The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-05-27

That ticking sound is no tan
trum.
It is somebody thinking. It is
wheels going around in the heads
of Khrushchev and those whose
jump-seat prisoner he seems to
be. Every wild statement, every
frothing at the mouth. each en-
larged vein in the forehead. all
the sweaty vulgarities, can be
analyzed out to show thought,
method in each madness.
Madly he swore he would sign
that fateful treaty with East
Germany. but carefully when
queried he said he would do it
not half an hour from now but in
his own good time. Shaking. wav-
ing and shadow boxing with two
arms that seem like 20, he said
if we flew over any of his foot
age any more he would destroy
the plane and its base. too, but
he said it after the President had
already ordered such flying on
our part discontinued. Apoplec-
tically he talked but in the same
hot and heaving breath he said
he was going to tell the United
Nations about the bad, bad
United States.
Tick ick-there was thought
behind those fit-throwings, calcu-
lation and method in the mad
ness. This column continues to
agree that Red China is the food
for much of his thought, what
ever food the home trouble has
cooked up, too. Even if Khrush-
chev should give himself a heart
attack with all this and pop off,
he S not Hitler. He's not insane.
He's an actor intoxicated with
his lines. Or perhaps a prisoner
doing overtime on the rock pile.
LYNDON JOHNSON telling
television to tell Khrushchev that
our Democrats don't love him
any more than our Republicans
looked like Franklin D. Roose-
welt. and sounded like him. He
might even be thinking in SINH
lar MachiavellianiSm, one more
cunning than Communism or
OrientaliSm!
If Roosevelt we're still Presi-
dent he might be Just Machia-
vellian enough to sick Khrush-
chev on Red China now. Granted
that the Russian Premier is in
bad trouble at home and has to
have a blow-up abroad to divert
attention and attract patriotism.
he risks either domestic revolt
or Gotterdammerung If he picks
on America plus the other free
lands. The Russian peoples hor-
ror now may be greater than
ours by reason of living SO much
in the dark. And their armament
is matched by ours now and
more.
BRINKMANSHIP for Russia
against China would make more
sense.
It is true that the Chinese are
mentally and spiritually reader
I to fight, can even boast horribly
of having 100000 people left il
they should lose 200, 900 in atomic
war.
They are re ady but they
haven't got the materials anC
most Of it comes from Russia. Ir
every way except the theology
(which seems to be dated If
Russia now Red China woulG
make much more useful enemy
than the U n it e d States fol
KhruShchev's needs at home
But Machiavelli who undertook
to accomplish this would have te
free the prisoner first, get rid Of
Gen. Malinovsky. the defense
minister with a face like q
fatted k lie ton, who follows
Khrushchev everywhere anG
seems to turn on and off the
! roly-poly's rantingS at will.
! In an NEA story from Paris
last week by Leon Dennen
Macs increasing opposition te
the summit meeting plus oppo
sition from the Russian army tt
Camp Davidson in general may
have brought it about that the
very Russia which was so hys
terically protesting spies had put
its premier under this Malinov
sky Gromyko surveillance.
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Will khruShchev be able to eel
any more of his duck-fits taker
seriously now that they arc
proved once again nothing but
the bad manners of a cornerec
boor?
who takes care of the care
takers daughter
When the care-taker's out taking
care?"
WHO TAKES CARE of those
who are taking care Of the mino
of Richard Nixon?
Editor Tom Waring, Of The
Charleston News and Courier, q
conservative who is for conserv
ing forward moves in good direc