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University Daily Kansar
Monday, Oct. 8, 1962
Report Says Red China May Not Get Food Aid
Practical considerations make it highly improbable that the United States will offer wheat to Red China in 1962, claims a recent report by the KU Governmental Research Center.
Notwithstanding the persuasiveness of many of the often-heard political, economic and humanitarian arguments for or against sending wheat, practical considerations make shipping wheat extremely unlikely, the report says. The single and most important obstacle to an American initiative is the boastful and defiant attitude of the Chinese Communists themselves. They would be almost certain to turn down an American offer of aid.
It would probably be impossible to control the distribution of wheat, were wheat actually shipped, according to the report. Thus only members of the Communist Party and the army might benefit. Or the Chinese could even re-export the grain in exchange for industrial commodities or other goods bearing no relation to the food shortage.
IT IS ALSO unlikely that the Chinese Communists will request aid in the near future, the report says. To make such a request they would have to admit defeat and failure. Purchases from Canada, Australia and France have been made in the amounts the Chinese government feels it is able to pay for. As her balance of payments position continues to decline, she would probably be forced to beg for an outright gift of several million tons of American wheat.
THE REPORT points out that some predictions indicate a poor to indifferent crop in Communist China this year for the fourth year in a row. The present food shortage is estimated to have reduced the Chinese population to a diet-level of 1500 calories or less per person daily. Such an aggravation of her serious food shortage might force Red China to seek assistance from the West.
Since her need may exceed 10 million tons, Canada, Australia and France, who have supplied her in the past, would be unable to supply the needed amounts. The United States would thus be the only remaining source.
THE KENNEDY administration so far has turned down requests of American wheat growers and exporters to ship grain to Red Chinna. The administration has pointed out that in the absence of a request from the Chinese Communist government, the U.S. government will not take an official position in regard to the granting of export licenses for this purpose.
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The Kennedy administration appears to be somewhat flexible regarding the issue, the report says, neither ruling out any possibility of shipping grain to China, nor standing ready to ship wheat the moment a request from Peking is received.
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Yet, the matter will never be ar entirely dead issue, the report maintains. Americans are not likely to abandon their practice of Christian principles of ethics and charity, which have made them quick to forget resentments and differences. This was amply demonstrated by America's generous aid to Germany and Japan following World War II
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Carl O. Dunbar, professor emeritus of geology at Yale University and a recipient of the University of Kansas Alumni Association citation for distinguished service, has returned to KU as a visiting professor for the 1962-63 year.
Famous as a paleontologist and for many years director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale, Prof. Dunbar is familiar to many as the author of one of the most widely used college textbooks in historical geology. At KU Prof. Dunbar is teaching courses in paleontology and stratigraphy.
Prof. Dunbar was graduated from KU in 1914. He received the Ph.D. degree from Yale in 1917 and has been associated with Yale since 1920.
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Herold Regier and Vernon Troxel, assistant professors of education, will attend a zone school in Leavenworth tomorrow and Wednesday that will draw delegates from a 10-county area.
Educators to Hold Meetings
The Zone School is sponsored by the Kansas State Teachers Association (KSTA). Officers and delegates from the various high schools, colleges and universities in the 10-county area will attend.
Prof. Regier feels that the Zone School is "a way for the state association to get a pretty good idea as
to what the general thinking is around the state."
Some of the objectives of the Zone School are to strengthen local association programs, to develop greater professional unity, acquaint members with each other, to develop and promote the KSTA program of school legislation, to acquaint the delegates and officers with the larger aspects of teaching, and to improve teaching throughout the state.
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