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MfcUOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Administration Takes Come to Senses' Attitude By WELLINGTON LONG United PrM International Washington - IUPD - Wal ter Hallstein, chiel of the "Eurocrats," was i r e i h from a session with Presi dent Kennedy. Was Kennedy bitter about French President Charles de Gaulle's go-it-lone course in Europe? The president of the high commission of the Euro pean economic community hesitated only an instant. "Not to any degree," Hallstein replied. "I did note deep disappointment." Two months after de Gaulle's Jan. 14 Paris press conference which was mark ed by the French leader's stubborn opposition to Ken nedy's Western defense plans and British entry into the European Common Mar ket, the administration is taking the attitude that de Gaulle eventually will ... "come to his senses." In the meantime the policies to which de Gaulle objected will be continued, with no apparent attempt to accom modate them to his objec tions. Works on Assumption The United States con tinues to work on the as sumption Britain will some day enter the Common Mar ket, despite de Gaulle's veto. And Kennedy has pushed ahead with plans to create a multilateral nu clear force within NATO, also despite de Gaulle's ; forthright rejection. But the initial anger de Gaulle has begun to wear off and even to be directed against the Germans. Isolationism so far has not undergone a revival, although Kennedy has made a subtle switch. Before Jan. . 14, the President always OH MY! Those $85 Timely suits at Barker's are swell . . L spoke of the "American presence" In Western Eu rope as something perma nent. Could Pull Oui - Since Jan. 14, he has said that if the West Europeans ever built up their forces to the point at which they felt they could defend them selves, and if the Europeans then wanted the Americans to pull out, they would do so. But he always adds that he doubts the majority of Europeans ever will want the Americans to depart. In January and early February, the attitude of the average American was anger that de Gaulle should have opposed something the United States wanted after all this country had done for France. Even leaders of the Ken nedy administration, which publicly says it is a mistake to believe you can always and Immediately buy votes with economic aid, took this attitude. Taxi drivers, business men, secretaries and news paper reporters were mouthing a refrain ' that usually ran something like this: Save France Twin "Twice we had to go over there to save France and as soon as de Gaulle gets in trouble he'll want us to get him out again. So what business does he have not going along with our policies." Kennedy himself called in the West German am bassador; a large gentleman named Karl H e i n r i c h Knappstein, and demanded to know why, after all the United States had done for postwar Germany, German Chanchellor Konrad Ade nauer had been unable or unwilling to keep de Gaulle in line. Undersecretary of State George Ball, the adminis tration's most enthusiastic supporter of the theory that Britain and European Freed Trade association partners should and could be coerced into the ' Com mon Market, loosed some verbal blasts at de Gaulle. The French leader's ideas were out of date, Ball de clared. B.gina Dialectic Switch Ball then began one of Washington's quickest dia lectic switches. The Reciprocal Trade Ex pansion act which he and Kennedy pushed through Congress on the promise Britain would shortly be inside the Common Market, was actually unaffected by de Gaulle's act, Ball ar gued. The Latin Americans ought to be pleased also. They would continue to compete inside the Common Market on an equal basis with the British Common wealth. Ball preached that line all over the capital at back ground briefings for the press and politicians. Kennedy and all his principal advisers insisted Britain will one day be per mitted inside the Common Market. They also insist that the creation of some form of multilateral nuclear force for NATO is inevita ble and that, once it is suc cessful, de Gaulle will meld France's independent nu clear force into it. Nothing Basically Changed In brief, the administra tion is proceeding as if nothing has changed basi cally. . 1 "This course evolved by the United Slates and West ern Europe after World War II," Assistant Secre . tary of Defense Paul H. Nitze explained, "continues to be valid. We each need the other." In line with that belief, the President sent old dip lomatic hand Livingston Merchant around Europe to sell the multilateral nuclear force Idea. He even tried to sell French Foreign Minis ter Maurice Couve de Mur ville on the plan, though there was no reason to be lieve the French were any more willing to accept this than the very similar Eu pean defense community scheme a decade ago. West German Defense Minister Kal-Uwe von Has sel came to Washington, promised his government would support the multi lateral nuclear force scheme, and added that France had no objection to this German decision. Tries to SHU Fears But Hassel apparently spent much of his time sim ply trying to still Ameri can fears that Germany, under Its new treaty of co operation with de Gaulle, would now become so closely tied to Paris that it would also take its arms business to France. Sen. J. William Ful brlght (D-Ark), chairman of the Senate Foreign Rela tions committee and one of Washington's leading liber als, except on racial issues. CKEtOa 'ED 'fi OIK M QQQI Because only GAS dries clothes so fast . . . and so beautifully fluffy! to Want perfect drying weather right indoors at the turn of a dial? Gas gives it to you, instantly . . . with no warm-up wait! It's the fastest fuel you could use to dry the family wash . . . and it does the job with gentle, breezy action never "bakes" clothes dry! 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But a Eu rope strong enough, free enough and dignified enough to make a volun tary partnership with the United States toward the beginning of an Atlantic community." Clare Boothe Luce, high In Republican councils, for mer ambassador to Italy, and wife of the owner of the Time-Life empire, laced into Kennedy, and Ful bright. "De Gaulle's image," Mrs. Luce wrote, "is being rapidly worked over, with the enthusiastic help of the American left, to resemble a half-mad Napoleon, or an abominable no-man." "But," she went on, "mili tarily, Europe is Germany and France. Their choice to day is as plain as the nose on Gen. de Gaulle's face. "It is to get their own nu clear umbrella, or to trust the United States, if they are attacked by Russian conventional weapons, to launch her missiles at Rus sia, knowing that she would get Russia's 100 - megaton bombs right back. Gen. de Gaulle has made the only choice a patriotic French man could possibly make." Defends Position Sen, Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.), spokesman of Amer ica's conservatives, had Mrs. Luce's article placed in the Congressional Rec ord. Doing so, he explained: "I, for one American, de fend de Gaulle's position on nuclear power." Kennedy told one of his post-Jan. 14 press confer ences that "We- don't want to see this great (Atlantic) partnership dissolved." But clearly, there were many who felt the President was doing little to crystallize the partnership. At a press conference on March 6, the President said that while the nation's pres ent difficulties in Europe "are annoying in a sense, or burdensome, they are not nearly as dangerous as they were in the summer of 1961." This was when he called out troops in the Ber lin crisis. The President was reply ing to a suggestion that his administration "had lost Us The Collector's Corner How many islands have U. S. post offices? There are many, and a collection of cov ers with a cancel from each Island makes a beautiful, edu cational and interesting col lection. The research for these is lands is an education in itself. How many of us know where these islands are located, and when and how our govern ment happened to take con trol of them? Corn Island, a U. S. possession under foreign rule, Truk Island. Yap, Wake, P a 1 a u, Midway, Carolines, Virgin, Saipan, and Guam. There are almost 50 American possessions and Islands under our mandate, where one can receive a U. S. post office can cellation. And we have many islands administered by the U. S. Howland, Baker, Can ton, Johnston, Kingman Reef, Palmyra, Jarvis, and Endcr bury but a few. There are many more and the research for them will take you into many parts of the ocean. My letters from all over the world are franked with such pretty stamps lately. Japan celebrates each of its four sea sons with a festival, and al ways a new issue of stamps. Spring is welcomed with the Bean Scattering Festival. The stamp shows a small boy scat tering his parched soybeans. This stamp carries no identi fication of Japan at all. Israel has issued three bird stamps, very colorful and in teresting. The Hibara Bustard is a game bird and has hand some plumage, is proud and likes to strut, my pen friend in Israel writes. The Scops Owl of Galilee is pictured on one stamp and the Purple Heron on the third stamp. Let tors from my pen-friends in Viet Nam, Ghana, Malaya, and Nepal are all franked with such colorful stamps. The Iron Curtain countries are printing stamps galore. Collectors should back A. P. A. 100 per cent where there "Black Blot" program is concerned. Thoy have Just issued a splendid leaflet. All stamp collectors should have it. The price is only 10 cents. Yemen Is over printing her stamps. My letter from Iraq today is franked with beauti ful stamps. I wonder if they will over print their stamps now, since the government has been overthrown. Our stamn cluh tnpmhprs are fine workers in promot ing iormer .president Eisen hower's and President Kenne dy's "People to People Pro gram," as we all know "Com munication may not lead to understanding hut n rf r. standing cannot come without cummunicauon. Anyone in terested in helping to promote this project should become af filiated with C. C. C. C. Their membership is well over 56, 000 people throughout the world. It is wonderful to know our new one cent stamp of Presi dent Jackson, issued March 22, will picture a much young er man, in 1863. Our first stamp to picture Jackson showed a tired old man with pure white hair. This stamp was nicknamed "Blurt .rr-w " Our 1937 stamp showed a younger man, but the 1936 is sue showed an older man again. Our 1946 ixsuo shnwtrf him quite old once again. the entire world will issue "Red Cross' stamns in hnnnr of 100 years of service. This collection alone would be beautiful, educational and in-' terestlng. March 22. the TTnlto.1 w Hons will Issue the first "Free dom from Hunaer" stamnc 5 -cent and 11. rent Then in rapid succession each country throughout the world will issue Freedom from Hun. gcr stamps. This collection un der -Topical- would be outstanding. Why not trv thin fa-lnni. ing hobby? Attend our stamp club meeting at 7:30 p.m. each first Thursday In (ho mnnili at the Girls Community club. nirs. w. ti. waiwyn Southern Oregon Philatelic Society, Medford. Poison Prevention Week Is Proclaimed Medford Mayor James Dun- levy has proclaimed the week March 17 through 23 as Na tional Poison Prevention week In the area. The announcement was made after Congress passed a joint resolution encouraging the American people to learn of the dangers of accidental poisoning and to take such preventive measures as are warranted by the seriousness of the danger. 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