Evening star., 1960-05-31

worlds foremost aggressor.
Our flights would provide an
additional deterrent against
Russian aggression on a global
basis, as with international
ballistic missiles, and a sig
niflcant intelligence method
to prevent the free worlds
trigger finger from growing
nervous.
With the flights having
ended, the free world pre-
sumably will have more diff
ficulty in determining wheth-
er missile f1rings by Russia
are merely harmless tests or
the real thing.
1t is nearly conceivable the
West would send a rain of
H-bombS pouring down upon
Russia, in error. Certainly
such an error would be pref
cradle to our waiting until
a rain of H-bombs from Rus
sia poured upon the U. S. be-
fore we retaliated.
To prevent any such pos
sible error, the U. S. should
continue-as it is doing-to
permit Russian spies to keep
track of U. S. missile-f firing
plans, and the U. S. should
announce renewal of U-2
reconnaissance flights.
J. T. Stride
When the fate of civiliza-
ton may be decided by the
disposition and alterations of
a leader of one of the worlds
big powers, have we not ar
rived at the point where the
United Nations Charter must
be changed to permit the
United Nations to decide on
the fitness of such a leader?
If the peace of q neigh
borhood is threatened by a
citizen deranged or on a
rampage, police or other &C
tionS are appropriate and
necessary. In this "one world"
civilization all nations are
neighbors and close in re-
spect to speed of communica-
tionS among them and to
capabilities of mutual de-
struction. If an irrational
leader of one nation threat
ems not only the peace of
many nations but the very
survival of mankind, how can
we fail to see to it that the
U. N. has the authority to
act? It should act, under due
process of new and inevitable
concepts of international law,
by physically "quarantining"
such a leader and then either
keeping him under perma-
r1ent physical restraint in in.
ternational custody or allow
ing his return to power only
after a favorable u. N. Cen
eral Assembly vote and favor
able referendum supervised
by the U. N. in the nation
that claims" the leader.
If people are intelligent
enough to create artificial
planets, they should have
enough intelligence to create
the machinery to preserve
the existence of the earth
planet they inhabit. Let's
keep our earth in orbit.
Lyle ]. HOIverstott.
Nice going, Senator Full
bright and the American
press! Soviet Premier
Khrushchev broke up the
Paris summit conference with
brilliant timing. He used the
U-2 incident as a tool, but
his real purpose was to plant
the seeds of distrust of Amer
ica's leadership in the minds
OF Americas citizens.
President Eisenhower re-
fused to buy the scheme. And
the free world applauded his
restraint and. Judgment. The
good Senator from Arkansas,
on the other hand, has tum-
bled right into the trap. He
has demanded a full inves-
tigation of the U-2 incident
by the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee.
Dexter r. Dawson.
y \ y +
Lenin once said: Com
rades, we have nothing to
worry about from capitalists.
All we have to do is give them
enough rope and they will
hang themselves" When a
comrade protested, But
where will we get the rope
to give to the capitalists?"
Lenin replied, From the capi-
talists, of course"
One of the most prominent
rope-givers of our time seems
to be Cyrus s. Eaton,
A. Gaigals.
Lincoln, Nebr,