Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 17

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Caller-Times Sun April 1 1962 i PRAGUE People Crave Not Only Decencies of Civilized Vi ANTARCTIC STUDY FUND Night Life Gay of East Bloc Living But Also Life of LONDON (AP) An association headed by Sir Edwin Herbert a Yorkshire insurance director has been formed here to supply financial assistance for Antarctic expeditions Its original stake is $98000 in film and book profits from the 1953-58 commonwealth expedition led by Sir Vivian Fuchs By LOYAL GOULD PRAGUE CXecbunlovaUs Cummimiats call Pragu the Paris of the East Bloc There are night dubs strip Joints Jazz spots swank all the things the Communists usually condemn as evidence of capitalist decay communism with a juke box as one Englishman here put it A eye might pop coming here after a tour of the rest of the drab communist world You see people pretty well dressed Stores seem well stocked Restaurants serve international foods Strip dancers peel to Cole Porter's "Love for You can order Scotch whiskey bubbling Crimean champagne and Hungarian wines This is a showcase for communism Not only for westerners but also for visitors from the rxt of the Communist world-except Albania and Red and from the emerging African and Asian nations the Communists want to woo "This is a paradise compared to East Berlin" said a touring East German all part ot a grand said a western European bUfdnnMman who visits sftro "They want to remove from communism the symbol of badly clothed unshaved fellow poised with a bomb" WE HAVE MISJUDGED the terrible restless ness in the world The people abroad do not only want to have what and West have they wish to be what we are What is going on is not only a of 3 rising in terms of health housing food education and the other decencies of dvivj lized living What is going on Is also a revolution of rising neuroses There is a universal craving 4 on the individual village and even national level to be in the swim to join a semi-fictive life of You so we were informed by song and story keep the young man down on the farm after 4 seen Broadway Now by means of motion pic tures television radio and mass magazines the whole world has seen Broadway by which I do not -L mean a certain tawdry stretch of street in Manhattan I mean the whole earthly Val- halla of shine and supposed significance of impor i tance celebrity the realm of the latest in clothes music gadgets manner and Ideas When belief in a heaven after death fades away-as it is across great stretches of this globe some 4 thing must take its place The unholy ghost of mod- em communications has touched the uneasy spirits- ITALY Highway Tunnels Under Alps PRINCE RAINIER AND PRINCESS GRACE IN LIGHTER MOOD assiasa Is maintain thair tax-frea wsrld in tb Maditarronaan (AP WlrvpMt) of men everywhere and beckoned them to enter the' French Threat To Tax Monacans gates of this semi-fraudulent paradise on earth Everyone wants to dwell in this Stork Club or to visit it and say been there or if necessary- i to build a facsimile in his own backyard Casts Gloom Over Sunny Isle bother anyone and France bother it But communism under the regime of Presl-den tAntonin Novotny exists behind the glitter of Prague There are the secret police and many curbs on freedom of the Individual Plain cfothesmen keep long vigils outside hotels where foreigners stay They do their best to stop Czechs from making contact with foreigners even with those from the rest of the Soviet bloc The night life seems gay to the visitor but to the Chech it is nothing like tee "golden of: the past carefully said an elderly Czech who knows western life "and see that nothing is done with the lightness and the ease you find In tee West It's too forced here no freedom in Though they are much better off than people in most Communist countries Chech complain Their biggest complaint to lack of freedom "Hundreds of American tourists come here -every year" said a Chech all they can do is marvel that we are not as poor in material things as some people in the West believe IT IS AN HXUSION to believe with the whole some directness of the social worker that the 20th century fight by masses of people is only against illiteracy and poverty it is also a frantic- 4 fight against anonymity Not only for better wages does the African leave his tribal village and head for Lagos or Ac era where incidentally he would rather be half By BENNET BOLTON MILAN Italy to "The day Is coming when a road will be cut beneath Mont Blanc" said Horace Benedict de Saussure The year was 1787 The scientific world paid little attention to the Swiss naturalist The wind-driven snows of 175 winters have blasted the face of the "white since then and now the day is here Next Thursday Italian and Swiss workmen deep in the bowels of the mountain chain will smash from opposite sides to open the first highway tunnel under the Alps The majestic Alps stand shoulder to shoulder in a formation that curves 400 miles along the frontiers of France Italy Switzerland and an icy barrier dividing northern and southern Europe Its most insurmountable wall to the Mont Blanc chain 100 miles northwest of Milan where Italy touches France and Switzerland The central massif looms three miles skyward (15777 feet) By HARVEY HUDSON PARIS status as a never-never land to in danger The famed casino to still solid on its foundations and the roulette wheels run true Prince Rainier and Princess Grace are cozily settled in the 320-room palace The 65-man royal guard in chocolate soldier uniforms is ever loyal But the gloom among the palm trees can never be washed away by tee blue Mediterranean or burned away by Monaco's brilliant sunshine The problem Is simple: Income taxes Franco baa auggeNtal that perhaps Monacans should pay Income taxes Prince Ranter aays that would be the end of the principellty many of them seem to grasp that what we lack Is the freedom to say and to wliat we starved in a job than well fed as a laborer He leaves to find surcease from the sense now made intolerable by modem communications of being It hardly matters what eco- nomic level his life may the fear and craving will not leave him and as president of his coun- try he will buy a so that he too may cruise to Monte Carlo We are startled by the sudden surge of the Peronistas in Argentina and attribute it to the pocket book pinch of the austerity program but we are wrong Peron made them feel import tant and they thirst to feel important once again If there is any kind of mass revolt in Chile it will not come from sweating peasants or ditch dig ger in the streets it will come from the lower mid-o die class of frayed white collar office workers 4 literate and affluent enough to know how much more affluent they could if only Hunger IslJ making men desperate by the millions but it is not -j always and everywhere the hunger of the belly IN A SENSE and to a degree all this repre- sents the pushing current of what we mean by the word progress But progress ought to be toward INCOME TAXES began In France In 1917 Monaco kept its government going through revenue from tee casino sale of its brightly-colored postage stamps and a aide variety of Indirect taxes With no army to support no veterans' pensions to pay no farm subsidies and no foreign aid contributions Monaco can still get along the same way Profits from the casino tumbled when France allowed French cities to set up their own gambling facilities but this loss in revenue was made up from other sources A couple of years ago Prince Rainier suggested that Monaco set up a flag of just like Panama or for 'merchant ships Fiance said no Monaco proposed raising its legation In Paris to the rank of embassy France politely declined Some residents of Monaco whispered that they should he as much entitled to representation In the United Nations as some of tee new nations France hear All this didn't really matter so much Then Prince Rainier hired a young American diplomat Martin Dale to set up the Monaco Economic Development Cnrp Dale 29 a Princeton graduate who had served as vice counsul in Marseille and Nice encouraged American companies to set up headquarters in Monaco No corporation taxes no personal income taxes a pleasant climate More and more electronic medical supplies perfumes moved into Monaco French eyebrows started arching stiffly The list of corporations baaed in Monaco climbed to 542 the msnber of businesses registered there totalled some 2560 The business volume doubled from 1X9 to 1961 and hit about 8200 million last year France claims French competitors shrieked as products made in Monaco entered France without duty But President Charles De Gaulle has never flinched at turning French wrath on Russia the United States or England He apparently has no qualms about stinging France's littlest neighbor either Solemn negotiations on the subject are in progress between France and Monaco When the tall are over Monacans are likely to learn more about taxes Monaco lives in a state of fictitious independence through French tolerance Its 300 acres are surrbunckd by France and the sea Its 21000 only about 2500 of them Monacan could not live or die without Frnace Visitors arrive on French trains by French highways or land by plane at a French airport Electricity and practically everything consumed in the principality come team or throutte France Except for souvenir coins all the money is French The treaty covering French-Monacan relations goes back to 1918 At that time Monaco was a quiet unambitious little playhouse where whelathy Englishmen and the aristocracy of Europe liked to go for a look at the winter sun and a fling at the casino Monaco didn't The American tourist may be prevented from looking deeper into the other ride of the life In Chechoslovakia Tourists come under the official guidance of the official tourist agency Cetok The agency arranges a entire stay in the country A Cetok guide puts him aboard buses trains or hired cars to see preselected sights He to deposited at night in a comfortable hotel stocked with good food and drinks If the tourist could see the realities of Prague he would not see nothCommunists shot in their beds any more He would see a more subtle side -of Communist ways For example a pensioned Chech suspected of deviations" to judged by a neighborhood committee that decides whether his pension should be reduced Children sent to church by their parents cannot receive a secondary education Children as young as 6 years ot age start to learn Communist theory Western newspapers and magazines are banned from newstands Despite police pressure the people manage in one way or another to show friendliness to westerners Americans are cheered at International sports events stagd here This enthusiasm belies the daily outpouring of Communist propaganda that paints Americans as bogey men of the world ALL EUROPE will be watching by television hookup when Italians and Swiss step through the breach to embrace each other in the Grand St Bernard tunnel By the end of next year cars and trucks will roar through the 3-7-mile tunnel between Saint-Rhemy Italy and Bourg St Pierre Switzerland Twelve miles west Saint-Rhemy oilier workers are biting foot by foot into the last mile of a second motor tunnel This to the Mont Blanc tunnel linking Courmaycur Italy with Chamonix France 72 miles away It also will open late in 1X3 after four years of human toil through cave-ins water leaks and soft-rock slides Many see the tunnels as a move toward a united Europe Everyone talks of the role they will play in speeding the flow of goods In tee expanding European Common Market Highways now snake through alpine valleys at an average level of 6500 feet Snow and ice block them every winter closing all but fire toads at the extremities of the Alps Highway transport must detour hundreds of miles down to the Riviera const and around the Alps to move between France and Italy The new tunnels will defy the elements Concrete buttresses will make approach reads avalanche-proof Devices in the pavement will make them freeze-proof ESCALANTE STRIPPED OF POWER IN CURA Laval OaaM tot feaaa a wa nSur sf Hit AH taH hi Frank hrt Cannany Inca July IMS Ha tarmwty wartaS I LMiMta Nth in AP karaauf la Omaha ana something and In many places men have lost sigh? of the goal the neurosis has replaced the vision Canada government as well as people is a prime example Canadians are prosperous literate modernized But Canadians are unhappy consumed by baffled jealousy and In the words of an' English writer in Ottawa unsure of their own For they are not the of the United States cm- Europe and yet so near It Popular culture and modern communications their own or others have not touched them with the magic wand of glamor They should be enjoying the-j contentment in freedom that our sonorous official 4 platitudes prescribe for all peoples but they are tv in a state of psychic rebellion for they possess neither a Churchill for the headline nor a Rubi- rosa for the gossip column The patient may inherit heaven but not theVf earth On earth they merely live at the unfashion-able and leam to hate it -fj Only in part does co-habit with size i and power Russia has both power and size but jvv not the stuff which the modem dream merchants can easily merchandise vn i The most powerful revolutionary force in our 7 world is political Ideology but the contagion of popular culture carried by glossy communications Culturally the West Is bound tovff win the whole world including Russia and China--! But it is likely to be a victory without peace be- 7 7 tween the armies or in the hearts of men (DMributad IM2 by The Hall Syadtasfw Inc AS RlgMs lasrvai) CAIRO WELCOMES ALGERIAN REBEL THEN PRINCE RAINIER foil out with Emile Pelletier the Frenchman who was acting as minister ot or of Mo-noca Rainier fired Pelletier after a heated exchange Pelletier was incensed and so was De Gaulle 'V The Monocan minister of state is named by the prince from a list of three candidates nominated by France De Gaulle held off submitting a new list of names and called for a review of the French-Monacan treaty After some preliminary talk on minor points France came out flatly and said it thought Monacans should be subjected to the same tax structure as Frenchmen are extremely anxious to come to an agreement with France on many problems but direct taxation would be an attack on the very roots of our sovereignty" said Prince Rainier The issue is not resolved But a mortal blow has been struck at the complacency of Monacans who thought they could live in a tax-free world as long as each ruler supplied an heir to rule the principality The Highway diNtanre between Faria and Rome will shrink 121 nillea A drive from Turin to Geneva now rover 196 ntilea in sum-flier 490 nillea in winter Hie Mnnt Blanc tunnel will chop the diNtance to 167 miles any month of the year HAVANA (AP) Denounced by Prime Minster Fidel Castro Communist Anibal Escalante has been stripped of his last position In the Revolutionary Integrated Organization (ORI) His name was missing from the list of national directors of ORI Cuba's political central committee published Saturday in CUba Socialists This to an offical publication specal-lzing in Marxtot-Lcninlst theories He previously was fired as organizng Secretary of ORI after Castro accused him Monday of trying to organize the group his own selfish Subsequently' the Onmmuntot newspaper Hoy called Escalante tortuous vain for Diplomatic sources have said Escalante went to Prague capital of Communist Qrrch-osIovaJda hours before Castro's blast His brother Cesar Escalante however still is listed as one of ORIg 24 national directors Traffic through the Grand St Bernard tunnel will be mostly commercial The other tunnel will be the delight of tourists who pour into Italy and the Riviera by the thousands every year from Belgium Holland and CAIRO (AP) Deputy Premier Mohammed ben Bella of the Algerian nationalist rebel regime long imprisoned by the Flench -was welcomed warmly to Cairo Saturday by President Gamal Abdel Nasser Captured by the French ben Bella was held for nearly six years He was relased March 18 under the cease-fire ending the Algerian nationalist fighting with the French Ben Bella often operated from Cairo in his long struggle against the French and his wife remained here during his imprisonment Nasser sent a United Arab Airlines plane to Zurich to rick up ben Bella and his party Iff want fa Pari in Jana HASViy HUDSON haf namhbari hr atari yuars IMS (ram Hit APt CMcasa Both tubes lie high in the splendor of nlpine glacier valleys and dazzling peaks The Grand St Bernard begins at 5310 feet on the Italian side and rises 46 feet to the exit in Switzerland The Mont Blanc tunnel starts at the 4530-foot level in Italy and drops 350 feet to reach Chamonix Goulart Says Reformist Not the boundaries cut out for him He seems to wield considerable Influence Into the enter la the political spectrum Ho to not and never wm a Comrounlxt By ROBERT BERRELLEZ BRASILIA Brazil UR lie drives a small car along with the rest of the traffic whizzing down the new wide avenues of Brasilia He look like a millionaire In public he act like one Mammoth chimneys and a maze of air purification equipment are to suck exhaust fumes from the 147-foot vault of the Grand St Bernard and Mont Blanc tunnel's 19-foot ceiling arch Every thousand feet along the paved 24 feet across in Grand St Bernard and 23 feet in the Mont Blanc tunnel drivers will find parking areas snack bars telephones wash rooms and service stations A 30-inch sidewalk will line each side of the roadway under Mont Blanc Grand St Bernard will have a sidewalk on one side a narrow emergency lane on the other Stations for border police and customs officers are to be grouped in huge squares at the mouths of the tunnels The square on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc tunnel Is to stand on 13 million cubic yards of rock and soil excavated In boring "In countries like Brazil" he says reformist position is labeled as leftist by forces interested in maintaining the status qua In countries like Brazil the state necessarily has to exercise a rale of leadership in a policy of development Many times this is confused with socialism or even with com- parliamentary system is in a tran- sitory observes one deputy Joao Mendcs have what still amounts to a presidential system Goulart was elected vice president and he is now president with as much authority aa hte Council of This latter group la headed by Prime Minister Tancredo Neves Goulart looks forward to hb trip to the United States and to meeting Kennedy man of my own generation of progressive fftrit" between the United States and 1 Brazil are progressing normally that is with-In the climate of traditional friendship and I good Goulart said this and within the dynamics of international i relations the prospects are good for the strengthening of that friendship with real benefits to both countries and for the Kennedy and Goulart will find they save a lot In common Both are wealthy Both are 41 years old Both are Roman Chthotics Both have attractive wives ROBBBT BSBBBLLKZ CAM MsmSWHla a Mm Annas I miss nsorMr tar Tin AnacistaS fts la Inlt Aimrtca SnW a a awsnS taOMataJ mm mm taw yin ta msjn Cartrat Ms a a rwril ii a mamas 1 Joao (Jango) Goulart to not only a millionaire but the president of the largest nation In Latin America Today many Brazilians say he has begun to act like president although military leaders last did not want him in the job The men in command of the military then they since have resigned charged that Jango Goulart was too far left tied too closely to Cbmmontets to move into the presidential palace Janio Quadras left with his sudden resignation Aug 25 When Goulart goes to Washington Tuesday to visit President Kennedy North Americans will not see much of the old Goulart left the political heir of dictator Getulio Vargas the ex-labor minister who was accused of working with Communists to strengthen his political hand the rx-vice president who charged foreign firms bled Brazil rnumsrn As for his political Ideology now Goulart sums it up in what he calls two words: to conquer backwardness so that the struggle against underdevelopment can be carried out within the principles of democracy" trip to Washington New York Chicago and the Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha Is his first outside Brazil since he assumed the presidency last September with the nation on the verge of civil war because of -a military roadblock against him Under military pressure the Brazilian Congress adopted a parliamentary system of government that left Goulart as a mere figurehead president THESE ARE the first highway tunnels under the Alps Pour railway tunnels have been handling the load for years Cars and trucks fastened on flat cars are carried piggyback under the fountains an expensive and cumbersome operation The four rail tunnels are Simplon Ten-da St Gothard and Prejus (Mt Cento) More than 200 years before Christ Hannibal brought an army across the Alps to make war on the Romans Engineers have come a long way since then As president and leader of 76 million Brazilians Jom (praaonaoed Jo-Own almost rhyming wtth go4om) Goulart tom moved JOAO GOULART at BUT GOULART apparently has outgrown raw V-AmrMSsS PrM BINNET BOLTON aaHva Lw Is Mm NwtH11 karmasl MM tors sS tom yaw si it.