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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY. "Everyone 1b louthern Oregon Reeda The Miil Tribune Published Dilly except Saturday kf UEDr ORD riwiinu tu. 33 North fir SI. Ph7HI-SUl wdmirf w RUHLu Editor HERB GREY Advertising. Manaaer GERALD T LATHAMTBuj Mir IR1C W ALLEN J Mne. Editor EARL U ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CK1PMAN. Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Bporle Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Edltoi DALE ERICKgON. Circulation Mp An Independent Newtpepei Bntored as second class matter at MCOIora. uregon. unaor n vs March 3, H7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mkil In Advance. Daily end Sunday 1 year 111 0 Dally and Sunday moa 16.00 Dally and Sunday 8 moa. 8.00 Sunday Only One year 15 00 Single Copy (Mailed) aue By earner And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 111 .00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.71 Sunday Only 1 mo. Wo Carrier and Vendor! Copy 10c fTtflclil Paper of City ol Medfor Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Preu International full Leeaed Wire U. P. I. Telepholo lewiplcturee "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertliini tint Rnreaentatlva: NELSON ROBERTS It ASSOCI. A-rr nrrfrM In New York. Chi, cago. Detroit. San Francisco, Lot Angeiea, aeanie, rortienn Denver. t. ATI O MAI (OITOIIAl Member California Newspaper Publishers AuoclaUon Flight o Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. It YEARS AGO Sept. II. 1M3 (Saturday) Medford High school enroll ment Is expected to be over MO students when classes get under way Monday morning. Alter weeks of effort, finish ing touches are now being ap plied on the United Medford Crusade's first joint fund-raising drive, which will begin Monday. M YEARS AGO Ken, it. IMS (Sunday) Schools report decrease of 85 students in registration. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "Sun tner comes to an official finish next Thursday, after which old timers confidently predict there will be some." 39 YEARS AGO Sept It. 1133 (Tuesday) Funds assured city for widen ing Riverside ave. and Bear Creek bridge bottlenecks. Property owners warned to clear sidewalks of low over hanging limbs. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 19. 1923 (Wedneiday) Henry Ford announces he will not run for president. Lost hunter found alive but hungry in Mt. Pitt area. M YEARS AGO Sent. 11. 1913 (Friday) County leases granite quarry at Gold Ray. . , Dr. R. E. Stearns, Dr. 3. J. Emmons elected vice presidents er Oregon State Medical associ ation meeting here. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina ar tan carreer It iuetlef seven ar eijht It aicallent; live ac tli it foos. 1. Who were the respective heads of governments of the U. S. and France when the Louisiana Purchase was nego tiated? 2. In which slate are the col leges of Ml. Holyoke and Smith? 3. Is the headquarters of the American Red Cross in New York City or Washington, D.C.? 4. Which American public of ficial, now retired, was known as "Cactus Jack"? 8. Did the Golden Age occur in Rome, or Greece? 6. California was once a part of Mexico: true or falser 7. Senator McClellan, Demo crat, represents which state in the U.S. senate? 8. The famous Krupp muni- tlons works were located In which German city? 0. Name the French pharma- cist that popularized the slo gan, "Day by day. in every way. I am feeling better and better." 10. Is the horse a bovine enuine. or ovine? Answers: I. Thomas Jefferton and Napoleon Bonaparte, t Maitarhuietts. 3. Washington D. C. 4. Former Vlr Preil dent John N. Garner. 5. Greece 6. True. 7. Arkansas. I. Essen I. Emlle Cone. 16. Equine. Thrto Boi Litfd on Sfof.-Prof.cfec tana SALEM (UPI) - Three Mates on state protected forests and ranselands were doused Wed nesday, the State Forestry De partment reported. 4 A -jjjSJ'NllWirAMR WP-AHOCIAIIOM SEPTEMBER It. IMS High School The Medford school district has yet to decide what will be done about our overflowing high school population. Currently, it is employing stop-gap methods, such as temporary classrooms, three-platoon lunch hours, staggered class hours, and so on. It hasn't gone to double-shifting yet, but it is pretty close to it. There are several alternatives, and presum ably the final decision will not be made until after full consideration is given them by the advisory committee and the school board. e e e e THE district could build one big, new high school, to accommodate all students in grades 10, 11 and 12 for the foreseeable future, and turn the existing high school poses. It could continue adding on to the existing plant. It could bund another high school and keep using the present one for a total of two high schools both serving the luth, 11th and 12th grades. Or and this is an around more and more high school for the 11th verting the present one to grades, and making the 7th and 8th grades. THIS system, called the in this area, although various locations elsewhere in the nation. It anpears radical at doubtedly has some flaws and defects. But it also has numerous advantages. It gets away from one giant high school where individuals "get lost" among upwards of 2,000 . , i i ,i j.ii ; t , siuuems ; yet, u sun permits larger classes in areas where a relatively few students are interested. It also (and in sports-conscious Medford, this is im portant in many minds) "varsity" sports teams together, so one good team, rather than two weaker e e e A RECENT poll of high school teachers who Viarl had exnerience with both the 6-2-2-2 plan and the more conventional ones 6-3-3 or 8-4 or 6-2-4 revealed a remarkable majority in dicating many favorable factors. Some of these were: Pupils adjust from grade to high school more easily and quickly. Students participate in more activities. Rules are more easily enforced. Teachers become more quickly and completely. Social controls are more easily exercised Student leadership quickly and by more students. -students are better division school. THERE are others, including the important fac tor that students are more likely to be recog nized as individuals, rather than simply as statis tics or "bodies." We are not saying solve all of Medford's problems, or even that it should be adopted. But ful consideration. With the schools bursting at the seams, and with no end in sight for increases in the numbers of students at all levels, we cannot afford to reject experimentation just because something is new and unfamiliar. "YTHER experiments are being tried, both here and across the nation, although perhaps not as widely as should be to find better methods. These include flexible scheduling (discussed here recently), longer school days, longer school years with rotating vacation periods and more intensive use of buildings, team teaching, greater use of teaching "machines" of various kinds. It is our conviction education is still the skillful and dedicated teach er. But there are many things which can be done to make his job an easier and more effective one. It may be that two high schools but divided horizontally rather than to do this. E.A. Lucky Fire The mild and often this year has caused some grousing. But it was a godsend to the area s forests, which were faced with the most serious fire due to the heavy blowdown from the storm of last Columbus Day. Considerable salvage logging of the blow down was accomplished, and even that which was not salvaged this year will be less of a threat next year. It was the dry needles that caused the principal hazard of flash fuel, and they should be mostly gone before the 1964 fire season. It is still possible that the return of warm dry weather could renew are that the worst of the and that the forest fire a little easier. E.A. Apparently no one is adjust a state tax in creaseexcept the voters. We expect the meas ure to be soundly defeated come Oct. 15a Then, presumably the legislators will be called into session, to try, probably in in, to determine what the votcrg want. As evidenced by many let ters, they do not all want the same thing. E.A. ft Alternatives building to other pur the same purpose, for idea that is being kicked it could build a new and 12th grades, con serve the 9th and 10th junior highs serve the 6-2-2-2 system, is new it has been adopted in first dance, and it un would tend to keep the ones, could be fielded. e acquainted with students roles are assumed more prepared for the upper that such a system will it certainly merits care that the key to a good vertically is one way Season damp summer In Oregon threat in many years. the hazard, but the odds fire season is now over. agencies can now breath Bombed Out ... Communications ... Letteri to lh Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name er initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the light to edit all letters with a view to dariiication and eendensatien. Letteri submitted for publication mutt net exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do contrary is oiten the case. Wrong Title To the Editor: This is in re gard to your news item on Page 2-B of Thursday s paper. Your article concerns the new prin cipal at St. Mary's school. Twice the news item refers to the Rev. John J. Keane as Mr. Keane. This is bad journalism, bad manners and poor business policy. Father Keane's education as well as his extensive adminis trative experience should war rant the respect of at least re membering to refer to him as Father Keane, never "Mister." I myself remember this from m y . men scnooi journalism course. So far I have never seen this mistake made in any other paper. Sorry, but l couidnt let this go by without comment. Mrs. George uutnne Route 2, Box 220 Central Point, Ore. o Editor's note: You are right. It was an unfortunate slip. Educational Costs To the Editor: I was reading in Monday's Mail Tribune the letter from the parents in Eagle Point about free (?) education. I am of the same opinion, only we live in a different district so the price of free education is a little different. Our daughter came home and said she needed a check for S12.S0 for entrance fees to Jun- ior high plus $1.50 for a work book in some class plus 30 cents for something else. When I at tended school, not too many years ago, in our Freshman year our classes were outlined to fill in the four years; now have no idea what children are going to school for. I would like to know what good music. journalism and typing plus phys cal ed, (which is required and a very dirty class, inasmuch as 40 to 50 students undress and take showers in four minutes in a locker room where no disin fectants are used,) are going to do our daughter in her home when she is grown. What happened to the essen tial things in life and school ing? Not all children In the schools today are going to be scientists or venture into space. With all the plus J s it costs to put a child through school today, besides our added taxes, it is no wonder the people of Oregon elected to have a re ferral on the tax increase, and when it comes to vote on Octo ber 15 I am going to vote no on tax increases. This state doesn't need higher taxes, It needs better supervision of the money they already have. Our daughter said don't sign your name to a letter, they em barrass us in school when you do. Well, whoever "they" is, they had better not. I feel sorry for the families with common work' ing fathers with more than two children In school at once, now, with all the "musts" that stU' dents have to have. Then the officials tell everyone how the schools and education will suf ter if we don't let them have more money to get us to vote for the tax increase. No one will suffer through lack of education. A few state officials may lose their jobs or get a cut in pay but education won't suffer. Tha slate wants us to think It will. If this state needs more money once again I say raise the price o( non essentials such as cigarettes. furs, jewelry, cosmetics, liquors and entertainment, and allow so much to be turned bark to the State of Oregon. Those who can afford or want non-essentials will buy them at any price and the working class of people won't be hurt by higher taxes or a sales tax which we don't need. Let those who want luxury pay for it and those who want MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO. not necessarily represent the to live a simple life live one. Evelyn Thompson, 2215 Highway 66, Ashland, Ore. "Select Few" To the Editor: Within the past year we moved to Oregon and enrolled our child in the 7th grade. We are greatly concerned over Medford's so-called grad ing system, where only a "select few are allowed to take cer tain subjects. Because a child is weaker in math, he cannot get 8th grade S.M.S.G., a course which most certainly would do much towards educating him to think and to absorb. Our child had a taste of said course and was so engrossed she studied very diligently and received a C grade eight weeks later, prior to our transfer. Our child rates high in the field of language and it merely points out the fact she was given language in the 4th, 5th and 6th grades she had train ing she was not born with this knowledge. This same child is in the A band and has had less than one year training un der a private instructor on the piano. Music is a challenging field and the new field was very exciting so she absorbed and works hard to increase her knowledge. Under your system a child weak in math, bored by the old add and subtraction system, can find no new stimulant to a field so important to his suc cess in life. The subjects af forded the "select few" should without a doubt be given to each and every student. In the first grades you in struct all as to reading, writing and arithmetic. Some of course, fall short, while others excell. Hasn t time proven the more training offered, the greater the child's interest, the greater his improvement, and the greater his chances of success? As noted in your "Parent Handbook" . . . "Algebra may be taken in the 9th grade if the pupil passes the 8th grade prognostic test. Certainly a child who has not had sufficient math instruction would rate low on the test, but again, this same child could excell in the course if it were made avail able to him. Again, wouldn't it be more advantageous for a child to receive lower grades and be learning a new field than to receive higher grades in a repi- titious add and subtract course? We, as parents, shall attempt to instruct our child in the field of S.M.S.G. from books we have purchased. However, as tax payers, It's an irking situation, and a situation which all tax payers should act on. Mrs. William Nelson, 428 Fairmount, Medford The Dog and the Bone To the Editor: With all due respect to the subtle, anti re refral propaganda in your edi' torial of 9-15, this IS a tax re volt. And the people DO know what they want. We have been taxed far beyond the point where all other people in the world have revolted. And the majority of us "have had it." We are full up to the neck. You bet we know what we want. We want our state Legis lature to live within the income of this state, the same as we. ourselves, have to live within our own incomes. It is as simple as that. Personally, I would thoroughly enjoy wearing $150 suits. $.15 shoes, and $5 neckties and drive a brand new Cadil lac. But in order to pay my bills and preserve my financial integrity among my fellow men. I have to limit myself to a $45 suit. $10 shoes, $'J neckties and drive a good, but low priced car. And I want my state Legis lature to use the same common horse sense. When the Governor Hatfield v OREGON Portuguese Returning to Angola; U.N. 'Interference' Resented by Officials Bv PHIL NEWSOM DPI Fnrelcn News Analyst LISBON, Portugal (UPI)-in the panic which followed the butchering of European fami lies in northern Angola during the "Night of the Long Knives" March 15-18, 1961, many white sett era decided to return nome. Twenty-five hundred of them did so. But now, Portuguese officials say, the tide has been reversed and last vear 4.000 resumed im- migration to Angola, Portugal's lareest and richest overseas nrovince in Africa. Furthermore, these officials say, terrorism which once ex tended to 10 per cent of the territory has now been reduced to two per cent. Portuguese bitterness over what it regards as United Na tions interference in its inter nal affairs centers on three main noints. Demands for Angolan inde- nendence do not come irom within the province, but rather views of the paper) In taei in crowd took office, Oregon was operating in the black with a fat, multi - million dollar re serve on hand. Taxes were rea sonable. Now our taxes are more than doubled, the reserve is gone, and the "big, wild spenders" want $60 million more on top of that, wny wouldn't we revolt? Hatfield now heads the com mittee which is telling the tax payers of Oregon how to vote the committee to preserve this staggering $60 million tax increase. This powerful tax- lobby will operate with practi cally unlimited funds taken from the people. Watch them use our money in an all out propaganda war of false statements that will be hurled at us day and night via TV, radio, and newspapers between now and Oct. 15. This fight for votes is clearly a battle between the "big spend ers", the people who have been bossing you around for years. and the common people yuu and ME who have been pay ing the taxes, giving them the money to spend. This bureau cracy has already gotten too powerful on our money. Let s not let them threaten us and scare us into paying this $60 million "blackmail". Relax, par ents. They won't close our schools. Attorney General Thornton has advised Hatfield that he cannot touch a single dollar of the basic school fund. And if he calls a special session of the Legislature, they are not going to commit political sui cide by doing anything rash. Fellow taxpayers, even a dog will fight for his bone. Let's show the "big, wild spenders " on Oct. 15 that we've at least got as much grit as our dog. L. (J. Powell 316 S.E. Eighth st. Grants Pass, Ore. Mexican Wildflowera To the Editor: A yesteryear late summer bike across our valley floor meant trousers so tarred as to stimulate profanity. Our native tarweeds of Mexi can descent, however, can sur vive 110 degrees. Thus, July through September, they for centuries yielded honey and pol len for our native bees. One tar- weed even earned a flattering "beautiful." Botanists named it Madia eleeans. Much of our hot valleys' late summer bloom is based on Mex ican wildflowers. This is written in August. One room in our home is colorful with zinnia bou quets. Some are orange, some gold. Others are pink and red. Yet more all purple and wnite. Another room is torgeous with dahlias, nine inches across. One bed in our garden is a mass of "African marigolds". Another is bordered with dwarf "French marigolds." All four above floral treasures originated in Mexico. The "mar igolds" are no more "African" or "French" than our New World native Thanksgiving bird is a "Turkey." Dahlia does not cross the border but zinnia and tagetes are found in Big Bend National Park. Madia elegans tarwecd has a red spot at the base of each ravflower. It carries much sticky tar. Another, M. yosemi ta, seems to be trying to climb back into decent society. We found this "tarweed" quite tar less at Fallen Leaf Lake. Its type specimen note Is "1881. foot Up per Yosemite fall in damp moss." Quite different envir onment from our midsummer rainless valley. When statesmen stress the Good Neighbor policy toward folks "South-of-the-Rio Grande. ' is It not appropriate to appre ciate our gardens' debt because of what plant breeders develop ed from Mexican wildflowers? C. M. Gothe 3731 Tea st. Sacramento 16. Calif. Two-Cent Contribution To the Editor: In response, to Ralph McKinnis of Ashland whose letter appeared in the are pressed from the outside. At most, the Portuguese say, the movement receives support only from a small segment of tribesmen in the north who are related to others across the ri ver in the Congo. The revolt could be suppressed instantly, they say, if it were not for the "privileged sanctuary" provided by the Congo republic to terror ists who cross back and forth. The United Nations' stand favoring self-determination for Angola violates the U.N. Char ter which specifically torpids U.N. interference in a nation's internal affairs. Carried to a logical extreme, according to the Portuguese, the U.N. eventu ally could interfere in the small est affairs of any nation. U.S. support for Afro-Asian demands for self-determination in Angola, which the Portu guese regard not only as deser tion if an ally but as inconsis tent with previous U.S. policy holding that Portuguese reten tion of its overseas territories was essential to African secur ity and stability. The Portuguese contend that some weapons captured In the fighting cane from Czechoslo vakia and Italy and outers trom Irish forces formerly stationed with the U.N. in the Congo. It is a further source of irri tation to the Portuguese to sug gest that theirs is a colonial economy dependent on overseas possessions. To this they reply that they are spending more in Africa than they are taking out, and that the last six-year-plan for Angola ending in 1964 called for expenditures of $165 million, naif of it coming from Angola itself and the other half from metro politan Portugal and interna tional institutions. The Portuguese say further that Portuguese law prohibits the taking of land from Africans but rather requires new settlers to take land not yet occupied. Their work code, they say. is the best in Africa, pointing out especially that such new na tions as Ghana, Guinea and Ni geria all have compulsory work laws while Angola does not. Development in Angola, while slow, is progressing. It has an oil refinery and plans are in the works for a steel mill. Small industries also are developing. Geologists who have been per mitted to explore are awed by its potential mineral wealth. Sept. 16 communications, please find enclosed two cents for the help-get-Ralph-out-of-the-Coun- try-Fund." His going would not be our loss but our gam. We feel this is the least he can do for "his" country. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Allison 1800 Myers Lane Medford What's Inside To the Editor: Several weeks ago the Editor drove by the emergency classrooms on the front lawn of the High School and wrote an editorial comment ing upon the lack of attractive ness of the buildings, and their qualifications as eye-sores in the community. While it is true that they are far from esthetically perfect, viewed externally, they happen to make quite adequate class rooms. They are well-furnished, well-lighted, and compare fa vorably with other classrooms at the High School. Even the heat is no greater than that of any other classroom. We who have espoused the Christian faith have always maintained that it's "what's in side that counts." Clifford J. Young Keeneway at Ridgeway Medford Motorbike Dangers To the Editor: No doubt you as well as I have been reading with concern the useless slaugh ter of teen-agers in cars on our highways, truly the cream of our crop. Now comes the motorbike, etc., whereby two teen-agers often ride as those two boys who lost their lives recently on Black- well hill. As you know there is no protection on these death traps. We go to great lengths to pick our lawmakers to help us and try to use some method to halt this useless slaughter, but are they doing anything about this? Of course they are drawing their pay from our tax money. But truly what else? Now I am going out on a limb and suggest some method by which some of this killing might cease. If we can only wake our law makers up, or we will lose more young men like David L. White and Paul C. Thompson, as there are thousands more on our highways. Now, Mr. Lawmaker, why not enact a law whereby it is illegal for any teen-ager to op erate a motorbike unless he has passed a driver s test and se cured an Oregon driver's li cense. Probably this would stop a small or large percentage of useless killings. I believe any worthwhile suggestion is worth a try. Floyd Price Box 157 Butte Falls, Ore. 0 Editors note: It is now against the law to operate any kmd of motor vehicle on puhlie highways and streets without a valid driver's license. Matter of Fact cl New YorJcJJeaJdrTnuntSvndleale VERY UGLY STUFF SAIGON, South Viet Nam-As an indicator of the atmosphere now prevailing here, nothing will serve better than the bizarre explanation o f Gen. de Gaulle's lofty, mysteri ous recent state ment about the Vietnamese civ il war. D e Gaulle's statement was Alum In fact the visi ble part of a most peculiar ice berg. Here is the much larger, hitherto invisible part which is also the really ugly part, it must be added. Beginning, then, at the begin ning, the time when the French tried to remove President Ngo Dinh Diem and replace him with the leading Saigon gangster, "General" Bai Vien, has long since been forgotten by Diem and his brother, Councillor Ngo Dinh Nhu. In the last year, in deed, the French Ambassador to Saigon, Roger L'Alouette, has been one of Ngo Dinh Nhu's most frequent visitors. Judging by the account of these visits given by Nhu him self to this reporter, they have usually followed a rather stand ard pattern. Hints that the U. S. policy of support for South Viet Nam really conceals a plan to destroy Ngo Dinh Nhu and his brother have been combined with liberal doses of flattery of a type that might have made Louis XIV blush. e 'THIS preparatory process for so it must be considered continued until the beginning of the severe Buddhist crisis here. The Buddhist crisis in turn produced an almost more severe crisis of nerves in the Gia Long palace, where Diem and Nhu have their joint headquarters. Cowardice is not a characteris tic of the Ngo clan, but both sus picion and vanity mounted al most to the point of mania, where they still remain. this was the situation in Sai gon when the Communist boss of North Viet Nam. Ho Chi Minh, chose to give an interview to the stooge Communist jour nalist, Wilfred Burchett. Ho Chi Minh declared that "foreign" (meaning American) "interven tion must cease." But in this event, he added, a "ceasefire could presumably be arranged," and relations between North and South Viet Nam could be placed on a new footing. HARD on the heels of the Ho Chi Minh interview, there was another, most curious event. As President Diem himself de scribed it to me, the French Del egate-General in Hanoi, Jacques Debuzon, "wanted a little change of air." He asked if he might come down here, which the Commu nists used to object to," Presi dent Diem continued. "But this time they let him come. And you know, that was not the odd est thing about it, either. When M. L Alouette brought him to see me, he did not have much to say, except that Ho Chi Minh had quite changed his way of talking about me. It used to be 'Diem the feudalist, Diem the betrayer. Diem the American puppet, but now, the French man told me, it is "Diem the good Vietnamese, Diem who is after all a patriot.' I was sur prised, I must say." Like a diapason following a tender chord, the de Gaulle statement chimed admirably with these public and private messages from Ho Chi Minh. The circumstances of its publica tion were a bit singular. As it was privately made by Presi dent de Gaulle to his Council of Ministers, it resembled some thing said by the President of the United States to the Nation al Security Council. But out it came, in a government press re lease. e e TE GAULLE said that France " was ready to do everything aaaWane 'Tainting eat horn per ttlrkeri don't like helps prevent accidents II I bad for people to get angry while driving!" t 9 By Joseph Alton) possible "to organize cordial co operation" in Viet Nam, so that all the people of Viet Nam might live "in independence" (of the Americans, no doubt) and in "peace and amity" with one an other. What de Gaulle proposed, in fact, was not very far from what Ho Chi Minh had proposed. The follow-up of the de Gaulle statement was even stranger than the preceding concatenation of events. After the statement, the French Ambassador paid a "short, purely formal call" on President Diem, whose own de scription of this meeting is here cited. But he paid a much longer call on Councillor Nhu, to urge that the opportunity offered by de Gaulle should not be neglect ed. Possibly L'Alouette believes some of his own compliments to Nhu. "He is always saying that I am the only man who counts in this country," the Councillor re marked to me. OR did the French Ambassa 1" dor's efforts stop there. "At L'Alouette's request - and urg ing," (again, the words are Nhu's own) the acting Polish member of the International Control Commission, Dr. Mie czyslaw Maneli, then came to see the Councillor. Besides urg ing upon Nhu all the arguments already urged by L'Alouette, Maneli carried a personal mes sage from the Prime Minister of North Viet Nam, Pham Van Dong. "Pham Van Dong's message begged me to open negotiations on the basis of Ho Chi Minh's cease-fire proposal," Nhu said to me. "Many details were spelled out. It was almost an at tractive offer, but, of course, I had to tell the Pole that I could not open negotiations behind the backs of the Americans, when you were aiding us so import antly. That was out of the ques tion. "After that we had an inter esting talk. He told me that as a Communist, he considered me the only serious theorist of guer rilla warfare in the non-Communist world. And at the end, he said he would wait for a differ ent reply from me 24 hours a day. At any time of the day or night, he said, I could call upon him, and he would fly that in stant to Hanoi." SUCH is the story, except that Councillor Nhu also re marked that he had not told his brother, the President, about this approach from Hanoi, spon sored by the French Ambassa dor and transmitted by the Pole. He explained that it would have been passed on by President Diem to the cabinet, "which would have caused a stir." This somewhat astounding de tail, revealing so much about the real relation between the two brothers, was confirmed the next day during the interview with the President. Asked about approaches from Hanoi, he re plied with obvious sincerity that he had had none at all of any consequence. There was nothing except the Debuzon message, he said, which he then recited. The publication of these transactions will no doubt cause them to be strenuously denied by all par ties. Yet they are here related precisely as described by two of the participants. President Diem and his brother. Allowance must of course be made for the fact that Ngo Dinh Nhu clearly hoped to gain lever age by describing the French sponsored, Polish transmitted approach from Hanoi asking him, as he put it himself, "to open negotiations behind the backs of the Americans." But even after such allowance is made, the facts all too clearly point to a French intrigue the word is not too strong rather cleverly aimed to defeat Amer ican policy here by playing upon the exacerbated vanity and manic suspicion of U.S. purposes which now prevail in the Gia Long palace.