Ex-Ambassador Wants a Free Cuba
By Jackie Stern
A former Cuban ambassador to Great Britain who helped Castro rise to power made a plea Friday for U.S. support in liberating Cuba.
Serrje Rojas, speaking at the first All Student Council-sponsored lecture, asked his audience to be vocal in its support of Cuba and to take a stand against Communism.
"If the Cuban people receive solid and powerful help, I can assure you Cuba will be liberated permanently."
Senor Rojas referred to the power position Russia has in Cuba.
"HOWEVER," he added, "it would be an even more fantastic mistake not to create the conditions for the defeat of Cuba when it is ripe for the overthrow of Castro."
"The regime in Cuba is inefficient. The Cuban economy is collapsing despite Russian help. Castro has very few supporters and
Monday, Jan. 7, 1963
"CUBA IS THE responsibility of the United States," he said. "The United States cannot live in peace while Castro is in power."
SENIOR ROJAS SAID the recent U.S. action against the Russian bases and supply of armaments in Cuba proved the United States was the military leader of the world.
Senor Rojas maintained it would be a mistake for the United States to make a direct military attack on Cuba.
"But since then," he added, "I've looked again at Castro and Communism."
Senor Rojas, who defected from Cuba in 1960 after declaring he would not serve under a Communist-controlled nation, called the intelligent class in Cuba "useful idiots." "I was one of them," he said.
"The U.S. bluff stopped a military and global victory for Russia," he continued.
"EVEN FIDEL'S OWN family had difficulty. His sister left Cuba under extreme circumstances. The ruthless methods which Castro used to impose Communism in Cuba caused him to betray his friends and even his own people."
But if we allow Castro to manipulate the political unrest in the Western world, Russia's defeat would turn into a military victory, he said.
Rojas said he thought of Castro as a "power maniac, not a dictator."
"I HELPED CASTRO become ruler of Cuba. I knew him well and I believed him."
He said there was a pro-communist army and labor movement in Brazil. "If anti-American criticism continues there, we will have another revolution on our hands," he predicted.
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In speaking of his personal relations with Cuba, Senor Rojas said:
Turning to a discussion of other pro-Communist countries, Senor Roijas pointed out that Communism was not isolated.
Again repeating his plea for U.S. support in the liberation of Cuba. Senor Rojas said:
"When Cuba goes down, other pro-communist nations will too."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year, No. 65
In Peking, Red China's leading theoretical journal Red Flag devoted more than 17,000 words to articles that, in effect, accused the Soviet Union of cowardice before Western strength and betrayal of the Communist cause. Red Flag did not mention the Soviet Union by name but the references were obvious.
IT VIRTUALLY accused Peking of trying to "provoke war" with a "philosophy of suicide." It belittled Mao Tse-Tung's "home made thesis on the paper tiger" and said critics of Moscow's Cuba policy "do not know what they are talking about."
Sunny and somewhat warmer weather is expected through today with northwest winds of 20 m.p.h. and a high temperature in the middle 40's. It will be fair tonight with the low near 30.
Tuesday will be partly cloudy with not much change in temperature.
PRAVDA SUGGESTED the dispute might be solved through conferences but indicated the Chinese would have to cease their attacks on the Kremlin first.
JFK Victory Predicted In House Rules Battle
He also predicted that the 88th Congress will enact some form of the tax cut sought by the President.
MOSCOW — (UPI) — The Soviet Union and Communist China denounced each other through newspaper editorsials today in the bitterest terms either has used since their ideological battle began.
The opposing editorials raised the interesting but still highly speculative possibility of a spectacular top-
"Starvation for 24 hours is one of the best cures. See a doctor, but also go to bed, keep quiet, and drink plenty of water." Dr. Canutson advised.
WASHINGTON — Speaker John W. McCormack expressed optimism today that President Kennedy will win his opening day rules fight in the House.
A two-page editorial in the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda for the first time directly identified Red China as a backer of "dogmatic, devisive views" within the Communist bloc.
"We are investigating the cases thoroughly," he said. "It is very difficult to identify a virus or bacteria that produces it.
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"I am optimistic," the Speaker told reporters when asked whether he expects to win his struggle with Chairman Howard W. Smith, D-Va., for control of the powerful committee on rules.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe was selected vice-president of the People-to-People Saturday.
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The weekend's events included tours of the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City and the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. A concert of "The Singing Boys of Mexico" and the Kansas City Festival orchestra followed a banquet Saturday night. Chancellor Wescoe served as toastmaster at the banquet.
KENNEDY HAS said if Smith
According to Dr. Canuteson, director of Watkins Health Center, this affliction involves the stomach and bowels and causes nausea, vomiting, and bowel disorder.
Russia and Red China Denounce Each Other
The People-to-People program, with headquarters in Kansas City, was begun at KU two years ago. Aimed at promoting international good will through closer contacts among private citizens of the world, P-t-P has spread to many campuses in the U.S. and overseas.
Watkins Memorial Hospital has reported 27 cases of gastroenteritis since January 1.
board of trustees meeting in Kansas City.
Wescoe Named Vice-Pres. Of People-to-People Project
Jovce C. Hall of Kansas City is P-t-P president and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, chairman of the board of trustees.
In a recent room check at Templin Hall, 30 cases of gastroenteritis were discovered. Dr. Canuteson said for every student treated at the hospital there may be 10 students sick with gastroenteritis outside.
Chancellor Wescoe's appointment was announced during the weekend Salute to Mexico and annual P-t-P
Watkins Reports Wave of Illness
level confrontation at the East German Communist Party Congress opening Jan. 15.
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev already has said he will go but there has been no word on whom Peking is sending. The Chinese Communists might try to avoid a clash in such a Khrushchev stronghold.
THE KREMLIN sent Party Secretary Leonid Ilychev, its propaganda chief, to Outer Mongolia yesterday apparently to help consolidate the Soviet position against Red China. Ilychev will go to East Germany with Khruhschev.
Up to now, Peking and Moscow have avoided direct attacks on each other. Peking has used Yugoslavia as the whipping post for Moscow—and continued to do so today—while Moscow has used Albania as the target of its criticism of Red China.
"Those who do not acknowledge that imperialism is a paper tiger are scared out of their wits by its seeming strength and hold it in awe," the Chinese articles said.
succeed in his move to trim the temporarily-enlarged rules committee from 15 members back to its original 12, the administration's domestic legislative program will be emasculated.
The veteran Massachusetts Democrat made the statement at a news conference at which he also was asked whether a reduton in income taxes would be approved by the 88th Congress, which convenes Wednesday. "I would say that, with the President proposing a bill, in my opinion Congress will pass a bill," McCormack replied. "I would expect it this year."
KENNEDY HAS set as his No.1 legislative objective the enactment this year of a top-to-bottom reduction in individual and corporation tax rates, coupled with tax reforms that would produce some offsetting new revenue.
Some conservative Congressmen, including Sens. Harry F. Byrnd, D-Va., and Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., oppose tax reduction unless there are cuts in federal spending. Kennedy contends tax relief is necessary to spur a stagnant economy.
As for the Rules Committee fight, the chief executive has said the outcome means life or death for his legislative program, including such controversial items as medicare and federal aid to education.
THE SESSION opens Wednesday with most attention focused on the House contest between McCormack and rules Chairman Howard W. Smith of Virginia, leader of a Southern conservative bloc which, with Republican help, hopes to regain control of the rules group.
Administration forces are favored to win by a razor-thin margin but neither side was making any victory. The outcome is important because the Rules Committee acts as sort of traffic cop in steering legislation to the house floor. It can be bypassed but this is a difficult process.
"The best interests of the members of the House, and of the country, call for a continuance of a 15member Rules Committee," McCormack said.
McCORMACK READ a prepared statement to reporters which recalled that the Rules Committee was enlarged two years ago from 12 to 15 members to break its consecutive domination. He said it would be a backward step now to cut the committee back to 12 as is proposed by Smith.
Senators Ask Help To Curb Filibusters
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A bipartisan group of Senators expressed today that President Kennedy will help them in their fight to make it easier to curb filibusters in the new session of Congress.
The informal invitation was voiced by Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., one of 10 Republicans and Democrats who formally launched their anti-filibuster campaign at a news conference.
The bipartisan group wants to change the Senate rules so that filibusters can be ended by a simple majority of 51 votes rather than two-thirds of those present and voting.
McCormack said there is nothing sacred about the former 12-man membership of the Rules Committee. He said the committee at various times had had differing numbers of members.
"In order to have responsible government, there must be an opportunity for a majority to express their will," McCormack said. "This applies to a Rules Committee of 12 where a tie vote would prevent the House from expressing its will."
KU Artists Comment:
Modern Art Misunderstood
(Editor's note: This is the first in a series of three articles dealing with and its students. This article probes the significance of art for the average citizen.)
By Rose Ellen Osborne
The University of Kansas spent over $60,000 last year to educate student painters interested in modern art—but the investment may not bring returns for a generation.
Public acceptance of modern art in the Midwest is slow, but KU drawing and painting professors feel artists can make their greatest contribution to society in an abstract form of expression.
"KU is not interested in the artist who is not modern." John Tallur, assistant professor of drawing and painting, said.
"WERE TRYING to develop something new. In other fields they call it research." he said.
Technically there is no such thing as modern art, according to Raymond Eastwood, professor of drawing and painting. Modern art is a term commonly used by the laymen to describe any type of art that is not realistic.
The product of KU's "research" in this form of expression is the modern artist.
He is the man who paints the picture that hangs in an office coordinated by an interior decorator in a building designed by an architect wearing a suit that one month ago was a sketch on the drawing board of a fashion illustrator.
DESPITE THEIR various occupa-
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LANGUAGE BARRIEK—KU student puzzles over two forms of contemporary art by Jon Gierlich, Lawrence sophonore. The painting on the left is an almost pure abstraction. The one on the right pictures a football player, cowboy and bather with pistols floating in mid-air.