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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 14, 1952
Editorials
McGeorge Bundy, editor of the book, presents the facts by direct quotations from speeches, press conferences, and testimony before Congressional committees. The book is not a complete account of America's foreign policy, however, because it doesn't include public record of the President or of military and Congressional leaders.
As to a preventive war, the whole idea seems completely wrong and vicious to Acheson. However, he continues to say that it is our responsibility to find ways of solving our problems without resorting to war and exhausting every possibility in that effort.
Acheson says. "In this particular age in which we live we do not have choices between something that is highly desirable and something that is undesirable. We have choices between undesirables and we have to pick out the less undesirable."
Those who don't believe that the United States has a foreign policy can be enlightened by reading "The Pattern of Responsibility," a record of the policies of Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
"The public record doesn't reveal what many may have considered an unnecessary subservience to the Pentagon.
In regard to the Soviet challenge to America, Acheson says there is no answer in isolation. It would cost us much more to keep up that level of armament if we were to remain an island of security. There is no answer in appeasement as that would only encourage Soviet aggression.
New Book Evaluates Acheson And State Department Policy
Bundy commits himself to saying that he is willing to take a chance with history and bet that Acheson will be listed 50 years from now among the best of our American secretaries of state.
"It is not shown that it headed the cautions of our Allies, or that it warned of the dangers of a halt across the parallel or had any political program save 'free elections' as soon as possible in the event that North Korea resistance ceased."
"There is no evidence that the state department made an effort to prevent its functions being taken over by General Douglas MacArthur.
The book includes discussions of the office of secretary of state itself; the Soviet threat; the Atlantic Community; the "Great Debate" on troops to Europe, Germany, and Spain; the "Southern Flank;" the Far East before Korea, and security and loyalty in the department of state.
Acheson doesn't follow along with those who believe in a full German rearmament. He believes in a secure Europe but thinks that if Germany is allowed to rearm it might be a destroying factor for that European security.
It is quite significant for Bundy, a Republican, to write this praising book about Acheson since other Republicans have soundly criticized the secretary for his policies. —Lou Fry.
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Comments . . .
Here's One Slant On Those Peculiar People—Professors
A slightly different slant on college professors has been offered by the Graphic, George Pepperdine College, (Calif.). It remarks in an editorial:
"College teachers are a peculiar people. They are sometimes like rods, often like children.
"They impose their unquestionable knowledge like Caesars, distribute impossible assignments, then pout like infants when their bleary-eyed students produce hastily prepared homework.
"... Who except teachers would despise tardiness and absenteeism and be frequently late or absent themselves? Who else would complain of students' irresponsible attitudes toward assignments, then neglect to return tests promptly?
"... Teachers seem to believe that students enjoy handing in late work. They often punish the unfortunate culprit by gently reminding him during class that 'Promptness is the backbone of democracy.' (Some other maxim could be substituted here just as effectively).
"The teacher raises his eyebrow at all excuses and seems to forget that other teachers also impose pressing obligations. He implies . . . that the student spent his past week in evil pursuits and deliberately snubbed his teacher's heart-rending pleas.
"I wish that I had known my teachers when they were students. They must have been a very wonderful bunch.
New Group Set Up At Utah
Says the group, "Our ability to
The letters stand for the American Association of University Students for Academic Freedom. It's a new national organization set up at the University of Utah.
understand and improve the democracy we live in is inseparable from our right to explore unorthodox ideas and divergent opinions."
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