The Charlotte News
Wednesday, July 2, 1958
THREE EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the President, at his press conference this date, refused to say whether he was reconsidering his decision to retain Sherman Adams as White House chief of staff. He said that the statement he had made two weeks earlier on the matter, that he needed Mr. Adams, expressed his conviction at the time, that hearings were ongoing and he would not have any comment at the present time in reply to reporters' questions as to whether he had reconsidered. Regarding other matters, he said that the House Appropriations Committee was taking reckless risks with the nation's security in voting to cut foreign aid funding by nearly 600 million dollars. Regarding Americans held in Russia, Communist China and East Germany, and the recent wave of kidnapings in Cuba, he said it was a delicate matter with which to deal and that the country was trying to effect the return of "live Americans" and would not do anything which could call for consequences which would be final for those being held. He said that the situation was different between those being held in East Germany and Communist China and those being held in Cuba by the Castro rebels. He also said that remarks which he had once made regarding Leonard Hall, previously RNC chairman and now Republican candidate for the governorship of New York, had not been intended as a political endorsement of Mr. Hall's current candidacy. A reporter said that a committee supporting Nelson Rockefeller for governor of New York had complained that the remarks of the President were prejudicial in favor of Mr. Hall.
Before the House subcommittee investigating the Adams-Goldfine matter, Bernard Goldfine had denied this date that there was anything out of line in his relationship with Mr. Adams, including the gifts he had provided, indicating that his family considered that it had received more gifts from Mr. Adams than it had given. The longtime friend of Mr. Adams branded as lies the charges that Mr. Adams had enabled favors for him from Federal agencies with which Mr. Goldfine was having trouble, saying that the gifts he had provided were not intended to provide and did not result in any special favor from Government agencies for his business interests. He wondered why somebody did not write about the things which Mr. Adams had given to his family over the years. He had begun his testimony by providing a lengthy prepared statement denying any wrongdoing and hurling charges against many people, including members of Congress: "All these expressions of horror about what I asked Mr. Adams to do and what he did are hypocrisy." He characterized fellow Boston millionaire John Fox, his principal accuser, as a sick man who had told many lies "and will tell many more, I am sure." He said that he was dumbfounded that his gifts had hurt people in high places. Mr. Adams, who had appeared before the subcommittee two weeks earlier, had acknowledged that Mr. Goldfine had paid his hotel bills during the years, had given him a vicuna coat and temporary use of an Oriental rug, but had sworn that in contacting Federal agencies regarding the problems of Mr. Goldfine, he had pulled no wires to help his old friend. Mr. Fox, who testified for three days ending the prior Monday, had said that Mr. Goldfine had been coddled by Washington bureaus while high Administration forces had turned on pressures which collapsed Mr. Fox's defunct Boston Post in 1956. House investigators wanted particularly to know whether Mr. Goldfine had charged off his favors to Mr. Adams as business expenses on his tax returns, having had advance information that he had. Some members of Congress contended that it proved that the gifts were not just tokens of friendship, as claimed by Mr. Adams, but rather favors which Mr. Goldfine used for the purpose of obtaining something of value for his business. Mr. Goldfine had not discussed taxes in his prepared statement. Making a point of wearing one of two gold watches which he said Mr. Adams had given to him, he issued blanket denials plus specific argument against a few of the accusations raised in the inquiry, stating generally that the gifts to Mr. Adams, including the hotel bills, the coat and the loaned rug, had been the result of a longstanding friendship, just as Mr. Adams had testified. (Hope the Adamses did not have a little cocker spaniel at home, or that rug may not come back in pristine condition.)
The Pentagon's Advance Research Projects Agency had ordered this date a study to determine whether a series of small nuclear explosions could be used to propel a space vehicle, according to Roy Johnson, director of the agency. He said that the air research and development command of the Air Force had been authorized to award a "feasibility study" contract to the atomic division of General Dynamics Corp. of San Diego. The announcement disclosed that a million dollars would be spent on the study during the fiscal year which had begun the previous day. The study would involve the possibility of using controlled nuclear explosions for propelling vehicles both within the earth's atmosphere, like aircraft, and in space. The announcement said that, conceptually, the study differed from other proposals under consideration in that it looked to the use of a series of controlled detonations within the atmosphere and beyond.
On an inside page, it was reported that testimony continued this date before the Senate Select Committee investigating misconduct of unions and management, in its current investigation of infiltration of organized crime into legitimate businesses and trade unions to establish fronts for extortion and other rackets, with investigators this date summoning Mafia figure Vito Genovese of New York and businessman John Scalish of Cleveland to try to find out more about the November, 1957 meeting of organized crime figures in Apalachin, N.Y. Senator John McClellan of Arkansas, chairman of the Committee, said that Mr. Genovese was one of the leading gangsters in the country. He and Robert F. Kennedy, lead counsel for the Committee, said that Mr. Scalish, head of the Buckeye Cigarette Co. of Cleveland, had been in trouble with the law in the 1930's, though having had a clean record since. Both men had been among 58 persons rounded up by police after a raid on the Apalachin meeting. Also picked up had been John Charles Montana, a member of the City Council of Buffalo and chosen as that city's man of the year in 1956. He had testified the previous day that he was at the meeting only by chance, hoping to get someone to repair the brakes on his new automobile, claiming he had never done anything wrong. Senator Irving Ives of New York said that Mr. Montana's explanation for his presence at the meeting did not make any sense. (Hey, he just needed a brake job on his 1957 Cadillac, like a spray job. How was he supposed to get home from the meeting without brakes on the mountain roads? He needed protection from a good brake man and there was no other place to find one that time of day, around noon. The syndicate is known for its good brake men. He said that Russell Bufalino had once worked for him as a mechanic many years earlier, but he had not seen him at the home of Joseph Barbara that day, while he sipped tea because he was chilled to the bone from the rain and having to get out to fix the windshield wiper on his lemon tree, decided to take a hike through the woods because someone had said a roadblock had been thrown up by someone on the road and he could not drive his car back down the hill without good brakes, then was picked up on the other side by the police as he emerged from the woods.) Incidentally, Senator Ives explained that the name Apalachin had putatively derived from a story told of an Indian in early times stopped in front of a store in the location rubbing his stomach, and when asked what the trouble was, he had said, "Apple achin'," and ever since the place had been known as Apalachin. Whether Appalachian
In London, it was reported this date by the Daily Mail that France was to detonate its first atomic bomb in the ensuing two weeks or so. The test weapon would be a "small content" bomb of about 20 pounds of plutonium and would be detonated in the Sahara.
The House this date had passed and sent to the Senate a bill providing that voluntary confessions in criminal cases could not be held illegal merely because of delay between an arrest and arraignment. The bill was designed to amend a rule of criminal procedure to nullify a Supreme Court decision from 1957, Mallory v. U.S., reversing a conviction for rape after admission of the defendant's confession, holding that, prior to his confession, he had not been advised of his right to be brought before a magistrate "without unnecessary delay" per a Federal rule of criminal procedure. The problem would largely be eliminated by the requirement of warnings by law enforcement of the right to remain silent and to have an attorney present during questioning pursuant to any in-custody interrogation in which the accusational focus has been placed on the defendant, per Miranda v. Arizona in 1966. Voluntary, spontaneous utterances, however, not elicited by law enforcement questioning are not prohibited from use in a subsequent trial, regardless of prior admonitions or not, provided they are not elicited through non-verbal coercive tactics.
In New York, it was reported that the eight-week retrial of influence-peddler Henry Grunewald and two others on charges of conspiring to fix income tax suits had ended this date in a hung jury.
In Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, it was reported that United Arab Republic Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser had arrived in Yugoslavia this date for talks with President Tito.
In London, it was reported that Britain had disclosed this date that Communist China had placed new restrictions on diplomats in Peiping and had arrested a number of Chinese servants working for foreign diplomatic missions.
In St. Nicholas-en-Foret, France, it was reported that a U.S. Air Force F-100 jet fighter had crashed into the main street of the village this date, killing two children, ages 3 1/2 and 14, with the American pilot having parachuted to safety.
In Nicosia, it was reported that new communal troubles had broken out this date in the south Cyprus port of Limassol, and that a Greek Cypriot had been shot and killed and a Turkish Cypriot seriously wounded in separate incidents.
In Fort Pillow, Tenn., one prisoner had been killed and another wounded at a prison farm the previous night as guards had smashed an attempted escape.
In Victorville, Calif., authorities said that three teenagers had played a game of "chicken" with rifles while out hunting the prior Monday on the Mojave Desert, south of the town, when they could not find any game, with the result that one of the three was dead, a 17-year old brother of the deceased was in jail, booked for investigation of manslaughter, and an 18-year old friend was being held as a material witness. The sheriff said that they had initially begun shooting at bottles, rocks and cans and then started shooting near one another to see if they could make the others flinch, having told the sheriff that they shot anywhere from 3 to 5 feet from the other person's shoes. The friend had quit the game and returned to the car, but from behind a bush, one of the brothers shot into a pole behind which his brother lay, whereupon his brother then fired a shot in return and no sound came from the other brother, at which point the latter had rolled from behind the bush down a sandy embankment, a bullet in his side, dead by the time the others had gotten him to a hospital. The coroner's office said that the brother who fired the fatal bullet was "filled with remorse" and an inquest had been scheduled for this date. The father, a physician, said that his sons had been hunting together before and had both been taught how to use guns. The deceased had been an excellent student at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. The father asked that the death not be hidden as it might save the life of some other boy who might read of it.
In New York, it was reported that a man, who had set sail the previous August on a supposed diamond-hunting expedition to Africa with two of his fellow workers at a Chicago firm, had returned empty-handed this date, but that two U.S. marshals had apprehended him. Hurricane winds had been encountered three times, forcing a change in their destination from the Madeira Islands to the Canary Islands, both off the coast of Africa. For the previous four weeks of the 49-day voyage, water had to be rationed, though the food had held out, albeit all consisting of beans. The three had to operate hand pumps almost constantly to offset a leak occurring during the storms, which had ripped the sails of the boat to shreds and disabled its auxiliary engine. When they finally reached the Canary Islands, the other two men had wired home to Chicago for money and quit the expedition. At about the same time, officers in the Spanish islands had taken the other man into custody. U.S. authorities had sent word that the latter had chartered the boat for ten days on the pretense of doing some coastal sailing and that his Atlantic voyage, in effect, constituted theft. The two U.S. marshals had been dispatched to pick him up on June 16. The arrested man said that his wife and two small daughters were in Johannesburg, South Africa, but that he had not heard from his wife since he had gotten into trouble with the authorities, indicating that he believed she had "no sense of honor."
In Fuquay, N.C., it was reported that an FBI agent and state officers had raided the homes of two Wake County farmers at dawn this date and arrested them for the armed robbery of a Durham bank at Apex the previous year. None of the loot taken had been recovered. The men were charged with taking $23,692 at gunpoint from the bank the prior July 12. The FBI special agent in charge of the Charlotte office said that both men had surrendered peacefully. One of the men had seven children.
John Kilgo of The News reports that the newspaper's check of court records had shown this date that at least five sentences in prostitution cases had been reduced in City Recorder's Court during the previous year and a half and that in each instance, the facsimile signature of Judge Basil Boyd had been stamped on the original sentence and on the revised sentence. The most unusual of the cases had entailed a woman with a long police record, arrested in a local hotel on May 28, 1957, charged with prostitution, with the record showing that the woman had been originally sentenced to two years in Women's Prison in Raleigh, that she had appealed the verdict and that her bond had been set at $5,000 on May 30, 1957, that she had been sent to the county jail where she remained until June 5 when she came back to Recorder's Court at which time her sentence had been changed from two years in prison to a probationary sentence, conditions of which were that she leave the state immediately and remain away for five years, not violate any of the laws of the state for five years and pay a fine of $250 plus costs. Police records showed that the woman, at the time she was committed to the county jail, had over $1,100 in her personal belongings, including $1,089 in a plastic bag, $31 in a wallet and $4.13 in change. Police and court officials had said this date that it was their recollection that the woman, upon her release, had barely enough of the $1,100 left to take a bus back to her home in Texas.
In Charlotte, it was reported that Benjamin Franklin Matthews, founder of the Belk's boys' department and a well-known men's and boys' clothing authority in the South, was dead at 75. He had been the vice-president and secretary of Belk Brothers Co. He had died suddenly early this date of a heart attack while taking his daily morning stroll along the beach at Myrtle Beach, S.C. He had completed a tour of the Belk Department store chain between Charlotte and Texas in May. He had been one of three men who had served as general manager of Belk's in the Charlotte store.
In Hollywood, a 2.4 million dollar fire before dawn had destroyed the Samuel Goldwyn Studio's largest sound stage and sets, prepared for a 6 million dollar movie version of "Porgy and Bess".
On the editorial page, "America Accepts a New Frontier" indicates that the country would honor an old pledge and reaffirm a more ancient faith by admitting Alaska as the 49th state, with the pledge of eventual statehood having been contained in a treaty following purchase of the territory from Russia in 1867.
It finds that perhaps the greater significance of statehood lay in the country's willingness to absorb into it a new frontier involving both problems and promise, with the challenge of a succession of frontiers having been a central fact in the vitality and growth of the union. It suggests that Americans ought feel some of the pioneer spirit with Alaska being added to the country as a state, it being twice the physical size of Texas. There was also a new civilization to be built there by those who wanted to do so. The imminence of statehood, after years of Congressional stalling, carried a quality of suddenness and surprise, but the matter had been more than properly aged, and the action would have come sooner had it been allowed to come to a vote in both houses.
Most of the arguments openly advanced against statehood would have blocked admission of one or more of the present 48 states, for example that Alaska was not contiguous to the other states, just as California had not been when admitted to the union in 1850. Alaska's population was small, 209,000, but was much larger than that of Nevada and 23 other states upon admission. The granting of two additional Senators and one additional Representative to the state would dilute to a small degree the representation of more populous states, but so had the admission of every new state.
It finds that the question had come down to whether the country wanted to declare itself a closed union or was willing to share its institutions and future with a valid and deserving applicant, and that the Congress had finally given the correct answer.
"Castro Must Quit Role as Kidnaper" indicates that Cuban rebel leader Fidel Castro's kidnaping spree had probably been designed in part to allow Americans to know that the Cuban dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista had not yet defeated his rebellion, but that the result of his stupidity would be regret that such was the case, as the kidnaping of 45 Americans and using them as pawns in Cuban politics signified nothing other than desperation and mental denseness within the Castro camp. It indicates that the desperation might be regrettable, depending on one's view of Sr. Castro, but the denseness was endangering innocent persons without cause. Were there to be any U.S. intervention, for which Sr. Castro doubtless hoped, it would be on the side of the Batista regime.
Senator William Knowland of California to the contrary notwithstanding, the furnishing of U.S. arms to El Presidente Batista was not indicated. Such action could decrease the possibility of freeing the captives safely and would entail a long-term U.S. involvement in Cuba's internal politics, in which the country had no business.
It finds that to be the point which Sr. Castro could not master, that the U.S. was not responsible for the Batista regime and had no duty to try to unseat him. When enough Cubans would tire of his corruption, they would do the job themselves and would have to do so if it were to occur. Revolutions generally were successful when the right man moved at the right time, but evidently, that time had not yet come in Cuba and it was now even more difficult to believe that Sr. Castro was the right man.
It finds that he had committed a tremendous blunder in his drive to win U.S. sympathy for his revolt and that surely he would release his captives before the U.S. was forced to join in the effort and put him out of business permanently.
"A Wayward Art Form on the Make" finds it astonishing and disconcerting to most Americans that jazz, "a cultural stepchild with unmentionable origins in the bordellos of New Orleans, should become a U.S. propaganda instrument of high potency during the cold war." In some polite society, jazz was either put down as vulgar or confused with rock 'n' roll and the popular "absurdities" of Tin Pan Alley. Its status as a genuine art form with considerable cultural validity, America's only original art form, was neither recognized nor widely suspected.
"Yet, this urban folk music out of Storyville and points North has been the subject of scholarly scrutiny for years in countries like France, where Hodeir, Panassie and Dulaunay have taken an academic scalpel to its mysteries."
It finds it unsurprising therefore
that the biggest hit in the U.S. exhibit at the Brussels World's Fair
to date was the jazz of Benny Goodman
Writing in the New York Times Magazine recently, Mr. Brubeck had said: "The fact is that jazz, our single native art form, is welcomed—not simply accepted—without reservation throughout the world and is felt to be the most authentic example of American culture… There is no mistaking its effect: It arouses a kinship among peoples: it affords them flashes of recognition of common origins, because of its basic relationship to folk idioms: and the forthrightness and directness of its appeal are grasped alike by the naïve and the sophisticated."
A New York Times correspondent, reporting the enthusiastic reception provided to Louis Armstrong's band in Europe, had called jazz "America's secret weapon".
It finds that jazz often lacked subtlety and could not be called "secret", that perhaps "weapon" was not quite the right word, that it was "merely a mirror of part of the American psyche. It is freedom and creativeness and joie de vivre set to music. Since it is based on improvisation, jazz has a power and tension and expressiveness that is typically 20th century and typically American in quality. If it transmits some of the spirit and emotion of this country to foreign audiences—both 'the native and the sophisticated'—then it is good and its export should be encouraged."
It suggests that if authentic
American jazz continued to win acceptance abroad, it might even be
accepted at home
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A piece from the Louisville Courier-Journal, titled "The Cruel Stars of Jefferson Davis", indicates that on June 3 had occurred the sesquicentennial of the birth of Jefferson Davis in Christian County, Ky., "in that part of it which, by a subsequent division, is now in Todd County", according to Mr. Davis's autobiographical sketch. He had gone on to say that in that place had since arisen the village of Fairview, that he was educated at Transylvania College in Kentucky and at West Point and resigned from the U.S. Army in 1835, being anxious to fulfill a long existing engagement with the daughter of Col. Zachary Taylor, whom he had married, not "after a romantic elopement" as had been often stated, but rather at the house of her aunt and in the presence of many of her relatives at a place near Louisville. He had then become a cotton planter in Warren County, Miss.
His wife, Sarah Knox Taylor, then died of malaria within three months "and for many years thereafter" Mr. Davis said that he lived in great seclusion on the plantation in the swamps of the Mississippi. He had married again later, and happily, but his early sorrow, the piece suggests, must have been an omen of a fate to be uncommonly cruel. His devotion to the South was intense, but the presidency of the Confederacy had neither been sought nor desired by him. The defeat of the cause for which he had been made leader was bitter enough, but an even harsher thing was that as the fortunes of the Confederacy inevitably waned, he was blamed for it by an increasing faction among his own people.
A South Carolina Senator had said, "We have failed through the egotism, the obstinacy and the imbecility of Jeff Davis." The piece concludes, however, that but for Mr. Davis, the failure might have come sooner than it had, as the faults were not in him but rather in the stars.
It does not point out that President Taylor blamed Mr. Davis for his daughter's death and never forgave him for it through his own death while in the White House, in 1850.
Drew Pearson indicates that his column had been the first to expose the close association between Sherman Adams and his old friend, Bernard Goldfine, that in doing so, some of the accusations against Mr. Adams and Mr. Goldfine by John Fox, the former publisher of the defunct Boston Post, had been checked and found to be way out of line. The accusation that Mr. Goldfine had paid for the house of Mr. Adams in Washington had been checked carefully a month earlier and found to be false. Mr. Adams had first lived in an area near the Capitol which speculators had bought up and held for high prices in the time of George Washington, with the result that residential Washington had moved into cheaper land in the northwestern section, with the southeast portion presently of spotty or depreciated value. The owner of the Adams house was in fact Brig. General Thomas Betts, retired, who had responded to an inquiry by saying that the Adamses had paid him through a real estate agent, who, in turn, verified that he received a monthly personal check from Mr. Adams for $250, with there being no trace of involvement by Mr. Goldfine. About two years earlier, the Adamses had moved to another location in the more expensive northwestern part of Washington, worth much more at present than it had been in the time of George Washington. The new home was owned by Dorothy Kerr, who was located by his associate Jack Anderson in Nantucket, Mass., and who told him that the rent was paid through a real estate agent, whose name she could not recall. After some digging, the agent was located, a private broker and friend of the Adamses, who said that she received the rent check each month from Mr. Adams personally, for more than $300 per month, again without any trace of payments from Mr. Goldfine.
He indicates that more facts had presently leaked out regarding the intervention by Mr. Adams on behalf of Mr. Goldfine with the Federal Trade Commission, showing that the intervention was grossly understated. Mr. Adams had said that he had merely placed a phone call to the FTC when actually he had stopped the entire process of that supposedly independent agency. The second Goldfine case had been handled by Johnny Walker, the special Republican "hatchet man" inside the Commission, an appointee of Senator John W. Bricker of Ohio. When a problem requiring deft political hatchet-work came to the Commission, it usually went to Mr. Walker, who was not in the division handling woolen textiles, the business of Mr. Goldfine, but nevertheless had handled the Goldfine case.
The first case against Mr. Goldfine had been closed immediately, when usually such a case was held open until fully investigated. Mr. Goldfine's mills had a bad record for violation of the labeling act regarding wool, but the case against them had been closed almost immediately after receiving the phone call from Mr. Adams. It had been virtually closed the same day of the phone call. FTC chairman Ed Howrey had written to Mr. Adams on January 4, 1954, the same day of receipt of the phone call: "Mr. Hannah advises me that if Northfield [a mill owned by Mr. Goldfine] will give adequate assurances that all their labeling will be corrected, the case can be closed on what we call a voluntary cooperative basis." Previously, Northfield had refused in a letter of November 17, 1953, to give such complete assurances, but after the letter from Mr. Adams, the case was closed anyway.
Marquis Childs, in Moscow, finds that there had been comparatively little stress on the never-ceasing appeal in Russia to the individual to contribute to the common good of the Socialist fatherland, compared to that which had been written in the West about the compulsions of the system. It began in the early morning when the average Soviet citizen listened to the news on the radio and went on throughout the day, into the evening at the Gorki Park of Rest and Culture, where the person confronted at various points the appeal of the Soviet Government for the person to give more of himself to the building of Socialism.
The individual from the West, he adds, might discount his account as rhetorical, boring and sentimental, but Western observers in Moscow with expert knowledge believed that patriotic appeal was an important element in the will with which the Russian people worked at their allotted tasks. The average Russian was by nature and heritage deeply patriotic, and what he heard and read in daily life constantly identified his country and his Government. The possessive pronoun "your" was invariably used in calling on him to work hard, to be careful about forest fires, to raise milk production, to give special care and attention to machinery. While the outsider had no way of judging the degree to which that identification was accepted, it had to influence the attitudes of the people who knew nothing of the psychology of individualism. The students who had just graduated from the university and from the technicums and institutes were presently going out to provide two weeks or more of service on the collective farms and other state enterprises. Their departure for that life was represented as voluntary labor and the official line labeled it a good time in the process. It was, likewise, impossible for the outsider to determine the balance between the voluntary and compulsory aspects of the labor, but it was significant that the objective of the state was to make it voluntary, a gift to the Government which had given the young people such a thorough education, not only for free, but with a stipend paid during the student's college years.
Those who had contributed greatly to the achievements of the Communist state were not only well rewarded in a material way but were constantly held up to the public for admiration.
In Gorki Park, which was a combination of amusement park, Chautauqua lecture course and a wooded retreat, visited on a weekend of good weather by literally hundreds of thousands, a person came suddenly upon a shrine in which large photographs of the Lenin Prize winners for recent years were displayed under glass with a record of their achievements. Except for the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the leading male dancer of the Ballet Othello, Vohtang Chebukiani, virtually all of them were scientists. Photographs of the leading atomic physicists, chemists and geophysicists had the place of honor underneath a large inscription which read: "Long live the people of the Soviet Union who have built socialism."
In Pravda, a prominent place had been given to the announcement that 81 new members of the Academy of Science had been elected. Members of the Academy were provided extraordinary privileges, including the right to an extra-large apartment, a dacha in the country and a car and chauffeur, as well as salaries and special compensation as high as any in the country. They could travel freely and were the recipients of unfailing public respect and honor.
Mr. Childs indicates that the moral was that if one had brains, then the Government would give the person every opportunity. One of the phenomena which impressed every visitor was the line, three and four deep, extending seven or eight blocks around Red Square and into the park at the foot of the Kremlin walls, waiting to pass by the tomb where Lenin and Stalin were embalmed. There was nothing compulsory about being in the queue and yet the people stood sometimes in the rain for hours, hoping that the mausoleum, which was open for only three hours each day, would not close before their turn came to file slowly past the lifelike figures of the two former Communist leaders. Many came from the farthest corners of the Soviet Union to do so. Whether it was gratitude or reverence or merely curiosity, the red and black granite tomb was a powerful draw alongside the Kremlin, with all of its historic associations for the Russian people.
The identification of the past and present, the use of the motive force of patriotism, was relatively new since the 1917 Revolution. Joseph Stalin, during the war, had made repeated patriotic appeals, invoking the names of great Russian generals and heroes from the past, and that continued to be one of the most powerful motivating forces in a society with enormous drive. He concludes that patriotism linked to the necessity for ever greater effort to build a Communist state was an important tool in the hands of those who were directing the destiny of the nation.
One would think that those directing behind the scenes the current Administration in 2025, for every minute they have studied assiduously the Nazi regime and the Fascist regime in Italy, looking for ground to emulate them, have also studied the regime of Stalin and postwar Russia for clues as to how to govern the country which they hate, that, of course, being the United States. Again, we suggest to them that they catch the first rickety old bus down to El Salvador and take up new residence in a country where they will feel much more at home.
Everyone with any sense knows that big-city crime has always been present and in far greater numbers, for the greater compaction of people, than in rural areas of the country. Likewise, everyone except morons like His Highness knows that we do not vote by land area in the United States and just because he carried a substantial majority of the counties in the country, he still only won the popular vote, not by any great overwhelming landslide, as his sycophants constantly proclaim, but in fact by a mere 1.5 percentage points, or 2.3 million popular votes. That is not, especially given that it was a plurality and not a majority, any "overwhelming mandate" or any mandate whatsoever.
His weakness is perpetually on display, as is his ever-increasing senility. The very idea of sending military troops and federalizing state National Guard units to police American cities only because of what he deems mercurially to be high crime rates, each of which he targets for being run by Democratic mayors, each of whom, thus far, happens also to be black, is nothing short of Fascism and Nazism warmed over; it is nothing short of the tactics used by the old Soviet Union during the Cold War toward its satellite nations every time there was any hint of a revolt therein against Moscow. It is totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and pure evil. It must be stopped and it will be stopped, one way or the other. We are not going to lose our Constitution to a despot, who, but for a crazy plurality of the electorate who obviously did not take their vote very seriously, would, by now, probably be on the verge of entering a jail cell, where he most certainly belongs.
Smile and smile and be a villain...
Robert C. Ruark, in Palamos, Spain, indicates that he wishes to file a dissenting report on the lamented lack of old-fashioned foolishness, for at least one man had made his day, in Barcelona, where a young Irish-American gentleman who was not exemplary of rock 'n roll, atomic destruction, juvenile delinquency or extreme nobility, but rather was a former stowaway who had spent most of his time from New York to Barcelona on a ship dining at the captain's table. He declines to identify the person but says that for piracy on the high seas, the boy had won the solid platinum gallows.
He goes on in relating of his exploits and indicates that he had last been seen in the Ritz Hotel in Barcelona, lunching with Mrs. Temple Fielding, a fellow passenger and the wife of the man who had written the official travel guide of Europe. At no time had he been suspected by the ship's company as a stowaway, but only as a mildly eccentric individual, who had done it for a bet of two bottles of champagne, and intended to continue on around the world.
The incident told Mr. Ruark that there was still hope, notwithstanding Sherman Adams, atom bombs, Beirut and Russia.
A letter from J. R. Cherry, Jr.,
responds to a letter writer who had responded to one of Mr. Cherry's
recent letters regarding the right to work laws. He quotes
Shakespeare
The editors note that interest in a letter from one writer the prior Monday had prompted telephone calls to a man of that name, with the announcement being made in the interest of decreasing the number of wrong numbers.
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