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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 1962
Streit Says Unity Is Cuban Solution
What is the answer to the impending crisis in Cuba?
"Atlantic Union," Clarence K Streit, founder of the Atlantic Union movement and author of "Union Now," said in an interview yesterday.
"If the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) would unite, they could form a union so strong Russia would not dare to challenge it," the former New York Times correspondent said.
STREET SAID Atlantic Union advocates a federal union of NATO countries similar to the one made by the original 13 colonies in 1787.
He said he favored a government modeled after our own government
"Here is a system that has worked, not only in the United States, but also in Canada and Switzerland."
American nationalism is one of the major issues which confronts the Atlantic movement, he said. Streit said he did not expect a change overnight in the American attitude towards union with Europe. The change will come gradually, he believes.
"I've been fighting for Atlantic union since 1939," he said.
CONDEMNING government for government's sake, Streit said the government exists to serve the people. "They must choose the kind of government best for them if it means relinquishing some sovereignty. The people are sovereign, not the states," he explained. He said he favors a system by which each NATO country would be annexed into a federal government electing representatives on the basis of population.
He compared the present NATO alliance and the UN to the early American Articles of Confederation which lacked the power to form an effective union.
The author said he has been encouraged by four recent developments in the progress of the Atlantic Union movement, however:
Election Registration Will End This Friday
Registration for the Nov. 6 general election ends Friday.
Twenty-one year-olds living in Lawrence for at least 30 days and in Kansas for six months are eligible.
Others, who registered in their Kansas hometowns, may apply on election day for an in-state absentee ballot.
Non-residents may apply for an out-of-state ballot. Registration is in the Lawrence court house.
Pharmacy Student Wins $125 Award
William S. Padgett, Florence fourth year student, has been selected to receive a $125 per semester scholarship recently created by the 1962 class in the School of Pharmacy.
Members of the class—last to graduate under the old four-year program—expressed the hope that following classes will create similar awards.
The award is designed to assist a four-year pharmacy student, who is working part-time, to support himself.
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- Representatives from 14 NATO countries met at the Atlantic Convention in Paris in January and recommended that their governments form a commission to draw up plans within two years for an Atlantic community "to meet the political, military and economic challenges of this era."
- President Kennedy has made mention of interdependence in the Atlantic community which Streit has interpreted to mean Atlantic Union.
- Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York took a strong stand on federalism in a series of Harvard lectures delivered in February.
- The beginning of the Young Federalists for Atlantic Union movement on college campuses has been initiated.
Streit was here to participate in a panel discussion on "Atlantic Union and the Common Market" Monday night in the Kansas Union
He predicts such a union will come about within five or ten years, depending upon the world situation
STREIT SEES Atlantic Union as the only way to halt the Russian threat in Cuba and Berlin.
Show Starts At Dusk
Other panelists were James A. McCain, Kansas State University president; J. M. den Uyl, visiting Dutch Parliament member, and Charles E. Staley, KU associate professor of economics.
KU Vice Chancellor James Surface moderated.
Forum To Feature "The New Europe"
Three associate professors of English, history, and speech and drama, will discuss "The New Europe" at the Humanities Forum at 8:30 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Prof. George Worth will discuss the changing face of England, and Prof. Donald McCoy and Prof. Jack Brooking will discuss the new Germany and the new France, respectively. Each has studied and worked in the country being discussed.
Students, faculty and the public are invited.
Japanese Economist Discusses Effects of Rural Markets
A Japanese economist yesterday cited the market economy in rural areas as a major factor which has allowed modern capitalism to prevail in Japan as well as in the United States and Europe.
Dr. Hisao Otsuka, professor of economic history at the University of Tokyo, spoke on "Economic Development—Japan and the West" yesterday afternoon in the Kansas Union. He was sponsored by the East Asian Studies Committee and the department of economics.
IN DEVELOPING his thesis, Prof. Otsuka said:
"The spread of rural industry between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Industrial Revolution has been a topic of interest to Japanese economic historians since before World War II."
After World War II, he continued, the historians became concerned with the market structure of rural industrialism between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution.
"Although modern capitalism has an essential connection with commerce, it is by no means correct to assume commercial prosperity was the prime mover in the development of modern capitalism.
"IT WAS FROM this viewpoint interest was aroused in the spread of rural industrialism in Japan," Prof. Otsuka explained.
"The social pedigree of the modern entrepreneur indicates that he was a member of the semi-agricultural industrial bourgeoisie.
The speaker wore a black kimono and spectacles. He opened his talk with a polite bow and a greeting of "Professors, ladies, and gentlemen." He closed with a quiet "thank you."
"THE DEVELOPMENT of exchange in the peasant economy."
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"Thus, our focus is fixed on the market structure of rural industry. The social division of labor is based on the market system.
Prof. Otsuka explained, "led to a break-up of the manoral system, the distribution of classes, and prosperity of the rural artisans and craftsmen."
Prof. Otsuka said a large percentage of the non-agricultural elements formed a multitude of small local districts, usually located in the villages.
IN EUROPEAN countries, local markets developed quite similarly to those of England.
"The growth of the market structure and modern capitalism in the form of local market areas made small producers immune to manoral bondage and rule.
"Industrial freedom was gained on the basis of market competition. The process of development was not a simple, easy one," the speaker said.
7:00 And 9 p.m.
Japan is unique in that it is the only country outside of the United States and western Europe which has developed a system of modern industrial capitalism. Prof. Otsuka is a leader in the presentation of a non-Marxist view of how this came about.
In 1947, he published "The Pedigree of Modern Capitalism." This extended trip is his first visit outside Japan. Prof. Otsuka participated in the Second International Economic History Conference in France in August and is now on a speaking tour of American universities.
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ASC Budget Session To Start at 6:30 p.m.
Fourteen campus organizations will request a sum of $9,509.35 at the All Student Council Budget meeting tonight.
The session will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Cottonwood Room in the Kansas Union.
The Finance and Auditing Committee will make recommendations and the Council will vote on each individual budget.
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The money is appropriated from an activities fund to which each KU student gives 30 cents when he is enrolled at the University.
Alpha Phi Omega, ASC Current Events Committee, Student Bar Association, Peace Corps, Engineering Council, Radio Production Center, American Pharmaceutical Association, Statewide Activities, People-to-People, World University Service, Mortar Board, the Business School Council and the All Student Council.
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The committees which will present detailed reports on their last year's budget and their anticipated budgets for this year during the session age;
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