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company receive award of
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Lamb to have roles in
"eolsnthe',', pageant .
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burt hill for park.
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Newbury to vie In beautiful
awl centeat at Elka picnic.
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i 1. Name the American Ad.
mirai who said he wanted to
ride- through Tokyo on the
Bmperor's white horse. '
. la Montpelier the eaniul
of , Conn c ticut, New Hamp-
snlre, or Vermont?
. What de th following
have n common: pica, die
nwnd,,agateT t
4. According to the Biblical
stery, who rutted up the ser
pent if the wilderness"?
. . "fuiapsody in Blue" was
the fithY version ot the life of
which . composer?
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: t. . Correct the following:
"He has a great capacity to
work.''
17. Name the leading port
in renutai.
. Are aofl-shallee crab a
different species than hard
availed crabs?
. Who. was th author of
the novel "Crapes of Wrath"?
' 10.', The clipper ship first
mad its appearance about
what year?
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THURSDAY. JULY II, IN
Uncle. Sam
Good old Uncle Sam
nameless bureaucrat in
ministration has gone
business.
Complaints have been registered by certain
residents of California about "girlie" magazines
on racks in federal buildings. So the GSA, which
operates most government buildings, set out to
censor the magazine racks most of -which, in
cidentally, are operated, by blind businessmen.
They didn't call it censorship. Oh my, no
They took the "positive approach '.of putting out
a list of "acceptable" magazines. The fact that
.1 ii 4- .IJ 17J a -a
no oiners coum De soia
stitute "censorship," in
crata.
. a
X7ELL, why get excited about that? What's
."" one or two girlie magazines more or less?
.The point is that when the dead hand of the
censor moves, no one knows where it will stop,
: Yesterday, the San Francisco Chronicle re
vealed that the list of "approved" magazines has
been trimmed of such
tion," "The New Republic" and "The National
Review, among a number of others.
These staid journals
a mrlie picture among
den to any who would
that, friends, it brainwashing. It is censorship.
r
T IS TRUE that the
elsewhere. But the
denial of freedom of choice, of freedom of the
press to print and to circulate. It is a limitation
on the freedom of citizens to read what they will,
think what they will, say
The. Nation7' and "The New Republic" are
magazines with a liberal
Review" is a spokesman for the far nght
Is the GSA fearful that some citizens might
become contaminated with an idea?
If the GSA can ban
it can bah magazines devoted to political debate
so what assurance do
it won't be Time. Saturday
lar Mechanics?
Knock it off, GSA.,
ritory. E.A. - " '
'Sundown"
Medford has long had
down" town. The reputation once was justified.
Isit still?-
This question was broueht un at a recent
meeting of the Human
good, question, and one that needs answering, in
inese nays wnen so mucn
to civil ngnu ana equauty oi treatment ana op
portunity for all. ..'"'
A "sundown" town, of cdurse, is one where
people of colored minorities are hustled out of
town py sundown '
action, or Dy more subtle
where the human risrht and need for accommoda
tions and food is denied, out of prejudice and
fear..; , '
lEDFORD once was just such a place. Negroes
" and other racial minorities were definitely
not welcome here. In some cases of record, many
years ago, police officers were assigned to see
that no such individuals were permitted to remain
here overnight. ,
Later, overnight Iodjrine. was denied them.
They were not welcome in
rare indeed that any found a way to stay here.
; What is the situation today?
Desoite some lincerinc evidences of m-eiu
dice, Medford hoBtefries
and large accept minority
out any fuss. -And increasing numbers of them
are staying here, partly as a result of this chance.
and partly simply because
on the west Uoast, and
passing through, on business or as tourists.
A MAN in Portland who is close to civil rights
matters in the state recalls that at one time
colored people coming through Medford would
recount to their friends the difficulties thev had
here. Today, however, the discussion is more apt
to be about the kind of accommodations thev had
and the unemotional
they received.
What has been responsible for this turn to
ward enlightenment and decency?
Most likely it has been a combination of
things. Ihese would include an ever-nsinc leve
of education, a new spirit of tolerance and rood
will, a realization that
megro is just as good as
man, an understanding of
forbid discrimination in
muuauon oecause 01 race..
a a a a- - a -
17HATEVER the cause, it is good to know that
" Medford 's long-standing reputation is no
longer entirely justified, and to hear from people
who should know that the "sundown" taint is
fading.
As recently as a decade ago, it was a rare
thing to see a colored face on Medford streets.
Now hardly a week goes
a iNegro tourist entertainer.
And why not? We're all Americans.
Those who would deny their fellow-citizens
the privileges and rights they demand for them
selves only betray the ideals on which this nation
was founded and has prospered. E. A.
Brainwasher
In the person of some
the General bemces Ad
into the brainwashing
am not, 01 course, con
the eyes of the bureau
a a a
publications as The Na-
of opinion with nary
them are thus forbid
wish to read them. And
magazines are available
principle remains. It is a
what they will.
slant: "The -National
trirlie macrazines. then
we have that next time
Evehine Post or Popu
You're in dangerous ter
No More
a reputation as a "sun
Rights Council. It is a
attention is being given
either through official
pressures, it is a town
restaurants. And it was
and eating places by
race individuals with
there are more Negroes
thus more of them are
and courteous treatment
"
the money spent by a
that spent by a white
the Orecon laws which
places of public accom-
by without the sight of
"Oh, Sorry We Thought It Wat A
Gold water Rally" .
BBSl
Communications
Letter, to'th Editor must bear tha nam and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances tha us of a oen nam or initial
for publication I. permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all latter, with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed In this column do not necessarily represent the view, of tSe
paper. In tact the contrary It often
: Editor's nott A recent
letter in thl. column erltl
olid th operation of the
coneeiilen at Howard
Prairie Lake. - A reply and
tatamant of policie and
operating . procedure ha
been prepared by Conces
aionairo Bob Johnston. It
appear en Page IB.
Deficit Spending
To the Editor: An economic
fallacy has gripped our na
tlon; unless Its grip Is broken,
we will soon be living in s
bankrupt America.
Th fallacy with which we
and our government are en
thralled is deficit spending.
better known as the "spend
yourself rich policy." Despite
federal deficits in 27 of the
last 33 years, we are still not
rich and we have a debt of
$300 billion. Still our gov
ernment persists in deficit
spending and plana another
deficit next year. You and I
who elect the government,
must bear the blame for this.
We. elect men to office to do
what w desire and it't high
time; that w tell them to get
the ' government' back on a
sound financial basts. - .
I will now pause, so our
liberal friends may say, "It's
not so bad, we owe it to our
selves." But we don't,- ask
your liberal friend now
much he has loaned the fed
eral government? The answer
is usually nothing. And you
yourself, how much have you
loaned them? Again notmng.
So you see we don't owe it to
ourselves. We do owe it to the
banks and moneylenders both
here and abroad. These peo
ple rightly expect to be re-
oaid. Do we pay them? no,
we are even forced to borrow
to even pay them the Interest
on what we already owe.'
I pause again so our liberal
friends. If any are still with
us, may say, "It's not so bad,
our gross national product is
$500 billion and ' our deDi
only $300 billion." Another
fallacy, the gross national
product does not belong to the
non-profit federal govern
ment. It belongs to the na
tion's business firms and their
stockholders. The only claim
the federal government has
to the gross national product
Is the taxes on it, after ex
penses. And despite what our
liberal friends may say, the
federal government doe not
have an unlimited claim on
the earnings of business or
Individuals. So we still have
a $300 billion debt and com'
paratlvely little income to pay
it.
We all know what happens
to a business, a family or an
Individual who lives beyond
his means. The same fate
awaits the nation that does so
as well. Even if John F. Ken
nedy himself should tell you
It Isn't so, don't you believe
It.
Write your semttors and
reDresentatives, tell them to
get the government back on
a sound flnsncial footing or
next time we'll elect men who
will.
Remember, "Ask not what
your country can do for you,
but what you can do for your
country.
James K. Shafer
Route 2 Box 210X
Medford
Camera "Must"
To the Editor: Trobably of
the most valued treasure as
well as Useful item among
all Oregon tourists Including
any scenery-Interested indt
viduals on pleasure trips Is
a camera.
There have been moments
in the writer's time when not
hiving a camera along, he
could not have taken some
most unusual scenes of wild
life as well as still life. So
if you are a tourist or visitor
going to Jacksonville to view
th "Old West" as it looked
MEDFORD. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD. OHEGOII
n-. wAartiwiTM Ayr
the ease.
in the gold rush days, you
had better arm yourself with
a camera before taking off on
any adventure trips.
Bert Kissinger,
322 South Riverside ave.
Medford.
A.k Apology
To the Editor: The execu
tive board of the Liberty
Amendment Committee re
spectfully requests Rep.
James A. Redden of Medford
to apologize . to the Oregon
people for the false and dis
torted charges made by htm
in a public letter against the
proposed Liberty Amend
ment to the United States
Constitution. - , -
Among some of the charges
made without foundation are:
Take Government out of all
business." The truth U the
Liberty Amendment would
not effect the Post Office or
any other business author
ized by the Constitution. "All
business activities will be
sold." The truth many busi
ness activities, particularly
federal dams, would be trans
ferred to state governments.
A further distortion in his
charge, "The businesses to be
liquidated would be TV A
Bonneville, Atomic Energy
Projects, Rural Electrifica
tion Projects, the Patent Of
fice, Camp White." The truth
the Patent Office is a func
tion authorized by the Con
stitution and would be re
tained. Camp White is a part
of military defense and
would be continued under
the Defense Department.
Representative Reddens
reference to Willis Stone,
author of the Liberty Amend
ment, was discourteous and
without just cause.
Liberty Amendment
Committee
By: Will W. Henry,
Chairman
310 S.W. Stark st.
Portland 4, Ore.
Pre.erva Flywav
To the Editor: Duck and
goose hunters should come
to the rescue of their public
hunting grounds by contact
ing their Congressman, Rob
ert B. Duncan, House Office
Building, Washington, D.C.
A telegram of 15 words can
be sent for 75 cents. - -
Land in question is known
as Klamath Straits unit It
contains famous "Firing
Line" which extends 5W
miles along Oregon-Califor
nia line on North boundary of
refuge area of Lower Kla
math lake.
S. 793 has passed the Sen
ate. Its purpose is to promote
conservation of wildlife re
sources of Pacific flyway in
Tule Lake, Lower and Upper
Klamath National Wildlife
refuges. Bill declares policy
of Congress to preserve in
tact necessary habitat for ml
gratory waterfowl and to pre
vent depredations of such
birds on agricultural crops in
Pacific Coast States.
Klamath Drainage district
tried unsuccessfully for many
years to have Klamath
Straits unit ot 6,366 acres
homesteaded into private
ownership. As a compromise
they now propose that this
land be sold or exchanged
Into private ownership. As
an inducement they propose
that hunting right be re
served for the public. Senate
turned down their ideas so
now they will try to get th
House to go for them.
Basic question Is whether
to preserve the area primar
ily for conservation or to per
mit agricultural purposes and
management techniques to
limit conservation purposes in
certain respects. Senate re
solved issue in favor of con
servation, primarily water
fowl management purposes.
because such a priority Is in
public Interest for reasons of
Betancourt,Once DistrustcdNowSecn
As Leader
By JAMES ft. WHELAN
United Pr International
Caracas, Venezuea - (UN) -Romulo
BetancouTt Is a sym
bol of changing times.
Once, neary 10 years ago,
Betancourt was sniffed at by
the U. S. State Department
as a "radical leftist.'
Now 55 and approaching
the end of his term as presi-
Strictly
Personal
y Sydney J. Harris
(e- field gnterprteee. Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
- People who frequently
feel they are being "Insulted
are highly insultable - they
unconsciously provoke situa
tions in which they can feel
rebuffed and rejected, in or
der to justify their deep sense
of grievance against the hu
man race.
Nothing In the werld is
as ul as a moral gen
eralisation that everybody
believes: it vary unani
mity allow u to give it
complete verbal . assent
without bothering to put it
into practice.
The happiest marriages are
those between a husband who
knows how to listen , and a
wife who knows when not to
talk. -.-
. . A fine semantic definition
wa mad by Proust, whan
h observed that "Every
body .calls 'cleat' .those
ideas which have tha same
deore of confusion as his
own."
. Those discontented souls
who are perpetually search
ing for someone to "under
stand" them would be most
discomfited if truly under.
stood; what they are really
looking for it someone to mis
understand them in a way
they find acceptable to the
ego. '
Animals react to our
tone of vole, nt to our
werdst and s d children,
who rightly pay' mor at
tention to th way w aay
things than to what w say.
Speaking of animals, I have
long relished the anti - senti
mental remark by Karl
Kraus, after hearing about
the "loyalty" of dogs. "To be
sure, the dog is loyal. But
why, on that account, should
we take hurt as an example?
He is loyal to men, not to
other dogs " .
It Is a singular fast that
obscene literature aria
only In highly civilised se
eietiee. and weuld be in
comprehensible to primi
tive societies; rather than
a vice, obscenity it a di
sease of cultural aid age.
A philospher in love is just
as ridiculous as anybody else
- and even more so when he
tries to philosophize about it.
A servant may work In
a house a month without '
knowing where the spoon,
are. but not for a weak
without knowing where the
(ksletons are.
It is a dangerous half-
truth to believe that "histo
ry repeats itself;", in a more
profound sense, history nev
er repeats itself, and each
age commits great follies by
wrongly applying some lesson
of the past to a Unique event
of the present, which it only
loosely resembles.
Biographies st second
rate men ar alway mora
illuminating than biogra
phic of genius. - th rea
son being that it Is precise
ly the easenc of genius to
be indefinable, uncaptura
ble, and mysterious.
' No cook ever thinks his
own finger docs anything but
Improve the taste of the dish
conservation of national and
international ' resources of
waterfowl and because main
tenance of assured safe habi
tat for these migratory fowl
is in best interests of great
majority of affected agricul
turists. Department of Interior in
reference to these proposals
stated:
"We believe that these
amendments are unnecessary,
undesirable and not in ac
cordance with the purpose of
5.793.
"The Klamath Straits unit
is essential to the manage
ment ot waterfowl within the
Pacific Flyway.
"These proposed amend
ments would eliminate these
management features.
"We believe that provi
sions in patents reserving
public hunting, public access,
and prohibiting the erection
of structures would be diffi
cult, if not impossible, to ad
minister properly."
If this land goes to private
ownership this public hunt
ing grounds, only one of Its
kind in Oregon, will be lost
forever without any chance
of replacement.
Support S. 793 as passed by
S e n a t and oppose any
amendment that would dis
pose of Klamath Straits unit
Paul H. Weiland
2431 East Main st.
Medford
in Latin American
dent of. Venezuea, he has won
the a c c 1 a I m of the United
States.
When he was received at
the White House last Feb. It
President Kennedy told him:
"You represent all that we
admire in political leader."
Years ago Betancourt flirt
ed with Marxism, but when
he went to Washington Ken
nedy called him the "num
ber one enemy of interna
t i o n a 1 Communism in this
hemisphere."
The United States, im
pressed with the reforms he
has achieved -in always
explosive Venezuela,' now Is
reported considering him as
the man needed to help bol
ster the sagging Alliance For
Progress program once his
term expires next March.'
- Betancourt has said noth
ing about post-presidential
ambitons (under the constitu-
on he would not even be li-
rible to tun for another 10
years) beyond expressing the
wish to take an extended va
cation and do some writing.
But he long has been an open
and fervent admirer of the
alliance and had , launched
Venezuela on major social
and economic reforms envi
sioned by the alliance before
In the Day's News
y FRANK JtNKINS .
The big news? '-
As this is written, it seems
still to be the alleged split
between the Russians arid the
Red Chinese. At the moment,
their appears to have been a
definite and WIDE split -and
the Russians appear to be
relieved and RELAXED by
what has happened. The Red
Chinese appear to be glum
and angry.
THE dispatches say:
"Joking and bubbling with
enthusiasm, Pre mier Nikita
Khrushchev launched the
Kremlin - talks en a nuclear
test ban agreement in a 3Vj
hour conference with special
U.S. and British envoys. He
jovially suggested signing th
agreement right away.
'Red China, whose feud with
Khrushchev has reached the
point of a split, .took angry
note of the talks. A Peking
broadcast charged that : the
negotiations were based on
what is called the 'utter hy
pocrisy' of President Ken
nedy's strategy for peace."
ijOT only .wa Khrushchev
AT In jovial mood. Th Mos
cow dispatches add:
"Newsmen saw W. A. Har
riman (US. , negotiator) and
Lord Hailsham (British- nego
tiator come out of th. Krem
lin in apparent good spirits.
Leaving in separate cars, both
were laughing and smiling, as
they talked with their associ
ates."'
QUESTION: '' '
Can there be a SAFE
agreement with Russia?
WELL, some pretty , good
neoole have thmie-ht an
John Foster Dulles, who in
his way was a pretty good
man, said many years sio:
'The time may come - .1
believe it will come - when
Russians of stature will pa
triotically put first their na
tional security and the secur
ity of their people. They will
be unwUling to have that se
curity and that welfare sub
ordinated to the worldwide
ambitions of I n 1 1 r national
Communism.
"If their point of view
should- prevail, then indeed
there could be a basis for
worthwhile negotiation and
practical agreement between
the United States and the new
Russia."
rNE more question:
" If there should be a World
War II, would It be possible
to wage it without using nu
clear bombs?
TnAi s ; dtfficult ques-
A tinn Rut ua h.,-. a t,,Am
tne rutur By the past.
The G e r mans Introduced
the use of poison gas when
they sent clouds of chlorine
gas against the allied forces
at Ypres. It wasn't too suc
cessful then.' The wind
changed and blew the gas
back into' the German ranks.
But poison gas was perfect
ed.' Ways were found to make
it more dependable as a killer
to be used with relative safe
ty against an enemy.'
THERE'; cam then World
A War U.
The warring countries
stockpiled gas masks - and
manufactured vast quantities
of highly perfected poison
gas. No one knows how close
th Germans (ltd at that time
by' a. MADMAN) cam to
using it. The Allied high com
mend was prepared to FIGHT
BACK WITH POISON GAS
But even Madman Hitler
never used it.
OO
Maybe it will be possible
to ban the use of nuclear
weapons In any future war.
Who knows?
At sny rate, it may be
worth a trial.
President Kennedy-announced
the program.
Betancourt s time- in gov
ernment so far . has been a
succession of crises. The real
triumph is that he -, and alec
tlv democracy - ever got this
far. ' : ' , ' " " '."'.
No 1 e c t e d .president ei
Venezuela ever has lasted to
long. .'..--" '
In four , and a nau years;
he has had to:
-Put down four; major mili
tary rebellions. . '
-Ride out the disintegration
of a three-party coalition
when the second largest part
ner in his government left
the party in a squabble over
Cuba policy.' "' ' ' ; " .'
-Endure two splits witnin
Matter of Fact
(ci New yerk Heral
AT LAST WE KNOW! . '
Washington - A flood of
lurid light is cast upon the
origins and cause of Peking's
row. with Mos
cow, by the
astonis h 1 n g
n e w Soviet
denunciation
of the Chinese
leaders h ip
which: was
published o n
Sunday. At
last we know,,
or at any; rat
easily- recon-
iff
we; can';qulte
struct, the actual
course of
this bitter Sino-Soviet quarrel
which is probably the central
event-of current history. lt is
now" plain; that the .quarrel
has had two distinct phases
The first phase is not much
discussed in the! new Soviet
letter to Peking; but it Is well
documented and -.has --often
been obliquely referred to by
the Chinese. In this first phase,
probably beginning . rather
early in 1957, the Chinese and
Soviet , leaders ' had a sharp
falling -.out about Chinese in
ternal policy. , .
' ''. ' ' '. ' '. ' ' - '
'THEChinese we'ri then" plan
ning tneir disastrous ex
periment with super-Stalinism
the "great leap forward,"
and the accompanying organ
ization of all Chinese agricul
ture in rural "communes."
The Soviets were already
turning away from Stalinism,
and they foresaw from exper
ience the disasters the Chi
nese, were preparing for them
selves. They are- known to
have indulged ih fruitless
warnings and protests.. , ;
When these were not heed
ed, the Soviet leaders did hot
trouble to conceal' their feel
ings. Even here In America,
both ' Nikita. S. I Khrushchev
and Anastas Mikoyan, spoke
of the Chines rural com
munes with brutal and open
contempt.' In -addition, Khru
shchev personally encouraged
the effort to reverse Mao
Tse-tung's policy, which- was
made by Marshal Peng Teh
huai at the Lushan conference
in the summer of 1959. '
This encouragement - of
Peng Teh-huai was the Soviet
interference ' in the "inter
nal affairs" of the Chinese
Communist party, which the
Chines are always complain
ing about. It was wholly fruit
less.' Mao's policies were sus
tained. Peng Teh-huai - was
placed under .- house arrest.
And China plunged onward,
to the total disaster the So
viets had forecast. -
. ... ... a : a y a , -.
FROM the disaster-was born
the. second nhas of the
dispute. Which'the Soviet doc-
u m e n t.: so horrifyingly de
scribes. As early as 1958, be
fore the full disaster occurred,
the ; Chinese were already
tempted by' a high-risk policy.
They mad their- attack, on
Quemoy that year, with So
viet consent. But; the. consent
was cautiously given on con
dition that the Chinese pull
back at a word of command,
and ' the . Soviets - ordered a
pull-back when the U.S., be
came involved. . - ;
"Th eh? You can't mis.
rear f th Uan.lsler. used
ress
his own party.
' -Battle continuing subver
sion and violence at first
largely from the rghtlsts rem-'
nants of the Perez Jiminez
clique, but lately from th
Communists with vocal and
activ support of Fidel Castro.
-Survive at . least two at
tempts on his lit ' one of
which -nearly succeeded and.
left his hands and face scarred
for life.
Perhaps even more remark
able than the mere fact of sur
vival is what Betancourt has
been able tq accomplish de
spite the pressures on him.
He has steered the whol
.country through a sever eco
nomic recession into a dear
recovery. .
ly Jaseph Art)
tribune Syndicate,
The full, ' horrendous lm
pact of Mao Tse-tung's megal
omaniac Stalinism was then
felt in the years 1959-62. And
the terrible new fact revealed
by the Soviet letter to Peking
is the fact that In these years
the Chinese leaders were ac
tively pressing the Soviets to
precipitate a third world war.
This, seemingly has been
the true essence of the bewil
dering Sino-Soviet argument
about - peaceful co-existence.
Seeing no. other way out for
themselves after their disas
ter,' the Chinese . evidently
wish to reduce the world- to
smoking ruins, in the desper
ate, expectation that among
the ruins China would at last
find her proper, predominant
place; .The Soviets actually
make that charge: -.. . , -
r .-' 5 ' - r . a : a - a-
MQUCH posing of the ques
'O 'tlon (about world war)
by, the Chinese Communist
comrades may engender a
well-justified - suspicion that
this is no longer a class ap
proach in the struggle for the
abolition of capitalism, but Is
for some , entirely, different
aims.. If both . the exploiters
and the exploited are buried
under the ruins of the old
world, who will '. build th
'bright future'? In this con
nection, it is impossible not
to note that. V .the Chines
comrades . stubbornly propa
gate a. slogan devoid of any
class . meaning,. 'The wind
from the East prevails over
the wind from the West'."
- It is pretty hair-raising to
discover that one of the two
great ; governments in th
Communist bloc has been an
grily urging the other to risk
an H-bomb war; but that is
what the Soviets now tell us
has been happening.! It ex
plains many mysteries, fur
thermore, such as the strange
ly hysterical character of tha
Chinese reaction to the Soviet
refusal to go to war over
Cuba.. : . . . ''
rpHE fact that this. kind of
Siuo-Soviet argument has
been going on, in deadly ear
nest, should be a warning to
some of the advocates of th
high-risk policy in this coun
try. But that is not th end of
the matter. .
The Chinese still have no
way out of the situation they
have plunged their country
into. Everyone says things are
better in China this year. But
if this Is true, the explanation
of the improvement Is that
Chinese industry has been 50
per cent shut down and Chi
nese industrial' and other In
vestment has been stopped al
most dead. Improving the con- .
dition of th people- by sac
rificing - all hope of national
growth, is hardly a long term
.way out.
' Hence the Chinese leaders
must' still be regarded as des
perate men, who are capable
of irrational acts. And this
consideration should enter
into all our calculations, con
cerning our dealings with th
Soviets as well as th Chi
nese It. lady. Just had for th
by th sUent gartinr
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