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..00""" TUESDAY, EvSyons Id Southern bresoa ReoTheMlljrribune2 published Dally except Saturday by MEDKORD PRINTING CO 33 North Jir Jt., PhJ72-614J """ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Mnaer GERALD T LATHAM, Bui Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn; Editor SARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport. Ed or OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE rnjrjSON.ClrculaUon Mgr An Independent Newipapei Intered second claw matter Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance ... Dally and Sunday-J year $11.00 Dally and Sunday 8 moa. 10 00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only-One year 5 00 Single Copy (Mailed) S0o By Carrier And Motor Rnu'e. Daily and Sunday-1 year 2 .00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.73 Sunday Only 1 mo. aJ Carrier and Vendors Copy 10O oifUlil Paper of City of Medford Otllcial PapejofJaclnounty United Preaa International Full Leased Wire tJ P 1 Telephoto Newsplctures MEiCOF AUDIT BUREAU USSfSr HoSERTrrASSOCl. ATES Ol'icea In New York. CniT rago Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. Denver. NEWSPAPII rUILISHEKS ASSOCIATION MTIONAl HOITOHIAl Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jjckson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1953 (Thursday) Two Gold Hill brothers have been ordered to stand trial Oct. 20 in Portland on charges of re fusing to be inducted into mili tary service. Howard Bobbitt, hired by the city of Medford for an investiga tion into police department con ditions, will confer with the city council here Tuesday. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1843 (Friday) Eino Hemmila named general manager of George A. Hunt theaters. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: " A cltl len reports his new hat walked off on another's head and a straw chapeau was left behind This might have been an accl dent but is a sign of cooler weather. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1933 (Sunday) Hunters in coast areas may be barred from forests to prevent fires. Old age pension problems go to county court. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 10. 1923 (Monday) Fred D. Wagner is named As,h land postmaster. Preparations rushed for open ing of county fair Wednesday. 0 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1913 (Wednesday) Highway bond election carried by majority of 2,270. Residents of valley invited to Salmon bake at Gold Hill. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; even or eight Is excellent; five or tli is good. 1. Which President of the U.S. was nicknamed "Canal Boy"? 2. Soda is used in making oaa water; true or lalsc? 3. Will Rogers was killed in 39.15 while flying with whom? 4. What is the capital of Northern Ireland? 5. Correct the following, "The wall s color is gray. 6. How many (eel are in two rods? 7. Arc camphor balls made Irom camphor? 8. There arc more insects in the world than all other forms of life combined; true or false? 9. Why do ground-burrowing animals build a mound at the mouth of their homes? 10. On what date, about IK years ago, were the formal terms of Japan's surrender signed aboard the U.S.S. Mis souri? Answers: 1. James A Gar field. I. False. 3. Wiley Post, 1. Belfast. 5. The color of (he wall ts gray. t. Thirty-three. 7. No, napthalene. I, True. 0. To keep out water. 10, Sept. 2. 1945. TAKES NO CHANCES OLDHAM, England (UPD Margaret Lambert, 19. Monday married lawyer John Bowyer in a white gown and high black boots because steady rains filled the path to the local chapel with mud. SEPTEMBER 1(1. IMS "Defiance' in the Schools Here and there throughout the nation, as youngsters return to school, there have been acts of "defiance" of the U. S. Supreme Court in the form of prayers and Bible reading in classrooms. No one, one trusts, is going to call out tne militia to enforce the Constitution in this in stance. But those who have chosen not to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling are, at worst, guilty of setting an example of lawlessness for the children they are hired to teach and instruct, and, at best, are revealing that they simply do not understand what the decision really said. THE DECISION did not "take God out of the schools." No mere human agency can do that. And children and teachers are still free to pray anywhere, anytime they wish. What the decision did do was to prevent an arm of the state from imposing on youngsters, without their desire or consent, a form of re ligious worship. If a law were passed which required all citizens to attend a specific church (as has been done in history), there would be an outraged and wholly justified reaction. And is not forcing one form of religious exercise on a non-consenting student simply an example of the same thing? They are different only in degree, not in kind. MANY OB' THOSE who uphold the Court's decision are those whose piety and faith are the strongest. They object to public school prayers and Bible reading because, they feel, these water down and make insipid the faith which they be lieve should be strong, meaningful and personal. Teachers should be free to teach, and they should teach in the areas petence. No matter what training, we do not believe that tney snouid oe entrusted to give instruction in religion, which is and snouid be an intensely personal matter, in which only family, church and clergy should be allowed to participate. K A. Behind the Headlines "News" being what it is, the headlines in re cent days have gone to Governor Wallace's storm troopers who have massed to prevent Negro youngsters from entering Behind those headlines, however, is the story of integration of schools throughout the south saving only Mississippi. fanfare, Negro children are entering lormeriy all-white schools in increasing numbers. These numbers are not yet large. But their significance lies in the fact that they can be re ported at all. It is token integration today, but in coming years it will be more than that. It means that Negro children, for the first time in a century, can look forward to an education the equal of that available to their white contemp oraries. A NOTHER FACTOR of considerable signifi- cance is that Wallace appears to be losing the support of much of the white community in his last-ditch stand against integration. Not that they like integrated schools; but they are coming to realize that racial strife as fomented by the governor is bad for a community bad for it economically and in about every other way. City after city in the south Oxford, Jack son, New Orleans, Birmingham and partic ularly the smaller ones which wish to attract business and industry, have discovered that ra cial disturbances are the worst possible kind of advertising. And, when the business community finds something that hits at its pocketbook, it is go ing to take steps to remove it. For this reason, if for no other, we can expect increased sup port of law and order and integration from southern businessmen. E. A. The Style of a Champion There is something immensely satisfying in watching an expert doing something extremely well. 1 hough we cannot fan, we found ourself in box for a couple of hours in tascination, first the matches at Forest Hills, hones of Golf from Akron. Ohio. Now tennis and golf are two sports which are vastly dissimilar. But thev are similar in that they require a high timing and endurance, antagonists directly against each other. rPHE LITHE GRACE A contrasted sharply at least a couple of the of the two games is sharply in contrast tennis fast and furious, golf with mounting tension In the remote past we game ot ooth golf and that the easy-looking ceptive, and is the result ine, coinuiiiea wun a great natural taient. But knowing this simply adds to the enjov ment one can receive action. It is a blend of admiration, esthetic ap preciation of a superb performance, a realiza tion of how much is in the balance, and per haps a little envy. E. A. of their greatest com their background and schools in Alabama. Quietly and with little be classed as a sports front of the little black on Sunday, watching tennis championship and next the "World degree of coordination, and in that they pit the of the tennis players with the burly heft of golfers. And the pace relatively leisurely but and pressure. have played a duffer's tennis, and thus know mastery of them is de of long hours of prac- watching champions in "I Don't Want Any Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters 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 views of r paper, in fact the contrary is often Reds and Free Enterprise To the Editor: Karl Marx, the High Priest of Socialism, stated that Capitalism in and by itself, contains the seeds of its own destruction. This could be true only if Capitalism should let go the reins on its domain and there is in our free world no sign that such a thing will happen. However, the Russian Revolu tion of 1917 came darn near proving Marx's prediction and the very irony of it was the fact that the free enterprisers from western Europe and Amer ica aided the revolutionary Rus sian government in building up a modern technical industry. T h e f i r s t step was when the Kaiser, in February, 1917, sent Comrade Lenin from Switzer land to Russia through the Ger man lines in a sealed boxcar and supplied him with guns, fighting equipment and ca.m to the value of $17 million. This he did in order to stop the Russian westward march. How ever Lenin used that money to bring about his social revolu tion and he appointed Comrade Trotsky as his minister of war. For the next five years Trotsky fought and won the war against the rebellious White Russians. In the meantime Lenin raised multi-million dollar loans, pri vate and corporate, bearing 6 per cent interest, and by his New Economic Policy obtained technical aid, supplies and ma chine tools with which to build a new Russia. Trotsky, who was an idealist and a real firebrand, wanted a world revolution a la Karl Marx, but Lenin restrained him. So for 24 years, 1917-41, Rus sia was building up a giant in dustrial machine. When Lenin died in 1924 Stalin took the helm. He continued the indus trial work like Lenin. But he was a tyrannical megalomaniac, like Hitler, but with a different mania. Both were mentally dis turbed. Stalin killed a lot of his friends direct or by having them executed. He is said to have killed one of his wives. Hitler was a mass murderer and also a mass hypnotist. He hypno tised the majority of the Ger man people. Hitler and Stalin were na eggheads. If anything they were breakers of eggheads. Stalin however did prevent a try at the World Revolution which Trotsky advocated. Stalin was after all a realist. He realized that a worldwide revolution like that advocated by Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, was just wishful thinking and he accepted and carried on Lenin's aim to build Socialism in one country, hut eventually he was aiming for world mas tery and that is, to be sure, still the aim of Russia's ruling class. As of now we have a stale male between the two opposing world forces, a deadlock to which as yet nobody has a key with which to break it. The facts here related prove that the free enterprisers aided and abetted the bolshevist revo lution and that the balance of power, even as ol now, hangs on a hair like the Sword o. Damocles. John E. Ring. 1049 West 11th St., Medford Reversal To the Edilor: If indeed, the present nuclear lest ban treaty is so Important (MT 8-16-63), it should merit sincere study, not the "me too acquiesence" push ed bv the educated (?) support ers. This treaty represents a re versal bv the Soviets. What hap pened since last spring when Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned 'tis of a possible new hardening of the soviet position? There Is the political scene in the U. S. Americans are not happy with the failure of the ad-1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Inside Interference!" 3 rieRl.r n. ai 'tTC-j (toiT the case. ministration to oust communist power in Cuba. We have our racial strife. The present admin istration is weak enough to de feat in 1964. A change in the white house would bring a change in policies (to say the least). The Soviets would not like this. In England? The conservative government has been badly crip pled, girls and cabinet ministers and all that; but what a boon to the present government if they could project the image of "peacemaker in our t i m e," (shades of 193D). And Europe. The communists gained alarm ing strength in Italy's last elec tions. Communist influence in France grows. Konrad Adenauer bows out soon in Germany. If the Soviets could ensure the future of the status quo in Eastern Eu rope, they would not be at all unhappy. NATO appears to be on the way out. Recent state ments by our own Wayne Morse in the senate may be an early signal of this. There has also been a reversal far more gradual on the part of the U.S. In the near past we fought a war "to end all wars," and a war "to make the world safe for democracy," and today in Korea, South Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, the whole of South Amer ica with their problems of tyr anny, and President Kennedy just recently told us "the world must be free for diversity" (my, he is clever too). Khrushchev could always claim France, with nuclear arms, continued testing and op posed to the treaty, was justifi cation enough to use the escape clause and resume testing. We would be loathe to use the clause under any conditions. Khru shchev would use the threat of the escape clause any time the United Slates moved in a man ner he thought was harmful to communist objectives. Think of the pressure he could bring against the peoples of the world in the UN. Would the UN and the U.S. continue to retreat when he does? It should be kept in mind that communist goals have not changed. As late as July 14, 1963, in answering the Chinese Reds, Russia stated: "We fully stand for the destruction of im perialism and capitalism. We not only believe in the inevitable destruction of capitalism but are doing everything for this to be accomplished as soon as possi ble." Robert J. Howard 702 Bookman Medford Disgrace To the Edilor: It is a terrible disgrace to have those so called classrooms on the front lawn of our high school. Who is respon sible for that? 1 don't know when there has been a school bond issue turned down here, but when the school board does a thing like this, it's lime they did turn one down. Every taxpayer should make it a point to vote no at the next election. It might start the school board thinking. When they pull a trick like this classroom boo-boo, it's time there was a real shake-up in the school board. It seems pretty funny to me to have a big new grandstand be hind the school and shacks in front (or our kids to learn in. Whv overburden the restroom facilities inside the high school? Why not put up matching privy? Dolores Bell ,17 Quince Medford Scanlde Control To the Editor: In 1962 our modern youths put Seaside in headlines. It was repeated again in 1963. Probably it will be repeated again in 1964 it no drastic action is waiting t o r their welcome 1 hope that our news men will noi trv to promote this smear by spreading this event Signs of Progress Evident in Spain, Though Many Problems Remain Unsolved Bv PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst MADRID, Spain (UPI) -On a day early this month, a trim white yacht dropped anchor in tne n o r t n ern Spanish port of La Coruna. Aboard was ICCiaC? I Generalissimo 1 IXV I Francisco Fran co, who was in- I fW Iterrupung a I I fishing vacation V I to hold his last Kewmrn cabinet meeting of the summer. Most important of the domestic issues to be discussed was Spain's new $6 million develop ment program which is to go into effect next Jan. 1. In the Day's News By FRANK There was an interesting story on the wires last week. It comes from Dick Riemann, one of the 59 American stu dents who spent seven weeks in Cuba as guests of the Castro government. They are now back in the United States. What of the group? Riemann tells the reporters that he and a Barry Hoffman, of Brookline, Mass., were the only two who made the trip with open minds. Hoffman, he says, made the trip as a re searcher for an author who has contracted to write an article for an American magazine. He was looking only for facts. VlfHY did Riemann go? He says: "I volunteered for the trip be cause I knew the type of group that was going and I wanted to lend some balance to it. Be sides, I felt that the Kennedy administration was down-grading Cuba, which in my opinion is our No. 1 problem. I feel that integration comes AFTER our national security. "I wanted to see for myself what is really going on down there." HfHAT is going on? Well, Riemann says: "There are Russians all over the place in Cuba. Thev avoid the use of uniforms. They live in a walled city of their own in Regla, a fishing village across the bay from Havana. This fortified area in which they live is vt f limits to all but a handful of Cubans with special passes. "Under Fidel Castro, Havana has become a fortified city with rapid-fire anti-aircraft batteries dotting the city. They are even installed on the top s of Havana's hotels." w HAT of the group itself? What will it accomplish? TT was impossible, Riemann says, to make an accurate evaluation of Cuba, even in seven weeks, because the group's principal contacts were limited to CASTRO GOVERN MENT LEADERS. The group leaders, he adds, "didn't make even half an ef fort to establish contact with the PEOPLE of Cuba. Their contacts were solely with PICKED Castro leaders." WHAT of young Riemann? Who is he? He is an unknown. He prob ably made the trip as an ad venture. He isn't a trained intel ligence operator. He is on his way to California to be a teacher. He may just have wanted a final fling before settling down to work. But he touches on a question that inter ests all of us. throughout our nation. This type of news may spread like mea sles. Evangelist Billy Graham has recently expressed his views of this incident, part of one paragraph he stated that "they arc reaching (or someone to challenge them," I'll agree with him 100 per cent. The 1962 event if I remember correctly, several were placed on probation. If Mr. Webster, who created our modern day dictionary, was on earth today, I feel that he would have strick en the word probation from his writings. It has cured very lit tle but has left a great many scars. Back in the days of our Puri tan fathers, they were chal lenged by disorderly people. This was corrected by instal ling a whipping post, i'm sure that this method if in use will correct the Seaside days of to day. Fust the area, that a whip ping law is in effect in this area. Perhaps my suggestion mav ap pear to be a little bit cruel. A spokesman for Seaside claims that this area lost $100,000 worth of business, also prooertv dam age went into several' thousands of dollars, a few citizens were injured, stale police officers were treated at a hospital also. The results of this outbreak are cruel also Howard H. Brown j 907 Oilman rd , ! Medford. ! And for the next 48 flag-decked hours, La Coruna became in ef fect the working capital of Spain. By tradition established under the regency of Queen Maria Cristina, the Spanish govern ment in the summer moves to San Sebastian, near the Pyre nees, only 35 miles from Biarritz across the border with France. Between San Sebastian and La Coruna the mountains hug the coastline and for 500 miles a narrow highway twists and turns its way through and over them, providing at once scenes of awe some beauty and the equally breathtaking prospect of a 1,000 foot plunge into nothingness in the case of driver error or me chanical failure. JtNKINS The questions is this: What is Kroosh up to? TIE wants the test ban treaty. We hope he is sincere in his desire for it that he has no cards up his sleeve If he IS sincere about it ... if he really sees it as a means to bring the cold war to an end ... it will be wonderful. To a lot of us, it seems that Cuba could be the answer to what he wants. If he would pull all these Russian soldiers out . . . if he would withdraw his support of Castro ... If he would invite us to send Ameri can representatives to Cuba to make sure that no missiles are stashed away there ... we might be able to accept the test ban treaty with a free mind and no suspicions. We could then believe that a really sig nificant break in the cold war has arrived. But, until he docs that, a lot of us can't help keeping our fingers crossed. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fc Field Enterprises, Inc. EACH AN EXPERT This pot-bellied, middle-aged, once-a-week athlete tripped on the tennis court last Sunday, t r y i n g to re- rSSTTfl lrieve a bal1 your younger sister could nave got wnue N eating an ice cream cone with the other hand, and pull ed a muscle in his calf. The Harri next day, hero ically hobbling to the office with a cane, I learned exactly what to do with an ailment of this sort. So far as I can make out, there are 10 infallible rules to follow. These are: 1. Stay off the leg as much as possible. 2. Keep walking the exer cise will bring it back Into shape. .1. Apply cold packs. 4. Apply hot packs. 5. Apply cold packs and hot packs alternately. 6. Apply only moist heat slay away from a heating pad. 7. Sleep all night with a heating pad on the leg. 8. Bandage It tightly to sup port the muscle. 8. Don't bandage it, or you'll stop the circulation and retard recovery. 10. See a doctor, a chiro practor, a physiotherapist, a Swedish masseur, a baseball trainer and a faith healer. It's surprising that nobody recommended a tree surgeon for the injured limb. With this one singular exception, I have been subjected to the most un remitting barrage of self-confident advice that the mind of man could conceive. Of the 26 persons who, in the space of an hour or two, came up solicitously to inquire about the origin of my limp, not one confessed complete ignorance about its therapy and cure. Everybody had had the' same thing or something very near ly like it, or a brother who was similarly wounded in sportive ac tion, or a family doctor who was i wonderful "at that sort ot ! thing." I am convinced that every man believes he can do three things superbly well: Run the country better than the Presi dent, edit a newspaper better than the editors, and dispense medical advice better than the doctors. Of course, the doctors them selves sometimes pretend om niscience when they are ignor ant. You may have heard of the ladv who went to a doctor with a nasty bruise on her thigh, j He prescribed hot packs. She tried them for a day, and nothing happened. Finally, her maid suggested cold packs two applications, and the bruise was gone. She called the doctor and told him the story. "That's odd," he murmrrod. "My maid told me hot packs." jap' ?PtLi$ la In San Sebastian, a cabinet minister threw up his hands in mock horror when he learned that Carlos Mendo, chief UPI correspondent for Spain, and I planned to drive it for the cab inet meeting. "It is one of the worst roads in Spain," he said, "but at least you will see why we need a de velopment plan." The road may not be the worst in Spain, but it must rate high among them. Huge trucks vie with speeding small passenger cars, and both must contend with the ever-present burros. And beyond this is the foot traffic, women headed for the nearest village, carrying upon their heads objects varying from metal containers of milk to heavy bundles of fire wood. But it is a trip worth th'. ef fort. Along the way are symbols both of Spain's new and growing prosperity as well as problems it still faces. There is Bilbao, ranking with Barcelona as one of Spain's prin cipal industrial cities, called the Pittsburgh of Spain. In Bilbao, Santander, Oviedo and even in the meanest village new con Matter of Fact (O New York Hprairt HALFWAY TO PEKING RANGOON, Burma In its present stage, this disordered but lovely small country can best be describ ed as halfway to Peking. Gen. Ne Win, boss of Burma by vir tue of an army coup d'etat, started his ca reer as a stout anti - Commu nist. In princi- aishd pie, he is still anti-Communist, and he is cer tainly a patriot who wants above all things to insure Burma's independence. Yet the road he has taken nonetheless must fi nally lead to semi-subordination to Peking unless he changes di rection pretty abruptly at some later date. To be specific, Ne Win's Na tional Revolutionary Council of army officers has now begun negotiations for a peace settle ment with the principal faction of the Burmese Communists, the so-called "White Flags" headed by Thakin Than Tun. AS FAR as Ne Win is con cerned, the object of these negotiations is clearly to end the interminable civil war here. Thus he hopes to get cracking with his "Burmese way to so cialism," which chiefly seems to mean national ownership of just about everything in sight, includ ing the stalls of the street ped dlers. The motive of Thakin Than Tun, meanwhile, is obviously to obtain recognition and standing in Burma, comparable to the recognition and standing accord ed to the Cuban Communist party in the early stage of the Castro revolution. As Thun Tun, by general admission, is much the cleverest politician in Burma today, he no doubt hopes to im prove his position rather rapidly, once he has been recognized and given an open political role. No one can of course be sure that the present negotiations will produce a positive result; but most people here expect them to end in a peace agreement be tween Gen. Ne Win and the ma jority faction of the Burmese Communists. What makes this prospect so particularly interest ing is the recent development of Communism in Burma. TN BRIEF, peace with the gov- ernment has already been rejected by the minority Com munist group, the "Red Flags," led by Thakin Soe. But this minority is unimportant, being composed of only a few hundred guerrilla fighters. Their political character may be j u d g e d by Thakin Soe's current line, that Mao Tse-tung is not nearly Stalinist enough. "Boy, this Madam Nhn sounds like real matriarch. Ttmrsf . when men are nk. .snnWone has In fill the vacuum:" P struction work seems unendinc This also is the region of the Austurian coal mines where to day t h e government regards with a tolerant eye a strikeby 16,000 miners even though strikes in Spain are outlawed. The seams of brown coal are running out and many of the mines are uneconomic. The government is considering a plan of nationalization where by some of these pits might be closed and the miners either be transferred to other diggings or retrained for other jobs. Here also are the Galician farmers, a taciturn folk unlike the talkative friendliness of the south. They live as their fathers before them on small, uneco nomic plots of not much more than an acre, planting their patches of corn high up the steep mountain sides. For them also the government is seeking a solution. But over all in the four years since stabilization of the cur rency, Spain's progress has been phenomenal. The growth rate has been more than 7 per cent annually and the government has more than a bililon dollars in foreign exchange to work with. By Joseph Alsop Tribune SynrilraO Thakin Than Tun's group, in contrast, is large and powerful; and until only 10 or 12 months ago he and his followers were supposed to be adherents of Mos cow in the Peking-Moscow feud. They have now gone over, how ever, to the side of Peking. An important episode in this decision in Peking's favor was clearly the return from China of a number of key party members and Communist ex-army officers who had spent years in training there. Members of this group led by Bo Zeya are included in the Communist delegation which is carrying on the current peace talks. rpHE new party line was clear - ly enunciated at a press conference by the delegation spokesman Yebaw Htay. He de nounced India for "attacking" China; he sharply attacked the nuclear test ban treaty; and in general he took the straight Pek ing line. One of the. more curious re sults of the Burmese Commu nists' choice of Peking has been the abrupt isolation of the So viet embassy here. In conse quent, no doubt under instruc tions from Moscow, the Soviet diplomats in Burma are now carrying on an almost embar rassingly warm courtship of the American embassy. But that is by the way. The really significant result of the new pro-Peking Communist line will only appear if and when the Communists reach a peace agreement with Ne Win. In this event, the newly recognized and accepted Communist leaders will constitute a powerful pressure group, always tending to push Ne Win and his government to wards an alignment with Peking crudely similar to Castro's align ment with Moscow. The somber, isolated Ne Win is certainly no Castro. He might be more popular than he is if he resembled Castro a bit more. He has also been putting out some anchors to windward, for instance by striking up a friend ship with the strongly pro-Western Prime Minister of Thailand, Gen. Sarit Thanarat. He will certainly fight hard against giv ing the Communists in Burma anything like the predominant power they now have in Cuba. But the direction Gen. Ne Win has taken is pretty clear none theless. His own increasing iso lation may help to push him down this road if the Commu nists rally to his support after the peace agreement. Above all, he will find it very difficult not to go to the road's end if he is also pushed by events elsewhere in Asia on the Indian frontier, for example. That is why halfway to Peking reasonably sums up the present position here. V V
