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Page 4 Tonawanda NEW5 Friday, May 10, 1963 —
A Page of Opinion. 32 Fallout Shelter Volunteers Are Serving Tonawanda ns Nobly
EVEN AS THEY enter a Civil Defense fallout shelter tonight, the 32 volunteers from North Tonawanda and Tonawanda have earned a rousing "thank you" from the community.
For they are undertaking training » that could — although we hope it
never will — have life-saving significance to every man, woman and child in the Tonawandas,
THEY ARE GOING to spend the . weekend in the fallout shelter, not just
to see how it is to be cooped up for 48 hours on a diet of biscuits and water, but rather to learn how to be shelter managers.
If it ever becomes necessary for us to use the community fallout shel
ters, trained leadership will be vital. A large number of persona crowded into a shelter for an indefinite period must be headed by someone who knows how to handle them and the equipment provided for them in the shelter.
THIS IS WHAT the 32 volunteers will be learning when they ester the shelter tonight.
They will be giving up 48 hours of their time in the interest of serving their fehow Tonawandans.
Mighty noble, we'd say.
The diplomatic consensus in Washington is that Berlin will remain quiet for the near future. The question is: How long is "near?"
Hatred of Russians and Germans Preventing Berlin Settlement
By ANDREW TUIAY WASHINGTON — In all the f u-over Cuba and Laos, the bigger
brains in the State Department are keeping their eye on the main event.
This is Berlin, whose eventual fate will decide whether the world is to have any kind of lasting peace.
Nikita Khrushchev has said it many times, and the West has nodded grim agreement. Even Charles de Gaulle has had to go along with the crowd on this one. And it is a poorly kept secret in Foggy Bottom that much of Averell Harriman's time in Moscow was spent in going over the tired old arguments with Khrushchev in an attempt to find some way to make Berlin less of an international dirty word.
Yet in all the years since World War II, these discussions have skirted gingerly the real problem. It is the furious hatred Russians and Germans feel for one another.
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I HAVE JUST HAD a new book published, "Berlin: Story of a Battle.'* It is, of course, a report of the ugly fighting which was climaxed by the city's capitulation to the Red Army on May 1,1946. Although I was a war correspondent with the Russians in Berlin during the battle, I never fully appreciated this classic hatred between Russians and Germans until I researched this book.
Because hatred is its theme, "Berlin: Story of a Battle" is a brutal and ugly book. But at the risk of being accused of shilling for my own product, I believe those diplomats concerned with the Berlin problem should read it. It will remind them that they are dealing with an almost psychopathic enmity.
German statistics charge that three out of four women were criminally assaulted during the battle of Berlin. Russian troops sliced off the heads of SS men and members of the German women's militia and used them to play football in the rubble-strewn streets. Civilians, both men and women, were shot to death out of sheer caprice. Hospitals were invaded and the sick and wounded driven into the streets, where they were put to work clearing rubble for the Russian tanks.
Yet it is difficult to argue with a Russian when he remarks mildly, "The Germans asked for it." Nothing can absolve the Russians for the way they behaved in Berlin — except, perhaps, the recollection of how the Germans
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behaved in Russia, It is all history, and yet the world tends to forget the hundreds of thousands of Slavs who were exterminated by Hitler's executioners, or herded into slave labor camps, or transported to German officers* brothels, or used in blood curdling medical experiments.
Entering Berlin, the Russians* memories were still fresh. They wanted revenge, and they got it in one of the most brutal and depraved battles in modern history. And the tragedy is that it could have been prevented simply by keeping the Russians out of Berlin until the smoke had cleared.
THIS REMEDY was in American hands. On April 11, first elements of the United States Ninth Army reached the Elbe River, 53 miles west of Berlin. At that time, the Russians were poised for their final offensive on the Oder River, 50 miles east of Berlin. It is almost certain that the Americans could have reached Berlin before the Russians, since the main forces of German defense stood before the Russians, and the Nazis planned only token resistance to the Americans.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower could not have known this at the time, however. He knew only that once Berlin was captured we would have to share it with the Russians, British and French, and he decided with typical humaneness that it would be feckless to spend American lives taking the city. And so the Americans halted at the Elbe and waited for the junction with the Russians.
It is uncomfortable to play Monday Morning Quarterback, because at the time Eisenhower's decision was the correct one. But it was a decision that resulted in a horrendous battle, and that battle so fanned the fires of German-Russian hate that postwar cooperation between the two has been impossible. With victory assured for the Allies, the battle of Berlin gave both sides one more ugly thing to remember.
Your Representatives
In Nation's Capital Want to write your congressmen?
Here are their addresses: Senate: Kenneth B. Keating (R)
and Jacob K. Javits (R). Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
House: William E. Miller (R). House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
Iffoment of tileditation
Fulfill me with Your wonder, dear God in Heaven, my Creator and. my Redeemer. Remind me o f t e n and again that all men and women are equal in Your Plan, and that all worthy persons can expect to participate, in the fullness of Your blessings. Lift each of us as promised in the Scriptures — to a Divine dignity, to the exaltation of person, to the plant of equality at which all men can so live and serve that they will merit fulfilment from On High, that ineffable portion of salvation for which we so hungrily and fervantly strive.
HE'S READY: Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper relaxes while waiting for weight and balance tests to begin at Cape Canaveral. He's slated for the fourth U.S. orbital mission programmed for 22 orbits lasting 34 hours and 20 minutes. (UPI)
Kennedy Most Beloved Daddikins Ever to Occupy the White House
By GEORGE DIXON
WASHINGTON — One of the things they used to say about former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was that he presented a "father" image.
Imagists disagree as to the image presented by President John F. Ken-nedy, but many will concede that it isn't predominantly paternal.
This, however, applies only to adults. With children, President Kennedy is indisputably the most beloved daddikins the White House ever had.
In the second year of his administration, Ike received 14,785 letters from children. In the second year of his administration JFK received a staggering 149,772.
The most kid letters Ike ever received in a year was 81,452 in 1960, his last year in office. In his first year, 1953, he received only 18,159. In JFK's first year, 1961, he received 124,460. At the rate they've been arriving for the last four months, the total for 1963 should be nearly a quarter of a million.
The KKKs (Kennedy Kiddie Kommunications) show a vast thirst for information, and all are answered. If the youngster requests special information, it Is turned over to an agency of government that knows the answer. A whopping number are sent to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
OUT OF LITERALLY thousands of letters to JFK I have culled these few gems of purest ray serene:
"Dear President Kennedy: I got your photograph and I went through the White House and saw a picture of Lincon and I saw a helicopter."
(The spelling may be significant
of our age. The kid can spell "helicopter," but not "Lincoln.")
"Dear President: May I ask a quest? Do you think children should be at home by 9 o'clock."
(Mr. Kennedy answered that one positively in the affirmative.)
"Dear Sir: I have been thinking about how many speeches you make and thought how much easier it would be if you learned braille. Then you wouldn't have to memorize those speeches."
(A White House aide replied truthfully that the President was giving this serious consideration.)
"DEAR MR. KENNEDY: I would like a driver's license. This sounds funny because I am 10 years old. I don't want to drive a car. I want to drive a motor scooter. I do not like to ride in cars because they smell."
(The White House hasn't decided who should answer this — or how.)
"Dear President: I like to hear you speak with sudden touch, and when you show your cleaming teeth I like them very much. Your hair looks like peach blossoms. Lionel and Diane. P.S. Written by Diane."
(The President had that one answered with a simple, and uncompromising, "Thank you.")
Now we come at last to this one letter out of the thousands that really made my day:
"Dear Mr. President: I love horse, ponies, and anything you can ride, but my nutty father won't get me one. I want you to send me a picture of your horses, but if you don't want to do that, just send me a picture of your family."
(The latter request was filled without comment.)
Do You Remember When 50 Years Ago — 1913
Low spots on Erie Avenue, North Tonawanda, were filled and high spots graded by two teams of horses and a road scraper, under direction of Public Works Supt Charles Kohler.
Two girls were ordered out of Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles when they entered their classroom "with ankles twinkl ing through slits in their skirts."
Stockholders of Van Slyke & Co., at a special meeting in the firm's office at the North Tonawanda Post Office building, voted to dissolve the corporation. The company was merged into the Enterprise Lumber and Silo Co. of North Tonawanda.
25 Years Ago — Brazilian government forces crushed a
Fascist uprising in 12 hours of street fighting in Rio De Janeiro, during which President Getulio Vargas defended his palace almost singlehandedly with a revolver.
Charter members of Twin City Council 37, Daughters of America, who attended a celebration of the council's 35th anniversary*
included Lucinda Heller, May Scounten, Cynthia Chamberlain, Emma Goodman, Anna Linton and Matilda Edwards.
Attorney Clark B. Bassett was chosen to succeed himself as president of the Tonawanda Board of Education. He was serving his fifth year as a member of the board.
10 Years Ago — 1953 •
A cornerstone-laying ceremony was conducted for the Boys' Club of the Tonawandas new clubhouse on Franklin Street, Tonawanda. The first mortar was put around the stone by Roger Bruce, 11, of Tonawanda, and Matthew Wilson, 12, of North Tonawanda.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called for a meeting of the leading world powers "on the highest level" — presumably meaning himself, President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Georgi M. Malenkov. "Our immediate aim is, of course, the conclusion of a truce in Korea," he said.
The Tonawanda Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously to recommend to the Common Council that the entire length of Delaware Street be rezoned for business.
Nehru Only 1 of Many Who Are Successfully Bamboozling the U.S.
By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER
OUR APPARENT failure to induce India to accept with Pakistan a just settlement of the Kashmir dispute demonstrates once more that, whatever his defects, as a hoaxer of the United States Prime Minister Nehru is un-equaled.
The defects are by now apparent to everybody. By treating Red China as a brotherly neighbor, Neh
ru showed complete ineptitude in world affairs. His neglect of his country's armed forces (described
last year by dispassionate European observers as "nonexistent") almost brought India to ruin.
His previous mixture of aggression and hypocrisy, forceful seizure of Kashmir, Hyderabad, Junagad, Portugese Goa and brutal repression of the freedom-seeking Nagas; refusal of assistance to the U.N. in Korea and condonation of the Soviet rape of Hungary, all while ceaselessly sermonizing the West on imperialism — totally destroyed his reputation for honesty. And for two years he cunningly hid the creeping Chinese invasion from his own countrymen.
But then, when that invasion became open, he piously howled for help from the imperialists.
FUTURE INDIAN Machiavellis may feel that he redeemed all his failures by his single success in obtaining American political and military backing on his own terms, that is, for nothing.
Well, the fault is ours, not his. In 1962 the United States had a unique opportunity to compel the arrogant Indian to deal justly with our ally, Pakistan. For without our help, India would have become a Red Chinese satellite and without cooperation with Pakistan even a well armed India cannot defend the entire Indian peninsula. And Pakistan has no intention of cooperating until it gets its due in Kashmir.
Indeed, the United States might have gone further and told Nehru that unless he joined the SEATO military alliance, he would get nothing from us. For as an ally of the United States, India would have been immune against Red Chinese infiltration or attack.
Instead, in the hope of defending what they call "Indian democracy," our liberal leaders hurriedly gave Nehru what he needed and then permitted him to make a mockery of the Kashmir negotiations, as well as maintaining his "neutrality" and his friendship with chairman Khrushchev.
Well, as a result the Indian peninsula, as I said, is still not in shape to defend itself and, what is worse, Pakistan may soon decide to secede from alliance with a United States that arms its aggressive enemy India. Why?
Well, in my opinion, history may excuse the Indians, who had small political experience of the modern world. But what will it say of those American leaders who fell like schoolboys for Nehru's con-game?
WHAT CAN it say except that the United States had once more been had? Since 1941, being had has become an American habit. FDR and his closest advisers were had by Stalin. Mao Tse-tung successfully duped Truman, Acheson and Marshall about the nature of Chinese communism. Tito is still making a monkey of Uncle Sam. Castro did a masterly job of diddling the State Department.
All over the world, smarties, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nasser of Egypt, Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Goulart of Brazil are successfully milking the American cow and giving nothing in return. Indeed, they insolently court our enemies and flout our policies with impunity.
President Kennedy was not, as I said, the first American patsy. But his administration has brought the role to a high perfection of folly under the label of greater "elasticity."
And elastic it is — right to the point where in South Asia as in Europe, the inability of our leaders to distinguish between an ally and a calculating, semi-hostile neutral is bringing about the collapse of our vital military alliances.
Against such a background we cannot blame Nehru for future setbacks.
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves."
A girl in our office says she approves of the push for more uniform time, since she's always enjoyed dates with fellas in the service.
We'd be happier about Khrushchev's admission that he can't hang on forever if we knew less about some of the fellows who might take over.
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