Editorials
Atlantic Union Urges Federation
The first annual congress of the Atlantic Union committee met recently in Memphis, Tenn., and stated their aim—a "free federal union" of the democracies which sponsored the North Atlantic treaty.
W. E. Sandelius, professor of political science, was a delegate from the Lawrence chapter of the AU.
Chapters from 39 states were represented at the convention, which was presided over by Owen J. Roberts, former justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. A total of $70,000 was contributed by the delegates and interested Memphis businessmen toward the purpose of the AU committee stated in the "Memphis Declaration":
We, the delegates of AUC assembled in Memphis, Tenn., in our first national congress affirm our loyalty to the sovereignty of individual man as embodied in the U.S. Constitution.
Recognizing the interdependence of man, we believe in the extension of these principles of federal union between self-governing peoples within the framework of the United Nations:
We declare that:
The people of the Atlantic democracies have the moral and material strength to safeguard freedom and to lead mankind into a new world of peace and prosperity.
We are failing to achieve these ends and are threatened with loss of liberty, heavier taxes, lower living standards, dictatorship and war because we are disunited, linked only by an alliance of sovereign nations.
The North Atlantic Treaty organization is a step toward sharing the burdens of common defense and pursuing a common foreign policy; but today it exists largely as a pyramid of committees. The commander of the NATO forces can achieve little so long as he is the agent of many sovereign governments instead of one effective civil authority in the democratic tradition.
Individual freedom, personal dignity, and collective well-being are paramount goals of mankind.
The achievement of these goals is dependent on peace. Peace is dependent on strength—moral, economic, military, and political.
The only sure source of such strength lies not in coalition of governments but in the partnership by consent of self-governing people under law and under God.
Such a union among the people of the Atlantic community would command the loyalty and devotion of patriots and form an ever-widening union of the free.
Now, therefore, we call upon our fellow citizens of these free nations, as individuals and in association, to urge their governments to make the foregoing principles the chief basis of their policies and to call promptly a convention to explore the possibilities of such union.
The work of constituting this union of the free may well be accompanied by every intermediate and functional measure that strengthens the Atlantic community.
Its spiritual and material power will make this union safe against war and from treason and lessen the burden of armament. The saving and enrichment from economic unification will spread throughout the earth the prosperity needed to expand economic security and justice.
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Letters:
Dear Sir:
Recently Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was put on disciplinary probation for a period of five months by the disciplinary committee of the All Student Council.
While this action is not drastic in effect, it infers that they have committed a serious offense. This seems unwarranted considering some of the questionable activities that have taken place in the past on this campus and have gone uncensured.
1. A float in last year's Kansas Re-
1. A float in last year's Kansas Relay's parade which was related to General MacArthur's dismissal, and another two years ago which displayed a dog and a slogan in extremely poor taste.
3. The use of an "out house" as a main theme in a Homecoming decoration.
2. Certain cartoons and jokes which have appeared in campus publications in past years.
4. The recent spectacle of "Bathsheba" between halves at the K-State football game.
And certainly the reader can recall many other incidents of a similar nature.
It seems a shame that a fraternity which has never given offense before should be used as an "example" to restrain the type of activity that has apparently been accepted in the past.
While the administration is right in objecting to obscene displays, I am not fully convinced that its wrath should so suddenly descend on the Tekes.
Is this action of Dean Woodruff's disciplinary committee a display of justice or a display of power?
Vic Goering
College sophomore
SSC Suppressed?
To the Editor:
Chancellor Murphy and Dean Woodruff have expressed the view that they are not trying to hamper the Socialist Study club and have nothing against the organization as such. Their refusal to allow us to sell Anvil on campus is based on the fact that it is not published solely by KU students. While their individual approach may be one of tolerance to the SSC, the objective real condition created by their views is to suppress the SSC in at least one method of expression of our aims and ideas.
While it is true that we are not the sole sponsoring organization of Anvil there is a KU representative on the editorial staff and we thus have a direct method of insuring that Anvil does conform to our views and policies.
The point of Anvil being published in New York is a silly one. What difference does it make where it is printed? It is where Anvil is written and what is written in it that is important. Over these the SSC has direct control through our representatives. The other sponsoring organizations have basically similar programs as the SSC of KU in as much as they are all anti-war and opposed to imperialism, be it Russian or American.
The sale of Anvil off campus has already started and will continue through Friday. We look for the support of many KU students who share our ideas and of many others who wish to have a complete picture of all sides of the major questions of today.
Norman Gross Graduate student
The first campus chapter of WORLD (World Order Realized Through Law and Democracy) has been organized at the University of Minnesota. The purpose is to be to "cultivate thinking on an international level."
News From Other Campuses
New Political Action Group
Publication Days Reduced
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Student editors of the Syracuse university Daily Orange have cut publication to four days a week in the face of a $20,000 drop in operation budget. Staff members are facing what they call a "profit or die situation."
Friday, Nov. 16, 1951
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News Roundup
Egypt Charges British Aggression
Paris—(U.P.)—Egypt accused Britain before United Nations today of waging a "real war" against the Nile country, but offered a plebiscite in the Sudan to settle at least one phase of the dispute.
In explosive terms that astonished the assembled diplomats, Egyptian Foreign Minister Salah El-Din charged British actions in the Suez Canal zone represented an actual breach of world peace.
But in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, claimed by the Cairo government as territory under the crown of King Farouk, he proposed an election to determine its future.
Raises Atrocity Figures
Pusan, Korea — (U.P.) — Col. James M. Hanley, chief 8th Army war crimes investigator, today raised the total number of American war prisoners murdered by the Communists in Korea to 6,270.
Altogether, he said in an exclusive interview, the Chinese and North Korean Reds have slaughtered 13,400 Allied war prisoners since the outbreak of war on June 25, 1950. Far from retracting his disputed earlier statement that the Chinese alone had killed 2,513 American prisoners, he repeated it and enlarged his report to include 3,757 Americans slain by North Korean troops.
Hanley disclosed the new figure just before two high U.S. officers arrived in Pusan and began questioning him about his unexpected disclosure of the Red atrocities.
Wilson Names Peace Causes
Toledo—(U.P.) —Defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson called upon the United States and Russia today to bury their differences and join in a battle against the "common enemy of fear and frustration, want and privation."
"This common enemy, dangerous and implacable, faces both nations." Wilson said. Until and unless the two nations can reach a solution, the United States must continue to build up its military strength, he added.
To finance such rearmament, he said, taxes must be increased despite the "frustration of the great mass of people" over mounting tax rates. "Even with present tax scales, the frightful cost of national preparedness cannot be met, and increasing deficits must be faced," he said.
Alexander Troyanovsky, who was ambassador to the United States before World War II, argued the imperative necessity of friendship between the United States and Russia, and the maintenance of ordinary business relations.
Russian Authors Boost Peace
Moscow—(U.P.)-Two articles in the new Moscow English language magazine "News" made a bid today for friendship between the United States and Great Britain on one hand and the Soviet Union on the other.
In the second article, the magazine affirmed Russia's constant readiness to establish "on a reciprocal basis normal business and friendly relations with all countries irrespective of social systems and political regimes."
Two Killed In Train Wreck
Hortense, Ga.—(U.P.)—A New York-to-Miami streamliner crashed into the rear of a slow freight in a rainstorm last night, injuring 23 persons and killing two, one a young stationmaster vainly trying to flag down the speeding train.
Station master James Strickland, 24, was crushed by flying debris when his frantic waving of a signal lantern failed to stop the express. The engineer of the express, A. H. Byington of Savannah, Ga., also was killed.
The Atlantic Coast line's Southbound Havana Special piled into the last six cars of the Northbound freight as the latter crawled into a siding. The impact scattered cars over the right-of-way and demolished the 30-by-50 foot depot.
ICC Ups Railroad Mail Rates
Washington— (U.P) The Interstate Commerce Commission today set new mail carrying rates which will give railroads 32 per cent more than they got in 1950.