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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 8, 1956.
From Tokyo Rose To Moscow Molly
Following in the path of Tokyo Rose, the recently-released Japanese-American who so effectively broke down the resistance of Allied troops in World War II with her broadcasts from Japan, a girl using the name of Moscow Molly is now attempting, successfully, to torment Allied troops and civilian personnel in the Arctic Circle.
Patterning her programs after Japan's infamous disc jockey, the sexy-voiced Molly is fast earning a name for herself. Her programs have been heard as far south as Toronto, Canada, and are welcome entertainment to most of her listeners.
Most of Moscow Molly's broadcasts have been harmless, even amusing, but occasionally she goes off the deep end, doctoring up her broadcast with typical Communist propaganda.
The construction workers and soldiers who are building the Distant Early Warning radar stations across the Canadian Arctic report that she's their favorite disc jockey. She speaks in a soft, clear, and slightly sexy Canadian accent. She chats of DEW line doings, plays recordings, and gives propaganda talks.
Molly isn't partial, though. She doesn't limit her broadcast to any certain group. She often talks to the U.S. armed forces stationed in Greenland and other far north bases. She takes pride in tormenting the soldiers about the mainland, a place they won't be able to see for at least a year and perhaps longer.
Often Moscow Molly's broadcasts take a serious tone, and she seems to enjoy arousing doubt
and terror in her listeners. One airman, recently returned from duty in the Arctic area, spoke of one particular instance when she terrorized the men. She spoke of a coming conflict and told the men stationed at the base that those who weren't rotated by a certain date would never leave the base alive. The reaction was varied. Some took her at her word and demanded to be stationed elsewhere, others took her words as they actually were, mere propaganda.
But on the whole, Moscow Molly's programs have been limited to only general Communist propaganda. Molly seems to have a reliable source of information, as much of her news is about happenings in certain areas where it was thought to be known only to the immediate personnel. When the commander of a base was transferred recently, Molly broadcasted greetings to his successor the day the change-over was made. In another instance, a Brooklyn pilot heard all about how and when he bought a new car.
The Canadain government refuses to concede alarm, but is preparing to investigate Molly's sources. For one thing, Ottawa suspects the ham radio and military wireless operators in the Polar Net of talking too freely.
To date, Moscow Molly's broadcasts haven't caused any great harm, but if the cold war should happen to get warmer, her talks probably would take on a more destructive tone, more like those of Tokyo Rose.
Saudi Arabia—Stranglehold On U.S.?
After receiving the controversial tank shipment two weeks ago from the United States, Saudi Arabia last week asked for 18 additional tanks as well as an undisclosed number of jet planes.
—Daryl Hall
The new request adds pressure to the already delicate foreign policy of the United States in regard to the tense situation between Israel and the Arab states.
The eyes of the nation will watch closely the State Department's reaction to the latest Arab request. A bad decision might explode the powder keg in the Middle East.
It appears as if Saudi Arabia has a stranglehold upon the U.S. as long as we are intent upon keeping an air base at Dahrhran in Saudi Arabia. The Arabs know we don't want to lose the strategic base when the Arab-U.S. agreement expires in June. The agreement, made in 1951, gave Saudi Arabia the right to buy arms from the U.S. in exchange for rights to maintain a U.S. Air Force base at Dahrhran.
The agreement was all right in 1951, but since then border disputes between Israel and the Arab states have turned the Middle East into a dangerous area, and the United States is caught within
Reports that Saudi Arabia was looking toward the Soviet bloc for arms also is causing the U.S. to take each Arab request into full consideration.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told the Foreign Relations Committee last week that if we had not granted the tank request it would have been possible that Saudi Arabia would not renew
the air base agreement.
There was some speculation that Saudi Arabia would use the tanks against Israel, but Mr. Dulles said he had been assured by the military that there was no way the tanks could get to the Israeli border.
Meanwhile, Israel is getting hot under the collar for a positive answer on its request of the United States for $63 million worth of defensive weapons to balance the power in the Middle East. George V. Allen, assistant secretary of state for Middle East affairs, said Israel's request is still being considered.
The United States is caught between the requests of the two Middle East countries and has the dubious task of keeping both countries happy and maintaining peace.
If we grant Saudi Arabia's latest request without granting Israel's, what will be the result? And where will these Arabian requests stop? Will a line be drawn as to how far we'll go to keep the Arab states in arms or do we just keep supplying their demands?
The administration must act carefully to keep the Israel-Arab crisis from becoming a costly war. A wrong decision might set it off.
Such a result could cause international tension, as well as deeply downgrading American foreign policy and reflecting bad light upon the chances of the Republican national ticket winning the election in November.
Kent Thomas
.. Letters .
Editor:
A wholehearted salute to Dr. Allen!
The referees no doubt tried to be fair in their decisions, but they were evidently unable to have their eyes at the right places at the right times.
The game with Kansas State gave every evidence that he trained his boys to be fair in every possible way, and to avoid unnecessary roughness. It is better to lose honestly than to win by unfair decisions.
An additional referee located in the grandstands would have had a better overall picture of the players, and would have reversed several unfair decisions. Would it be possible to incorporate such a system in future sessions?
Frederick C. Buchholtz,
(Editor's Note: Your suggestion for an additional official has been tried on several occasions. Two were stationed above each goal and one on the floor. The two officials at each goal called the fouls while the floor official handled jump balls, free throws, etc. According to the coaches
Lawrence
and players involved, the arrangement was highly satisfactory. As to your comment on the officials at the last home game, there has been a movement afoot for the last 10 years in all conferences to bring in new officials. One problem has been one of adequate training for these new officials. But the most important problem has been acquiring men who were willing to devote the necessary time to officiating. As most people don't realize, there is a great deal more time spent by the men officiating, away from the basketball floor than time spent in actually officiating. In actually teaching men to officiate, it is extremely difficult to point to a particular play or a set of plays and say, "This is what you do here." In fact, it is impossible. The only thing that can be done is to say, "This is what happened and this is how I (the instructor) handled the situation." For the two men who officiated at the game in question, they are comparatively new to conference play and officiating. But they have to start somewhere, and though they may have made mistakes in the eyes of the crowd, they were doing their best in the light of their experience.)
New Slant On Santee Case
It is as fatuous to expect an athlete to be unpaid as to expect a politician to be honest. In both cases mere mortals are subjected to an overwhelming combination of extraordinary temptation and maximum opportunity.
Having spent this much of our life far from the sweaty precints of organized athletics, it is hard for us to see why there has been all the to-do about Wes Santee and the excess money.
We have never understood why anyone sets any store by running the mile. Running is a demonstrably inferior method of covering the ground and it has been passe ever since the domestication of the horse.
Nevertheless, if a man is capable of running faster than any other man, and if in addition he is able to bilk someone into paying him for doing it, then our sympathy is all on his side.
A miler who can no longer run is a pitiable being, reduced to such unsung pursuits as raising cattle or selling insurance, and deserves to be retired by old age and not by a bunch of bureaucrats who do not have even the distinction of governmental function.
—Charles Pearson Topeka Daily Capital
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