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and 50 veers o.
U YIAM AOO
April M, IMS (Tluireday)
Work on Jackson county
and city of Medford f lacal pro
f rimi U Miring cornflinon.
liciaia worsting on i v
daets reported todiy.
The Oregon Shakes peerean
ui v.i win t a full hour on
KitC't coast-to-coast network
Ma Mar. Instead of the half
hour alio tad in llil and M.
M YEARS AGO p
April SO. 1S4S raMar'
Jackson county reeidtats go
"over the top'' by . W
aecond war loan Bva; ir
chaw toui of 140,000 in
War boitda. "
From Arthur htw'i ' Ya
Smudge Pot" column: 'A
scientist proclaims a horn
really laufha- TMt " P
anothar question - How dees
ha keeps away from It?"
0 YIAM AOO
April S, ISSS (u4r)
Tax collections In Jackaon
county reported to ha about
half ot thoat for 1832.
New aftow halts travel in
Crater Lake National park
leas than two weeks after
roads were reopened.
40 YEARS AOO
April SO. IStS (Monday)
i Jackson county "moon
shiners" sentenced to terms on
the Multnomah county rock
pile.
Chamber of Commerce
plans to issue new booklet on
Medford.
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8
YEARS AOO
prll SO. ISIS (Wednesday)
Pariv of ahnut 18 Ionian
scientists scheduled to visit
crater lane aurini summer oi
1(13.
Boxer Johnny K 1 1 b a n e.
featherweight chair, ion of the
worm, siaieo to mm in
ford.
What's Ymt I.Q.T
SaWB t Ffjhf tc mHsji
aia la seed.
1. What did the islands in
the Pacific inhabited by the
Indonesians used to be celled?
s 2. In nautical measure a
cable Is how many feet?
3. Correct the following:
"The aim of his efforts were
to gain peace."
4. In what country Is Nor
mandy? 5. Where is the Champs
6. Which city in the world
has the largest population?
7. Which Is the largest In
area: Continental U.S., Braiil.
Europe or Australia?
8. Who held office In Presi
dent Truman's cabinet for lesa
than three days?
t. Which sport Is played
before mora spectators each
year than any other In the
United States'
10. Would say that 00. 800.
8,000 or 60,000 blood celts
could be placed on the head
Of a pin?
Asiwero I. Nelberiands
East ladtee. I. 800, J. "... was
la pain peeee." 4. Fiance. S.
Parte, Fiance. 6. Tokyo,
Sepaav T. BeesjU. 8. Kenneth
C Retell. Secretary of War.
TUESDAY, AMUL M. INS
Mile-High City
Ttanvar (a knnism an thai mile-hitrh CltV. and
somewhere on the state
plaque noting this.
Rut tho "votoran" taxi driver, selected be-
ho RPPmpd tn know more about Denver
than the other drivers, who were university stu-
Iamik rnfti2iav riOPr H'ttlO sftniltsffn'f tl(P US tfi t.
UClllfO TTUinill V8SW vassal, ,wvesues ay ewv - -
He took us to the capitol building with no
twiishlo from anv Hnwntnwn hotel. VOU can Walk
to it but he didn't know
building the plaque was. In fact, before our uttie
taxi tour of Denver was over, the four touring
Oregonians began to wonder why we retained
him.
BUT actually, the little tour was worth it. We
VV V sPBw aywaa) wa vssetv - af
have th ITnivernitv of Denver cam
pus, an exclusive mansion-type residential area.
the cnlianood home oi Mamie bisenaower, anu
other average-income homes.
Denver seems to be
halt thai mninr nw huilrlinn. with the excention
of May-D&F department
situnons or hotels, inner targe new ouiioingB are
coiner un, but they probably won't be as large as
the First National Bank or Western Federal Sav
ings buildings.
Thai fisrar huilHinca atari rl hlffh above the old
er structures, glistening
and ugnt-coiorea exteriors.
ENVER is a city which
atlon of somewhat
neonle. but it doesn't have
atmosphere that other large cities have. It has
a distinct atmosphere which borders between a
large small town and small nig city.
We trot the feelincr Denver is trying hard to
be a metropolitan city, but is lacking an import
ant ingredient metropolitan people, people who
know no other life than city life with its crowded
streets, undesirable tenement districts, its con
stant flow of people in a hurry to somewhere
to wait, and the constant roar of a rapid transit
system.
One misconception
rected, in a sense. We considered Denver at the
base of the Rockies. Actually, it's 15 or so miles
east of the Rockies, serving as a populated buffer
between the snow-capped mountains and the
great plain which extends eastward to the Mississippi.
GOLDEN, Colo., northwest of Denver in Jeffer
son County, is really at the foot of the Rockies.
Golden is nestled between two large formations
similar to the Rogue valley's Table Rocks. From
one of the main streets of Golden, you can drive
up almost 2,000 feet to Lookout Mountain.
On Lookout Mountain, which is maintained
by the City and County of Denver, are the graves
of Buffalo Bill Cody and Pahaska Tepee, and
a museum of Cody's trophies. It is 7,500 feet
high, looking out over Denver, ana tne vast
prairie eastward into Nebraska and Kansas.
Coins- ud we used a winding, hard-surfaced
highway, which we found
not used Dy area residents
it too dangerous. We round it no worse tnan
a i n a-V r a . YT 1
Hignway iy over uregon mountain, or mgn-
way 66 to the top of the Greensprings.
UIGHWAY 40 out of Denver goes within three
miles of Lookout Mountain from its initial
climb into the Rockies.
driving highway than the road from Golden, but
the curvy highway gives one a better perspective
of the countrv. and a much more interesting ride.
On the eastern edge
30-minute drive of downtown Denver and at an
elevation of 7,000 to more than 9,000 feet, large
subdivisions are being carved out of the moun
tain slopes. Some of the homes are for the execu
tive and successful businessman; others are for
the white-collar worker, who make up most of
the Denver area population.
As in any other populated area, people are
moving out into the open spaces, in this case, into
the mountains, to clear, cool air.
ON ANOTHER mountain trip, in the country
of Mt. Evans, we saw mansions along the
canyon walls of Bear Creek, a stream no wider
than Rogue valley's Bear Creek, but a stream
crystal clear and bubbling with mountain trout,
for which there is a 12-month season in Colorado.
The mansions along Colorado's Bear Creek
range in size from the summer cottage type with
perhaps 12 to 15 rooms to the large all-year type
with double that number of rooms.
Many of them are owned by Hollywood per
sonalities, who, when time and initiative permit,
take refuge in them to escape the rapid pace of
life. Others are owned by executives of the coun
try's leading businesses.
QN THE side of the Rockies, three miles off
Vf Highway 40, is Red Rock open-air amphithe
ater. Tne theater is carved out of rock in a geolog
ic fault which can be traced from the Colorado
Springs area to Boulder.
The theater seats 10,000 people, and is so
acoustically perfect that no public address sys
tem is needed by performers, among whom have
been some of the nation's top singers.
The theater has on each side two large rocks
extending upward to 100 feet or more above the
top row of theater scats. The rocks are various
shades of red, and each year each takes its toll
of careless youngsters attempting to climb them.
-E.H.A.
capitol building is a
on which side of the
Droaressine in building,
store, are financial in-
the skyline with glass
has a consumer popu-
more tnan one minion
the same metropolitan
about Denver was cor
out later was usually
since mey considered
This is a much easier
of the Rockies, within a
"Ah. Yea The Murder Of That Hiker
Was A Dastardly Act"
' JSH"K.
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printed In this column do net necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary la often the case.
Fewer
To the Editor: The passen
gers who rodo with me in my
1827 taxicab had 79 per cent
fewer cavities than those who
rode with me over the cordu
roy roads in my 1912 REO
taxicab with the solid rubber
tires.
Everett Acklln
Ashland, Ore.
Change the Cigarettea
To the Editor: A news Hem
a few days ago said, in speak
ing of the cigarette habit,
that if people would not
change then we had better
make a change in the ciga
rettes. How true that is change
the cigarettes.
I gat a weekly health bul
letin, and it tells something
about haw the tobacco is
treated in the manufacture of
them.
The tobacco la mixed in
wooden troughs with salt
peter edded any six new
troughs a year are needed.
Growing tobacco is sprayed
with arsenic, and does not
wash off.
The tobacco sometimes gets
a black mold, which requires
anothar treatment. The ciga
rette papers are also treated
with something to make them
burn slower.
Tobacco In Its natural pure
form cannot be too bad prob
ably, as old timers and In
diana used it nearly a life
tune and didn't aeem to be
much harmed by it.
in the first place I doubt
if there is SO per cent of to
bacco in a cigarette. I have
noticed several different
scents even In Just one of the
packs. And to think ot little
babies being victims of these
evil smells.
Sure burns me also to have
aomeone sitting beside me,
take a puff o( these filthy
things and then hold them
away from their own snoot
and hold them under yours.
Once I was at a lunch coun
ter and a girl sat down next
to me and right away lighted
up and taking one puff laid
the cigarette In a tray which
was nearer my plate than
hers.
1 said "please put that over
on the other side" which she
did. with no apology, ot
course. Or did I owe her one?
Mary E. Atkins
1834 Orchard Home dr.
Medford.
Oregon Dunes Seashore
To the Editor: If the Oregon
seashore can be maintained
aa a public recveation and
sightseeing place ot natural
resources - NATURE - for
us and future generations it
should be one of America's
very great attractions. Of the
Atlantic, the Gulf, and Cali
fornia's seasides that I have
seen, none excel this of Ore
gon's. While doing land classifica
tion work In 1912-14 and
again when doing forest re
sources survey work In 1930
32 on the Sluslaw National
forest, I walked over much
of the proposed seashore area,
so believe I have a fair idea
of the lay of the land.
The U. a. National roreai
and a National Park seashore
area may well Join and co
operatively develop a most
wonderful natural scenic area
from below Waldport. cape
Perpetua or the Yachats river
to below the dunes. It really
should Include all the shore
line and the lakes along High
way 101.
If commercialism's greed
for dollar profits, unsightly
buildings and signboards can
be largely eliminated, camp -
ing places provided, and parts
of the landscape left as nature
mold; it, that area will be
something to behold. Shifting
and patterns, waving kelp
and seaweeds or plants at low
tides, submerged at high tide.
MEDFORD MAIL TtUaMIHt. MXDfOIID. OMOON
waves pounding rock-bound
and sandy shores, changing
cobblestone and agate beaches
to deep sandy ones, patterned
by storms and tides; star-fish,
sea urchins, etc., seals, por
poises, sealions, riding the
swells or basking on the rock
ledges, massive spruce, hem
lock, cedar and fir trees, silky
mosadraped vine maples, and
other wonders in profusion
that thousanda of inlanders
have never seen. All these,
and more, would bring count
less tourists, happy, satisfied
visitors to Oregon's wonder
land. John E. Gribble
139 Kenwood ave.
Medford.
Success
To uie Editor:
Oh! What do you call success
my friend,
As you mention it now to
me?
Is It
Climbing the mountain, flying
the air
Or yet sailing the deep, blue
sea?
Is It
Playing golf, or the top in
some sport,
Or tame in the writing ot
verse?
Is It
Painting pictures of some
famous thing,
Maybe winning a riding
purse?
Is It
Success attaining to wealth,
may hap?
Or ruling a nation or state?
Is It
The tops in some new science,
so called?
Or winning a trying debate?
Perhaps your success means
happiness
I would like to believe it so.
Jesus, our Savior, your real
success
The only success I do know.
Serving Him, I have found my
reward.
And now you have found
your success,
Let's pass it on to the wide,
wide world
Whilst we praise Him for
happiness.
James Williams,
P.O. Box 441,
Jacksonville, Ore.
Free Plug tor
"The Politician"
To the Editor: The conserv
atives are walking on air,
while consternation and dis
may is running through the
ranks of the leftists, liberals,
pinks, and fellow travelers
across America. The liberal
publications which have been
taunting Robert Welch, found
er of the John Birch Society,
darina him to publish "The
Politician," are now eating
crow. For they are learning
the hard way that any man
who is hounded long enough
and mercilessly enough tor
merely saying what he be
lieves and doing what he
thinks is right, is entitled at
long last to defend himself.
Under strong compulsion
from a constant stream of re
quests by mail, resolutions by
patriotic organizations, and
pleas from personal friends,
Mr. Welch has finally publish
ed "The Politician."
This book, never published
for the general public till now,
was the weapon picked by the
"left" In I960 and 1981 with
which to destroy Robert
Welch and the John Birch
Society. The first barrage of
hysterical smears burst forth
In the Communist papers.
"The People's World" and
"The Dailv Worker" and
spread like a prairie fire
aeroaa the nation in the leftist
1 papers and periodicals and
finally into the entire Amcri-
can press in the most savage
attack ever made on a man
or an organization in all news -
paper history.
Long before the newspaper
stories broke, this book was
Meeting of 'Bear1 and 'Beard' Recalls
Inconsistencies of Recent World History
Br PHIL NCWSOM
UP1 reteign News Analyst
Nikila Khrushchev la a man
who tiWea to demonstrate his
arfevtion with a great bear
hug. It was In
this spirit that
K h r ushchev,
t h e Russian
bear, and Fi
del Castro,
the Cuban
beard, had
their first
well publlcli-
ed meeting st
United Na
tions in 1960. Later, Khru
shchev was to distinguish
himself by a shoe-banging epi
sode in a session of the U.N.
General Assembly which it
self was distinguished by the
greatest collection of rogues
and rebels, patriots and pi
rates, al'gned and unaligned
ever to be assembled under
one roof.
Last December occurred an-
loaned by Mr. Welch to a
limited number of trusted
conservatives. It was sent to
me by registered mail and "re
turn receipt," and I kept it
under lock and key while it
was in my possession. This has
been called "the most con
troversial book ot the 20th
Century." And well it might
be. For whether you be con
servative or liberal it will
thoroughly enrage you.
In it Mr. Welch makes some
devastating charges against
some people in very high
places in our government. Can
he prove them? - 106 pages
of documentary bibliography
is your answer. Are there
forces in our government de
liberately collaborating with
our external enemy? Are
these powerful forces driving
the United States down the
road to disarmament and sur
render? Is your country-your
native land - your beloved
America, and your freedom,
fast slipping away from you:
Read the book and see. Don't
let anyone or anything stop
you. If your book store can
not supply you - or It for any
reason you are frustrated in
your attempt to get a copy -contact
a member of the John
Birch Society.
L. C. Powell,
316 SE Eighth St.,
' Grants Pass, Ore.
In the Day's News
y FRANK JENKINS
Oregon, after long years of
battling, finally gave up the
struggle and went along with
its neighbors on Daylight
Saving Time.
To those of us who know
(and ADORE) this slightly
screwball but utterly lovc
able State of Oregon, that is
SOMETHING.
Who knows what will hap
pen next?
QL
UESTION:
What IS Daylight Saving
Time?
Well, it's a plan by which
all clocks are set ahead by an
hour. But no change is made
in the usual clock time of peo
ple's activities. The result is
that the day's work begins an
hour earlier for everybody, it
was first designed aa a means
of saving fuel. It was used in
Europe during World War 1
and in the United States tor
one year - 1918.
The plan was revived dur
ing World War II, and most
large cities have continued it
ever since.
QUESTION:
Who first thought of Day
light Saving Time?
You'll be surprised.
It was BENJAMIN FRANK
LIN. IJOW COME?
Ill
The story goes that when
he was ambassador to France
he awoke unusually early one
morning and found daylight
streaming through his win
dows, while most of the citi
zens of Paris siill slept.
It started him thinking. As
everyone knows, Ben was a
frugal person. Waste appalled
him. And here was sunlight
GOING TO WASTE, while
the people of Paris snoozed.
Come that night, they would
be BURNING CANDLES -whereas
if they had the good.
thrifty common sense to GET
UP EARLY IN THE MORN
ING, when the sun was shin
ing, and to go to bed earlier
at night, before the sun sank
in the west and darkness came
ilon ncain thev could have
SAVED all these candles.
I
j (VJT of his thinking came
! " the idea of advancing the
clocks an hour, thus enabling
the people to use the sunlight
in the morning, when there
was plenty of it. and to SAVE
1 their candles at night by going
to bed an hour earlier.
j He even went so far as to
calculate how many candles
other bear hug of note. This
was the meeting in Moscow
ot Khrushchev and President
Tito ot Yugoslavia who for
various reasons then was be
ing taken back into the Mos
cow fold.
Now for the next month or
so there will be repeated tor
the cameras another great
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fc- nld Enterprlm. toe.
THE PRICE OF EASE
"I was in Florida last
month," said the woman
next to me at the dinner ta
ble, "and we
a 1 1 e n ded a
benefit p r e
view of a new
film. Just as
it started, the
air condition
ing system
broke down -and
more than
half the audi-
mm. ence walked
out and went home."
"That's to be expected," I
murmured.
"I suppose it is," she said,
"but, you know, all the peo
ple there were my age or
older - which means that they
grew up without any air con
ditioning at all. We went to
movies on the hottest nights
and simply sweltered - there
was no alternative if we want
ed to see the film. And no
body walked out because it
was too hot."
This Is another aspect ef
a problem I touched upon
in a recent column en the
ball-point pen and the pro
liferation of products in our
society. Never before in
hu nn history have ao
many "luxuries" been trans
formed into "necessities" in
such a short time and ever
such a broad percentage ef
the population.
There Is a real cleavage,
a profound paradox, be
tween our Puritan heritage
ef hard work, of sweat and
suffering for the goods ef
the earth, and our modern
economy, which is devoted
to the effortless, the pleas
ant, the gratifying, the au
tomatic. When the conservative
complains - and accurately
- that the eld fashioned no
tions ef hard work have
gone by the boards, he ne
glects to add that the most
prevalent product of capi
talism has been "making
life easier" in a technical
sense for the greatest num
ber of people.
Nobody today will put up
with lack of air conditioning
even though a mere genera
tion ago it was almost un
heard of. We live in an era
when comfort, ease and au
tomatic manipulation are tak
en for granted, and sweat is
an ugly word. Our social and
economic system has made
this possible, as nowhere else
in the world - and therefore
is it to be wholly unexpected
that the tradition of sweat
and toil is losing all its force
in our national ethos?
There are internal contra
dictions in every system that
weaken it and threaten its
very survival; indeed, the in
ternal contradictions in any
system are usually more re
sponsible for its downfall
than any outside threat. Ro
man civilization decayed at
the core long before the bar
barians were able to invade
and conquer it.
We face the task of recon
ciling our contradictions, of
solving our own paradoxes:
for in the end these may prove
more disastrous to our wel
fare than the external men
ace of communism. The bene
fits we have achieved are
enormous; but we have scarce
ly begun to examine the price
we are paying for them.
this would save the people of
Paris - and it was a rather
startling number. He had no
luck, however, in selling the
idea to the Parisicns - who.
then as now, were fond of
staying up late at night and
sleeping late the next morning
to make up for it. They could
see no merit in getting up at
the crack ot dawn and going
to bed with the chickens - just
to save a few measly candles
CO-
J His thrifty scheme to save
candles by getting up early in
the morning and going to bed
early at night died a-borning.
It was nearly two centuries
before it was finally revived
to save fuel during a great
war.
And
After the war was over
To provide more time for
LIVING IT UP AT NIGHT by
the simple process of getting
up earlier in the morning -which
is the chief value of
Daylight Saving in these
modern day.
show of affection as Khru
shchev and his guest, Castro,
tour the Russian boondocks
proving to one and all that
they are as thick as two
thieves, and who is this Chi
nese, Mao Tse-tung, anyway?
All this is a lead-up to not
ing that one of the great con
sistencies of world politics is
its inconsistency.
There are inconsistencies in
the Tito and Castro visits to
Moscow. There is an incon
sistency in the visit that Sec
retary ot State Dean Rusk
nism, Including Yugoslavia's.
Since Josef Stalin first
threw Tito out of the Kremlin
family, Tito has been in again,
out again and in again.
The last switch came after
the full bloom of Khru
shchev's quarrel' with Red
China over his policy of co
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
(cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
A SOVIET HISS CASE , Serov as intelligence chief ot
Washington - An espionage
case, which can easily have
more explosive effects than
our case of
Alger Hiss, is
another major
element of un
certainty i n
the Soviet po
litical picture.
Very little at
tention has
been paid to
date to this re
markable case
AJsnp
which was remanded for trial
a few days ago to a special
military collegium. It remains
to be seen whether the trial
will be public or semi-public
or private. As of now, the best
guess appears to be that the
prosecutor's opening and clos
ing speeches and the sentence
will be public, with the rest
of the proceedings in camera.
In any case, the affair
reaches into the very guts ot
the Soviet military and polit
ical hierarchy. On the Russian
side, the chief person accused
is Gen. Oleg Penkovsky, a mil
itary scientist who long held
the position of Secretary of
the Scientific Advisory Com
mittee of the Council of Min
isters. In American terms, the
arrest of Penovsky on charges
of espionage is closely com
parable to the arrest on sim
ilar charges of the principal
administrative asistant to the
President's chief scientific ad
visor. The effect of such an
affair in this country may too
easily be Imagined.
TN
1 tl
THE Soviet Union, the
the repercussions of the
Penovsky case must be vastly
more far-reaching, not only
because of the closed charac
ter of the Soviet society, but
also because Penkovsky. as an
individual, had very high con
nections. To be charged along with
Penkovsky is a British busi
nessman, Greville Wynne,
who was in effect kidnapped
in Hungary by the Soviet po
lice some time ago. Wynne is
expected to be accused of
working for the Central In
telligence Agency as well as
the British Secret Service.
One of Penkovsky's high
connections was apparently
the famous former head of the
whole Soviet secret police ap
paratus. Gen. Ivan Serov.
Gen. Serov has reportedly
been arrested and sent to
prison, which suggests that
charges may also be brought
against him.
When dismissed as chair
man of the MKGB some years
ago, Serov moved over to the
Soviet Defense Ministry, to
become Its intelligence boss.
Hence, the arrest of Serov is
the precise equivalent of the
arrest of the director of tne
Pentagon's Defense intelli
gence agency, the highest per
sonage in the American Intel
ligence community except
CIA Director John A.McCone
FURTHERMORE, the man
who apparently sponsored
A0sJMaM
"Ordinary people, just sitting around discussing the
product that's the new trend in commercials, and It
makes them mere . . . uh . . . believablet"
existence and his support for
various systems oi commu
nism, including Yugolavia's.
As for Castro, Khrushchev
humiliated him last fall when,
without consulting the Cuban
leader, he ordered removal
of Russian missiles from Cuba.
An interview in the Paria
newspaper Le Monde quoted
Castro as saying that if ha
had had Khrushchev in Cuba,
"I would have boxed hia
ears."
But time heals and an esti
mated 81 million a day in
supplies and weapons from
the Soviet Union has enabled
Castro to swallow his anger.
Of such inconsistencies
world politics are made. Khru
shchev and Mao Tse-tung
might even adjust their dif
ferences in one of the great
est inconsistencies of all.
the Defense Ministry is none
otner tnan tne powerful So
viet Minister of Defense, Mar
shal Rodion Malinovsky. Even
if not Serov's personal spon
sor, moreover, Malinovsky is
highly likely to be held re
sponsible for any indiscretion
committed by one of the key
figures on his staff. This may
explain the symptoms of acute
disquiet about his own future
which Marshal Malinovsky is
known to have displayed
while visiting Indonesia.
In addition, there are lesa
well - confirmed reports that
the Penkovsky case involves,
by our familiar process of
guilt-by-association, other So
viet personalities even mora
eminent than Malinovsky. For
example, there are fairly per
vasive rumors that one ot the
daughters of Frol Kozlov ac
cepted presents from Penkov
sky when he returned from
trips into Eastern Europe with
luxuries hard to obtain in
Moscow. Kozlov, it will be re
membered, is currently being
tipped as Nikita S. Khru
shchev's successor in the So
viet Premiership.
As can be seen, therefore,
the Penkovsky case can well
be used as a powerful engine
of political destruction.
Whether it is used in this man
ner, which Soviet leaders, if
any. will be destroyed or dis
graced, and how far the affair
will go, will depend almost
entirely on the management
of the prosecution.
WHO controls the prosecu
tion? What orders will the
prosecutors have? These are
the key questions. The an
swers to these questions just
may be that this case is Khru
shchev's reserve we a p o n
against his political adver
saries. It can hardly be a coin
cidence that the two most im
portant persons mentioned as
being touched by the case,
Kozlov and Malinovsky, are
also the most probable leaders
of the recent opposition to
Khrushchev and his policies.
Kozlov has been conspicu
ous by his absence from all of
ficial occasions for a matter
of a fortnight-long enough to
cause vivid speculation, since
his non-appearance is wholly
unexplained. Malinovsky, too,
can hardly enjoy the tentative
but intensely curious re-emergence
of the disgraced Mar
shal Gcorgi Zhukov, for the
Defense Minister and Marshal
Konev were Zhukov's bitter
est denouncers when he fell.
All this, it must be added,
may mean everything or noth
ing at all. Even the Penkovsky
case may be quietly disposed
of. without having secondary
political effects. A strange
churning is clearly going on in
Moscow. Very strange things
are happening, or may be
about to happen. But only
time can tell who will be on
top and who will have gone
down-if anyone goes down
when the churning ceases and
the situation settles down
again.
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