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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 7, 1961
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Neutrality and RedChina
India is presently taking precautionary military measures along its northern frontier with Red China. This mountainous area has been the scene of repeated military intrusion by Red China and Chinese forces now occupy Indian territory in the area.
This action is not an isolated one. Peiping also displayed its aggressive attitude in this same area when it conquered the country of Tibet. In Southeast Asia, Red China is aiding indirectly in Communist efforts to subvert and conquer Laos and South Viet Nam.
The neutralist nations of Asia have long wanted to live in peace with both the Communist bloc and the West. They want no part of the Cold War. But no neutralist nation in Asia has the necessary strength to feel secure in the face of Red China's growing power. Its 680 million people, ruthless political organization and drive for industrial development have placed it far above the other nations of Asia in terms of power.
THAT POWER WILL be used. The nations of Asia will suffer increasing pressure and aggression from Red China in the future. The aggression in Tibet and on India's northern frontier are only the prelude.
The nations of Southeast Asia not presently suffering from Communist expansion efforts will undoubtedly have to cope with Communist aggression in one form or another. India, Red China's only real rival for the leadership of the area, has already experienced Communist aggression. It will probably have to deal with more military adventures by Peiping.
This aggressive policy of Peiping is not new.
It is a part of Red China's leaders overall philosophy that includes aggressive war as a legitimate instrument of their policy. That point of their policy is applied wherever they think it will be effective.
IT IS SIGNIFICANT that Red Chinese aggression failed only where they misjudged the possibility and effectiveness of outside aid. They failed in Korea because the United States gave effective support to the United Nations police action to force the Communist aggressor forces out of South Korea. It has been unable to capture Formosa because the United States Navy stands between it and the island. In South Viet Nam, Communist trained guerillas have been checked with U.S. military aid. India is the only exception to this pattern, and the story there is not yet finished.
The basic misconception of Asian neutralists is their assumption that they can be neutral. The Communist powers have no respect for a nation's neutrality unless it is backed by the necessary force to insure the nation's sovereignty. Unfortunately, none of the Asian neutralists, with the possible exception of India, have the necessary force to protect themselves.
Considering the situation, the neutralists' idea that they can continue to follow a neutralist policy is a extremely dangerous and unsound one. An alliance, either among themselves and with Western support, or with the SEATO organization, seems to be the only solution to the dilemma these nations face. This course of action can save them enormous suffering in the future.
-William H. Mullins
Reflections on Christmas
Birthdays usually are not important to a large group of people, and those that are, are so only in history courses.
Even royal births are frequently passed over with little notice after the great day of arrival.
Why then, is it that each year on Dec. 25th, the Christian world feels hope and pledges anew the spirit of faith because of one lowly birth? The babe born almost 2,000 years ago was not from a royal family, nor were his parents wealthy nor aristocratic.
SHEPHERDS AND WISE Men from distant lands heard about the birth and traveled long, hard journeys to pay homage to the God-child they believed was the Saviour of mankind.
Herod, the king, was afraid the child hailed as King of Kings would rule the earth and his own kingdom someday, so he ordered his death.
Perhaps Herod was indeed wise, for he had the foresight to guess, although incorrectly, of the import of one lowly birth.
Down through the ages, men have been moved to love, hate, and fight in the name of He who was born that cold December evening.
Men have died as martyrs and slaves because they believed in the teachings of the Man whose birth stirred that small, narrow world.
And men today realize the impetus the one lowly birth could still cause. They realize it, but somehow, in what Christmas now means, it seems relatively unimportant that Christ was born. It matters little that the essence of life is forgotten.
Mankind is bewildered by the space-age world of today. Life in that era so long ago was simple and uncluttered. There was nothing to do on Christmas then, except to tell the wonderful story to the family on Christmas Eve.
Those families were not worried about nuclear attacks, or juvenile delinquency, or taxes or the complex problems men face today.
THEY DID NOT WORRY about nuclear war, but then, as today, war was always threatening. And in some parts of that old, old world, the Christmas story had to be told in secret, for fear a Roman soldier would hear the narrators and report them for practicing their belief.
It really wasn't an uncluttered world. after all
Two thousand years later, the same story is retold in homes all over the world. And men, in some countries, still tell of the birth in hushed and whispered voices—men still live in fear of soldiers.
In other parts of the world the story is told in songs, theater productions and modern poetry.
Where or how the story is told, whether it is sung in a richly appointed church or whispered in a poor shack in a foreign country, the message is as it was 2,000 years ago. It is still a story of joy and peace.
It is a story in which man can find hope and courage.
It is the story of one lowly birth—a birth that stirred a nation and a world.
Carrie Merryfield
Worth Repeating
The best American designs have the solid, powerful, tidy, everything-in-place, nothing-superfluous quality of an old sailing ship ...Another American look is the "Detroit" look. These designers have turned to the development of motorized jewelry, which has not only obscured the fundamental form of the automobile, but has begun to infect other types of products. To see what I mean, visit your local appliance dealer; many of the refrigerators and washing machines give you the feeling that you can drive them away.—Henry Dreyfuss
On the enrollment problem: It has been a normal condition of American colleges for years that one-third of the so-called students were in the way, cluttering up the place and interfering with other people's progress. If more room is needed to take care of the expected population boom from postwar babies, it can be created in good part by clearing out the useless lumber that is already on the campuses.—Robert I. Gannon
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Uhuru Na Kaiz
By Walter Scott Bgoya Tanganyika freshman
Saturday at 12:01 a.m. Tanganyika will become the latest nation to be created in Africa and thousands of proud flags of Green, Black, and Gold, the national colors, will be raised to mark this great day in the history of Tanganyika. This country which had its first outside influence as early as 713 A.D. has gone through many changes but none so hopeful and so encouraging as this one. From 1100 A.D. to 1130 A.D., and later in the 15th Century, flourishing Arabian and Persian colonies are evident from ruins of a great city at Kilwa; although effective partition of the whole territory did not occur until the Germans bought the country from the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1884 for 20,000 pounds.
The first world war was the turn of the tide for the German administration, and the British took over immediately after the war. Tanganyika then became a mandate territory under the British until after the second world war when it became a trusteeship territory (to the bitter disappointment of the English settlers who had hoped that it would become a colony).
TANGANYIKA, unlike the European countries which started the two great world wars, suffered heavy losses, the causes of which she knew not. Over 80,000 people died of influenza between 1914 and 1919 and many more died in actual fighting. The weapons used then had been unheard of and their power left an ugly, devastated picture that none would ever like to see again. The work that the losing Germans had so painfully started was so shamefully wiped out.
All these changes, however, joined to make Tanganyika what it is today. Tribal warfare, the slave trade and the two great wars left us with a picture that we will always avoid. We are determined to see to it that no trouble arises after our independence as none happened in our struggle for independence. We have learned beforehand what our people and the world at large expect from us and we hope that their hopes will not be disillusioned. Here, as among the good few other nations, man is not judged according to his color, race, or faith, but to his way of living with others.
MUCH CREDIT goes to our Prime Minister whose policy is to promote "Human-harmony". Mr. Julius Kambarage Nyerere who many people call "Africa's Ghandi" has preached a successful war not only against poverty, disease, ignorance and corruption, but also with great insistence upon respect for human dignity, working together for the common good of a new nation, and planning for a better world. Having been asked by many people whether Tanganyika is going to be another Congo, I want to take this opportunity to say that certainly Tanganyika will not be another Congo. Actually, by nature Africa is what Tanganyika is today, but, by nature also, when provoked, Africa is what Congo is today.
Our land is productive and has a wealth of potential minerals. With our freedom and "clean investment" by which I mean any good loan that our country may receive we are prepared to work hard and achieve what our colonial administrators did not accomplish. Uhuru na Kazi (freedom and toil) is a slogan which shows our determination to work in order that we may raise the standards of living.
From Saturday and for a few more days hence, this serene land will be full of joy, joy for victory and victory for a good cause. Together with our own independence we are working to form an East African Federation which will bring all the East African states under one federal government. We firmly believe that this federation will eventually give rise to a united Africa, which will enable trade to flow more easily between the states and will also enable Africa to play an important role in the world affairs.
This means, therefore, that acquisition of independence of each state is a mighty leap towards a united Africa. My country is not satisfied with its own independence until all Africa is free. So here on top of the highest mountain in Africa, the light of human harmony will illuminate the whole of Africa, which will in turn join in the long struggle for a solution to world crisis and will promote better co-existence.
On Poetry
The origin of poetry lies in a thirst for a wider beauty than earth supplies.—Edgar Allen Poe
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.—Cyril Connolly
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Of all the liars under the sun, the poet is the least a liar.—Sir Philip Sidney
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A poet has died young in the breast of the most stolid.-Saint-Beuve