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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1956
Dulles Defends War Remarks
WASHINGTON (U.P.)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today aggressors must know in advance that the United States would go to war if necessary to defend "its vital interests."
Stepping squarely into the raging controversy over his recent "brink of war" remarks, Mr. Dulles told a news conference it is important that the world should know the United States is ready to defend its basic moral values and vital interests, "if need be by life itself."
Mr. Dulles said he regretted
"I believe that the United States should adopt every honorable course to avoid engagement in war," he said. "Indeed, I have devoted my whole life to the pursuit of a just and durable peace."
some of the reaction to the "brink of war" article in Life magazine and said he would not have said some things in the exact way they were written. But he stood firm on the policy of warning that aggression could mean war.
The only country in South America that does not allow women to vote is Paraguay.
Dr. Walter Sandelius, professor of history, will be grading term papers on a railway coach bound for Seattle, Wash., Wednesday.
He's Leaving Town To Grade Papers
Dr. Sandelius is a member of a regional committee which selects Woodrow Wilson Fellowships in nine states and three Canadian provinces. The committee begins a week of interviewing prospective scholars in Seattle Thursday. His final examinations will be given by proctors and air-mailed to him at Oakland, Calif.
A pilot must shoot down at least five enemy planes to become an ace.
WASHINGTON—(U. P.) Two Democratic senators suggested today that Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway be called before the Senate Armed Services Committee to explain his charge that the Eisenhower administration cut Army strength for "political considerations."
Call Ridgway,2 Senators Say
The senators—Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) and Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.)—said Congress should have the benefit of the former Army chief of staff's views on the reasons for and validity of the Army cutbacks.
Gen. Ridgway, who retired as chief of staff after splitting with the President on defense policies, charged in a Saturday Evening Post
article that the administration has measured "our country's security in terms of dollars instead of the men and guns needed . . ."
Madrid Citizens Get That Sinking Feeling
MADRID — (U,P)—Acting Mayor Jose Maria Soler yesterday confirmed what the citizens of Madrid have suspected for some time—the capital is slowly sinking.
Mayor Soler told a newspaper that Madrid is "built on a bed of sand criss-crossed with a great number of subterranean channels." He said a solution to the problem was "immensely difficult."
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