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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1963
'Third Party' SPU Judges US, Soviet Positions
By Rick Mabbutt
The Student Peace Union (SPU) is essentially in a third camp position. Laird Wilcox, a former regional coordinator for SPU and now a student at KU, said.
The SPU stands back and evaluates both the Soviet and American positions in the area of armaments since we feel their actions have not been in the best interests of peace and the people of the world, he said.
Saturday the group pickedet the area convention of the Arnold Air Society, the honor society of Air Force ROTC, and its auxiliary branch, the Angel Flight.
"ARMED FORCE is not the way to peace." Wilcox said.
The purpose of the picketing was to "bring the issues to the forefront here at the University of Kansas.
"The SPU" he said, "is an organization of young people who believe that neither war nor the threat of war can any longer be successfully used to settle international disputes and that neither human freedom nor the human race can long survive in a world committed to militarism."
Predictably, Wilcox said the nuclear test-ban treaty is "a very good step" toward easing world tensions and the threat of nuclear war.
He also expressed approval of the American-Russian wheat purchase negotiated within the past several weeks as being another step toward understanding the pace.
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"He (Goldwater) is a threat to world peace in terms of his foreign policy. He believes in a 'tough' line policy towards the Communist nations and this is not the way to peace." Wilcox said.
Wilcox pointed out that a surge of peace movement activity developed during 1961 when the U.S. and Russia resumed nuclear testing in the atmosphere, but recent developments have eased anxieties and as a result many of the peace movements have slowed down.
Three years ago a small group of students at the University of Chicago began the Student Peace Union (SPI).
"HOWEVER, if Barry Goldwater runs for the presidency and wins there will be an upsurge of the peace movement," he said.
The SPU now claims 200 chapters
and 4,000 members, with thousands more in affiliated groups. These affiliated groups range from local campus clubs to other national peace organizations. High school chapters also participate in the activities of the SPU, Wilcox said.
Local chapters elect delegates to the national convention which is held each summer. The National Council, elected by the local delegates, serves as an interim governing body of the group. However, local groups are under no obligation to follow the policy of the national or regional bodies as long as they adhere to the SPU statement of purpose, he said.
TO PARTICIPATE in effective action the SPU believes that a knowledge of the issues involved is necessary. To achieve this goal the group
organizes or sponsors debates and lectures; conducts polls and surveys about aspects of nuclear war, and publishes literature on the findings of the polls and surveys.
In addition, Wilcox said, to these activities the group acts in four other general areas:
- Cultural exchanges, or exchanges of ideas and solutions to problems of world peace.
- Co-sponsorship of national peace research centers which coordinate the peace movements of the many peace groups.
THE SPU ON this campus is two years old. In that time they have participated in several "peace marches" both on campus and in downtown Lawrence. These marches protested the resumption of nuclear testing by the U.S. The local group also sponsored the appearance of Peter Allen, field secretary for the SPU, at KU last spring.
- Participation in the integration movement in the U.S. This activity includes helping in voter registration of Negroes in the South and helping to organize and to participate in rallies and demonstrations sponsored by groups such as the NAACP.
- Declared stands against the House Committee on un-American Activities (HUAC) and support of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Officers of the KU Student Peace Union are Carl Bangs, Prairie Village sophomore, president: Willem Helms, Rotterdam, The Netherlands sophomore, vice-president, and James Masters, Kansas City junior, secretary-trea-uer.
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