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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1952
Solution to Korean Problem May Be Key to Future Far East Policy
The key determining the new administration's Far East policy and the policy toward Moscow for the years ahead is the Korean war. Therefore, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's trip to Korea is designed to show the President-elect's interest in that part of the world, as well as for him to get a first hand look at the war and its problems.
The war in Korea will shape the course of Gen. Eisenhower's administration. The American people feel that the Korean war is the biggest problem facing them at the present. This attitude at home, and the evident temper of Americans abroad, makes it plain that if the White House doesn't go to Korea, the war inevitably will be brought to the White House.
Gen. Eisenhower must determine the chances for a truce in Korea. All previous efforts to arrive at the basis for a truce must be rounded up and pressed once again as a new U.S. approach under a new leader. If the Communists refuse to deal on reasonable terms, it is thought that stronger measures will be taken promptly.
War, if it must continue, will be stabilized and localized in Korea insofar as possible. More South Koreans will be trained and armed, but even so, United States troops will continue to bear the brunt of the war for at least a year more. Every effort, however, will be made to reduce the combat burden on American troops. If the Korean war is to be endless, it is hoped that the fighting of that war gradually will be shifted from Americans to Asians.
Every effort will be made to avoid open war with Communist China, herself. It is thought that Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Chinese troops will be gradually utilized. Non-Communist Asia will be encouraged to permit volunteers to be recruited trained, and armed for another war.
Yet, at the present the entire Far East, is in a
ferment. War in Indo-China is turning into a full-scale second Korea, and France wants the U.S. to take over more of the burden of fighting that war.
The United States already has footed one-third of the financial bill for the Indo-Chinese war. It has sent 200 shiploads of modern material, including 228 war planes, 235 naval vessels, 777 combat vehicles, and 13,000 trucks.
Arms aid will continue to be given to non-Communist forces fighting in Indo-China, Burma, Malaya, and elsewhere. Again events in Korea will call the turn. A Korean truce, if found, may provide the principles for a truce in Indo-China and elsewhere. As South Korean troops will be carrying more of the fighting burden, so Indo-Chinese troops, not French, will get more arms to fight their own war.
The attitude toward Japan will depend on Korean developments. If there is to be peace in Korea, Japan may get more trade to replace the war boom of U.S. spending. If war becomes more intense, Japan may be called upon to make greater military contributions. But the rearmament of Japan offers difficulties, for some nations fear this rearmament.
Everything seems to be hinging on what happens in Korea. But no matter what happens, the new administration will be expected to see that the U.S. plays a larger, not smaller, role in the world.
Isolationism will be no more effective in the new Congress than it has been in the recent Congress. Nationalism made few gains in the election, and not many congressmen will be attacking the general thesis that America must have allies and must support them throughout the world.
Freed Nazi Economist May Dream of Empire
An aged but agile German has landed on his feet again after losing a war, being imprisoned, and being generally discredited among responsible society.
Mary Cooper.
Hjalmar Schacht, ex-Minister of Economics for Adolph Hitler, has become financial advisor for several countries which found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy after World War II.
The 75-year-old economist managed to stabilize the German mark during the 1920's, then went on to a job at which he was singularly successful, building the financial base for the Nazi dream of world conquest.
He began to run into trouble during the latter years of the war, was reported to be a member of the group which attempted Hitler's assassination, and was reported to be under house arrest from June, 1943 to Nov. 1944.
After the war, he was indicted as a major Nazi war criminal, but was acquitted by the International Military Tribunal in October, 1946. Then a German court decided that Mr. Schacht needed de-Nazification, and sentenced him to eight years in prison.
He appealed that sentence, and was released after serving only eight months.
Since then, he has steadily increased his following, and has been invited to oversee the financial affairs of such countries as Brazil, Ethiopia, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, and Syria.
Actually, he has visited only Egypt, Iran, and Indonesia. What he told them has never been revealed. According to those three governments, he told them only to work hard, increase production, and encourage foreign investments.
Roses to Grounds Crew For Clearing Sidewalks
We would like to hand a bunch of well-earned editorial roses to the buildings and grounds crew for getting the snow off the sidewalks this week before they became slippery.
Germany has long dreamed of an effective German-Arabian coalition. Perhaps the Berlin-to-Baghdad dream is not dead. Hjalmar Schacht may be trying to revive it. —Dean Evans.
Last year several nocturnal snows blanketed the campus and students found themselves alternately slipping and wading across the campus. On one of these unfortunate occasions, the Kansan printed an article in these columns suggesting the buildings and grounds department try to find a quicker method of removing the snow from the walks.
Last weekend the crew did a good job removing the snow before morning classes and we are sure it was appreciated by everyone who remembers from last year what it is like to hurry sleepily to an early class on tricky ice. —Roger Yarrington.
Letters
Campus Chest Brings Remarks
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
A recent Daily Kansan editorial in which the writer is quite solicitous lest the Campus Chest fail to meet prompts from students, prompts me to make these remarks
As a charitable effort the drive for funds is to be commended. However, since participation by the entire student body is desired, it would be fitting to have whatever revenues are accrued distributed to all student organizations worthy of support.
The present arrangement makes available 45 per cent of the collection to the YMCA and the YWCA. In addition, the first group annually presents a benefit performance, the "Rock Chalk Revue". What extraordinary qualification raises the "Y" to this exalted position?
Personally, I do not care to contribute to the support of either the YMCA or YWCA on this campus, especially when there are many other organizations in a less-favored position and no less deserving of financial assistance.
Please note that this is not an attempt to magnify or to minimize the merits of any particular organization but rather to call attention to the discriminatory administration of the Campus Chest.
It is quite possible that views such as those expressed above account for the lack of response to solicitations for the Chest.
Joseph J. Baron Jr. graduate student
(Editor's note: It was not the intention of the writer to praise or condemn the campus "Y" groups. Mr. Baron's point is well taken. It illustrates one of the prevalent criticisms to the idea of holding a unified drive. In other words, if a prospective donor holds a grudge against one of the organizations combined in a unified appeal, he will withhold his contribution altogether. An ideal situation would be one in which the organizations represented in a unified drive would appeal to all prospective donors. But, alas, this is not possible. Human nature doesn't work that way. However, we can see denying funds to several other worthy organizations in an effort to spite one or two).
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler
"Whadda-va-mean. you don't have today's assignment ready?"
Democrats Not Agreed On Who Is Party Boss
The Democratic party is wide open in the sense that there is no agreement on who is boss.
Many Southern Democrats in and out of Congress reject absolutely the leadership of Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, their party's 1952 Presidential nominee. They are anxious to get rid of him and to regain control of the party machinery of which they were deprived by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
John N. Garner's grab for the 1940 Democratic Presidential nomination was part of the first organized effort by Conservative party men to seize party controls. Garner, then the vice president, was unable to keep his boomlet alive long enough to present it to the 1940 Democratic national convention. The Conservative rebellion was a political dud.
Mr. Roosevelt maintained the
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The moving business is starting to boom in Washington.
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Oklahoma edged past Oklahoma A&M Saturday, 54-7.
MU students didn't get a longer vacation because of their victory over Kansas. What a shame?
party's alliance with the left-wing and labor elements of American politics until his death and President Truman continued the association. The Southerners now are determined to break that association and the rumblings of party conflict can be heard all over.
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Sen. Burnet R. Maybank D-S.C.) refused in a news conference yesterday to say whether he considers Stevenson the head of the Democratic party. But he wholly rejected Stevenson as the party's policy maker. Party policy will be made, he said, by Democratic leaders in the House and Senate.
It is obvious now that the Conservatives have a fight on their hands. Stevenson has just announced in a gentle way that he regards himself as the party leader and intends to be on the job. He did not say it so bluntly. What he did say was that he expects to express himself from time to time on important issues before the country. None can deny him that privilege.
There is no dohbt about Stevenson's purpose to maintain the left-wing and labor alliances inherited from FDR and Mr. Truman. His first important public appearance since the election will be to that end.
Other Congressional Democrats will go further than Maybank to deny publicly that Stevenson is the party leader or policy maker. Likewise, they will reject any claims to authority which may be made in behalf of National Committee Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell. They want their own man in that job and there will be a party ruckus when the committee next meets about that.
But Stevenson added that he would have a part in adjusting what he called weak spots in the Democratic party. When he begins adjusting, Stevenson and the party conservatives will begin their test of strength.
Gov. Stevenson will speak Dec. 3 in Atlantic City at memorial services for the late CIO President Philip Murray to take place during that organization's annual convention.
That engagement is sufficiently in the Roosevelt tradition of left-wing political alliances to warn conservatives of the direction in what Stevenson is determined to lead the party. —United Press