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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Dec. 9, 1
Unter den Linden
Now that Berlin is again threatened with isolation, the armchair strategists have dusted off their globes and started carping about the West's pathetic diplomae in the immediate postwar years.
Our present dilemma, say the second-guessers, is caused by:
1. The decision to let Russia capture Berlin in 1945.
2. The agreement partitioning Berlin and giving Russia control of the surrounding area.
3. The failure to secure permanent land routes to the city.
Everyone from Roosevelt on down has been blamed, including Truman, Eisenhower, Churchill, the State Department, and the Army.
The partition of Germany was decided during the short East-West honeymoon of the 1940s. It was naive, but there appeared to be no reason to believe the Russians and the West would remain in Germany as part of an extended struggle for world domination.
The matter of blame is academic. The solution to the Berlin problem is vague and difficult. But the United States, having taken over Britain's position as leader of the Western world, should learn an old British technique: Muddling through.
There will be no easy answers in Berlin or anywhere else. Within the broad beliefs which the West holds, we must meet each situation as it develops. —Alan Jones
Where Were the Women?
Hurrah for the "disappointing male." At least he has time to watch Kansas compete in a sport which has kept the school in the national spotlight for several years.
It was a sorry sight to look through the student section at the Denver-KU basketball game last night and see only a handful of females scattered throughout the cheering section in the middle and upper balcony.
Either the majority of women are not intelligent enough to understand basketball or do not
care whether Kansas wins or loses. And both of these seem improbable. For last year the females turned out in droves when Kansas was supposed to have an unbeatable team. Now they find excuses when the picking looks slim.
What's wrong? Aren't the "disappointing males" inviting the KU coed to go with them? Maybe if the women would sharpen up a little and take part in some of the activities that the men enjoy, they would not be faced with the deploring tale of the "disappointing male."
—Malcolm Applegate
Meyer Not Unique
Editor:
My connection with the University is so tenuous (I am the wife of a professor emeritus) that I feel like an intruder in addressing you at all, particularly on a political matter.
However, error is error, though this one is not yours; but having propagated it, someone on your staff might be interested in commenting. I call your attention to the startling misstatement in the editorial from The Progressive reprinted in The Kansan Dec. 2. This was in praise of William H. Meyer, the first Democratic Representative elected in Vermont for more than a century, and his platform calling for: abolition of the peacetime draft; an end to testing and manufacture of atomic and hydrogen bombs; revision of foreign policy; more extended negotiations with the Soviet Union;
greater emphasis on technical assistance and economic aid for allies and underdeveloped nations.
The editor (of The Progressive) says that here are some ingredients of a truly creative foreign policy, "but no politician representing one of the major parties has dared embrace them until Meyer courageously stepped forward. . ."
It is hard to believe The Progressive has never heard of Adlai Stevenson, who in 1956 pressed all these points (the first two, indeed, modified in the direction of caution and good sense—e.g., he did not call for immediate cesation of the draft, but asked for a re-examination of our military requirements in view of a rapidly changing technology, and believed that the draft would be found outmoded), and he has been talking for the last three points since 1952.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Mrs. Albert Bloch
1015 Alabama St., Lawrence
It would be interesting to see whether in 1956 he was praised for his advocacy of these same steps by The Progressive, or misunderstood, distorted and berated there as in almost all other publications.
Sunnyside
Editor:
It would seem that before making any more irresponsible statements Mr. Wilson should take up residence at Sunnyside for one semester.
Until the latest rebuttal by that astute gentleman I have gone all-out to defend the maintenance department and, to a great extent, the problems of Mr. Wilson. However, his remarks concerning the negligence of occupants on picking up the odds and ends of refuse, aiming at but not hitting the cans, are a bit ridiculous in that there are few of us so inaccurate as to have all of the refuse hit the dirt. Surely even the most unskilled housewife can hit one out of four cans.
Simple racks and lids that fit is not an expensive solution. The wind and dogs at least would be foiled. The city's rubbish department—now that's a real problem!
Mrs. Alix Lott 7F Sunnyside
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By John Husar
We complain about the wicked entertainment available for children on television and in the movies. We look for another, cultural medium. And when we find theater catering to children, we rejoice. Next step—to find a play to recommend.
No, KU's Children's Theatre did not do it up well at all yesterday as it opened its first play of the season, "Treasure Island." Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel and adapted for the stage by Dorothy Drew, "Treasure Island" is gauged for children between the ages 9-14. There were 12 children in yesterday's audience. They didn't seem too interested. Maybe they expected a quality performance.
At any rate, they did not get one. Talentless actors roamed about the stage reading lines and imitating the director's instructions as though they were completely new to the game. Their play is supposed to whisk the children into a sort of fantasy-land where the kids become engulfed within the story and live among the players. All the children actually saw were futile struggles for credibility issuing from players caught in an unhappy medium between fantasy and realism.
The script is not the cause of our misery. The story is presented in an innocent manner. This is okay, as the play is for children. But the players' wooden and insincere histrionic attempts were laughable pathetic and incongruous with each other. How the terrible acting slipped by the director and how some of the directing slipped by the standards committee are good questions.
Along with the excellent costumes and fine settings, a few actors salvaged a worthy moment or two. High school student Jeff Quinsey (Jim Hawkins) outdid some of the University actors with his ability. Larry Sneegas (Long John Silver) did the best job as the only one who could hold the children's attention. Bob Moberly (Capt. Smolett) was miscast but delivered his normal, excellent performance. Daryl Warner (Ben Gunn) created a difficult role and deserves lengthy applause.
The acrid performance made our afternoon onerous. We should have left after the first act as nothing much happened in the second.
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