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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.
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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.