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Mail Tribune- 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
no,, i lo.vt (Tursdav)
City crews were husy pulling
up new street decorations today
in preparation (or Mcdford's
gala Christmas opening tumui
row evening.
Search is continuing for a 13-year-old
Phoenix girl who dis
appeared eight days ago; foul
play is feared.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 1. l!it:t (Wednesday)
Cpl. Bill J. Lorton, Medford,
inrinrir.il iii a list of American
servicemen held as prisoners of
war hy Japanese.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
"smnrlno Pnt" column: "A new
product advertises 'Writes dry
with wet ink.' H is a flare-back
in n.iiiiirians nf the Prohibition
ers, who talked dry and drank
get."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 1, 1933 (Friday)
Medford High School football
learn defeats Bend, 7 to 0, for
slate championship; Max Gilin
sky scores touchdown and Bill
Bates also stars.
U. S. Department of Com
merce figures show Jackson
County fifth in the nation in
production of pears.
411 YEARS AGO
Dee. 1, 11I23 (Saturday)'
.lorry Jerome blinded tempor
arily when tire he was fixing
exploded, blow ing sand and dust
in his eves.
Mrs. J. J. Murphy, Ashland,
member of family (or whom
Neil creek was named, dies.
50 YEARS AGO
Dee. 1, 11113 (Monday)
S. Meyers purchases ranch in
Antelope area from Ralph Cow-
n,ll (nr Sl IMM)
Insurance man reports that
Jackson county couruiouse, con
structcd fur $20,(100, is now in
sured by $:!3,000.
What's Your I.Q.?
sj.na i. rnwtmet It aunarlarl
seven or eight Is aicallant; five or
sik it good.
1. The praying mantis insect
Is harmless to man; true or
false?
2. Where Is the Acropolis lo-
caled.'
3. The noled Blarney Stone Is
in a cawio in acotiana, uoiann,
or wales."
4. Is il true, or false, Ihat the
only incla'.s used to coin money
have been gold and silver?
5. Frederic Chopin, noted conv
poser, was of Polish, Russian,
or Czech birth?
fl. The parliament of the new
West German Republic meets
in which German City?
7. Which early explorer ol
tho new world was searching
for the Seven Cities of Cibola?
8. Does tlie Danube River flow
Into the Medilerranean, the
Aegean, or the Black Sea?
9. The North Pole is in the
Arclic; where is Ihe South Pole?
10 Is Ihe planet Jupiter larg
er or smaller than Ihe earth?
Answer:l. True. 2. Athens.
3. Ireland. 4. False. 5. Polish,
ft. Bonn. 7. Francisco Coronadn.
. Black Sea. . Antarctic. 10.
Larger.
4 A
PA-SOCIATION
DECEMBER 1, 1963
Violence and
The proverbial aftermath of violence is re
pression, borne restrictive
of Congress as the result
assassination, although in
the funeral it is diiticult to speculate as to sub
ject matter.
Certain to be debated publicly is the easy
availability of high-powered weapons. The owner
of a Chicago sporting goods firm from which
the murder carbine "probably" was bought by
mail order said on Nov. 24 that hundreds of com
panies were in the same business.
That the gun allegedly was bought under an
assumed name only aggravated the issue.
A N ATTEMPT on the
Truman in November, 1950, created irara&
diate speculation that the
security Act might be
tive.
Actually, Congress failed to act on this threat
and at the next session eased Department of Jus
tice regulations under the McCarran Act that
created hardships tor immigrants.
But in the more distant past the public will
has been expressed more directly. What would
have happened after the Civil War had Presi
dent Lincoln lived is of course a matter of specu
lation. Certainly, however, his successor, Presi
dent Andrew Johnson, was unable to keep the
reconstruction period from being much more dif
ficult for the South than it would have been had
Booth not fired his fatal shot.
IN A CONTROVERSY with Congress over the
President's power over
May 26, 1865, proclaimed
federates except certain
abolish slavery and ratify the 13th Amendment
to the Constitution.
States doing so added anti-Negro provisions
that enraged Congress, which had intended to
enfranchise all Negroes and disenfranchise for
mer Confederates. Congress restored military
control over the South.
Then Johnson removed Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War, without notifying the Senate,
thus repudiating the Tenure of Office Act. For
this and other reasons, the House of Representa
tives impeached him. The Senate on May 26,
1868 voted .15 for conviction, 19 for acquittal,
lacking the two-thirds necessary to convict. He
was not nominated by the next convention of his
party.
THE STATUE which bars anarchists from the
United States was a direct aftermath of the
assassination of President McKinley at Buffalo
in 1901. In his first annual message President
Theodore Roosevelt said such persons "should
be kept out of this country; and if found here
they should be promptly deported to the country
whence they came; and far-reaching provision
should be made for the punishment of those who
stay."
An insane ' man attempted to assassinate
Theodore Roosevelt himself in 1912. No new
inrrlul'if inn !u li'iipnnhln In (Ill's; Jilfpnml lull lllf
successful attempt on the life of President Gar-
finlrl in 1SSI hv a rlisJMimninlprl nr'r'ii'P-KPpkpr had
led to the passage two years later of a basic civil
service measure.
Tim fain woimiliiiir of
cago ill an attempt to assassinate Franklin Roose
velt in 19.S3 was lollowed by demands tor anli-
Pnmininiicl mivwnriiy Tim lirri-Ciwt rn :ti'l ivii ios
of Lee Harvey Oswald
similar agitation. E.U.R.
The Johnson Prospect
The financial comnumilv expresses its poli
tics in terms of shares rather than ballots. Thus
the initial reaction of the New York Stock Ex
change must be taken as a sturdy, even surpris
ing, vote of confidence in the Presidency of Lyn
don B. Johnson. The Dow-Jones industrial aver
age climbed a record-breaking 82. 015 points on
Nov. 26, ami on the following day the market
appeared steady.
The U.S. government bond market was firm
on the first trading day of the Johnson Presi
dency. The sum of these phenomena is that the busi
ness community, rightly or wrongly, believes
that a Johnson administration will be friendly
to it, just as it believed perhaps to its disad
vantage in the case of this year's tax bill that
the Kennedy administration was hostile.
lyilE IMMEDIATE stock market reaction to
1 previous Presidential assassinations or ill
nesses was unpredictable. As assessed by U.S.
News & World Report, the market turned up
after the assassination of President McKinley
and after President Wilson's collapse. After the
death of President Harding in 192o it held strong,
then rose, only to fall again.
The immediate upturn after President Frank
lin D, Roosevelt's cerebral hemorrhage might
have been anticipated, as might the o2-poiiu
plunge after President Eisenhower's heart attack.
The sell-off before the market closed on the
Friday of President Kennedy's assassination was
21.16 points in the Dow-Jones industrial average.
IN NORMAL circumstances, the stock market
is expected to anticipate political trends and
to discount them.
On one aspect the analysts appear to be
agreed: the selling on the Friday of the assassi
nation was by the panicked public; the buying
on Tuesday, after the week end of worrv'and
grief, was by institutions and the Wall Street
professionals. E.R.R.
Repression
action can be expected
of President Kennedy's
the stunned hours after
life of President Harry
new McCarran Internal
made even more restric
the South, Johnson on
an amnesty to all Con
leaders it they would
Mavor Cermak of Chi
will certainly generate
JOHNSON'S NKXT BRIDGE
WASHINGTON As everyone
has already said, President
Johnson's speech to tho joint
session of Congress was a re
markable performance per
fectly suitable in the most dif
ficult circumstances, vigorous
and inspiring, directly calcu
lated to get results, and certain
to reassure the vast overseas
audience that had been waiting
to sec what the new leader of
the United States would be like.
This Johnson performance
was all the more remarkable, il
must be added in all frankness,
because this sort of thing has
never before been Ihe new
President's long suit. Inarticu
lateness has most certainly
never been one of his failings,
but eloquence has not been one
of his gifts cither.
The fact that he attained
genuine eloquence, unmarred
by a false note, is another proof
of the rule Hint the Presidency
has a way of stretching a man
until he fits the requirements of
the office. Eloquence is ry no
means the primary require
ment; hut it is a very impor
tant requirement; and it is
even more important abroad
than it is at home.
w
HENCE every sensible Ameri
can will rejoice that the new
President has triumphantly
passed his first, very hard test
on the world stage, on which
modern American Presidents
arc called upon lo represent
and speak for (his country in a
worthy manner. In every re
snecl. Johnson has made a
conspicuously successful si art
It is important lo underline i
the success ol this beginning,
even at the expense ol reitor-
ating what is obvious, tor ; son will need all his exceptional
rather simple reason. To be Rfts t0 Rct safr,jv across ho
blunt about il. President John-, bridge herein imperfectly de
son has his most dangerous fustJ scrjned
bridges still ahead ol mm.
Whether his Presidency will get
off to a completely successful
start is still an open question.
The test will he the one lie
can continue
emphasized so strongly what
President Kennedy began.
IVlFKinKNT JOHNSON is a
1 formidable man. with bound-, al sl,los manager, said the pro
i. .n .n nn.ini-! gram would reactivate U.S. Rub-
to gel things done. But il is a
reasonable prediction that he
will be unable to maintain this
continuity, which he certainly ; u,r lulal operanon on a par lose jobs as a result ol the pro
desires, 'unless he is able to , with us Seattle operations. gram.
imitate President Truman in at "
least one respect
Truman's first administration
was one of the highest periods
of the American Presidency,
above all memorable lor its
bold and creative new depart
ures. The prime credit must go
to the unassuming little man of
whom Ihe mosl mediocre per-
i (ormaiu'c w as e x p e c I e d by
everyone (including, lo nis
shame, this reporter). Rut this
memorable performance would
hardly have been within Presi
dent Truman's reach if he had
nol wisely kept on duty the
many outstanding public serv
anls," like James V. Forreslal
whom he inherited from Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
President Johnson comes inlo
office just as President Truman
did, with a lew wise friends and
advisors, but with no advisors
wilh direct, detailed, recent ex -
perience of the problems he will
now confront, and with nothing
ilike Ihe personal staff any sue-
cessful President needs. As in
I Truman's case, loo, Johnson is
the kind of ebullient, old - fash -
ioned politician who attracts
harpies - - and the line is of
course forming on the right.
' " '
'IMIl'S, continuity will depend
i in part on President John -
: son's success in repulsing the
iini(M,-.- , -,-.im-timiK i iiaiviini
Truman did not do very success-
fully). Bui continuity will main-
ly depend on President John-
MEDFORD M'.t TRIBUNE. MEDFORD.
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
lc) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
son's success in continuing to
use President Kennedy's best
recruits to the public service,
in the Truman manner.
This will in fact be more
troublesome for Johnson than
for Truman. Far more than
President Roosevelt, President
Kennedy had a strange power
of inspiring close personal at
tachment. President Roosevelt
had inspired this sort of attach
ment in only one exeeplionally
able man. And President Tru
man was unable to keep Harry
L. Hopkins.
Yet almost all the leading,
ablest men of the Kennedy ad
ministration felt about Ken
nedy almost as Hopkins felt
about Roosevelt, though of
course without aspiring to be
the sort of Presidential alter
ego that Hopkins was.
RIGHT there is President
Johnson's human problem.
He has wisely asked all the best
Kennedy-era public servants to
stay on, including the key mem
bers of President Kennedy's
White House stall. There is no
doubt thai he wants Ihcm to
stay on.
In one or two cases, Presi
dent Johnson may not and per
haps should not get what he
wants. For instance, super
human fortitude will be re
quired, or a grave disaster will
be risked, if Attorney General
Robert Kennedy tries to serve
another man as he served his
brother, without afterthoughts
or regrets. But in the great ma
jority of cases, the chief men
who served President Kennedy
have a duly, if only lo Ken-
nnrll-'s momnrv In hrtln lnl,ntnn
cnniinne win TP his nrpHnminr
mi nff
All the same. President Jolin-
U. S. Rubber Planning
Portland Headquarters
nrllTI I Tn itnt n n i
make Portland its sales and dis-
tribulion headquarters (or Ore
gon and southwest Washington.
1,1 "
nl. a. Harvey, western region-
! cr.s district offices and dislri-
bl"lon facility at Kellogg Park
I ln nearby Milwaukie and put
Will Death Shock Us Into Our
By ERIC
SEVAREID
(imirlhulr-fl I9K3,
Hy Thr Hull
S nrllratr, Inc.)
(All Ittchts
Hf-sfn rrt)
We are all of us dazed and
spent at the end ol such a week,
a climacteric in the American'
drama all ol us, those who
; must act, Ihose who wrile and
speak about it, Ihose who read
: and listen and wonder.
j We wonder if our people will
Island togelher now in shocked
I sobriety behind their new lead-:
r, leagued in common sense,!
their heads ruling Iheir unruly
spirits. We wonder if they will
divide even further, as the shock
; wears off, spreading the cancer
spots ol venom Ihat exist in a
thousand places.
This is a fair land For must,
it is a prosperous land. We have
1 always been a people lo whom
the future beckoned more than
iiir pnsi. nr iio.p with mi mi m 1
istic. a moralistic, a passionate i
people. Were we a jaded and
cynical people, perhaps these!
OREGON
IT V
THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS
In the solemn pause while
the President lay dead, there
reigned over the troubled world
an unearthly calm. No one can
suppose it will last. But when
inevitably it ends, we should
make sure to remember it. For
it expressed a profound and
saving truth.
It is that our daily preoccu
pations are not supremely im
portant. It is that the issues
which divide the naiton, which
divide the world, are not the ul
timate concern of mankind.
In the presence of a young
man's death and of his brilliant
promise cut short by the terrible
evil in mankind, the better, na
ture of man was for a time in
command. When next we work
ourselves up into a tantrum
about something or other, let us
remember how small it is in
the perspective of the first and
last things of human experi
ence. REMEMBERING this, let us
begin to look at the unfin
ished business of the state, but
to look at it unhurriedly, not
anxiously, without a compulsion
to start talking and acting for
no better reason than the itch
to do something about some
thing. There is no present
crisis in world affairs, no fire
which (he President must rush
to extinguish.
The gathering in Washington
of Ihe dignitaries from all the
nations was not only an act ol
homage to President Kennedy.
It was also a demonstration to
this nation that there is a
foundation of good feeling on
which it can proceed.
President De Gaulle came
here, I think, to say that the
problem ol readjusting the
Western Alliance to the revival
of Europe is a mailer between
civilized rreri, not tragic or in
soluble. W. Khrushchev sent
his closest associate, Mr. Mik
oyan, to say, I think, that he
ciings to and cherishes the his
toric advance made under Pres
ident Kennedy, which has been
to defuse the cold war.
w
IT IS really unnecessary for
President Johnson to reaffirm
t h e American commitments,
since he has taken part in mak
ing them. There is no need for
him to promise with pedantic
detail that nothing will change.
For in facl the world is chang
ing. There will come before him
the unfinished business of read
justing the polity of Ihe United
Stales lo the changing balance
of power between the old world
and the new.
The old world consists of the
two Europes and Ihe Soviet
Union and, unavoidably, China;
it has changed radically since
World War II, and it is chang
ing rapidly now. The President
should, above all things, not
let himself be rushed into fore
closing the future. It is vain lo
suppose that Ihe United Stales
policy in l!NM and alter can be
or will be a carbon copy of what
it has been during the postwar
era.
The most pressing unfinished
business is here at home.
We have Ihe gigantic work
of adjusting our way of life lo
the scientific revolution of this
age, lo the .stupendous growth
ol (he population and to Ihe
Work for Welfare
Recipients Endorsed
PORTLAND (UPI) - Repre
sentatives ol organized labor
Wednesday endorsed the Mult
nomah County program calling
for welfare recipients to work.
They emphasized, however,
they would walch the effort
closely to see that union and
civil service employes did not
tilings would not have happened.
No one would have cared that
much.
Hut in Ih.ese years, it is clear
now to all, our passions have
taken many crooked courses.
Suspicion and haired have sur-!
mounted trust and love among
too manv large minorities.
lard, tunnelled lumps arc re
vealed at Ihe bottom of the
American melting pot. Almost
daily, legal force must be called
upon to restrain illegal force.
We are deeply infiltrated by
Ihe Negro-haters, the whitc-hai- habits of mind, and have ro-1 identity, and with it their self-
ers. the foreigner-haters, theivealed the naked state of Ihe control
city-haters, government-haters, American soul. The history oil
the haters ol the rich and the j this generation has never al- It is hard enough lo stand
haters ol the poor, those of the .lowed Ihis people lo rest and to, steady during one revolution,
political right who hate andlcalm its spirit. We have been j and we are Irving to endure
Ihose ol the left. I sobered and frightened by a j several at once political, sci-
' " great depression, radically re-ientific. racial, cultural, and
I Americans are struggling for, aligned in the social revolution
Ihe soul of their country. A cen-ithat followed, caught up in two
! liny ago the struggle by means long wars, one in Korea
of free discussion broke down. , that wc could not understand.
The government broke down. : maddened by years ol the devil-
i the nation broke apart. Lincoln theory of politics: we have felt
idled, and vengeance look pos- somehow betrayed hy the ad-
session nf men otherwise gmxi. vance nf world Communbm.
John Kennedy has died in Ihe frustrated bv Ihe jecming lack
midst of this present struggle of results from our own great
for Ihe national soul, a kind of i efforts overseas; we have pack-
1 1 ii w.n, in wn:in inp conons
are many and Ihe battle lines
not very clear. It is not x com-
plele answer lo jay that one in -
Today and
Tomorrow
By Walter tippmann
(CI 1963 Th Wsihinston Pott
conglomeration of great masses
of our people in the cities. These
are the problems of all the mod
ern nations, and they are not
insoluble.
BUT for us the most poignant
unfinished business is also
especially our own. It is to go
on with the task of assuaging
the remaining consequences of
slavery. The sins of the fathers,
which was to contaminate the
land with slavery, are visited
upon us.
Dealing with this original
evil is a task which has for a
hundred years strained deeply
and tragically the integrity of
the Union. We cannot renounce
the task, we cannot palter with
it, we have to go on. Yet we
know that - nothing has ever
divided us so bitterly.
So let us pray that the first
Southerner whu has been Pres
ident of the United States since
the Civil War will have the
honor of healing the nation.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
From Dallas (Texas) this
Thanksgiving Day morning:
A man who received $23,000
for his color movie films of
President Kennedy's assassina
tion gave that entire sum yes
terday to the family of Police
Patrolman J. D. Tippit, slain by
the man accused as the assas
sin of the President.
AN ancient question:
Can any good thing come
out of Nazareth? (John 1: 46.)
Question often asked today:
Can any good thing come out
of Dallas?
rpHE answers:
A Jesus came out of Naza
reth. This kindly deed was done in
Dallas.
There is good wherever GOOD
PEOPLE live. There are more
good people than bad people.
That has always been true.
It's good to remember.
SOMETHING else to re
member: The Pilgrim Fathers came to
America to got freedom. It
was rough in the wilderness, but
freedom in a raw wilderness
was more esteemed by them
than LACK OF FREEDOM IN
MORE COMFORTABLE SUR
ROUNDINGS. That's a good thing for all of
ft
i
"You hinder me, for you do not
dividual lunatic was responsible
and that all cities, all countries
have their lunatics. His lunacy
was fortified by its alignment
wilh one ol many irrational po
litical mystiques. The additional
furies that his act released des-
: troyed him in turn, as the (uries
released bv John nilkes Booth
deslroyed Booth a hundred tions, must possess a firm im
years ago. age of themselves If they are !
The events of this past week
iiae pun asiiie hip cuiiaui
of our rationalizations, our old
eo ourselves, more and more, in
i great urban centers wilh all
their tensions, which have
1 reached an explosive stage with
GREAT IDEAS
sn
FOREIGN AID
Dear Dr. Adler: Should we
try to lilt the economic stand
arils of the .people .of .the
world? Can we do for an
other country what it will not
do for itself? Should we aid
backward countries which
may become our rivals In the
future? What are the proper
aims of foreign aid, accord
ing lo traditional and present
day views?
Mrs. Martcen Wall
22111 Yamparika St.
Vernon, Texas
Dear Mrs. Wall: In former
times foreign aid was simply a
means of furthering the donor
nation's power and prestige. A
great power supported one or
more "have - not" states in
order to advance its own stra
tegic interests, not out of any
JENKINS
us to remember.
STILL more to remember
especially in these days
when crackpots tell us that
communism is the wave of the
future:
Both at Jamestown, in 1607,
and at Plymouth 13 years later
(where Thanksgiving Day ori
ginated) the communal system
was tried at the beginning. It
was a TOTAL failure at both
places.
Under the communal system,
firsl at Jamestown and later at
Plymouth, the people were
starving. In both places, the
communal (communist) system
was abandoned and each was
given HIS OWN plot or ground,
and told that it was his to be
done with us he pleased. The
immediate result was PLENTY
for everybody.
Don't ever let anybody tell
you that tho communist svslcm
is better than the free enter
prise system. It isn't Irue.
Jamestown and Plymouth
proved that long ago,
GLANCING backward lo our
beginnings, this fact stands
oul:
WORK IS A GOOD THING
not something to be dreaded. It
was WORK that built America.
It is work that has made Ameri
ca what it is today.
r, v
side wilh God. but with men."
(.Malt. 16:23. Goodspecd)
Senses?
I the rise of the Negro's long de-
layefl revolt.
It is more than the American
nervous system that is (rayed;
it is our whole organic svstem i
of traditional beliefs and hopes
and assumptions. Men. as in
dividuals or as communal, ra
cial or class groups, or as na-
to live and work in calmness
! and sanity. When the mirror
necomes cracKea ann siroaKcn
' they begin to lose Iheir sense ol
1 demographic. Order is not going
to surmount disorder, the shal-
tered pieces of our fragmented
' society will not find their proper
places again, unless we can
somehow' re-discover our corn-
mon trust.
If the death of our vibrant
voung leader, our happy prince.
our svmbol nf America's vouth-
ful hone and belief can 'brine
! us io our senses, then John
! Kennedy will have done far, far
more for his people thai) he will
I ever know.
Kf ii I 4
t4 lM
rjsi- j -'-it i I-) jatiK m m
from the ureal Books
By Mortimer 3. Adfer
(c) M61 Puhlisljeri' Honpipep Sys&aU
charitable impulse to foster
their economic development.
The normal relation of a great
power to peoples under its con
trol was modeled on that of a
dairy farmer to his cows. The
weaker, undeveloped countries
were milked to provide raw
materials or markets for the,
products of the stronger power.
This hard - nosed attitude.
toward relations with weaker
nations, which was expressed
eloquently by Pericles in Athena
2,500 years ago, is still taken by
many political leaders and pub
licists today. They believe that
aid should be extended only to
nations which are linked to us
by military alliances, not to na
tions which are unaligned, and
certainly not to nations with
ideologies opposed to our own.
During the period after World
War II, United States foreign
aid was granted mainly with
these "realistic" aims in mind,
and a good deal of our aid in the
future is earmarked for these
purposes. However, even in the
first years of the post war era
the view arose that aid should
be given to foster European
economic recovery, apart from
strategic considerations in the
Cold War. The Marshall Plan
was set up in this spirit, al
though in practice it excluded
the nations of the Soviet bloc.
This type of aid aimed at
raising Ihe economic levels o(
the countries aided, rather than
at buttressing military and po
litical alliances has become
more and more important.
President Truman's Point IV
program to aid undeveloped
countries initiated a new phase
in foreign aid. President Ken
nedy's call for a "decade of de
velopment" in such countries
and his sponsorship of the new
Agency for International Devel
opment (AID) further extended
Ihe new policy. The Alliance
lor Progress, which aims at the
economic development of the
Latin - American countries,
marks another important slop
in carrying out Ihis program.
The assumption underlying
ims Kind oi aid is mat world
peace, order, and freedom can
be assured only if Ihe "h&ve
not" nations develop info pro
ductive, self-reliant, and satis
fied communilies. It is assumed
that the seeds of social up
heavals and wars germinate in
a situation in which two - Ihirds
of mankind lives al or below
a bare subsistence level.
The intention of such aid pro
grams is to help the aided
countries lo develop sell - sus
taining economies. Hence. Ihe
emphasis is on long-term loans
at low-interest rates, rather'
than on outright grants. Hence'
also a determined effort is
made to see that the money
goes where it will do the most
good for the economy as a
whole, not into the pockets of
a favored few.
Other countries have been:
drawn into the role of donors
or lenders through such agen
cies as the International De-.
velopment Association and the
Inter - American Development.
Hank. Aid programs to Ihe un-'
developed countries are. in the
ory at least, intended In he mul
tilateral, co-operative ventures,
not merely United States proj
ects. Critics of those programs
point out that their success may
bring disadvantages lo the do
nor countries. The European
Economic Community, com'
posed of nations which were
aided to attain economic re
covery through the Marshall'
Plan, is now a strong and
troublesome competitor ol ours
in the world market. India's
economic development enabled
her to take away a good share
of Britain's texlile trade: and
now India in turn is losing part
of that IraHn In nnvvlv Hnvnlnnerl
countries in Southeast Asia.'
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I much Ihat the relative power
and influence nf Ihe United
States may he diminished. The
American people and their lead
ers, therefore, must decide)
whether they are willing In ad
just themselves lo such a pos
siblity in order lo accomplish.
' world harmony and prosperity,!
j or whether they prefer to re-'
tain Iheir dominant position
j among peoples now living
misery and poverty.
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