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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943
STUDENTS SAY FDR's Trip to Africa Too Much Risk
Students consulted in a poll conducted here yesterday produced a variety of ideas and opinions concerning the recent conference of Allied leaders held at Casablanca. A difference of opinion was observed as to the necessity of the President leaving the country for ten days although practically everyone agreed that many details of the $ \cdot $
meeting were not divulged.
Many students also stated that although immediate results of the meeting would not be felt by each individual, the final outcome of the war and a large amount of the action taken by the Allies in the future will hinge greatly upon what was decided at the conference.
Four Questions Asked
Questions asked of those interviewed were: (1) Do you consider it an intelligent step for the President to leave country at this time? (2) What do you expect as the immediate results of this meeting? (3) Do you see any significance in the fact that Stalin and Chiang Kai Shek couldn't be there for the meeting? (4) What did you think the news would be before it was published, in view of the big build-up it was given?
The opinions of some of the people interviewed are as follows:
Jane Priest. College freshman:
"It was very dangerous for the President to leave the country at this time because if he had been killed or lost, the result might be political and psychological panic. The account given to us of the meeting is so indefinite that it is hard for us to determine what was actually accomplished and how important it is. It seems to me that the reason Stalin and Chiang Kai Shek were not at the meeting was because they are too busy defending their countries to leave them. I was disappointed that this was all that there was to the announcement over the radio last Tuesday night. I expected it to be something spectacular like the announcement of an important battle that we had just won."
Don Michel, business senior:
Jack Moore, College sophomore:
"I think that the President should have sent some representatives over to the conference instead of undertaking the trip himself. If something would have happened to him it might cause much disorganization in our country. Look at how disorganized the French people became when Darlan was assassinated. Military strategy must have been the main undertaking at the meeting."
"I immediate results of the conference cannot as yet be seen. I feel that not enough of the real story has been published to forecast what the results will be. I can't see that the President's leaving the nation at this crucial time did any harm. As for Stalin, I think that the reason that he didn't attend the meeting was that he has too big a job on his hands in Russia. Stalin is closer to the actual scene than either Roosevelt or Churehill. I feel that the method which was used to play up the news by announcing that an important announcement would be given at 9 o'clock Tuesday night was merely a publicity stunt on the part of the government."
particularly plans for the invasion of German-occupied Europe. Stalin must have been either too busy in his own country to appear or else he didn't believe the meeting directly important enough for his interest to appear. I don't think that Chiang Kai Shek was even invited to the conference. I thought the announcement over the radio was a terrific let-down. I didn't expect it to be of this nature.
Claudine Scott, business junior:
"Only those who attended the conference know what the immediate results of the meeting will be. I don't believe that the fact that Stalin did not attend the conference indicates any friction between Russia and the other allied powers. Russia depends too much upon our production to foster any ill will toward us. Before it came out, I thought that the news would be an announcement of the opening of another Allied front."
Bob Kirk, College sophomore:
"I don't think that what was decided at Casablanca will speed up the progress of the war a great deal right now. Relations between De-Gaulle and Giraud still seem to me to be a little stiff. I think Stalin could have attended if he had wanted to. I thought that the announcement would probably be one concerning the formation of an Allied board of strategy, with some American general as absolute head."
Paul Woolpert, business senior:
"Immediate results of the conference will be slight, in my opinion. I feel that most of the plans made are for the distant future, rather than for any immediate change in Allied strategy. Stalin probably could have attended, but thought he was needed too badly in Russia, where he could be closer at hand to direct his forces in the battle against the Germans. I thought that the news would be of national, rather than world, interest, such as the rationing of some new item."
Officers of the Co-ed Volunteer Corps will meet at 9 o'clock tonight in the Union building to discuss plans for conducting the spring election, Joy Howland, publicity chairman, announced today.
Co-ed Volunteer Corps Meets To Plan Election
Women Want Building For College Forty thousand club women have united to demand that the Minnesota legislature provide a new mechanical and aeronautical engineering building for the University of Minnesota.
Texas Students Helped By Work
Texas Students Helped By Work
The University of Texas student employment bureau last year found part-time work for 2,155 students paving them a total of $140,000.
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History of Kansas For Brain Busters Over KFKU Tonight
"Kansas" will be the subject of the Brain Busters on their program over station KFKU tonight at from 9:30 to 10 o'clock. The historical background will be discussed since Friday is Kansas Day.
Utilizing the question and answer formula, Prof. Allen Crafton, of the speech department, will fire questions at the contestants. More questions have been received for this contest than all others, many of which came from neighboring towns, especially from the Topeka State Historical Society.
Contestants for the brain battle tonight will be Dr. Edward Baumgartner, of the Douglas County Historical Society; Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary; Bernard "Poco" Frazier, instructor in design; K. W. Davidson, director of information and instructor in journalism.
Four women majoring in home economics moved into the Home Management house Monday. They are Joan Taggart, Barbara Koch, Dorothy Fizzell, and Jean Granger. The women will take over complete management of the house for six weeks.
Home Economics Majors Begin Practical Work
Michigan ROTC In Frat House Having outgrown its office space occupied since 1922, headquarters for the University of Michigan. ROTC is now housed in a former fraternity house.
Hope For Combatting Influenza Cornell University is co-operating with the army in experiments with vaccination to combat influenza.
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Cowboys Will Play For Games
The University Cowboy band, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, will leave Lawrence at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon for Kansas City where it will furnish entertainment between halves of the basketball game between KU and the Olathe Clippers in the Municipal auditorium tomorrow evening.
Professor Wiley said that the band would also play between halves of the game with the Great Lakes Naval Training Station team Saturday night in the auditorium.
The band will feature David Lawson singing cowboy ballads, the vocal trio in Jingle Jangle Jingle, and electric and fire baton twirling by Bill Sears, George Rhoades, and Bob Bellamy.
Small Sooner Squad Trains for Track
Jan. 28, —(Special)—A war-rid- dled University of Oklahoma track squad that numbers only 18 men, freshmen and varsity combined, is looking ahead to its first outdoor meet, the annual Texas Relays April 3 at Austin, Texas.
The Sooners will send a handful of varsity and sophomore thliuclads to the Big Six indoor meet Feb. 27 at Kansas City's Municipal auditorium, but the Big Six's disambourment of freshmen for this event means that Oklahoma can be represented only scantily.
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Jay Janes Schedule Jamboree for Women
Plans for a Jay Jane Jambore for University women at 4:30 Wednesday, Feb. 10, are being made, Virginia Rader, publicity chairman of the committee, announced. This annual affair is for the purpose of getting acquainted, especially for the women new at the University this semester.
AIR FORCE----
(continued from page one) high school science, and who are between the ages of 18 and 21.
MIESSNER AND----
Trainees under plans B and C train as privates in the Army Air Corps, after which they graduate into A training and become second lieutenants in the Air Corps.
(continued from page one) same week that Petrillo, the czar of the American Musician's Federation, was refusing to let high school music bands on the czar because of the competition it gave to professional musicians.
Dr. Miessner spent three weeks in the Robbins Music Corporation office in New York City last summer, editing and making choral arrangements of popular and standard songs for the "ALL-American Song Book." The song book has a wine-red cover and sells for 25c.
FACULTY EXAMS----
(continued from page one) fered only to students who choose to take them at an individual cost of $3. The only other option is to require it, and the cost then would be $1.50. Chancellor Deane W. Malott said. Dr. A. H. Turney, of the School of Education, is the director of the examinations.
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