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History from the fllei of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 28, 1953 (Sunday)
Secretary of Stats Earl T.
Newbry In touching on the
controversial Hell'i Canyon
dam Issue tald, "in the Baker
area, and throughout Eattern
Oregon, many men dream of
a multiple purpose dam in the
Hell'i Canyon of the Snake
river. He added a debate it
waging between private and
public ownerthlp of power development!.".
The People and the Court
The U. S. Supreme Court's history has been
varied. There have been periods of relative quiet,
and periods of flaring controversy and criticism
We are now in one of the periods of contra-
versy. which has been raring since the 1954
school desegregation decision.
In the eyes of some, the Court can do nothing
rieht. Even the motives of its members are sus
pect by some ultras of the right, and the John
Birch society has prepared an "Impeach bail
Warren packet," which relates the supposed
transgressions of the Chief Justice,
e e e e
THE Court is singularly defenseless against
such attacks. Traditionally, the Justices do
not talk about the decisions thev have made, ex
cept in the formal written opinions.
Justice Tom Clark breached this tradition re
cently to give some of the Court's background
thinking on the 1962 school prayer decision. He
was moved to do so largely by the uninformed
attacks on that decision by people who either
misunderstood it, or who deliberately miscon
strued it simply for purposes of attack.
A President or a Congressman can speak out
in defense of his actions, and even take the of
fensive. But the Court, restrained by traditions
of dignity and judicial constraint, cannot.
aeeee .
THIS does not mean that the Justices ignore
such attacks, or are not injured by them. In
1913, Justice Holmes said :
"It it very painful, when one tpendt all the ener
giet of one't toul In trying to do good work, with no
thought but that of tolving a problem according to
the rulet by which one It bound, to know that many
tee ainltter motives."
On the other hand, the Justices are little in
fluenced in their deliberations by such attacks.
New York Times Reporter Anthony Lewis wrote
recently :
"One thing that can be aald with certainty it that
exaggerated criticism, personal attacks and ignorant
mouthlngi have no influence on the Justices.
"The Justices know that they are least trying their
beat to do in honett job, and to they can hardly admire
those who attack their motivations."
20 YEARS AGO
Juna 28, 1843 (Sunday)
San Quentln prison escapee
hunted in southern Oregon
From Arthur Perry't "Ye
Smudge Pot", column: "The
fair sex are now tanning their
shapely thankt with the con
tents of a bottle procured at
the drugstore. Some of the
Jobs are enough to make the
sun hide behind a cloud when
one thowt up."
30 YEARS AOO
Juna 28. 1833 (Tuesday)
Bud Hoover, ton of C. C
Hoover, wint valley milking
contest title.
Half a million dollars allo
cated to Jackson county for
relief road work.
40 YEARS AGO
Juna 28, 1923 (Wednesday)
Standard tervlce tt 1 1 o n
opens at Crater lake.
Real estate reported active
In Eden precinct.
SO YEARS AGO
June 29, 1913 (Saturday)
Department of agriculture
completes toil description map
of valley.
All klndt of flowen wanted
for Fourth of July flower
show.
Olympic Banefli
To the Editor: As you may
have been informed, a large
group of organized skiers
from the Portland area have
embarked on a state-wide pro
motion for fundi for our Unit
ed Statei teams going to the
1964 Olympic Games in Inns
bruck, Austria.
Few people realize that ath
letes from many other coun
tries are tubsidized or sup
ported by their governments,
their training and coaching
are paid for; literally, they are
being paid to become the best
in their field. In the United
States, however, our athletes
must depend on their own re
source! and relatively few do
nations from interested par
ties. There have been many
Instances where potential
Olympic competitors have
been unable to meet the ex
penses Involved for travel and
training campi, or even quali
fying meets; hence they are
lost to the U. S. Many of our
star athletes are forced to
turn nrnfeHBlonal nt the hetflht
cisions on fact and on law, the facts and the laws! of their powers and we must
WHILE the Court can shrug off such know
nothing slanders, it is not impervious to the
broad trends and changes of public opinion.
It may not be true, as Finley Peter Dunne's
"Mr. Dooley" remarked, that:
"No matther whether th' constitution follows
th' flag or not, th Supreme Coort follows th'
uiction returns.
But it is true that the temper of the times and
the feelings of the broad majorities of the people
do, inevitably, affect the thinking of the Court.
It is rieht and proper that thev should, because.
even though the Court is bound to make its de-
A Time for Greatnet
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Communications
Letters' to th Editor muit fcaar the nam and address of lha writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen nama or initial
for publication it parmlssibl. Th Mail Tribune reserves the rioht to
adit all lattera with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter,
submitted for nuhllcation must not exceed 400 words. . The letters
printed In this column do not necessarily represent th views of t.u
paper. In fact th contrary is often th case.
will of God we shall know
that it is true.
So when we find tome who
do not know that it la true
or think it may be mistrans
lated, we know they are not
doing God's will. If so, they
would know it is true. That
alone should make them stop
and think. (St. John 3-33) He
that hath received his testi
mony hath set to hit seal that
God is true.
I John 5-10, He that be-
lleveth on the Son of God
hath the witness in himself:
he that believeth not, God
hath made him a liar. How?
Because he believeth not the
record that God gave of his
son. (2-Corinthians 4-3) But if
our Gospel be hid, it is hid
to them who are lost. Why?
(Verse 4) In whom the god of
this world (satan) hath blind
ed the minds of them that be
lieve not. lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who
Is '.he Image of God, should
shine unto them.
Christ Is the truth (St. John
14-6), so if we will not be-
Kennedy, Khrushchev, De Gaulle All
Seeking Favor of West German People
a' .... 4 t7a.nnau4u cnillfht tO '
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Nwt Analyst
President Kennedy has got
ten in hit lickt in West Ger
many and next week it will
be Presld e n t
Charles de
Gaulle"s turn.
And if it is
any balm to
to the German
ego, another
d i stinguished
visitor also is
proving to the
lewwaa German peo
ple that they
are indeed "wanted."
Tbit latter ii Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev who osten
sibly it to help East Germa
ny'! Communist strong man
Walter Ulbricht celebrate his
70th birthday. Khrushchev
will stay on the eastern tide
of the wall, and to his route
will coincide neither with that
of Kennedy nor of De Gaulle.
Yet there it a tuspicion that
his motives are not too differ
ent from those of the other
two.
In the West German press
there is speculation that Khru
shchev already, hat made pre
liminary moves toward a con
tact with West German. As
sistant Chancellor Ludwig Er
hard who it scheduled this
fall to step Into the shoes of
outgoing Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer.
It is speculated that a first
move was made through Ber
thold Beitz, a representative
of the German Krupp indus
tries, who recently "talked
with Khrushchev in Moscow
and followed that up imme
diately with long, and so far
secret, talks with Erhard In
Bonn.
A further preliminary was
Moscow's clear indication that
it hoped to step up trade with
West Germany.
The Soviet-German trade
agreement expires at the end
of this year and must be re
negotiated. All this leads up to Khru
shchev's current visit, and the
further interesting line of
speculation that results from
the wall which the Commu
nists threw across Berlin on
Aug. 13 two years ago, have
not been entirely at expected.
In an earlier visit to East
Berlin last January, Khrush
chev conceded that the wall
had created "certain discom
forts." But a more troublesome as
pect of what the Hamburg
newspaper Die Zeit calls the
"wall complex" appeared in
the cool reception given by
West Berlin businessmen to
Soviet attempti to increase
contacti either by diplomat!
or trade missions.
The "wall complex" alto
clearly must affect Soviet re
lation! with any West German
government, whether it be
Adenauer's or Erhard'i.
It leemi possible, therefore,
that beyond helping Ulbricht
to celebrate his birthday,
Khrushchev also will tell him
that some of the harsh condi
tions pertaining to the wall
must be relaxed.
This is not to imply that
the wall will, at did the walls
of Jericho, come tumbling
down.
The Communists in recent
weeks broke one additional
hole through the wall to pro
vide access to East Berlin'!
Schoenefeld airport. Another
step may be to lift at least
partially the present total ban
against West Berlineri wish
ing to visit the East Zone.
In his own German vltit,
All Is Fair in Love
And West Yhtnnng
By Arthui Hoppe
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina et tea correct t suaerleri
seven or elaht Is eictltentj fit r
ii fs food.
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1. Complete the following
Mother Goose line: "Johnny
Shafto'l gone to tea. , ."
2. Name the famout Ro
man who was assassinated on
the Ides of March.
3. "Cape Cod Turkey" de
notes what piscatorial food?
4. The maximum adult life
of tome May fliet it approx
imately tlx hours; true or
false?
3. What doct "Indian file"
denote?
6. Add the next two num
ber! to thlt terlet 4 8 13 6 10
13 8 12 17 10 .. .
7. In the human body,
which organ secretes bile?
8. b a chantey a type of
dwelling, a sailor's long, or a
deep baked apple dith?
B. Name the lower branch
of the Englisn Parliament.
10. Two vowel toundt
which follow one another to
closely tt to form but one
syllable are called a d-h-g
Aniwertt 1. " . . . tilver
buckles on hit knat." t. Jull
ut Caesar. 3. Salted codfish.
4. True. 3. Walking in single
Ilia. 8. 14 19. 7. Liver. 8. Sail
or't tong. 9. House of Com.
mom. 10. Diptheng.
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change under changing conditions. Even the Con
stitution is sufficiently flexible to permit differ
ing interpretations in different centuries.
e a e
AND, while the Court's rulings become the "law
of the land," no law can stand in the face of a
widespread or near-universal public feeling that
it is wrong. The directives of the court are not
self-enforcing. They must have at least a certain
degree of support and concurrence from the
people.
lhe storm over last June s Regents Prayer
case has largely subsided, and that which flared
up over this month's Bible reading and school
prayer cases has been less widespread and less
violent.
At least in part this has been due to the work
of devoted churchmen who have thought about
the Implications of government-imposed religious
exercises in the public schools, and have con
cluded that a true separation of church and state
offers the greatest hope for strength and vitality
within their own churches.
e e e e
IT IS our belief that the consensus of Americans
1 will support the school religon decisions.
Ours is m-obablv the most nluralistic of all
nations, both in origins and in faith. There are
literally hundreds of different denominations,
and well over one-third of the population the
largest identifiable religious minority has no
church ties whatsoever. We do not foresee the
development of a consensus which demands the
intrusion of what is essentially a personal and
private matter religion into the public edu
cational system,
It also seems to us that in making its ruling
the court sensed this. And, while the decision is
fully justified on Constitutional grounds alone,
it is also justified by the temper of the times.
THE school desegregation decision of nearly a
1 decade ago may have been a bit premature.
when judged by the standard of a national con
sensus. Certainly it was far from coinciding with
the views of a majority of white southerners.
And throughout the nation, sentiment was
slow to crystahze behind the Court's decision. It
is now beginning to do so, impelled, m part, bv
the fact that Negroes themselves are at long last
demanding justice, nd their demands are beine
recognized as legitimate and right, part of the
American credo of equality of opportunity.
Thus the Court was ahead of the people in
this one Instance, as, it has been in others. It has
served as educator as well as adjudicator. In its
own unique way u provides a iuncuon or leader
ship.
The Court has no troops or police to enforce
its decrees. But when it speaks out to say that
the great Constitutional guarantees mean what
they say, it is serving American purposes in a
way of which all Americans can be SHOULD
be proud.E.A.
Ul 111511 UUWCIB H1IU WO IllUDV " " , , . j
tend over relatively lnexperl- 1' him God will send ut
enced competitors to ' t h e
Olympic Games. When they
are beaten, Uie foreigner! nat
urally assume that our coun
try'! best have been defeated.
With a little public appreci
ation, these stars might be per
suaded to keep their amateur
standing.
We cannot overlook the
tact that foreigners view our
athletes as official representa
tives of our country; in es
sence, they become our am
bassadors to the world. As
Mr, A. O. Duer, secretary-
treasurer of NCAA, puts It:
The Olympic Garnet are sec
ond only to the space chal
lenge at the major Issue In
the cold war." Can we, as
citizens, feel right If our teams
are not as well trained and
experienced as they might be
with more funda and public
tupport?
The people of our state
should feel double responsi
bility to the Olympics next
year. Jean Saubert, born and
raised In Oregon, has been
named to the Olympic Ski
Team. Qualified people have
named her the "best woman
slalom tkler In the world,"
but tar too little publicity hat
been accorded thlt honor.
What better time for Oregon
to prove itself at a progres
sive state to the nation, that
we're behind our athletes and
sports programs, and indeed,
would be vitally Interested In
promoting Portland and Ore
gon as a future lite for the
Summer Olympics!
We'll gladly accept any do
nations sent to P. O. Box 7151,
Portland 19, Ore.; we'll send
a button by return mall for
any donation of 99 cents or
more. As much as we hope to
reach our goal moneywise, if
we can say we have enllght
ened our people to the needs
and the responsibility of our
Olympic program, we 11 feel
we've accomplished the most
important thing.
Jeanlne Sperr
Portland Winter Olympic
Benefit Committee
P. O. Box 71S1
Portland 19, Ore.
a strong delusion, and allow
use to believe a lie and be
lost. (2-Thess. 2-7 to 13). Why?
Because some will close their
eyes and ears, and harden
their hearts lest they should
be converted and be healed
(Matt. 13-11 to 18).
Since the Bible is true, then
Jesus did resurrect as record
ed. Jesus is the only one to
resurrect, Lazarus and others
were Just raised from the
dead.
Some Just fall to believe
and understand the Bible
and greatly err, thereby be.
coming the Sadducees. Jesus
commands us to beware of
their doctrine.
Mrs. G. C. Cunningham,
748 Maple St.,
Central Point, Ore.
Washington - The Pentagon 1
Is having a terrible time with
our 12,000 military advisers
In South Vietnam, who have
been advising their way
through the Jungles of that
battion of democracy for the
past couple of years. Often
engaging the enemy in hand-
to-hand advice.
It seems our GIs keep
griping to visiting ace news
men that it looks like a long,
lousy war, primarily because
the loyal royal Vietnam
army is not very keen on tak
ing advice. Particularly if It
Involves getting up out of the
trenches and snooting some
body. And all these gripes,
of course, are creating a most
unfavorable image of the
war. Which hurts Pentagon
appropriations.
But our Army has launch
ed a strong counterattack. It
has advised our 12,000 ad'
vlsers to "accentuate the pos
itive and eliminate the nega
tive, wnich sounds very
It The Bib! True?
To the Editor: May we
thank our friends, through
your paper, for their interest
In our lettert? And for watch
ing for them In the M. T.?
Sorry we have been to tlow
In writing, but we were de
layed In different ways.
Our subject thiit time, it
the Bible true and did Jet'it
resurrect?
In St. John (7-18-17) Jesus
told us His doctrine was not
Hit but his Father's, alto
ttated that If we will do the
New Orleans View
To the Editor: I read the
exchange of letters between
you and the White Citizens
Council of Greenwood, Miss.,
which due to Senator Morse
appeared in the Congression
al Record.
Have you given any thought
as to lust how Incongruous
the whole situation appears
to the South? In 1863, the
South was forced to free the
totally unprepared Negro
During the next 100 years,
we have lived with the great
majority of the Negro popula
tion. I'm sure you will agree
we should know and under
stand the Negro better than
any section of our country,
Today, you sit serenly at the
opposite corner of our nation,
with a tiny Negro population
never experiencing life
surrounded by millions of
Negroes, and calmly tell us
what we should do. You free-
Iv admit you are not con
fronted by these problems
and that you expect trouble
when and It the time comes
and what's more you don'i
want a Negro influx!
Maybe I'm wrong, but we
are the ones confronted with
Integration socially, and we
don't want It; we are the ones
who know the Negro best-
yet you, free of any responsi
bility, tell us how we should
live.
We are overburdened.
seems the least you could do,
if sincere In your concern
for the Negro welfare, would
be to locate lobs and hornet
tor tome of these unfortunate
people and invite them to
your ttate. You are evidently
ready and willing to accept
the Negro socially while the
Southerner It not. What could
be more Just?
Let's face this problem
squarely if your Senators are
going to vote to force ut to
accept integration I think
you should give ut a hand
and spread the responsibility
evenly.
Mrs. L. L. Lauden
' 102 Neil ave..
New Orleans 14, La.
Butt Falls Troubles
To the Editor: Mr. McCabe
you surprise me! I thought
you always prided yourself
in getting down to the true
facts of an issue. How many
of the members of the Butte
Falls School board have you
interviewed to find out why
they voted not to rehire Mr.
Stratton? Honc many of his
co-workers did you talk to?
I'll wager not very many. Yet
you, and other Stratton sup
porters speak of lies and half
truths and cry out for Jus
tice. Have you been fair to
Mr. Coepland?
This community has been
filled with rumors that are
not true, and they were cer
tainly not all started by those
opposed to Mr. Stratton. Strat
ton supporters have started
a good many of them. Mr.
Copcland was chosen as a
tcape-goat. The trouble start
ed before Mr. Copeland was
ever hired last year. He Just
nappenea to be the unlucky
one, to be here. 1 think he
and his family deserve better
treatment than this commun
ity gave them.
I believe the Tribune has
been very neutral In report
ing this trouble.
(Name on File)
Butte Falls. Ore.
Three Women Join
Capitol Guide Staff
Salem - m - Three wo
men have Joined the capitol
guide staff for the summer
tourist season, the state high
way department announced
today.
The three are Mrs. Ted
Gooding, Miss Maria McVay.
and Mb- Sally Jochlmsen, all
of Salem.
The guide service is a part
of the highway department's
travel information division.
cheery. "Your approach to
the question! of the press,"
the official Army directive
goes on, "should emphasize
the positive aspects of your
activities and avoid gratuitous
criticism. Emphasize the feel
ing of achievement, the hopes
for the future and optimism
in general. Or else.
Well, you may not believe
this, but we faced the very
same situation in the neigh
boring democratic bastion of
West Vhatnnng, the only na
tion on which I m an expert.
The results were most pe
culiar. e e
It was in the 18th year of
President Ngo Mahn Ngo's
lightning campaign to wipe
out all Moscow trained peas
ants. His 16 divisions of U.S.
military advisers were all in
the front lines, giving advice
tooth and nail. Indeed, they
would occasionally even try
dragging a loyal royal troop
up to the front lines to ad
vise personally. But It didn't
work very well. Every time
they d advise a loyal royal
troop to stick his bayonet in
a fellow Vhtnnngian, he'd
swoon.
So the Pentagon issued an
official directive saying: "If
you can't say something nice
about somebody, it's 30 days
on the rockpile.
The very next day, U.S.
military adviser first class
Homer Crabtree was inter
viewed in the front lines by
ace newsmen, who asked his
assessment of his Vhtnnngian
comrades in arms.
'Gentlemen," said Mr.
Crabtree, thinking carefully,
in my 50 yeara of soldierine.
I never did see more lovable
fighting men than these loyal
royal troops. Why, these
tough jungle warriors can
compose sad love sonct 48
hourt straight on a handful
of rice. When It comes to
love, they can take It and
dish It out, no matter how
heavy the enemy fire." i
So the stories started pour
ing in about how lovable the
Vhtnnngians were and how
lovely love was. And even
some people in Washington
began to wonder If loving peo
ple wasn't better than stick
ing bayonets Into them. In
deed, there was talk of cut
ting $86.19 from the Penta
gon's budget to establish a
bureau of love. Whit a crisis!
But Just when all looked
hopelest, the Pentagon'i As
sistant Undersecretary for Im
proving the Image of War
came up with a radical solu
tion. The first directive to
our adviser in West Vhtnnng
was canceled and a second
issued which said: "Hence
forth, when asked your opin
ion of the war iLelt or of
the fighting capabilities of the
loyal royal troops, say exact
ly what you. think."
And it worked! For while
our GIs expressed their opin
ions to our ace newsmen in
thousands and thousands of
words, not a one of them was
printable.
President Kennedy sought to
reassure the Germans specifi
cally and Europe in general
that they never would be
abandoned by the United
States. De Gaulle's posmou
that the ooDOtite might even
tually be true gave, he taid,
aid and comfort to the enemy.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harrlt
(e Iteld Enterprises, Inc.
mi
HARRIS'S REPLY
I am in receipt of a let
ter from a ladies' club in
Kansat, which runt at fol
lows! "Dear Mr. Harris: We are
a philanthrop
ic group, and
would like
you to speak
at our fall
banquet. Un
fort unately,
we cannot pay
a fee, since
our fundi are
allocated for
Harris ' v a r ious chil
dren's charities. Sincerely . . ."
My reply, as always, wat
prompt, eouricoua, and (I
hop) definitive:
"Dear Madam: Thank you
for the kind invitation to ad
dress the fall banquet of your
worthy group. I am delighted
to learn that your funds are
allocated for various chil
dren's charities, and I should
like to take this opportunity
to tell you about the Harris
Foundation.
The full name of this en
terprise, which is wholly non
profit, it the Carolyn. Mi
chael, Barbara, David and
Lindsay Harris Foundation
for Deserving Children. It op
erates at a staggering annual
deficit.
Any funds contributed to
this project are allocated 100
per cent to the children them
selves, with no costs deducted
for overhead, promotion, pub
licity, mailings, balls, ban
quets or bazaars.
"The funds go directly for
the following purposes: col
lege and school tuitions, ortho
dontist s fees, medical bills,
ciotning, snoes, chemistry
sets, rocking-horses, Raggedy
Ann dolls, and bicycles.
in addition, a small but
constant sum Is set awav
mommy lor future contingen
cies, such as measles, birth
day parties, falls from trees,
small dogs, tropical fish col
lections, broken windows, lost
gloves (192- pair since 1955
alone, as you can see from
the attached statement of op
erating expenses for the last
decade, included In the an
nual report), and allowances,
wnich grow in geometrical
proportion while the children
grow only in arithmetical pro-
Jjuruon.
Our books have been au
dited and verified by the U.S.
Collector of Internal Revenue.
District of Northern Illinois
- who, however, has persist
ently refused to let the Foun
dation be incorporated not-for-profit
under state or na
tional laws. I am currently
engaged in takine this case
to the highest court in the
land, and have hired for this
purpose an attorney with
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In the Day's News
gy FRANK JENKINS
The newt as tnls is written?
It Is perhaps the strangest
news tince the world began.
IN GERMAN citiet, the Pres.
dent of the United States
it getting the most wildly
enthusiastic reception evef
given in Europe to the head
of a foreign state. .
It is CERTAIN that he is
receiving the warmest recep
tion ever given in Europe by
a conquered people to th
leader of their conquerors.
IN BONN, the capital of the
West German Republic,
the Germans turned out in
droves to great him with
wildly enthusiastic cheers.
In Frankfurt, the dispatch
es tell ut, he was literally
engulfed in a human sea. Be
fore making his speech, he)
walked into the crowd and
shook hands with some of tha
people. At times, he literally
disappeared from view. Then
his head would reappear, '
turning from side to tide as
the German crowd wildy
chanted his name.
In West Berlin he was al
most deified. He tells tha
West Berliners in German:
"Ich bin ein Berliner" ( I am
a Berliner) and they go lit
erally wild with enthusiasm.
WHY is the President of tha
United States in Ger
many? Why in particular is ha
in Western Germany?
WELL, he is there because
" of the seeming madness
of a strange and mystic
Frenchman Charles Da
Gaulle, President of France.
France's president has seen
fit to cast doubt upon the in
tegrity of America's leader,
ship in Western Europe and '
the PERMANENCE of Amerl-
can assistance in resisting the
spread of COMMUNISM
throughout Europe.
President Kennedy is there
to reassure the people of free
Western Europe that we will
NOT leave them to stew in
the corrosive juice of com.
munism. He is there to tell
them that to prevent such a
catastrophe we will risk the
nuclear destruction of our
country.
That's about the long and
short of it.
lyHAT of De Gaulle?
' He is a strange and mys
tic character. From time to
time, France produces such
characters. There was Na
poleon, for instance.
De Gaulle is a soldier. Ha
knows the Importance of the
ancient maxim: DIVIDE AND
CONQUER. If you can get
your enemies divided, you
can conquer them. He knows
that if communism can divide
the Free World, it will have
a good chance to conquer tha
Free World.
Yet he is doing what ha
is doing.
TtHERE are many Strang
things in this world.
For example:
We have fought the Ger
mans in two wars.
We have fought the British
in two wars.
We have fought the Span,
ish In one war.
We have fought the Jap.
anese in one war.
They are all NOW our
friends and allies.
WE HAVE NEVER fought
the French.
We have never fought the
Russians.
But Russia is the leader of
world communism, which is
committed to DESTROY us.
And here is a Frenchman
who seems to be committing
himself to an effort to DI
VIDE THE FREE WORLD
thus (possibly) enabling com
munism to destroy the Fre
World.