Page 4 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 8, 1962
Red Chinese Began First Push In 1950
By Phil Newson UPI Foreign News Analyst
It was 12 years ago, a little later in the year than now, that the Chinese Communists undertook their first great military venture beyond their own boundaries.
It was Korea then. Today, it's India.
But the front line reports trickling down from the Himalayan peaks reveal no great change in Chinese tactics in those 12 years.
THEN AS NOW, the most effective Chinese tactic was the human wave assault which moved relentlessly upon its objective regardless of the cost.
many an American veteran of the Korean Punch Bowl, the Bowling Alley, Pork Chop Hill and the Iron Triangle remembers those Chinese.
They came out of the morning mists like ghostly sleepwalkers, advancing almost shoulder to shoulder. They seemed to come out of the ground itself and, like rice shoots, when one fell another took his place.
The arms they carried were simple ones. They liked the Russian burp gun. It wasn't much more than a barrel with a trigger attached but at fairly close range it sprayed bullets with deadly efficiency.
THE WINTER MONTHS of 1950-51 were not happy ones for the Americans in Korea, fighting a new kind of enemy in miserable terrain, against unfamiliar tactics and 'in bitter cold.
Before the United Nations forces there were to be welded into one of the world's most magnificent fighting machines, costly lessons were to be learned.
The Chinese soldiers advanced like deadly automatons but they had not been trained to improvise nor to take advantage of sudden opportunities.
Bob Gibson was a UPI correspondent who lived through one of those human wave assaults. The vivid dispatch he filed told how one Chinese soldier walked straight through an overrun American machinegun post, simply kicking the gun aside as he continued his slow pace forward.
IN A SURPRISE night attack, the Chinese captured a U.S. artillery position complete with guns and ammunition. Two weeks later when the Americans recaptured the position, the guns still stood with their muzzles pointed north, ready for use and with ammunition still stacked neatly nearby.
This correspondent recalls a Chinese soldier horribly burned by napalm. For two weeks after his fellows had fallen back he had hidden in a Korean pig sty, clinging to life and stolidly ignoring his pain.
This is the nature of the enemy which now faces the outmanned and outgunned Indian fighters in the high Himalayas as the Red Chinese move for domination of the whole of Asia.
American arms are flowing into India to bolster Indian defenses.
INDIAN WOMEN are contributing their gold trinkets.
But neither can make up soon for India's lack of preparedness.
And over the weekend came confirmation of a fact already suspected.
In the hour of crisis, Nikita Khrushchev's proclaimed friendship for India counted for less than kinship in conquest with his Communist allies.
CIA Recruit Tract Is Available Here
Some of the ice that customarily surrounds America's top hush-hush organization is melting.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has published a 16-page brochure explaining purposes and problems of the organization, as well as the job opportunities within the agency.
Laurence Woodruff, dean of students, said that the CIA has been unable to compete with private business and other governmental agencies in finding qualified personnel.
Woodruff returned Tuesday from a two-day's visit in Washington, D. C. He was asked by the CIA to distribute the booklet and answer questions about the job opportunities in the CIA.
Roy Laird to Discuss Southern Civil Rights
Roy Laird, assistant professor of political science, will discuss "Civil Rights in the South" Friday in a SUA Current Events Forum. He will give the talk at 4 p.m. in the Music Room of the Kansas Union.
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EAT, SLEEP, AND MATRICULATE
The trouble with early morning classes is that you're too sleepy. At late morning classes you're too hungry. At early afternoon classes you're too logy. At late afternoon classes, you're too hungry again. The fact is—and we might as well face it—there is no good time of day to take a class.
What shall we do then? Abandon our colleges to the ivy? I say no! I say America did not become the hope of mankind and the world's largest producer of butterfats and tallow by running away from a fight!
If you're always too hungry or too sleepy for class, then let's hold classes when you're not too hungry or sleepy: namely, when you're eating or sleeping.
Classes while eating are a simple matter. Just have a lecturer lecture while the eaters eat. But watch out for noisy food. I mean who can hear a lecturer lecture when everybody is crunching celery or matzo or like that? Serve quiet stuff—like anchovy paste on a doughnut, or steaming bowls of lamb fat.
jeans. Instead carry an ember from the dormitory fireplace in your purse or pocket. Place the Marlboro against the ember. Light it quietly. Smoke it quietly. Oh, I know I ask a great deal! I know that one's natural instinct upon encountering Marlboro's fine flavor and filter is to throw back one's head and bellow great, rousing cries of joy. But you must not. You must contain your eestacy, lest you disturb the lecturing lecturer. You can, if you like, permit yourself a few small shudders of pleasure as you smoke, but take care not to wear garments which will set up a clatter when you shudder—like taffeta, for example, or knee cymbals.
And kindly observe silence while lighting your post-prandial Marlboro Cigarette. Don't be striking kitchen matches on your
Let us turn now to the problem of learning while sleeping. First, can it be done?
Yes, it can. Psychologists have proved that the brain is definitely able to assimilate information during sleep. Take, for instance, a recent experiment conducted by a leading Eastern university (Stanford). A small tape recorder was placed under the pillow of the subject, a freshman named Glebe Sigfaoos. When Glebe was fast asleep, the recorder was turned on. Softly, all through the night, it repeated three statements in Glebe's slumbering ear:
1. Herbert Spencer lived to the age of 109 and is called "The Founder of English Eclectic Philosophy."
3. The Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914 at Sarajevo by a young nationalist named Mjilas Cvetniec, who has been called "The Trigger of World War I."
When Glebe awoke in the morning, the psychologists said to him, "Herbert Spencer lived to the age of 109. What is he called?"
2. The banana plant is not a tree but a large perennial herb.
Glebe promptly replied, "Perennial Herb."
Next they asked him, "What has Mijilas Cvetnic been called?" Replied Glbe, "Perennial Serb."
Finally they said, "Is the banana plant a tree?"
But Globe, exhausted from the long interrogation, had fallen back asleep, where he is to this day. © 1982 Shulman
Glebe sleeps, but you, we trust, are up and about. Why not improve each wakeup hour with our fine product—Marlboro Cigarettes? You get a lot to like—filter, flavor, pack or box.
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