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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand April 10, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 5 Soviet Debts - A Losing Proposition HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN GROCERIES FOR $100 A YEAR by Clifford Ridley by Raymond Reviewed By John F. McManus A friend recently Belmont, Massachusetts directed our attention to an astonishing statement made in June 1974 by a high official of our State Department. In prepared remarks contained in a House subcommittee hearing entitled Delinquent International Debts Owed to the United States, Mr. Sidney Weintraub The record of the UJ5.S.R. in declared: meeting its obligations has been a good one. A quick look at the record, or even recourse to a mediocre memory, would certainly suggest otherwise. Could Mr. Weintraub be totally E. Huffman This could be the solution to By doing the construction himself, the world's food problem", says Ridley's greenhouse cost about Robert L. Preston when speaking $400 to construct, with the about this book. As author of the operating costs being about $5 per book How to Prepare for the month. These prices include the Coming Crash as well as other well equipment required to provide the known survival books, Robert L. desired controlled environment". Preston adds much credibility to Ridley has determined the Clifford Ridley's book by the very correct size for your greenhouse in fine supporting introduction. He order to supply the needs of your tells how he personally witnessed particular sie family. He also Clifford Ridley develop his method suggests adding a little extra room of growing food in his specially for growing some fo the just-fofor grow ing some of the just-fodesigned greenhouse. He believes Clifford Ridley is one of the most you have severe space limitations, generous men he has ever known dont give up; even six or eight feet because the fruit of all of his years wide by ten or twelve feet long can of study, research and work he has provide an amazing amount of freely given in this book to you and wonderful food, and is well worth and all to who can and the effort. your family, will use it. Along with the complete construction plans (which are Ridley opens his book by disdetailed to the point of describing cussing briefly why he believes feeding the people of the world what size nails should be used in has become a serious problem." each board), a budget form is it it all the to up. points ....Adding provided which lists all required fact that the person who is totally materials. are included dependent on others for his source Suggestions is in a very vulnerable of food concerning the types of seeds to position." plant and when to plant them. A very detailed plan is laid out Instructions to complete the which anyone can follow. The following ten steps are included: book contains detailed diagrams soil composition: organic adand actual photographs of a ditives; fertilizer; fumigation; which the author greenhouse water; planting; watering: weeding: constructed himself He explains cultivating; temperature. In conclusion I will quote why he believes the use of greenhouses is the best. No matter some statemtnts from the books where you live you can enjoy eating conclusion: There you have it. Complete instructions on how to your ow n produce all year round. With your own greenhouse you build vour Ridlev Greenhouse. never again have to worry about Photographs, drawings and the where your next meal is coming written word. The only thing left is from or whether the store is out of to get busy and enjoy the rich, your favorite food." Also for the pleasure that comes to those who health minded he states that when grow their own food: Children you grow it yourself, you never love to eat vegetables they help to have to wonder what it is because produce, and especially that which they help pick. It does make sense you know what it is." Ridley points out he is passing that food which is grown in good on everything he knows that soil, with proper moisture and makes it fun and easy. The secret heat, and picked fresh, should taste described in great detail is the better and be better for us. As the nations of the world continually creation of a controlled enWith the detailed find food shortages an vironment. instructions included in the book threat, it is a comforting for building your own greenhouse, and reassuring feeling to know that we can produce most of our own it could be built by almost anyone. The real beauty of the Ridley food. Method is its low cost and its true simplicity of operation. Anyone can do it. Ridley says the reason Reprinted by permission from for his success where others have Survival Journal, May 1975, Salt failed is because he kept it simple. Lake City, Utah 84115. ignorant of the mountain of bad debts piled up by the Soviet Union? Is he such a neophyte that he knows nothing of broken promises and arrogant refusals to honor agreements? Or does something else drive him, and others like him, to insist that black is white when dealing with Communists? r- r- $800 million, approximately seven per cent of the total debt. In 1972, an agreement was finally reached whereby the Kremlin promised to pay $722 million of the $ 1 1 billion in payments stretch-- . ing over thirty years all the way to the year 2001. But even this concession was tied to U.S. granting to the U.SJS.R. of trade status, which calls for us to lower import tariffs and make credit easily available. It should come as no surprise to learn that we accepted the Soviet conditions. And, wonder of wonders, the Soviet regime actually did pay $36 million of its debt while negotiations were underway about the full trade agreement. But early in 1975, the Soviet Union cancelled the whole deal, supposedly because of a provision which required them to permit Jews and others to emigrate. What appeared to be a rather foolish move on their part throwing status and exposing away themselves to charges of oppression turns out also to be a cancellation of their pledge to pay e even the ridiculously low amount of indebtedness agreed to in 1972. It is unlikely that any further payments will be received. most-favored-nati- most-favored-nati- Bad Debts Right From The Start In 1933, when Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov accepted President Roosevelt's invitation to come to Washington to establish formal diplomatic relations between our two countries, the U.S.S.R. already owed our nation $628 million. President Roosevelt chose not to make this debt an issue during the talks, but plunged ahead and granted full diplomatic recognition. Subsequent discussions about the debt produced nothing but rage from Litvinov. Our State Department then agreed to settle for $90 million, but the Soviet Government rejected even this proposal. By the end of 1934, Roosevelt Administration officials conceded that the matter was a lost cause and quietly forgot about it. . Lend-Leas-e Indebtedness v During World War II, the United States e supplied over $11 billion worth of aid to the Soviet Union. Two attempts to recover payment, in 194748 and in 1951-5proved to be utter failures in spite of the fact that we had scaled the indebtedness down to lend-leas- 2, DEMOCRATIC RULE A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can onlv exist until the voters dis- - lend-leas- America Deserves Better Leaders Weintraubs statement preceded this latest development to be sure. But in our considered opinion, he knew the true Soviet record when he made it. He and Henry Kissinger and a long parade of appointees who have dealt with Communists do not conduct such negotiations as an ordinary American might. These men are committed to a global outlook which allows for no American national interests, which insists that supporting Communist tyranny is desirable, and which can accurately be classified as an America-Las- t point of view. Our country deserves better leadership than it has received for a long time. And so do the victims of Communist tyranny whose masters are continually defended, supported, and fawned over by America's leaders. Mr. Copyright 1975 by The John Birch Society Features THE GREATEST RIP-OF- F by Ramon G. Villagomez (The author is a Microneslan law student in Washington, D.C.) is The greatest Pacific rip-o- ff about to happen. The U.S. is about the of out public treasury. largess t0 buy land in Micronesia (its own From that moment on the majority Trust Territory) for an average of always votes for the candidate $1,074 per acre; approximately promising the most benefits from $30,000 less than what the land is the public treasury with the result WOrth per acre, that a Democracy always collapses However the transaction will over a loose fiscal policy, always to not be called a sale. It will be called be followed by a Dictatorship and 'a iease for a term of 50 years with then a Monarchy. the option of renewing this lease...for an additional term of 50 Written hv Professor Alexander years.... The U.S. will pay $19.5 Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries million for over 18,000 acres in ago while our thirteen states were full settlement of this lease, instill colonies of Great Britain. cluding the renewal option ..." The lease will be executed "Remember first that policy follows finance, secondly that race is politics, through a covenant which will "create the U.S. Commonwealth of and thirdly that if you are timid now you will lose everything --J. Briggs the Northern Marianas, legally identical to a territory. Under the When you cannot sleep at However high we build Make the most of covenant the U.S. will also acquire we must always begin at the night, instead of counting yourself, for that is all there is absolute sovereignty and power of talk to the sheep, bottom. Shepherd. of you. domain over the eminent Marianas. Thus the U.S. will also BOOKS SURVIVAL ORDER FORM FOR . be buying the people and control over their government. With these powers the U.S. ever-in-creasi- ng could make the. lease permanent. for all practical Therefore, purposes, the lease is actually a sale. In addition, the U.S. could take additional ' land through eminent domain. It is hard to understand why the Marianas citizens would sell their lives and their future. Nor is it easy to understand why they would sell their land at $1,074 per acre when it is worth $31 ,000 per acre. But one can certainly conclude that the Marianas people are being tricked. An annoying thing is that the U.S., trustee for the Micronesian people, has pledged to protect the islanders from the loss of their lands and resources, yet the U.S. is the one that would rip off,.their This is contrary to the land. statement of President Ford when he said. Honesty is the glue that holds the government together. 1 agree with President Ford, and the U.S. should reconsider its policies in Micronesia. Even the very survival of the Communist World rests upon the willingness and production of the Free World to support it. 3.95 2.95 2.95 4.95 3.95 Total for books Cam! 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