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Show Friday, March 20, 1959 THE UTAH STATESMAN Page 2 NATION: Congressman in Washington by dixon Since President Eisenhower's hard-hittin- cam- g paign for a balanced budget and unnecessary spending, I have received approximately 200 letters from Utahns urging Congress to hold the budget line. Other senators and congressmen are also getting a considerable response. Senator Clark reports that the gist of his mail is, "It's terribly important to balance the budget." Senator Butler is receiving nearly a hundred letters a day all for the President. "Considerable" economy mail is also reported ' Senator with the majority urging Engle by that Congress "hold down expenditures.'' Senator had had more than 50 letters Hickenlooper a day exceeding the budget battle of two years ago, and Senator Goldwater more than 500 cards and letters. Normally much of .the mail which is received in congressional offices is the result of organized campaigns by various pressure groups. Such letters often contain identical message or are mimeographed the elimination of (D-Pa- .) (D-Calif- .), (R-Iow- a) so with military might. Along this line, an interesting statement on our military preparedness has come from Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, who led the U. S. air attack on Tokyo in World War II and now acts as chairman of the Space Technology Laboratories, Inc., which serves as technical director of America's ballistic missiles program. This highly competent authority believes our scientists will make scientific and technical gains sufficient to put us on a par with Soviet missile knowhow within six months to a year. Doolittle says, "(1) I believe Russia is certainly ahead on thrust. (2) I question whether Russia is ahead on guidance. 3) I am satisfied that we are well ahead in this warhead field. (4) Russia can't be ahead on the nose cone, since we have solved the (R-Ari- z.) form letters. An interesting thing I have noted about the recent economy mail is that it seems to be thoughtful reaction to the President's war on federal spending and is not the result of an organized campaign. With the nation's headlines proclaiming the y developments in the crisis over East Gerthe many, primary concern of all of us is whether we are adequately prepared defense-wis- e tc meet the Russian challenge should we be called upon to do aspon-taneou- s, day-to-da- . problem of reentry. (5) I think they are ahead on reliability just because they have been at it longer. 6) As to operational readiness, we don't know exactly. We have no ICBM's ready to operate, so if they have any they are ahead of us there. An Ogden man, Jesse Anderson, was in Washington last week to testify before a House Education and Labor subcommittee in favor of two bills I am to provide for a temporary national advisory committee for the .blind and to protect the right of, the blind to organize. Mr.. Anderson, who is a member of the executive committee of the National Federation of the Blind, told the Committee that some state agencies and other groups challenge the right of the blind to organize and' have refused to consider their opinions on decisions affecting the 340,000 blind people in this country. These bills, I have introduced, would assure this right and specifically provide that no state agencies receiving federal funds could discourage or prevent the blind from organizing. Active in public affairs, Mr. Anderson has served in both the Utah and. Idaho State Legislatures. He also acts as managing editor of LDS Church publications for the blind. The other Utahn who testified was Dr. Richard Wilburn, a chemical supervisor at Dugway. Dr. Wilburn's life is a good example of how blind people can overcome their handicaps. He passed a Civil Service examination after he had obtained his Ph.D. and was denied government employment because he was blind. However, the case was successfully appealed, and he has demonstrated that he could fulfill all 'of the required duties. Qn UiloKtt tHKtift tMNRfe 01K16& WORLD: MacMillan Verses Khrushchev Many people who closely followed the news reports of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's visit to the Soviet Union must have felt much as if The they were riding an eccentric attitude of Nikita Khrushchev was, to say the least, an extraordinary one for a chief of state acting as host to another chief of state. At the beginning, the master of the Kremlin was all smiles and affability. His statements, if guarded and vague, were friendly in character. Then suddenly came the avalanche. merry-go-roun- d. Khrushchev delivered a slashing, attack on the West and its leaders over Radio Moscow an attack so violent, according to reports, that the Prime Minister actually considered cutting his visit short and abruptly returning to London. At this point there was virtually un&namous belief that the Macmillan mission had oeen a flat failure. This seemed to be shared by the Prime Minister himself; newspapermen found him glum and taciturn. And then came still another chameleon-likchange on the part of Khrushchev. An air of friendliness returned, and the Soviet chief agreed to a foreign ministers' conference to consider the twin problems of West Berlin and a German peace treaty, even though he still said that a summit conference was preferable. Notes to this effect were promptly dispatched to the interested governments. In the light of all tfciis, what is the Kremlin up to and just how far is Khrushchev prepared to go to gain his ends? No one, obviously, can answer thai with anything resembling dead certainty. But conclusions, supported by various kinds of evidence, can.be drawn. For one thing, a day or two before Macmillan' ended his visit, when the Soviet "tough" attitude was war-threateni- ng e THE UTAH STATESMAN A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government HARRY B. MILLER, Publisher H. V. WRIGHT, Editor Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March S, 1879 Subscription rate $1.00 per year Published weekly at 421 Church Street Salt Lake City, Utah Vol. 13;-N- Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Lori Madge H. Fairbanks LaVerl Neilsen Janet Schoenhals Rytting 10 Friday, March 20, 1959 Associate Editor Editorial ... ... ....Editorial State Central Committee still in being with no conference of any kind agreed looked as if Khrushchev intended to really enforce his edict to the West to get out of West Berlin by May 27 or face the most serious consequences. However, the later Soviet declaration suggested that the foreign ministers' conference start in April and have a life of as long as three months. Western officials hardly think it reasonable that the May 27 deadline will be maintained under those circumstances. matter. A This, however, is a short-terdiscussion of the longer-terpossibilities & S. U. News in World Repori of March 9. appears According to it: "Nikita Khrushchev is, prepared to lead the world very close to the brink of all-owar to get what he wants." It adds that he "is determined to force the Western Allies to recognize the East German Communist regime. He is equally determined to force them to conclude a peace treaty with the two Germanies which would permanently ban nuclear weapons from West Germany . . " The magazine describes certain possible steps Khrushchev is likely to take. First, he would sign a Soviet-Eas- t German peace treaty. Eas- Germany would then control the roads into West Berlin and its troops would man the control posts. Access might be denied the Allied convoys, on one pretext or another. Then if the Allies decided to attempt to force a way through,. shooting, whose end no one could foretell, would start. If, on the other hand, the Allies accepted to any degree East German control authority, it would be regarded as recognition cf the satelupon, it well-reason- m ed m ut a - Take a bottle home lite regime. At the same time, the outlook is certainly not necessarily as bleak as this little resume suggests. A great many authorities are convinced that if the Allies hold fast, and pursue a tough policy of their own, Khrushchev, knowing as he must what war would mean to his nation as well as the rest of the world, will relent. And, certainly, there is abundant evidence that Britain, the U. S., and the other free world allies are determined to stand their ground. This brings up another point that .U. S. News touches on that Khrushchev is confideni that "time works for the Soviet Union, not for the West" The Eisenhower, Macmillan, present Western leaders Gaulle Adenauer, de may, in his view, be succeeded by people with different and "softer" views. So, according to this theory, he may be willing to wait. In any event, there will be no relaxing cold war, barring a genuine miracle. of the tonight X0 jMEgre Cttgttf) $$ MM&KsSD B0.UIRBN Id alt. -- XEtflGnt' WBIMMa-- .talfillfe A Ylfcfrtf ifa&IIggf iRtofifri! v tuggHI' -- a 55 |
