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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1941
Don't 'Sit and Wait', Berle Tells Convention
Urges Lend-Lease Plan Adoption
"Most people have come to the conclusion that there is infinitely more risk in sitting and waiting," declared A. A Berle, Jr., assistant secretary of state, in a speech on the international situation at a special convolution Sunday afternoon.
Speaking on the opposite side of Dr. John T. Flynn, noted economist, who spoke in favor of isolation, at the University Jan. 16. Berle asserted, "Colonel Lindbergh tells us that we are in no danger anyhow. President Hutchins of Chicago tells us that we can trade it out with the axis, and that democracy will not survive a war which none of us want. All this is comforting—if you believe it."
Berle said that the isolationists, by opposing aid to Britain, want us to look for safety by running away from the plain necessities of the case.
He declared, "Today. nothing remains between us and the raging hell overseas save the British Isles and the narrowing Atlantic."
In reference to the United States, Berle said. "The question is to find the policy which offers the least risk. The choice at present is either the lend-lease method of aid to Britain, or the method of sitting still and relying on our own defenses, which will not be complete for another two years on land and in the air for another five years at sea."
Offers Ground Work
The Civil Aeronautics Authority again has selected the American Aeronautical Institute of Kansas City to teach ground school subjects in connection with a non-college civilian training program.
Announcement was made early this week by Edward A. Tappe, coordinator for the program which is under the sponsorship of the Kansas City Junior Chamber of Commerce.
METAXAS DIES---might open the way to a reconcollation with the liberal Greek elements and a more general unification of the country to carry on the war.
News From Page One
Metaxes' death came at a moment when it appeared that a new major test of Italian and Greek strength in Albania was developing.
There has been little change in the fighting lines in the past month but Italy is known to have made great efforts to reinforce her battered troops in an effort to regain the offensive. In the past two weeks Italian troops have tested Greek strength at almost every point on the mountainous Albanian front, possibly in preparation for a major offensive.
The Greeks, too, have been bringing up reinforcements.
COLEMAN PRESENTS--- the state adopted an amendment to
the constitution intended to take schools out of politics by providing a state levy of 1 mill each year for educational purposes, but the legislature failed to authorize the levy. Regents Work Out Program
The Board of Regents proposed to use authority granted by the amendment to work out a building program. The legislature would continue to make appropriations for the support of the institutions, but the special levy would be used exclusively for building programs at the five schools.
The bill was introduced by Senator Rolla W. Coleman of Johnson county.
START ACTION--lights on telephone poles close to the field.
The council discussed at length the question of whether the CAA program would continue long enough to make the improvements
worthwhile. Other factors considered were the possibility of obtaining a long term lease, and the ability of the city to maintain the rating of the airport. The fact that the CAA pilot training school provides a yearly payroll of $40,000 was not overlooked.
Cornell Donated Chemical Building
Ithaca, N.Y., Jan. 29.—(UP)—A new $700,000 chemical engineering building has been donated to Cornell University by Franklin W. Olin of Alton, Ill., President Edmund E. Day, has announced.
Day said the projected school will provide numerous laboratories for undergraduate instruction and graduate research and will have space for operation of large-scale model plants to duplicate an entire chemical manufacturing process.
Olin, president of the Western Cartridge company and a trustee of the University, was a civil engineering graduate from Cornell in 1886.
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