The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1961-02-09
News Report On Doings
Under The Dome In Washington

of President John F. Kennedy is
that of Theodore Roosevelt - a
haIf-century before him. Kennedy
wants to walk softly and talk soft
Iy, while carrying a big stick.
Kennedy wants U. S. military
power sharply increased. This is
no secret and he has told the ma
ton as much. He has even admit
ted he has been shocked at the
situation he finds the country in
at the moment.
The problem he faces is one
which will require all the vigor
and mental capability available
in the young team Kennedy has
assembled around himself. He
must speed up the space effort,
increase the military effort, take
up the slack in the economy and
expand the country's growth -
and all in a short period of time.
The Presidents new foreign
policy will be more flexible and
more aggressive than here tofore
and the effort overseas will take
on more direction, coordination
and drive - if the Kennedy ideas
are carried through.
II and when the new President
speaks from a greater position of
military strength, comparatively,
his voice will carry more weight
i'm communist as well as non
communist circles throughout the
world. And that is what John
Kennedy is aiming at: greater
strength and therefore more in
fluence throughout the world for
the United States.
There are indications the COM
munists are hesitating to throw
wine directly into Kennedy'S face
at the moment. Moscow has been
cautious in dealing with Kennedy
personally, and Kennedy's sharp
est rebuke for a major commu-
mist country thus far was his best
recent statement that Communist
China had been taking a rather
beIligerent tone in dealing with
the United States.
This was a warning to Red
China that il il desired better re-
Iations with the United States the
current tone of abuse against the
United States was not the way TO
achieve that end.
Meanwhile there are growing
evidences that Russia and China
are not the Siamese twins of com
munism they have long been con-
sidered to be. Premier Krushchev
has frankly noted, in recent days
i'm Moscow, that one man cannot
lead the entire communist world
in the complete sense of beliefs
and policy.
The Chinese have modified
some of their old-line harshness
to a barely recognizable degree,
even saying-at one point-that
war may not be inevitable. Blu;
these concessions, both from Mos
COW and Peiping, do not hide the
differences between the two ma
jor communist powers.
That President Kennedy might
exploit this difference by increas
ing us. military power and build
ing a more effective foreign poll
cy is possibility-though remote
The first step in this process
could be better relations with
Russia.
The Russians are enjoying a
higher and higher standard of liv'
ing and are rapidly becoming
have" nation. As progress is
achieved in raising the Russian
living standard the people have
more and more to lose by war or
turmoil.
The Chinese, of course, are not
yet a "have" nation and therefore
the interests of Red China do not
parallel those of Russia in some
important aspects. II is this fact
which has caused a strain in rela-
tions between the two communist
giants. How great that strain is,
and what its eventual effects will
be, are questions of the era that
only time will answer.