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Confusion Compounded
By John Ise, professor of economics
I left the auditorium Thursday morning, after Sir Norman Angell had spoken, with the notion that I had heard a sound presentation of the situation the United States would be in if Hitler conquers England. Talking with one of the teachers in the political science department, I found that he too thought Angell was correct on nearly every point.
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1941
I presently noticed however, that a great many students thought the lecture was just British propaganda. I find it difficult to understand how anyone who has read even a little of the literature on Fascism—Laski, Munk, Raushenbush, Lowenstein, or that classic on the subject. "Mein Kampf"—could question the general validity of Angell's argument.
He said that this was not an imperialistic war, and that is correct, in the main. There are imperialistic elements in it, but in its main outlines it is, from the British point of view, the reverse of imperialistic. The classes that have always instigated imperialistic wars have been the "appeasers" in this war. Angell said that Hitler would probably get the British navy, if he won the war, and pointed out that he could starve England if she refused to hand it over. Could we blame the British if they acceded to his demands?
Europe Not Enough
Angell suggested that Hitler would not be content with the conquest of England, and most of Europe. That seems correct, for most of the students of Fascism believe that it must have continuous war to survive; in fact the idea that war should be the normal state is to be found in the books and speeches of the Fascists themselves. A long period of peace and quiet would doubtless cause a disintegration within the Fascist nations. They do not want peace, and they could not stand peace; so Hitler would not stop with the conquest of England. Over and over, Fascist leaders have proclaimed that they must conquer the world; yet when Sir Norman Angell says it, we are told it is propaganda.
Well, Angell said that Hitler would try to take over South America. We do not need to guess here; he is already working at that, with thousands of agents scattered through the South American countries, using the same methods that he used in other countries in Europe. He could probably control most of the South American countries, perhaps without much fighting, if we did not intervene; and if we insisted on the Monroe Doctrine, there we would be at war, with no British navy to help us.
The Panama Canal
Perhaps Hitler would not come to Mexico, but he would probably want to control the Panama canal, and if he did nothing but threaten, he could make it vastly expensive for us to maintain our control of the canal. With the British fleet, he could control the sea so that we would sail at his sufferance; without the British fleet, he and Mussolini and Japan would have greater sea power, air power, and of course man power, than we could muster.
Angell said it was Hitler's policy to "divide and conquer." Read Raushenbush for a detailed account of this. Those who think we could live in any peace and security in a Fascist controlled world have not pictured concretely just what it would mean for an American producer or exporter to deal with such a power. Imagine any American manufacturer buying raw materials from the Fascist conquerors or selling goods to the Nazi government which controls the buying for 200 million people!
It seems to me utterly impossible that we could preserve any blissance of democracy, if the Fascists controlled the rest of the world (outside of Russia), and therefore that if England falls, we shall follow sooner or later. Hitler won't come directly across the Atlantic; Lindbergh is correct so far; but Hitler would make it impossible for us to live democratically in his kind of a world.
Situation Is Confusing
It is a confusing situation, surely. Many of our students—the finest people in the world, God bless them—appear to believe that our hope lies in isolation: some of us, on the other hand, believe that there can be no salvation in isolation, that we are inevitably bound up with the rest of the world by the iron logic of the machine age, and that our best hope is to line up with England and strike our heaviest blows as soon as possible. Someone is wrong here, a lot of people are wrong, on perhaps the most momentous question we have faced in more than a century, the question which
may well determine the fate of democracy the world over.
I hope it is myself and my crowd that are wrong, but most of the authorities on the subject are with us. The question comes up concretely in the debates on the Lease-Lend bill. I wish I could think it wise to line up with my esteemed Kansas contemporary, Alf Landon, in opposition to that bill; but look at some of the others who don't like that bill: Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mrs. Dilling (author of the Red Network), Charlie Coughlin and Earl Browder! Confusion compounded! Is it any wonder that democracy is wobbling?
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Sunday, March 2, 1941 No. 97
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on the day of publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for the Sunday issue.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building. All students, graduates, and faculty members are welcome—Betty Charles, secretary.
DELTA PHI SIGMA: The formal initiation banquet will be held Monday at 5:30 at Evans Hearth. Bring your dues.-Freda Zimmerman, Reporter.
EMPLOYMENT FOR K.U. WOMEN: Will all students who want part time work for the current semester please file class schedules in the Women's Employment Office, 220 Frank Strong Hall, at all! There are jobs, but we need class schedules—Marie Miller, director, Women's Employment Bureau.
FRESHMAN CANDIDATES RELAYS COMMITTEE:
Freshman candidates for the Kansas Relays Committee should apply in writing before March 5. Applications should be addressed to Ernie Klema, 107 Robinson Gymnasium.-Ernie Klema.
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL: There will be a meeting of the Council on Monday at 8 p.m. in the Pine room.Jim Burdge, Secretary.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Dr. Ralph I Canuteson.
PHI CHI THETA: There will be an important business meeting on Tuesday at 4:30 in the Union building. Attendance is required.-Marjorie Neumann.
W. S. G. A. COUNCIL: The W. S. G. A. Council will meet at 7 o'clock in the Pine room on Tuesday.— Doris Twente, Secretary.
WOMEN'S RIFLE CLUB: The picture for the Jayhawker will be taken at 7:45 p. m. on Monday, March 3, in the men's gymnasium. Bring 25 cents. Please be prompt.-Mary Catherine Colglazier, Captain.
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You Said It
The editor of the Kansan welcomes letters of opinion from students and faculty members to be published in the letters column. If the writer wishes, his name will be withheld, but the Kansan must have the names of all writers of letters.—
Editor, Daily Kansan:
Without criticizing the speaker at Thursday's all-University convocation sponsored by the school authorities, I should like to humbly ask the following questions:
Why, in a supposedly democratic state university, are the convocation facilities granted to a man whose views are a full 100 per cent British, and not to men who, equally qualified to speak, represent other points of view? Many patriotic citizens cannot agree with Sir Angell's "send the boys over" attitude.
When the minds of most of us are clouded with a smattering of a dozen different alternatives, is it democratic for our school to sponsor a British propagandist and not grant equal privileges to the pacifists and the short-of-war adherents?
Or is the attitude of the University that which was expressed by an adult leaving the convocation Thursday: "This school isn't trying to be fair any more. We're galloping into the war, and K. U. is going her part." I, along with several others, should like to know...
Respectfully, Dave Watermulder
Quick-on-the-trigger A. T. O. Loren Vieth, after being absent from school several days, returned to class and wondered why all the faces looked so strange to him. When the professor came in, he found there had been a classroom-swapping and he was in the wrong course.
By HEIDI VIETS
At intermission, Watkins hall party-goers were downtown picking up sandwiches wrapped in paper napkins. It proves two things: first, the dancing was hard and heavy; second, things were popping so that no one wanted to take too much time out for intermission.
Jeryn Ann Greene, Alha Chi, had the doubtful honor of being escorted to the Elmer A. Zilch journalism banquet by none other than Zilch himself. To anyone interested enough to wonder, Zilch in real life is Ed Garich.
ROCK CHALK TALK
Rock Chalk Co-op is becoming famous for a fine variety of puns. Here's a sample:
The other night George Bonebreak thought he had Miles White on the spot when he cracked, "You're not such a bad egg White."
But White, on his toes, came back with, "That's a dirty yolk." Now they're using it on Ef Prize ("You're a gold egg price")
After Katie Ann Sewell, Alpha Chi, read about Milton Wallace, Kappa Sig, catching a mouse in a coke bottle, she experimented, trapped her own finger. Now she sympathizes with the mice.
If even Shakespeare is scorched for over-punning, how can they go unharmed?
Gray, Dorsey entertained the Brick's crowd last night by singing "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," ala Colonna.
While the picture concerns the University of Kansas, no emphasis will be placed on the students attending this school, either in the picture or in the commentaries before the picture begins.
This film will be sent out in a few days to schools over the state as a courtesy of the bureau of visual instruction, Fred Montgomery, secretary of the bureau said today.
Mi fesso Sweet group of ever
Situations used in the movie are typical of those found in many colleges and universities and serve to answer questions which high school students have concerning college.
The film is being shown throughout the state without charge to the high schools. Art Wolf of the extension division staff will take charge of the projection equipment and public address system. He will also furnish the commentary for the picture.
Far Above The Valley--out the state without charge to the high schools. Art Wolf of the extension division staff will take charge of the projection equipment and public address system. He will also furnish the commentary for the picture.
University Film Attracts Large High School Crowds
Remember way back when the movie "Far Above the Golden Valley" was made and then premiered here on the campus, under the direction of Allen Crafton, professor of out the state without charge to high schools. A speech?
"Far Above the Golden Valley" has been shown at a number of high schools in Kansas, and the enthusiastic reception it received has prompted the visual instruction bureau to offer it now as a full evening program.
March 3, the film will be shown at high school assemblies in Ottawa, Iola and Garnett. March 4, it will be shown at Ft. Scott and Pittsburg. Arrangements are being made now for other appearance dates.