon as he has finished his
mission there and get back to
the good clean business of
making a good product and
selling it to people who want
it and thus making a profit
for his company's sharehold
ers, lays it on the line.
H
E SAYS:
"I believe beyond reason
ai"
Vai w 1 1 1 1
Protests Park Proposal
To the Editor:. Owners of
unoccupied land near the
lakes in the Oregon Dunes
Seashore Park are no doubt
delighted by the news from
Washington, D.C., that the
lakes and most of the adjacent
land will not be included in
the new legislation.
The public should not be
delighted. The public loss will
be immense private gain. This
land's value will now soar
even faster than previously
and its use will be confined
to the very few people who
are rich enough to buy land
there.
The late Sen. Richard Nou-
berger, with whom I worked
in Congress on the formation
of the Park, would not have
been delighted. On the basis
of our studies and hearings,
including the advice of the
best qualified experts in rec
reation planning, we conclud
ed that the Park had to in
clude the lakes and the land
around them.
Governor Hatfield, after a
thorough study, publicly en
dorsed our legislation which
included the whole area.
The Dunes themselves are
already publicly owned and
devoted to recreational use.
Under the proposed "com
promise" the only changes
would be in the agency of con
trol (Park Service instead of
Forest Service) and in adding
a strip of land on both sides
of Highway 101 and includ
ing cptp frontage on the west
side of the lakes.
Such a "compromise" scut
tles the park both as to ca
pacity and versatility. And
why? To avoid taking homes,
we are told, although that was
never contemplated in the
De Gaulle
By ERIC SEVAREID
If Charles dc Gaulle is
crowning his giant's career
with a gigantic mistake, it
"TJ5fva win oe oc
! cause 'lis
sense ot time,
not timinc. is
out of joint
with that nf
his contemp
oraries. H i s
mind inhabits
the far distant
past and the
far distant
ytSaTS,
"Wfift TP!
future. He wishes to resurrect
the European hegemony of
the Mediterranean culture
which passed with Napoleon's
defeat. He envisages the end
of the cold war and the rap
proachment with Soviet Rus
sia, although most of the cur
rent evidence surely means
that what he has now done to
the W?sl's Grand Design will
encourage the Russians ;o
intensify the cold war in
order to expand the breach.
Near the tap root of de
Gaulle's cosmic thinking lies
a profound distrust, not only
of Anglo-Saxon civilization as
a civilization, but of the
Anglo-Americans as states
men. As translated from de
Gaulle's past writing!., this
means, simply, that Dritain
and the United States will al
ways, in tlic test, combine to
gether, whatever the loss to
Frame. And what he has now
done Is surely to bring about
what he dislikes the mo in
JENKINS
able doubt that ALL offensive
weapons systems have BEEN
REMOVED FROM THE IS
LAND OF CUBA and NONE
has been introduced there
since."
That's pretty flat and,
coming from a businessman
who wants to do a good job
for his country and then get
back to his own job it has
to be given respectful atten
tion. That's about the long and
the short of it up to now.
FROM Salem:
Th ftrct nf nncuihlu 1Hn
million worth of highway
bonding proposals came to
light in the 52nd Legislative
Assembly last week a $37
million proposal that would
spread improvements over
seven highways and a number
of legislative districts in the
state.
It is expected that this will
be the first of a series of spe
cial highway bonding propos
als that may reach up to a
total approximating $100 mil
lion. T ET'S hope it gets nowhere.
Let's hope NO BOND
ING PROPOSAL gets any
where in this session of the
Oregon legislature. Here in
Oregon, let's PAY OUR WAY
AS WE GO from here on out
even if it hurts like a sore
thumb.
The federal government is
a bad enough example of what
happens when putting it on
the cuff and leaving PAY
MENT up to future genera
tions comes to be the accepted
rule.
Let's keep Oregon solvent.
1 1 U 1 1 1 W U
bills Dick Neuberger and I
filed. This misrepresentation
persists and even finds sup
port in Washington.
I don't oppose compromise.
It is the essence of our sys
tem of government. But why
retreat in the face of an at
tack by unarmed enemies to
a position that isn't worth
holding? I hope editors and
other citizens will speak up
in protest while there is .still
time' to establish an Oregon
Dunes Seashore Park that will
truly be an Oregon and a
national asset worthy of its
uniquely wonderful site and
worthy of the memory of its
principal advocate, Richard L.
Neuberger.
Charles O. Porter
858 Pearl st.
Eugene, Ore.
Something For Nothing?
To the Editor: The almost
full-page ad in Wednesday's
M-T by the proponents of con
solidation of Districts 549C
and 4 is a good example of the
'something for nothing' think
ing currently displayed in
Washington, D.C.
Why should a district oper
ated on a sound fiscal policy
tie itself to a heavily bonded
district?
Of special interest in the ad
were items No. 1 and No. 6.
No. 1 says no increase to tax
payers, No. 6 says "would im
mediately set in action plans
to construct a second high
school." For free maybe?
Marble halls with superflu
ous courses do not necessarily
turn out intelligent, capable,
wage earning citizens.
Charles B. McGarvic,
P. O. Box 28,
Rogue River, Ore.
Seeks to
the post-war pattern of align
ments.
This attitude was crystal
lized in 1942, when de Gaulle
concluded with resentment
that Winston Churchill had
decided, once for all, to bow
to the imperious necessity of
the American alliance ("War
Memoirs of General de Gaulle
The Call to Honour"). Mac-
millan's compliance at Nassau
in December with the Ken
nedy nuclear plan for Europe
merely confirmed de Gaulle
in his conviction.
But he did not deliver his
blow to Britain because of
this, or because his treaty
with Germany was signed, or
because Russia's fall-out with
Red China has been crystal
lized, lie did it when these
things had happened, as he
has always serenely expected
them to happen. No doubt, he
i now waits with equal serenity
I for the fulfillment of his
prophecy that America will
I leave Europe. This thought is
! the child of a wish, and his
actions to come will be chil
' dren of the thought. He will
i do his best, in many ways, to
bring this about.
What we had forgotten
about General dc Gaulle was
his capacity, as former Sec
retary Dulles once privately
put it, "to wait." And so we
are surprised and shocked at
his smashing blow at Britain's
hopes. Yet, two and a half
years ago I wrote in this space
and I could not havebcen
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
(c) 1963. The
THE MESS WITH CANADA
The critical mistake in our
affair with Canada was to
make any public statement
about the ne
gotiations be
tween tne
two govern
ments. How
ever provok
ing Mr. Diet
enbaker's dis
closures about
c o n f idential
matters, this
was a t i m e
Llppmanb
when a wise government
would have remained silent.
It would have been well to
remember that it is not neces
sary to win every argument,
and whoever made the final
decision in Washington should
have known that this contro
versy was one which should
resolutely have been handled
by quiet diplomacy. He
should have realized that this
was an especially bad moment
to engage in a public contro
versy. Our dealings with the Can
adian government have no
doubt been complicated. But
the crucial issue is the same
one which has disrupted our
relations with France and
shaken the whole Western Al
liance, and has alienated us
from General de Gaulle. It is
how to reconcile the Ameri
can nuclear monopoly with
the sovereign independence of
our closest allies. It was a
thoughtless decision to em
broil us with Ottawa in a rel
ative minor aspect of the
great issue which is posed
from Paris. General de Gaulle
L I w I S
What Kind of Man?
To the Editor: What kind
of human being is this man
who on a cold winter night
could (and did) leave a de
fenseless woman in the moun
tains to die?
E. W. Bradbury
6050 Old Highway 99
South
Ashland
Comments on Statements
To the Editor: It is really
astonishing, in considering the
school consolidation issue, to
read the great amount of mis
information contained in the
"Communications" letters
from District 4.
One letter suggested the 4-H
club program would be lost
through consolidation, when
in fact, the 4-H club program
is an extra curricular activity
ana would in no way be af
fected by consolidation.
Another statement, un
founded in fact, suggested a
lack of library facilities in
Medford's elementary schools
in contrast to the elementary
schools in Phoenix. There are
librarians and library facili
ties in all' of Medford's ele
mentary schools.
And, as for Phoenix-Talent
children being "lost" in a big
ger system-this is nothing but
propaganda and leads this
writer to feel that some peo
ple have little faith in their
children's capacity to make
the'r way in a bigger school
and in a bigger "world" out
side. Such an attitude would
deny to their children the ex
posure to a bigger and better
school experience in both
school facilities and curricu
lum. There is no question in my
um
Resurrect Europe
alone "what Gaullism im
plies for the West is almost
total repudiation of the Grand
Design for peace and security
as conceived and labored at
for 15 years." I added that if
de Gaulle's "Europe des
Patrics" means anything dii-
j fcrcr.t from the old sv stern
that was the affliction on Eur
ope and the world, it is hard
to see what it is.
It remains quite as hard to
day, for there is no implicit
rpason to helipve the French
German aiiiance is made of
more durable stuff than the
American alliance with Eur
ope; no overwhelming reason
to think that France will not
again become politically dis
orderly when de Gaulle de
parts, or to think that France
can permanently lead a Eur
ope that contains the German
race, fundamentally more dis
ciplined and more militant
than the French.
In a sense, de Gaulie still
uses weakness as a weapon, a
stratagem of which he proved
himself master in World W'ar
II. At one point, quarreling
with Britain over the Levant
and East Africa, he broke off
relations between the Free
French and his allies, though
he possessed but a few battal
ions, supplied by his allies, ex
isting through their agree
ment. At another point in
those quarrels, he threatened
to take the Free French out of
all fighting and use then to
Llppmann
Washington Pott
was quite sufficient. We did
not have to take on Mr.
Diefenbaker as well.
WHAT went wrong in Wash
ington was that the final
decision to scold the Canad
ian government was not seen
in the context of our foreign
policy as a whole. Who does
see our foreign policy as a
whole in all its ramifications?
This deplorable and annoyed
episode has raised again tha
question of how to organize
the control of foreign policy.
The question cannot be ans
wered by saying that X rather
than Y should be Secretary of
State. The heart of the prob
lem is that, in the post-war
era, so many departments ot
the government are involved
in foreign policy that no Sec
retary of State can direct all
of it.
a
IN PRINCIPLE, only tha
Chief Executive can con
duct a foreign policy which is
in fact formulated and admin
istered by State, Defense,
Treasury and Intelligence.
But in practice, no President
can do it because the decision
is so complicated and he has
so many other things to do.
What has in fact developed is
the conduct of our foreign
policy by committees of
which the President is tha
chairman, and on big ques
tions the final arbiter. This
committee system fills what
would otherwise be a vacuum.
Without it, there would in
practice be no way to make
the decisions by which the
great chiefs of the govern
ment departments work out a
consensus.
We must ask ourselves what
system would work better.
An omniscient Secretary of
State advising the President'.
The fact is that there can be
no Secretary of State who is
omniscient enough. For this
country is involved deeply in
all five continents, and ines
capably, whatever the formal
titles, there will in practice ba
several Secretaries of State.
We are not alone in this. In
Great Britain, Lord Home is
the Foreign Secretary and Mr.
Heath handles relations with
Europe.
MY OWN impression of the
committee system today
is that the level of intelligence
among the principal figures is
high. But it has its defects,
and they have become vividly
manifest in the aftermath ot
the Gaullist explosion. Like
all committees, whether they
run a government or a news
paper, they tend to favor a
consensus over creation. What
is most obviously needed in
Washington at this moment is
original thinking. General de
Gaulle has shattered the post
war structure of United
States' foreign policy, and w
are launched on seas for
which the old charts do not
show us the way.
It is easier, 1 know, for an
outsider to say it than for the
President to do it. But what
is needed is an infusion ot
fresh and unfrightened minds,
not to replace the men who
are there but to refresh them.
mind Uiat a vole for consoli
dation is a vote for better
schools and a vote for a better
education for our children.
R. H. Travis
1100 Mira Mar
McdfciH
hold down French territories
he believed the British laid
covetous eyes upon. A man
that bold is a man bold
enough for anything. He un
derstood perfectly well his
own operation; it was not
purely emotional reaction, as
many then thought, but cold
ly conceived. In one passion
ale interview with Churchill,
he made it plain. His memoiri
include this passage:
"We spoke of Roosevelt and
of his attitude toward me.
Don't rush Ulings!' said
Churchill. 'Look at the way I
yield and rise up again, turn
and turn about.' "You can,' I
remarked, 'because you are
seated on a solid State, an as
sembled nation, a united Em
pire, large armies. But I!
W:here are my resources? And
yet I, as you know, am re
sponsible for the interests and
destiny of France. It is too
heavy a burden and I am too
poor to be able to bow'."
On? cannot czl this strsic
gem irresponsibility; d e
Gaulle is quite convinced that
his present ends fit the tide of
history. But it remains true
that the manner of his doing
what he has now done is a
manner available only to a
small power. This is why
President Kennedy, tacticailv
weakened by the inescapable
responsibility of great power,
cannot act against de Gualle
in like manner.
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