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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1953
Nation's AROTC Force NumbersOver125,000
By DAVE RILEY
More than 122,000 young men are enrolled in the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training corps this year at 207 colleges and universities in the U.S., Hawaii and Puerto Rico, said Col. Thomas B. Summers, commanding officer of Air ROTC.
Churchill May Offer Peace Plan
London — (U.P.) - Prime Minister Winston Churchill may present to President Eisenhower at Bermuda a bold new plan to keep the peace by agreeing to an "armed truce" with the Soviet union, authoritative sources said today.
Mr. Churchill considers the idea a first step toward relaxing international tension gradually, since his wish to ease the pressure with bolder diplomatic strokes obviously has failed, the sources said.
"Armed truce" would be backed by broad mutual non-aggression assurances between East and West, according to the informants.
The truce would leave open all disputed problems and frontier issues until it is indicated they may be settled amicably.
Thus a truce with the Soviets would leave some unsettled issues but would guard against their heating up enough to kindle war.
The West would remain armed for defense but gain a "breather" during which more concrete arrangements might eventually be reached for settlements with the Kremlin.
Mr. Churchill's new plan would replace earlier ideas for a quick all-out settlement of the cold war which informers said he is abandoning with reluctance because of insurmountable obstacles.
Selective Service Test Set
The Selective Service draft deferment test will be given tomorrow morning in the Union, the place to be posted on the Union bulletin board. The examination which about 115 men have registered to take, will start at 8:30 a.m.
Kansan classifieds bring results.
Gen. M. K. Deichelmann, commandant of the Air Force ROTC headquarters at Montgomery, Ala., says this enrollment figure shows a decrease of some 15,000 students as compared to 140,000 cadets last year.
This decrease has been attributed generally to (1.) the Air Force's requirement for the majority of cadets to take flight training after graduation and commissioning, and (2.) the cessation of hostilities in Korea.
Enrolled are 52,718 freshmen,
some 40,000 sophomores, over 13,-
000 juniors, and 17,000 seniors. Approximately 2,100 seniors will be commissioned second lieutenants before May 1. More than 8,000 cadets will receive commissions June 1.
Of these, 4,000 commissioned seniors will enter pilot training, 2,750 will take aerial observer training, 1,600 will enter technical and scientific fields, and 790 will be veterans.
The remaining 6,000 seniors cannot expect to receive commissions and will be given 'certificates of appreciation' from some draft material after graduation.
However, the Defense department recently announced that they may enlist as airmen third class for two years of non-commissioned duty.
After the non-commissioned graduate has discharged his Selective Service obligation, he may, if still qualified, receive a reserve commission on his "certificate of completion."
Under the previously planned 143-wing Air Force all cadets enrolled in the advanced course could have been commissioned following graduation. However, because Air Force strength was reduced, the need for officers is less.
Also, the Air Force can't afford to grant all seniors commissions since every commissioned Air Force ROTC graduate must be called to active duty for at least two years.
Therefore only those who qualify for and who want flight training, and approximately 1,000 more in mostly scientific and technical fields can be commissioned this year, Ccl. Summers explained.
Red Interviews With Prisoners Halted by India
Pamunjom, Korea — (U,P)—An Indian spokesman said today there will be no more Communist "come home" interviews with hostile prisoners until the Reds drop their unreasonable demands.
Communist explainers recently have interviewed only half of a compound of prisoners daily, demanding to talk to the other half on the following day.
The spokesman said the Indians "fatly refused" to knuckle down to Communist clamoring for separation of interviewed prisoners from those who have not faced Red persuaders.
The Indian spokesman said the guards have no facilities to break each compound into two groups so the interviewed prisoners could be segregated from the others.
He also said the talks would not be resumed until the Communists and Indian guards agree on which prisoners will be brought before the explainers.
The Communists have stalled the talks by demanding interviews with anti-Red North Koreans or Chinese war prisoners who have been resisting efforts of the Indians to take them to explanation sessions.
"There will be no explanations at all until the matter is settled," the Indian spokesman said. "It has now become a matter of principle."
Informed Allied observers regarded the Red stalling tactics as a ruse to cover up their dismal failure in the repatriation of anti-Communist prisoners and also to make it appear the Indians are not competent custodians of the United Nations' captives.
At the same time, Communist stubbornness threatened to imperial the American program for winning back 22 GIs who have refused to go home.
It was believed that the Reds will stir up a loud controversy if the U.N. command attempts to interview the Americans, one Britain and 332 South Koreans while talks to anti-Communist prisoners are suspended.
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Here's Comparison of Statements in White Case
(Mr. Truman spoke in a nation wide radio-television address Monday. Mr. Hoover testified before th Senate Internal Security subcom mittee yesterday. Brownnell spoken in a Chicago speech Nov. 6 and be fore the subcommittee yesterday.)
Washington — (U.P.) Here is a comparison of statements made in the White case by former President Truman, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr.
FBI Reports
Hoover—Between Nov. 8, 1945, and July 24, 1946, the FBI sent the White House seven reports on alleged espionage in the government in which Harry Dexter White's activities were mentioned. A special 28-page report on White was delivered Feb. 4, 1946.
Truman—The Feb. 4 report was the first he could recall although he acknowledged an earlier one was delivered to the White House Dec. 4, 1945. The Feb. 4 report "showed that serious accusations had been made against White" and the administration acted upon it.
Authenticity
Truman—The Feb. 4 report "pointed out that it would be practically impossible to prove those
Hoover—The Feb.4 report was based on 30 sources "the reliability of which had previously been established." One of the sources was former Soviet spy Elizabeth Bentley.
charges with the evidence then at hand." One purpose of keeping White in the government was to "prove or disprove" the charges against him.
Decision
Hoover—I was advised on Feb. 26, 1946, by the attorney general "that he felt that White would go into the job." Clark said the plan was to surround him with especially selected, loyal officials and to continue the FBI surveillance. "I stated if that was the desire, we would continue the investigation.
Truman—The reason for this decision was that...it was of great importance to the nation that this investigation be continued in order to prove or disprove these charges
Truman—"The conclusion was reached that the appointment should be allowed to take its normal course. This decision was made, this decision was, of course, mine.
Reasons
Hoover—Mr. Truman's decision "hampered" rather than helped because it was more difficult to watch White in an international agency—barred to the FBI-than in the Treasury. If the FBI had a policy of keeping suspects in the government during the spy investigation, it would have been applied to others besides White. But in fact other suspects were fired without the objection of the FBI.
and to determine if still other persons were implicated.
Brownell—Justice department records show that the Truman administration did nothing to "interfere" with the White spy ring after deciding to keep White in the government. Mr. Truman and others around him were unwilling to face the facts of Communist infiltration and their "delusion" may have caused great harm to the country.
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"It is often true in the case of occupied peoples that they who are most concerned about the welfare of their country are not 'concerned' at all in deciding the policies that affect it," Dr. Nabih Amin Faris, visiting professor from the University of Beirut, said last night in a lecture on "The Arab World Today."
Dr. Faris spoke of the plight on the Arab countries, which before and during the first World War were divided into protectorates by several of the western European nations in an effort to break up the old Ottoman empire.
The British were especially active in occupying this territory and setting up governments within these countries which would lead revolts against the Turkish empire, he said.
The primary concern of the French, British, and also the Russians at that time was to divert the attention of Turkey, which held most of these countries, away from the rest of the war so that she could not be an effective ally of Germany in the fighting, Dr. Faris said.
At that time, the Arab people strongly resented the effort by the Turks to enforce the teaching of Turkish as the official language and to promote other customs within the Arab countries which would make these people conform to a "Turkey for the Turks" attitude, he said.
Faris Discusses Plight Of Arabs in Early 1900s
"Out of this revolt against the Turks came Arab nationalism, which concentrated on allegiance to Arab leaders, whatever their religion, and not to the Turks, although they were Moslems," Dr. Faris said.
Starts Teresa Thursday • Wright "COUNT THE HOURS"
Anderson to Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the University of Education will give the Honors convocation address at Ottawa university Friday. He will speak on "The Importance of Scholarship."
Dr. Faris said much of the trouble that has come out of the East in the past 20 years has been due to the people's resentment against this foreign occupation.
"Although I have nothing against foreign occupation of a country, it is always the case that the occupier has some goal within the country he is primarily seeking, and not the particular welfare of that country." Dr. Faris said.
Despite the growing Arab nationalism, these countries were largely taken over by the Europeans after the First World War, he said, because of the Arab's requests for foreign aid in getting rid of the Turks.
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Anderson to Speak at Ottawa
There will be no "Arab W Today" lecture next week. Paris announced, because Thanksgiving vacation.
"The Arabs learned through experience that you cannot get rid of a foreigner with a foreigner," he said.
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