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Show Behind The Day's Nov ma s Maim By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1961 Selb on West German-- FrontierFrom Eminently Debatable Question The issue of colonialism is slated for another airing :at the United Nations this sessionf and Western diplomats should welcome the debate with a barrel of positive ments from the many clearly at hand. If and when Russia's Andrei Gromyko gets up and shouts about we can "colonial . oppression," ' bounce back and say truthfully rj t!hre narts his and only, one; paii the West's. Careful' State Department, re- ' nrvlttTMnlism people out of a world population near three billion still are dependents of tlie traditional colonial powers Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Spain, etc. By contrast, Soviet and Chinese communism together have subjugated some 145 million people in Europe and Asia in thei22 years since the outbreak of World War II. Right now they are pressing close to capture of another three million in Laos, and are knifing into South Viet Nam in hope of seizing control of 13 million more presently free humans. While the Reds have been putting the oppressor's- imprint on, these growing millions, what have C otpDOsif'OH) detail are part of the Allied" early w a r n i n g system against any surprise attack along the Eger valley's natural invasion route from Czechoslovakia into West Germany. n Sgt. Short, who wears a scar under his left eye, and his men stand duty in the castle observation post, scanning' a mile or more across the rolling Bavarian countryside, over three-ma- n zech an ancient castle tower where 500 years ago soldiers of the counts of Hohenberg watched over the Eger River valley, American GI's today , watch for the first hostile move of the Communists. of Short Denver Sgt. Kingsport, Tenn., explains that he and his half-moo- 24-ho- ur UPTO HERE d Comand beyond the towers and almunist observation Asch. town of most to the Czech Scene of Escape Asch lit front pages 10 years ago: because it was there that 50 desperate Czechs hijacked a train and ran jit across the border, past the Communist guards j to Selb. "We report everything we see and hear," says short, "If we see a horse in the land, we four-legge- no-man- 's President Kennedy and ' his young team in the White House are producing some "sharp surprises as they fill out major administrative posts. Chosen to replace Allen VV. Dulles as head of the Central In-- V, j e; telligence Agency is John A. 59, Republican businessman and veteran of the, Eisenhower administration. To lead the brand new Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Mc-Con- tne rresiaent piejteaanouier republican, William C Foster, 64, also a businessman., with long government experience under both parties. His first choice for new foreign aid boss was George Woods, Boston banker of established conservative leanings. His name was later ' withdrawn. But- where are the fighting young frontiersmen we were told would help lead this administration's ventures into the uncharted future? The President seems to be settling for some pretty grizzled old hands. - Back home the Hon. J. William Fulbright is senator from Arkansas, but over here he is the enator from the United States. By the time this col-. - - umn is in print, bright will be on a tour to test how much the state wants to send him back in next year's election to the Senate. pre-campai- gn ) ! an - was critical of Britain for her insularity, of the Commonwealth nations for d their appetite for profits, of the Germans for their racial proclivity as troublemakers and short-sighte- ; i j . non-Europe- an pro-Americ- But in England, where I saw him in attendance at a British Com-- . monwealth parliamen- - Mr Alexander tary conference, Fulbright, with' his Oxonian background and his chairmanship of foreign relations, is everything the British could wish. This is not entirely because the senator's viewpoint 'so often coincides with that of Her Majesty's Government and Commonwealth. There's no doubt that this urbane and knowledgeable man is more in the Angilican mold than are most southern senators. As one who relishes provincialism arid admires excessive nationalism, I sometimes wish-tha- t Bill Fulbright chewed tobacco and had at least one foot in the John Birch Society. But since he could not do these things and be the man he is, I think - it right to say that we are lucky to have his brains and personality at bat for us in such conferences as this one. Fulbright approaches the Commonwealth representatives with a little more frankness than tact, and he plays a hand of very strong, His message, given both power poker. and in private talks, address in a formal pro-Americ- gle foreign policy, is the. best bulwark between Russian and the English-speakin- g community of Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. All of these countries, he feels, stand to gain in military security more than they would lose in trade. The senator is more sanguine here than his interviewer, but maybe he is also better informed. In any case, Fulbright at this conference was essencause. tially arguing the He was saying that we had done our share and more of warding off the Communists. He was putting the arm on Allied nations to make sacrifices and show initiative of their own. The senator: is very British-minde- d in one respect. He has little sentiment toward the Germans, who are the historical cause of the patched-u- p map of Europe and are now eying the blues over their disjointed condition. As early as 1948, Fulbright began to say that we should aid German recovery only with the prospect that Germany, in whole or part, should become a harmless segment of a larger Apolitical unit. This condition would be (substantially satisfied, he says today, with West Germany incorporated in the Common Market with Britain. . The senator is notlmoved by the wails from West Germanyj for reunification with East .Germany. He feels that the Federal Republic has already given de facto recognition to Communist Germany by carrying on a lucrative trade. The matter of de jure, recognition lies far in the future. Meanwhile, the Fpr-eig- n 1 Relations chairman would like it better if,, all the Western powers tone down their expressions of desire for German unity. It is .not a realistic or justifiable aim of Western diplomacy. Contrary to Allied dogma, West Berlin in Fulbright's s mind is a separate problem. He reads into the President's UN speech an unequalified promise to maintain freedom of access between Berlin and the West. Before leaving Washington on this trip, Fulbright talked with Lord Home, British Foreign Minister, about the idea advanced in this column of moving the UN capital, or some of its agencies, to Berlin. "Sounds a bit gimmicky," said his lordship. "But, you know, it might be just the proper thing to do." (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) The British, as Fulbright came very close to saying, owe it to their American and other allies to throw themselves much more wholeheartedly into the Comman Market and other continental ventures. The senator told a lot of persons, including this one, that American spokesmenlike himself , have a fight to meddle in European politics because of the huge investment our country has sunk there. He maintains that the Brit-- i ish have two major roles in the Common Market. One is to prevent the Germans from being historical slaves and dominating France, Benelux and Italy in the West, while menacing Russia and the Balkans to the East. .The other British role on the continent is to become a stabilizing influence upon the feverish. French Republic. Fulbright found the Commonwealth mood. nations in a business-as-usuThe chief objection of the Commonwealth to the Common Market appears to be the commercial one. Fulbright bloc of jlVest Eufeels that a economic with unity and a sin ropeans, . an -- . Measured by other forces and movements dedicated to world conquest, Christianity is a mere sideshow. Prof. W. W. Adams of Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Ky. al 200-milli- on The opinions and pressed by Herald their own and do reflect the views' of statements ex-- columnists are not necessarily this newspaper, j 1 i police. ....... .f . i - A Relived Being it What's Your Question? Resuming High Flights Over Russia humanly in putting the .pursuit of peace above the full maintenance of our rights anywhere. By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER "At this point, why not quietly resume our high-levflights . over Russia? Eisenhower could not of course commit Kennedy. And if the Russians then start or continue making high-levflights over us, well, why not?" (P.S.M., Chocorua, N. II.) I would approye the idea, but w so long as our Administrati o n " is bending so far backw a r d s to negotiate some sort of Berlin settlement with the Russians, the kind of natural thing you propose is the last the New Frontiers men Mr. Mowrer would dare consider. Raymond J. Vince of East Chicago, Ind., asks me if I do not think than an investigation of "the American Red Cross and the Finance Institutions of America" would reveal our "greatest and el largest racketeering organizations." f I had never thought so. But I lack sufficient information to answer this question. A salary of $50,000 a year for the head of the Red Cross sounds large to me. But then, I cannot understand how idealistic labor leaders can take similar amounts from their union members. Or is that racketeering i. " If "You apparently do not believe, in arms control or disarmament. Would you kindly explain why not?" (Miss M .D., Sacramento, Cal.) It is not a question what I be S. "Is it true that the food plight of Castro's Cuba is so bad?" (J. O'C, Philadelphia) I hear that it is. In fact, one refugee report is to the effect that Castro intends shortly to have all dogs in Cuba killed since they consume food that would other- Exceeds Risk Of Surgery for Young Child Today? QToward what shrine do Mos-- t In the Mail Bag, Oct. 1, was an article in regard to the officers of. the public forum misnamed public' forum as Mr, Openshaw put it. I agree with Mr. Openshaw to the letter. I agree, too, it's high time we cracked down on the communists. We just sit idly by while those kind of people hold a good job among us and at the same time scheme and figure out every conceivable way to undermine our way, of living and re. place it with organized .robbing. I say robbing because when they take over they do as Castro has done. They take our property that we have worked years to pay for and leave us broke. Call it communism or whatever yoii may, but, whenever you take a man's property for nothing it is robt bery, Let's stay on the Lord's side and all do our best to fight communism. The people who are hiring these kind of people should do their bit by discharging them and letting them get a job amon their Communist, friends. They are only helping to promote their own downfall by hiring these kind of people i Know communism must be a great thing when people brave gunfire by trying to escape from per cent mark. True, science has made a great advance. Its keen talent has reached a point of amazing depth, however. In the effort of reaching this great knowledge they fail in their wisdom of understanding the reaction or results of their achievement. They do 'not seem to- - understand that by their great process they are developing catastrophe which may one day backfire and destrop their own lives. Like the man who discovered a way to enlarge the size of tarantula, he succeeded, and the results were that the tarantula reached to the size of devouring the author. Or the case of dinosaur, these powerful beasts once ruled and mastered the continent, but they became so powerful and aggressive they destroyed each other, and thus ended the dinosaur. And now our wise leaders are on the verge of destroying mankind. God made uranium for a purpose, but not ...for the purpose of killing and destroying. The world has become a pretty picture when we have reached the age where all people must bomb-proo- f build shelters for to We would survive. protection all have been much better off had science never discovered the procefs of spliting the atom. For ever since this great discovery science has been active in developing this deadly ingredient into war weapons. Actually the whole "proceeding amounts to nothing more than plain murder as is seen by the public eye. And to make the whole proceeding more disgusting is the overboastihg howl that we are progressing. Boy, give me the good old days of some 50 years ago. Why-i- s it we are now on the brink of all - out atomic World war and facing all-oannihilation? Simply because there, are two remaining powerful nations facing each other and each with their stubbornness are ' determined to become boss of the ' world. Y. M. Offret, At. Our government should pass a law outlawing the Communist Party and put teeth in that law. There is going to come a time, when we will have to do something. Why not do i now? Write your senator. Yes, this is a free country, but, it should not be free to the extent that we sit idly by and contribute to our own downfall by showing hoodlums how to operate among us. in San Francisco recently au-tnonues were noiaing an meeting. A group of Communist hoodlums set up a demonstration in the lobby and when the police were called they 3ust defied them by sitting down and not leaving. The officers finally had to drag them out. We don't have to tolerate this sort of thing. I say to our legislators .get busy. Let's have some laws with teeth in them to take care f the so-call- ed j anu-Commun- ist j i matter. James E. Harvey Salem Barbs A pastor says it's easy to keep a sweet disposition. Yes, if you ut have enough sugar left after bills. The kid who really uses his head won't dive in over it in a strange stream. Parting is painful when yon bear down too hard on the comb. Wildwood j By Dr. Harold Thomas Hyman Parents are understandably reluctant to have young children operated upon. But there are oc casions, such as removal of tonade- r sils and noids, when the risks of doing s nothing far ex- - VJT ceed the risks and minor discomforts of an operation. 1 For examnlp.J consid e r the- case of the child Dr Hyman who has a hernia, usually in the groin. Now the hernia is nothing but a weakness or defect in the abdominal wall through which contents of the abdominal cavity, usually loops of small intestine, may protrude. Most often, it is the mother who first observes the lump when the child strains or cries. Ordinarily when the straining and. crying are over the lump disappears or protruded contents return to the abdominal cavity. But then there comes a time when it fails to return. Or a more serious moment when it becomes pinched off, blocking the onward rush of intestinal content or shutting off the blood supply. Now there is no way of telling when a hernia will fail to return or when it will strangulate. A trusS won't cure the hernia though it might temporarily prevent these complications. And con M ?' M. . A7s lems face during prayer? A.The Kabah that stands in the Great Mosque at Mecca. This week's question: "As between the present policy of trying to induce the Kremlirji to renounce aggression and a. policy of real (and not merely verbal) liberation off communism's victims, which do you favor? 7Do Nothing7 "Why is our Administration making us ridiculous by wooing the Russians and begging them to negotiate a situation where we are a hundred per cent in the right?" (Mrs. V. B., Buffalo, N. Y.) You must have heard our President tell the United Nations that peace is the greatest problem in the world and that peace means disarmament. This may sound wrong to you and me who stubbornly think that freedom is more important than peace and that concessions to the U.S.S.R. lead to neither peace nor freedom. But to those who agree with President Kennedy, the United States is merely acting intelligently and What is the meaning of the Q X and P religious symbol? A Chi and Rho are the first two letters of the Greek word XPISTOS (Christos) and are often used as an abbreviation for the name of Christ. To the question: "pid the United States do well in promising billions to Latin America without obtaining a promise to help us get rid of Castro?" "Latin American diplomat", writes: "Latin America is making a fool of Uncle Sam and intends to get something for nothing las long as it can." The Doctor Says wise be available for humans. But I have not been able to confirm this. How long did Alexander Q Selkirk remain as a castaway on the Island of Juan Fernadez? - Four years and four A months, until the British Navy rescued him. lieve in Naturally I jwould like a world free from war and costly armaments. I simply do not believe that the U. S. S. R. has any intention of accepting either arms control ;or disarmament since it could not do so and either hold or extend iits present Red Empire. The Kremlin is kidding the White House along while it gets ahead in the armament race. too? J I Q's and .1 Government Should Pass Law Outlawing Communist Party Editor Herald r Our World is in. trouble. The elements are being disturbed and! upset. We are having record storms of all discriptions. Peo-pl- e everywhere are in a state of unrest. It is written in the sky that God is mad. He is completely disgusted with the way people are carrying on in the sacred garden "'he has prepared for them. A land he has created for the purpose of loving peace for mankind is bein made into a battle field. If a test could be made to determine how many people live up to God's wishes I doubt if many would even reach the 50 5 ,j ' Editor Herald: r 'y.-.- 5S Of the Dinosaur . So They Say The ancient walls of Hohenberg Is the Epic Story el LONDON, England : c ent territories have in 18 years gained their freedom. In combination they represent almost a third of the world's population and an area more than three times the size of the United States. Our Senator Fulbright Tells Them the tiny village of Moedlar-eut- h the barbed wire cuts straight through the middle of the town. It separates families who, are forbidden even to talk to each other across the wire. Anyone attempting to scale the wire, is shot as a spy by the Communist "peoples' At" j ! x Holmes Alexander ago. ' I As President .Kennedy noted at the U.N., beginning with tiny Lebanon in 1943, some 42 depend- revolution-in-revers- e. portant." 3B2i!. v&8$ the old colonialists been up to? sive castle serve as a strategic site today just as they did 500 years - u. - The nations range, from such huge, populous states as India to small lands like Lebanon, Kuwait, Israel, Cyprus, and Gabon in Africa (with 400,000 people, roughly matching Phoenix, Ariz.) The West's' superior story is still unfolding. This December, big Tanganyika in Africa, with nine millions, will.be cut free. In 1962 Belgium's Ruanda Urundi and perhaps Britain's Kenya and Uganda will join the free list. Not every colonial power has accepted this revolution of emergence with good sense and becoming grace. But the record is well dotted with accords and treaties freely and properly arrived at. No free world spokesman can in conscience argue without some reasonable acknowledgement of the 50 million dependents still existing. But the history- - of the last two decades makes it clear enough who is fast getting out of the colonial business and who is enlarging his dependent holdings through a mas- report it. At night we hear a lot of small arms firing and some Communist ma? heavy artillery neuvers. We report that, too, back to camp gates." The little details that Sgt. Short and his men note .may mean nothing, in themselves." But with the details from other posts, they could add up to something im- Total taxes in 19'6D were 5629 for every marf4 women end child. . . . -- When Experience Counts Border ID s . Ruth Mil left cern ovfer these possibilities will almost surely prove a source of constant anxiety to parents and a handipap to the child's enjoy- ment of normal activities. Under these circuiinstances, her nial repair is decidedly to be favored both from physical and emotional points of view. The risks are negligible. Less than those of a tonsillotomy. Convalescence is rapid. And recurrence of the defect is most unusual vrhen expert hands have performed the operation. In the case of undescended testicles, the concern is less immediate. Bu; the stake i no less im- portant. For, i the undescended male reproductive glands are not soon brought down to their normal resting place, they will cease to function, or atrophy. And if they atrophy the boy may fail to develop normal masculine features and become ineligible for pater) nity, Unlike the ease of the hernia, for which medical treatment holds no promise, undescended testes may be induced to continue their journey through the efforts of conducted glandular carefully treatments. But, if these conservative efforts fail, surgery is recommended, particularly since there is often an associated hernial defect. Again, the operative risk is almost negligible. And the possible gains are of immeasurable magnitude both psychologically and physically. I Ain't AeeontorJ As Good Usage-c- ir Ain't It? Is I see where a little word that used to give school teachers the shudders when I was sitting at a school desk has now wormed its way into social acceptance. The word that has finally made the grade is j "aint." ' : ." Plain old "ain't" has recently been accepted by the forthcoming "Webster's Third New International-Dictionary.which, for a word, means it has arrived. j " . In settling, the "ain't" question, the dictionary says it is a word that is "cuseu orally in most parts l of the United States by cultivated people." J j To carry this thought to the extreme; you can quit correcting junior when he says he ain't going to go to no girl's birthday party. (Let the "ain't i pass and say gently any girl's birthday, party, Jun- for.") t And again, to stretch a point: I thoucht you Ruth Millett ought to know so that you won't tross the Smiths off your list if, when you phone to ask them if they are going to be busy Saturday I night, Mrs. Smith says, ''No, we ain't." ' Come to think of it, now that "ain't" Is a good word can it re place "aren't" as well as "am not'.' .and "is not?" I'll have to find out what Webster says about that technicality and let you. know later. Maybe it would jbe wrong for Mrs. S. to say "we ain't," but quite all right for her to. say, "Jim is, but I ain't." The thing I can't figure out is how "cultivated people in most parts of the United States" ever got up enough courage to start using "ain't" orally. All I can say is they didn't have the same English teachers I had or they never could have uttered "ain't" without .."! blushing. Come to think, of 'it, I feel rather sorry for those teachers who spent a lifetime trying to make "ain't" seem as repulsive a little word to their students as it did to them. Arid now here it is in the dictionary. And there ain't a thing a teacher can do about it. Ain't that a (hame? i |