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History from the filet of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 4Q
and SO yeart ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 28, 1953 (Tuetday)
Mayor Flynn is still study
ing the 100-page comprehen
sive report on the death ol
Camp White member.
The Lions club o Central
point and friends erected a
milking shed in 4'. hours to
replace buildings lost in fire
at Gilman's dairy, so milking
could go on schedule.
20 YEARS AGO
July 28, 1943 (Wodneday)
Corporation property in
Jackson county valued at
$8,745,887.90.
From Arthur Perry i Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Mrs.
J. Cochran Robin, while fly
ina with her children yester-
rinv in the rural regions re
ports she saw the first scare
crow of the season, onu in
tended she was scared jusi tor
a lark, and to teach ncr on
springs to be aharp."
30 YEARS AGO
July 28. 1933 (Friday)
Surprise witness In Klam
ath Falls trial of county Judge
for ballot theft testifies de
fendant told him of tampering
with ballot boxes.
Talk of railroad from
Grants Pass to coast revived.
40 YEARS AGO
July 28, 1923 (Saturday)
Black bears kill Sams Val
ley sheep.
New oil well may be bored
in Eden precinct.
SO YEARS AGO
July 28, 1913 (Monday)
Grants Pass-Crescent City
railroad builders contract for
rails.
'Tragedy of Big Eagle
Mine," three other photoplays
offered at Isis theater.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct li superior)
aeveit er eight It excellent; five er
six It good.
1. Estcs Kefauvcr repre
senta which state in the U. S,
Senate?
2. In what year was the
Social Security Act enacted?
3. Name the crazed actor
who fired the bullet that end'
ed the life of Abraham Lin
coln.
4. What was the name of
the American commodore who
first opened the port of To.
kyo?
5. Who it the present King
of Spain?
0. Port-of-Spain Is city
in the Bahamas, Trinidad, or
Spain?
7. Is the eatimated popu!a
tion of the world in excess of
2 billion, or under two bll
lion?
8. Does the name "Ralph
Roister" suggest trickery,
bragging, or debauchery?
9. Is the temperature ot
boiling water at the top of a
mountain higher, lower or the
same as at sea level?
10. Is It en-ii or west Berlin
fhat ) under control of the
Aniwerti 1, Tennettee. 2.
1935. 3. John Wilkes Booth,
4. Commodore Perry. S. Spair
has no king. 6. Trinidad. 7
Excett. 8. Bragging. 9. Lowe:
10. Eatt.
Km
SUNDAY, JULY 28. 1S63
Freedom
While the furore over the Supreme Court's
recent prayer and Bible rulings has not been
nearlv as loud as it was
prayer ruling, still a lot
impression that the Court nas "outlawed uoa
m the schools.
One of the most succinct and forceful re
buttals to this that we have seen was in a letter
to the editor of a Portland newspaper by F. C
Meltzer. of 5206 SE 92nd st., Portland. In part
Mr. Meltzer said :
"In the Declaration (of Independence), there is no
mention of Christ at all only of 'Nature, and of
nature's God.' In the Constitution, there is no refer
ence whatever to God of any kind, whether of nature
, or Christ.
"No one has ever put any restrictions on the reli
gious of any faith, nor does the latest ruling of the
Supreme Court do so. They are free to have their
children worship at home and at church before and
after school.
"They are free to send their children to schools
closely allied to, or run by, their particular church
or denomination. But they haven't the shadow of a
right to impose even the most watered-down version
of any religious belief on a captive audience of the
the general public, because they happen to be children."
ANOTHER brief and cogent argument appear
ed in a letter in the San Francisco Chronicle.
In part it said :
"(Some) contend that God has been dethroned by
the U.S. Supreme Court's Tuling banning prescribed
prayer in public schools. I cringe when I witness that
kind of dogmatic fanaticism. In the first place, God
cannot be dethroned by any man. The only ones who
have been dethroned are those who would force us to
pray. God would not force us to pray. And the Su
preme Court cannot stop you from praying, anytime,
anywhere you please. The court's intent was but to
defend our constitutional right to freedom of choice."
That sums up the matter rather neatly. E.A.
Musa and the
Thtaction of Acting
last week in appointing a member of the state
public welfare commission to fill a vacancy was
legal, and he was within his statutoiy rights.
Oregon s creaking Constitution provides tnat
when the Governor is out of the state, the next
in line of succession shall have full powers of
the governorship.
So Musa was within
wrong.
His action, which violates every concept 01
good and responsible
marK to. acid to tnose ne
of the Senate at the late
regular session.
THERE is a certain irony in the fact that doing
what he did has aroused a renewed hue and
crv for Constitutional revision. The irony arises
from the fact that, as much as any one man, he
helped to defeat the proposed new Constitution
in the legislature, and prevent it from coming
to a vote of the people.
The proposed revised Constitution takes cog
nizance of the fact that in this day of instantane
ous communication and transcontinental travel
in a matter of hours, there is no need to have
an "acting" governor at
governor is away.
It would be a bit more
ill-considered and petulant action gave new life
to the Constitutional proposal. E.A.
Editing Communications
We received a personal note the other day
which, in part, said :
"We differ over whether you edit (that is, correct
spelling and punctuation and maybe other things)
some or many or any of the letters to the editor you
print. They did not in the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph when
I lived there years ago, and the results were devastat
ing to community crackpots. How say you?"
That's a fair question. Others, too, may be
interested in how Communications are processed.
When we receive a
letter which meets our requirements as to length,
is not libelous or in poor
for other reasons, and is
punctuation and spelling,
changes at all.
X7HEN, however, a letter exceeds the 400-word
" limit, we either cut it down in length or
return it for revision. We prefer the latter, for
there is a danger, in making substantial cuts,
oi altering the writer s intended message.
Usually we also correct grammar, spelling
and punctuation. This is done for several rea
sons. Often it is at the request of the writer. But
even when not requested, it is our feeling that
the writer would prefer it, so that his message
is not obscured by errors.
QCCASIONALLY a letter will be deliberately
written in dialect or slang. In such cases it
is usually printed as
minor editing we deem
Once in a while we
ters simpiy Decause we cannot read them.
Once in a long while we will let an error
in syntax or spelling be
indicative or revealing
tions or authority.
But the general rule
little as possible, but
the letters printed conform to certain minimum
standards of English usage.
The objective is to present a variety of let
tors in a way so that the writer's intent is nre
sented the most effectively. We do not always
succeed. &.A.
of Choice
over the earlier regents
of people are under the
Constitution
Governor Ben Musa
his rights, nut ne was
government, is another
complied as president
and unlamented 1963
all when the elected
than amusing n Musa s
neatly typed or written
taste, or unacceptable
correct as to grammar,
we do not make any
received with whatever
necessary for claritv.
regretfully discard let
printed, if we feel it is
of the writer s motiva
we follow is to edit as
enough so that most of
"But They May Be Grinding Exceeding Fine"
Matter of Fact
(cl New York Herald
GETTING RUSSIA
MOVING AGAIN"
Washington - The most im
portant item in the back
ground of the agreement on
a nuclear test ban is also one
"I of the most
u n e xpected
facts devel
oped for some
years by the
time tracking
down the truth
ix
JV. I I Huuut uie ouv-
V I let Union
Alan For at least
a decade it has been a stand
ard International cliche that
the authoritarian Soviet Soc
iety, with all its defects, was
at least assured of a very high
rate of economic growth. In
recent years the Soviet growth
rate has been noticeably
declining, but the cliche has
continued to be parroted. It
must now be relegated, how
ever, to the intellectual bone
yard where the dead cliches
of history molder into obliv
ion. In the year 1962, to be
specific, the Soviet Union's
rate of economic growth drop
ped below 4 per cent per
annum. In the days when
President Kennedy was prom
ising to get America mov
ing again," he often pointed
with alarm to the higher
Soviet growth rate. But in
1962, the U. S. rate of growth
was 5.4 per cent, or about
1.5 per cent higher than the
Soviet growth rate. .
,'
THE U. S. growth rate in
-- 1962 also exceeded the av
erage growth rate of all coun
tries of the NATO alliance.
which was 4.8 per cent. And
the margin was again wide
between the growth rate of
the Western allies and the
average growth rate of the
Warsaw Pact countries in
Eastern Europe, which was
only 3 per cent.
To see the meaning of these
statistics, so startling against
the background of the long-
accepted cliches, it Is needful
to remember that there Is
nothing abstract about growth
rates. Instead, they are
the measures of the food and
finished goods and other
things that each economy
produces, for consumption
and for national defense, and
for investment for further
growth.
The slippage of the Soviet
growth rate below the Amer
ican level is all the more
dramatic because of certain
other recent developments
which also help to explain
the slippage. Just after New
Year's of 1962, in brief, the
Soviets loudly announced that
they had increased their
spending on national defense
by a whopping 40 per cent;
and Soviet defense spending
has clearly continued to rise
since that announcement.
VTONE of the experts believe,
to he sure, that the real
Increase of outlay on the Sov
iet armed forces was anything
' t -A .
&8ChC:$ v, Jt int.
t
"Why do we allow the extremists to lake
over all the lime?"
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
like the claimed increase,
which was in part an answer
to President Kennedy's Berlin
mobilization order.
But it is thought a fair
guess that defense spending
actually had increased by
about 25 per cent at the time
of the January 1962 announce
ment. It is also thought a fair
guess that Soviet defense
spending has risen by a fur
ther 8 or 9 per cent since
that time.
There is a double signifi
cance in these very large in
creases in defense outlays, in
a period of declining eco
nomic growth rate. In the
first place, defense has clear
ly been taking a growing
share of the total Soviet pie
each year. In the second place,
this very fact must have re
duced the share of the pie
available for growth-causing
investment; and thus the de
cline in the Soviet growth-
rate must have been accele
rated.
Former Secretary of the
Treasury George M. Hum
phrey used to claim there was
a dark Marxist plot to win
the world for communism,
by forcing the U. S. to spend
Itself into bankruptcy on na
tional defense. In reality, the
foregoing facts Indicate that
the Soviet Union is less well
prepared to carry the burden
than the U. S. And these
facts were clearly in the
mind of Niklta S. Khrushchev
when he moved to break the
log jam that so long prevented
agreement on a nuclear test
ban.
e e e
THE accord reached in Mos
cow is many things at once,
all of them important. But
it will be very surprising,
indeed, if this accord is not
especially important as a land
mark of Soviet internal policy.
It is a proof that Khrushchev s
"co - existance" works; and
thus it sets the stage for a
change in Soviet investment
priorities that may be quite
dramatic in character.
There are numerous signs,
Including indications of a
forthcoming withdrawal of
the Soviet garrlsion in Hun
gary, that Khrushchev is get
ting ready for another attempt
to shrink his armed forces'
swollen manpower. The last
effort, which failed, called
for a manpower reduction
from 3.6 million to 2.4, with
1.2 million men In uniform,
including 200,000 officers, re
turning to civil life.
If another such reduction
is to be attempted, it will be
dramatic in itself. If defense
spending for other purposes
is also held down, several
billions of rubles will then
become available for invest
ment in the productive sec
tors of the Soviet ccomony.
Finally, if sums thus re
leased are Intelligently In
vestment (a very big "if") in
solving the Soviet farm prob
lem, the Soviet Union may
wear an altogether new look
before too many years have
passed. Khrushchev may soon
he talking, in short, of get
ting Russia moving again."
I '
MM
t
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
(c) 1993. The
ON RATIFYING
THE TEST BAN
The draft of a test ban
treaty, which has been worked
out in Moscow by Khrush
chev, Harriman and Hailsham,
is, it appears, substantially
the same treaty as we offered
the soviet
Union nearly
a year ago on
Aug. 27, 1962.
This proposal
in turn was
very like the
one made by
President Eis
enhower t o
Chairman
Llppmana Kill usncnev
on Apr. 13, 1959.
The two American pro
posals were based on the
same principle - that tests
should be prohibited when, as
President Eisenhower stated
it, the ban "would require
the automatic on-site inspec
tion which has created the
major stumbling block in the
negotiations so far." Presi
dent Eisenhower mentioned
tests in the atmosphere, which
can be detected at great dis
tances. He did not mention
tests in the water and in
outer space, which are ban
ned in the American proposal
of Aug. 27, 1962, and are In
cluded in the draft treaty
which has just been negoti
ated in Moscow.
rpHE core of the opposition
to the treaty consists of
those who do not want to
stop testing under any con
ditions. But the official and
general popular view has been
that tests should be banned
if, but only if, they can be
policed with ironclad cer
tainty. The irreconcilable op
position to the new treaty
will probably make much of
the fact that it is not possible
to police outer space.
Theoretically, it is possible
to shoot a nuclear device a
million miles into outer space
without anyone else knowing
it and then explode it with
out its being detected. The
answer to those who will
make this point is that, if
this possibilty were really
important, the whole, long,
tedious effort under Eisen
hower and Kennedy to negoti
ate a test ban would have
been a deception.
For no proposal has ever
been made, or could have been
made, to insure that a viola
tion in outer space would be
detected. If outer space can
really be used for significant
testing, then the two Presi
dents have made a dreadful
error. In that case, the opposi
tion to a test ban has been
strangely silent. For it has
been warning us that signi
ficant and decisive tests can
be made underground with
out being detected. If, now
that underground testing is
to be permitted, the opposi
tion switches to outer space
as a stick to belabor the
treaty, they will look like
men who are inventing the
reasons to conceal their real
purposes.
THE situation we face Is
- this. Tf tho Knnnto rfnpji
to ratify this treaty, t h e
United States government will
be rejecting a treaty which
it has itself proposed. For 11
months, there has been before
the world an American draft
of essentially the same treaty
which the Soviet Union has
now agreed to. During those
1 1 months, no move was made
to withdraw or amend Uie
proposal. If then the United
States government now re
jects what the United States
government Itself proposed,
how can this be done with a
straight face?
The real opposition to a
test ban is inspired by the
hope that, if we keep on test
ing, we shall invent the ab-
Weapons
By ERIC SEVAREID
Colorado Springs Space
may never be "dominated"
to use the President's termin-
o 1 o g y by
MO V IUIIII ".A,
up una s in-
1 finitudc with
'I4'J,r fmC
fcfJX' al from encap-
i sulaled pay-
loads ot nuts,
bolts, washers
and other
serareie "debris," and
: it won't be too long before
any flight by an astronaut
will involve a calculated risk
of collision, however small a
risk.
When this writer walked in
to the briefing room of the
Joint Aerospace Defense Di
vision there were 617 objects
in orbit or slipping out of
orbit. When I walked out 30
minutes later the number was
620, according to the "Menu
Board" hanging on the cor
ridor wall.
e e
By 1967. approximately
5.000 such objects will be cir
cling the globe in the celestial
trash bin. All. I have no
doubt, will be tagged, tracked
and their immediate and fu
ture position plotted within
one thousandth of a degree by
llppminn
Waihlnitton Port
solute weapon-a weapon of
annihilation against which
there is no defense; the op
position to a ban is also in
spired by the fear that, if we
do not invent the absolute
weapon, the Soviets will in
vent it.
Both the hope and the fear
rest on an assumption which,
though theoretically possible,
is in practice most improb
able. The assumption is that,
as between the two nuclear
powers with their gigantic
nuclear arsenals, there is in
sight somewhere and some
how a weapon so absolute
that the existing arsenals can
be written off as obsolete. Al
most certainly the truth of
the matter is that in nuclear
affairs, as in all human af
fairs, the longing for the ab
solute is, as the poet said,
the unending pursuit of the
everlasting object of desire.
If, in the pursuit of the per
fect, we wreck the best that
is possible, the longing for
the absolute will be akin to
madness.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This modern world note,
culled from the Wall Street
Journal:
Americans are quietly hock
ing many new post-war homes
to meet bills of the "good
life."
In the country's greatest
era of home ownership, the
citizenry has bought some 20
million new homes since the
war. Most of them, of course,
were bought with mortgages.
Now, with a part of the mort
gages paid off, new mortgages
are being plopped on the
houses in epidemic propor
tions - to pay for everything
from education to travel to
pleasure boating.
It is impossible to pinpoint
precisely how consumers are
spending mortgage money not
used to buy new homes . . .
But the big bulge in mortgage
borrowing, talks with mort
gage lenders and economists
clearly indicate, reflects
spending FAR REMOVED
from the real estate realm.
WHICH is to say:
Fnllnwincr the war nart-
ple of our country bought
homes - some 20 million of
them. As soon as the homes
were finished and they moved
in, they began to pay off the
mortgages. The war ended in
1945, and in the ensuing 18
years a considerable part of
the mortgages has been paid
off. In the meantime, the val
ue of their homes has risen
So now, instead of paying
off the remainder of the mort
gages and owning their homes
free and clear of debt, thus
building up an estate for
themselves and their children
people are putting NEW
MORTGAGES on their homes
and using the ready money
thus obtained to "pay for
everything from education to
travel to pleasure boating."
QUESTION:
" Why do people do things
like that?
A sufficient answer is that
the example was set for them
by their government. In 1945,
at the end of World War II,
the public debt of the United
States was $258.6 billion.
Now, 18 years later, it stands
at about $306 billion, and is
heading higher.
The present legal debt limit
is $309 billion - only $3 bil
lion above the present debt
And spending goes on un
checked. So a new debt limit
must be provided. Congress
is expected to be asked soon
to provide It. Presumably, it
Now Make
the highly efficient officers
and civilians and their mag
ical instruments working out
of the well-ordered Pandora's
box located in the shadows of
Pikes Peak. There arc, after
all, 650 American and friend
ly "sensors" keeping up the
inventory all around the
world with Instantly reported
observations every i5 seconds.
Little wonder that communi
cations into and out of these
air and space defense com
mand posts here run to a
"phone bill" or more than a
hundred million dollars a
year.
Manned bombers are still
rated the number one exter
ior threat to North America
and the defenses against them
are fantastically complex, re
markably efficient, by all the
tests so far conducted, and
fantastically expensive. At
some point the Pentagon will
decide that the intercontinen
tal ballistics missile has taken
over the number one priority
threat and a deep cutback will
be In order.
For this farflung system de
fense may be cheaper, but
since there is absolutely noth
ing but passive U. S. civil de
fense against the missile and
won't be until the mystical
and perhaps mythical day of
1 GREAT IDEAS...
ncl From the Great Books
By Mortimer , J. Adler
itA (c) 1963, Fubliiheri Newspaper Syndicate
CENSORSHIP
Dear Dr. Adler: In recent
timoi, with the flood of
printed matter now readily
available, the question of
literature's influence (gen
erally ihs bad) en the young
and impressionable, hat be
come a public issue. With
censorship of works like
James Joyce's "U 1 y s s e s"
and D. H. Lawrence's "Lady
Chatterly't Lover" and
subsequent reversal, and
cries of "pornography!" and
"justifiable erotic realisml"
has come a need to re
examine the rights of the
stale, the individual, and
the artist. What do the
great books authors have to
say on the subject of
censorship?
Leslie H. Palmer.
1830 Highland ave..
Knoxville, Tenn.
Dear Mr. Palmer: Censor
ship has been advocated since
ancient times to protect the
moral health of the commu
nity. Proponents and oppon
ents of censorship disagree as
to the effects of the arts on
character and conduct, as to
what exactly constitutes "ob
scenity," and as to whether
governmental action or pri
vate judgment should decide
these matters.
Plato and Tolstoy found
some of the greatest works of
literature to be morally harm
ful because they aroused un
desirable images and feelings.
Aristotle, however, saw thera
peutic effects in the emotions
released by Greek tragedy.
Shelley held that such sup
posedly immoral literature ac
tually adds to men's moral
stature by enlarging and deep
ening their emotions and
imagination. Similarly, D. H.
Lawrence believed that a
frank portrayal of sexual de
sire and action has a whole
some effect on human con
sciousness. Montaigne once complained
that we are not allowed to
speak in plain terms about
the act of generation, an act
so natural, so necessary, and
so just," while we can talk
about murder, robbery, and
treachery, without blushing.
Responsible advocates of
censorship in the present age
agree with Montaigne that
the portrayal of sex is not by
itself obscene. What they ob
ject to is the use of such de
scriptions or enactments mere
ly to appeal to prurient inter
est - to stimulate lustful
thoughts or desires. Works
that have this effect, they
hold, tend to deprave or cor
rupt their readers, auditors,
will do so - as it has done
so often before.
lyHICH is to say:
" In these 18 years since
the Big War ended the GOV
ERNMENT of the United
States has been doing exactly
what the people have been
doing. Instead of paying off
its debt, it has been spending
high, wide and handsome
ADDING TO ITS DEBT in
stead of paying off on il.
The people, you see, have
merely been following the
example set for them by their
government.
pONCLUSION:
This is a wonderful world
we're living in. We have more
of the good things of life than
any people ever had before
but instead of paying for it
as we go we put it on the
cuff and leave it for future
generations to pay.
Peace Indispensable
space platforms from which
offensive missiles could be
cauRht at take-off, there will
be little joy in such econom
ics. It is the sole business of
men in uniform and they seem
to me to be becoming a new
breed. More sophisticated in
tellectually and more able to
work lucidly with civilian
science than their fathers
it is their business to fight in
case of war, but if anybody
needs a lesson in the Indispen
sability of political agree
ments to keep the country
safe, a visit to this place will
do it as nothing else.
This is the realm of modern
magic and among the things I
never knew till now are that
whole new families of radar
are being bred, including one
that will see through jam
ming; that we can now take
daylight pictures of space ob
jects, that with the new
Baker-Nunn camera we photo
graphed Vanguard at a point
2400 miles out. which is the
equivalent of taking a snap
shot of a 30 caliber bullet in
flight two hundred miles
away.
Anybody who for a moment
doubted the accuracy of those
pictures of such gross ma
terial as the Cuban missile
or viewers, and hence must
be banned to protect tha
moral state of the community.
They have also introduced
important qualifications as to
what makes a work of art
censorable. First, there must
be a clearly discernable in
tention to produce pornogra
phy, what Justice Frankfurter
has called "dirt for dirt's
sake." Secondly, the work
must be judged as a whole,
not piecemeal, as a reader
skimming a book for "sexy"
passages would read. Thirdly,
the book must be judged for
its presumable effect on tha
average, mature person, not
on the immature or abnormal.
A fourth qualification has
been written into recent Eng-
lisn law - tnat if a work is
judged to be a serious contri
bution to literature or culture.
it is to be considered for the
public good, no matter what
its lascivious effects may be.
However, even with all
these qualifications, censor
ship of books, movies, and
other arts raises knotty prob
lems without our system of
government. For instance,
does the banning of works on
moral grounds violate tha
constitutional guarantee of
freedom of expression? Can
we consistently ban books that
offend the community's sense
of moral propriety, but not
books that offend the political
or religious beliefs of the ma
jority of our cjtizens?
To this question, the Su
preme Court has given several
answers. On the one hand, it
has held that a motion picture
may not be banned simply be
cause it presents sexual im
morality as proper and desira
ble conduct, on the grounds
that this would be interfer
ence with the expression of a
point of view. On the other
hand, it has held that obscene
literature has no "redeeming
social importance" and hence
is not entitled to the constitu
tional protection which is
available to writings contain
ing unconventional or unpop
ular opinions.
The latter ruling has
aroused the vigorous dissent
of Justices Douglas and Black,
who hold to a strict construc
tion of the Constitution's free
dom of speech clause. They
believe that the supposed
arousing of lascivious
thoughts or lustful desires is
no grounds for denying a
work the right to be pub
lished, so long as the arousal
cannot be shown to have led
to illegal actions. In the
absence of such proof, they
are for letting such literatura
be published, leaving it to
the individual readers to de
cide what books are morally
harmful, just as they are per
mitted to accept or reject
political and religious views.
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sites was eons out of date.
The whole system, includ
ing control of our own bomb
ers, is so fool-proof that no
tions of fatal mistake by gad
get in the manner of "Fail
Safe" are reduced to absurd
ity. Any serious counter of
fensive blunders will have to
be blunders of human Judg
ment. Nevertheless, our continen
tal defense against the old
fashioned manned bomber has
its Achilles' heel. This lies in
SAGE, the warehouse - size
computer systems which ara
too sensitive to be put under
ground as this whole complex
will be in another two years.
The SAGE centers are vulner
able to missiles, and knocked
out, much of our interceptor
plane and Bomarc anti-bomber
missile defense would ba
gravely compromised.
However one views it, thera
can never be ultimate safety
in the process of offensive and
defensive weapons leapfrog
ging one another. May tha
good Lord bless and guide
presidents, premiers, and all
the unsung diplomatic nego
tiators of good will.
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