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he 5BlUinA Sprite 1l 4 1 RICHARD NIXON SAYS: Neutrals Must Choose Between Freedom, Communism NJfednesday, November 15, 1961 Founded 1885 Project Hope Prepares for '62 By RICHARD M. NIXON Prime Minister Nehru, who has just completed a tour of the United States, has always been one of our most refreshing visitors from abroad because of the frankness with which he discusses his differences with us. While this is sometimes irritating, he has gained respect for his candor and stimulated our own thinking. Since his last visit to the United States in 1960, he will have found some things which are unchanged. He is respected here for the inspiring leadership that helped to mold India into a great nation.

The American people have a sincere desire to do everything they can to assist the people of India in their programs of progress. We are roud of the fact that we have been able to provide them loans and grants, without any strings whatever, of 3 billion, The opportunity for humanitarian service among peoples lacking the medical facilities that are commonplace in America today has had a wide appeal, and the project has received thousands of applications from physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists and technicians. The field where this kind of help is needed is unlimited and we experience no small degree of pride in the fact that the project is American. Being underwritten by public contributions received the Hope headquarters, 1818 M. Street, in Washington sets it apart from cold war aid, and makes it a real people-to-people health program.

The S.S. Hope the converted Navy hospital ship with which a much praised nodical teacher-training program was carried on in Southeast Asia the last year, has returned from the Orient and is being readied for a similar assignment in South America for 1962. Project Hope is supported by contributions from the American public and aims to raise $10 million to finance its work next year. It not only wants to respond to requests of Latin American health authorities, but also to maintain programs started in two Asian hospitals, one at Djakarta at the request of the Indonesian government and the other at Saigon, South Viet Nam. countries join our military alliances if they prefer not to do so.

Nor do I speak of economic neutralism. There are very few in this country who are so lacking in understanding of the immensely complex problems of nations like India that they insist our exact economic system can or should be adopted by all countries. The great majority of the American people recognize that India should and must solve its economic and social problems in a way tailored to meet its own needs. What I am speaking of is moral neutralism neutralism that parrots the line that I have often heard in my trips to neutral countries abroad. The basic theme is a simple one "There is little to choose between the United States and the Communist bloc.

Each has frightening military strength. Each equally threatens the peace of the world. Each equally is a potential aggressor against the independence and freedom of other nations." This is pure bunk. We are not lily-white in the field of foreign policy. We have made mistakes.

We and our European allies, like England and dependence, were constructive and helpful, but other aspects which, where they involved economic exploitation and treating colonial peoples as inferiors, were certainly not to our credit. But, let us look at the record during and since World War II. The United States, England, France and other free countries have voluntarily given independence to 42 nations and one billion people and have continued to help them economically and politically since they acquired independence. On the other hand, the Soviet Union has imposed slavery on 11 previously independent countries in Western Europe, and today one billion people live under Communist tyranny at compared with 160 million at the end of World War II. Is it fair, under the circumstances, to say there is nothing to choose between free nations, like the United States, and Communist nations, like the Soviet Union and Red China? And the argument that the United States, because of our military power, is just as great a threat to the peace of the world as the Soviet Union is just plain nonsense on a nuclear scale.

The Soviet Union and Communist China maintain massive military power, not for defense but for the purpose of terrorizing and blackmailing the non-Communist world into submission to Communist rule. Defenders of Freedom We and our Free World allies maintain military strength, not as an instrument to impose slavery but to defend and extend freedom. Again, being perhaps painfully blunt, if it weren't for the military strength of the States and our allies, no nation in the world could be neutral today. They would all be Communist. Neutralism is a luxury that someone must be strong enough to defend against the predatory raids of Communist aggressors.

If we were to disarm without a guaranteed inspection system, as Mr. Khrushchev and some of the "neutrals" are urging us to do, they would be left to the tender mercies of the Communists, who are the sworn enemies of the national independence they cherish. What do we ask of our neutral friends? Not subservient appreciation for the economic assistance we have been glad to have been able to provide for them, but honest understanding and respect for our motives and diplomatic positions. It has been our policy to give our economic assistance without strings a policy we hope and want to continue. But we are 72 million dollars since India be came independent.

Tired of "Neutralism" But he will have noticed one significant and disturbing change since his last visit to this country gathered at the Belgrade Conference. Nehru, again was one of the few exceptions, as he indicated when he appeared on "Meet the Press on Nov. 5. The current attitude in many of the neutral nations seems to be, "We can kick Uncle Sam around because he has no other place to go." For example, they ignore our objections on admitting Red China to the United Nations an objection which is based on our concern for their security and independence as well as our own. They take our economic assistance eagerly and then proceed to kick us in the teeth diplomatically.

Encourages Isolationism What they fail to realize is that this kind of attitude is producing an increasingly angry reaction in this country: that the U.S. should forget the rest of the world and go it alone. This, in my opinion, would be a great tragedy at a time when the United States has moved so far away from isolationism. In summary, we stand for freedom. We have the greatest admiration and respect for Nehru and the people of India, for their devotion to free institutions to freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion and freely elected parliments.

We want them to move ahead economically, and we welcome the opportunity to assist them in their program of progress to the extent we are able. We can well understand their reluctance to become involved in military alliances, not only because of their fear of war but because of their need to devote what meager resources they have to raising the desperately low standard of living of their people rather than to military outlays. But, let us understand once and for all, there is a difference between freedom and slavery, a difference as old as civilization. We proudly stand for freedom. The Communists brazenly stand for slavery.

This is the great moral issue of this century. Men and nations cannot stay on the sidelines where this issue is concerned. They must choose. There can be Federal Building PX Claim Is Wrong Putting it bluntly, the people of the United States are getting a belly-full of so-called "neutralism." I am not referring to military France, went through our colo nial periods some aspects of which, to the extent that they prepared new nations for in neutralism. We do not demand or expect that India and other fed to the teeth with some neutral the post exchanges doing business at military camps.

But as Mayor Clavadetscher said recently after looking at blueprints for the new building, no provision for a PX type of operation or restaurant appears in the plans with the exception of space for a small coffee shop. We do not say that a discount house will never set up shop in Billings, but if that type of store is established it will not be under the auspices of the federal government. The new Federal building project should be unburdened of the onus that it will be detrimental to the established retail businesses of Billings. Lest the erroneous belief should still prevail, notwithstanding explanatory statements by public officials, we also wish to point out the apparent lack of substance to the claim that as part of the proposed new Federal building there will be a general store or discount house to supply the personal needs of office workers. This story was told to business people with the obvious hope of enlisting their opposition to the $6V2 million structure to be built at the east edge of the business district.

It visualized a civilian version of leaders (and Mr. Nehru, to his credit, is not among them) who try to blackmail us by threatening that if we don't give them everything they will turn to the Communists. Mild Slap for Soviets What we should at least be entitled to from the neutral nations is to have our conduct and that of the Communists judged by a single standard. For three years, the United States was castigated in the neutral world for refusing to accept the Soviet proposal to ban atomic tests without an adequate inspection system. Yet, when Khrushchev broke the voluntary moratorium and brazenly tested the biggest and from the standpoint of fallout dirtiest and most deadly bombs in history, he received a gentle slap on the wrist from most of the neutrals Letters to the Editor Reader Disagrees With 'Letting Them Stew' no moral neutralism.

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH South Africa's racism, and likes it. I am reminded of Jesus' statement, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip?" This Jesus Mr. Smith claims to call Lord was himself an Asian, who did not believe in letting anyone "stew in his own juice." Alan Villis-vik. Fairview. the Gazette to discredit the U.N.

in any way possible. Mr. Smith's statements, "Concentrate on the white nations and "The United States should let Africans and Asians stew in their own juice and "The white man's day is over if the U.N. continues simply show him up for what he is, an Afrikaner who has cut his teeth on Editor, The Gazette Your article appearing in the Nov. 3 Gazette under the headline 'Let 'em Stew' says African missionary amounts to sensationalism.

It is always more interesting to publish attention-getting heresay than the seemingly pedestrian statements of saner Christians. It also is another indication of the disturbing tendency I see in Medics Use Marrow Test For Some Blood Disorders By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Statement of Fighter Against Communism Quoted physical examination, which it of primary importance.) The moral rlirprtinn. it anDears sim should be taught in the educational system, but I believe it should be tau eh with a moral ply as an alternative economic system with certain superior virtues.

This has frequently been directive, in the same way that marrow test is helpful in other blood disorders, too, for the marrow, you know, ic nn rf 4Via im. a medical student learns that cancer is evil, that tuberculosis is pvil. I think the teaching of Communism without a moral "Dear Dr. Molner: My husband had a fingertip blood test which shows he has a high count of red corpuscles. The doctor advised a bone marrow test to verify the blood test What is the procedure? Does it require a stay in the hospital? N.

A high count of red cells is called polycythemia but there are different varieties of it. The marrow test is one of several used for polycythemia. (Others include certain X-ray procedures, and a thorough 4tiV portant producers of blood cells. done in the past ana instead oi opposing Communism, it tends to recruit to Communism. "I believe there is a great problem before the American people: to provide education with a moral dynamic that reveals Communism as a rationale of murder and lying and the destruction of freedom.

It is totally Editor, The Gazette In a recent Gazette editorial the following excellent observation was made, "We believe that students should be taught the difference between Communism and capitalism, but that the teacher entrusted with explaining Communism should not be an evangelist for the Russian brand of socialism." The greatest fighter against Communism in the world, Dr. F. C. Schwarz, had this to say on the same subject matter in his testimony before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities in 1957: "I believe that Communism Performing a bone marrow test is quite brief that is, taking the sample is. It requires only directive can be very dangerous.

Teaching it with a moral directive, should emphasize the basic foundations of American civilization, revealing the enemy threatening their destruction, the erroneous beliefs leading the Communists to undertake the destruction of freedom, the methods by which they propose to destroy, and what must be done to defeat them. If it is presented without MOLNER Intermission half an hour of the patient's immoral, and mental and emotional barriers against it should be erected in the minds of the young." Walter B. Dean Box 775 Forsyth. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmt Birney Man Bids Legionaires to Fight Communism Catholics to Weigh Kennedy Education Plan Hierarchy Meeting in Capital This Week Expected to Reappraise Its Stand naires and 44 snows have gone and left nearly three generations of men growing up under the in what I say but they told me that when they realized how the slogan, "Save the World for Democracy," was used as a hoax to start us on our way to converting our great republic into a democ- petus of the democracy propa ganda. six weeks ahead of schedule only tional Catholic Welfare Confer- ence, and here the angry Arch I listened to good and innocent but uninformed speakers refer because Cardinal Cushing and racy, they started forming the 'Legion for one great purpose to several times to our great democ By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON The full hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church meets In Washington this week for the first time since John F.

Kennedy be other prelates were going to Ireland prior to March 17 to celebrate the anniversary of racy unaware of the fact that, that is exactly what our enemies want, and need amplified among time and can be done In a doctor's office or clinic. A small amount of local anesthetic is used, after which a short, special needle is pressed into the sternum, or breast bone, and a few drops of the juices withdrawn. For the patient, that's all there is to it. He gets up and goes home. The rest of the test is in the laboratory.

The fluid is spread on glass slides to be stained with various coloring materials to help the examination under a microscope. In general, a high red corpuscle count can be due either to a loss or shift in the natural fluids of the body that Is, the same number of cells are present, but some of the liquid has been withdrawn from the blood, so It becomes thicker. In some cases intravenous transfusions of salt solutions or plasma are all that are needed. In others there Is an increase in blood cells (rather than a decrease in fluid) and different treatment is required. Some cases are the result of heart or lung disorders, and treatment depends on what can be done to correct the underlying cause.

In still another case, there is Editor, The Gazette Well, another Armistice Day has come and gone and I look back over the years with sadness when I recall my visit to an American Legion celebration where I listened to the speeches of my brother Legionnaires all good sincere Americans I'm sure, but seemingly unaware of the true and original cause and purpose for which the American Legion was founded. I was one of the charter members of Hollywood Post 43 and knew some of the boys who helped start the Legion in France. I believe it was sometime in 1917. These same men are not now here to confirm K. our most often, innocent bud But other bishops feel that if Archbishop Alter had confined his statement to a simple appeal for help on behalf of the Catholic schools, it would have been one thing.

To threaten defeat of the entire program for the public schools however was quite another. In Los Angeles that evening, James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, who had been aboard an airliner all day returning to his see from the Washington meeting, was met dies, to convert our great republic into a Socialistic Commu came the nation's first Catholic president. The chief question on the minds of its protect our beloved republic, knowing that our forefathers, expressly emphasized they had established a republic and denounced, just as emphatically anything to do with a democracy. When Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of a government we had, his answer was, "A republic, if we can keep it!" Forty-four snows have come and covered the graves of Legion- nist democracy. Legionnaires, we are at war, by a group of reporters as he en tered the airport terminal.

more than 200 members will be the hierarchy's opposition to Kennedy on aid-to education. Many members favor an "agoniz- ra roannrnisal" "Your eminence, what is your bishop of Cincinnati, Most Rev. Karl J. Alter, issued a brief statement March 3 which not only put his brother prelates on record against President Kennedy's aid-to-education bill but was one of the boldest moves the hierarchy has ever made to enter the arena of politics. Archbishop Alter was angi-y because Kennedy on Feb.

20, one month after he took office, specifically excluded from federal aid-to-education the rapidly growing parochial school system on the grounds of separation of church and state. The Archbishop was also angry because the news of the special meeting had leaked to the New York press, archdiocese of Cardinal Spellman, even though the meeting was held behind closed doors in the NCWC conference room on the top floor. Msgr. John F. Kelly, the amiable but harassed priest who handles NCWC press relations, admitted that a meeting had taken position on the statement of the Regardless of what the New York Times, and Time magazine would have us believe about our greatest enemies being across the pond, that is the age-old proverbial shell-game trick of the sleight of hand to lead our attention away from the vipers and termites eating away the foundations of our institutions.

Armed with the truth of this, let us clean our own house: if we do hierarchy threatening to defeat the arrival of St. Patrick. Vigorous Reactions Tough Msgr. Kelly made the meeting appear to be routine, the fact that all five cardinals attended made it anything but routine, and in the end Archbishop Alter scratched out by hand a brief statement to the press saying that the sense of the meeting was that the church should at least get a program of government loans for its schools and if this was not forthcoming, it would have no recourse than to oppose the whole bill. The statement was widely interpreted as an ultimatum, a threat that if parochial schools did not receive government assistance.

Catholic bishops would throw the pressure of the Catholic vote against federal aid to public schools. This of course was what Cardinal Spellman and Congressman Delaney did. PEARSON of the blunt Kfatpmpnt hv Archbishop Karl J. By George Ccrrfc The Neighbors aid to public schools unless parochial schools receive loans?" the reporters asked. "WTiat?" the Cardinal asked in Alter of Cincinnati on March 3 erplexity, hat statement? There hasn't been any state 1" I) pi ment.

not, it only prepares us for any easy take over. Shall we jump at the worm and get the hook? Floyd T. Alderson, Birney. which represented an open DreaK between the Catholic Church and the first Catholic ever to become President of the United State. Statements in the "The Pilot" by Richard Cardinal Cushing, Kennedy's friend in Boston, have made it clear that there has been a rift in the church in regard to airi-tiveduration and that Arch A reporter gave him the gist of Archbishop Alter's statement.

The Cardinal sputtered to an aide, "We never authorized any such thing." Then to the reporters he said: "No comment." tip place, said it occurred March 2, elj? tilings (5nzstU Published Daily and Sunday by THE GAZETTE PRINTLVO COMPANY Entered at the Btlllnirs. Montana. Port 1 Mall UttttMr UII1C-. B8 KWUU v- strnrt nni-boa General Manager Yesterdays in Billings Harold Seipo Duane uowier maii-guia Thomas Astle Night City Editor rmvlri O'Connor Da City Editor site of one of the biggest financial transactions when the Mil Oscar Chaffee State Editor ft 5S no apparent underlying illness. This is called a "primary" case, or "polycythemai vera." Treatments for this include radioactive phosphorus, drugs designed to lower the number of cells created by the marrow, and the occasional drawing off of blood.

This last is done just as blood is taken from blood donors. The body first replaces the fluid in the blood, and replaces the cells more gradually. Thus the polycythemia is relieved by this means temporarily. It's important, of course, to keep the blood at reasonably thin consistency to avoid the long-run risk of a blood vessel becoming plugged by a blood clot, or doing other mischief, NOTE TO MRS. A.

Yes. in some circumstances "flat globules, an excess of fats, accumulate in the blood. This includes cholesterol, as well as other fatty substances. It should be treated when discovered. Dr.

Molner welcomes all mail from his readers, but because of the great volume received daily Kathrrn wrigni Fred j. Nelson Advertising Director bishop Alter's statement went too far. It did not go too far, however, for Cardinal Spellman of New York, the prelate who influenced Congressman James J. Delaney of New York to cast the deciding vote in the House Rules Committee which blocked all of Kennedy's education proposals. Spell-man still appears to be adamant.

And the schedule he has arranged for the two-day session in Washington may make it difficult for Cardinal Cushing and others to hold any "agonizing reappraisal." Background of Rift To understand the rift in the church over Kennedy's aid plan for education you have to go back Aitchisoo urcuiaiiuu E. Petera Office Manager MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES FOR DAILY AND SUNDAY PAYABLE IN ADVANCE and Jack Billings as being the! class of wrestling bouts staged here. 35 Years Ago Nov. 15, 1926 Bob Askin of Miles City won the bronc-riding finals at the waukee Railroad will be auctioned off at a minimum bid of $125,000,000. 10 Years Ago Not.

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OI oisuaicnes wrui wise credited to tola paper and aisolocaJ news ouoiisnea Residents from Billings, Laurel, Bridger and Roundup made a "terrific" response to a request of the Yellowstone County Red Cross chapter for blood donations for servicemen in Korea. Organizations reported 5,000 individuals had pledged to donate pints of blood. herein. association yesterday afternoon and evening. Next Friday night at the Coliseum hall, one of the best sporting cards ever put on in the city will be given.

The local wrestling club has spared no effort to make For the purpose of stimulating interest in apiculture and to aid beekeepers with their disease and wintering problem, the county agent's office has arranged for a meeting of beekeepers Nov. 18 to be conducted by O. A. Sipple, to a momentous conference on March 2 in the quiet, austere building at 1300 Massachusetts Avenue whose windowless front is marked by Eugene Kormandy's statue. "Christ Is the Light of the World." Here are the offices of the Na NOTICE TO BILLINGS STBSCSIBEU To rcDort delivery errors oieaso ohor.e CH J-3071 from am.

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Molner uses readers (letters in his column whenever I possible. the program one of high class 'and quality and fans throughout jthe city are commenting on the coming match between Otto Suter "We don't get much besides cold sandwiches since ilom got her fancy new stove. She's afraid she might get a spot on it." Mrs. I. D.

Shope was installed as ne'v president of the Billings i Garden Club. state bee inspector. Butte on Nov. 22 will be the i.