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THURSDAY. JUNE 20. 1963
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History from the flies of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
Wyoming Impressions
10 TEARS AGO
June 20, 153 (ielurday) , ;
An estimated 3,800 "Catfish
enthusiasts" turned out Sun
day for the 17th annual Na
tional Catfish derby and pic
nic at TouVelle Stats park on
the Rogue river; it was one of
the largeit crowdi in the his
tory of the event.
Articles of incorporation for
the Southern Oregon Child
Guidance Clinic association
were filed in the county
clerk's office Saturday, ac
cording to clerk's records.
20 YEARS AGO
June 20, 114 (Sunday)
Five soldiers held In at
tacks upon Medford women,
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Pass
ing showers art the order of
the day. Farmers with hay
down wish they would get
through passing."
0 YEARS AGO '
June 20, 1133 (Tuesday)
Local orchardlst found
guilty of first degree murder;
asks retrial.
Defendant and his family,
In ballot theft trial, deny he
came home with stolen votei.
in vrafin ica
June 20, 1923 (Wednssday)
Rogue River Valley Golf
club formed with John Tom
lln, president; Harry Holmes,
secretary; and Ben Harder,
treasurer.
Six crates of Chinese pheas
ants released on valley farms.
0 YEARS AGO
June 20. 1113 (Friday)
Dr. H. E. Morrison, well-
known Medford physician,
dies.
Medford financiers keeping
President Wilson posted op
currency matters.
The packet of informational material bore
Lhe lecend. "This is BIG Wvomitiff."
That slogan is absolutely correct. Wyoming
IS big.
In actual acreage it is only a little larger
than Oregon. But in flying over it for a good
part of three days, it assumes the appearance of
going on forever and ever.
It is a state of vivid contrasts. One can fly
for hours on end over dreary, desolate and barren
lands, and then, with almost no warning what
ever, find just ahead a snow-capped range of
mountains that take the breath away.
a
IXTYOMING'S population is less than that of
'"the city of Portland a little more than
330,000 souls. And, scattered as they are over
the vast forests and ranges and deserts of Wyo
ming, it gives an impression of nothingness.
But in meeting Wyoming people, from the
Governor on down, one finds them proud and
determined that their state will live up to its
vast promise.
It is a state wealthy in natural resources,
but poor in the personnel and investment capital
which some day will turn them into material
wealth.
THE state ranks high in its reserves of coal,
o-aa nnrl nil aa well aa nfrtoi lrcumb nnum
minerals, such as trona, a particular variety of
clay which has dozens of uses.
Long starved for energy, it is now looking
more and more to Pacific Power and Light Com
pany, which, since it entered the Wyoming pie
ture about nine years ago, has increased its capi'
tal investment in power jreneratinir and trans-
mission facilities from about $12 million to some
$100 million or an average of about $10 mil
lion each year. In Wyoming, they love PP&L. It
is Decoming an ever jarger tactor in the state s
ruture.
Big transmission lines stretch from Casner
west and north, bringing light and energy to
areas which have long had far too little for their
needs.
"What Do They Expect Us To Do Listen
To the Kids Prey at Home?"
Khrushchev Seeks Maneuverability in
Relationships With China and the West 9
What's Yoar I.Q.?
Nine n teat oarroal fa ieei
eevesi a eafce la anal Wat; rive
Ms si food-
1. With what subject does
the Lanham Act concern It
self?
2. If a contest took place In
Santa Anita, would It most
likely be horse, dog, or foot
, race?
3. A man travels 13 days.
going s miles further each day
than the preceding day and
going 80 miles the last day;
how far does he travel?
4. Correct the following:
"He must go and lay down."
6. The city of Talpeh is on
what large island off the coast
of ChlnaT
6. Name the five slain that
have coastlines on the Gulf of
Mexico.
7. Caruso, by singing at a
certain pitch, could vibrate a
water glass so that it shat
tered; true or false?
8. "Gopher State" Is the
nickname of which Stale of
theU.S.T -
. Was Nathan Hale a hero
of the French and Indian, Rev
olutlonary, or Mexican War?
10. In the nursery rhyme,
who sat down beside Little
Miss Muffet?
Answersi 1. Patents, I.
Horse race. 3. 850 miles. 4.
. lie down." . Formosa.
. Florida, Alabama, Mlssis
41 PPL Louisiana, Texas. 7.
Tree. , Minnesota., t. Revolu
tionary, lo. Spider.
IN THE Rogue valley, the population at large
has felt but little the chance-over from coal
to diesel power on the railroads.
But in such a town as Rock Springs, dieseliza
tion of the rails came as a major disaster.
Most of the town's male population either
worked for the railroad, or for the railroad-owned
coal mines, which furnished energy for the big
Bteam locomotives. When steam lost out. the
mines were closed, and the crews of the trains
cut down drastically.
As a result, much of the town's population
became unemployed a situation only now be
ing remedied by employment in other industries
and enterprises.
QNE of Wyoming's chief attractions is its scen
v ery, which ranges from bleak barrenness to
the sublime mountain ranees the Bitr Horns.
the Tetons, the Wind River, the Absaroka. .
Near Casper, a siirn on the hirrhwav fwhiYh.
incidentally, parallels the Old Oregon Trail) says
"Keep Wyoming Green," and in the background
the brown dry hills stretch to the horizon.
Jackson. Jackson Hole and the Grand Teton
National Park, as well as Yellowstone National
Park to the north, is tourist country. Well it
might be, for it is unimaginably beautiful.
But it has its share of "tourist traps," too,
as a result. There is a "frontier trading post"
in one of the towns which features such items
as small hand towels with "funny" sayings
usually off-color if not downright dirty as
well as beaver pelts, bear claws, elk antlers, and
a wide variety of souvenir rim-cracks, including
a painting of "Setting Bull (sic) for $299.
DUT these things are forgiven, for if a person
' is going to be a sucker for such junk, he can
be a sucker in beautiful country just as well as
anywnere else.
And at Jackson Hole, and at Grand Teton
Lodge on Jackson lake, looking westward to
ward the unbelievable escarpment of sheer rock
rising toward the sky, one forgets and forgives
uie suiy xoiDies ot mankind.
Too, one is grateful for the miracle of the
airplane, which in, a matter of houi-s can carry
one the distance that it took the hardy pioneers
weeks to traverse. It also allows one. m com
fort, to view great stretches of breathtaking
iiiuumain ana prairie vistas.
THERE is little lumbering in Wyoming, as such,
in the sense that we in Oregon are familiar
with the harvesting of our great fir and pine
forests. There his some production of studs, but
little of dimension lumber or boards.
Its great wealth, still to be fully realized, lies
cnietly m its minerals and in attracting tourists,
with agriculture a poor third.
The two chief industries arc not incompatible,
for in BIG Wyoming, a huge open-pit coal or
uranium mine, which would mar the scenery in
other states, is merely a scratch in the ground.
Wyoming is fascinating, and we hono tn re
turn some day. We could spend a long time
examining it, from the tiny yards of former coal
miners in bleak Rock Springs to the spacious
Kittiiutrur oi me mountains; Horn the, stiu-dis-cernible
tracks of the Oregon pioneers to the
huge iron ore "beneficiation" plant near Atlantic
City, and from the barren wastes of south-cental
Wyoming to the huge oil fields around Kaycee.
One finds a welcome there, too. Bring money.
! E. A.
Communications
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although under certain circumstances the use of a Den name or initial
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printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper, in tact tne contrary is often tha case.
well done has been killed by
the assembly line. The abili
ty and willingness of an em
ployee to do better or faster
work than another has been
throttled by the trades unions.
About the only one who can
get by on his own nowadays
is tne barber - though one
might add that the movie star,
whose "asking price" for one
picture was ten million dol
lars, did all right for her
self!
Big Business is crowding
out the cherished small busi
nessman by making it diffi
cult, If not impossible, for
him to compete with such as
the company owned service
station or the nationwide
chain store.
And now a u t o m a tlon,
which threatens the welfare
of all! An employer must be
prepared to lay off whole
groups with the same non
chalance that he displayed
when discharging a single
workman.
What is to become of all
these dispossessed people?
True, through its Manpower
Development and Training act
of 1062 our government is hop
ing to prevent the tragic waste
of human resources -that
threatens; but it is foreseea
ble that It may eventually
have to subsidize the industri
al workers of our nation for
NOT WORKING in much the
same way that it now pays
thousands of our farmers for
NOT PLANTING.
I close with an excerDt
from a recent magazine arti
cle that suggests, among oth
er things, the possibility of
even the members of our arm
ed forces being compelled to
join the ranks of the unemployed!
The new revolution in sci
ence and technology, which
has so enormously Increased
man s power over nature, has
also reduced enormously the
significance of the average
individual. With the advent
of automation and the utili
zation of atomic energy, it
soon might be possible for
a relatively small group of
people to satisfy all of a
country's needs - and fight Its
wars too - without the aid
of the masses."
George M. Babcock
427 Hospital dr.,
Ashland, Ore.
The Great Problem
To the Editor: My present
thesis is that under the pres
ent trend . of events atomic
war Is not only possible but
orobBble. Consider some of
the ways it could be brought
about: by accident, by escala
tion (a small war gets big),
by the "chicken game" (suck
ed in by our own bluff), by
a catalytic third power (Red
China gains by war between
the U.S. and Russia, for in
stance), or by an unbalance in
technology. Many more coun
tries will soon have the bomb
and the probabilities of atom
ic war increase Immensely
with each new atomic club
member.
This is the challenge of our
time and the future of our
civilization depends upon our
response to it. Apparently
our leaders are committed to
the obvious answer, world
government, but do not have
the political courage to estab
lish it as a clear social goal.
Anarchy docs not work on
any social level. The alterna
tive to brute force is court
action. If inclusive world gov
ernment Is not possible be
cause of the different social
values of the communists, this
does not prevent the civilized
countries from developing a
court system to settle their
own differences with a view
to admitting any country that
will abide by the minimum
rules.
Our energies should be
channeled into a concentrated
effort to find the causes of
war. Our greatest need is not
"how to build better bombs,"
but how to avoid the use of
them. We must be able to
see more subtle solutions to
social problems than the blind
use ot force.
Perhaps there Is no solu
tion to our dilemma. Human
destruction may be Inherent
In human nature, but we owe
It to ourselves and to our
children to try to find the
answer. War Is not Just a
problem of governments. War
Is a problem of all Individu
als. Only Individual people
can solve problems. War be
comes personal damned quick
when the bombs begin to fall,
but then it Is too la'te to do
anything about It. What each
one of us thinks and does,
does make a difference. All
social problems are interre
lated.
It behooves us therefore
to solve our lesser problems
within the context of the all
important and all encompass
ing greatest problem of all.
survival itself.
John Chltwood,
:2 Alta,
Medford
A Batter Death
To the Editor: Today I
found a cat too weak to stand
from the last stages of star
vation, not having been suc
cessful In finding food and
water for itself as its owners
had hoped - or did they care?
A nice yellow cat abandon
ed by the wayside In an or
chard is In good hands now,
having been taken to the Hu
mane Society. May its former
owners know that It will prob
ably not find a home, how
ever its death will be more
merciful than that of slow
starvation beside a road.
(Name on rile).
Medford
Passing of the Individual
To the Editor: The historv
of mankind reveals that the
artisan, in his desire to real
ise himself and prove his
worth, dared to forsake the
beaten paths and strike out
on his own, thus contributing
to his changing world. Alas.
our day seems to want to gel
along without him.
Individual pride in a job
Ballistic Sign
To the Editor: In regards to
"Watch Out for Indian Up
risings Crossing the Road,"
tourist attracting signs:
We would substitute a
more realistic one, that
would point "To See The Old
West" at Jacksonville mu
seum (five) miles west.
A Jacksonville Boosters
Club member,
Bert Kissinger
322 So. Riverside ave.
Medford
Whyt
To the Editor: It Is very ob
vious you have no intention
of seeing justice done in the
Butte Falls School District.
You have printed a number of
articles and letters In favor
of Mr. Copeland, but not ONE
word have you printed in fa
vor of Mr. Stratton. WHY?
Mr. Copeland and his sup
porters, including Mr. Clevc
Twitchcll. have used ail man
ner of lies and half-truths In
this controversy. It is very ob
vious we can expect no jus
tice at the hands of lhe Med
ford Mail Tribune. WHY?
I brought a letter in lo your
office to be printed. As soon
as you found this to be in op
position to your views, you
threw the letter back at me.
You did not read the entire
text to detrrmine the case.
WHY?
I'll be very happy to buy
the tar for a good old-fashioned
tar and feather party
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Mews Analyst
In his early years as un
disputed spokesman for world
communism, much of Nikita
Khrushchev's
success could
be attributed
to his flexi
bility. Thus
he was able
to move at
will within
the vast Com
munist peri
meter, keep
ing the West
off balance at
f .
era allies
In the Day's News
y FRANK JINKINS
From Washington:
The Supreme Court Mon
day barred Bible-reading and
recital of the Lord's Prayer
in public schools as part of
required classroom exercises.
Such a practice, it said in
an 8-1 ruling, is unconstitutional.
THE ruling was on tases
from Maryland and Penn
sylvania, but the decision
would apply also In many oth
er states where such customs
are followed as part of school
day opening exercises.
The court did not speU out
whether such observances
would be possible on a PER
MISSIVE, rather than a re
quired, basis, but did bar the
establishment of such exer
cises by majority rule.
WHICH is to say:
Your child can not--.be
REQUIRED, as a part of' a
classroom exercise, to repeat
the Lord's Prayer.
BUT
Sup
ppose your child
CHOOSES, at any hour of the
day, in school or elsewhere,
to say with reverently bowed
head: ' .
Our Father which art in
Heaven,
"Hallowed be Thy name.
"Thy kingdom come. Thy
wUl be done In earth as it is
in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily
bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive us our debtors,
"And lead us not into temp
tation, - but deliver us from
evil.
"For Thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory
forever. Amen." '
points as widely separated as
the Strait of Formosa, the
Persian Gulf and the Baltic
sea.
With the eruption of his
quarrel with Red China, a
large portion of that flexibil
ity vanished and new dangers
appeared.
In the month of June, as he
prepared for two important
conferences, Khrushchev has
been trying to restore a mea
sure of his freedom of move
ment. From the standpoint of the
Communist world, the most
important of these meetings
begins July S in Moscow
when Soviet and Red Chinese
representatives meet in an at
tempt to iron out the ideo
logical differences now pull
ing them apart.
Later in the month, also in
Moscow, high-level U.S., Bri
tish and Soviet delegates will
meet in an attempt to break
the stalemate over a nuclear
test ban. In the two meetings
there are interlocking issues.
At stake in the first is a de
cision on which of the two
Communist giants is to have
the final say in the course of
world communism, and for
Moscow whether it is to be
forced into a second class
role In Asia.
In the second is the ques
tion whether the three nu
clear powers finally can
reach accord so as to bring
their combined influences
against continual spread of
nuclear weapons.
In both, maneuverability is
Important to Khrushchev.
And this may be the reason
for delaying his final okay on
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Herrls
fe- Fluid CntarpriMi. Inc.
WELL
In that event
The decision will not apply,
THE court's ban is upon the
REQUIREMENT that these
words be spoken. It is based
upon the first of the ten Or
iginal Amendments, which
reads:
"Congress shall make no
law respecting an ESTAB
LISHMENT of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the free
dom of speech or of the press;
or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble and to
petition the Government fo.'
a redress of grievances."
THE court's decision bans all
REQUIRED (hv lawl Bible
reading.
Your child, or you. or any
body else, cannot be REQUIR
ED BY LAW to repeat the
simple and beautiful words
of the Golden Rule, as found
in Matthew (7:12): "Therefore
all things whatsoever ye
would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them,
for this is the law and the
prophets."
But
If at some moment your
child CHOOSES to bow his
head and repeat those tolerant
words, no couct of law can
PREVENT him from so doing.
WHAT of the Supreme
Cnurt'i latest ruline?
Evangelist Billy Graham,
who Is crusading In Germany,
says this morning:
"I am shocked at the Su
preme Court decision. Prayers
and Bible reading have been
a part of the American public
school life since the Pilsrims
landed at Plymouth Rock.
Now a Supreme Court in 19R I
says our fathers were a 1 1
wrong all these years. In my
opinion, it is the SUPREME
COURT that is wrong."
He will find many to agree
with him.
and would welcome the
chance to lead the group in
search of Justice.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star Route
Butte Falls, Ore.
O
Editor's note: Mr. McCabe
is entitled to his own opinions,
but he is not entitled to use
the Mail Tribune to express
vicious and possibly libelous
sentiments about members of
his community. As for the
Mail Tribune's coverage and
fairness, we shall let them be
judged by fair-minded readers
on their ow n merits.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Freedom of speech is an
essential right, without which
a civilization cannot flourish:
but what use is it to people
who refuse to exercise free
dom of thought?
We do not miss what wa
lack nearly so much as what
wa are deprived of: nobody
misses an eye at the back of
his head, but everyone
would fael deprived if he
lost one aye in front; it is
lha taking away that up
sets us more than not hav
ing in the first place.
There is an optimum point
in compassion-It is a senti
ment rarely felt by those who
have not suffered at all, and
never felt by those who have
suffered too much; for the ab
sence of suffering makes men
think they are gods, and the
excess of it turns them into
beasts.
Perhaps tha central para
dox at the root of the hu
man personality is that ev
eryone agrees with Socra
tes's injunction: "Know thy-self'-and
everyone resists
such self-knowledge with all
tha power at his command.
The men who lack "ambi
tion" get nowhere; but the
men who possess It in abun
dance too often lack the sweet
er virtues that Justify it.
Tne irony of tha skeptical
temperament was tersely
described b y Rosenslock
Huessy, when he observed:
"He who believes in noth
ing still needs a girl to be
lieve in him."
The boy who receives a
"good" education in a protect
ed environment, with only his
own kind around him, pays
the possible price of never
becoming a man; whereas the
boy who grows up in a more
barbarous and diverse and
threatening environment, pays
the possible price of becoming
a man too soon-another form
of Immaturity that is just as
crippling to the personality.
The former learns nothing of
the real world until too late;
the latter learns it too early;
and the basic task of modern
society is to create an atmo
sphere tor children in which
a creative tension is main
tained between the dangerous
and the protected.
a
To tha often-asked ques
tion. "Which part of medi
cine is a science and which
part is an art?." it is tempt
ing lo answer that treating
tha patient is a science, and
keeping him from going to
someone else is an art.
more can be told about a
nation from its advertisements
than from any other aspect of
its high or popular culture;
what we think about ourselves
is one matter; which stimuli
we respond to give a much
truer Index of our motiva
tions, desires, and the kind of
magic we believe in.
The raison d'etre of every
war.-whatever its surface
reasons, has always been to
protect lha future of our
descendants, if not for our
selves: but what sense is a
war that annihilates the fu
ture for everyone's descend-ants-and
does this not ran
der modern warfare a con
tradiction in terms?
i
the "hot line" between Mos
cow and Washington and his
sudden withdrawal of Jiis of
fer of two to three on-site In
spections of possible under
ground nuclear tests on So
viet soil.
Over the heads of the Chi
nese, Khrushchev holds two
important weapons.
One is Soviet economic and
military aid to Red China
which has declined steadily
since their quarrel broke into
the open and now is virtual
ly non-existent.
The other is that a belliger
ently uncompromising atti
tude by the Chinese might
force the Soviet Union to
seek closer relations with
the United States a possi
bility abhored by the Chi
nese as one of the strongest
curbs against their own am
bitions. That the Soviets might
eventually feel such a need
is at least worthy of specula
tion. -
President Charles da
Gaulle holds that an econo
mically and industrially ad
vanced Russia will become
less and less willing to risk
its gains in war.
But the Chinese not only
promote wars for which they
dematid Moscow support, but
also have shown their will
ingness to act independent of
Moscow. In Asia and Africa
they also are promoting ra
cial color lines to the Soviets'
obvious disadvantage.
. A further risk to Moscow
is the fact that the Chinese
may soon be able to exploda
an atomic device of their
own. Its early effect will be
psychological but finally it
also could pose a threat to tha
Soviet Union.
These are some of the rea
sons for Khrushchev's need
for flexibility, and perhaps
also help to account for Mos
cow's recent seeming hesi
tancy to act in world affairs.
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
ici Ntw York Herald Tribune Syndicate
Ml
ONLY CHRISTINE .
IS MISSING
Washington These days,
other people's troubles are a
positive pleasure to report.
Hence it is
highly agree
able to note
that the Chi
nese Commu
nists have
just charged
Nikita S.
K h r ushchev
with every
crime in the
Aimp calendar ex
cept un-Marxist entanglement
with Miss Christine Keeler.
Merely by reason of its
vicious intensiveness, the new
Chinese attack is a breathtak
ing document. Peking's old
grounds for complaint have
now been amplified to cover
a whole series of internal
Soviet developments which
bear Khrushchev's personal
stamp.
The matter of "criticism of
Stalin" is raised. The decis
ions of the Soviet Communist
20th and 22nd Party Cong
resses twin peaks of Khrush
chev's de-Stalinization cam
paign are openly called in
to question.
"Certain persons are re
buked for "combating the so-
called 'cult of the individual
(while) enormously exaggerat
ing the role of certain individ
uals." Khrushchev's dealings
with the wicked Yugoslavs
are characterized as a be
trayal of the people of the
world." So are his unkindness
es to the virtuous Albanians.
fOMPLAINTS are made
v' about "certain persons
who have "interfered crude
ly in the internal affairs of
fraternal parties'" - which
Khrushchev u n s uccessf ully
tried to do in China. Equally
bitter complaints are register
ed against "putting economic
pressure on other fraternal
countries" - which Khrush
chev has done with China.
Khrushchev is nowhere
named, to be sure. But this
is a piece of politeness on a
par with the remark of a
Mississippi National Conven
tion delegate about one of the
early Dixiecrats. "He's man
leader, and ah follow him.
But of c'ose he's this sorry
world's prize s. o. b. and has
many other dee-fects besides!"
Such, then, is the charming
fraternal letter which the
Chinese party sent off last
Friday, for the delectation of
the plenum of the Soviet
Communist party's Central
committee, which is now in
session. It would not be very
aitfcrent if Gen. de Gaulle
sent the next Democratic Na
tional Convention a crisp lit
tle essay on President Kenne
dy's foliies and errors as lead
er of the West.
"THIS is by no means the
least curious aspect of the
new Chinese document. The
point is that there was a kind
of logic in the earlier, rather
less vicious Chinese attack on
Khrushchev, because, this
winter and early spring,
Khrushchev's position and
power were clearly being
challenged by opponents at
home. C
By zeroing in on Khrush
chev personally, the Chinese
may then have hoped to
strengthen the opposition to
Khrushchev in the Soviet par
ty. In effect, they gave Khru
shchev's enemies the added
argument, that sacrificing
Khrushchev was the only way
to patch up the dangerous
trouble with great, fraternal
China.
Today, however, none of
the Western experts In the
Soviet branch of demonology
expects the smallest personal
trouble for Khrushchev at the
current Central Committee
plenum. Khrushchev is
thought to have contained
and overcome the opposition
to him and to his policies
that arose after Cuba. If any
one suffers, his enemies are
expected to suffer.
Maybe the Western experts
are all wrong about this. But
if they are not wrong, the
Chinese letter to the Soviet
Central Committee plenum
must be regarded as a de
liberate attempt to inflame
the Sino - Soviet dispute at
a politically delicate moment,
in full view of all the Com
munist parties of the world,
and only a fortnight or so
before Chinese and Soviet del
egates are to meet for a dis
cussion of the two parties'
differences. .
"THE forthcoming Sino -So-
viet meeting in Moscow
on July S is the key fact, of
course, which gives the Chi
nese document a downright
lurid, sulphur - and hellfire
aspect. When you are about
to discuss a brotherly dis
agreement in a spirit of cctntr
promise, you do not talk like
this. Logically, in fact, the
new Chinese document ought
to be the prelude to a kind '
of ultimatum, which the Chi
nese chief negotiator, Teng
Hsiao-ping, will slap down
on the Moscow conference ta
ble with a "take it or leave
it" announcement. And as
there is no hope of the So
viets' taking a Chinese ulti
matum, such an approach
would produce a decisive
Sino- Soviet break - a split
in the Communist movement
like the ancient split between
the Eastern and Western
churches.
By lining up all the Asian
parties, the Chinese have pre
pared for such a split. Tha
teaching of Lenin himself
about such matters also calls
upon the Soviet party not to
tolerate what the Chinese are)
asking them to tolerate. But
in the matter of a split, it is
still even betting, either way.
HEAOQUARTTRS tti'vt I
NAA.CP BeVH
SKousMl )L
C a. as,-
Is "
'Wouldn't it be our luck to win our rights about tha
lime a war breaks out and the whole world is blown
to kingdom cornel''
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