THE AMERICAN 20c • OCTOBER 1965 MAGAZINE EARSrmjHE BERLIN WALL "'111 by Wellington Long HOW TO STAY ALIVE ON THE EXPRESSWAY by Robert H. Stirling WHEN F.D.R. RECOGNIZED THE SOVIET UNION by Louis Lochner * fl REPORT FROM THE 47* NATIONAL CONVENTION, ' it Portland, Oregon 4(1 1I",mi t BTHE MANS MXER W (It never smothers that good whiskey flavor!) One right any man has is to demand flavor in his highball. Real whiskey flavor. Seven-Up sees to it that you get it. You're going to notice right off how 7-Up rounds out whiskey flavor . smooths it. But smother it ? Never! You get a drink that's rich, hearty tasting. And 7-Up has such vigorous sparkle you don't stir it. Seven-Up stirs itself. Try it, Man! 7-Up. The man's mixer. Copyright 1965 by The Seven-Up Company The American OCTOBER 1965 Volume 79, Number 4 POSTMASTER: LEGION Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1954 Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 Magazine The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10019 Contents for October 1965 Publisher, James F. O'Neil Editor Robert B. Pitkin FOUR YEARS OF THE BERLIN WALL 8 Assistant Editor John Andreola BY WELLINGTON LONG Art Editor A review of communism's worst advertisement of itself- Al Marshall the cage in which it imprisons its own people. Associate Editors Roy Miller James S. Swartz Production Manager Art Bretzfield LEXINGTON & CONCORD, MASS 15 Copy Editor BY ALDEN STEVENS Grail S. Hanford Circulation Manager A travel article for today's motorists about the first battleground Dean B. Nelson of the American Revolution. Sixteenth in the Indianapolis, Ind. series "Seeing Historic America." Advertising Director Robert P. Redden Chicago-Detroit Sales Office Bart J. Burns 35 East Wacker Drive HOW TO STAY ALIVE ON THE EXPRESSWAY 16 Chicago, 111. 60601 CEntral 6-2401 BY ROBERT H. STIRLING Text and cartoons on the six rules that are most apt to keep you out of trouble in "over 60 m.p.h." traffic. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, Ind., 46206 using Post Office Form 3578. Attach old address label and give old and new addresses with ZIP Code SHOULD THE UNITED STATES RECOGNIZE number and current membership card number. Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant. COMMUNIST CUBA? 18 TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION The American Legion pro: REP. ADAM C. POWELL (D-N.Y.) Publications Commission: con: REP. ARMISTEAD I. SELDEN, Jr. (D-ALA.) Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa ( Chairman) Adolph F. Bremer, W inona, ; Minn. ( V ice Chairman ) • Lang Armstrong, Spokane, W ash. ; Charles E. Booth, Hunting- ton, W. Va.; John Cicero, Swoyerville, Pa.; WHEN F.D.R. RECOGNIZED THE SOVIET UNION 20 E. J . Cooper, Hollywood, Fla.; Clovis Cope- land, Little Rock, Ark.; Paul B. Dague, Down- BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER ingtown, Pa.; Raymond Fields, Guymon, Okla.; The biggest news story of November 1933, and what Chris Hernandez, Savannah, Go,.; George D. Levy, Sumter, S. Howard E. Lohman, was expected to come of it then. C.J Moorhead, Minn. ; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N. Y.; Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss. ; J. H. Morris, Baton Rouge, La. ; Robert MUchler, Oswego, III. ; Harry H. Schafter, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bradley J. Stephens, Los Altos, Calif.; THE GIRL SCOUTS TAKE OVER FARRAGUT 26 Wayne L. Talbert, Delphi, Ind.; Benjamin B. BY R. B. PITKIN Truskoski, Bristol, Conn.; Robert H. Wilder, Dadeville, Ala. Edward MeSweeney, A r monk, 9,000 Girl Scouts had their Senior Roundup at the Navy's old N. Y. (Consultant) boot camp at Farragut, Idaho, this summer. The American Legion Magazine is published monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 40201 by The American Legion. Copyright A REPORT FROM PORTLAND, OREGON 28 1965 by The American Legion. Second-class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. 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Seattle, Wash. 98101 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1965 : BY-PLAY IN WASHINGTON agers playing our national pastime. I am In these troubled times a little good, proud to tell you that all Legion baseball clean fun comes as a refreshing breeze. EDITOR'S teams are coached, trained and managed So we are happy to note a little by-play by Legionnaires, at their own expense, on which happened in August, in case you their own time, as a positive contribution to missed it. It involved ( 1 ) a dilemma of —CORNER— American youth by The American Le- gion." Senator Everett Dirksen, of Illinois, (2) basis. As a result, the Mundt proposal was Meanwhile, Sen. Mundt's effort an innocent bill of Senator Karl Mundt, temporarily beaten because of the Dirksen second of South Dakota, and the cute way in to recognize "American Legion Baseball (3) addition to it. Senator Mundt's office had Week" succeeded, while Sen. which American Legion National Com- to bring the original proposal regarding Dirksen an- nounced that he intended to keep on trying mander Donald E. Johnson rose to the "American Legion Baseball Week" in all to overcome the Supreme Court's "re- occasion to make a little publicity hay for over again. But of course another result apportionment" ruling by amending the a great program of The American Legion. was a spate of publicity for "American U.S. Constitution so as to permit Senator Dirksen wasn't kidding in his Legion Baseball Week" which the Mundt a state to have at least one house elected a efforts to get the Senate to approve an bill by itself would never have attracted. on basis comparable to that of U.S. Senators. amendment to the U.S. Constitution to At that point a grateful Legion National When the Mundt bill finally passed the permit a state legislature to have at least Commander rose to the occasion. On Au- Senate some weeks later, officially setting one house elected on some basis other gust 6, in Sen. Dirksen's office, Com- aside "American Legion Baseball than population (as the U.S. Senate itself mander Johnson presented both Senator Week," Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield is elected). But he couldn't get the two- Dirksen and Senator Mundt with baseball told Mundt: "While we played into extra thirds vote he needed. Just about this time bats and balls and the joint title "Cham- innings in an overtime I Senator Mundt introduced a resolution to pions of American Legion Baseball." game, was never concerned about the recognize 'American Legion Baseball Said Commander Johnson: "The Amer- outcome." Senator Dirksen had promised that he wouldn't Week—Aug. 31 -Sept. 6." It was a proper ican Legion has nominated these two great pull the same stunt a second time. resolution for Sen. Mundt to offer, as his Senators for this honor due to the fact that state was set to be the scene of the Le- by mutual effort, if not intent, they have SECRET PAPERS gion's youth baseball national finals (at given our national baseball championship Those few but noisy Americans who still Aberdeen, S. Dak.) during the week of series its greatest publicity in years. Nat- claim that they know that the Viet Cong urally, Aug. 31. But now Sen. Dirksen, using an the balls and bats we are presenting in South Vietnam is an "independent old legislative gimmick as a way to keep are those sponsored by one of baseball's movement of South Vietnamese" rather fighting for an apparently lost cause, of- greats, Ted Williams, who, like Yogi than an arm of the North Vietnam Com- fered an amendment to the Mundt bill so Berra, is a graduate of Legion baseball. munist Party will be interested, perhaps, that it would not only recognize "Amer- I sure you will appreciate that your am in the following captured communist in- ican Legion Baseball Week," but would hit-and-run publicity has drawn public structions of 1962 emanating from North also amend the Constitution of the United attention to an American Legion athletic Vietnam permit state legislature to have youth program that fielded almost 20,000 States to a "In regard to the foundation of the Peo- one house not elected a population teams this year with about 200,000 teen- on ple's Revolutionary Party of South Viet- nam, the creation of this party is only a matter of strategy; it needs to be explained within the party; and, to deceive the enemy, it is necessary that the new party be given an outward appearance corre- sponding to . the foundation of a new party, so that the enemy cannot use it in Folks, enjoy the extra smoothness his propaganda. "Within the party it is necessary to ex- of my extra age plain that the founding of the People's Revolutionary Party has the purpose of Kentucky Bourbon! isolating the Americans and the Ngo Diem regime, and to counter their accusations of an invasion of the South by the North.