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Show Page Two FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES jpeliinJitlie Jeaddned -- ST-- T Tg, Is history repeating itself? Al-most a year before Hitler Ger-many, then Stalin's ally, had in-vaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Moscow tried frantically to re-open its ties to the vWest. The gambit failed because Stalin re-fused to break his pact with Hitler until attacked. This was one reason Stalin was denounced by Khrushchev. Moscow again appears fearful that its present-da- y ally, Com-munist China, will turn upon the Soviets as Hitler did. There is little, likelihood that untold hordes of Chinese will swarm into the Siberian open spaces in the immediate future. But Cold War planners in both East and West are becoming in-creasingly aware that the fric-tion developing between Mos-cow and Peiping is fast becoming one of the most significant de-velopments of . the whole Cold War. The Communists see in the West a foe that can be sweet-talke-d into another round of "peaceful coexistence," even as it declares that it is prepared to fight a war for Berlin. It sees Washington as a reluctant leader of the Free World alli-ance. Certainly, Khrushchev has been struck by the Western ten-dency to compromise on issues on which it declared there was no compromise the day before. And most of all, the Soviets covet the enormous trade the West has to offer in building up the Communist economy. By contrast, they see, except for tactical shifts, that Communist China's Mao Tse-tun- g is an im-placable, fervent foe. The Soviets now appear to be seeking earnestly to guard against the possibility that they will be caught in the middle of any two-fro- nt war and are now regarded as using the Berlin "crisis" to improve its Western relations. Khrushchev is doing i what Stalin failed to do in 1941. The Berlin "crisis" is seen at-hea- rt, as a phony "crisis," which Khrushchev is using as an op-portunity for negotiating a re-duction of the NATO-We- st Ger-man "threat," strengthening Sov-iet frontiers, stabilizing its East European satellites and for free-ing itself from Western compli-cations, so that it can turn more attention to its vast Chinese fron-tier. For even though the Red Chi-nese, with their troubled agri-culture, communal economy and peasant army, do not yet pose a serious challenge to the Soviets, its huge militarized population is bound to when Red China de-velops its own Atomic Bomb, which Peiping is known to be rushing. And even though the Red Chi-nese may adopt tactical "peace-ful coexistence" from time to time, its rabid leaders still are bent upon driving the West, in-cluding Russia, from Asia and believing that its power lies in its vast population, is content to wait until its present 600,000,000 population becomes half the pop-ulation of the world. The Soviets who are uneasy now, would be much more alarmed by 1 billion hungry, aggressive Chinese at their Siberian back door. The Russians know their own past history only too well. They have been subjected to repeated western invasions, none of which resulted in lasting success. But twice before in history, when the Chinese population exploded, Russia was overrun by the Huns in the 4th Century, by Ghengis Khan's Mongol hordes in the 12th century and knows that the un failing 8th century cycle is about to repeat itself again. This is not going to tomorrow happen or the day after. The Cold War is a long, drawn-ou- t struggle. But the seeds of basic Sino-Sovi- et conflict surpass ideology. The trend is apparent. Cold War observers are con-vinced that Khrushchev and his non-Stalini- st heirs-appare- nt, will seek increasingly to woo the West to sleep or to its side as an ally, as it sought to do before Hitler attacked. Everywhere, despite a "war threat" in and over Berlin and despite basic Cold War rivalry, East-We- st competition is giving way, for better or worse, to sur-prising cooperation. It is now evident that there is a sort of unofficial understand-ing between Washington and Moscow that neither side will permit the Berlin "crisis" to get out of hand. President Ken-nedy has already admitted that the United States is relying heavily on the Soviets to help keep the peace in the Congo, re-strain Cuba's Fidel Castro even while arming him, and each side has a common reason for not being drawn into a big war by any new outburst of violence in the Middle East, or, anywhere else. The U.S. has publicly allied itself with the Soviet Union in keeping the war in Laos from getting out of hand. For better or worse, such traditional U.S. allies as Pakistan and Thailand are looking to the Soviet Union to help keep the Red Chinese in hand. India already has an "un-derstanding" that it can call on Moscow for aid whenever Red China might attack. Russian and American foreign aid officials are cooperating in many Asian Cold War areas, such as Cambodia and Nepal, to deny Chinese aid officals any advan-tage. The U.S. is committing itself to resolving Khrushchev's farm problem, insofar as it now feels advisable, by stepping up U.S. food surplus shipments to Com-munist Poland and by permitting the free exchange of agricultural experts. U.S. and Freeworld industrial experts are already swapping patents and preparing for a tremendous expansion in Soviet-America- n trade as soon as the Berlin "crisis" atmosphere blows over. West Germany's huge Krupp industrial complex is even now negotiating agree-ments with Moscow to build whole steel, chemical, plastics and textile plants inside the Sov-iet Union. Our NATO allies seek vast new trade with Moscow. Scientific teams from the U.S. and USSR are cooperating in Antarctica. Medical information is now being freely exchanged. Vast new cultural exchange agreements are being planned to supplement those already in effect. Data on peaceful Atomic energy is being exchanged. And now, the U.S. and USSR 'are seriously discussing exten-- i sive cooperation on a whole wide range of outer space projects. Certainly, Red China's Mao must dislike this as much as Hitler would have hated to see Stalin cooperate with the Freeworld Allies before he was attacked. Whether all this cooperation is to American advantage is some-thing else again. We may regret it. Washington admits it's all a "calculated risk." It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. Morley. Utah Guard Dates Summer Camp All home-base- d components of the Utah Army National Guard will undergo 1962 summer camp training June 10-2- 4, Maj. Gen-eral Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Ad-jutant General, announced to-day. Most will train at Camp W . G. Williams in the Jordan Narrows, although at least one unit will train outside the state and an-other at a special site within the state, General Rich said. About 100 of the 19th Special Forces Group is expected to at-tend an amphibious course at the U.S. Navy Amphibious Training Station, Coronado, California, with approval expected in the next 30 days. The 115th Engineer Group, commanded by Col. Herbert L. Price of Salt Lake City, will spend most of their summer camp in road building projects in nearby mountains. The Group has components in Salt Lake City, American Fork, Price, Lehi and Springville. Separate units including the State Headquarters Detachment, 23rd Army Bank, 142d Military Intelligence Linguist Co., 625th Military Police Co., the 114th Signal Det. and ' 128th Public Information Det. from Salt Lake City and the 1071st Transporta-tion Co. from Bountiful will train at Camp Williams. The 1st Howitzer Bn., 145th Artillery, from Logan, Brigham City, Garland, and Smithfield; the 1st How. Bn., 222nd Arty., from Ogden and Layton; the 145th Arty. Group and Hq. 2d How. Bn., 145 Arty, from Provo and Mt. Pleasant, Nephi, Spanish Fork, and Manti; and 2nd How. Bn., 222d Arty., from Cedar City, Richfield, St. George, Fillmore and Beaver will all train at Camp Williams. Tolerance is the ability to shrug your shoulder even when you've got a chip on it. Utahns Spending $56.4 Million on Cigarets, Alcohol Tobacco, beer, liquor sales in Utah during the 1961 calendar year amounted to $56.4 million or $61.66 per capita. This fact was brought out in an analysis prepared by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organ-ization. According to the Foundation study, tobacco product sales in Utah last year are estimated at $20,027,203, or $21.88 per capita; beer sales amounted to $17,773,-04- 9, or $19.42 per capita, and liquor sales totaled $18,633,365 or $20.36 per capita. These fig-ures are all taken from estimates prepared by the Utah State Tax Commission. The report notes that last year 64,359.935 packs of cigarettes, 7,899,133 gallons of beer, 410,307 gallons of wine, and 729,224 gal-lons of distilled spirits were sold in Utah. Foundation analysts point out that the apparent consumption of tobacco products and alcoholic beverages in Utah is well below national averages. In fiscal 1961, for example, Utah had the lowest per capita sales of cigarettes in the nation. Tax-pai- d cigarette sales in Utah amounted to 71.2 packs per capita, compared with a national average of 133.6 packs per capita. Similarly, the study shows that per capita consumption of distilled spirits for 1959 was 0.76 gallons per person in Utah com-pared with a national average of 1.31 gallons per capita. Only six states (including Mississippi and Oklahoma which were dry at the time) ranked below Utah in the apparent consumption of distilled spirits. 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