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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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