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MOSCOW RETURNS A BASE
(Christian Science Monitor)
Decision of the Soviet government to give back to
Finland the naval base at Porkkala is designed, of
course, to obtain the utmost in propaganda value for
Communist diplomacy. Nevertheless, it must be ap
praised as a new tactic which goes further than propa
ganda alone.
Evacuation of an area which spreads for miles
along the Finnish coast barely outside the capital at
Helsinki is a concrete act. It cannot be written off as
mere words. It is one of those deeds such as American
diplomacy has been asking of the Kremlin as evidence
of good faith in talking relaxation of tensions.
Certainly to' Finns and other travelers by rail
south westward out of Helsinki it will be a change not
to feel the sensations of being in a long tunnel while
going through the secret area with iron shutters over
the car windows.
Soviet warships unquestionably still can control
the Gulf of Finland from Estonia, which forms its
southern shore, and the Red army holds beyond that
the Baltic shoreline of Latvia and Lithuania. All three
of these provinces are former independent countries
overrun and seized by the Soviet Union early during
World War II. Nothing is said about giving back any
freedom to their populations.
The manner in which Moscow hopes to exert lever
age on the West is made clear by Marshal Zhukov,
Soviet defense minister, who suggests that the United
States follow the Soviet lead by relinquishing military
bases on foreign soil.
That this will be a plausible talking point is illus
trated by the fact that leftist parties have effectually
fanned local opposition to land takings for extension of
airfields used by American planes in Japan.
Because Moscow gives back land it had no right
to take, it does not follow that American bases in Brit
ain, Morocco, and Turkey should be dismantled. The
NATO powers recognize that their own security rests
in part on having aid at hand. But the action illustrates
a new mood or new strategy in Moscow which requires
some rethinking of Western tactics.
In prosperous times we pay installments on ten
things instead of one.
Use of Aquaculture
Advised to Help
Salmon Industry
SEATTLE (£)—The use of aqua
culture—the science of water
farming—was advanced by a Uni
versity of Washington fisheries
expert Monday as a means of bol
stering Alaska’s sagging salmon
industry.
Dr. Lauren K. Donaldson of the
UW School of Fisheries told a
Senate interstate and foreign com
merce subcommittee there would
be an almost boundless -harvest of
salmon if the industry would ac
cept methods available in the sci
ence of aquaculture.
Such methods, Dr. Donaldson
said, would include the selection
of crops, hybridization and fertili
zation of the grounds in much the
same way a farmer cultivates his
field.
The University of Washington
scientist told the subcommittee
salmon now are being harvested
in Alaska without any major ef
fort to sow new crops. He said
relatively minor quantities of
chemical fertilizer can rebuild the
natural balance that produces
food to help fish develop.
“I am firmly convinced,” said!
Dr. Donaldson, “that with proper \
emphasis we can make fishing !
produce at about any level we
wish. Enough technical data is
now available for us to start mov
ing toward that end.”
Operation Cracker Jack
To Provide Practice for
Air Defense in Winter
WASHINGTON UR—'The United
States and Canada Tuesday an
nounced simultaneously plans to
conduct joint air defense exercises
this winter.
The Department of Defense des-,
ignated the operation as “Cracker
Jack” and said that the exercises
would involve the air defense sys
tems in both Canada and the Uni
ted States, presumably including
the Distant Early Warning radar |
line now under construction near
the Arctic Circle.
Purpose of the exercise is to j
provide radar tracking and inter- j
cept practice for defense forces!
during winter weather. The U.S. j
Strategic Air Command will be j
used to test the defenses.
THE MUD COW
(The Dredge)
By VERA C. SIEGWART
There she stands in a puddle of mud,
Serenely chewing away her “cud”,
Taking great mouthfuls of water and stone
As she floats along, dreaming alone.
For there are no other cows in her pasture unique,
In a giant pond by a mountain creek.
Her jaws reach out like a massive hand;
Her tail is a cable made* fast to the land.
She rumbles away in noisy content;
The fruit of her labor will be well spent.
Her story is history—ages old—
For the milk that she gives is known as GOLD.
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