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Letters
An open letter to Mr. Kenneth Myers, American Legion Post 174, Wichita, Kansas:
Dear Sir:
This letter concerns your recent and ludicrous attempt to demand that an investigation be conducted at the University of Kansas concerning the guest appearances of Mr. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., andMr. Alexander Fomin.
SIR, PLEASE CREDIT the University of Kansas students with more intelligence than to believe that they should become Communist converts, Communist sympathizers, or Communist dupes after listening to a 30-minute speech by a Soviet foreign minister. What kind of idiots do you take college students for?
In our great country—in our democratic system—it is of the utmost importance that the right of free speech be denied to NO man, regardless of his beliefs. It is also of the utmost importance that Americans be allowed the opportunity of listening to the "other side," if for no other reason than to realize the flaws inherent in his arguments (as in the case of Mr. Fomin).
AS A SENIOR AT KU, I have come to love this great university of ours, and I am extremely proud of the quality of teachers and administrative leaders whom we have here. Do not seek to demean their stature with your petty investigations. As far as I am concerned, you can conduct all the witch-hunts you want at the University of Wichita (if they are foolish enough to put up with it), but please do not presume to interfere in the affairs of KU, and attempt to tell us what is "American" and what isn't; because we will not be Communist dupes, and neither will we be victimized by ultra-rightist dictators of any kind, even though they may pass for "patriots."
It would seem that certain ultra-rightist factions who crusade in the name of "Americanism" would have us exchange a dictatorship of the left for a dictatorship of the right—THEIRS. Such groups are slowly destroying our nation from within, for they would have us suspect our neighbors, our instructors, our ministers, and even members of our own family. This method was used by Hitler's Nazis in the last World War, and as such, constitutes a threat every bit as great as that posed by the Communists
THEREFORE, I would urge you to desist from your petty suspicions and investigations. You only serve to besmirch the term "Americanism," and the minute you begin such actions, all freedom, all truth, all objectivity, and all rational thinking fly out the window.
Message from Missouri To Those Jayhawks It May Concern:
Carol Sue McMillen Coldwater senior
As Missouri Alumni and loyal Tiger fans from Columbia, we would like to publicly comment on the wonderful hospitality of the University of Kansas Nov. 25.
WE HAVE, quite objectively, never been treated more graciously on any of many similar trips. The weather and the outcome of the game probably helped, but I feel that we should give credit where it is due.
Everyone, and that includes the traffic cops, the concession men, the KU fans and the students, went out of their way to be friendly and cordial. This, despite the fact that the eight of us who went together were obviously from MU. We wore Black and Gold ties, hats, pennants—everything but buttons, I'm happy to say. Incidentally, none of us saw a single one of the infamous buttons for either side.
OBVIOUSLY, the administration and the student body had worked hard to deter any possibility of an unfortunate incident.
Your efforts and their most efficacious results should not go unnoticed. In act, they should go a long way toward insuring similar hospitality at this end, and long range continuation of this great series between two great Universities.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson Columbia, Mo.
UN Roundup UN to Vote Chinese Reds On China Say 'We're In'
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-(UPI)
—The General Assembly decides today whether to seat Communist China.
Diplomatic sources shared the confidence of the United States that it had enough votes to block Russia's demand that Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists be ousted from all United Nations bodies in favor of the Communist Chinese.
Two weeks' general debate on the issue wound up in the General Assembly late last night and the vote was set for this afternoon's (2 p.m. CST) meeting.
THE ISSUE HINGED on a resolution sponsored by the United States and four other countries to have it declared an "important question" requiring a two-thirds vote for decision. Such a declaration required only a simple majority of the assembly.
Careful estimates by conservative observers put the minimum for the "important question" resolution at 56 likely votes—three more than required for its approval.
Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin was in his accustomed polemical form as the substantive debate on China ended in the assembly. He criticized U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson for varying opinions on the seating of Communist China and derided the U.S. diplomat's statement that such a move would license the Peiping regime to liquidate the Nationalist by force.
"WHY SHOULD THERE be war?" Zorin asked. "This could happen only if the United States continues keeping its armed forces in Taiwan (Formosa) . . . withdraw your fleet and troops and there will be no war because the Chiang Kai-shek clique will collapse. ..."
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As far as the Chinese Communist regime is concerned, Red China is already a member of the U.N. and is being kept from its rightful representation.
Klaus Pringsheim, instructor of political science, told about 35 students at one of the World Crisis Day seminars that the Communist logic runs like this:
We are the only China; China is a charter member of the U.N., therefore, we (the Chinese Communist regime) are members of the U.N.
Prof. Pringsheim said the Chinese Communists would never join the U.N. until they obtained sovereignty over Formosa.
Consequently, Prof. Pringsheim said, the Communist Chinese government would not agree to a "two Chinas" U.N. membership which some U.S. observers and government officials have suggested as a compromise on the question of admission.
THE U.S. STRATEGY of declaring Red China's admission an "important question," thus requiring a two-thirds vote of the general assembly for admission, will probably work, Prof. Pringsheim said.
Only a bare majority is required to have the matter of Red China's admission declared an important question.
If the U.S. strategy is successful, Red China will probably be kept out of the U.N. another three or four years, Prof. Pringsheim said.
BUT, HE ADDED, this will not solve the problem in the end. The Communists will continue to press for membership as the only legal representatives of the Chinese people, including Formosa.
Talk of the "two Chinas" possibility in the U.S. indicates an apparent inclination to compromise in this country, but the Communists will not compromise on the question of their right to control Formosa.
Our treaty obligations to Chiang Kai-shek further complicates what Prof. Pringsheim referred to as "a fantastically complicated diplomatic situation."
Latin's Farm Imports Drop
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—Latin America is buying fewer farm products from the United States. In the fiscal year ending June 30, the 20 Latin nations bought $338 million worth of U.S. farm products, $110 million less than in the previous year.
Friday, Dec. 15, 1961
Prof. Ise Discusses Economic Crises
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, yesterday conducted a KU World Crisis Day discussion of the "Economic Aspects of the World Crisis."
But, as might have been expected, Professor Ise covered many other "world crises" as well—all with his characteristic tongue-in-cheek approach.
The following are some of the highlights of the two-hour discussion, which drew between 75-100 students.
ON THE NUCLEAR CRISIS:
"Cheer up," Professor Ise told his audience. "I think the situation is better than it will be after a while.
"When you look at the world situation coldly—not getting terribly excited nor terribly depressed—you see that perhaps a dozen nations will soon have the atomic bomb.
"If you want to assume there won't be an atomic war when that happens, you'll have to assume there won't be any fools like Hitler. One fool is all you need, you know.
"I don't think most people have any idea of the nature of this crisis. Most people are good churchgoers, and they more or less think God will take care of them. But God
won't take care of the Communists who, of course, are atheists."
ON THE THREAT OF COMMUNISM:
"These American Communists don't scare me a bit. The thing is, these 20,000 American Communists you hear about are not all conspiratorial ones. Some are just Marxian socialists, who think Marx had a good idea."
ON THE BEAUTY OF AMERICAN towns;
"America is a rougher looking place than Europe. In England, little towns and even the cities are beautiful. But in America every little town looks like every other little town—and every little town looks like Hell."
ON THE INCOME TAX:
"Theoretically, we could stand more taxation. But practically there's a limit to how many taxes you can impose without tax evasion. Well, I won't say evasion, I'll say avoidance. Tax evasion is illegal but tax avoidance is something else again."
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.—Will Rogers
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