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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.
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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
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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:"
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