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FRIDAY, KDroBDjJmuin " TCveryona In Southern Oregon Rd The Mail Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by 13 North fir St, Ph. 77II-S141 BOBEHT W HUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising. Manaier GERALD T. LATHAM, Bm MT ERIC W ALLEN JR Mn. Editor EARL tt AUAMB, wiy tailor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Ed tor OLIVE STAKLiiEK women i aiu DALE ER1CKS0N, Circulation Mp An Independent Newipapei Entered ai aecond elate matter al Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ba Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year llj.po Dally ana ounaay e mu.. Daily and Sunday 3 moa. SOU Sunday Only One year M.OO Simla Copy (Mailed) JOe By Carrier And Motor Route, ilaily and Sunday 1 year 21.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.70 Chibu rtnlw 1 mn. 900 Carrier and Vendors Copy lOo fitflelal Paper of City of Mediord OMlclal raper oi cwon ,uug United Press International O. P. X. Telephoto Newspjcturei sun ieBseo wire MEMBER OF AUDIT bureau rIe'rTsToc;. atvq nrflrM in New York. Chi- ca.ro, Detroit, San rnmcisco, Los Angeles, seixue, r o r Denver. NlWIPA'lt rUlllH!$ ASSOCIATION RATION At EOlTORIAt Member California Newipaper PubUahera AuoclaUon Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1953 (Sunday) A total of $68,388.42 has been contributed so far to the United Medford Crusade. Win Carl of Medford has been elected president of the Jackson County Young Republicans Club, succeeding Robert Dickey, Med ford attorney. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 8. 1943 (Monday) Maj. Roy Craft, former Med ford resident, receives citation for Leeion of Merit from Gen. Simon Bolivar Bucknor during action in Alaska. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A bill Introduced in Congress would abolish war time. The change would make no great difference, and 'the Crack of Dawn' would crack when it got ready." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1933 (Wednesday) Floyd Hart, Medford, suffers minor injury in airplane crash near Portland which kills four fiersons, including noted Port and surgeon en route to per form operation in Medford. E. E. Kelly scheduled to give principal address for Medford Armistice day observance; oth er events include parade and Medford-Eurcka football game at Van Scoyoc field. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1923 (Thursday) Three D'Autremont brothers expected to be indicted by Jack Ron County grand jury In Sis kiyou tunnel train holdup and murder case. Auto, motorcycle races, pa rade, and Medford-Ashland foot ball game scheduled for Med ford Armistice day celebration. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1913 (Saturday) Medford Star theater features Ivanhoe, with King Baggot in the title role of a "lavish 525,000 production," and two reels of the Giants vs. the Athletics in the 1013 World Series. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It superior; aeven or eight Is excellent; five or til Is good. 1. In boxing, what part of the human anatomy is the button? 2. Is invention of the bicycle tire credited to an American, Englishman, French man or Irishman? 3. Laos is a part of South Vict Nam; true or false? 4. Would a biding contest be sack race, quilting bee, or log-rolling contest? 5. Would a scsqulcentcnnial be an anniversary denoting 50, 75 or 150 years? 6. If the delegate's speech was reported to have been acri monious, would that signify that it was caustic, or pleasant? 7. What country lies along the Western border or Laos.' 8. The number from which another number is to be sub tracted is called the what? 9. The closed shop was banned by what labor law? 10. Name the three types of gloves in basball. Answers. 1. Point of Ihe chin. 1 Irish (Dunlop). 1. False. 4. Log-rolling 5. 150. 6. Caustic, 1. Thailand. 8. Minuend. S. Tift Hartley Act (Labor Manage ment Act of 1947). 10 Fielder's, catcher'fi tint bateman'i. 4 A Km NOVEMBER 8, 1963 Sound Tax Program Needed The legislators who Monday are hardly to tough row to hoe, and or flon t ao, tney are going to be criticized. Consider: If they cut the full $60 million from the budget, as a result of the tax' bill defeat at the Oct. lo election, they arable damage to services in a state which has been living beyond its If they cut part of this amount, and dig up the rest through legislative patch-work, they will be accused of shirking their responsibilities, ana postponing any real I IKEWISE, if they make a studied attempt to J-4 work out a tax program which will enable the state to get by, they could well be accused or ignoring the will of anotner referendum. And, all the time, they will have to remember that the voters are going to demand a chance to pass on any major been warned that either sales tax the two most will be referred it passed bv this session. Faced with these troubling facts, they still realize that they are going to have to do some thing to get Oregon out of the fiscal mess it is now in. MUMEROUS proposals have been made al 11 ready, and more will be. for a solution. Since the season is We think the Legislature should either cut basic school support or (and there are sound to a point comparable to cut the budget (or let the Governor do it) to a necessary point; and pick up as much money as possible through patch-work. Then it should reconstitute the existing in terim tax committee and enlarge it to include representatives of all the various groups which are actively proposing various sorts and kinds of sales taxes.. Then it should recess for a couple of months and let the committee work out the best tax program it can come up with, presum ably a sales tax designed to reduce property taxes as well as raise new monies. , IT COULD then reconvene, pass the measure 1 and refer it to a vote of the people at the May primary election. Unless something of this sort is done, there will be a variety of possible results, none of them pleasant. This program will, in part, satisfy those calling for economy ; it will be f acintr uv to their responsibiity to keep the state solvent; it will nrnvi'dp a snlirl haao fnr fho mfiS mccion t n r-- - on (presuming, or course, the people approve the plan) ; it will be giving a chance to be heard to many of the most thoughtful tax people in the state, and, very important, it will head off a rash of tax initiatives, up with special purposes It is. after all. the iob legislate. 'PHIS, in essence, is the suggestion of the Pen A dleton East Oregonian, and also is close to proposals made elsewhere. The East Oregonian says: ". . . Let's put the sales tax job on one table and then invite everybody Interested in the job to sit down and help. "Oregon's fiscal problems are very large and very pressing now. By 1965 they will be much larger and much more pressing. The situation requires that a sales tax be submitted to the voters next year. But it must be a sales tax that Is designed to meet long range, not short range, demands upon state government. That re quires that all who can make worthwhile contributions participate in the drafting of a sales lax. This Legislature in Its special session can and should establish that type of forum." A short special session, operating under myriad pressures, is not likely to come un with a workable program. But an enlarged tax com mittee, given a lew could. E. A. Q. E. D. Over the state, there have been sharp crit icisms voiced of various public officials for cut ting funds for welfare and education and other functions of government. Many of these criticisms are coming from the very people who were so outraged by the "threats" voiced by public officials before the election as to what they would have to do if the tax measure was defeated. They were not threats; thev were simple statements of cause and against the tax measure, lars from my operatintr nappen. 1 hat s what MOW that lliey are proceeding to do just that, 1 they are accused of being "heartless, anti education, anti-poor old folk, anti-poor hungry children" and the rest. The voters, in their wisdom, decided that the budget was too big. or that taxes were too high, or both. The results are turning out to be pretty much what was predicted prior to the election. They weren't threats: thev were wurninirs. And now the things are coming to pass, The ultimate result may not be all bad, if it turns out to be a workable and acceptable tax program. But severe damage will have been done in the mean time.-E. A. convene in Salem next be envied. They have a no matter what they do will do severe and irren- means for vears. solution until 1965. the people and face tax revision. Thev have a cigarette tax or a - trequently mentioned open, here's one: let the Governor do it reasons for the latter) last year's level: also wu w Ku most of them drawn in mind. of the Legislature in months to do the iob. effect. "If you vote and I llUlSt CUt X dol- funds, this is what will!?1''- 10 m sicclflc they were saying. that were warned about Cold War At Home Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the Ithouah under certain circumstances 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 printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tr paper. In fact the contrary it often the case. MID Election To the Editor: Last week I was privileged to sit in with the members of the Fruit Growers League as they 'Were tearing the good name of our Jackson ville director of Medford Irriga tion District to shreds, I thought at times I would burst. Such lies as they had conceived could only come from a heartless, thoughtless, cruel person. They gave me a printed sheet, then gave me four more sheets of the same, asking me lo show them to people and swear they were true. Of course I knew that the District had borrowed $2 mil lion, but I was unaware that it was for the purpose of re ducing the upkeep expenses without building new syphons and fjumes, also for cement lining and tiling, widening the ditches where there was flood danger. Now the opponents want lo clean house, with help who have been with the com pany (or years. What would hap pen to these men in the jobless months ahead, and most of all to the men's morale, after years of the hardest toil and the feel ing of confidence that they will get fair treatment until they retire? Who will replace them? And why should they be re placed? There are 200,000 unspent dol lars. Would the opposition be selfishly considering tiling and lining the ditches along the pear orchards? The setup as it is now has asked for a longer period than the loan deadline to put the improvements in the most need ed places. Are we willing to trust funds lo new men who would order a second audit which matches the July, '63 audit? The first bi was $660, now you add the second audit to that. Who will pay it? You, Brother, and "us" sisters. What would you say if you are faced with a head gate charge? Campaign promises, "the taxes will remain the same we will just reach in your other pockets, and come up with a head gale charge." At the Oak Grove School grounds, there will be an election be tween the hours ot 8- and 5 for a Medford irrigation director. If your husband can't be there, the wife may go and vote. Now are we going to make the black est of Xs or are we going to bow to one leader? Let's up hold the high standards of our country and flood the voting booths with confidence for our Medford irrigation director, Al bert lluener, and keep our good manager Jack Hoflbuhr and his crew. On Nov. 12, '63, between 8 and 5 o'clock, you can retain a man who lives in our neigh borhood or an onion grower residing in Rogue River Dis trict. Please vole. Harriet Gibbs 1375 S. Columbus Ave. Medford. Segregated Mankind To the Editor: The savant- ti(twlnr nf llin Dnale Cnrnn Mr. Arnold Eugene Jenny, on in your column lo my name and personal ignorance and preju dice, while writing on racial is sues, quoting from a Yale pro fessor who ' "referred lo the extraordinary capacity of the human mind to withstand Ihe introduction of new k n o w 1- edge." ' This statement is of course a two-way street and might be used against Mr. Jen ny. Mr. Jenny sits on a summit and selects and rejects whom he considers worthy company with him in his lofty corner. This writer several times at tempted lo scale his walls, without success. Mr. Jenny has an aversion it seems, (or originality, which is not unusual (or "authorities" ment per se. Indeed, it was only of all ages. He prefers to pub-1 after the collective security sys lish in his column only thfr,tried 1 tern collapsed that the UN firn- MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON name and address of the writer. the use of a pen name or initial exceed 400 words. The letters and true classics and poems of new writers which fit precisely the rules laid down by gram marians, lexicogaphers, and authors of poetry manuals. He detests the unusual, the s t a r tlingly original thought, and po etic imagery which does not immediately waken in his own prosaic consciousness. His con dition, common to all art edi tors in America, has always kept this country in the back seat from the standpoint of cul ture. Mr. Jenny does not realize that "authorities" are made to be questioned, as his 192 an thropologists, and of course the 80 dogmatic clergymen. It is of course against good taste to speak out against negrophilism, as it is to question the divinity of Christ. Yet Voltaire did the latter, and bold writers have dared to do the former. No men tion has ever been made in these discussions of the native aborigines of Australia. Mr. Jenny and Mr. E. A. do not wish to segregate white, yellow, and black people, yet they will segregate without hesitation men from women, and dogs from cats. If these were not segregated, they would under normal conditions segregate themselves, as Jews from Gen tiles, and sheep from cattle. Man, the most cunning of ani mals, is segregated from all others to the extent that mil lions think they are not even animals, in the way that ele phants are animals. Yet the only significant way that man differs from "lower" animals is by way of intelligence and cul ture. Birds fly, and fishes swim, serpents crawl and bees gather honey; but Man thinks. The races of humans evolved or were created in different areas of the earth when travel and migration was difficult to im possible, and became different in culture and biology. To say that all are the same or "equal because human" is foolish, or else the lion equal to man be cause also "animal", might be Bin to contest for his supremecy over the earth by default of atomic weapons. Ralph McKinnis P.O. Box 321 Ashland, Ore. What The V. N. It To the Editor: In the interest of truth, I feel compelled to pro test the absurd charges leveled at the United Nations in a letter appearing in this column on Nov. 3 signed by Frank Koch of Central Point. Because its implications are many and vital, I wish, first, to answer his charge that the UN Charter has precedence over the U. S. Constitution. This is simply not so. The UN Charter itself explicitly states: "The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all us memners. (Chapter 1, Article 2, Section 1) "Not one of the major coun tries was willing to sacrifice its national sovereignty to the Uni ted Nations and it was the U. S. Government which insisted along with the Soviet Union on the 'veto' power for the big five nations in the Security Council as a means of protect ing national interests. . . It is plainly evident that the United Nations was never intended to be a super state. II was given no attributes of statehood; it has no power to conscript a soldier levy a tax or enforce a decision. It was and is an organiza tion whose members are sover- ; eign slates, united in Ihe desire ; to prevent this world from be- ing blown up." (FACTS FOR FALLACIES, U. S. Committee for the United Nations. 375 Park Avenue, New York 22, N. Y., March, 1963, pp. 4-5) And it is precisely this final point which Mr. Koch entire ly overlooks, or chooses lo avoid i. e., that the primary quest of , the UN is peace, not disarms Berlin and Points in Cold War Khrushchev PHIL NEWSOM UPI Forelm News Analyst In a reflective mood, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev once remarked that eventually the Germans will want "an other Rapallo" and when that moment came, the Soviets would be ready to receive them. The reference was to the Treaty of Rapallo concluded be Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprises. Inc. COMMUNICATION VS. DIALOG One of the big and important words of the last decade is communication." It is consid ered to be a wholly good thing; tne more tne better. If we could but communicate with one an other more effectively, many of our problems would be solved, our conflicts eased. It may seem strange for a writer to minimize the influence of "communication," but I think most of us are suffering from a gross Illusion. What the world lacks is not communication there is enough, and perhaps too much, of this but dialog. Dialog consists of a speaker and a receiver, who keep in terchanging these roles. Com munication, as such, is too often a speaker who only speaks and a receiver who only receives. But this is not a living transac tion, it is a mechanical thing, and has little human value. As Ortega wryly remarks In one of his books, "The idea that by means of speech we can arrive at understanding Is an age-old misconception, and It makes us talk and listen in such good faith that often we understand far less than If we kept silent and at tempted simply to guess one another's thoughts." When we read the best writ ers, we feel that they are con ducting a dialog with us, not merely "communicating" their ideas as an orator or a politician may do. The best writers touch us in our in most parts, provoke a reac tion (whether of agreement or disagreement, it does not mat ter), and we find ourselves ed to the disarmament arms control approach. Contrary to Mr. Koch's asser tion, I would submit that the real "death trap lies not in the UN, nor in controlled, mul tilateral disarmament, ,but in the continuation of the ever spiraling arms race. Further, I contend that tne uin is vital in providing a forum for im mediately available, direct, and continuous communication Be tween and among all nations (especially in this era of push button warfare); and secondly in serving as a buffer between the U. S. and Russia, as in the Coneo. for example, when, be cause the UN went in (at the request of the Congolese gov ernment) the U. S. and Russia stayed out, thus avoiding a di rect East - West confrontation. perhaps even averting World War III. One final comment: In con sidering Mr. Koch's arguments I was reminded of the oDserva- tion attributed to a noted Ox ford scholar that the major bar rier to world peace is the limit ed perspective of the individual Mrs. Betty Walters 520 Liberty St. Ashland, Ore. Record Set Straight To the Editor: I am wonder ing if Mr. Schumpf wrote his letter (Sunday, Nov. 3) in re gard to Senate Bill 50 from his own experience or was he writ ing what someone told him. I am inclined to believe the latter, due to the many misstatements he made. In the first place there is a health problem concerned, but not as Mr. Schumpf makes out as refcring to the sanitary con ditions of the laboratory or wait ing room. The health problem is the fact an improperly re paired denture can cause can cer In the mouth. Or, as is not uncommon, a dentist will recog nize a potentially cancerous con dition in the mouth or a patient who brings his denture in for a repair, but which needs more than a repair. Mr. Schumpf mentions the dentist sends the denture to be repaired to his laboratory, which takes two or three days before it is returned. I am sure if he had inquired, he would be ashamed to make such a mis statement. Also I know of no dentist who will not send his prosthetic work to any qualified laboratory the patient suggests. As to the costs, I cannot quota, but I do know there is bo T) Divided Germany Remain Focal tween Germany and Commu nist Russia in 1922 at the Ital ian resort town close to Genoa. The treaty accorded favored nation treatment to each In the matter of trade and came as a shock to the Western Allies who first had fought the Rus sian revolution and then had sought accord with the Commu nists in a conference at Genoa. In the conference, the Rus sians had shown little interest in reaching agreement with the Western powers and the treaty with the Germans not only came as a surprise, it suggest ed the beginning of a new power alliance in Europe. It Is a lesson in history not not only answering them but also talking with ourselves, as if one part of our person ality were opening itself to the other. Abstract subjects, factual statements, can be communi cated; but the closer we get to the human level, the more basic we become, the more arises tne need for eenuine dialog between persons, in which the tone, the gesture (as it were), and the unvoiced nu ances of feeling are as impor tant as the words and phrases themselves. "I believe, therefore," Ortega goes on to say, "that the meas ure of a book is the author's ability to imagine his reader concretely and to carry on a kind of hidden dialog with him, in which the reader perceives from between the lines the touch as of an ectoplasmic hand that feels him, caresses him or deals hint an occasional gentle manly mow." Communication that is ad dressed to everyone and to no one is either trivial or preten tious; it is spoken in a void, to a faceless audience; and since it does not impel us to resonate with response, it fails to create any real relationship while true dialog (so rare these days) has for its high and final end the forming of a right relationship. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, this dis patch has just come over the wires from Moscow: Premier Khrushchev said to day that if the American army had tried to force its latest Ber lin convoy through a Soviet blockade it would have had to ROLL OVER OUR DEAD BODIES," and possibly would have TRIGGERED WAR. He added: "The Russians agreed to lift a two -day -old blockade of 44 American soldiers on the Ger man autobahn ONLY AFTER THEY HAD OBEYED SOVIET CONTROL PROCEDURES. "It is difficult to say what would have happened if they had not agreed to that procedure. It is possible that you and I would not be here today. We would NOT have yielded. 'We didn t want friction of that sort. Our desire is to have good and friendly relations." PREMIER KHRUSHCHEV was addressing a visiting dele gation of U. S. business execu tives, in Berlin on a tour spon sored by Time magazine. Fol lowing his statement that if our convoy had not obeyed Soviet control procedures there would have been shooting, he was asked by a member of the American delegation: "Are you saying that if we can't agree over the procedures on the autobahn you would give an order that would result in shooting and possible war?" 1ZHRUSHCHEV replied: "No, we gave no such order, but there is an estab- "Office Call" charge. I also know a good many dentists who have made no charge in hard ship cases even when the lab oratory charged him. Of course there are a great number of people who hate to pay a dentist and attempt to save a dollar by patronizing an illegal operation, but it was for their protection this law was passed. In the same line of thought one of the labora tories mentioned as closed was run by a former baker who called in the state bakery in spectors to stop a lady baking wedding cakes in ner own Kit chen for a fee. This was his Derogative as there is a state law against unregistered bak eries, but It points up the fallacy of his position. Thank you Mr. Editor for al lowing me to set the record straight. E. T. Anderson, C.D.T. 1005 E. Main St. Medford lost unon President Charles de Gaulle of France who has sought constantly to firm his ties to West Germany and whose fear has been that West Germany might first go neutral and then for the soke of reunifi cation seek ties with the Soviet Union. In this sense then, the crises which wax and wane over Ber lin might more aptly be termed crises in a struggle to change the balance of power in Europe. As with other goals of world communism, Communist objec tives in Germany have not changed since World War II al though tactics have varied as the mood has switched between patience and impatience. One Soviet view has been that sooner or later West Germany must suffer an economic crisis, and that such a crisis would make the West Germans sus ceptible to the lure of Soviet trade. It was in this vein that Khru shchev talked this week to 20 top American executives. "I can say," he declared. "that if the Socialist revolution should win in West Germany, and I cannot now say when that will happen, then I have Love Thy Neighbor -And Avoid Him vj By Arthur Hoppe TvS-J'h WILTON PARK, England -Ah, International understanding! Our two pastoral, stimulating weeks at this best of all possible international conferences has come to an end. We have toast ed Her Majesty the Queen at the Warden's farewell banquet. We have bade farewell to each oth er. And I'm so loaded with in ternational understanding, I smile beatifically in my sleep. And the first thing I've come to understand internationally is that everybody hates each other. The Dutch hate the Germans who despise the Italians who loathe the Austrlans who can't abide the Swiss who, being neu tral, aren't very fond of every body equally. And the British, of course, approve of everyone. Everyone who is British. Which all goes to prove my thesis that if we get enough in- lished procedure. If this pro cedure is not followed, then they are not allowed to pass through. It is a matter of a soldier being a soldier. He has operational in structions, and if someone wants to break through then it is time in the natural course of things that force will be met by force." He added that the Americans were held up "until they agreed to do what they had been doing for a great many years in the past." 1WE Moscow dispatch adds: Premier Khrushchev's version of the convoy's passage was at variance with that of the U. S. Army which reported that its 12-truck convoy finally had been allowed by five Russian personnel carriers to proceed WITHOUT OBEYING SOVIET INSTRUCTIONS to lower tail gates and have soldiers dis mount from the trucks. 1 ''HERE'S a screw loose some- where. As it stands now, it appears that SOMEBODY backed down. Mr. Kroosh says he didn't. We say we didn't. rpHIS fact stands out: The experiment in friend ly co-operation between the So viet Union and the U.S.A. (as exemplified by the test ban treaty) doesn't seem to be working out as smoothly as one could nope. BWWIill! MVIffi tV I'fiuirji - - -v-fc-.i "Yoo men. you government utthoqi Reminds considerable hopes that Gcr-. many would be re-united. A Socialist victory, he said, was only a question of time. J Until such a time, he said, ' the question probably cannot be solved. The Soviets this week also ' showed the West the other side ' of the coin. That was the Soviet - imposed ' blockade of an American con-' voy en route to Berlin through East Germany. Since 1958 and the Soviet threat to sign a separate peace ' treaty with East Germany, the Soviets have known that the surest and quickest way of fore-: ing a reopening of talks on the German question has been tu . threaten Berlin's communica tions with the West. And it may be now that Khrushchev has decided that events have made this a good -time for such talks to be re newed to the Soviet advantage. The blockade also served as a reminder that, regardless of nuclear test ban treaties or of bickering among "the Western Allies over the future of NATO, Berlin remains the No. 1 prob lem of Europe and the flash point of a possible war. ternational understandine. we're going to have a war. Of course, it's nothine per sonal. We 28 Fellows from nine nations got along famously. We are, truly, all the best of friends. Personally. But it does help to explain my European ' colleagues' attitude toward the United Nations. One of the last of the score of ' brilliant speakers who came to lecture us was a British U. N. ' expert. He gave what I thought an eloquent, rational plea for ; support of the U. N. And when ' it was over I settled back for ' the usual plaudits you would ex- pect in the U. S. 'r Wow! The Swiss were neutral, ' the British supercilious, the Aus- -trians were skeptical and the ,. Germans were downright hos tile. We shouldn't abolish the U. N., everyone agreed." Not ex actly. But we certainly shouldn't have any faith, trust or confi- ' dence in such a naive, idealistic, -unworkable idea as that. The . poor U. N. man, he was lucky .. to get out alive. . And I suddenly realized that all our two weeks' talk about the Common Market and Gen eral de Gaulle and the Outer Seven was really talk about power blocs and resolving olr! enmities. And I felt that Europe today was trying to prevent World War III with the same methods it used to prevent World War II. And World War I and the 2000 years of wars be fore that. And I was sad. Then, on the last day, the Warden summed up the confer ence with an equally eloquent " and rational plea for an "At lantic Community" between America and a United Europe. Everybody applauded. Every- body but me. I know my European friends are going to be mad at me. And I'm truly sorry. But I'm not at all sure our future lies in a close alliance with Europe. I think it lies with the United Nations and the whole world. And I don't, think anymore that we can have both. Well, that's the way it goes. The British Foreign Office spent ? two weeks and a lot of money on this conference to promote my international understanding and, I suspect, the concept of Atlantic Union. And now I'm against it. But that's interna tional understanding for you. The more we understand our neighbor, the more we love him. And the less we want to have to do with him. can't you ever run at least one scandal:" I
