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History from the filet of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July ?, 1953 (Tueiday)
The Medford school admin,
islratlon, according to Super
intendent E. H. Hedrlck, has
been advised by the state of
fice of education that the ele
mentary and Junior high
schools are over-crowded to
the extent that they cannot
be rated as "standard."
Medford experienced its
hottest day so far this year
yesterday when the mercury
climbed to 97 degrees.
30 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1943 (Tuesday)
Elsie Older supervisor at
children's playground on East
Main at.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
people heeded the request of
Washington, D.C., not to
travel on the Fourth. They
only went 39 ways from Sun
day Instead of the traditional
40."
30 YEARS AOO
July 7. 1933 (Thursday)
Beef steaks, round, sirloin
or rib roast 19 cents per
pounds at City Market.
Fire department kept busy
putting out vacant lot grass
fires.
40 YEARS AGO
July 7, 1923 (Friday)
Travel records to Crater
lake broken over Fourth of
July.
Car shortage confronts lo
cal pear shippers.
50 YEARS AGO
July 7, 1913 (Sunday)
Fight fan who saw Bud
Anderson defeated by Leach
Cross considers betting loss
only temporary loan at good
interest.
Old box factory to be used
as packing house for fruit.
Ownership of Gold
Question: la it illegal to own gold bullion?
Answer: Yes.
The question has been of some interest local
ly, and at least a couple of letters to the editor
have maintained that a ludee s decision last Au
gust makes legal the ownership of gold bullion,
We set out to find tne answer, first we con
firmed that U.S. District Judce William C,
Mathes of Los Angeles had indeed dismissed a
grand jury indictment which charged two men
with illegal gold ownership,
OIS dismissal was based on the Judge's reason
ing that the executive order banning gold
ownership was valid only in a national emer
gency. The Judge held the emergency no longer
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exjsiea, mereiore goia ownersnip is legal.
His action was not widely noted at the time
because it was limited in scope. But the Mercury
magazine carried a story about the case, and indi
cated that the Judge's ruling, in effect, invali-
dated the executive order.
It was this story which aroused considerable
interest in some circles about gold ownership
WE HAVE now, with the help of Congressman
Rnh Dnnpon nHfainnrl art onf limnf ofi'vt sfnft
- v..v-u, uui,uuivi4 Cli HUtllUI ILailVC OLtXLC-
ment on the matter. It is contained in a letter
from Leland Howard, director of the office of
domestic gold and silver operations of the U.S.
.treasury Department. In part, he said:
"The California case in which the court dismissed
a criminal indictment against two men who had ac
quired, held, and transported 21 ounces of gold bullion
without a license, has no bearing on the holding of gold
bullion by private Individuals. The Cold Reserve Act,
which is another statutory basis for the Gold Regula
tions, was not involved. The penalties prescribed for
violations under this Act are forfeiture of the gold and
a civil penalty equal to twice the value of the gold
involved. This decision, therefore, does not affect the
right of the Secretary of the Treasury to control the
use of gold within the United Slates or its acquisition,
disposition, Importation or exportation.
"The criminal prosecution In the California case
was based on Section 5(b) of the Act of October 6,
1917, as amended, which authorizes the regulation of
gold transactions during the time of war or during any
other period of national emergency declared by the
President, While Executive Order 280, under which
criminal penalties are incurred, was promulgated in
1933, It has been continued, and is currently effective.
Its validity at the present time rests upon the Korean
and Communist emergency declared on December 16,
1950. The Executive Order has been confirmed and
amended by the President as recently as July 20.
1962.
"In spile of the dismissal of the Indictment In this
case (which has limited significance because it is not
binding upon other courts) violations of the Gold Regu
lations will continue to be prosecuted. A number of
such cases are now pending in which it Is anticipated
the Government will be successful and convictions
secured. It would be unfortunate if anyone acquired
gold bullion in reliance upon the California case."
. And that would appear to be that. E. A.1
"Sorry, But You Have an Incurable
Skin Condition"
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter llppmann
iC) 1963. The Washington Poit
Lip poison
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A T THIS particular moment
Question of last week:
What Is the Fourth of July?
The answer:
It is the anniversary of the
adoption of the Declaration
of Independence by the
thirteen United States of
America.
WHAT is the Declaration of
Tnripnpnrlpnrp?
It is a recital of the griev-
nces of the people of the
thirteen United Slates of
America" against "the present
king of Great Britain."
in history, when Bible
reading in the schools has ap
parently been sharply restrict
ed by the Supreme Court, the
text of the Declaration of In
dependence holds a particular
interest for us. It begins with
these words:
"VUHEN in the course of
" human events, it be
comes necessary for one peo
ple to dissolve the political
bands which have connected
them with another, and to as-
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(c) Nfw York Herald Tribune Syndicate
"'Salt and History
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct li superior;
even or ela.hr. It eicelleM; five ar
ii li food.
1. Is tapioca obtained from
the roots of the cassava, or
guava?
2. Is the Gothic arch round,
or pointed?
3. Enchiladas ere eaten
most In which country?
4. What two numbers are
used as a term for confusion?
5. Who wrote, "To err is
human, to forgive la divine?"
6. Is the Dominion of Can
ada a member of the Pan
American Union?
7. Is the Speaker of the
House of Representatives se
lected by the entire House or
by the majority party?
8. Who won the heavy
weight boxing title from Jess
Willard?
9. How many outs In an In
ning of baseball?
10. Is a nephogram a med
ical chart, a smoke signal, or
photograph of clouds?
Antwarsi 1. Canara. 2.
Poiniad. 3. Mexico. 4. Sixes
and sevens. 5. Alexander
Pepa. 1. No. 7. Majority parly.
6. Jack Damptey. 9. Six. 10.
Photograph of clouds.
RESOLUTION PLANNED
Washington - (UPD - Two
Republicana plan to Introduce
resolution In Congreaa urg
ing the Kennedy administra
tion to end the balance of
payments deficit.
Historians will say that no single factor is
responsioie lor great turning points in history.
But an article in the current issue nf f h Kripn.
tific American places a considerable nortion nf
the cause of the Middle Aires on two oddlv assort
ed but related factors the level of the oceans
and the availability of salt plain, ordinary salt.
The article itself is a fascinating one, about
a commodity which we today take for granted.
IT WAS not always so. Salt, of course, is essen
tial fnv Ufa WifUrMit- 51- ,,.,l ,i: A -J il.
v.. " iinuui it,, ijuupie inc. tfm ine
sources of salt are less widespread and less pro
ductive than most people imagine.
. wars were lought over salt sources, and
whole economies were dependent on it.
In ancient times, the principal sources were
drying pans and salt marshes on the edge of
the seas and oceans. When, by about 500 A.D.,
sea level had risen about six feet higher than
m uncteni umes, most of the salt ponds of
Europe were inundated, creating a real crisis.
.
yi-IE article explains:
"The effects on Europe were nearly catastrophic.
The Belgium historian Henri Pircnnc observes that
Europe fell into an economic dark ago. The salt traffic
virtually disappeared; the coasts of Britain and France
were deserted; the northern part of the continent be
came an 'underdeveloped' area, and people began to
migrate to the more arid areas of the Mediterranean
in quest of llfesavlng salt.
"The salt mines, the desert salt lakes and the Dead
Sea became tho saving sources for European civiliza
tion. This explains the otherwise senseless determina
tion of the Roman emperors Vespasian and Tilus to
conquer the deserts around the Dead Sea. In the sixth
century A.D. the ports and other towns of Palestine
became great Undo centers and grew to cities of
100,000 or more. For the suit and salirvi tnnri h
vlded to Ihc collapsing West they received gold, mar
ble and other luxuries.
"The sea receded, and Europe came back. Bv the
10th Century the English, French and Dutch 'were
kih matting sail in Ilielr peat bogs . . . (and) salt
production was In full swing in Normandv, on Ihc west
coast of France, at the mouth of the Rhone. In Sicilv
and the Crimea."
QVEK the yea re, salt has been mined, quarried.
taken from the sea, recovered from peat
by burning, extracted from salt lakes, salt bogs,
and brine pumped from the earth.
Peat, coal. wood, oil and thn snn'o i-n-c V,.,.-
been used to evaporate sea water and brine.
in todays industrial civilization, the article
points out. the dancer of a "salt fa minn' Vine
largely been removed. The sea is an inexhaustible
source, and with modern energy sources, salt al
ways win oe available.
But there is a cautionary note: About sn lu
cent of the world's salt is stil! obtainpil from son.
coast solar ponds, which remain vulnerable to a
rise in sea level, and thus "small . . . fluctuations
of the ocean level may produce profound effects
Human (.-.viiizauon in me iuiure as they have
in the nnn " V A
KHRUSHCHEV'S NEW
OFFER
Washington Gov. Averell
Harriman's mission to Mos
cow, to resume talks about
a ban on nu
clear tests
has suddenly
been trans
formed. From
a lac kluster
g e s t u re of
good will
foredoomed to
f r uitlcssness
it has been
turned Into an
absorbingly Interesting ven
ture.
The man who wrought this
transformation was Nikita S.
Khrushchev. Less than a fort.
night before the resumption
of negotiations, Khrushchev
has abruptly altered the So
viet position regarding a nu
clear test-ban, in a way that
can ratner easily lead to So.
viet-Amerlcan agreement.
This was the crucial point
of Khrushchev's remarkable
Berlin speech. The point was
entirely missed In the first
reports of the speech, mainly
because Khrushchev himself
blandly denied that he was
saying anything of great significance.
"We have made this pro
posal before," he declared,
after announcing the Soviet
union s willingness to "con
clude an agreement banning
nuclear tests In the atmos
phere, in out space and un
der water," but omitting the
underground tests which are
so difficult to police.
TN REALITY, those who
1 "made the proposal be
fore" were the American nu
clear test negotiators; and
when they made the proposal,
they all but had their heads
bitten off by their Soviet op
posite numbers. The Ameri
can government has, in fact,
been seeking this kind of
ninelcnths ban on nuclear
tests, which can be fully po
liced with existing detection
apparatus, ever since the end
of the Eisenhower adminis
tration. Such a test ban would leave
both sides free to proceed
with underground tests.
which cannot be policed
without the enormous appar
atus for on-site inspection to
which the Soviets so billet !v
object. But the admission of
underground tests would not
much impair the nowcr of an
enforced agreement to ban all
otner tests. Above all. such
an agreement would have the
effect of halting further
mulll national development
of nuclear weapons.
To be sure, it is much too
early to throw any hats In
the air over Khrushchev's
new offer for such it must
be called. In the Berlin
speech, the test-ban offer was
coupled with a call for a
'non-aggression pact between
tne two main military groups
of states the NATO coun
tries and the Warsaw Treaty
states."
IT IS not clear whether
Khrushchev meant his of
fer to be strictly conditional
on tha signing of such a non
aggression pact. It Is not
clear, either, whether the
real intention of the proposed
pact is to entangle the West
ern powers In several highly
undesirable p r e d icaments.
such as effective recognition
of the puppet communist re
gime in East Germany.
in short, a lot of careful
staff work Is going to have
to be done with America's
allies, and particularly with
the West Germans, before
Governor Harriman Dacks hl
bags to go to Moscow. And
when Harriman reaches Mos
cow, ne will also have to
walk with his customary war
iness, until he has reconnoi-
tered the terrain much more
completely.
All the same, this new move
by Khrushchev looks like one
of those events which shift
the scene, so to say, and in
augurate a new act in the
drama. Unless the Khru
shchev offer Is a mere fraud,
moreover, it clearly implies
that a great shift of scene
and the opening of a new
act In the drama have al
ready taken place In inner
Kremlin politics.
If the offor Is genuine, in
fact, it marks the end of the
long period of constantly In
creasing military influence on
Soviet policy decisions. This
period opened on the same
theme, when the Kremlin
abruptly rejected President
Kennedy's first test-ban nro-
posai and DroKe off the Gen
eva negotiations in the win
ter of 1961.
OOV1ET nuclear testing was
then resumed In response
to the urgent demands of the
Russian military leaders.
Thereafter, indications of mil
itary influence on Soviet nol.
Icy were a recurrent phe
nomenon. A climax was
reached this winter, in the
post-Cuba challenge to Khru.
shchev's own position. In
which some of the military
leaders are known to have
joined.
The new offer is the clear-
est sign to date that Khru
shchev, after some anxious
moments, ended by repelling
tho challenge to his leader
ship with complete, even
shattering success. As a sign,
it goes even further than the
recent meeting of the Soviet
Central Committee, or the
Kremlin's stonewall tactics in
the face of the Chinese Com-
STRENGTH TO GOVERN
WELL
This Congress was already
in a jam before the Negro
demonstrations caused the ad-
ministrat I o n
to propose the
new civil
rights bill
Without any
f i 1 ibuster on
the floor of
the Senate
there has been
so much delay
and obstruc-
tion in the
committees that after six
months no important measure
has been acted upon, and
many of the critical measures,
such as tax reduction, are
bogged down - it would seem
deliberately - in the commit
teee. What kind of legislative
body is it that will not cannot
legislate?
a
rpHIS would be a serious
question at any time. But
it is a critical question at this
time.
A new generation of Ne
groes has emerged, one which
has lost the fear of being ar
rested and jailed, and has
steeled itself to use the weap
on of the weak, which is to be
prepared' to suffer more pain
than the oppressor will dare
to inflict. When an aggrieved
people reach this point, they
have acquired a force which
governments must reckon
with and people must respect,
If then it turns out that the
government is paralyzed and
impotent to deal with their
grievances, the prospect is in
deed dark and ominous.
.
T IS TRUE, quite evidently,
that in their swelling dis
content the Negro people
might be incited, even ex
ploited, to permit acts of vio
lence which would recoil upon
the Negro minority itself. But
how is wisdom to be made to
prevail as against reckless
folly?
There is only one way. By
an unmistakable showing that
the Negroes live under a
strong government, one which
is not only strong enough to
suppress mobs, but is also
strong enough to redress
grievances and raise the
standard of public righteous
ness. ' .
If, after the President has
proposed legal remedies for
an undeniable evil, the Con
gress of the United States then
smothers and obstructs the
enactment of laws, on what
ground can a rational appeal
be made to the Negro people
and their leaders? As one who
has always opposed cloture
except in extreme emergen
cies, I would say now that the
present situation Is ex' :e.
It is whether the Negro can
count upon the government
under which he lives to re
dress his
ances.
undeniable griev-
sume among the powers of
the earth the separate and
equal station to which the
laws of nature AND OF NA
TURE'S GOD entitle them, a
decent respect to the opin
ions of mankind requires that
they should declare the caus
es which impel them to the
separation."
'T'HAT raises this question:
-- Would our present Su
preme Court have sanctioned
the Delcaration of Independence?
IF, therefore, we have a fili
buster against civil rights
on top of the logjam about
everything else, we shall have
to say - distressing as it Is -
that in one of the coordinate
branches the capacity to gov
ern has broken down. If this
continues, if we linger on in
a deadlock in which the Presi
dent proposes and Congress
will not even dispose, there
are very difficult days ahead
for the republic.
A government must be able
to govern. When it cannot
govern, a government is sick.
If things go as badly this
summer as they threaten to
go, and the session drags on
into the autumn with little
accomplished amidst many
angry words, something will
have to be done about it. Next
to defense and the enlightened
conduct of the cold war, the
question of highest priority
will be how to overcome the
paralysis of Congress.
a
MY own view is that the
mnct mnnHant -nJ
needed reform would be a
rule that measures proposed
by the President, if he labels
them urgent, must be reported
oui oi committees within a
certain time and brought to a
vote within a certain time.
The administration should
have the right to have its pro
posals voted up or voted down
within a reasonably short
time.
It cannot be the genuine
right of a legislature to
smother and strangle the pro
posals of the executive. For
that would leave us with just
about the worse of all forms
of popular government - gov
ernment by large assemblies
or, as we call it in this cen
tury, congressional govern
ment.
Writing this on the dav be
fore the Fourth of July, I find
myself thinking how rarely
free governments have been
overthrown by foreign ty
rants, except temporarily in
time of war, but how often
free governments have fallen
because of their own weak
ness and incapacity.
To one thinking such
thoughts, there is nothing re
assuring about the present
Congress.
GREAT IDEAS...
1 From the Great Books
my
By Mortimer J. Adler
(c) 1063, Publiiheri Newapaper Syndicate
CHURCH -STATE
RELATIONS
Dear Dr. Adler: There has
been a conflict all through
history about tha separa
tion of church and stale.
What have tha great phil
osophers and religious lead
ers had to say on this sub
ject? Where have they
agreed and where have they
differed?
Baa B. Gardner
1990 Browning ave.
Salt Lake City B.Utah
Dear Miss Gardner: John
Locke, writing in the 17th cen
tury, stated t h e view of
church-state relations which is
espoused by the majority of
Supreme Court justices today
He held that religion and gov
ernment are two entirely sep
arate spheres of human activ
ity, neither of which must en
croach on the other.
In his view, the church is
a voluntary association of in
dividuals who join together to
worship God, while the state
is a community organized to
handle economic, social, and
political matters. The church
should not call on the govern
ment for aid or support, while
conversely, the state should
not compel church members to
profess beliefs or perform acts
which go against their con
science. Church and state both
have jurisdiction over moral
conduct, the church insofar as
conduct concerns man's serv
ice to God and his inner life,
the state insofar as it affects
other persons and their property.
Jefferson and Madison took
essentially the same position
as Locke. In arguing against a
Virginia tax to support reli
gious teachers, they held that
government may neither hin
der nor aid religion, and that
even a "three pence" tax to
aid religious instruction was
illegitimate and tyrannical
Later, in commenting on the
Iirst Amendment to the Con
stitution, Jeffersen said that
it set up "a wall of separation
between church and state.
The opinions of Jefferson
and Madison have provided
the present - Supreme Court
g
with its ruling principles on
church-state relations, partic
ularly in regard to educational
matters. In a decision handed
down in 1947, the court ruled
5-4 in favor of a New Jersey
statute providing that bus
transportation for parochial
school children be paid
through public funds. Both the
majority and minority deci
sions agreed that Jefferson
and Madison's interpretation
of the First Amendment was
correct, but disagreed as to
whether publicly paid bus
transportation constituted aid
to the church which sponsored
the schools.
Despite its ruling in favor
of bus transportation, the ma
jority decision, because it re
lied on the opinions of Jeffer
son and Madison, was at-,
tacked by those who hold that
the First Amendment permits
non-preferential aid of all re
ligious faiths. A more far
reaching and profound criti
cism was the view that in con
crete actuality no absolute
wall can be set up between
church and state. In the so
ciety we live in, these critics
said, church and state are pres
ent together, cheek by jowl,
and cannot be separated, save
as an abstract, legal fiction.
This view transfers tha
question from one of the rela
tion between church and state
to one of the relation between
religion and society (or "cul
ture"). Yet we cannot be sure
that posing the question in
this way will materially alter
subsequent Supreme Court
decisions. For example. Jus
tice Douglas proclaimed in one
case that we are a religious
people whose institutions pre
suppose a Supreme Being,"
and yet he later concurred in
the decision which- declared
unconstitutional a state-spon
sored prayer in the public
schools. In his view, even
though we are a religious peo
ple or society, it is not the
function of government to aid
and foster religious institu
tions and instruction. That is
to be left to the free activity
of individuals and groups. The
government is neutral as be
tween religion and irreligion.
However, many critics of tha
court maintain that this pre
sumed "neutrality" actually
operates against religion and
in favor of secularism. Rein
hold Neibuhr, the eminent
Protestant theologian, said of
the school prayer decision,
that such a rigid construc
tion of the First Amendment
results in "a consistently sec
ular education that the Found
ing Fathers certainly did not
intend. He added, however,
that the preservation of our
religious substance depends
not on state-sponsored prayers
but on "the creative relation
of religious piety to the indi
vidual and common problems
of our daily life.
JicEJ?.V.w; nam wi
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breaking into major league ball yet!"
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Comfortable Europe Seeking Solutions
By ERIC SEVAREID
London - Kennedy and
Khrushchev have gone home,
the foreign policy carnival of
crowns ana
banners and
s p e e c hes Is
ended, but the
Wall that dl
vides not only
Berlin but the
v--.V "Td deepest beliefs
yr.V7'j of Western
! y'j J i man remains.
aaaai AaJ The "immobl-
Senareld Hsm" of t h e
two great powers since the
Cuban crisis continues. Mos.
munisls' hysterical invective ; cow hints that it worn. .o.
sign, it also means thai oilier
interesting developments of
many kinds may now be ex
pected. In inner-Kremlin poli
tics, for Instance, the possi
bility is now rather strong
that Marshal Rodion Malin
ovsky will be replaced as So
viet Defense Minister before
very long.
The new test-ban offer can
hardly have been made. In
short, without a decisive prior
defeat of the most rigid and
conservative group of Soviet
policy-makers. If such a de
feat has occurred, it is an
enormously important event.
And if Khrushchev's offer is
centime, and if this offer
opens the way to a practical
though limited testban agree
ment, this will be another
cvenl of hardly calculable Im
commodation, but does not
clearly indicate where; Wash
ington does more than hint,
but finds no piece on the
chessboard it can pull back
of its own volition. The most
sensitive human antennae
sense that something should
give, but none knows where,
and In this interregnum what
hopes exist fasten on the nu
clear test ban talks.
NATO, the formal arrange
ment of the great Alliance.
wnicn me trench with some
Justice differentiate from the
Alliance Itself, remains stalled
One could easily despair
and conclude that no peace
time alliance of nations equal
in sovereignty but vastly un
equal In power can hold to
gether minus the goad of fre
quent threats from a common
enemy. Yet one feels as he
makes his inquiries around
this new Europe, where life
is so good, that even if the
machinery dissolved, this Al
liance itself will remain intact
in heart and spirit until and
unless the East makes some
overriding, self-enforcing ac
commodation that would obvi
ate the necessity of this Al
liance. That time has not yet
come, as the President
warned, but China and pro
liferation of the final weapon
could yet make it come. A
third force." so often pre-!
dieted, can arise in the Far
East before It arises in
Europe, with the whole world
balance and alignment Just as
profoundly altered.
e
Time, after all, is life; life
is good in the West and get
ting better in Russia, and
there may be a certain Inborn,
unconscious but instinctive hu
man wisdom involved in the
painful forward motion of
common policy through the
comfortable a sensation, but it
is the sensation one acquires
in the new Europe. It is a
question of one's sense of pace
and of historic continuity and
this contest of visceral atti
tudes can be applied to in
ternal, national societies as
well as to the external, inter
national scene. Britain today
is a prime case in point.
The average Englishman, I
would think, has a sensation
of living better than he has
ever lived. Employment and
wages are high, the shops are
full, the new cars pour out of
the factories, berthings for
sporting Boats are as hard to
magazine, its entire issue de
voted to this question: "Sui
cide of a Nation?"
If Britain is dying, as so
many of its intellectuals fear,
its common people are enjoy
ing the process and, indeed,
feeling intensely alive hr-rein.
They have an instinctive aver
sion to defining "the national
purpose," an instinctive fear
that effccicncy is the natural
enemy of tolerance and kindli
ness. The world scientific
revolution may have made the
British system old hat, but
they happen to like old hats
and find them comfortable.
One's heart is with them in
this, but one's reason is obli-
come by now as parking space ! gated to believe that kindli-
lor auiomooties. Icw houses,
new colleges are going up
me fcngiishman. as a pri
vate person, is doing very
well; but England as a nation
competing for trade and pres
tige with other nations is do
ing very badly. Britain's share
of world trade has dropped
precipitately in the last ten
years. Her productivity per
worker is near the bottom of
the western list. Rule of gov
ernment and industry by the
ness is not and must not be
incompatible with efficiency,
or this democracy, like our
own. is in for the deepest
'rouble.
In the very long view, it
may be. indeed, that Britain's
solution of her internal prob
lem will prove mere impor
tant to this Alliance and to
American world interests than
any new weapon and com
mand machinery within the
Alliance. Germany Is the im-
vaguely educated ama t e u r j mediate key lo the Alliance,
continues - there is but one j and she may become, by the
f .,mh. rt Jit SU,f ! "?cm"bl clust" rational; scientist in the Ministry of; book figures, our number one
fumbling for practical ways to
share the leadership with al
lies, no two of which agree in
their Immediate interests or
their long range view of po
litical and military strategy.
obstacles. Speed of decision j Science and one in the freas- j ally. But not by the final ac
somewhow does not comport ; ury, and outside Treasury and counting, that of the sDirit.
with the awful finality of the
slakes, at least In this part of
the globe.
Perhaps this is mucri too
Agriculture there arc exactly
four full-time economists In
government service.
So reports "Encounter'
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There Britain is surelv secure.
(Diitributad 1963. by Tha Hall
Syndicate. Inc.)
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