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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 4, 19S3 (Saturday)
1 Work started on addition to
the fifth floor of Sacred Heart
hospital; the added space will
be used for Burgery.
Articles of incorporation for
the Sams Valley Irrigation as
sociation have been filed with
the Jackson county clerk's of
fice. 1. 1
20 YEARS AGO
July 4, 1943 (Sunday)
Fifty per cent of the apart
ments In the Victory housing
project near the Jackson
school are now ready for oc-
cupancy, and applications are
on hand for more than half of
the total number In the proj
ect.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Today
Is the 4th of July. Many mo
tored to the hills and Die sea
shore, in what, before gas ra
tioning un pnllnH Jl 'hptflra.'
What little screaming the ua
gle will do, promises to be in
a ladylike manner."
30 YEARS AGO
July 4, 1933 (Tuesday)
Arguments on the motion of
county judge, charged with
ballot theft, for a change of
venue will be made Thursday.
One of the largest cherry
crops in history is now being
harvested at the Wcstcrlund
orchard here; the cherries
were unharmed in any way
by frost or other weather.
40 YEARS AGO
July 4. 1923 (Wednesday)
Southern Oregon Gas com
pany advertises novel gas
folding stove. .
Subscription rates to the
Med ford Tribune, including
the Sunday paper, $8.30 a
year. ,
SO YEARS AGO
July 4, 1913 (Friday)
Contracts have been let for
paving the streets of Eagle
Point.
Arsenic poisoning for grass
hoppers has been used by the
Rogue River Canal company
to save their orchards.
ii:ai's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ran correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is escellenri live ei
sis is good.
1. What common nickname
Is shared by both type of
oratory and a race?
2. Under which two Presi
dents did William H. Seward
serve as Secretary of Stale?
3. Of what race was Goli
ath? 4. What statue surmounts
the dome of the United States
Capitol building in Washing
ton? 3. Two Presidents of the
United States were West
Point graduates; name them.
6. Who tried to fetch water
In a sieve?
7. When the kingdom of
Italy was established, what
city was Its capital?
1 8. Between which two states
does Lake Champlaln lie?
9. Name the theater where
most of Shakespeare's plays
were presented during his
lifetime.
10. The law requires dyed
furs to be labeled as being
dyed; true or false?
Answarsi 1. Soap box. 2.
Lincoln and Johnson. 3. Phil
istine. 4. Statu ol Freedom.
S. Grant and Eisenhower, t.
Simple Simon. 7. Florence. I.
New York and Vermont, t.
UIOM. ID. Tim.
THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1963
The Great
We commend to all
signed 187 years ago today, to which the signers
pledged their support,
lives, their fortunes, and
It is the Declaration
So important is it to
tne day on which we honor it, July 4, has become
our most significant national holiday.
Sadly, too many of
of the day, thinking of
as the first major holiday of the summer season
1MAKE NO mistake
iV was an act of high
on it was a signature on
And the pledge of life, fortune and honor was
no idle one. These men
stakes. When they won,
great turning points. The revolution which they
waged is still having repercussions throughout
the world.
Perhaps the most remarkable thine about this
remaiKaDie document is
tone. It has none of the
phrases so otten associated with revolutionary
pronouncements.
THIS WAS the work
who had given much
only to their current crisis, but to the political
philosophy Behind the
1 hese men were patriots true patriots, and
not merely mouthy flag-wavers. Not only were
they willing to die for their new country; they
were also willing to work for it, think for it. strive
throughout busy and
achieve the best for it.
Unlike most revolutionaries, these men were
constructive. While tearing down the fabric of
one government, they were carefully and
thoughtfully and prayerfully preparing the fabric
of a successor. Those
times that try men s souls. But the men who
wrote the Declaration of Independence measured
up to the great challenge.
a or that we must surely all be grateful today.
E.A.
A Comparison
, It is an interesting exercise in imagination to
compare the super-patriots of today with the
brave, calm men who signed the Declaration of
Independence.
The earlier breed of
iocs :
"We must, therefore,
sity which denounces our separation, and hold
them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies
in war; in peace, friends." ,
Men who could write like that saw the world
whole and clear, not
fears and suspicions.
THE NOISY, self-proclaimed patriot of today's
tlltru-rifyrit la a rlifforanf Kiaa4
He is not a conservative, for a true conserva
tive is a man who values
the institutions which have served us so well over
the last century and a half.
He is, rather, a true
sows mistrust, suspicion and hatred of our politi
cal leaders and of our institutions of government.
Ana ne certainly is noisy. Out of all propor
tions to his numbers, he shows up in newspapers'
letters columns, in denunciations of Congress
men, in public meetings.
COME Congressmen who have felt the lash of
the Birchers and the others who cry "Trea
son! at anything with which they disagree, or
do not understand, have started to talk back.
Senator Thomas Kuchel of California recent
ly made a major speech in the Senate denouncing
the smears and drivelings of those who see a
Communist behind every government desk. Oth
ers have taken other means of defendinc thpm-
selves and their colleagues from such slanders
and libels.
One of these is Congressman Morris K. Udall
(D-Ariz.), brother of the Secretary of the Inte
rior. In a recent report to his constituents, he
spells out some facts of life in 1963, although he
says he's a little ashamed that it is necessary.
LIE SAID:
"The President, his Cabinet and members of Con
gress are patriotic Americans. There Isn't a Socialist
or Communist in the lot. The vast majority of them are
overworked, underpaid, ainccre and effective public
servants.
"The Slate Department is not filled with Com
munists, Socialists or One Worlders. Ninety-five per
cent of these employees served under President Eisen
hower. The backgrounds and loyalty of every State
Department official have been checked and rechecked
by the FBI.
"There isn't going to be any unilateral disarma
ment on the part of our country, and there is no Dlot
to surrender our sovereignty to the United Nations
or anyone else.
"Dwight Elsenhower, Earl Warren and John F.
Kennedy are sincere, dedicated and loyal Americans
voting for the best Interests of our country. No one
of them Is a party In any way to any scheme to
deprive us of our liberties, transform our way of life
or turn our country over to some foreign power.
"The U.S. Army is not training cannibals in
Georgia to Invade our country and enforce Integra
tion and intermarriage."
Anyone who could believe the lies and slan
ders so well exposed by Congressman Udall is
one or more of three things:
' (1) Wildly misinformed and appallingly rail
able; (2) incredibly stupid, or (3) nut. L.A.
Declaration
our readers a document,
and to each other their
their sacred honor.
of Independence
patriotic Americans that
us ignore the significance
"the 4th of July" merely
signing the Declaration
courage. One's signature
one's own death warrant.
were plavinrr for hieh
it was one of history's
'
its calm, even, reasoned
violent, rabble-rousing
of mature, seasoned men.
agonizing thought, not
crisis.
productive lifetimes to
days were, in truth, the
patriot could say of his
acauiesce in the neces
smudired with icnorant
tradition, custom and
subversive, in that he
"Now, Let's Not Carry That Independence Day
Spirit Too Far"
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printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper. In fact the contrary is otten the case.
Worth Passing On
To the Editor: I received
the following poem from my
daughter for Father's day and
thought it expressed thoughts
worth passing on. My daugh
ter is Lorna Fowler.
Why does time pass,
Ever ceasing on
Long winging path?
Only the sages know.
Very long narrow straits,
Ever rushing, crushing
waters of
Young, anxious pearls
Only seeing near, never far,
Until parents like archers
, ,Set them true.
Loran Fowler,
Route I, Box 332,
Talent, Ore.
As Ha Sees It
To the Editor: I would like
to write a few words about
books and murders.
Is the Bible (King James)
good book? The first book
of Moses, called Genesis,
Moses was a murderer.
As L. G. Weaver of Med-
ford says, approximately one
billion people are under the
heels, the whips, the guns of
murderers.
I do not know how many
were under the teachings of
muraerers. The Lord God
chose a murderer to be a
ruler and a deliverer of his
people. And Jesus, the son of
the living God, chose Saul
of Tarsus, known as St. Paul.
I do not know where St. Paul
got his education. Moses got
his education from the Egyp
tians, who were of the off
spring of Cain or the Gen
tiles. We live today In the davs
of Cain, the steel age. Iron
is the mother of steel and
the beautiful music we hear
of the brass band and in
many churches, are from the
offspring of Cain.
I do not know how many
people live in cities today.
The first city built on earth
was built by Cain who was a
murderer.
And when that day comes
and Jesus will take over for
thousand years, it will be
the end of the Gentile or
Cain, and it will be brought
about by murderers; or that
Is the picture as 1 see it.
Marshall H. Waggoner
3719 St. John rd.
Vancouver, Wash.
You Could Turn It Off
To the Editor: Most of the
forced tunes used in radio
commercials (tunes, did I
say'.') causi me to feel very
sad. Songs sed to have love,
humor, patriotism and the
higher emotions as their
themes. Now all kinds of ma
chines, edibles, fluids, adorn
ments, spray and detergents
you name them - so that it
is a relief to hear someone
speak rather than attempt to
sing about them.
Do these singing com-
mercials really help business
establishments to sell their
wares?
David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
A Currency Proposal
To the Editor: The only hon-
est currency would be based
on a labor unit, would be
backed by the entire available
labor capacity of the whole
country. It would therefore
never go broke, and its possi
bilities would be practically
unlimited. It could guarantee
a welfare pension for the
aged, and even infants up to
20 or 21 years of age, the
housewife, the crippled and
the infirm. All of these bene
fits could be had practically
free, and more. If all our pro
ductive Industries or instru
ments ot life were owned and,
of course, would be controlled
by the government, except
your private homes or private
property.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE,
Mail Tribune reserves the rioht to
Of course, in order to
adopt such a system we would
have not tonly to maintain our
political democracy, but also
an industrial democracy. As
an example of this system we
have only to look at those
things that are already social
ized, such as our public
schools, our public roads and
streets, water, works, canals
for irrigation, etc. They are
good and useful. We only
want to extend that principle
to our other many needs and
conveniences.
This is all we Socialist and
working people want - jus
tice. There can be no justice
where the system is profit-
taking, exploitation, easy mon
ey, getting something for
nothing, such as undeserved
high . salaries, and even too
high wages. There are too
many that get too low, and
tod many that can't even get
a job. Nor ever will there be
full and adequate wages as
long as "hoggish" capitalism
is in existence. Too large a
per cent of our people live
on the profit system and prof
it alone. Profit dues not add
one whit to value, only serves
to enable those that are able
to exploit others to live off
those that are exploited. That
is nice for those that are in
a position to do the exploit
ing, but very sad and hard
on the ones that are exploited,
Besides, I thing it is very un
christian, if that means jus
tice. So dear brother worker, if
this would notssuit you, just
go to church and pray, live on
hay, you'll get pie in the sky
when you die.
John P. Wirth
3022 Butte st.
Klamath Falls, Ore.
Firestorms
To the Editor: What is a
firestorm? The overwhelming
majority of Americans, in
cluding those who naively dig
fallout shelters in metropol
itan target areas, haven't the
least inkling of what the
word "firestorm" means. A
firestorm is a phenomenon fa
miliar to forest-fire special
ists. There were several fire
storms produced by incendi
ary raiding on German cities
In World War II, and an
atomic bomb created a fire
storm in Hiroshima, but not
in Nagasaki.
When a Civil Defense offi
cial speaks with apparent can
dor about t h e explosion of
a 10-megaton bomb causing
frame houses 25 miles away
to burst into flame, he is not
telling us about the firestorm.
The firestorm occurs after
multiple fires are burning in
an area with a certain pcr
acre density of flammable ma
terial; and it takes up to 20
minutes to gain momentum.
When the multiple small fires
become annuclcatcd into one
gigantic pillar of miles-high
flame, it burns with the in
tensity o! an enormous blow
torch. Winds of high hurri
cane velocity rush in from the
periphery of the colossal
blaze, sucking every inflam
mable thing into its vortex.
Although Civil Defense ad
vocates have, for the most
part, ignored firestorms, in
those few instances where
they have taken note of the
phenomenon, they have ar
gued either that the Soviet
bureaucrats would concen
trate on strictly military tar
gets and avoid large urban
arens (a wishful assumption
In a war of extermination
such as a thermonuclear war
Is bound to be), or that, while
the heat radiated by a nuclear
explosion would ignite thou-1
sands of fires, the flames
would be blown out by the
ensuing blast wave.
Replying to the latter argu
ment, Mr. Philip Vylle4 an
acknowledged expert on the
MEDFORD, OREGON
Grim Economic Prospects Facing Southern
Rhodesia Because of Racial Policies
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Within sound of the roar
of majestic Victoria Falls.
noble experiment in partner
ship of the
races is com
ing to a bitter
but seeming
ly inevitable
end. It is the
u n f o r t u
nate lot of
British Depu
ty Prime Min
ister R. A.
(RAB) Butler
to preside over the dissolution
of the Central African Federa-
tion, founded 10 years ago by
the government of Sir Win
ston Churchill without Afri
can consent and foundering
now on African opposition.
With dissolution complete,
Northern Rhodesia and Nyasa
land go their seperate ways
in independence.
It is Southern Rhodesia
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fc Field Enterprises. Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
People who instruct others
on how to achieve success are
in the same embarrassing po
sitions as fortune tellers if
they could really do what they
pretend, would they be grub
bing for a living like the rest
of us?
The reason that most par
ents are so fond of the
youngest child is that their
hopes have already begun to
dim for the success of the
older ones.
"The fool laughs at what he
does not understand, and the
wise man cries at what he
does understand," is an old
Persian maxim I have just
made up.
The health reasons given
by nudists are mostly non
sense, but a good psycholog
ical argument for a nudist
world is that it would elim
inate much of the pomposity
and hypocrisy on the part of
public leaders. As Bismavck
once said, "I have seen three
emperors in their naked
ness, and the sight is not in
spiring."
One of the unexplained od
dities of social intercouse is
that you may never have
heard of a person until you
meet him, or her, but immedi
ately afterwards you hear
about the person from a 1 1
sides.
If any generalisation of
this sort is true, it is that
men largely live in the fu
ture, and women in the
past; only children live in
the present, which is why
w e become s o impatient
with them for neglectingour
distorted adult sense of
time.
Gossip causes more trouble
in the world than vice-and it
is so prevalent because it per
mits us safely to participate
in sin without suffering any
of the consequences for it.
In quest of love, the un
happiesi are those who. like
the elderly spinster in Lil
lian Hellman's play. "Au
tumn Garden," reflect sadly
that they are too good for
the ones who want them,
and not good enough for the
ones they want.
Those who think that
"world government" is a new
idea ought to be told that it
was proposed as the only so
lution for world peace by
Dante in the 13lh century; it
takes that long for the human
race to catch up with its great
minds.
Rhubarb lovers of the
world, like me, ought to
unite to get this deliciously
bracing dessert put on more
restaurant menus more
often.
Wives generally complain
that men are sloppy about
their personal belongings: but
it seems to me that a man who
is somewhat disorganized and
careless about his things is a
better marital risk than one
who is neat and precise, and
whose perfectionism In trifles
can swiftly drive a woman
mad.
subject, said: "But that same
wave would crumble enough
skyscrapers, gas-storage tanks
filling station, and homes as
gas mains erupted to ignite
the great fire that makes a
city shelter, however sturdy
or deep, the last place any
informed person would want
to be." Moreover, the blast
wave would be spent long
before it reached the outer
ring of fires produced by the
heat wave.
When it is considered that
a very substantial proportion
of the U. S. population lives
in the urban and suburban
areas that would almost cer
tainly be devastated by blast
and firestorm - not to men
tion drenched-ln deadly fall
out - in the event of a ther
monuclear war, we can see
how criminally optimistic the
advocates cf shelters are.
Lydia Burnhsm,
tin Warne St.,
Prescott, Ariz.
where 233,000 whites rule 3,
600,000 Africans, that is giv
ing Britain its greatest head
ache of all the half dozen
former African possessions it
has eased to independence
and others for which inde
pendence is planned.
The white supremacy gov
ernment of Prime Minister
Winston Field is demanding
independence for Southern
Rhodesia at the moment it is
granted to either of the other
two.
Butler has served notice
upon Field that there will be
no independence until South
em Rhodesia amends its con
stitution to give Africans
voice in government.
In prospect could be an
other Algeria or the bloody
violence such as the Mau Mau
unleased in Kenya before in
dependence. The predominatly black
governments of both Northern
Rhodesia and Nyasaland al
ready have made it clear they
will not cooperate economi
cally with a Southern Rhodes-
tan government dominated by
white supremacists.
Northern Rhodesia, with
population of around three
million and one quarter of
the worlds copper reserves
potentially is Africa's richest
country per person.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Salem as this is writ
ten:
From all indications, the
state of Oregon wound up
its 1061-63 fiscal biennium
Sunday about A MILLION
DOLLARS in the black.
Freeman Holmer, state di
rector of finance and admin
istration, said his department
had predicted June 21 that
there would be $987,000 left
over from expenditures by
June 30.
He didn't miss it very far.
TTIROM Washington:
The federal government
headed today (Monday, July 1)
mto its fourth consecutive
year of DEFICIT financing,
and indications are the fiscal
situation will get worse be
fore it gets better. The 1963
federal fiscal year ended at
midnight Sunday night with
the government IN THE RED
between $7 billion and $8 bil
lion. The actual figure won't
be available for about two
weeks.
The federal government is
expected to go MUCH DEEP
ER in the hole in the next 12
months. President Kennedy's
$98.8 billion budget for fiscal
1964 projects a deficit of $11.9
billion-the second highest in
peace time. Only the $12.4 bil
lion Eisenhower deficit i n
1959 would top it.
WHY the contrast?
Well, here in Oregon
government is CLOSE AT
HOME. If it should go off the
deep end in the way of deficit
spending, it would feel the hot
breath of the home town voter
blowing down the back of its
neck.
The Washington govern
ment is so far from home that
it can kid a majority of the
voters into believing that a
nation can spend itself rich.
That s about the long and
short of it.
rPHE big news today?
It may have its grim
aspects-but the big news a
century ago was much grim
mer.
A century ago was the sec
ond day of the battle of Get
tysburg. At the end of the first
day, General Lee was confi
dent of victory. But, during
the night, reenforcements ar
rived for General Meade,
bringing his total up to about
93,000 as compared with Lee s
70,000.
Until 2 o'clock in the after
noon, the two great armies
faced each other, each seem
ing loath to begin the awful
work of slaughter, which they
knew was to follow. Then the
Confederates advanced, Gen
eral Longstreet leading their
right wing up the slope of
Round Top In an effort to dis
lodge Union General Sickles
at the top.
For two hours the battle
raged. Longstreet led the Con
federate charge, waving his
men on to follow as if he were
courting death itself. Union
General Sickles, his leg shot
off by a cannon ball, still di
rected his men.
The Confederates failed to
take Round Top, but they
carried Culp's Hill. The net
results of the day were slight
ly favorable to them, tending
to balance the results of the
first day, which had gone
against them.
BUT
When fell the shades of
night
The losses were counted up.
They were heavy. Each side
had lost about 10,000 men-one
out of each seven for Lee and
one out of about each nine for
Meade. The night was spent
preparing for the bloody third
day of the battle.
'THAT was 100 years ago.
And another day vjis to
follow.
With dissolution of the fed
eration, Southern Rhodesia
will lose any share in income
from copper exports which
last year amounted to more
than $300 million.
African Nationalists' plans
for economic boycott go all
the way. ,
They will ignore Southern
Rhodesia's textiles and other
products and look for their re
placements in India or Hong
Kong.
If Southern Rhodesia at
tempts to hold back coal for
Northern Rhodesia's copper
refineries, then Northern
Rhodesia will get it elsewhere.
If there is interference with
copper shipments, then North
ern Rhodesia will move it out
through the Congo.
Matter of Fcrcf
(c) New York Herald
THE SECOND
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Washington - On July 4,
1776, when a number of the
boldest leaders signed the Dec
laration of Independence, the
American
Revolution be
gan in deadly
earnest. Even
then, a wiser
government in
London might
perhaps have
diluted or de
ferred the
Am e ri ca n
Revo lution,
Ajsop
by bold generosity and
shrewd, swift concession. But
George III, Lord North and
Lord George Germain were
trio dedicated to disaster
With Washington and Jeffer
son and Adams, their names
should also be inscribed upon
our list of founding fathers.
On July 4, 1963, it is need-
ful to do something beyond
commemorating the other,
more glorious Fourth of July
with festive firecrackers. It is
needful to face the fact that
for good or ill, something like
a second revolution has be
gun here in America.
rTHE symbolic figure, who
-- warns ns when up nnw
stand, is the dead Medgar
Evers. When Evers took the
leadership of the NAACP in
Mississippi, he cannot have
acted from ambition, or in the
hope of gain. He must have
known the risks he ran. He
ran those risks to free his
people; and in the end he was
brutally and shamefully assas
sinated.
The assassination of Med
gar Evers does not compel us
to be piously sentimental.
Just the opposite is what is
wanted. The murder of Evers
calls for indignation, of course;
but above all, it calls for
realism.
Let the nine Americans out
of ten who are white, be real
ists as well. Then they must
see at once that the Negro
movement could not possibly
produce such a man as Evers,
to do the sort of thing that
Evers did, without a strong
tinge of revolutionary fervor.
The emotion that induces self
sacrifice is the heart of the
matter.
TN SOME other Negro lead-
ers, like James Baldwin for
example, it may be reasonable
to suspect that the element
of self-pity is stronger than
the element of self-sacrifice.
But that does not alter the
equation. Any student of the
risings of the subject peoples
against the colonial empires,
is well aware that the self
pitying revolutionaries are
generally more numerous than
self-sacrificing ones.
On this July 4th, these ris
ings of subject peoples against
colonial empires are the cases
to consider. They are the cases
to consider, moreover, not be
cause our own American Rev
olution was the first and the
most fruitful rising, but be
cause they tell us so much
that we need to know about
Fourth of July
Published estimates have
said that a loss of the North
ern Rhodesian and Nyasaland
markets would mean a drop
of 30 to 40 per cent in South
ern Rhodesia's output.
In Salisbury, capital of
Southern Rhodesia, office
space already is going begging
as businessmen adjust to the
coming changes. Copper com
panies are preparing to aban
don Salisbury as their head
quarters and move to Lusaka
in Northern Rhodesia.
Southern Rhodesia also
could be left out of the com
monwealth which now gives
its tobacco a trade preference.
Such are the grim pros
pects facing Southern Rho
desia, but its government
shows no signs of change.
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
the second revolution that has
imperceptibly begun in our
midst.
For the nine Americans out
of ten who are white, the ob
ject of this new revolution
is not to subvert or destroy
or replace the American sys
tem. The Negroes' object,
rather, is only to gain the full
American citizenship that the
Constitution guarantees to
them.
.
pOR the one American in
every ten who is a Negro,
the extreme peculiarity of the
Negro revolution is the key
point to weigh. This move
ment, for all its kinship to one
of the anti-colonial risings,
is also set apart by a pro
found difference. The Negro
claims may be just, but those
who make the claims are still
a minority; and the suscepti
bilities and even the preju
dices ,of the majority must
therefore be considered at all
times. i
' Hence realism urgently re
quires the Negro leaders and
their followers to avoid ex
cess. That does not mean
avoiding the insistent presen
tation of just claims. But it
does mean refraining from
pressing these claims by vio
lence, or in other ways that
can profoundly alienate the
white majority. There is far
more danger of this than many
good people as yet imagine.
By the same token, howev
er, realism also urgently re.
quires the American white
majority not to blink at, or
try to wish away, or blur over
the harsh outlines of the prob
lem confronting us. This is
not the moment for carneying
arguments that the Constitu
tion puts property rights
ahead of civil rights, or for
wishful suggestions that ev
erything would be all right if
it were not for a handful of
"agitators."
OEFORE tney faced the
truth, the British in India
also talked about "agitators."
As for the truth that the Brit
ish in Indian finally had to
face, it was bleakly simple.
The truth was that they had
only two practical choices
open to them.
One choice was to concede
to the Indian people what
they were clamoring for, with
out weak half-measures or
self - deluding compromises.
And the other choice was to
shoot enough Indians to make
a new silence in the land, as
Nikita S. Khrushchev later
did in Hungary.
The British did not make
Khrushchev's choice, essen
tially because they did not
want to live in the kind of
country that would do that
kind of thing. What the Negro
people of America are clam
oring for is very different
from what the Indians de
manded of the British. But
the practical choices open to
the white American majority
will surely be found, in the
end, to be as limited as the
British choices were, and for
much the same reasons.
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