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Independent from Long Beach, California • 31

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Independenti
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vw A'- 'I i stcat rTVi 7 ki a 14. nam g-ju INDEPENDENT (AM) PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM-B4 view I V', CBORGE ROBESON L. By HENRY SHAPIRO No such privilege should be needed MOSCOW (UPI) The first Spontaneous, popular demonstration I ever witnessed here occurred May 9, 1945, a lew minutes, after the radio ose 5Wln triumphant voice announcing pobeda (victory). 1 stick it out past midnight until the started. It came about 4 in the morning.

V. 'For. weeks it was known to every diplomat and Journalist in Moscow that IUQer would attack on or about 7 June 21 But Stalin, the supreme nil' C. bantings as provocations. It remains a however, er of all the Russias.

appeared to' be i Within minutes hundreds of thou-t gtranvelv lenorant v.v.77: sands of Russians began MQvwrgtng 7 8 eiy ipioran 0n thd American emSssTtiS if Winstow11 catedasSSond walkfram the andJranUin DRoosevett, 7 rTT he was so suspicious of the eni powers that he dismissed those I took life in hands. I was flakes a difference iwfi ofe'ox is gored iji--VI. a. By L.A. COLLINS SR.

OUTSPOKEN Vice President Ag- new is the target of all the left-wing, demopstrators on or off campuses. He. has used words the average per-' son can He is called a rank conservative because he insists that tow; and order is the prime re quisjte for safeguarding what Ameri-; tier, that the Soviet people were told about the war. Stalin Mmself said-not a word in public until 11 days later when he called for a scorched earth policy. 7 The day after the German invasion, I was strolling in the embassy yard with a Western military attache.

'You see those four aircraft, circling above the Kremlin? he asked, That is all thats leftof the Soviet Air; predicted that the Germans -would be in Moscow in" two and urged me to get myself an Iranian visa because it would the only you will be able to get of He of curiosity and I to see Mahommed Saed, the ambassador, and dean of the diplomatic He -informed me he would have to request Tehran visa and it would take a monfltf 6t a reply. Dont took- surprised, -iSaed said, will be here, longer jthan a you month and the Russians wM win the Saed was one of the few foreign diplomats who thought that way. 1 But some of. the" specialists in tite German-omhassy' here shared Saedi view, ffitier did not take their advice any more than Stalin listened to his why he ignored the intelligence of Ms own security agencies which, as we now know, knew all about the nere-pending Admiral Nikolai V. Kuznetsov, 'minister.

of the Navy, said in Ms memoirs that he sat in Ms office in the yearly hours June 22 when his Black Sea fleet reported it was under way 7 Out went Iranian that for a ca has achievecL. He has not hesitated month German attack. Without instructions ry to attack newspapers, MiMster-Counsellor George F. Ken-T from supreme headquarters Kuznet-magaztaes: or. individuals he consid- nan appeared on the embassy balco- sov, on his own, ordered resistance, ers lax In, dealing with miUtantsl ny and in flawless Russian greeted But far hours later, he said, be was Thisdesptte' Agnew is talking tough and carrying the word to the people in words that may seem harsh.

But it is the kind of attitude it is probable the great, majority of the people share. Efforts have been made to silence or intimidate him. Some of his congres-i atonal critics find his speechs obno Ih toel shbdld be wev ented to my readers. Many will dua; V- gree with viewpoint tows: the comments. But it is a I -share and give as fol- Yice President Spiro' Agnew (whose rhetorical skfll is pratfljd in the cur- reqt issue of Esquire) has a way of succinctly encapsulating even com-' pier issues In only a few words or sentences.

we suspect, is what a rv a newsman in Santa Bar- for teforejointog the. Ifarshalt Months stronger than anticipated an Anglo-. jesentative of a daily newspaper American mission csuneliminSep- Bill Madden had to study toe tember to Investigate whetherlend- U-S. Constitution cartfuity in wtor to lease, if would fall into Ger- bedbme a citizen (mrt American 'had a. citizen (most ami 1 xecommenn axi 'me ueip ance types) vi dWnan has no special privilege un- 00 privilege -to askques- fli i-ms answers, toke photos, read toe War and asked him on iriiat Ms phl1n docunntg all that stems early optimism had been based.

newsinang gtau as: dti-; h. mow, tun ttHi BRACE that inflates inT17 Tw JLpr h. to a custom-fit is helping Mp-fracture itients to get out of bed and walk during a recent speech in Flor zenrnot from any special status as a reporter. He out to toe Sheriffs and they seemed baffled by the thought, he says.77 it likely that you would be sub- Ject to such rousting and I would not, because I carry awess card and you don? Yettis likely. At leasit to be so MSantaBarSri toeere law enforcement offldabget gg fte LmidfrS TTC te 15 monfl- STREET SCENES: In the 4200 of Gundry Avenuo ta lS Beach, as many as 14 men have been gavei Ida, to members of the academic community: Next, time a mob of students waving their nonnegotiable demands start jrilching bricks and rocks at HA student union, just imagine theyre wearing brtwn shirts or white sheets and act accordingly What Agnew was saying, in effect, is that the Academic community has been tolerant- of toe radicals, bombers and arsonists because they are.

leftists, and therefore entitled to preferential treatment As usual, toe vice president is -correct which only further enrages his critics. But -does anyone seriously believe the ademic community would have tolerated anywhere near- as much disruption if, for example, toe members and arsonists mists? were right wing extre- Suppose John Birchers, rather than radical leftists, tossed firebombs into Stanfords CMterfor the Advanced took them about two hours! Good too. But I dont suppose this sidewalk will ever be done. 1 The problem, he says, seeins to to- 1 revolve the moving in of heavy equtoT7 ment, the movfng. out of tiie equip-, ment for coffee-break, tiie moving in again and then out again for lunch, end so on.

But I have every confidence that a city contract can build a-: sidewalk at the rate of one man per, concrete foot, sooner or later. -And then theres the fire hydrant that to be in front of 4260 Virginia Road. The residents of that dasgr district had their water shut off yesterday mmming by a man from the City Water Department who "explained that the man on property the hydrant squatted sick of looking at it, and a full of men with trucks and JacUiammers and picks set about moving tiie hydrant about 20 yards north to city property outride tiie Virginia Country Oub fence. ID bet you couldnt get service like that on this 1700 Mock of Lerrum 4. lj.

H. By BILL VAUGHAN AIR-CONDITIONING has almost eliminated one of summers most-nostalgic sounds. In pome neighbor-, hoods, you never hear a screen door riant. 1 4 SHOTGUN SCHULTZ reports a terrible loss at. the offlce where he works.

The guy who has spread the most exciting: rumors, for 40 years has retired. CONGRESSMAN SLUDGEPUMP says that when people start ariring what he does to earn money outside-, tiie House, the. next thing you know 1 they'll be curious as to what be does to earn it inside. TOLD THAT the government, now has a dossier on just about every citizen, the man at tiie next desk say, O.K. I've got a file on the government, too.

THE Mary Quant talks about whether womens legs should be shown or covered up, youd think ishe Invented them. J-V TILLY, who is on a diet, says she even gets hungry reading the list of foods government has condemned. i' i vi THE BEST THINGS' to life are and to a way that is too bod. what wonderful tax deductions they would make otherwise, 0 s'lS -r i- P-Ti NEWSMAN Bill Marian was in Santa Barbara as members of that countys Sheriffs Department were strapping cm their gas-inasks for an expected- demons tration at tha university campus. He stopped his car, walked nearer to the officers and began to take photographs of the preparations.

He was rousted and manhandl(. by a sheriffs sergeant The sergeant and several deputies reviled him with obscenities (you thought only the demonstrators use dirty words) and said Mm; for thy were going to arrest taking the photographs. i wn, a native of Dublin and a natu ralized citizen of the. United States, called to his young still sat' in the our, to notify these newspapers that he was being arrested. Why dont you call Moscow? one of tiie officers told him.

Bill took his pictures from a distance and filed a with tiie Sheriffs Office. He pointed, out that tiie police preparation site was three miles froip tiie campus, and that he employed fnr two weeks to take out 14 feet, of sidewalk and replace it with new concrete. hired two guys to put inn new concrete driveway, said (me- of the homeowners on, tiw V'and 'v7-. f' (- w1 i 1 mt j'h I my my inU.S. war correspondents uniform second the Russians spotted and tiie me, they crushed, grabbed and.

tossed me into, the air shouting pobeda and Long live America. As many as a. million Russians', were massed between the embassy arid the Kremlin. They were shouting (ambassador). want the ambassador, and Hooray for Roos-' tiie fact -FDR the crowd, congratulating them on the common victory and urging that our two nations must now work together for peace.

THE CEXE reminded me of a dinner party at the embassy June 21, 1941 when several ofiis, to esecta; firtvi at fho rUirman day prtwo after surgery. The brace supports most of the body weight with a floor-to-hip up-port lopped by a padded socket that fits -around the. iscMum, the weight- bearing bOne upon which the body rests when one is seated. A pneumatic pad in the front part of toe socket enables the' Mace to be custom-fitted and allows a more natural movement of the leg and hip hones as the patient walks. Dr: Bruce B.

Gryribau, director of rehabilitation at New York Universi-ty -Medical brace a great- boon to patients otherwise confined to wheel chair or bed. Thanks to toe new brace, -we been able to get them out of the hos- jutal, he adds. with a standard brace a' patient: customarily waits Several weeks to get a custom-fitted. brace, either as prosthesis for amputees or a leg for hip-fracture patients. Prices THOUGHTS AT wbo buy on credit beyond eir resources remind me of the pa-; tient in a fhental institution who cut off the.

top part of blanket and force a change, in their institutional arrangements; ras Bernard Shaw ob- Revolutions. have never lightened the burden of tyranny they, hav? only shifted it to other shoul- derail V-- f-i? THE GREAT BENEFIT of automa-. tion (despite its potriitial perils) Is lts capabUity of eliihinatirtg dead-end jobs except for tiie irreducible mini- 1 of deadend peoptoi; Jii i 1ib i 's -fi' si Study in Behavioral Sciences and dejrango to 1500 or 6600. The new brace strayed the lifes work -of some 10 costs patients 6150. scholars juld the faculty atiRhe as solicitous about the right of .2 speech and free expression for right wingers? Suppose it had been Ku Klux klans-men who Iximbed the home of, the i president of Penn State University -I- ytofleetolL forcing Mm and his family unable to Kremlin.

IT WAS NOT UNTIL noon the next day, when tiie Germans already had made substantial into the So viet Union and had destroyed a large-number' of Soviet aircraft, de- reach anyixy at the t''Thef News, news magazin 7 Medical World magazine WOMEN. OF SHORT stature are more apt to have difficulty vdien glv--ing Mrth than taller women; study indicates. -s. Dr. William B.

MoBoy of Royal Hospital- for Women 'In Sydney, Aus forceps wre used to aid delivery in short women nearly twice as often as in women of normal Cesarean section among short pa-tients was more than three times as frequent as among other, toe study shows. The report is' in tiie' journal Obste-tricsrand Gynecology. APISTOL-SHAPED electrical atim-ulator is being used by hemiplegic patients (paralyzed on one side) to exercise' paralyzed muscles at home. A biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, says the device relieves spastic ity, prevents bone fragility, increases Mood flow and helps to mjtato to- tegxity of joints THE TOTALLY humorless God devised by the primly pious does more-to people' recoil from the prospect Of heaven than all the tantaliz-lng sins znake them. oMiytoui of toe.

tomarily given to men who have so much honor that dont need them, dr so little that they dont deserve v- IGNORANCE cant be bliss, or, many more people would be happy g.4: WHAT MOST OF OS call our lloy-r ally to cause? is only 'loyalty id a hoped-for restilt; the result not forth- xtSj-d- R. Myeri, coming, to cause is abandoned; SI '-I '--l safety? Would the faculty and admin- istratom continue to prattle that, spite their white capes and methods, todse youngsters are trjnng to ten uc something? Stalin showed me Ms secret Ms actual and potential reserves, and convinced me they coyld win, Hopkins said. On Oct'15, when Gentian advance units were-as dose as 20 miles to of the diplomats, newsmen and military attaches were, betting that Hitler would review hie troops from Lenin's mausoleum on. the Red Square. on: Nov.

7. the Soviet national Oniy- Saed, British Ambassador Sir Stafford and U.S. Lend-. Lease Administrator Brig. Gen.

Phillip FaymonviUe disagreed. why this mgugiwii tninwrity of fop. eigti specialists turned qut tabe right -is a matter of Mstory J-if 'I evacuated Kidbev ontbe Volga. dayl11to toeirain vMch normally ti36 boimi. frequently sMmted off main tnuto to make room for trains carrying westwara to torown into the battle of Mos- cow, too first of toe decisive battles that chanpd the course of toe war.

IN A PIGS HYE they would! They would summon the ponce on campus so! fast, to haul away every Bircher a in.sight, that youd nev- A 'JUICY RUMOR is iwhat er even know studmt criminals fa nfckesVman yould have Bierces definition of a lawsuit aj leftist 5tudentvcriminal4) are niighf it, and makes a woman say: somehow exempt fromcriminalpros- sug'pected it alLalong. ecution. And you.wouldnt have faCul-; ty watching to seUhat a movement succeedi EEUSE THE WORLD spends an-ths polk treated pacb poking tho citizonn think and fed yMiniiy on anxuunirats a sum 29 tidies bomber withtender loving care. The- greaterjhanthe total spentin all for- Mggest-proNem i of 1J pojlcs eignassistance countries; the gap be-" be to restrain; the left-liberal faculty .4.. tween-the per capita incomes of rich Mr.

tAew knows; and-We know, ITADHT6 Mg sometimes tiusaar- and so do millions of others; that the IlAIlIUO maments will have to be Used by the rebels have successfully disrupted pM- haves against the havewts. -academia Zftuj "Tehwing rebels, and therefore enjoy a differently, accomplishes nothing to HONORARY DEGREES are cus- spedal dispensation available only tof those whose mania is oriented in properTdMogical The tragedy of the universities is that the guardians of academic freedom are allowing academic freedom tohe de strayed by Fascists of the.lefL Theyrcontinue to cling to the illusion that there is a moral distinction to be mad in7 whether foe bomb that do a troys a buMng is thrown by aleft- ist or riitist 1-. sS' J) BROOV HILDA 'ilk.

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