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History from tha filar of Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 11. 1153 (Tuasday)
Construction of a primary
standards highway connect-
ine Medford and Klamath
Falls by way of Lake of the
Woods has been proposed to
the state highway commission
by State Representative Rob-
ert Root.
Everything possible is be
ing done by the city council
and mayor to alleviate Phoe
nix s water troubles, accora
ing to Mrs. Kathryn Stan
cllffe, mayor.
20 YEARS AGO
Auouat 11. 1943 (Wednesday)
Four Camp White soldiers
killed in auto accident near
Red Bluff.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudae Pot" column: "The
Older Girls are having a time
cooking cabbage. They are
disgusted with the rugged
scent it sends forth, smelling
four blocks in all directions.
They would just as soon be
. caught eating green onions as
cooking cabbage. The gladioli
is a member of the cabbage
family. But it has no vitamins
when cooked and can't be
slashed into shreds and called
cold slaw."
30 YEARS AGO
August 11. 133 (Friday)
Medford application for
$100,000 for sewer Improve
ments recommended.
Price of alfalfa rises as
shortage prospect looms. :.
40 YEARS AGO
August 11, 1923 (Saturday)
Brush fire raging on Roxy
Ann.
Vern Van Dyke catches
even pound salmon near
Bybee bridge.
SO YEARS AGO
August 11, 1913 (Monday)
Three miles of grade fin
ished on Grants Pass-Crescent
City railroad.
Famous scientists to visit
Crater Lake.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or fan cerracf h superior)
Sevan ar eljM is eacellent; five ar
si re feed.
TITToTIoTinuTstiJh'icnTs
land of the Hawaiian group?
2. What is tha largest earn!
vorous animal on earth today?
3. Unscramble the name of
this great classic: VONIHAE.
4. From Seattle. Wash.,
would it take longer to fly
in like airplanes to Alaska or
Hawaii?
5. Is Cleveland the 3rd, 6th,
8th or ISth largest city in the
U. s.?
. 6. Victor Herbert was the
composer of the famous
"Merry Widow WalU": true
or false?
7. A William Scranton, who
would probably like to be Re
publican candidate for Prosi
dent is Governor of which
slate?
8. Can alien residents' ut
the U.S. receive retirement
benefits under Social Secur
ity?
9. Pliny the Elder was kill
ed during the fall of what
city?
10. The birthstone for Oc
tober is the -?
Answers! 1. Oahu. 2. Kef
diak Bear of Alaska. 3.
Ivanhoa. 4. Hawaii. S,
Eighth, False. 7. Pennsyl
Tenia. I. Yes. 9. Pompeii. 10,
Opal.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11. 1963
Our Festival
Stanford University,
some justification "the greatest private univer
sity of the west," is in the middle of a strong
alive toward enlargement, inipiuveiiiem,, anu
general excellence.
As part of this, it is
annual summer festivals
It is of no little interest and significance that
they have called upon the Oregon Shakespearean
Festival to inaugurate the series next summer. .
For this great educational institution to look
to the Rogue Valley for
is compliment and kudos of real magnitude.
e
THE announcement of this plan was made at
a "press luncheon" in San Francisco on Thurs
day, and was announced in Ashland simultane
ously. Stanford spokesmen did some wholly justi
fied bragging at the luncheon, and their plans
were of interest to an auslander.
But'to us the important point was ihe realiza
tion of the true stature that "our own" festival
has achieved.
Dr. Virgil Whitaker, associate dean of the
School of Humanities and Sciences, director of
the upcoming festival, himself a Shakespearean
scholar of repute, made a point of praising the
Ashland event, and in particular its founder and
producing director, Angus Bowmer.
TR. WHITAKER pointed out that the perf orm
ance of Shakespearean drama, as it was writ
ten and as it was performed, was pioneered by
Bowmer and his associates. He also called atten
tion to the fact that this is a West Coast phenome
non. And, a bit wryly, he declared that he had
never seen an Ashland production which vio
lated the motivations and intentions or bhake
speare in the manner he had seen them violated
in certain productions in Stratford-on-Avon,
England.
The gist of Dr. Whitaker's remarks was that
the West Coast has no reason to hang its head
for cultural lacks, that Stanford is determined
that this progress shall continue on all fronts,
and that Ashland (in conjunction with the Globe
Theater of San Diego and the Actors Workshop
of San Francisco) will have a leading and promi
nent role in this movement.
His enthusiasm, and the backing that Stan
ford, through a major financial grant from an
alumnus, is giving it, made his remarks believable.
WHAT does this mean for the Oregon Shake
spearean Festival?
No one knows for sure. There are potentiali
ties for both bad and good. The Festival board,
with some misgivings, decided that the potential
for good outweighed the
First, the iact tnat the
1964 season in a major metropolitan area,
with built in facilities for both widespread ex
posure and widespread
tend to attract more future
Second, appearing, as
pices of a first-ranking educational institution
with which it has long had close ties, the Festival
may augment its already-substantial reputation
as an academically-oriented organization which
puts its greatest emphasis on showmanship in
the best meaning of the word.
A POSSIBLE danger foreseen by some mem-
bers of the board is
from home in a different
in a different atmosphere,
its essential characteristics, those which have
stood it in good stead for so many years.
Some lear an increase
as opposed to the academic orientation it has so
successfully achieved.
Others see a possibility that by extending the
length of season it may overreach itself, or pro
duce a lack-luster season, or even come to a
point where it is evident it no longer has any
where to go.
WHETHER the hopes or the fears will be
borne out, only time will tell.
But it is safe to say that the Festival, by con
tracting with Stanford and entering into its "Plan
of Action for a Challenging Era," is in itself ac
cepting a major challenge.
It could mean that it will go on to greater
excellence in the mold it has developed for itself.
It may mean a change in
methods. But the chances
quite the same again.
Whether this is good
MEXT year's festival
400th anniversary
Shakespeare. This was
his works were chosen
of the annual events.
And the Oregon Festival, as the first and still
most authentic of all the
ean Festivals, was logically chosen to lead the
way.
It is a tribute, not only to the genius of Angus
Bowmer, and to all the talented and dedicated
colleagues who have assisted him over the years,
but also to the fact that "culture" is not parochial,
is not limited to the great cities and universities,
and that it can flourish when intellectual climate
and remarkable leadership combine with hard
work.
While we acknowledged the risks of this
sharp change in direction for the 1061 season,
we wish the Festival well for then and all the
ensuing years. E.A.
and Stanford
which calls itself with
inaugurating a series of
or tne arts.
its first cultural attraction
potential for bad.
festival will open tne
notice, will inevitably
attention.
it will, under the aus
that, by opening away
environment, and even
it might tend to lose
m proiessionalism,
its own character and
are that it will never be
or bad will be seen.
will commemorate t
of the birth of Willi?
the
lam
the principal reason why
as the theme of the first
burgeoning Shakespear
MLDFORD
Boarding
Today & Tomorrow
By Waller
(e) 1BS3, The
DR. ADENAUER'S
MANEUVER
The reaction in Bonn to the
test ban treaty is a reminder
on two points that are easily
forgotten
First, the
thorny ques
tion of the
succession to
Dr. Adenauer
is not thor
oughly settled.
Second, Presi
dent Kennedy
did not reach
Llppmaaa
a firm under
standing with Bonn on Ger
man-American policy be
cause, when he was in Ger
many recently, the Bonn gov
ernment was deeply divided.
When the first news came
from Moscow that an agree
ment would be reached, the
West German foreign minis
ter, Dr. Gerhard Schroeder,
welcomed it cordially and an
nounced so it was thought,
Bonn's prompt adherence to
the treaty. In doing this, Dr.
Schroeder was speaking for
the post-Adenauer German
leaders. But, when General
De Gaulle decided that
France would abstain. Dr.
Adenauer and the old guard
among the Christian Demo
crats took steps to overrule
the foreign minister. Since
Dr. Adenauer is still the
chancellor, he is able to re
direct West German policy
away from the Atlantic part
nership and along a line
which, while not identical
with General De Gaulle's, is
parallel to it. Dr. Adenauer
will use what political influ
ence he can exercise in the
United States to exact a poli
tical price before the treaty
is ratified.
The maximum gain would
be to kill the treaty by in
ducing the Senate to attach
a destructive rider to it. The
minimum gain would be to
demonstrate that, whether or
'f
eaaaadtakn
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Much of last week's news
didn't shake any world foun
dations, but it had its inter
esting facets.
For example:
N NASHVILLE, Tennessee,
two radio stations and a TV
station suddenly went off the
air. The traffic lights went
dead, leaving motorists to
wangle their way through
street inscrsections as best they
could. Elevators hung up be
tween floors In the office
buildings.
A ND-
rv
THE RESTAURANTS
RAN OUT OF HOT WATER
AT THE PEAK OF THE COF
FEE BREAK.
Imagine that - if you can!
It was catastrophe, com
pounded. A
ATOMIC attack bv
our
enemies?
Nope, a pigeon alighted on
a high voltage wire - causing,
the news wires tell us, "a
short circuit of considerable
magnitude."
THE pigeon?
It's gone where you and
I would be if we were hit by
a nuclear bomb.
BIG news from Oroville:
There's a new GOLD
STRIKE In the Feather river!
HOW come - after all these
years?
Well, as everyone knows,
they're building a huge dam
at Orovllie so that the Feath
er's surplus waters can be im
pounded and sent down below
the Tehachapi to relieve the
perennial drought down that
way.
SOME time ago, they turned
the river from its old chan
nel into a new one made by
man and crews started clear
ing gravel from the river's
MAIL 'IMlbUNfc, MfcOrORD, OrlLGON
Hou.
lippmann
Waahinston Poit
not he retires in October, he
is still the master of German
foreign policy.
a
IITE have to remember that
' Dr. Adenauer's maneu
ver is concerned With inter
nal and external West Ger
man politics and has nothing
to do with nuclear tests.
Whether the Federal Repub
lic does or does not sign the
test ban treaty, the fact is
that the Federal Republic
has already signed a test ban
treaty a solemn treaty not
to do anything whatever
about nuclear weapons. If
Bonn now decides to abstain
from signing the treaty, it
will make no difference to
the nuclear situation.
In this, West Germany dif
fers from the two other prin
cipal abstainers, France and
Red China. For them, all test
ing will remain lawful, be
cause they will not have
signed the treaty.
The case of East Germany
is theoretically, though not
practically, an interesting
and even an amusing one. If
East Germany were not al
lowed to sign, this unrecog
nized piece of territory
would be free, indeed would
have a license, to test; if
West Germany refuses to
sign, it will still be forbidden
to test. This is, I hate to say,
the kind of anomaly which
is of interest only to the pro
fessional nit-pickers.
NLY on the surface is Dr.
" Adenauer's maneuver
concerned with the nit-picking
dilemma: if East Ger
many adheres to a treaty, is
the partition of Germany
recognized in international
life?
The East German govern
ment has adhered, so I have
been told, to about 11 inter
national conventions, and
that fact has not altered the
situation. East Germany is
not recognized by the three
natural bed in order to pour
the concrete footings for the
huge new dam.
THEY FOUND BITS OF
GOLD in the old channel, and
off-duty workers are washing
out as much as several ounces
in gold dust, chips and tiny
nuggets. At $35 an ounce, that
isn't to be sneezed at.
The dispatches report that
the old river bed is crowded
with amateur argonauts work
ing like beavers.
THAT brings up an ancient
tale.
Back in the days of old, the
days of gold, somebody got
the idea of short-cutting the
river at a huge bend back up
in the mountains where the
river described almost a com
plete circle. So they drove a
tunnel through a ridge at the
narrowest point, the objective
being to divert the river
through the tunnel and thus
uncover the riffles in the
stretch left bare by the diver
sion. S THE legend goes, they
dug the tunnel, at huge
expenditure of labor and cash.
When it was finished, they
turned the river's waters
through it and laid bare a
long stretch of promising rif
fles. But-
They made the shocking dis
covery that in STILL EARLI
ER years someone had beaten
them to the idea, had in some
manner diverted the river's
waters and had TAKEN OUT
ALL THE GOLD. They found
the old works - wing-dams
and such - that hid been used
to do the trick. But the gold
was gone.
'THIS thought in conclusion:
In the days of the Argo
nauts, only gold had value.
Now WATER IS GOLD.
-
Matter of Fact joPh aip
(el Now York Herald Tribune Syndicate .
(Joseph Alsep will be en
vacation this month and
gathering malarial both in
this country and abroad for
future columns. During his
absence, top members of
the staff of the New York
Herald Tribune will substi
tute for him.)
By RICHARD L. MADDEN
THE HARRIMAN BALLOON
New York The recently
signed treaty to stop nuclear
testing in the atmosphere has
already started some fallout
in New York politics.
The trial balloons are going
up. all carrying the banner
of Averell Harriman, the man
who led the American treaty
negotiating team, for United
States Senator.
Mr. Harriman, .a former
New York Governor who now
wears the title of Under Sec
retary of State for Political
Affairs, has not exactly gone
out of his way to deflate the
balloons.
In fact, the tall, lean, some
times sad-faced Mr. Harriman
has been having some fun
over the idea. He is not
known for his levity in pubr
lie speeches, but in talking
about the possibility of run
ning for the Senate, he says:
"The only people who are
worrying about whether I'm
going to run are the Repub
licans."
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OF COURSE, he disclaims
any "immediate plans" to
run for elective office, but
that's standard procedure for
anyone who might have such
plans.
There are many reasons
whv President Kennedy
might like to have Mr. Harri
man campaigning in new
York state for the Senate next
year at the same lime ine
President would be running
for re-election.
The White House undoubt
edly would enjoy seeing Re-
nrinciDal allied powers
France, Britain and the Unit
ed States which have au
thority in regard to the so
lution of the German ques
tion. The President of the
United States has, moreover,
declared publicly that East
Germany's adherence to this
treaty will not bring United
States' recognition. And if
the President says it will not
bring recognition, It will not
bring recognition.
For this reason, we must.
not treat the nit-picking as
the real thing., The real thing
is the Gaullist drive. In this
drive, D,r. Adenauer is col
laborating while his succes
sors are not. The object of the
drive is to take into French
and German hands the politi
cal leadership of Europe and
to do this by diminishing the
influence of the United
States. That is the reason
why the West German for
eign minister has been re
buffed and why the next
chancellor, Dr. Erhard, has
so long been ignored. The
object of the maneuver is to
see how many stumbling
blocks can be put in Presi
dent Kennedy's path during
the long process of ratifica
tion. It remains to be seen whe
ther any substantial number
of senators will lend them
selves to a maneuver which
is not concerned with the vital
interests of the United States,
but only with continental
European politics.
A Visit to
Bv ERIC SEVAREID
Bretton Woods, N.H.-A lei
surely drive from Manhattan
up through the Berkshires and
5 jj!"" on through
4 called Green
in Vermont
and White in
New H a m p
shire is, like
con f ession,
good for the
soul, even
though the
c a r b u retor
may require a little adjust
ment. My soul ought to be
improved twicc-fold, obliged
as I am to confess that it is
still possible to drive a car
for pure pleasure in parts of
the corroding but still mag
nificent American landscape,
that the oldest settled region
of the country is still largely
green and young - fresher in
visage than much of the dis
sipated young West - and that
not all American communities
have buried their heritage of
beauty under a neonlighted
headstone.
Granitic, clean and sober
sided New Hampshire, now
celebrating its bicentennial In
a flurry of statistical "firsts"
-first state constitution, cog
railway, steamboat, public li
brary - remembers on state
occasions that its motto is
"Live Free or Die." is but ob
viously having a struggle with
its famous Yankee conscience,
and here and there is winning
the struggle. Certain forms of
gambling are now state ap
proved, and the thrilling geo
logic explosion known as
'jijitifsjl
Sevareld
publican Sen. Kenneth B.
Keating, who faces re-election
again next year, move back
to Rochester from Washing
ton. The Kennedy administra
tion hasn't forgotten the
wounds inflicted during the
Cuban crisis by Senator Keat
ing, who blossomed into na
tional prominence as an ex
pert on Cuba.
Mr. Harriman armed with
the credentials of a man who
helped negotiate treaty
which could lead to an easing
in cold war tensions, could
be a potent antidote against
Senator Keating whom the
Democrats have accused of
fanning cold war flames over
Cuba.
MR. KENNEDY picked up
New York's prize 45
electoral votes in 1960 by
th. relatively slim margin of
383,666 votes out of nearly
7.2 million cast. He naturally
would want the strongest pos
sible help on the Democratic
state ticket in 1964, particu
larly if Governor Rockefeller
somehow should be his Re
publican rival for the Presi
dency. To be sure, Mr. Rockefeller
beat Mr. Harriman and won
New York's Governoship in
1958 by a margin of 573,Ono
votes. But since then, Mr.
Harriman's star seems to have
risen while Governor Rocke
feller's has waned.
Mr. Harriman might also be
the happy solution for the not-
always-united New York Dem
ocrats who will be faced with
the problem of nominating
someone for the Senate. The
logical candidates at the mo
ment or at least the ones
mentioned most often are
New York City's Mayor Wag
ner and Samuel Stratton, a
Schenectady Congressman.
Mr. Stratton, who seems to
have the knack of winning
in normally Republican areas,
clearly has his eyes on the
Senatorial nomination. Mr.
Wagner hasn't said yes, out
he hasn't said no either, on
whether he would like to go
to the Senate where his fcth-
er, the late Sen. Robert Wag
ner, served.
e
BUT each has some liabili
ties. Mr. Stratton, for ex
ample. Is not too well known
in New York City. Mr. Wag
ner's strongest support is in
the city and not upstate. Mr.
Harriman seems to have state
wide support.
At 71 and an adept hand in
the field of diplomacy, which
he appears to enjoy, Mr. Har
riman may not want to get
back into New York's politi
cal wars.
But in the meantime, he is
basking in the national lime
light generated by the test
ban treaty. He is a willing
candidate for interviews and
has scheduled a number of
stops on the chicken-and-peas
dinner speaking circuit. Mr.
Harriman may not speculate
on future plans, but others
are.
And the white-mancd Sen.
Keating may have been a lit
tle too prophetic back in April
when he introduced Mr. Har
riman before a Senate com
mittee. With an assist from
Shakespeare, the Senator
turned to Mr. Harriman and
said:
"Age cannot wither him
nor custom stale
His infinite variety."
Imperishable New England
Franconia Notch, frozen in
eternal stone, is all but ob
scured in a ghastly forest of
billboards.
If New Hampshire still
owns its own soul, it doesn't
quite own its body, anymore.
After all, uh-granitic foreign
ers in orange colored slacks
from such alien ports as New
York and Boston have estab
lished some 32.000 seasonal
residences in this sparsely
settled state, with more added
at the rate of a thousand a
year. An annex is only home,
sweet-and-sour home.
Still, the fish are jumpin'
and the travelin' is easy, and
for this voyageur, unburden
ed save for one suitcase and
two fly-rods, New England,
including this slate, remains
astonishingly new and un
spoiled. Maybe it's the Eng
lish inheritance - the English
know how to care for their
countryside - and gratitude is
in order and hereby deposed.
A sentimental traveler, ab
sent from these parts since
wartime, finds much altered
by time and affluence. The
Mount Washington hotel, set
ting for Secretary Morgcn
thau's famous monetary con
ference of 1945 (after which
the United States became
chief trustee for half the
world and after which the:
local ncip lound dozens of
rusting typewriters in the
surrounding woods for rca-
suiia umi-imut-u uy History!
still spreads across half a
mountain, mastodonic, turn
of the century elegance.
Once upon a time a local
chambermaid rose to wife -
hood with an American mil-1
GREAT IDEAS...
7-1 From the Great Books
Vivu By Mortimcr J" Adler
.eW J (c) 1963. Publishers Newspaper Syndicate
WORLD GOVERNMENT
, Dear Dr. Adler: In our
cantury we art becoming
conscious of the necessity
of soma kind of an interna
tional society, such as tha
League of Nations or tha
United Nations, as an insti
tution of control for tha
preservation of peace in the
world. What did the great
writers of the past think
about a world-wida commu
nity, and in what way did
they believe such a commu
nity could function effec
tively for the good of man
kind? Reverend Joseph A. Zube
1714 W. Antoinette Street
Peoria, Illinois
(Saint John's Rectory)
Dear Mr. Zube: We can find
advocates of world govern
ment as far back as the 4th
century B.C. At that time,
the ancient Stoic philosophers
argued that since all men
share in a common nature
and reason, they should be
united in a world-wide politi
cal community - a "cosmo
polis." All men, in this view,
are citizens of the world, of
the City of Man, as well as
of their local communities.
Another important expres
sion of the thesis that men
should be under the adminis
tration of a world govern
ment came in the 14th cen
tury from the pen of the great
poet Dante. Only a world
state, he held, could bring
the blessings of justice, order,
and liberty to the human
race, and thereby enable it
to fulfill its cultural and in
tellectual tasks. In Dante's
view, the expected result of
world government is not
merely peace, but the cul
tural development and pro
ductivity which peace makes
possible.
At the end of the 18th cen
tury, the German philosopher
Kant wrote a little work call
ed "Perpetual Peace." In it
he condemned - international
warfare as irrational and saw
the means of preserving peace
in a federation of nations
united in an alliance against
war. Actually, Kant proposed
not a world government, but
an agreement among sover
eign states to keep the peace.
Since Kant's time, the great
catacysmic wars involving
whole continents, and accom
panied by the increasing de
structiveness of armaments,
again aroused the call for a
supreme government above
the nations to secure peace
and order in the world. The
League of Nations and the
United Nations, approaching
the type of "compact" en
visioned by Kant, were steps
in that direction. After World
War II, however, as mankind
confronted the imminent dan
ger of nuclear destruction in
a third World War, the call
came for'a world government
with real legislative and ex
ecutive powers, involving
some surrender of national
sovereignty by the member
nations.
lionaire, then to the status of
a European princess. She im
ported Italian craftsmen to
decorate this castle, and the
rich with their silk hats or
ostrich feathers came by train
and carriage. The area lost
the train service not long
ago, then the air service; but
the middle classes now come
in droves, the remaining note
of elegance and romance
concentrated in the names of
their shining carriages - Im
pala, Galaxie, Falcon, Fury,
Belair, Valiant - affixed by
those reckless romantics, the
automotive vice presidents
of Detroit.
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The people of the ry
grow more affluent, t.. gov
ernment of the country grows
poorer. Be it noted by history
that 18 years after Washing
ton spent nearly a million to
bring the foreign financial
delegations here (and to in
stall most of the modern fur
niture still gracing these cor
ridors of football field pro
portions) the American gov
ernment finds itself obliged
to ask for some of its bait
back from the institutions of
world finance it conceived
and subsidized in these cor
ridors. A few miles away at Fran
conia lies another symbol of
aristocratic elegance gone to
middle class efficiency. Hie
"New Mittersill," a wartime
memento to the od Austrian
j castle, is now replete with
. pool
snow -making machi-jjump;
i nerv and the Drix fixe meal
i and operated by chain hotel
i management, though still
j owned by Baron von Pantz,
j now plain Mr. Psntz. Neither
he nor his place was so plain
The United World Federal
ists, for instance, proposed a
world government with ade
quate but limited power
enough to prevent the nations
from going to war, but not
enough to interfere in their
domestic affairs. The Com
mittee to Frame a World Con
stitution, on the other hand,
envisioned a world govern
ment with very broad powers
- to deal not only with inter
national conflicts, but also
with the economic problems
that often give rise to wars.
Recent discussions of tha
problem have pointed to vari
ous alternatives between a super-state,
which virtually
blots out national sovereign
ty, and the interntlonal an
archy of sovereign national
states. Justice William O.
Douglas, for one, has pointed
out that world law, like local
law, may grow out of com
mon ways of acting out of
communal customs and man
dates. Law, in this view, is
not a set of rules enforced
by a sovereign state - nation
al or world-wide - but a pat
tern of conduct that may ex
ist before and apart from
the state. Hence Douglas be
lieves that the various acts of
international mediation and
co-operation, under the aus
pices of the United Nations
and similar bodies, have pro
vided the solid foundations
out of' which may evolve tha
rule of law in all internation
al disputes.
The success of such limited
international arrangements as
the European Coal and Steel
Community and the European
Economic Community has sug
gested to some thinkers that
similar agreements might
work as regards war and
peace. Walter Millis, for ex
ample, thinks that "a fairly
simple form of international
organization should suffice"
to preside over disarmament
and the keeping of the peace.
He assumes that if the nations
of the world agree to disarm
and to establish "a world
without war," only simple ad
ministrative problems would
require solution, rather than,
the complex political prob
lems of political power whicli
a super-state would present.
Such an agreement, he con
tends, is a real possibility in
our present urgent situation.
It appeals both to the peoples
and to their governors, who
realize that a nation may
give up the right to maka
war without losing its inde
pendence and sovereignty in
a world in which war has
been outlawed.
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15 years ago, on my first
visit. Then Count Haugewitz
Reventloy lounged on the ski
terrace; then the Archduka
Otto (or was it Francis?) com
manded the chairlift to halt
in mid-ascent and gave me a
baleful glance as I sprawled,
protesting, into the drifts;
then the Baron's great Dana
dogs freely romped the ski
runs in disdainful disregard
of human life and limb.
I like to think that tha
transformation to democracy
began with an ex-GI of my
acquaintance. He figured thi
wasn't what he had fought
the war for. So one evening,
after four martinis, he flung
open the door of the lounge,
banged on the floor with his
alpenstock and shouted,
"Vere is mine old frient,
Pantz?" qold looks received
him. He sftfed the former Ma
dame Patino, niece of King
Alfonso, beautiful and
haughty beyond compare.
The GI flung himself onto tha
sofa beside her, gave her a
pentrating stare and demand
ed, "Baby, didn't you and t
once take ukelele lessons to
gether in Schenectady?"
Thus, I suspect, did tha
new democracy of aMluenca
come to the New Mittersill,
or vice versa. What precise
word or deed did the same for
the Mount Washington I
have no idea. New England
absorbs the changes in i.s
stolid stride.
The trnut lill
the winter snows still
tall. I d give the place anoth
er 300 years, at the least
reckoning.
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