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History from the (Ilea of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 vaari aflo.
10 YEARS AGO
April 23. 1S8S (Thunder)
riuorldatlon of drinking
water received wholehearted
backing here lait night from
Dr. David N. Witter, Portland,
director of the dental health
of the State Board of Health.
Closing sessions of the 19SJ
Oregon Congress of Pa"'8
and Teachers were held in
Msdford today, and many of
the more than 900 delegates
and visitors who attended
were to leave this afternoon.
20 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1143 (rrlday)
sim Vailev man fined $2S
and costs and forfeits gasoline
ration book lor irainc v.u
c'rm Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Now is
the time to piani roaauna
while the Chinese pneasonw
and crows are no. iswuua,.
30 YEARS AGO
April 23. 1333 (Saturday)
Four hundred Jackson
county men expected to ob
tain relief Jobs In Crater Lake
National park during sum
mer. State police report many
southern Oregon motorists
still are using 1932 license
plates.
40 YEARS AGO
April 23. 1123 (Sunday)
Klamath Indians warned
they must give up liquor or
forfeit payments from gov
ernment. Thieves ransack Medford
High school building; reward
offered.
50 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1113 (Tuesday)
Jackson County Sheriff
August D. Slnglcr dies in gun
fight with Lester Jones, 19-year-old
desperado; Jones also
killed; William Slnglcr ap
pointed to succeed his broth
er. Martin L. Eriekson, super
visor of Crater Lake National
forest, kills large bear with
.38 caliber revolver.
What's Your I.Q.7
Ni. at tea cartett It ueaitw;
earn at eifM la eacallmt; Hve
ftls l feed.
1. John Wesley was the
founder of what religious de
nomination? 2. A name assumed by an
author aa pen name is
known as what?
3. In British legend, what
King was the son of Uthcr?
4. In the nursery rhyme
who would a-wooing-go?
5. In what war did John
Paul Jonea gain fame?
t. Are live lobsters red or
greenish-brown in color?
7. An aigrette is a plume
of feathera from what bird?
t. "The People versus Fred
eric Manlon" is the central
theme of what popular mod
ern novel?
t. la the Republic of Chile
on the weat or the east coast
of South America?
10. How msny red stripes
has the American Flag?
Answers: 1. Methodist! 2.
Mem 4 plumei 3. Arthuri 4.
A froft 8. Ravelutienary Win
8. Qreish-erewn: T. Egret:
8. Robert Tre-era' "Anatomy
of a Murder", t. Weatt 10.
Seven.
IikS PUSUIHIM
I?-AIoeiTIOH
NATIONAL I0ITOIIAI
3Ellayc6Ty
TUESDAY. APRIL 23. 1M3
Highway Hornets' Nest
Over on the Oregon coast, a lot of people
are mad at the Oregon State Highway Commis
sion for not devoting a larger share of highway
construction funds to the coastal area. (They're
trying to force a bond issue through the legisla
ture to provide additional highway funds for
them.)
The people along Highway 42, which runs
between Roseburg and the coast, and particularly
those along the western end, are mad at the com
mission for lack of funds for that route.
Up in Lake Oswego, a lot of people are mad
at the commission for planning a freeway through
the community. The city council recently passed
a unanimous remonstrance.
IN PORTLAND, a lot of people are mad at the
commission because of its decision to run a
freeway along the foothills route. Their peeve
is that the commission should have chosen a route
that they favored.
In Medford, some people are still rankled by
the fact that the freeway runs smack through
town, instead of by-passing it, as it does all other
communities.
These are samples
sures and tensions with
must deal. Spending, as they do, millions of dol
lars of tax money, and making decisions, as they
must, which affect the lives and property of thou
sands of citizens, the commission is "fair game"
to anyone with a gripe.
A SOMEWHAT similar hornets' nest is now
buzzing in Jacksonville. This is a case where
the commission is going to be soundly damned
no matter what it decides to do.
This is the situation:
Highway 238 runs right through Jacksonville
up f ifth street to California, and west on Can
fornia to the canyon which takes it on up the
hill toward the Applegate area. A large timber
sale in the Applegate poses the probability that
log irucKS in large numoeis win ue using me
highway this summer. The thought of dozens of
big, loaded trucks roaring through the middle
of town at the height of the tourist season caused
considerable alarm among a number of residents.
THEY appealed to the highway commission,
which was responsive to the problem. A rush
job of surveying was done, and the engineers
picked a route along the south side of Jackson
creek as the most feasible.
At a public hearing
route, considerable opposition was made known.
1 his came from people
threatened the integrity
ana municipally ot the
lhe town is sadly divided, and tempera and
emotions are at a peak. Even the city council
is not all of one mind. And outstanding figures
throughout the United
in historic and architectural preservation and
restoration became concerned.
THUS the commission is, once again, on a spot.
If it responds with immediate construction
along the proposed route to avoid the log track
problem, it will upset those who have a genuine
and deep concern about the future of the city.
If it says, in effect, "a pox on both your
houses," it will succeed in alienating both sec
tors of opinion.
If it delays, and attempts to find a way ac
ceptable to both sides in the controversy, includ
ing perhaps an alternate route perhaps on the
north bank of Jackson creek, (still inside the city
limits) or, even better, through a gap in the hills
north of the cemetery it is laying itself open to
criticism, and perhaps additional costs.
"THIS, then, is the three
fnmmiseinn T anas A nri
it chooses, it will be criticized.
But of the three choices, the first, in the stu
died opinion of many people who should know,
could do irreparable harm to the city.
The second is no solution at all.
The third, while it may involve more prob
lems and more talk, more delay and more bicker
ing, is the only one which will take into consider
ation all the factors In this situation.
117H AT, after all, is the tearing hurry?
Surely, no one wants logging trucks rumb
ling through Jacksonville's main street. But there
are other possible solutions to this including
. . . . . . . .
the construction of a temporary log-truck-only
bv-pass road, of inexpensive desimi. which later
could either be eliminated, or, if the decision
is made, become the right of way for the future
highway.
And, as has been pointed out by many far
wiser in the ways of history, historic preserva
tion, and community well-being than either the
highway commission or,
local people, once a town
A tlllll- :llli 111' 1UMV l
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Oncir-rnvtlc u' i . i . ii
KLOON b highway commission might Well
learn a lesson from California, where the
commission and its engineers have come into rJ.
most universal contempt, for their utter disregard
of SCeniC, historical and COnWlUnity factors in
ramming freeways through where the engineers
say they should go without the advice and guid
ance of architects, historians or city planners.
The Oregon commission, God wot, has prob -
lems enough at the present.
1 II ,j i . ..
If it gains an added reputation as a city spoil -
er, and a rammer-through of plans which have
not received the fullest Bttldy, it will be laving
up a king-sized supply of future hornets nests.
8W.
of the passions and pres
which the commission
called to discuss the
who felt that this route
historically, scenically,
little community.
States who are interested
- pronged problem the
nn mattoi wViipVi pnlll'SA
for that matter
most
is chopped in two by
u i nut in mm nn
"Oh, Boy We're In The Cler!"
... Communications ...
Letters to lhe Editor must bear the nam and address of lhe writer, although under
certain circumstances the uia of a pan name or initial for publication is permissible.
The Mall Tribune reserves the right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
Economic Forces
To the Editor: My response
to the front page story of the
speech by Dr. Richard H
Byrnes of Southern Oregon
college, delivered at the Med
ford Public Library recently.
in which the "more learned"
protagonist than I, stated,
'The struggle today is not
really centered on missiles,
space flights, and Polaris sub
marines ... the struggle to
day is a struggle of ideas, a
struggle of books, if you will,
a grim, determined, ideologi
cal war to gain possession of
men's minds."
This we were told before;
this I used to believe, but
this assertion now I dispute.
It Is at this time, not a mili
tary struggle of military
forces and powers, though
these have influence as threat
and creation of fear; but it is
an economic struggle because
who, pray tell, determines
who shall read what books,
stories, poems, articles, listens
to what radio announcers, and
watches what television
shows, and hear even what
speeches, all by what master
minds (those of higher than
average ability and under
standing)? Please make no
mistake, it is owners and con
trollers of those mass media
of communication (and offi
cials who permit public gath
erings as in the above report
ed instance) who are indeed
those same capitalists under
ttack by the communists and
socialists, or in sympathy
with them.
Thank you for this oppor
tunity of contributing to your
column again, and for the
privilege of meeting you as
I sit in your office at this
moment and write this.
Ralph D. McKinnis
P. O. Box 321
Ashland, Ore.
Annual Meeting
To the Editor: The Jackson
County TB and Health asso
ciation will hold Its annual
meeting and no-host dinner in
the Pioneer Room of the Jack
son House on Friday, April
28, at 7 p.m. The program for
the evening will be a panel
discussion of the TB victim
and his problems.
Mrs. A. J. Kanclicr. super
visor of Jackson county pub
lic health nurses, will discuss
case finding; Mrs. Elizabeth
Wilder, social service worker
at the State TB hospital, will
discuss the hospitalization and
social problems of the TB pa
tient; Miss Beverly A r m-
!fron: uJ!TnS0f co!lct':
lions for the State Board of
control, will discuss the ti-
nancial responsibility of the
patient and his family for his
care; David Kuhns, adminis
trator of Jackson County Pub
lic Welfare commission, will
discuss assistance given the
family of a TB patient, if need
be; and Donald Hansen, re
habilitation counselor. State
Division of Vocational Rehii
filiation, win discuss retrain-
' '" !""."-
I Robert Dames. Medford altor-
ney. will moderate the panel.
j A question and answer period
i wU1 follow,
jtmSSSjf'A
Lay have dinner wit?! us. a
cup of coffee or simply come
10 hcr interesting and
SXoTrM Z
: its problems for the patient
f"nd hi family,
Reeervatioiu tor the dinner
may be made by calling Hen-
! rv Bver, chef at the Jackson
House, at T734JU.
Chester Irish. President
Sffi "nd
Medford
MLDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE.
Why?
To the Editor: In your
paper of Thursday, April 18
1063, I found the following
small article at the bottom of
the second column on page
6A:
"Before discarding men's or
children's socks, cut off and
save a top of each color."
Why?
Dan Hays,
Southern Oregon
College,
Ashland, Ore.
Editor's note: The story
would have made consider
ably more sense if all of it
had been used, instead of just
the first paragraph, which
was dropped in by mistake to
fill a "hole" at the bottom of
the column. The rest of it
went on to explain that moth
ers who buy socks for their
children in quantity can ob
tain a supply of the right
color darning yarn by saving
the tops of worn out socks.
Propaganda
To the Editor: Re "U.N. Re
port" - or Dr. Ross's Dog
Food:
Shrieks fly when someone
challenges the press!
A press purported honest,
fair, and free
(At least that's what most
papers claim to be.')
But let me tell you, 'ere I
more digress,
About this claim of "freedom
of the press":
"U.N. Reports Kalanga"-
that, I'd see!
"Tshombe Attacks U. N. "-
turned out to be!
'Twas naught but dog food
handing out a mess!
Who sponsored it? You
guessed it! Someone crude,
Who hands out propaganda
in a tube."
My dog's uncanny! -smells
things with his nose
And shuns decay-ev'n that
buried 'neath some rose!
The old, stale cry of "Red"
should not distress
The world's United Nations
OR our press!
The last Friday and Sun
day editions of the Medford
Mail Tribune listed in its
"Sunday Television Pro
grams" column for 7 p.m.:
"UN's Katanga Report." It
turned out to be an anti-U.N.
pro-Tshombe propaganda film,
one-sidedly lopsided, sponsor
ed by a dog food company
Dr. Rosss Dog Food was
announced as the sponsor of
this propaganda film, which
was anything but "news re
porting" of a faintly "objec
tive" character.
K. Osthimer
3761 South Pacific
Highway. Medford
Ferocious Battle
To the Editor: No battle is
br ferocious as the social one
waged eternally to ward off
the encroachment of a "new
comer's" ideas. To Name on
file, "Rx for a Chronic Condi
tion." M.T. April 18, this sit
uation appears much like a
local static state engendering
"impoverishment of spirit."
This state is the effect of a
misunderstood and misdirect-
cd law of survival - it is a
complex operation, and it is
universal.
Not only does the instinct
for self-preservation operate
III the objective world but it
also extends itself into man's
mental concepts and ideals.
Since the structure of a cul
ture or group rests on the
foundation of its particular
ideas and ideals, these must
be relentlessly and unending
ly wooed, nourished, and sus
taincd by any measure what-! town, ficase aon t give us the , n cmjnent college de
ever. additional problems of ddea it it waaUnf Ha time in
The fact that in order to noisy, dangerous speedway lrainmg nurs wno will dis. .
keep what is ours " we must j dividing our town. penal paper clips, it is time
be prepared to accept change ; Warren D and Joyce for hospitals to take a hard
aa inevitable and unavoidable, h smith. ,,) cndid look at the arayl
is a painful paradox we rigid- 981 Hunter Lane. they handle patients, or mis-
ly refuse to recogniie or con- Jacksonville, Ore handle them.
MEDFORD. OREGON
NATO Force Future
Will Retain Aircraft
By K. C. THALER
United Press IntsrnaUonal
London - 0OT - Britain will
remain an aircraft carrier is
land for many more years to
come, with an imminent new
American air strike buildup
this side of the Atlantic.
New and more up-to-date
U.S. planes equipped with nu
clear weapons are to be flown
to bases in the British Isles
over the next few months.
The developments belie
earlier suggestions that the
United States was planning
to pull down its bases in this
country.
This impression of a fade
out has been strengthened
lately by U.S. plans to with
draw Thor long - range mis
siles from Europe, including
Britain, as Polaris - carrying
nuclear submarines come into
operation on a growing scale.
American atomic strike
fighters will play an impor
tant part in this new U.S.
sider. We feel (often errone
ously so) that any alteration
of the established structure
must constitute vanquishment
to the culture, and therefore,
to the self. And so - we fear,
resist, reject.
If she is socially inclined.
Name on file should enter so
cial circles and gently but
firmly express her ideas. Also
she should be open to weight
and consideration of customs
and ideas which may be new
and different to her - ever
mindful, however, that no bat
tle is as ferocious as the so
cial one waged eternally to
ward off the encroachment of
a "newcomer's" ideas.
Thelma Carson
Star Route Box 60
Prospect, Ore.
Rout Proteiied
To the Editor: The follow
ing letter has been sent to the
State Highway Commission:
Gentlemen: As resident
property owners in Jackson
ville, we wish to protest your
plans to relocate Highway 238
through our city.
We feel the route you have
chosen is the very worst pos
sible. The only advantage we
can see is that you are run
ning the highway in a direct
line from one side of the city
through to the other. This is
an advantage only to you in
making it easy to straighten
the road.
For the people of Jackson
ville you arc accomplishing
several disadvantages:
1. You are removing at least
13 tax and sewer levy paying
properties. (One of your mem
bers stated in today's Medford
Mail Tribune it would cause
the removal of two small res
idences. How strange that a
00-fool right of way can go
several blocks through a
densely populated residential
area and remove "only two
small houses").
2. You are creating a
straightaway through town
which will be impossible to
patrol adequately. Drivers
will be tempted to speed, cre
ating a much more dangerous
situation than we presently
have. At least all vehicles are
now forced to go very slowly
as they negotiate the sharp
turn in the center of town.
3. You are putting a mod
ern, divided highway directly
through a historic community,
one of the oldest settlements
on the west coast, with an ex
cellent potential for restora
tion. You wish to saddle us
with heavy, high-speed traf
fic, with the noises and dan
ger that go with it. Is this
the proper atmosphere for a
pioneer town?
We join those who have
asked you to route the high
way around Jacksonville. This
is in line with your usual pol
icy of skirting populated areas
whenever possible. Such a
route has already been sug
gested to you, to leave the
present highway at the north
east corner of the city across
open fields north of the ceme
tery to rejoin the highway
west of Jacksonville.
Your member also stated in
the Tribune that the people of
Jacksonville asked you to re
route the highway through j
their city. It would be inter-
eating indeed to discover Who
these people arc. and their
motives in Ojantlng their city
divided and despoiled.
Nevertheless, we ask you to
reconsider your decision in
this case, and leave us only
the normally difficult prob
lems 01 restoring a historical
move. Current assessments in
London are that by Oct. 1 de
pleted American bases will
be back to their former
strength, probably even with
their striking power increas
ed. The fighters will, at least
partly, take over from the
long range B-47 strategic
bombers which are to be
gradually withdrawn.
Supersonic fighter bomoers
with operational ranges of
more than 1,000 miles are
held less vulnerable than the
B-47 s apart from serving
additional purposes.
The program for the build
up in Britain includes a new
operational control and com
mand center and other long
term arrangements which are
seen as an indication of plan
ning for a long stay in Britain.
Whether some of this new
air strength will eventually
be added to the projected in
ter - allied nuclear force now
in the state of preparation re
mains to be seen.
The United States and
Britain are speeding arrange
ments for the inter - allied
force which, as a start, will
include the British V-bomber
nuclear force, three Ameri
can Polaris submarines, and
tactical air forces of NATO
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
'c- Field Enterprises, Inc.
NURSES' JOBS
As expected, and predicted,
the loud cries of protest are
rolling in from lhe nursing
p r o f e ssion
about my re
cent piece on
the changing
(and diminish
ing) role of
nurses in mod
flj e r n hospital
i n .H,,r..
JMany of these
rritnete- hmir.
Hrn ever, are from
"official" nurses - that is, of
ficers and administrators in
nursing associations who have
a vested interest in defending
such practices. More typical
of the working nurse's reac
tion is an interesting letter I
received today:
"I am a registered nurse
in on of Chicago's largest
leaching and research hos
pitals and I spend my day
making assignments for
personnel, answering the
telephone, checking doc
tors' orders, filling out
requisitions, pushing pills,
checking diet cards, making
out reports, and lake care
of financial affairs and re
pairs.
"If most of these func
tions are nursing, then
nursing certainly has chang
ed. A great length of time
has not elapsed since my
student days and I assure
you I did my share of com
plaining about the work ex
pected of me, but at least
I was doing nursing. Why
do I continue with my Job?
Believe me. the question
pragues ma more every
day."
In the same mail there
arrived a letter from the
president of one of the most
respected colleges In the
middle-west, who said in
part:
"I fully concur in your
observation that hospitals
are organised and operated
on schedules established to
suit the convenience of the
nurses and lhe doctors,
rather than to serve the
needs of patients. It re
quires great effort on my
part to resist quoting chap
tar and vers by way of sub
stantiation." Then he goes on to say: "As
for the matter of nurses"
training. I can report that
our college no longer partici
pates in a program of train
ing nurses. One of the major
factors in our decision to
abandon this program is to
be found in the fact that in
actual practice, nurses do not
have an opportunity to uti
lize the demanding education
which is forced upon them by
nursing association, physici
ans, etc."
What he is saying, in his
tactful academic prose, is that
I the college would provide the
nurses with, a comprehensive
training, and then find that
they were doing mostly detail
and administrative work that
has little, if any, connection
with the patients' medical
welfare - which is left mostly
to the over-worked and under-
nairl nurtac' liHna
K.-v -A
mm
arc
in Doubt; Britain
Carrier Role
i allies. There is still doubt
whether the two French air
squadrons, recently equipped
with American nuclear weap
ons, will be allowed by Gen
eral de Gaulle to join the
inter-allied force.
But there is speculation in
European diplomatic quarters
that some of the American
strike forces may sooner or
later also be linked within
the inter-allied force.
European interest has been
turning lately to the inter-allied
nuclear force concept, as
expectations of an early emer
gence of the American-proposed
multila'.eral force of Po
laris - arrned, mixed manned
surface vessels fade.
The NATO allies who show
Matter of Fact
(O Nw York Herald
CURIOUSER AND
CURIOUSEH
Vienna - The noises creep
ing out of the Communist bloc
are getting curiouser and curi-
ouser, as it
was so well
put in "Alice."
The lou d e 9 1
and most per
sistent of these
noises sug
gests that the
years of Ni
kita S. Khru
s h c h ev's su
p r e m acy in
AJinp
the Soviet Union are drawing
to a close. The French press
has just published a rather
confident prediction that
Khrushchev will yield his
place as head of the Soviet
government to Frol Kozlov,
when the Central Committee
meets in Moscow in a few
weeks' time.
These stories by able French
reporters reflect a near-spate
of hints, insiders' tips, and
direct warnings that Western
European intelligence services
have lately been getting, from
European satellite sources,
from talkative members of
the Italian and other Western
Communist partie?, and even
from sources in Moscow itself.
The hints and tips take
many forms, as is natural.
But the majority suggest that
Khrushchev will retain the
more important of his two
offices, his place as First Sec
retary of the Communist
Party, while handing over
control of the administrative
apparatus to Kozlev.
JN PARALLEL, so to say, is
another near-spate of more
firmly based reports from the
Far East. The Chinese Com
munists first denounced Khru
shchev by name at party meet
ings, including meetings at
very low levels, a good many
months ago. Another round of
comparable denunciations has
now started significantly
AFTER the Soviet invitation
to Sino-Soviet negotiations
and the conditional Chinese
acceptance.
The theme of the new meet
ings is. quite simply, that
Khrushchev must go. Some
weeks ago, the Communist
theoretical journal, the World
Marxist Review, published in
Prague, charged the Chinese
with attempting to promote
changes in "leadership" of
the Communist party. But it
is a considerable step from the
kind of underground intrigues
the Marxist Review seems to
be talking aboit to party pep
rallies with "Khrushchev
must go" as their theme.
How to interpret these strik
ingly peculiar noises from the
Communist bloc remains a
question much debated among
the European experts on So
viet affairs. What happens to
Khrushchev peisonally.is less
important, of course, than
what happens to the Soviet
Union over which he has pre
sided for so long.
...
VET the two questions are
interlinked. Khruyh c h e v
on the whole has stood for
letting more air into the air-
less Soviet society, for decen-
"Coma. coma, your faari are imagined. You don't
know lor rata that TV will be inundated with snow
like The Beverly Hillbillies' next leasenl"
ed interest in the American
project in varying degree
when canvassed earlier this
year by presidential envoy
Livingston Merchant, have be
gun of late to shy off be
cause of its cost.
A new round of talks now
in progress in Europe may
generate fresh interest, and
the European view may
emerge more definitely at the
forthcoming NATO Council
meeting in Ottawa next
month.
But, in the interim, t h e
United States is going ahead
with its plans in Britain, ir
respective of what may or
may not emerge ultimately
in terms of an integrated
NATO nuclear force.
By Joseph Altop
Tribune Syndicate
tralization of power, for light
ening the dead hand of au
thoritarianism, for consider
ing the people's welfare as
well as the slate'? strength.
If this direction in the So
viet development is now be
new trend towards airlessness,
ing reversed - if there is a
authoritarianism, and general
harshness and toughness, as
seems to be the case - the
change of national direction
may well have involved a
change in Khrushchev's per
sonal position.
The seeming change of di
rection in fact lends some ad
ditional credence to the ru
mors that Khrushchev's posi
tion is about to change. The
reports from the Far East
are also semi-confirmatory.
Concerning these last, it ia
hard to see why the Chinese
Communist leaders are going
out on the limb denouncing
to the ordinary cadres of the
party that "Khrushchev must
go," unless the men at the top
in Peking have considerable
hope that Khrushchev really
is about to go. In short, all
the elements in the pattern
are mutually consistent, ex
cept for the fact that Khru
shchev seems to be tranquilly
vacationing in the Crimea,
a a . a
C1VEN if Khrushchev retains
ihe party Secretaryship
and merely yields the Pre
miership to Kozlev, Khru
shchev's setback will be se
vere. Kozlov was designated
by Khrushchev as his most
probable heir to Gov. Averell
Harriman, rather more than
two yearg ago; but it seems
fairly clear that Kozlev has
been the real leader of the
opposition to Khrushchev.
Kozlov was indicated in this
role at the very height of
the Cuban crisis, when Prav
da prominently and mysteri
ously published a poem by
Yevtushenko on "S t a 1 i n's
Heirs." The poem contained a
pointed mention that some of
Stalin's heirs had had heart
attacks - as Kozlov notorious
ly has had. According to re
ports, he is a narrow, sly,
stodgy, intensively conserva
tive "apparatchik" - a "Com
munist Karenin who has got
fat," as a Polish Communist
once told this reporter.
Such a man might well
rally the elements in the par
ty and the armed services
that have been shocked by
Khrushchev's goings-on and
angered, especially since
Cuba, by his failures. But this
having been said, there must
also be added that Khru
shchev has shown an unsur
passed knack of survival in
the most murderous political
contest on earth.
Maybe we should be les
impressed by the rumors
about Khrushchev's difficul
ties than by his Crimean vaca
tioning. Maybe the symptoms
of the change in direction in
the Soviet Union are merely
indications that Khrushchev
has been paying a rather
heavy price to the opposition,
in order to keep his power
and his place. No one will
really know what the situa
tion is until the Central Com-
mittee meeting in mid-May.
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