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Thursday. Feb. 18. 1960 University Daily Kansan
Dubois Replies
I write to comment on the lamentable display of bad manners by the handful of Latin American students last week during my William Allen White Lecture.
Editor:
Lest it be misunderstood, those students who arrogated unto themselves the role as spokesmen for all Latin America, according to the placard which read: "Latin America Rejects Energetically Communism Remarks" spoke only for themselves and the Castro revolution.
In my lecture I quoted briefly—not extensively as your report said—from one report of the Inter American Press Association. Of the 26 pages of my lecture only two contained quotations from any I.A.P.A. report and the latter specifically referred to the threat of Communist penetration and infiltration in the field of mass media communications.
The report of the Committee on Freedom of the Press of the L.A.P.A. which I quoted was prepared and signed by such distinguished Latin American editors and publishers, the real spokesmen for Latin America, as: Pedro G. Beltran of La Prensa of Lima who is now Prime Minister of Peru; Monsignor Jesus Maria Pellin of La Religion, Caracas, Venezuela; Dr. Herbert Moses, O Globo, Rio de Janeiro and for nearly 30 years President of the Brazilian Press Association; Jorge Quintana, Bohemia, Havana, Cuba; Julio de Mesquita Neto, O Estado de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Richarddo Castro Beeche, Naicon, San Jose, Costa Rica; Manoel Franciseo de Nascimento Brito, Jorgal do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro; Ramon Blanco. El Imparcial, Guatemala; Augustin Edwards, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile; David Michel Torino, El Intransigente, Salta, Argentina; and Juan S. Valmaggia, La Nacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Forty-nine distinguished editors and publishers from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Panama, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Guatemala and Mexico voted for the adoption of the resolution which I quoted. That resolution was drafted by Rene Silva Espejo, editor of the editorial page of "El Mercurio." Santiago, Chile. The unanimous adoption of the resolution, after a stimulating debate during which it was emphasized that all totalitarianisms are alike and signify the same danger, was a result of such prominent spokesmen for Latin America as President Harmodio Arias of Panama, editor and publisher of El Panama America; and Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta, publisher of "El País" of Montevideo, and former foreign minister of Uruguay and author of the famous Rodriguez Larreta Doctrine of collective intervention in Latin America.
A curious feature of the picket performance is the fact that the handful of students prepared the placards in advance of my lecture and could not have possibly known what I was going to speak about. They undoubtedly equated communism as an enemy in the Fight for Freedom in Latin America and hence they elected, in defense of the Castro revolution and their determination to exhaust all efforts to propagandize it, to arrogate unto themselves importance which they do not possess to speak for all of Latin America.
The independent newspaper "Diario de la Marina" of Havana, which those students will describe to you as "counter-revolutionary" because it dares to criticize the Castro regime in one of the most courageous displays of editorship in the history of journalism, and which is edited by a patriotic Cuban, places the present day situation of Cuba in perspective in a page one editorial on February 13th, which I take the liberty to quote:
"Communism: Why?"
"Why is the democratic regime that was willed to us by the founders of the republic disappearing? "Why are the public liberties and rights of the citizens being suppressed? Why is there no party in Cuba other than the Communist Party?
"Why aren't any more newspapers being published other than the official ones and nothing other than the official line which is supplied according to conveniences is published and neither are any editorials other than those that are previously ordered and approved?
"Why instead of stimulating free enterprise and individual initiative the regime of forced labor is being enforced and the state assigns to each worker the salaries that such an employer without entrails wants to pay?
"Why does the least discrepancy or the slightest criticism bring the retaliation of 'To the Wall' or the concentration camp?
"Why is there no education or culture other than that which the state regulates, organizes and directs?
"Why does one class implant its dictatorship through the methodical, implacable extermination of the other classes?
If there should remain any doubt in the minds of professors or students at the University about the veracity of the above, the disclaimer footnote added to the editorial by the workers of the newspaper in exercise of the dictatorship of the working class (which we call communism) should dispel that doubt. The disclaimer reads:
"Why do our patriots run the fate of the Hungarians, of the Tibetans, of the Poles and of the others?"
"Why is it that the six million inhabitants of Cuba are being converted into six million slaves?"
"Clarification: This article is published by this journalistic enterprise in use of existing freedom of the press in Cuba, but the Local Committee of Freedom of the Press of the Reporters and Printers in this center of work, express, also in legitimate use of this right, that the same contains considerations which applied to Cuba, as they are, are insidious, they try to sow confusionism and form part of the conspiracy against the Cuban revolution."
It was an honor for me to have had the opportunity to address you and to meet with the students of the Journalism School both in class and socially. My thanks go to the Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi for their courteous hospitality.
Jules Dubois
Latin American Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
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Guests, or What?
Out of the Dubois—Latin American students episode a factor has emerged that needs further elucidation. I refer to the position and place of the students from foreign lands on the KU campus.
Editor:
On the one hand the chancellor has been reported to have reminded the heckling Latin American students at the William Allen White lecture of their guest status. This position has been endorsed by Rob Malik in his letter to the UDK. On the other hand the first letter that every foreign student receives from the university upon his acceptance welcomes him as a Jawhaker. The special orientation week program activities for foreign students further stress upon his integration and identification with the campus.
How is a foreign student to reconcile himself with these two apparently conflicting views? Of course the 'playing safe' behavior of being a guest at a time of controversy and a Jayhawker at other times is only too easy to suggest and follow. But why can't we look upon the academic community on the campus as being a wholesome entity encompassing among other things an experiment in international living? For the purposes of the U. S. immigration authorities foreign students are a separate category in the U. S. population, but need this classification be adopted on the campus?
R. S. Panesar
Kampala, Uganda, graduate student
It would be instructive to hear from American students as to how they look upon the foreign students among their midst from this viewpoint.
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WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson asked Congress today to cut price supports on wheat, eliminate wheat acreage controls, and expand the soil bank's conservation reserve to 60 million acres.
riculture committee details of the program outlined by President Eisenhower in his special farm message to Congress on Feb. 9. Benson submitted a draft bill of the proposed changes in the farm program. He outlined the sort of farm program the administration would prefer. But,
He spelled out for the House Ag-
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