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Thursday, Dec. 14, 1961
OLD FRIENDS MEET—Alf Landon on the left, and Arthur Schlesinger on the right, meet to exchange talk and smiles on the way to Hoch Auditorium for the opening World Crisis Day convocation.
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PACKED—Part of the audience which practically filled Hoch Auditorium this morning to hear Soviet Counselor Alexander Fomin and Presidential aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in the opening of Crisis Day.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THE USSR'S POINT OF VIEW—Alexander Fomin, counselor to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., stresses his point in an interview last night at the Eldridge Hotel.
59th Year. No. 60
Schlesinger, Fomin Present Sides
World Crises Discussed
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Alexander Fomin
By Zeke Wigglesworth
Alexander Fomin, counselor to the Russian Embassy in Washington, D. C., said in a convocation speech today that his country wants peace in the world.
"It is your duty, and mine, as representatives of countries which, by the course of history, are placed in a position which causes us to realize that relations between them determine the fate of mankind," he said.
He said that there are two conflicting forces in the world today: socialism and capitalism.
"ALL SOCIAL developments in the world occur under the influence of these two systems. The competition of these systems now constitutes the main ideological conflicts of our times. We regard the appearance of states with a socialist—and a communist—system as a result of the objective laws of social development. It is, in our view, just as natural as were the appearance of the feudal and then the capitalist systems."
SPEAKING on the Berlin crisis, Mr. Fomin said that West Germany is being ruled by "surviving Hitlerite generals and officials who were schooled in the ways of the Third Reich.
"Our people cannot understand why Americans will not recognize the German borders as set by the Potsdam Agreement and sign a peace treaty with the two existing German states, Fomin said. "In our opinion, nobody but the revanchists would lose anything because of this. On the contrary, everybody would gain from the normalization of the situation on Central Europe and the easings of world tensions."
SPEAKING on disarmament, Mr. Fomin pointed out
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Arthur Schlesinger
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., special assistant to the President, told KU students today that the major conflict in the world today is between those who "would seek a uniform world based on a single model of socialistic belief" and those who seek "a pluralistic world where individuals can have their own social systems and institutions."
By Dennis Fatney
Protests from Wichita's Patrick Henry American Legion Post No. 174 drew varied reactions last night. For a rundown, see page 6.
our side," by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, Mr Schlesinger spoke at a convocation opening KU's World Crisis Day.
He presented a rebuttal to a speech presented by Alexander Fomin, Counselor to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D. C.
Mr. Schlesinger took notes during Mr. Fomin's speech and then referred to these notes several times in his own talk.
"HISTORY WOULD SUGGEST," he said, "that the Soviet Union wouldn't even be satisfied with a world that is entirely Communist, but would demand that no Soviet-controlled nation deviate from the Soviet path."
The recent explosion of Albania from the Communist camp testifies to this, he said.
The conflict, he said, is between those (the Com-
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Exclusive UDK Interviews
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Arthur Schlesinger
By Art Miller
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., special assistant to the President, said this morning that the American Legion Post in Wichita, that criticized him as not being qualified to present the case for free enterprise vs. communism. "shows little faith in the intelligence of the students at KU if they believe one statement of the communist position will corrupt the students."
He said that for some reason the post believes there are two communists here today rather than one.
He added, "I hope it will get more support (Continued on page 10).
AS FOR THE charges made against him, Mr. Schlesinger said:
SPEAKING ON FEDERAL aid to education, he said that he hoped a substantial program would be passed the next time it came up before Congress.
"On their first quote from me (that says he believes the Communist party should be given freedom of action) this is the same position taken by Robert Taft (Rep. Ohio).
"The second quote is taken from Life magazine in June 1946. It is taken out of context, because the article was one of the first exposures and indictments on the Communist party." The Wichita group quote him as saying that the present system in the United States makes even freedom loving Americans look wistfully at Russia.
He replied to the quote saying, "As concerns the class struggle quote, I would refer them (the American Legion Post) to the 10th Federalist Paper. This certainly wasn't written by Karl Marx."
In another part of the article Mr. Schlesinger is quoted as saying "surely the class struggle is going on in America. I would agree with the Communists on that."
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Alexander Fomin
By Zeke Wigglesworth
Alexander Fomin, counselor to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., said last night that there is a lot of "wrong information" about Russia which is "misleading."
Mr. Fomin was a principal speaker during World Crisis Day today, and plans to remain at the University through tomorrow. He has been in the United States 14 months. Prior to that time, he spent 20 years in London. He was in the United States during World War II, stationed in New York City.
IN AN INTERVIEW he said that World Crisis Day is a good thing, because it clears up misunderstanding.
"People talk about Communism being an enemy, and that Russia is threatening the world with war. I would like to take this chance to say that this isn't so. Our task is to prevent war. The Russian people are devoted to this task, the Communist Party is devoted to it. It takes the devoted energies of all our people," he said.
Asked about misunderstanding of America in Russia, Mr. Fomin replied:
"Generally, our press is more serious than yours. It presents the United States as a highly developed country, with the highest technology and agriculture in the world. The people of Russia know more about the United States than the American people know about Russia. In the Soviet press, our people get the right information about America. In Russia we show films on the United States, reprint Kennedy's speeches in whole, and present material from your country in its original form."
HE SAID that in the United States, Khrushchev is pictured as a "devil or anything," and that in Russia, Kennedy is respected. Asked about political cartoons in the Soviet press, he commented:
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UDK Focus on 1961, pp. 2-3
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