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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Monday, September 21, 19S4 9-A ft Alice Widener -t Why Are We Taking Berlin Wall For Granted as Red Divider? 0 Jrastfc go SBT the fost aunt 3asB lira towan?" BERLIN It seems that the more our American foreign policy planners talk idealistically about One World, the more they tolerate its arbitrary Red division and subdivision. Despite the fact that the late John F. Kennedy came to this great city and told the people, "Ich bin ein the Communist-built wall separating Ber-liners from one another is physically higher than it was before he came. I was shocked to see that the wall Is much more strongly fortified than when I was here two years ago. It also Is more gruesome, for it is becoming what the Kremlin wants it to be not only a cruel barrier between East and West sectors of the city, but also a frontier delineating the boundaries of the "nation," East Germany.

THIS TRAGIC metamorphosis is being brought about by the intransigent Communists and by appeasing advocates of our "accommodation" with the Soviets such as Walter Lippmann and George F. Kennan who actively promote adoption of the Polish Communist Rap-acki plan for neutralization of Central Europe and supine acceptance of the status quo (i.e., of Soviet captivity) by the peoples of Eastern Europe. Here in Berlin it seems almost incredible that millions of Americans recently accepted without strong protest our Secretary of State's assertion that the cause of freedom has gained steadily "since early 1961." This implies it has gained since the time when the late John F. Kennedy assumed office as President of the United States. i 1 1 1 Yet the first blocks of the Berlin Wall were set up a little after five o'clock in the morning of August 13, 1961.

When we did nothing to topple them, the whole cause of freedom suffered irreparable damage. Today, millions of Germans and Europeans are witnesses to this fact. IT WOULD SEEM that prior to our election day, November 3, the American people should learn about the events of August 1961 in Berlin. We are entitled to know who determined our basic policy toward the wall. In my opinion, Congress should have conducted a Berlin Wall investigation similar to the Pearl Harbor investigation, for our weak acquiescence to Communist construction of the Berlin Wall was a moral and political Pearl Harbor defeat for the West.

In talks with West German and American military and civilian officials here, I never have found anyone who offered any explanation for our inaction in August 1961, except, "Nothing was done because nobody had any orders about what to do. The Reds took us unawares." IS THIS TRUE? On the morning of August 13, 1961, and during the days immediately following, what went on in the White House, Pentagon, State Department and Central Intelligence Agency? As the Reds slowly and deliberately erected a weak wall made out of porous blocks of rubble hastily scooped up and compressed from World War II debris, what was the discussion that went on in Washington? Is there a White Paper giving us the facts? If so, I have not seen it. Has there been made public a resume of August 1961 discussions on the subject of the Berlin Wall by members of our National Security Council? DID OUR POLICY planners appreciate the awful significance of the wall? Or was it regarded in Foggy Bottom as merely a temporary minor nuisance? It never was any such thing. Today it is a major obstacle to Free Europe. Concretely, the wall symbolizes and effectively aids -Communist determination that there shall forever be either two Germanies or a single Socialist Germany under Soviet domination.

The wUneii'e else?" ti I i i 5 1 ft i i siUY THE BERLIN WALL A Political Pearl Harbor Robert C. Ruark Why Rhodesians Resent Change i L. i and a beautiful daughter, and two gorgeous grandchildren. The lady, of the house does all the cooking and the general chores all by herself. She employs no house servant, even for the heavier cleaning and washing chores.

She runs the farm of 200 acres with only six African hands, and with no complicated machinery. But I can see the oranges, pineapples, papayas, coffee, bananas and tobacco in a flourishing state of health. The rabbits are breeding and the cockerel crows off-key. The chickens lay eggs as big as oranges, and the goose is unbearable in the mornnig. There is no television and no telephone.

THIS FARM in full production, with luck, will net around a thousand dollars a month, with- practically no living expenses. As to house, no millionaire's mansion was ever more comfortable, more cheerful, more homey. It all sounds ideal, doesn't it? But only the other day the missis was stoned as she went to meet her husband. Only the other day a white woman was killed and her heart ripped out for voodoo rites. Sections of nearby Salisbury are in a state of declared emergency.

Hoodlum-ism and riots reign as rule, rather than exceptions, as young African toughs use nationalism as an excuse to rob and loot and to fight and intimidate each other. THE OWNER of this mashamba was born in Africa and has never been out of it. He considers himself an African, and so he is. But he is virtually a newcomer to the country, compared to some Africans I know. I used to know and love a house and garden and farm like this in Kenya.

Its owners had lived in it for six generations. A few months ago the new government came and took the house and trees and flowers and lands away. Perhaps if you could see a place like this you might understand why Southern Rhodesia, with its 350,00 settlers, is fighting for what is now referred to as "white uhuru," even if it means breaking off with its mother country, Britain. The whites here feel they made the country, and they don't want to give up what they've made. UMTALI, Southern Rhodesia Three large police dogs, with fierce voices, are kept penned by day and loosed at nightfall.

The house of my host is brightly lit by battery-charged big bulbs. But the bulbs are outside, not inside. There is a klaxon as loud as an airraid siren that a be turned on by touching a switch, and it can be heard by neighbors for miles around. There is a certain amount of ready, loaded weaponry in the house, and there is also a flare pistol. OTHERWISE, it is a lovely home, perched on a hillside, overlooking a deep valley which reaches to a range of rugged mountains.

The country is reminiscent of Hawaii deep-red earth' which will grow anything: palm trees, bamboo, potatoes, tobacco, mango, papaya. There is a waterfall nearby, and the well-mowed lawn is richly green. The yard is a botanist's dream of formal flowers, ferns, orchids, pines, and a host of exotic plants of which the host does not even know the name: They have been collected in the bush, transplanted, carefully tended by my hostess until the whole effect is almost drunkenly riotous with bloom. This "mashamba" farm raises coffee, bananas, pineapples, oranges, and white rabbits as money crops, in addition to the odd pig, chicken and goose which goes to the household larder. It is a gem of tranquility, and a monument to grueling toil.

IT WAS literally clawed out of clay. Every tree, and there are hundreds, was planted. The land was cleared of bush and prepared for cultivation by the owners mostly by the missis, because the baas was off mining or elephant hunting during the formative days. But the baas built the house with his own hands, starting with one room and adding and refining until it is now a happy, sprawling dwelling that rambles over the hillside and, again, reminds one very much of Hawaii, with its inside planting and decks of bougainvillea blazing in the sun. THIS HOUSE has produced two fine children a handsome, strapping boy I at the A friendly warning to car owners Any day now your faithful auto may suddenly seem somewhat older, a little shabby, out of tune, and in need of repairs.

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