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2- — Breckenridge American—THURSDAY. MARCH 23, 1961
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★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Japan's Leaders Discount
Chance of Swing to Left
BY PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
TOKYO — <NEA) — An American impression that Japan is
politically unstable, rapidly veering toward the left and there-
lor unreliable as an ally in the Far East was born out of the
itreet riots against ratification of the security treaty with the
United States last May.
Those demonstrations," led to cancellation ot President
Eisenhower's visit. Relations between the two countries fell to
a postwar low.
This bad impression has been heightened by subsequent
events
There has been seme agitation for closer trade relations
between Communist China and Japan.
Japan's organized labor movement actively supports Japan's
Socialist party, which opposed ratification of the treaty.
All Japanese language and all but one of its English language
newspapers were highly critical of the Liberal Democratic
party which backed this treaty.
JAPANESE LEADERS IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE insist that
this impressionist picture of Japan today is wrong.
Spokesmen for Japan's Federation of Economic Organization
- -somewhat similar to the U.S. National Industrial Conference
£oard—point out that no reputable business firms back more
tiade with Red China. They have been burned too often by
<<mceltation of orders.
Though Japan's Socialist party opposed the defense treaty in
the last election, the Socialists did not win. The Liberal Demo-
< ratic party, which backed the treaty and is really a conserva-
tive party, won the confidence of Japanese voters, electing 60
per cent of the Diet i Congress).
AN INTERVIEW WITH SAICHI KATSUMATA, spokesman
for the Socialist party and a member of its executive committee,
reveals a dedicated .Marxist. He has beer, a member of the Diet
ln.m the Mt. Fuji district since 1947 and has been chairman of
his party's foreign policy board. He has been to the United
States once, to Red China four times, calls himself a moderate.
He says now that his party favors gradual nationalization of
industry, abrogation of the Japanese security treaty with the
United States, withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Japan, gradual
transformation of Japan's defense forces into a national labor
force for public works, and closer relations wRh Red China.
RESPONSIBLE ANALYSTS BELIEVE the Socialists' pro-
gram is completely unrealistic and unacceptable.
The Socialists have support from intellectuals and student
groups as well as Japan's major labor organizations. But they
cannot possibly win more than the 30 per cent of the Diet which
they now hold in the forseeable future.
The Japan Socialist party tries to emphasize that it has no
connection with the Japan Communist party, but some of their
objectives are the same.
The Communists electcd three members to the Diet in last
year's elections, polling over a million votes, more than ex-
pected. Party is estimated to number 45,000 to 80.000.
Its principal strength is through front organizations like the
Japan-China Friendship Socicty, Japan-Russia, Japan-Korea and
Japan Peace Societies.
"Don't Look B$ek—Someone's Gaining"
The Image Of America
Hoped For Moment
Real Reason For Foreign Aid
The Cisco Press
Advocates ol continued foreign
aid .ire forever finding new rea-
sons for the giveaway of our re-
sources to nations all over the
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, world. The bis; trouble with these
reasons is that, by and large. they
are spurious.
We are told that it is the respon-
sibility oV America to help "under-
developed" nations to build in-'
dustrial systems like ours in or-|
tier that the living standard of'
their people may he raised. Well.
America was once an "underdeve-
loped" nation, and the founders of
our Nation insisted only that
other nations leave us alone so
we could take care of our own de-
velopment.
In contrast to the fake reasons
for foreiun aid that we hear from
Washington consider the real rea-
sons as set forth by JoseY Stalin
in an article published in Pravda
on May 1. 1921. Here is what Stalin
wrote:
"It is esential that the trium-
phant proletariat of the advanced
countries should render aid. real
and prolonged aid to thr toiling
masses of the backward nationa-
lities in their cultural and eco-
nomic development, that it should
help them rise to a higher stage
of development and to catch up
with the more advanced national-
ities.
"L'nless such aid is forthcom-
ing. ' Stalin continued, "it will be
Impossible to bring about the i
peaceful co-existence and frater- J
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
A more stable Congo could be
the result of the new plan advanc-
ed by Congolese leaders for a con-
federation of semi-independent stat-
es. But even this beginning step
is beset by serious obstacles
For one thing, the confederation
doesn't include Antoine Gizenga.
Leftist rebel leader of big Oriental
province, who refuses to partici-
pate.
For another the draiters of the
plan still must settle on the exact
number of states — and their boun-
daries. sharp differences seem sure
to arise in this critical field.
Thirdly, other African states like
Ghana and Nigeria view the plan
with misgivings. They fear a feder-
ation founded roughly on tribal
groupings might encourage similar
divisions within their own borders.
A feeling exists in arid out of Af-
rica anyway that the continent is
already carved into-too many Balk-
anized fragments.
Yet, despite these considerable
difficulties, the judgment of U. S.
officials, expressed in formally, is
for cautious approval of confedera-
tion.
Realistically they believe a
strong central government impos-
sible to achieve today. The new-
plan is seen as perhaps the least
of the evils, when coupled with hope
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nal collaberation o fthe toilers of
the various nations and peoples
within a single world economic
system that is so esential for the
final triumph Ot socialism."
That is what StaHn said, and in
plainer language, what he ment
was that a country like the Unit-
ed States must pour money into
"underdeveloped" countries in or-
der that all of them together might
be reduced to slavery.
The foreign aid program is sold
to the American people as the only
way to save the world from com-
munism. "tJosef Stalin knew better
than that. He foresaw that such
a program as the United States
has engaged in since World War
II inevitably would aid in the
spread of communism. That is
exactly what is happening.
This whole foreign aid matter
is one about which we should
strive to leart| more and more
each day. It has widespread im-
plications. It concerns all of us-
not only in our pocketbook re-
gion, which is bad enough, but also,
and much more alarmingly, in the
whole fight to maintain freedom.
that there may be a gradual move
toward a stronger central authority
once the confederation is set up and
some stability returns to the Congo.
As for Gizenga. the best hope
appears to be that somehow he
might be isolated and in a sense
confined it the confederation is
well established and manages to
build its own military strength to
adequate levels.
U. S. officials note that Gizenga
is no longer "pressing outward"
beyond state borders. They do not
rule out the prospect that this
change could pave the way to an
accommodation by him to the deve-
loping federation. But the more
skeptical prefer to stress the Krem-
lin's heavy attack on the federa-
tion proposals.
The Congolese leaders think their
new plan obviates the need for
the U. N. resolution authorizing
the use of 'force as a last resort to
prevent civil war.
But it could be a long, rocky
road between the plan and its car-
rying out. When the confederation
is a wording success, that will be
time enough to review the neces-
sity for the U. N. to have that au-
thority. This is the moment to wait
and watch.
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Today In History
Today is Thursday, March 23rd,
the 82nd day of 1961. There are
283 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On this day in 1775, American
Patriot Patrick Henry uttered the
immortal words: "Give me liberty
or give me death." Henry spoke
those words in his greatest speech
to the revolutionary convention of
Virginia at Richmond. In R he in-
UITTL.E LIX
The only time some folks or®
on the level is when they're sleep-
ing.
trodueed resolutions committing
the colony to military prepared
ness for war against Great Britain
On this date —
In 1689, Alonso De Leon left Mex-
ico to destroy L Salle's fort and
establish a Spanish settlement in
Texas.
In 1776, France authorized the
first loan to the Continental Con-
gress.
In 1868, the impeachment trial of
President Andrew Johnson began
In 1935. President Franklin Ro-
osevelt approved the constitution
GY the commonwealth of the Phili-
ppines.
In 1945. U. S. third army troops
crossed the Rhine River while
remnants of Nazi forces on the
West bank were being methodicaly
eraldicated.
Ten years ago, a U. S. Air Force
globemaster with 53 Air Force
members aboard was lost enroute
across the Atlantic from Lime-
stone, Maine, to Mildenhall Eng-
land.
Five years ago, Pakistan be-
came the first Islamic Republic
while retaining-membership in the
Britis Commonwealth.
One year ago, Soviet Premier
Khrusthchev began a . state visit to
France during which he hammered
away at the theme that France
and Russia were threatened by a
rebirth .of German militarism.
Today's birthdays:
Actress Joan Crawford is 53 years
old. American rocket expert Wern-
her Von Brauo is 49.
Thought For Today:
I had rather live with the wo-
man I love in a world full of trou-
ble than to live" in heaVeri with no-
body but — Robert Ingersoll.
More than 44 bHlion bottle caps
were manufactured in the United
States in 1958.
The Star . Telegram
Americans are warned by Gen.
Carlos Romulo, Philippines ambas-
sador to the United States, that the\
must change the image that Soviet
Russia is creating of this country
in Asian eyes. General Romulo.
speaking at Seton Hill College at
Greensburg, Pa., said that "day
after day, Soviet Russia is build-
ing an image of America as a mer-
cenary and materialistic country
to the Asians."
lie said that if Americans want
to gain the friendship of Asians
they must change this image. "To
survive in this life-and-death strug-
gle with the Soviet Union," said
General Romulo, "you must have
friends and allies . . . You must
make every etVort possible to show-
that the American way of life res-
pects the dignity of the human
soul.'"
Russians may find it fairly easy
to promote this image of a merce-
nary acd materialistic America, be.
cause the industry of Americans
have provided them with mater-
ialistic wealth that rouses the envy
of many 'foreign peoples, including
Russians. Many Americans abroad
are pursuig this materialistic goal
of accumulatig wealth. All the So-
viet agitators have to do is to say:
"Look at the rich America. He
thinks of nothing but money."
Americans do not need to deny
that they seek through intelligent
planning and -hard work to secure
for themselves the necessities and
as many of the comforts of life as
possible. There is nothing wrong
with that. There is no reason why
industry and commerce should
have to be in conflict with respect
tor the dignity of the human soul.
But Americans must show that
there is respect for the dignity of
the human soul in their wav of life.
To do this they must see that this
respect is maintained at home as
well as abroad.
There is something painfully re-
versed in the fact that Russians, of
I all people, are the ones to use the
i charge of materialism against)
1 Amerirans. There would be much
. more justice in saying; "Look at
the atheistic Communist. He has
no respect for the dignity o'f the hu-
man soul.*
Ring Stirs
Political Storm
LONDON (£> — A major political1
storm is building up in Britain over
how a Soviet spy ring could oper-
ate for five years without being
detected. Five persons were convic-
ted on charges of stealing Royal
Navy secrets.
One of the first big moves was
an order by the first Lord of the
Admiralty for an overhaul o'f the
British Navy's security system.
Russia To Admit
Foreign Newsmen
MOSCOW UTI — The Soviet Union
has abolished censorship for for-
eign newsmen. However, in making
the announcement the Kremlin hint-
ed that newsmen would be expelled
if their reports were not satisfac-
tory to Soviet authorities. With the
exception of brief periods in 1939
and 1946. stern censorship has been
in e'tfect in the Soviet Union since
the Itussian revolution of 1917.
Pari Sucked
With Cattail
"I wil lhave a lot of fun catching
these fish. They will furnish lots
of good eating too," said D. G.
Smith, Throckmorton, Texas.
Smith was talking about the
channel catfish he put in his stock
pond. Smith is planning to start
fertilizing his pond this spring with
8-8-2 type fertilizer. "This fertilizer
will keep the water cloudy and
make more fish foc>l. It will also
prevent the spread of moss and
weeds in my pond," said Smith.
The fish were ordered by Claude
Mehaffey, local Soil Conservation
Service technician. Fish can be or-
dered through the Soil Conserva-
tion Service, County Agent or
Game Warden without cost.
Smith 'nas been a cooperator
with the Miller-Brazos Soil Conser-
vation District since 1954. The su-
pervisors of the Miller-Brazos Soil
Conservation District urge all
farmers and ranchers to stock
their farm ponds.
"With proper management, this
pond will furnish more than enough
fish for my nec.ls," said Smith.
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The giraffe's immense heart is
one of nature's most powerful
pumps.
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