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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1940
The Kansan Comments-same time, deliver a blow to Hitler's "new order" in Europe by repealing the Johnson Act.
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On December 2, 1823, James Monroe, President of the United States of America, made his famous declaration which fenced off the western hemisphere, kept it free from foreign exploitation.
Bluff or Luck?
The most serious threat was at the time of the Civil War. Louis Napoleon of France set up the puppet government of Maximillian in Mexico, with the initial aid of England, under the guise of collecting claims against the Mexican government. The English soon withdrew.
Secretary of State Seward objected to every move of the French occupation. Maximillian was backing the South to win. As the North became more successful, Seward's notes became stronger. At the end of the war, the United States massed troops on the border of Mexico, demanded that Louis Napoleon withdraw his troops.
War was imminent. Suddenly Napoleon ordered his men to embark for France, leaving Maximillian to Mexican mercy. Was Napoleon scared? Not at all. Bismarck was on the move to unify the German nation and French troops were badly needed at home.
For more than 100 years the United States has upheld the Monroe Doctrine, never once resorting to the use of force. Several presidents have been glorified in American history because they "out-bluffed" wily European diplomats and forced them to withdraw claims.
The real truth is that without the English navy and the Balance of Power in Europe, the Monroe Doctrine would long since have gone by the board.
In 1895, England, strong and aggressive, sought to force Venezuela, weak and unarmed, to cede to British Guiana without protest, 30-000 square miles involved in a border dispute.
President Cleveland decided the Monroe Doctrine was being violated. He set up a commission to determine the true boundary, which he said the United States would protect. The British were astounded at such audacity.
No one knows what the decision would have been, for England withdrew her claim. Just a few days after President Cleveland's announcement had come the news of Doctor Jameson's ill-fated raid into Transvaal, the beginning of the turmoil in South Africa that led England into the Boer war.
Again in 1902, trouble arose over the Monroe Doctrine, again in Venezuela. Germany, Italy, and England proposed to force the little South American country to recognize certain claims of their nationals. Acting on advice of the United States minister, Venezuela recognized some of the claims, offered to arbitrate to determine the amount. England and Italy accepted, withdrew. Germany, who had wished to test the Doctrine, was forced to withdraw because she could not fight a war with the English navy in her rear.
Waiting for the Wind
Each time the Balance of Power and the English navy saved the Monroe Doctrine and the face of American diplomats. United States is now on the edge of a new era. Should the English navy collapse and England herself be beaten, United States will be forced, for the first time, to "put up, or shut up."
President Roosevelt, often called an opportunist, is apparently missing an opportunity to please a pro-British electorate and, at the
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Europe's "new order" is definitely disorderly right now. Rumania is in a chaotic condition, and there is a real threat of anarchy which would endanger the Reich's oil supply; French university students have been demonstrating in favor of De Gaulle; in Denmark, the civil police have already clashed with the nazis; and Norwegian avalanches, which cut German supply lines, seem to be getting their impetus as much from rebel dynamite as from the rains.
which might have a great nuisance value, if Britain were able to help. Since the blitzkrieg is analyzed as an organized, mechanized, form of guerilla fighting, perhaps these tactics could be used effectively against it.
These things show a strong possibility of guerrilla warfare within the conquered nations
Mr. Roosevelt, however, has recently eased up on his demands for "everything short of war" in aiding Britain. This is indicated by deferring action on repeal of the Johnson Act until the January session of Congress. Deferment may mean that he is merely trying to get better British security for loans, or it may mean he is afraid of the ultimate downfall of the British Empire.
Added to the signs of violent discontent are Il Duce's about face advance in Albania, the clamor of young Egyptians for open war against Italy, and Spain's apparent willingness to let Britain keep Gibraltar, all of which indicate continued British dominance in the Mediterranean.
Close to the President is ambassador Kennedy, who holds little hope for British victory. It is possibly due to this fear of British defeat that the President is hedging. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt is waiting for the direction of January's winds to determine his course.
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Vol. 38 Thursday, Dec.12, 1940 No.59
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
PI LAMBDA THETA: Pi Lambda Theta will meet for a panel discussion in room 115 Fraser at 7:30 this evening—Mary Lou Randall.
A. S.M.E.: There will be a meeting this evening at 7:15 o'clock in Marvin auditorium.-Stuart Bunn, Chairman.
M. S.C.: There will be a meeting this evening at 8 o'clock—Jim Burdge, Secretary.
--can be seen flying from the northern spire of Fraser hall and can be heard when the strains of "Far Above the Golden Valley" fill the room. Graduates will take it with them next June yet it will remain here always, typified by a cocky little bird with a defiant stance and a pair of hobnail shoes.
RHADAMANTHI POETRY SOCIETY: Rhadamanthi Poetry Society will meet this evening at 7:30 in the west ballroom of the Union Building. Dr. J. W. Ashton of the English Department will speak. Anyone interested in the reading, writing, or study of poetry is invited to attend.-Bob Humphrey.
ROGER WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: There will be a "Christmas" open house this Sunday between Vespers, from 5:30 to 7 o'clock, at the Baptist Student Center, 1124 Mississippi Street. Come and bring your friends, and bring 10 cents for a gift for the Christmas tree. Theta Epsilon will assist—Stanford Splitter, President.
SIGMA XI: The regular meeting will be held on Monday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Blake hall. Dr. Robert G. Green of the University of Minnesota will be the guest speaker. Members note the change in the day. W. H. Schoewe, secretary.
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K.U. Colors Really Blue And Maize, Not Crimson
"Something old — something new —
Something borrowed - something That is how the spirit of the University of Kansas was born. Well, most occasions, this one has no definite beginning—
Something borrowed — something blue—"
Unlike most creations, this one has no definite beginning like Topsy, it just grew. Today it walks the campus with some five thousand students and lives in distant corners of the globe in many guises.
On the basketball court, in the classroom, from the laboratories to the distant fields of research, atop Mt. Oread and amidst the havoc of war it goes with the men and women of K.U. It
The spirit of Kansas made its formal debut more than fifty years ago—in the form of the school colors. Sometimes before 1890, the governing body chose corn yellow and pale sky-blue as the colors of the University. In 1890 Colonel John J. McCook gave the land for McCook field and K.U. entered the realm of competitive sport. No self-respecting team of eleven huskies could be expected to wear corn yellow and pale sky-blue on a football field. With the athletic fans backing the demands of the team for a change, the pastels gave way to a more virile and vivid combination.
McCook was a Harvard man and the crimson of Harvard was his first choice among the proposed colors. To complete the combination (and
at the same time not show favoritism) the blue of Yale, Harvard's most prominent opponent, was adopted.
Not long afterward, the "Crimson and the Blue" came to be heard as well as seen, when George Barlow Penney, first dean of the School of Fine Arts, wrote the Alma Mater. Mr. Penney followed the example set by his predecessors. He borrowed the music from Cornell's "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," changed the words to fit Mt. Oread and its valley, and the song for Kansas was written.
With the crimson and blue to emblazon the path of athletic glory and a song to praise its greatness, the University needed but one more medium through which to typify the ever-growing spirit. Daniel Henry Maloy, '14, in 1911 created the bird that was to become the K.W. emblem. He introduced the Jayhawk as the fighting bird with shoes on. (The shoes were to kick the Missouri hound dog.)
"Ve Vill lick der world!" declares Hitler. All that, and heaven, too.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
It you weren't at the basketball fracas Tuesday night you missed some ingenious between-halves yells. While two games of table tennis were being played on the gymnasium floor, bright sideliners cheered "Yea ping, yea pong; yea, ping pong!"
Other inspired "yea yea" combinations were Boy Scout (for Boy Scout officials of the ping pong games), br-ac, (for the current slang insult), Corny Elbel (for announcer E.R. Elbel, associated professor of physical education), and Tex-as.
These choice bits were led by their various composers, not by the K.J. cheerleaders.
Medal for hairtrigger action in an emergency should go to Dick Shaefe- fer
The other day a cap, left on a lamp at the Sig Alph house, caught on fire. Actives nearby called pledge Shaeffer to the rescue. Grabbing the flaming cap, he rushed to an active's door and knocked.
is it all right if I go in there?" he asked, indicating the guest bathroom. The cap blazed in his hand. The actives hurried him in to the wash basin.
"Shall I use hot or cold water?," he asked untroubled.
Texas basketballer Thurman Hull found practically a namesake on campus here. All that Phi Gam pledge Thurman Hill had to say was, "With a name like that, he can't go wrong."
"Mighty peculiar thought the Pi K. A.'s when, after an agent describing himself as vacuum-cleaner repair man and representative of a local shop had carried away their cleaner, they called the shop to find it had never heard of him.
The man brought back the machine and a bill for $9.50, but was glad to get away without the money when his customers put the bee on him. This time (pardon pun) his cleaner racket didn't clean up.
As everybody knows, Phi Delt Henry Noller is engaged to a Theta. But a certain Gamma Phi is assuming open season for flickering sweet nothings around.
When pledges of Scabbard and Blade, military honorary, were waving wooden swords and doffing tin hats last week, they met every noon on the center steps of Frank Strong hall for cannon practice. One play-like cannon was pointed straight at the window of 205 Frank Strong, hangout of mathematics professors.
One noon Prof. G.W. Smith leaned out the window, fluttering a flag above his head. "Shoot if you must this old bald head, but spare the country's flag," he said.
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