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University Daily Kansan Thursday, October 5, 1961
Disillusioned Neighbors
The firing squads of Fidel Castro have resumed their work and they have been accompanied by a growing volume of protest from Latin American countries. There is rapidly becoming apparent a disillusionment with the Communist tinted regime of Castro among Latin American leaders.
It has not been merely the executions that have caused this rising dislike for the Cuban regime, however. Several Latin American nations have broken relations with the Castro regime because of its propaganda and espionage efforts on behalf of the Communist bloc.
The disillusionment of the Latin American nations is understandable. They are all underdeveloped and have strong elements that are either socialist or sympathetic to socialism. Castro's regime seemed to be socialistic at its beginning and announced many needed reforms to improve Cuba's economy and the lot of the peasants. Unfortunately, Communist elements, spearheaded in all probability by Che Guevera, channeled the revolutionary government towards Communism.
As the abuses of the Cuban government
against its Latin American neighbors continues, the number that have broken relations with it will undoubtedly grow. This is especially true when we consider that Castro's regime can be expected to continue its propaganda efforts for Communism and its attempts to foment rebellion that the Communist movement can take advantage of. The Cuban government's call for the Brazilians to revolt during the recent crisis over the resignation of President Quadros and the succession of leftist Vice President Goulart is a good example.
If the grip of Castro's Communistic regime is not broken by internal opposition or by action on the part of the Organization of American States, the depressed conditions within Cuba will grow worse. But regardless of whether the Communist hold on Cuba is broken or not, it should serve as a permanent example for all Latin American states. The same sullen fury that is convulsing Cuba can strike their countries and peoples if the operations of the Communist party in their area are not closely watched and contained.
—William H. Mullins
Worth Repeating
We have a free society, and there are worse things than strikes as bad as they are—and I'm quoting President Eisenhower. When he said it he was absolutely right. There are worse things than strikes and one of the things is loss of freedom. I agree with that. Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that, if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too—W. Somerset Maugham
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it away from them, but to inform their discretion by education—Thomas Jefferson
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally by Mind-at-Large—this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.—Aldous Huxley
Freedom of the press, essential as it is in a democracy, offers no guarantee in and of itself that truth will triumph in the free-for-all of journalistic competition—especially, as in this country, when that competition is almost entirely economic rather than ideological. —Robert Bingham
Against Dropping NSA
Editor:
We are very disturbed to hear the reports that some influential elements on the campus are proposing to recommend the disaffiliation of this University from NSA. Our feeling is not based on any regard for the political attitudes of NSA, which have dubious value, nor on any belief as to its efficiency or inefficiency. But we feel there are some facts which the students of KU should know and should not lightly disregard.
Through the affiliation of NSA to COSEC (the Coordinating Secretariat of the International Student Conference) and through the affiliation of KU to NSA, Kansas students form an integral part of the great body of students in the free world, who stand for and campaign for the principles of academic freedom where these are denied. By disaffiliating Kansas will be publicly renouncing its faith in the ability of COSEC to campaign for these principles and cutting off its association with students in all parts of the free world.
IN ADDITION, many other benefits of belonging to an international student organization will be denied to KU students e.g. the International Student Identity Card which is invaluable to all students who plan to travel to Europe and haven't got money to throw away, the services of student travel departments throughout the world in arranging charter flights and party tickets on railroads.
Dailu Hansan
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We feel that the proper course for those to pursue who are disillusioned by NSA is to revitalize it, steer it away from its preoccupation with political affairs if these are felt to be anasthematic, and to propagandize in this University the connection it gives students in this country with students fighting for the freedom to study in other parts of the world (which is taken for granted here and in Western Europe).
WE WOULD ALSO LIKE to make it clear that whereas the Communist - controlled International Union of Students (IUS) is seeking converts in the newly developing countries of Asia and Africa, NSA through its support of COSEC is championing the democratic freedoms in these areas.
In conclusion, the signers of this letter will be only too willing to give further information on COSEC, of which there seems to be complete ignorance on this campus.
Sincerelv.
Claus-peter Buechmann
Graduate student from Germany
Brian E. Cleave, LLB.
Graduate Student from England
Wolfgang E. Keim
Graduate Student from Germany
Orientate, What Does It Mean?
Editor:
An article in Thursday's Daily Kansas dealt with the opening of the first meeting of the All Women Students by Dean Emily Taylor who invited freshmen and transfer women to "share the satisfaction that the AWS offers." This front page article was entitled: "AWS Orientates New Students." Finding the heading somewhat unusual, I decided to look up the word orientate. Webster's New School and Office Dictionary defines "orientate" as "to turn toward the east."
All I can say is that I hope (for the sake of Dean Taylor, the AWS, and the Daily Kansan) that the John Birchers never hear about this.
Harry Shaffer
Assistant Professor
of Economics
(Editor's note: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. A Merriam-Webster, based on Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, page 552: orientate. v.t. To orient—v.i. To face east; to have orientation.)
Fair Test For NSA
Editor:
While I am sure that Mr. Palmer, quoted in Oct. 2 UDK, has compared and conceived opinions with conscientious conservatives. I am curious as to what effort, if any, he has made to converse with informed moderate and liberal students. As in NSA, both locally and nationally, I feel that all views should be represented. I do not doubt that the motivation and concern of those who oppose the NSA committee are genuine, however, I feel that in their zeal to save money (the funds which the ASC appears to lavish everywhere but on NSA) they are setting out to abolish the many benefits which can be derived from an active and effective committee.
Certainly, many students on KU's campus are apathetic. If a justification is needed for the committee, it exists in the informative function on campus, national and international affairs for these students. It would seem that a more beneficial procedure for the ASC to initiate would be: first, an informative program on the NSA committee itself, perhaps using committee members as resource personnel. Secondly, if the committee were provided a budget, it could secure speakers on all sides of controversial questions and thus be allowed to fulfill its role as an informative body. Then, after a fair trial, an adequately informed student body could decide on the worth of NSA.
I would submit to Mr. Palmer and the other members of the ASC that continued participation or withdrawal from NSA should be based on a program similar to the one outlined here, rather than on personal grudges or ill-considered conjectures.
Judi Jamison
Ottawa junior
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Pace Marchers Praised Editor;
Many students may remember when the marchers on the San Francisco to Moscow March for Peace came through Lawrence last spring. This week they arrived in Moscow where they will be carrying on demonstrations until Oct. 8. As they have marched across America, many European countries and Russia, they have called for unilateral disarmament by each country. In each country they have asked people not to support their country's part in the arms race if they believed it to be wrong.
of this courageous group of people certainly deserves serious consideration in these dark times.
The group now includes marchers from Europe as well as the original American marchers. For a story of their progress in the Soviet Union, see page 41 of the Oct. 2 Newsweek. The program
Sincerely,
Dwight Platt
Newton graduate student
Birchers And The Republic Editor;
Either Mr. Love was misquoted in the October 2 Kansan, or he and the Birchers have their dogmatic signals crossed. Since he states that the U.S. is a republic and not a democracy, it would be interesting to know how the Birchers define a republic. I can supply two contrasting definitions, neither of which seems to correspond to Mr. Love's position.
1. According to Raney (The Governing of Men, Holt, N.Y., 1958, p. 58) a republic is any form of government in which the formal chief of state "is selected by any means other than heredity". This includes a broad range of governmental structure, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China.
2. According to Webster (Webster's Approved Dictionary, World, N.Y., 1951), a republic is "a state
or country in which the supreme power is vested in representatives elected by popular vote." This certainly entails a considerable measure of democracy and majority rule.
Mr. Love would also appear to want to have his cake and eat it, too. He asserts that the Birchers are opposed to a democracy, but are in favor of less government in order to lessen the control over the individual. Either the individual controls the government or the government controls the individual. Since the former is democracy and the latter is distasteful to Mr. Love and his associates, what do they want.
John Swanson Baldwin senior
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