THE MICHWIGAN DILYT
Kennedy Urges Peace
in 'Izvestia' Interview;
Seeks Mutual Accord
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Assures No
U.S. Attack
On' Russians
Peaceful Coexistence
To Reduce Tensions
MOSCOW (-President John
P. Kennedy, assuring the Russian
people that nobody is going to
invade the Soviet Union, declared
yesterday that the basic threat to
world peace lies in efforts to Com-
munize the world.
In an unprecedented interview
spread across 10 columns of Iz-
vestia, the United States chief
said:
"If the Soviet Union were mere-
ly seeking to protect its own na-
tional interests, to protect its own
national security, and would per-
mit other countries to live as they
wish-to live in peace-then I be-
lieve that the problems which now
cause so much tension would fade
away.
Military Power
"The Soviet Union is a mighty
military power.
"It has great nuclear strength.
It has rockets, airplanes, a great
number of divisions. Other coun-
tries are associated with it. No-
body would ever again invade the
Soviet Union. There is no such
military force which would be able
to do it. The question is to sign
an agreement which will insure
recognition of our interests as well
as yours, and this is undoubtedly
within our power."
Those were fresh words to be
heard in the Soviet Union, so used
to hearing mostly the Soviet side
alone. What is more, the words
were printed in the official gov-
ernment paper.
Kennedy Expresses Views
Kennedy expressed his views in
an interview last Saturday with
Alexel Adzhubei, Izvestiav editor
and son - in - law of Premier
Khrushchev.
Crowds of Russians rushed to
buy copies of the paper as it hit
news stands.
The interview, including com-
ments by Adzhubei as Kennedy
went along, was printed virtually
intact.
Tass Comments
There was no comment on it in
Izvestia, but the Soviet news
agency Tass, in a dispatch to be
printed in other papers, said Ken-
nedy "tried to take cover behind
the old blind of an imaginary
'Communist menace'." It assert-
ed he gave evasive answers to
some of Adzhubei's questions or
did not answer at all.
Kennedy said the United States
recognizes that the Soviet Union
does not intend to permit reunifi-
cation of Germany.
It appeared the President delib-
erately couched his views in low
key with the purpose of getting
across the idea that the United
States is looking for peaceful
solutions of the world's problems
and is not the aggressive imper-
ialistic power usually depicted.
Salk Predicts
Versatile Cure
DENVER (-Dr. Jonas Salk
told doctors yesterday there are
bright hopes for a single vaccine
warding off 10 to 100 virus dis-
eases.
He said the vaccine possibly
couldalso prevent some cancers
and nerve diseases which may be
triggered by viruses in yet un-
known ways. Or, if cancer viruses
are found, they could be put in the
super vaccine.
The Pittsburgh scientist de-
eared the future in vaccines lies
in using dead viruses--not living
one -and better yet, using only a
iny portion of the virus: the part
which stimulates' immunity.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
.. 'Izvestia' article
WOMEN:
View Peace
At Sessions
By RONALD WILTON
A group of women from the So-
viet Union and the United States,
including Mrs. Elise Boulding, a
sociologist with the Center for Re-
search on Conflict Resolution and
the wife of Prof. Kenneth Bould-
ing of the. economics department,
concluded a series of conferences
Monday on the problems of peace
and disarmament.
The conference took place last
week at Bryn Mawr College in
Pennsylvania. The Soviet women
came, at the invitation of the
United States section of the Wom-
an's International League for
Peace andrFreedom and the Jane
Addams Peace Association.
Issue Statement
At the end of the conference
the participants issued a state-
ment on those areas where they
reached full agreement.
The statement recognized "the
urgency of taking all necessary
measures to meet the danger fac-
ing mankind."
The participants "rejoiced" that
a "Joint Statement of Agreed
Principles for Disarmament Nego-
tiations" was presented to the
United Nations by the UN am-
bassadors of the two countries.
Women Support UN
The women also supported the
UN "as a framework for uniting
all peoples and for the peaceful
settlement of international dis-,
putes" and recognized "that the
United Nations must evolve to
meet changing world conditions."
COMMUNISTS:
Mao Lauds
Albanians,
Sees Unity
TOKYO () - Mao Tze-Tung
joined other Chinese Communist
leaders yesterday in singing the
praises of Albania in what appear-
ed a deliberate affront to Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev.
Mao, Red China's leader, and
other officials sent a message to
Albania praising the Albanian
Communist Party as "loyal to
Marxism-Leninism and the . .
unity of the international Com-
munist movement," radio Peiping
said.
It became clear at the Soviet
congress in Moscow last month
that when the Chinese Reds de-
fended the ideological positions of
Albanian Communist leader Enver
Hoxha it amounted to an attack
on Khrushchev. The Soviet pre-
mier had denounced Albania's Red
leaders for Stalinism.
The depth of the ideological
quarrel between the two giants of
Communism was underscored by
the Chinese statement and a rival
one issued in Moscow on the 17th
anniversary of Albania's libera-'
tion from the Nazis.
In Moscow, the Soviet news
agency Tass said the Russian peo-
ple were sending greetings to the
people of Albania, but it accused
the leaders of the tiny country on
the Adriatic of "dangerous actions
damaging the unity of the entire
Socialist (Communist) common-
wealth."
Vandal .Burns
Russian Flag
MINNEAPOLIS (M)-A Russian
flag was burned yesterday as it
hung from a standard at the en-
trance of a University of Minne-
sota building where a Soviet med-
ical exhibit is "now on display.
The act, reportedly the work
of an unidentified youth, brought
an immediate letter of apology
from O. Meredith Wilson, Minne-
sota president, to the Russian
doctor in charge of the exhibit.
The flag burner escaped in a
car before a university policeman
guarding the exhibit inside could
catch up with him.
The, exhibit and display of the
Russian flag was the object of a
student demonstration last week.
C. DOUGLAS DILLON
. . . end silver sale
President Declares
End of Silver Sales
Expect Action To Increase Price;
Asks Removal of Metal Backing
WASHINGTON (Ao--President John F. Kennedy announced yes-
terday a decision to end federal sales of silver-an action expected to
result in an immediate increase in the price of the metal.
Kennedy also called for the gradual removal of silver backing
from part of the nation's paper money. This would take 25 to 30 years
and require congressional approval.
The most immediate impact of the far-reaching program will
be on the price of silver and, indirectly, on the prices which consumers
"pay for items with a high silver
y content. These include jewelry,
silverware, photographic film, bat-
teries and certain electrical items.
NeWPrices Quoted
Informed guesses on the likely
new price for silver ranged from
$1 to $1.05 an ounce. The price
has been 91.5 cents.
Historically, the President's de-
cision represents an effort to end
decades of sometimes-bitter con-
troversy over silver policy by re-
moving silver from the political
and monetary arena.
In effect, Kennedy took the po-
sition that silver has no place in
monetary affairs except as an in-
gredient for coins.
Prices Maintained
Since 1946, the Treasury has
maintained both minimum and
maximum price levels for silver by
standing ready to buy the metal at
90.5 cents an ounce and to sell
at 91.5 cents. The sales price re-
mained fixed even though silver
consumption has outpaced pro-
duction on a growing scale in re-
cent years.
Now that the Treasury has stop-
ped sales of silver, users will have
to turn to the commercial mar-
ket where prices can be expected
to reflect the unequal supply-de-
mand situation.
The retirement of the $5 and $10
silver certificates should take care
of coinage needs for 8 to 10 years.
GEORGE W. BALL
... tariff cuts
UNITED NATIONS:
Urgea Talks
On Berlin
NEW YORK (P)-West German
Defense Minister Franz Josef
Strauss said yesterday that if fur-
ther East-West negotiations fail
to ease tensions over Berlin the
issue should go to the United Na-
tions.
Strauss Indicated West German
expectations for effective UN- ac-
tion were limited but said it
"would provide moral support and
have a certain political value since
it represents the world's con-
science."
He seemed confident that cur-
rent consultations between the
Western powers would lead to a
new East-West meeting.
1WASHINGTO R)-Key legis-
lators are expecting an early re-
quest from President John F.
Kennedy for authority to nego-
etiate tariff slashes up to 50 per
cent on whole categories of prod-
ucts.
They think he has made the de-
cision to press ahead in 1961, de-
spite considerable congressional
opposition, for a sweeping new
trade program. It would keep the
door open for American exports to
Europe and ease trade throughout
the free world, at the price of ad-
mitting more imports to this coun-
try.
The common market, embrac-
ing continental West European
countries and apparently soon to
include Britain, poses a threat of
joint tariffs against outside coun-
tries which do not negotiate trade
agreements with the new econom-
ic unit.
President Has Decided
"I think the President has de-
cided," one reciprocal trade spe-
cialist said privately yesterday.
"There is every indication of it-
certainly in the way public opinion
is being prepared."
The latest in a series of freer-
trade statements by administra-
tion officials was a speech Mon-
day at the Geneva session of the
general agreement on tariff and
trade. George W. Ball, newly pro-'
moted under secretary of state,'
called for tariff cuts across the
board.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers who
presumably would handle the
President's proposals expect them
to include two major broadenings
INDEX:
Living Cost
Increases
October's record high cost of
living was countered by an in-
crease in factory workers' spend-
able earnings, the Labor Depart-
ment announced yesterday.
The rise in living costs was the
smallest October-to-October in-
crease since 1955. The department
reported that since the prices went
up only about one fifth as fast,
the buying power of workers rose
about four per cent during the
year.
Gain Over Last Month
After the .1 per cent gain over
last month the consumer price in-
dex stood at 128.4 per cent of the
1947-49 average, the department
said.
In Detroit, the Consumer Price
Indexes increased .4'per cent from
September to October, a report re-
leased yesterday by Adolph O.
Berger, director of the North Cen-
tral Regional Office of the De-
partment of Labor's Bureau of
Labor Statistics, said.
Increase in Earnings
The increase in earnings, off-
setting the price rise, indicates
that workers have been accumu-
lating buying power, commission-
er Ewan Clague of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics said.
NEW TRADE PROGRAM:
Legislators Await Tariff Cut
of executive bargaining power ph
provisions for helping owners an
employes ofbusiness unable 1
withstand increased import coly
petition.
To Halve Tariffs
Under the existing reciproc
trade act, agreements may be nE
gotiated reducing tariffs 5 pE
cent annually for four years,
total of 20 per cent, on specif
items. Kennedy is expected to as
for authority to halve tariffs in
single year.
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UNITED NATIONS-The Unit-
ed Nations General Assembly yes-
terday voted 97-2 for a denuncia-
tion of South Africa's white su-
premacy policies.
But it discarded committee rec-
ommendations for harsh boycott
measures and for reading South
Africa out of the United Nations.
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PARIS-A day-long transport
and utilityhstrike of 500.000 work-
ers= of the government-operated
transport, gas and electric indus-
tries touched almost every home
and business in France and reach-
ed into rebellion-torn Algeria yes-
terday.
The strikers are seeking 10 per
cent wage hikes which the gov-
ernment contends would be infla-
tionary.
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UNITED NATIONS-A United
Nations inquiry group asserted
last night that Portugal has not
carried out recommended reforms
in Angola and that the situation
in that strife-torn African terri-
tory is growing worse.,
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru yes-
terday described recent reports of1
accupation of additional Indian
territory by the Chinese Commu-
nists as exaggerated.
NEW YORK-Scattered selling
turned an irregular stock market
lower yesterday.
The Dow-Jones index closed
down 3.92 to 728.07.
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