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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1950
Thought For The Day —
"On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."—Oscar Wilde.
A Letter From Korea
Wonsan, Korea Nov.8,1950
Heard that Nebraska beat K.U. in a terrific game. Also received the magazine you sent. Will be grateful if you could continue to send them like that.
Haven't received the package yet.
The fighting to the north, around Chosin Reservoir area, has increased in intensity, and consequently we have doubled our close air support missions in that area. By-passed Reds continue to give us trouble and have made some weak attacks here on the airfield, and convoys have been ambushed between Wonsan and Hamhung. The mountainous area which encompasses most of the fighting makes it extremely difficult for bombing and rocket runs. And it's a strain on us even to fly down the road searching for the camouflaged targets because we must bend and twist with the valleys, and our chances of climbing out of a tight spot are limited due to the heavy load carried—a full belly tank, one 500 lb. bomb, eight rockets, and a full load of .50 caliber ammo. So it is interesting.
Would you check on my records? They were supposed to be forwarded, but have never arrived.
A First Lieutenant in VMF 312.
Editor's Note: This letter is the fourth in a series from a marine fighter pilot in Korea.
Stimulating Letters
We see that the latest issue of Upstream, the campus political and humanities magazine, has a few interesting letters to the editor printed in the back pages. There are also a few quotes, remarks, and epithets from other letters from readers which to us were quite stimulating.
Among other things, the editors, contributors, and the magazine itself were accused of "following the same line every Communist monitor in every Communist cell in this country is putting out," and other McCarthyesque babblings.
In other letters on the same page, the magazine, its editors, and contributors were praised by some prominent educators and public figures for the intelligent presentation of thoughtful articles on current affairs and problems.
We are glad to see a campus publication elicit such diverse comment while not actually trying to sell a particular political philosophy.
We hope that other campus publications follow suit and refrain from the somewhat hysterical vituperation employed in the past. —J.A.B.
Book Explains US-Soviet Conflict
"The United States is convinced that it has found the secret of individual liberty and material prosperity. Russia is equally convinced that it has found the secret of 'socialist democracy' and mass welfare. Yet to millions of people in the rest of the world who fear industrial collectivism typified by Detroit almost as much as the political collectivism typified by Moscow there sometimes seems little to choose between the two Utopias . . ."
The above statement appears in a little book on foreign policy called "The U.S. and Russia" written by Vera Micheles Dean, editor of the Foreign Policy Bulletin. As a reader moves through its pages, he is treated to a fascinating insight into Russian traditions, actions and possible future moves. The book was published in 1947, yet its words are arranged like tea leaves spelling out today's tragic events.
"Contrary to the fears expressed in 1819 about the threat of Communism to western industrial nations, Soviet doctrines have appeared primarily to backward agrarian countries which are struggling with the problem of reconverting their economies to modern industrial conditions and wonder whether the experience of Russia, shorn, if possible, of the excesses of political dictatorship, is not better suited to their needs than that of Western nations."
In another chapter the author states that Moscow's appeal for "socialist democracy" and the "rights of the toiling masses" remains potent in countries which today are at the level of development comparable to that of Russia in 1917. Mrs. Dean believes that war can only be averted between the U.S. and Russia by the two countries achieving a fusion of their differing views about the political, economic, and social issues of our times. Offering a possible guide for the U.S. to follow, she suggests that "sympathy for change
should be the guiding thread" in our relationship with other countries. She demonstrates convincingly that support of reactionary governments foster Communism rather than halting it. Our great danger, she says, is in becoming identified with the status quo' group Russia has built up the idea that the US is the bulwark for nationalism. Capitalism and that we are opposed to independence and social progress for backward nations, Americans have come to believe that Russia is the inspiration ("orders from Moscow") of all movements for change, irrespective of historic antecedents or geographic location, and that growth of Communism spells the end of free enterprise and democracy throughout the world.
The author, summing up her support of middle course in foreign policy, says, "The fundamental problem in the relations of the U.S. and Russia is whether this country, itself born of revolution against authoritarianism and colonial rule, will oppose or accept the new 'liberals' emerging in Europe, Asia and Latin America. If we oppose them, we may find that the rest of the world, shocking as it may seem to us, will agree with Moscow in regard to this country as the last bulwark of conservatism and reaction. If we accept them and give them our assistance in rebuilding the economy of a shattered world, we may find that
The Public's Pulse
Two Hoots
After hearing the discussion during the December 5 meeting of "World in Crisis," I feel forced to express some opinions of my own.
Many of the speakers seemed to forget that it was the invasion of South Korea by Russian-inspired North Koreans which precipitated the conflict. The government of North Korea was a Russian puppet regime, while the government of South Korea was the result of elections observed by the United Nations.
As for pushing north of the 38th parallel, this was originally merely a dividing line to separate areas in which the Russians and Americans would respectively receive the surrender of Japanese forces. I see no reason why United Nations' decisions to hold supervised elections throughout Korea should not be carried out by United Nations forces.
Finally, Red Chinese intervention cannot be explained by fears of the U. S. American forces did not reach the Manchurian border until after the Red Chinese were committed in force. No designed air attacks have been made on or above Chinese soil. When the first marine division captured the Changjin reservoir and powerhouses, they did not cut the power lines to Manchuria. All these facts show that the Red Chinese leaders are tools of the Russian Communists.
I do not give two hoots in hell for the capitalist system, but I would not like to see further encroachments of Russian totalitarianism anyplace in the world. The Anglo-Saxon democratic traditions are the best hope in the modern world and I think that, through its extension in the United Nations, it should be defended against totalitarian schemes of world conquest.
Harry Gilson College Senior
Looking Forward
Dear Editor:
Senator Kefauver has done us a great service in explaining the nature of conditions which make consideration of the Atlantic Union question an apt and practical matter for immediate public concern.
Before hearing his talk, I felt inclined to reject the question without even bothering to find out what it was all about. It seemed that Chinese intervention in Korea was the straw to break the camel's back as far as any form of further international entanglement was concerned.
But now that the senator has pointed out that such a plan offers hope of giving us a just share of the say so as to how our money is being spent by subsidized nations and how, particularly, it might facilitate the interjection of the principle of unity of command into a potentially stronger military establishment along with more effective al-
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we can renew our pioneering spirit on as yet uncharted frontiers, and help others fulfill, in their own way and with the context of their own historical experience, what we have been proud to call the American dream."
location of conscripted troops and of the other reserves essential to military preparedness, I shall look forward to the appearance here next Wednesday of Henry Cornehlson who is qualified to be more specific on what the plan has to offer.
H. B. Wilder Special Student.
Curfew A Howling Failure
Mason, Mich. (U.P.)—Residents here decided to get rid of their 10 p.m. curfew whistle when they learned it was working in reverse. It didn't keep youngsters off the street but it awakened babies and dogs and set both to howling.
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