Milford chronicle., 1959-09-18

OF the President and the General services
Administration less in fiscal 1859
than in fiscal 1858. Can't we make it three
in 196O-or maybe even four?
IKE AT THE CONTROLS
While John Foster Dulles lived he was
our undisputed formulator of foreign policy.
President Eisenhower leaned heavily on
Dulles and considered him one of the ma
tons greatest secretaries of state.
Since Dulles death, the President has
come forth spectacularly on his own. By
inviting Premier Khrushchev to this country
in September and scheduling trip to Mos
cow for himself later, Mr.. Eisenhower has
revived hopes for peace and confounded
those who criticized his lack of leadership.
In the opinion of some observers, he has
thus out upon course that Dulles would
have vigorously opposed.
That the Khrushchev- Eisenhower ex-
changes run counter to the old Dulles for
mula may be true The late secretary of state
and Konrad Adenauer usually agreed on pol
icy, and the West German chancellor has
shown little enchantment with the recent
show of amicability between the United
States and Russia He is expected to ask
Mr.. Eisenhower some hard questions when
the President visits Bonn.
But this does not mean that the Presi-
dents course is wrong. Neither does 1t mean
that it will lead to permanent settlement of
the Berlin crisis or of East-West relations
in general. 1t does mark departure from
the old rigidity; it does promise closer con-
facts and freer negotiations.
Nikita KhrushcheV cannot be expected to
leave these shores in late September with any
confession that the Russians have had us all
wrong and that capitalism is Wonderful.
Nevertheless, tensions may be somewhat re
Eeved. That would be thing eminently
worth achieving.
THE AMERICAN LEGION
When one considers the many threats
which face democracy today, and the sub
VerSive and unpatriotic and diviSive ele-
ments which seek to weaken the United
States, the role the American Legion plays in
American life is appreciated.
The American Legion usually takes pa
triotic and strong stands, and sometimes
these stands irk those who feel that the Leg
ion is "fiag-waving." However, there has
not been enough flag waving in this country
in the last ten or fifteen years, and certainly
it is much-needed thing in the United
States.
1t, of course, can be overdone, and we do
not believe that anyone should be prosecuted
unfairly because of nationalistic or patriotic
excitement. On the other hand, it is time
that someone looked out for the best inter-
ests of the United States, and its survival,
and the American Legion is generally sound
on this theme
For example, at the last Legion Conven-
tion, resolution was passed blasting the
United Nations Educational Scientific and
Cultural Organization. The resolution accus-
ed this agency of furnishing American
schools with material that was contrary to
the American way of life"
We believe this is a sound indictment,
and that the resolution passed will do some
good. Also, the American Legion adopted
resolution blasting Hollywood movie pro-
ducers for pro-communist films and dia-
.logues, and we think this as, and was,
much-needed indictment.
Of course, the American Legion at its
conventions has made some mistakes, but so
has every other organization and everyone
On the whole, the patriotic, anti-communist
vigilant attitude in the American Legion, as
reflected in its national conventions, is a
good counter-balance in the sea of commun-
ist propaganda, communist agitation, COM
munist-inspired race agitation, and other di-
yisive forces which are at work among US.