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DEAN RUSK’

PROFILE

OF A

SUMMIT-DODGER

AST April the authoritative U.S. quarterly Foreign

‘and
q Its author was 51-year-old
5.2" Rusk, president of the
*‘ockfeller Foundation and As-
Sistant Secretary of State for
;, ar Eastern Affairs in the
~tuman Administration.
_ “Tesident-elect Kennedy’s ap-
ointment of Rusk as Secre-
sty of State has brought the
Ptticle, entitled “The  Presi-
“vent,” to international atten-
‘lon for clues as to the think-
eS and philosophy of the man
Who will succeed Christian
€rter and John Foster Dulles
9 this top Cabinet post.
xpressing his attitude on
ummit meetings he said, “The
President can and ought to
Undertake a limited and care-
ully planned program of state
mee short in duration and
| ee at the exchange of cour-
ae and respect as a tangible
Pression of the good will of
€ American people.
hic hegotiation at the
ut -of-government level is
sae another matter. It is not
= y accomodated among the
Cularities of our constitu-

Affairs carried a provocative article on policy-making
the conduct of U.S. foreign relations.

tional system .. . Such ex-
perience as we have had with
Summit diplomacy does not en-
courage the view that it con-
tributes to the advancement of
American interests.”

e

Rusk joined the State De-
partment, in 1946 where he
rose rapidly to become Assist-
ant Secretary of State for Far
Eastern Affairs, in which posi-
tion he was involved in June,
1950 in the decision to launch
the war in Korea and to get
United Nations cover for Am-
erican intervention.

Since 1952, when he left the
State Department, Rusk has
been president of the Rocke-
feller Foundation and-in eight
years he has supervised the
spending of $247 million on ex-
tending U.S. influence abroad.

Hitherto unknown to _ the
world-at-large,: Rusk was one
of the backroom boys of U.S.
foreign policy and a faithful
servant of U.S. imperialism at
its worst.

What Shoul

id Your

Children Read?

By SUE GRANT
(London, England)

What should our children
read? Everything and any-
thing that interests them?

Or should their reading be
carefully selected?

A book published here re-
cently, “Young Writers, Young
Readers,” roundly condemns
much that children read to-
day.

It gives a detailed study of
the “popular” children’s books
—the boys’ adventure stories
and the “better type” comic
books.

Most of the books and stor-
ies—not to mention the comics
—Says the writer ‘are insipid
and concocted like a coloured
drink for teenagers.”

That is probably true in
many cases, but I think that
the attempt of the writer to

straitjacket children’s reading
to the classics and the ‘good,’
forbidding the rest, could help
to destroy many a_ child’s

awakening interest in reading.

Most children love listening
to stories, to-enter a land of
make-believe and adventure, a
world of magic and bravery.
They like bright pictures, well-
established characters and sim-
ple plots—which is why they
like comics.

The better comics, with all
their weaknesses, can do much
to start an interest in reading
and -stories. The danger is if
this becomes the only reading.

There the answer lies with
parents. Children need a wide
range of story books, bedtime
stories and fairy tales;
need to have books constantly
around them.

Many parents do not realize,

they |

WORLD-FAMED ARTISTS
ASK SPAIN AMNESTY

Pablo. Picasso and other
leading artists are donating
paintings and sculpture to fin-
ance a movement to win am-
nesty. for political prisoners
held by the Franco regime in
Spain,

It was also announced last
week that a West European
conference for the amnesty of
all Spanish political prisoners
and exiles will be held in
Paris in March next year.

The appeal for the confer-
ence is signed by many lead-
ing personalities and includes
along with Pablo Picasso such
names as _ Roberto Rosselini,
Pietro Nenni from Italy, Jean
Cocteau from France, Lord
Beveridge and Sir Leslie
Plummar from Britain.

or take advantage the
blessing of the public Hbrary
in filling this need.

of,

Although the minimum age
for juvenile libraries is often
seven years, an adult can take
out books from the junior
library for them as soon a:
child has learned
books properly.

From the age of
our children. have
the library as a constant s
plier of stories. It, provides
scope for mixing® a child’s
reading — so that “‘Alice in
Wonderland,’ “Peter -.Pan,”
“Robinson Crusoe,” - “Pinoc-
chio,” . “Christopher - Robin,”
good poetry and

acce

other chil-
dren’s classics can go side by
side with the comics.

Library-going sets
of behaviour too, and
child grows up it can
a great interest and a

None of us could afford to
buy, or find room for all the
books that are produced fo
children, but we can
them to where a very
selection available and
courage them to seek
themselves.

Tor
sa

is

The astonishing
young children to  expi
their ideas, and their vivid
imagination, is shown in the
stories and poems written by
young children themselves.

ability

ess

These make very
reading, and their
and freshness put to shame
many of the “professional”
writers for children.

his

is that what we really need
is far more children’s books
written by children—as hap-
pens in many of the socialist
countries,

“Children’s health, education and general well-being

is the first concern of the state of

the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic,” writes Annie §. Buller, who is now in Europe.
Photos above show scenes from a nursery in Prague.

January 6, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5