UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SIX
THURSDAY, MARCH 4. 1948
The Editorial Page
Watchful Waiting In The West
Pity the poor diplomats, the slavish statesmen, and the untiring peacemakers of the world. They lead lives full of crisis, situations, and problems that quickly turn their hair gray, send their blood pressures skipping, and reward them with stomach ulcers and gastroic disorders. The problem of Spain alone must cause the adrenalin to flow and the digestive processes to knot in anger beneath the most unruffled cutaway coat, black and white striped trousers, and top hat that ever adorned an international bargainer of the Western set.
Spain has been able to cause these physiological disruptions chiefly by doing nothing at all. Basking in the hot Mediterranean sun and swept by warm, dry winds, Spain is an arid, poor country. The Franco regime has a greedy, Latin eye fixed upon a portion of the 5,300 million dollar Marshall appropriation for European recovery. Franco believes the best way to obtain this windfall is to do nothing and wait.
The Spanish government can afford to take such a position because the Western powers who are fighting Communist penetration to the Atlantic fear that if Generalissimo Franco ever tumbled from power, the Communists would quickly seize the reins of the government. Spain is the second largest power in Western Europe. She has an important reserve of manpower and occupies a strategic geographical position. Her loss to the forces of Communism would seriously weaken the position of the Western, non-communist bloc.
The problem that vexes the diplomats of the United States and the Western democracies is how they can bolster this important anti-Communist factor in the Western scheme by monetary props in the form of Marshall plan appropriations without undergoing painful violations of conscience and loss of prestige. The objection is that Spain, of course, is a "police state." A marriage between Franco Spain and the West would be a curious, incongruous one. Actually there is no justification for such a loan. There are many solidly democratic nations who need all the aid they can secure before they can stand on their own two feet. It would be disastrous to have one of them fall to Communist plotters as an alternative to insufficient aid for reconstruction. In the meantime, Spain will evidently continue her policy of watchful waiting and diplomats will continue to fret and wrangle.
Henry Wallace will never get lonesome in his tours about the country. He has too many fellow-travelers for that.
If President Truman is defeated in 1948, he can use all the Republican hats that are in the ring to go back into the haberdashers trade.
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Smart Talk
University debaters have consistently brought home the oratorical bacon. In their latest triumph the glib men from K. U. took firsts and a second in tournaments at Nebraska, Indiana, and Ottawa universities.
Too often scholastic achievements get but brief recognition in the hub-bub of other campus activities. Besides being fleeting, the winner's reward is often only found in the personal satisfaction of a victory or in the prestige these firsts and seconds bring the University. Debaters from K. U. have marched off with top honors with an amazing persistence. Here's a vote of congratulations to them. Keep talking.
The first settlement in the state of Georgia was made at Savannah in the year 1733.
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Hastings Recital Will Be Sunday
Helen Hastings, soprano, a pupil from the studio of Alice Moncrieff, will present her senior recital at 4 p. m. Sunday in Frank Strong auditorium. Jack Moehlenkamp will be the accompanist.
Miss Hastings won recognition in contest competitions while in high school. She studied voice at the Oklahoma College for Women for two years under Virginia La Croix Anderson, a former University voice graduate. She took two summers of vocal work under Russell Holliger of the Kansas City Conservatory, coming to the University in 1945
She was a member of the A Cappella choir for a year and belongs to Sigma Alpha Iota, national music sorority.
Pessimists are generally agreed that the most frightening aspect of living is the existence of the atomic bomb. But there's some disagreement on their second choice. May we nominate the war debt for runner-up honors?
Tojo's claim that the United States "provoked" Japan to start a war is not to be scoffed at. All that scrap metal we sent him certainly must have served as stimulus.
German coal miners are now receiving cigarets and chewing gum in addition to food as dividends for increased coal production. In Europe, anyway, the familiar advertisement might well read, "I'd dig a mile for a Camel."
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