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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY. )ttDFOiUJ&&TRIBUNI "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Read! The Mai Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 83 North Fir St.. Ph, 77:1-6141 ROBEHT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdvertUlnj Manager GERALD T LATHAM, Bua Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Bailor HARRY f-HIPMAN Telea Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHEH Women'a Editor JJALE ER1CKSON. circulation mi An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Uedlord. Oregon unaer aci at March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES n. Mail In Arlvanre Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday mos 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mos 500 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy (Malledl 300 By Carnei And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year 21 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1-73 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier andVendors jopy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Prens International Full Leased Wire tj. P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturei MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAlluna com RnRrnTS A, ASSOCI ATES Of'lces In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, beaiue. rot Dem'ex. NEWSPAPER PUILISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL gga I Ac8TI3" yuiurum'imum Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fob. 28, 1953 (Thunday) A new organization - as yet unnamed - has been form ed to take over the functions of both the Greater Medford Community Chest and the Medford Plan. Two men wanted on armed robbery charges in Coos coun ty were arrested last night at Gold Hill, after an 80-mile-an-Tiour police chase from Grants Pass. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 28, 1943 (Tuesday) Former United States Sen. A. Evan Reamcs dies; was prominent southern Oregon nttorney and long-time resi dent. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Beau ty is held vital to the war ef fort by cosmeticians. Now is no tlmo for the nation to run out of rouge." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 28, 1933 (Thursday) County swept by rumors of impending arrest of several county officials. Miss Margaret Moiling wins first place in eity-wide popu larity contest; to receive expense-paid trip to Hawaii. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 28. 1923 (Friday) "Human fly" tourist of west coast scheduled to climb outside of Medford building. Motorcycle goes out of con trol on North Riverside avc. hitting telephone pole; driver escapes with broken finger. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 28. 1913 (Saturday) Women of city start cam paign for "prettier Medford." Paving of Medford city streets scheduled to resume in April, according to city of ficials. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or tti correct la superior; even or eight ia excellent; five or ix it good. 1. What is the largest lake In the world? 2. Which territory did the U.S. purchase in 1867 for $7,200,000? H. Is the earth, moon or sun in the center during a lunar eclipye? 4. Which of the following is not a vcrtabratc: perch, toad, sparrow, spider or seal 5. Name four of the five top mm in Russia since 191". li What happened first Italy's invasion of Kthiopia or the Spanish Civil War' 7. What was was nmcluded ly the Treaty of Taris in 18IIB? 8. What similarity is sug gested by the list; physics, chemistry, peare, medicine, lind literature? II. What is the longest bone in I he body? III. Amorphous carbon and other substances resulting from incomplete combustion form the nuclei of what eye irritating vapor? Answers! 1. Caspian Sea. 2. Alaska. 3. Earth. 4. Spider. 5. Lenin, Stalin, Malinkov. Bulganln, Khrushchev. 6. Eth iopia. 7. Spanish American. 8. Nobel Peace Prise awarded for achievements in them. 9. Femur (thigh). 10. Smog. FEBRUARY 27, 1963 Smoot on It was bound to come, and it did. "It", in this case, is a letter which appears elsewhere on this page, damning President Betancourt of Venezuela as a pro - Communist, power - mad, would-be dictator. In truth, of course, Betancourt is one of the staunchest foes of Communism in Latin America, has provided Venezuela with a relatively clean and democratic government, and is working, against the violent opposition of local Commu nists, to improve the economic and political climate. It is interesting to note that the letter slander ing President Betancourt is based on one of Dan Smoot's reports. CMOOT is notorious for calling anyone whose thinking varies to the left of Louis XIV a Communist or pinko. But it is more than likely that he has special cause to smear Betancourt. He is sponsored, in large part, by Texas oil millionaires, whose po litical philosophy is virtually indistinguishable from the manic drivelings of the John Birchers. And Venezuelan oil is anathema to them. So it is logical that Smoot should apply his tar brush to the president of the country which poses the economic threat of competition to the oil barons who subsidize him. e THE authoritative and non-partisan Editorial Research Reports states: "Crisis is endemic in Venezuela. Betancourt has come through attempted assassination, sabotage, and virtually every other tactic of violence. During his first year and a half of office after the free and appar ently honest elections of December, 1958, the principal threats were right-wing plots, particularly among the military. Now the conservatives appear to have be come reconciled to, if not enamored of, their non Communist leftist President. "But with the rise of Castro in Cuba, the emphasis has shifted. Venezuela Is clearly a principal target of Communism and Castroism in the Western Hemi sphere. Only last month, one of Havana's old-line Communists, Bias Roca, told a visiting Venezuelan delegation that after the overthrow of Betancourt: 'We will then cease to be the solitary nation in the Caribbean to stand facing the Yankee imperialists and we will have a nation united with us on the continent of South America'." Thus Smoot has aligned himself with the Communists in his attack on Betancourt. And those who parrot his slanders likewise find them selves in bed with the Communists. It gives one to wonder. "NE wonders what kind of a mind Smoot's or anyone else's is capable of believing that the President of the United States is a liar, a traitor to his own country, a coddler of Communists? What kind of mentality is it that will re-write history, warp and distort items to weave them into narrative of outrage What variety of intelligence is it that uses these lies, these slanders, these libels, to attack our own officials, and the heads of state of friendly governments? What kind of patriot tested methods of Communism itself? And in the process echos not only the methods but the objectives of the Castro Communists themselves? j IS THIS sort of thing "Americanism"? Is it even "nnf i-PnTiiminiiuivi" ? Certainly there is ample precedent for it even in America. But the titioner of this method Austrian corporal who a lie that was big enough, and told it often enough, people would end up believing it. He had some success with his method, too, and ruled Germany from 19M (just 80 years ago) until his death in a bunker beneath the rubble of Berlin 12 years later. Suspicion, fear, hate; slander, lies, vilification are these the weapons of Americanism, of men who once felt moved to pledge their sacred honor" in the cause of freedom and decency? God forbid 1 E.A. Words, Words, Words Columnist Sydney J. a column entitled Antics with Semantics. Ldi tor Bud Forrester of the East Oregonian in Pen dleton did a similar piece the other day, with amusing results. Take a new tax proposal. Its proponents say it will "broaden the tax base." Its opponents say it "hits those least able to pay." In taxes, one man's legitimate "exemptions" are another man's "loopholes." One man's "re imbursement" is another man's "kickback." IS A POLITICIAN "conforming with the wishes of his constituents," or is he "yielding to pressures"? To one man, an item may be "publicity": to another it may be "news." An item may seem "forthright" to one, "slanderous" to another. As for the current legislature, is it "giving due and deliberate consideration to many impor tant proposals"? Or is it simply "wasting time and the taxpayers' money"? Take your choice. It's only words. E.A. Billboard Hearing It would be interesting to know just how many people in Medford feel strongly about our pros pective new elevated "billboard alley." If enough iieople do feel strongly, and make their feelings known, something can be done. A place to start is at the public meeting at 7:;!0 p.m. in the city hall next Monday E.A. Betancourt facts, choose random a damning but untrue is it that uses the de most noteworthy prac in recent history was the believed that if you told Harris frequently writes MEDFORD "Who Said Anything About Driving Out Cattro? We're Talking About Kennedy? Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, 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. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of t!-e paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. A Whopper To the Editor: Quote, M.r. 22163, "Kennedy pledged his full support to Venezuela to resist 'the all out cam paign of the international Communists' to overthrow Betancourt's government." In the picture above this state ment Kennedy and Betan court are both laughing hys terically. To tell a "whopper" like that to the gullible Amer ican public must have been riotously funny. For nowhere on this globe, including Cuba, is the Kennedy Administra tion fighting Communism. To grasp the grim truth -that "Alliance for Progress" is a crash program with American tax money to tear Latin America apart and re organize it according to Com munist, Marxist plans - one should know that Romulo Betancourt has been a flam ing red Communist function ary working for Communist revolution throughout Latin America for the past 35 years, (documented in our Congres sional Record by Congress man John Rousclot (R) uf Calif, and Congressman Wil liam Cramer (R) of Fla.,) and that Teodoro Moscoso, Ken nedy appointee Chief of "Alli ance for Progress" is a very close intimate friend of Betan court. Based on the Congressional Record, Smoot Report 392 documents Betancourt's or ganization of powerful Vene zuelan Communist front, "Democratic Action", a poli- cal party - his exile from his homeland twice for Com munist activities - that he was head of Communist Party of Costa Rica from 1930 to 1935 - and that during last exile in America, he was -rested for brazen Communist connections, expelled from USA, and denied read mitlance. In 1958, after Left ist groups in Venezuela over threw the anti - Communist government there, Betan court. with the help of his Red front "Democratic Ac tion" party, and the under cover aid of our State De partment, ran for President and was elected. And this man, who was once Ignominiously kicked out of our Country as a sub versive Red, is now the hon ored guest of our President, with his greedy fingers reach ing deep into the pocket book of every tax payer in Amer ica. That sl.juld give you some idea of the power wield ed by our Left Wing, pro Communist State Department. What Hbout the reported "Communist sabotage" in Venezuela and Betancourt's alleged "crack-down" on Communists there? A pure, unadulterated hoax - to jus tify Betancourt's seizure of absolute power, and to justify Kennedy's huge grant of ad ditional aid. Frank T'.och. 412 South First si , Central Point. Ore. O Editor's note: See comment in editorial column. Don't Answer To the Editor: One of your subscribers says he isn't afraid of Communism. Mc thinks he'd better wake up. Communism is like a steal thy disease that creeps in slowly but surely; not Just creeping-it is being pushed by some very strong, sly and extremely smart boosters I am receiving daily calls in- quiring whv 1 am not com mnnicating oftenrr. Well, ol' Dears. I guess I Just forgot to send any in. Thai's the reason my ship never arrives, too only I riidn t send a..y out I'm cheered no end to know you miss me, but I've had vo much company lately ami who can lean on a pen when there are folk to talk to? 1 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON shouldn't have said "lean" for I hold a pen very loosely and without thought to guide it. It just rambles along its lane of nonsense and somehow it finally hits you in the eye. If I were to thin'i first, I might not be funny; fact is- I d likely quit writing and poke into some of those rub bish piles. The litterbug might happen to leave an envelope or paper with his address on it. I would want him to clean it up and be escorted to the dump. If he weren't - ten to one he'd hide it behind one of 'em 'ere big billboards we heared about. If I found no address. I'd keep hoping that the flies and skeetcrs the pile drew would track him to his hideout and chew a leg offen the ol' rub bish strewer. My parents surely would have given me the "what-for" i fl had even thrown a gum wrapper by the wayside. Why can t people be neat like - er - don't answer that! Sincerely, Pearl Spackman, Jacksonville, Ore. Prescience To the Editor: Prescience is a rare instinct that only a few human beings possess. Some seers, called mediums, go into a trance before they can ex press themselves; at least that is what they claim they have to do. Fortune tellers, most of whom are just plain fakers, usually give their answers without going into a trance. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688- 1772); a Swedish scientist, the ologian and a proven seer, who spent much of his time in England, was once sitting in a circle of friends in London, when he sang out "There is a big fire burning in Gotcburg at this moment." Goteburg is some 300 miles from London and telegraph and telephone were unknown then. However some weeks later his statement was veri fied by mail. The fire did burn at the very time he had said. This, what may be termed a sixth sense, does not always express itself in the same manner. There are people who can give information on how and. where to find lost articles, or how to find a lost child or person. Which all means that there are mys teries in human behavior that cannot be explained by men of science Magicians, prestidigitators and sleight of hand artists can do tricks that seem super natural, but such men are real artists who undergo years of training to develop a skill where their hand is quicker than your eye. Try it out yourself, you may have the knack and don't know it. For my part I have a tiny bit of it. The first time I no ticed it was at the age of 67. One day a business proposi tion arose, facing me, involv ing a B00 mile trip, and that evening after going to bed I was kept awake for quite a while wondering as to wheth er I should go or not. As I awoke I spoke out, "don't go." The words came out be fore I had made a com?lous thought. But I did not heed those words and made the trip. The trip was a total loss of time and expense. Since then I have made a practice of ask ing Cod for advice to guide me in making, to me, import- i nt decisions. But only once j ,n Rrct l(,n while do 1 get an answer, wnicn probably means that what I think is im portant is not so at all. One quest ion I asked llim in Sep tember 1S59 was, "Will then be an atomic war between the U S A. and Russia?'' The an swer was a forceful no New Labor Party Leader's Ideas May Not Be Welcome to Britain's Western Allies By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Harold Wilson, a crumpled, pipe - smoking man with a cherubic face, is setting out with obvious determination to fulfill his new role as leader of Brit ain's Labor party. If he is not the man who w'M take office as Brit ish prime min 8 ister as result of general elections sometime between now and October 1964, it will not be for failure to give the electorate some thing to think about. He may also give Britain's German, French and United States allies something to think about and some things they may not like. In the short time since Wil son assumed the leadership post succeeding the late Hugh Gaitskell, his ideas on the new Britain he would create have been appearing in news dis patches on an almost daily basis. Such a recent dispatch quot ing "sources" otherwise un identified, outlined Wilson's view on a variety of subjects ranging from the common market to the U. S. Polaris Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES With most people, their re ligion is a substitute for re ligion, just as their sexuality is a substitute for sexuality; on both the spiritual and the physical planes, authenticity of feeling and expression is much rarer than we think -otherwise, how explain the perversions committed in the name of religion, and the dis satisfactions recurring in the pursuit of sex? There it only one thing inevitable in history: that men and nations will persist in following their short term, interest, to the pro found detriment of their long-term welfare. The unexpressed syllogism of all p o I i t i c a 1 extremists, fron the John Birchers on the one side to the orthodox Marxists on the other, was freely and frankly put into words by King George III of England, when he said: "I desire what is good; there fore, every one who does not agree with me is a traitor. It is not necessity, but leisure, that is the true mother of invention; the most necessitous societies do not have the time or energy for basic inventions; it is only when society has developed that surplus known as a leisure class that experiment, discovery and invention com to the forefront. The life of a lie resembles infant mortality: it either dies in the first year, or continues to grow to a lusty old age, sometimes for centuries; there is no such thing as a middle- aged lie. The first murder was an act of impulse, not of pre meditation, and impulse is what mankind must per petually guard against; aft er all, as Buber has pointed out, Cain knew nothing of murder or death, or even that if one hits a man hard which I spoke the instant I awoKe before I had a con scious thought. In 1910 I saw Halley'j comet, a glorious sight, which I still can picture in my mind's eye. I have asked God if I shall see it again and been told "yes." Which makes me believe I will see it again. However, if it should not come about that way I will say what the little boy said "who cares?" John E. Ring, 1049 West 11th St., Medford. Coach Appreciated To the Editor: This is in recognition of one of the finest debate coaches ever. We of the lledrick debate squad feel that Mr. McDou gall deserves a hand for the fine work he has done this year and in the past. By giv ing us a helping hand, but most of all. encouragement, he has taught us to work hard and well. In short, thank you, Mr. McDougall. Debate Squad. lledrick Junior High School. Medford TIME CSUMING- Milwaukee, Wis - ilTT -Duana M. Farnsworth. 21. and Philip W. Peterson, 29. learn ed Wednesday that a hoax can be time consuming. Each was sentenced to a year and a day for causing to be transported in interstate commerce a forged $15 check that wa. signed Harol Hoax missile. The "source" was so close as to look into Wilson's innermost mind. These were some of the con troversial issues taken up by the "source" and said to rep resent Wilson's feelings: In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: President Kennedy said that he will support "what ever Is necessary to get a three-year tax cut of at least TEN BILLION DOLLARS. HMMMMMMMMMMMM. Do you reckon he'd stand for a S P E N D I N G cut big enough to offset his proposed tax cut? WHAT the President is driv ing at, of course, is a try-out of the theory (pro posed by his bright young men) that if your taxes are cut you can safely go ahead and spend all the money you've saved by the tax cut to buy the things you want. Thus (the theory goes) indus try will be so stimulated that it will hire more labor, pay higher wages, buy more raw materials, buy more new ma chinery (automatic machi nery, presumably, in order to get along with less labor) and so on. The end result of it all, the President thinks, is that as a result of all this new spend ing the government will take in more tax money than it was taking in before and so can reach the point where it can pay off the national debt as well as providing all the things the people want at government expense. IT'S a wonderful theory. And Of course It MIGHT work. So many strange things are being made to come to pass in these amazing modern days that one hesitates to go flat ly on record as being so hope lessly old-fashioned as to be lieve that people can't spend themselves rich. TjVDR example: There's that old crack to the effect that WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN. That has been true through out all the thousands of years of which there is a record. But Man can now climb into a space ship and sail out into the mysterious yonder where there is no force of gravity and where WHAT GOES UP WON'T NECESSARILY COME DOWN. If you were an astronaut and were doing a little repair job in your space ship and momentarily had no use for your monkey- wrench, you wouldn't need to lay it down. You could just let go of it and it would FLOAT AROUND. CO- It may be All the laws of thrift are as hopelessly out of date in these days as is the law of gravity OUT IN SPACE where there is no gravity. A suggestion, Mr. President: You are apparently con vinced that the ancient laws of thrift are as out-dated as is the law of gravity out in a space ship. You have a very large per sonal income. Why not make a demonstration of your ap parent belief that the laws of thrift no longer apply? Why not, on your own account, start spending as recklessly as you are proposing that the government of the United States should spend? If you should do that, and if you came out RICHER THAN EVER, I think all of us old - fashioned doubters would have to concede that you are right and we are wrong. Why not give it a try? enough and often enough he will die. Thus, the moral of the Cain and Abel story it plain enough - man under stands good and evil, but he does not understand the consequences of his im pulses. Speaking of this primal act, it is worth keeping in mind William James's observation that: "Man, biologically con sidered, (and hatever else he may be into the bargain), is the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and. indeed, the only one that preys sys tematically on his own spe cies" It Is an irony of eur na ture that we cannot punish a bad man. we can only hurt him; in order to be punished, a man must have enough sense of virtue in himself to appreciate the Justice of the penalty. In the middle ages it might truly be said, with Bacon, that "knowledge is power "; m modern times, however, it is truer to say that power buys knowledge, and uses It, for its own ends. The Kennedy - Macmillan Nassau agreements thould be renegotiated. Presumably this would include the deal where by Britain -epted the Po laris missile in place of the discarded Skybolt. Labor believes the United States should be the sole car rier of Western nuclear deter rent strength and would let Britain's current hydrogen bomb force of jet bombers "fade away." Rights of a free Berlin and of free access to Berlin must be maintained, but might be accompanied by some meas ure of recognition of East Germany and her borders with Poland and Czechoslo vakia. These are all measures to arouse controversy both at Matter of Fact aisop (O New York Herald ANOTHER RED ARMY DAY Washington - It is curious and instructive to compare this year's and last year's re actions, here in Washington and in the world at large, to the M annual brass- hat-bellowing on Red Army day in Mos cow. The cus tomary rock et ratt ling, Alsnp mailed-fist-brandishing speech was made by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. If taken literally, the Soviet Defense Minister's remarks were spine-chilling, indeed. Yet what was said was really less notable than what was not said. Threats of a dictated settlement at Berlin were notably lacking. This year, moreover, the official demonologists did not conn the Red Army day speeches and the preliminary volleys on the anniversary of the battle of Stalingrad-turned-Volgograd with desperate anxiety about the current crisis temperature. They look ed instead for more detailed, les catastrophic indicators. some of which were most interesting. A MONG these indicators x was rather clear confirma tion, for instance, that the real purpose of Khrushchev's of ten - vaunted 1 00 megaton nuclear warhead is to start a gigantic firestorm, on the Hamburg pattern, but vast enough in scale to burn a small state to a crisp. This suggests a sharp di vergence between Soviet nu clear war-planning and the planning of the McNamara Pentagon, with its strong em phasis on pinpoint destruc tion of miliiary targets. Then too, still in the field of weap ons studies, there were strong pointers to suggest a continu ing, most determined Soviet effort to produce an opera tional anti-missile-missile. On the political side, the indicators were still more re markable. Here there was an open conflict between the re tired Stalingrad Field Com mander, Marshal Yeremenko, and the brusque Defense Min ister, Marshal Malinovsky. SOME months ago, Yeremen ko published a book on the Stalingrad battle, in which he gave prime credit for the victory to that towering mili tary genius, Nikita S. Khru shchev. Amid the recent cele brations, Malinovsky publish ed a commentary, in effect contradicting Ye -menko, and giving the main credit for vic tory to the Soviet General staff. "N. S. Khrushche and oth ers" had been helpful civilian morale builders. Malinovsky admitted. But that was all he had to say about civilians, and he boldly recorded the further fact that the disgraced Marshal Zhukov had been a member of the General staff at the time of the Stalingrad i-."p-''K -ir 1'" :-ei "Hold ill Our new leader said lo save the pedestals!" home and among the allies. Although an East Germany does exist and the contro versial border with Poland is unlikely tr be changed in the foreseeable future, the mere mention of the recognition of either is eno"gh to send West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer into a bellow of rage. The United States, having settled the Polaris issue with Macmillan, and embroiled in an argument with French President Charl"s de Gaulle on the future of NATO, could not be expected to welcome a reopening of the British ne gotiations. De Gaulle scarcely will welcome the suggestion that the United States remain the sole Western nuclear power. Tribune Svndirate battle. In these strikingly odd ex changes, the demonologists see symptoms of a renewed dispute between Khrushchev, who would like to solve his pressing problem of invest ment priorities by shrirking the swollen Soviet armed forces, and the army General staff, whose members defeat ed Khrushchev's previous shrink-the-army scheme and no doubt are still determined not to demobilize a single man. That must be why in sistence on the superior wis dom of the General staff is now in order. MONE of these matters is trifling or insignificant. Yet compare these current preoccupations of the demo nologists with the preoccupa tions of this city and the whole world, while listening to the Red Army day bellow ing in every previous mid February from 1959 onwards. Then we had not passed through the valley of the shadow, and then the Berlin crisis endlessly menaced the whole world with what is soothingly called a final nu clear confrontation. Now, in contrast, we have passed through the valley of the shadow quite unscathed. We made the passage in those tense days of the Cuban crisis when Sen. Ker.neth Keating and others like him were ro notably silent (ex cept pernaps for praying, as all sensible men had to pray, that we would peacefully se cure as good a setlement as we got). "V'OW, in sum, a nuclear con- ' frontation of sorts has ac tually occurred, testing both the will of the United States and its government and the intentions of Khrushchev and the men of the Kremlin. The very faci that this test has occurred has transformed ev erything else. The tacit defla tion of the Berlin crisis, which cost the world sleep for four whole years, is by no means the greatest of the changes. Among these changes trace able to Cuba, the grave diffi culties that have arisen with in the Western alliance must clearly be included. The great early Chinese historian, Ssu ma Ch'icn, records a proverb: "When all the wild beasls are dead, the hunting dog is put in the pot and boiled." And when there is no immediate Soviet military menace to Western Europe, our Euro pean allies have less need to defer lo American views and prejudices. The truth is, in other words, that in quite arge part, the troubles and challenges now harassing President Kennedy and his administration, have their origin in the President's single greatest success. For balance, this fact needs to be recorded by any reporter hav ing for Western Europe to study the new troubles on the spot, as this reporter is now doing.