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'U.S. Should Take Initiative In Settling Arab-Israeli Spat'
Friction between the Arabs and Israelis must be eliminated before there can be peace in the Middle East.
This is the opinion of H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, who spent 1955 and 1956 in Baghdad on a Fulbright award. He spoke at the SUA Current Events Forum.
The United States, one of the countries which caused the partition of Palestine, should take the initiative in the United Nations to get the two groups together, he said.
Two other important problems which threaten the peace of the world, according to Prof. Ireland, are Arab nationalism and U.S. foreign policy.
The Arabs are free now from Turkish, British, and French rule. There is strong Arab nationalism and antagonism against the West.
"You cannot get an Arab to believe that the United States, France, Israel, and Britain did not get together and sign a secret agreement to invade Egypt," he said.
The United States foreign policy adds to this antagonism, he said.
Prof. Ireland pointed out some deficiencies in U.S. Middle East foreign policy, and argued that the only way to regain the friendship of the Middle East is to show an interest in Arabs and Arab Nationalism. "Dulles is a feminic on Russia. His whole policy is concerned with Russia and the threat of Communism," Prof. Ireland said.
"Arabs are just a buffer for Dulles in the competition with Russia for control of the Middle East.
"He is not interested in Arabs and Arab nationalism, and Arabs will not turn toward the United States until the United States demonstrates a real interest in their welfare."
Prof. Ireland noted that Nasser is not a Communist.
"Nasser is liked by the common people. He is almost the George Washington of the Middle East.
"Nasser's goal is to unite all Arabs into one republic, but Arabs do not want to go Communist. Nasser would rather have help from the West, but he cannot get it.
"Do not believe those who say that Nasser was responsible for the revolution in Iraq. That was an internal revolution which started before Nasser ever came to power.
"If the United States had given
Balloon Rip Kills Flight
A giant plastic bag, designed to take a sealed gondola up 80,000 feet, ripped open and collapsed Wednesday at the Strata Bowl at Rapid City, S.D.
The accident was the final blow to a Navy project undertaken by a 1926 KU graduate, Dr. John Strong, now a Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist, and Navy Commander Malcom Ross.
The Navy called off the planned stratosphere flight, which was delayed several times in recent weeks by adverse weather, after Wednesday's mishap.
U.S. Doubts Red A-Plane
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Defense Secretary Neil H. McEloy said today he is "highly skeptical" of reports that Russia has flown the world's first atom-powered plane.
He conceded that the Soviets may have a "slight lead" over the United States in ultimate development of a nuclear aircraft.
The magazine Aviation Week reported that the Soviets recently flew the first prototype atomic plane in the Moscow area.
McEllroy said if the report is true, "it would be a tremendous jolt to us in this country."
He said the United States "does not contemplate any change" in its program to develop and build a plane operated by nuclear power.
Western sources in Moscow said they had no information on Aviation Week's claim. They said no new planes have been spotted flying in the Moscow area.
Chairman Dennis Chavez (D.N. M.) of the Senate's military appropriations subcommittee, promised meantime that Congress would give President Eisenhower all the money he needs to put a U.S. atom-powered plane in flight.
Scientists at Los Alamos said today they hope to develop a method of propelling space ships by using small nuclear explosions rather than an atomic reactor.
Dr. Stanislaw Ulam, co-developer of the hydrogen bomb and former research adviser at Los Alamos, first outlined the nuclear explosive method in 1947. Ulam said the method might give several times more push for each pound of propellant than by the reactor method.
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The two men hoped to ride the gondola 15 miles up and make telescopic studies of the planet Mars. They were awaiting take-off when the balloon ripped.
Official Bulletin
Nasser the money for the Aswan Dam, we would not have the problem of Communist influence in the Middle East that we have today."
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Prof. Ireland said that the money provided for such a dam would have been less than the amount which has been "thrown away" on point four and other projects which the Arabs do not want.
TODAY
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Newman Club Mass. 6:30 a.m. at St John's Church, 11th & Kentucky.
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The Arabs want someone to show them how to develop their resources so that they can become independent, but not someone to take oil and money out of their countries, he said.
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Newman Club Mass, 6:30 a.m. at St.
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Speech Potpouri Tryouts, 4 p.m.
Fraser Auditorium.
S. U.A. Bridge Lessons, 7:30 p.m., Card Room, Union.
Episcopal Morning Prayer, 6:45 a.m.
and Holi Commissional with break-
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"Syria has never accepted a cent from America. This is a point of national pride. Arabs do not want charity," he said.
Engr. & Arch. interdepartmental colo-
num. 4 p.m., 109 Maryan.
"Individualism has been the whole psychology of the Middle East for 5,000 years. Individualism does not lend itself to Communism."
WEDNESDAY
Jay James, 5 p.m., Pine Room of the Injon. Attendance required.
Another failure of U.S. foreign policy which contributed to Arab antagonism towards the United States was that Dulles would not release Egypt's frozen funds in the United States for medicine after the bombing of the Suez.
Prof. Ireland cited instances of ambassadors to the Middle East who cannot even speak the language.
"A person goes two years to a post, and then he is shifted to another post. A man should be used who knows the language and the people," he said.
"This was not only poor foreign policy, but also not humanitarian," he added.
"I know of one ambassador in Iraq who had spent 20 years in South America," he added.
George G. Strella
Salina Senior Awarded $400 for Self, KU
George G. Strella, Salina senior, has been awarded the Magnolia Petroleum Company scholarship for the 1958-59 school year. The scholarship provides $400 for the school and $400 plus tuition and fees for the student.
Strella is majoring in civil engineering.
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Democrats to Party for Party
Gov. George Docking and Newell George, representative-elect from the second congressional district, are expected to attend a Democratic victory celebration at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Lawrence Community Building.
The celebration will be a covered dish dinner and is sponsored by the Douglas County Democratic Central Committee. Mrs. Docking and Democratic county candidates in the recent election are also expected as guests.
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About one out of every 25 drivers involved in fatal automobile accidents in 1957 was asleep at the wheel.
Frank W. McDonald, committee chairman, said the election of two Democratic candidates for the first time since 1934 and Gov. Docking's re-election are the reasons for the celebration.
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