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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1951
Lee Sheppeard
War Of Words Needs Our Funds
The 1951 Crusade for Freedom is under way, and there still are a lot of people who have only a vague idea what it is. We feel that an explanation right now would be appropriate.
What it amounts to is this; the Crusade for Freedom represents "our side" in the propaganda war with Russia.
Before long, smuggled letters and testimonies of escapees confirmed reports that people were listening. As a clincher, Communist propaganda began attacking RFE with lies, threats, and official protests. The RFE technique was effective, but more stations were needed.
Shortly after World War II the Russians started a propaganda campaign to discredit every American action in Europe, particularly around Berlin.
That money paid for an RFE station in Munich that is three times as powerful as the strongest American station. It broadcasts $11\frac{1}{2}$ hours a day, and every program is beamed at Czechoslovakia.
Gen. Lucius Clay got a taste of Soviet propaganda while he was directing the Berlin airlift, and he saw the necessity of combating the Russian broadcasts. When he returned to the United States he joined with other noted Americans in the National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc. This group planned a network of independent, civilian radio stations that were to be known as Radio Free Europe.
They established a transmitter in Frankfurt, and on the Fourth of July, 1950, began broadcasting to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria.
The Munich and Frankfurt stations are not organs of the U.S. government, thus aren't restricted like the Voice of America. RFE can and does get tough with the Russians and their satellites.
By September the Crusade for Freedom had started its drive. Sixteen million Americans signed Freedom scrolls. No money was solicited, but Americans contributed more than one and a third million dollars.
When RFE men get a tip on a Communist they broadcast his name and address, warning non-Communists to steer clear. By code, RFE informs persons behind the Iron Curtain of friends and relatives who have escaped. Exiles from different countries speak to citizens still in those countries over RFE programs.
President Truman, General Eisenhower, and Ambassador Joseph C. Grew have endorsed the Crusade for Freedom. They, and others, feel the best way to avoid a third world war is to reach the people in satellite countries. By exploiting the discontent in those countries, particularly Czechoslovakia, we can fight with ideas instead of force.
In a country where the press and radio are puppets of the government, one free newspaper or radio station can start a revolution.
This year the Crusade for Freedom wants the signatures of 25 million Americans, and three and a half million dollars to build new stations.
The Communists have the initiative in the propaganda war, and RFE is our best weapon.
—Jack Zimmerman.
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Letters To The Editor:
Reply From Dean Lawson
Dear Sir:
In your editorial September 27 you asked the question "What happened" after Chancellor Malott's four suggestions to the College faculty in 1947. Here is the answer.
1) Revision of the 10-hour foreign language requirement:
Immediately after Chancellor Malott's suggestion was made regarding a possible revision of the language requirement, I appointed a committee of eleven to study this question. In appointing this committee, I did not ask any member's opinion on the question, nor did I know how the majority felt, but I did know that at least three members were opposed to the language requirement.
This committee, after a number of meetings, made two reports to the faculty in January, 1948. The majority report by eight members recommended an increase of the language requirement to twelve hours. The minority report of three members recommended that a committee be appointed to study the possibility of an alternative to the language requirement. In effect, the minority recommendation was to abolish the foreign language requirement.
In March, 1951, a motion was made in the College faculty to increase the language requirement to twenty hours. This motion was referred to the administrative committee for study and recommendation.
The faculty rejected both reports and voted by a strong majority to keep the 10-hour language requirement.
In April, 1951, on recommendation of its administrative committee, the faculty voted not to increase the foreign language requirement. The effect of this vote was to keep the present 10-hour requirement.
2) Studies concerning "general" courses in the physical sciences and the humanities.
As a result of these studies the following courses have recently been provided: Principles of Physical Science; World Geography; Insects and Man; Masterpieces of World Literature I and II; Interrelation of the Arts I and II; courses in French, German, Hispanic and Scandinavian civilizations; Citizenship in Action; and Government in Action.
Practically all College departments have organized their beginning courses as "general education" courses. For example, the six courses open to freshmen in the history department this fall would be vastly different were they organized as the beginning courses for history majors, and the two beginning courses in sociology, Elements of Sociology, are organized specifically for the "general" student.
3) Elimination of uneven work requirements throughout the College curriculum.
The College office asks hundreds of students each year about amount of work required in courses. Class grades are also studied,grades are also studied at the end of each semester,and particular attention is given those courses in which grades are distinctly higher or lower than normal.
No one is more aware of the undesirability of unnecessary regulations than the person who has the responsibility for their execution.
4) Correction of the tendency for College regulations to increase.
Interesting Statements of the Week Department
The actual number of regulations has been reduced in the last five years.
Regarding regulations, shooting with a shotgun hits no target. Just which regulation should be abolished? And why? I can assure you that the College faculty will be glad to study all specific, carefully-considered suggestions which are offered to improve our work.
Paul B. Lawson Dean of the College
Actor Tom Neal who got into a brawl with Franchot Tone over Barbara Payton said when told that the other two were being married: "There are so many beautiful women and so little time."
-News Roundup
House Group OK's Midwest Flood Aid
Washington—(U.P.)-The House appropriations subcommittee approved $113,440,000 for flood relief loans and grants today, but it rejected key features of President Truman's proposed $400,- 000,000 program.
The sum voted by the committee, plus present funds, would make $257,590,000 in federal assistance available to flood ravaged areas of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Illinois.
The committee flatly rejected Mr. Truman's request for cash payments to reimburse citizens for part of their flood losses. It also turned down his proposal for a $50,000,000 flood insurance program.
The bill is expected to go before the House tomorrow.
Communists Stop Allies
Eighth Army Headquarters, Korean—(U.P.)-The Reds battled attacking United Nations forces to a standstill along most of the 135-mile Korean front today and rushed their biggest offensive buildup since last spring.
In the air, however, 12 U.S. Shooting Stars America's slowest jets—caught a dozen crack Communist MIG-15 jet fighters over North Korea, probably shot down two of them and damaged another.
The air victory ran the 5th Air Force's toll of enemy jets in three days of air battles to seven shot down, three more probably destroyed and five damaged. No American losses were reported.
Washington—(U.P.)-Ambassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup today branded as "bare-faced falsehoods, distortions and misrepresentations," left-wing charges against him by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-W.is.)
He suggested to a Senate foreign relations subcommittee that it investigate whether "this disregard for truth, under oath, was or was not deliberate."
Jessup Denies Red Charges
Tehran, Iran—(U.P.)-Britain's last 330 oil technicians steamed away on the cruiser Mauritius today, abandoning the world's biggest oil refinery and other installations to Iran.
Meanwhile Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison promised today to keep on trying to reach an oil settlement with Iran, but said he would not risk war by using force.
At the same time, the Iranian government announced that Premier Mohammed Mossadegh will fly to New York Sunday to fight Britain's complaint against Iran in the Security Council.
Miami, Fla.—(U.P.)—Florida truck farmers today said only perfect "soft sun" drying weather can reduce the $1,000,000 crop damage toll of yesterday's tropical storm.
The massive storm headed into the open Atlantic after flooding vegetable field and buffeting the "Gold Coast" resort area with 60 mile an hour winds that added another $1,000,000 damage.
$2 Million Damage In Storm
Tokyo—U.(P.P)—Gen. Omar N. Bradley left by plane for Washington today after a final conference with top United Nations commanders on the Korean war and the stalled truce talks.
Bradley Returning To US
Bradley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, took off from Tokyo's Haneda airport at 4:29 a.m. (C.S.T.)
British Abandon Iran Oil
Atom Maneuvers Restricted
Las Vegas, Nev.-(U.P.)-The Atomic Energy Commission threw a security blanket today over forthcoming atomic war games at its Frenchman Flat proving ground and warned that unauthorized persons entering the area would be exposed to "serious personal danger."
The A.E.C. and the Army issued a joint announcement saying the site was closed to all unauthorized persons, and the press would not be admitted.