The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-08-01

he night wind blew cold on my
dcsolate heart
But colder those wild words o.
All. me!
Defcat-finders and doom-sayers
who sec only these In Middle East
ern events who anticipate defeats
crown and doom's final crack In
the 60 mnigo ink rshchucoantv
the coming Of Khrushchev to an
unwantcd summit conference suf-
fer from their own worms, II seems
to- this column
The electric effect OF that I'M.
qualified Marine landing in Leba-
non, the unblushing alert OF vast
forces all over Planet Earth, the
fact Of the Strategic Air Command
identified again as holding Russia
in the palm OF ITS hands. may well
have spoiled the whole Russian
formula Of infiltration. even II not
In time TO save Iraq.
And Iraq itself turns out to be
not 50 much lost and need be won
As for Khrushchev and NaSscr
when they come, they VIII face in
the flesh for the first time in their
relationships the weight OF world
opinion against them. a weight under
which they won't be so winsome as
the may be hoping to be.
When Khrnshchey visited Eng
land last year while he was teamed
lip with Bulganin he turned ruff
fianly. unattractive and unimpres-
sivc when he found that he WASH Z
among idolators or pretended idola-
tors.
Since the Middle East crisis that
lets Khrushchcv come is so abated
he get here. you would guess that
he would choose to smile. charm
and soothc. be the beamish boy Of
co-existence. earth's sweetest no
bleman Of peace,
But whether he smiles or scowls
the free lands are not equipped with
personality able or willing to
confront him adequately in public
You can think only OF Sir Win
ston Churchill for that assignment.
Perhaps the ouncil majority.
aware Of this and OF Khrushchev' S
ambition to exploit the visit with
winsome smiling call the dead men
and tortured and rippled OF body
and soul forgotten. will vote
against going on the air with any
Of its proceedings. deny him his
world propaganda play Everything
is Hooper-ratings cries out against
such deprivation OF us-the tele-
vision-and-radio audience. but it
is conceivable.
Yet is there not somewhere IN
the free world. especially In an
America Of famous craftsmanship
and advertising. the genius some
how to make as much capital Of
Khrushchev's visit as he himself
proposes to AXE? The world
audience will be there. the intense
attention. the wild emotion.
Cameras won't favor him In the
United Nations appearance, 1t is to
be presumed, as they did when he
gave CHS that much-mooted inter-
view in Moscow last year. and, APP
parently. reserved a right to have
only fetching poses used. His half
right profile appeared Throughout
and was impressive indeed, show
ing q man Of force, charm. SEN
sibility, quick intelligence, with fine
reserves in his face. In his left
profile. however, and when facing
the camera directly. there is the
squat ruffian. the rolling vulgarian.
the pallid ig-sticker. butcher OF
Budapest, sallow incarnation OF
murder BY the million.
Everybody has two faces but
never were two SO antithetical as
Nikita's.
If forget thee, o Jerusalem.
let my tongue cleave to the roof
Of my mouth and let my right hand
forget its cunning
Birmingham's Guy MCGOWAN
quoted this Psalm knowingly in
recent plea for prejudice" in favor
Of ones own land-or America and
Of the South.
Our Highlands Methodist mini
ster didn't mean the prejudice Of
the bigoted. blind or illiterate, I
am sure, but that Of the true lover.
The pre-judging that. in love Of
country, region or state. does pre-