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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 26, 1957
Japan-U.S. Relations Improving
Japanese feeling toward the United States has taken a decided turn for the better.
At the same time, there is growing resentment against Soviet Russia.
The biggest development in Japanese-American relations was the decision of the United States to let a Japanese court try American Soldier William S. Girard for killing a Japanese woman
This was a matter of national pride. Before the final decision came, there was heated talk that the United States was trying to trample on Japanese rights.
But there has been another development resulting from the United States' decision to withdraw American combat troops from Japan.
The "Yankee Go Home" slogan was long popular with a lot of Japanese people.
Now, people in Japan are talking about the millions of dollars which the G. I.'s pour into Japanese economy.
It has begun to occur to them also that the withdrawal of the troops jeopardizes the jobs of a lot of Japanese people.
Since the troop withdrawn decision was made, about 6,000 Japanese employed at American troop bases have been dismissed. Another 7,000 are expected to lose their jobs by the end of September.
About 127,000 Japanese are still employed by the American forces. Of these, about 70,000 work for the ground forces which are to be withdrawn.
Provincial and city authorities face the loss of
the various payments made by the United States forces for the use of firing ranges, drill grounds and other military establishments.
Resentment toward Russia is growing largely because of the refusal of the Soviet government to enter into a fishing agreement.
Fishing is a basic part of the Japanese economy. Negotiations for a treaty which would permit Japanese fishing vessels to operate in waters off the Siberian coast have been stalled again and again.
To make the situation worse, Russia announced last Saturday that an area of more than 6,000 miles off the naval base of Vladivostok has been closed to foreign ships and planes.
There has been a suggestion that the Russian decree was linked up with military security. But the area in question has been effectively closed to foreign shipping and aircraft without any decree.
It appears that the decree really was intended to exclude Japanese fishing vessels from an exceedingly valuable fishing grounds.
Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama announced Tuesday that he proposed to send a strong protest to Moscow.
Japanese newspapers are denouncing the Soviet decree as a gross violation of international law.
Japanese people never forget, either, that Russia still refuses to account for thousands of prisoners who are believed to be still in slave labor camps nearly 12 years after the end of World War II.
Letters...
Editor:
United Press
I am a teacher and resident of California. Recently I spent three days in Lawrence and I received some rather acute perspectives of the city and its University. Might I communicate some of these to you?
Everyone has heard about the City Managership training program and the Governmental Research Center in KU's Department of Political Science. Out on our west coast the University's School of Education is being more and more acclaimed.
Lawrence, Kan., is a perfect-sized city, between 20-25,000, not counting University students. It is ideally located, 22 miles (via the KTA) from Topeka, the state capital, and 35 miles from one of the nations top twenty cities in population, Kansas City, and its major league baseball, renowned commercial districts, its well known summer theatre, and the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra. Lawrence has the right amount of industry, witness the new Hallmark and Callery Chemical plants. Lawrence has a top-notch senior high school building and several fine elementary buildings. It has several excellent residential sections and more are being built. And, mainly, it has the state's University.
Isn't KU the only one in the U.S. to offer degree work in jewelry work and silversmithing? Isn't that new physical science building considered one of the top in the midwest and the new music and dramatics arts building is probably the best on any American university campus today.
Kansas University is recognized far and wide in education. Of course, more in some areas. Basketball, cross-country, and track and field in athletics, for example, with its excellent physical facilities (Allen Field House and Memorial Stadium). Didn't the sports writers back east call the 1957 Kansas basketball team, "America's Greatest Collegiate Road Show?"
The KU School of Medicine is noted far and wide for its medical and nursing education. I found out the past few days the KU School of Engineering and Architecture is among the top ten schools in the nation in having engineering members in Who's Who, who graduated from its curricula.
Now, to some harder-to-face facts. KU has no social science building! Its several social science departments (economics, sociology, political science, history, psychology, geography, social work) are scattered over the hill-top campus. What, in this day of the H-bomb,
could be more important than an adequate facility for the social studies? Kansas does not have adequate housing for its extension diversion! It does not have a continuation center! The home economics department is appalling. Why don't they have their own modern building and be of school stature?
The new School of Business tobe-built building looks fine but the department of secretarial training therein looks antiquated. Even though the Kansas School of Engineering is top-rated quality-wise, it surely needs about four new engineering buildings. The KU art department needs a new building. It's too bad they can't have a structure like the dramatics and music folks.
The University needs more library space. Say, an addition immediately to the east where that little nondescript building is.
I also thought, by surveying the university general catalog, that the department of philosophy is rather weak in its offerings, as are the offerings in the Russian languages. A new department of library science would be important to a school of this size. I also feel that certain departments could be split to a great advantage: sociology and anthropology, speech and drama, physics and astronomy, and mining and metallurgical engineering.
By the way, this has little to do with the keenness of this community but I did notice in a barbershop and restaurant downtown that the "odd" magazine, National Republic, was available for waiting readers. I wonder if these folks know that many consider this periodical to be quite subversive. Don't confuse it with the New Republic or the National Review however.
But, it's a great university! It is generally recognized nation-wide as the most beautiful campus. I now believe it.
May Lawrence and its fine educational institution expand and prosper. This is a fine state, and did you know that the city of Lawrence is, proportionately, the fastest growing city in the state, population-wise?
Carl Sampson, Jr.
San Jose, Calif.
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The Hungarian Revolution (Praeager): A "white book" sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, this book edited by the American historian Melvin J. Lasky may well be called the testimonial of the free press to Hungary's fight for freedom. Similar to the recent report of the United Nations Special Committee on Hungary, it emphasizes that the uprising was spontaneous, and that its suppression by Soviet armed forces was premeditated aggression.
The major part of the book consists of news reports and broadcasts before, during and after the revolution. It includes dramatic stories from major Western news services, newspapers and broadcasts, and reports from the pre-revolutionary Communist press in Hungary, from rebel newspapers and radio stations, as well as from the Communist press. Perhaps some of its most interesting features are the reports published in newspapers of Poland and Yugoslavia—reports written by Communist newsmen who, however much "independence from Moscow" their countries' leaderships were pursuing, were themselves Communists and indoctrinated by the Marxist philosophy.
While these men may have had some initial sympathies towards the Hungarian cause, they went to the revolt-torn country filled with skepticism toward what was happening, half-believing Moscow's propaganda about "fascist counter-revolution." But once there, they had no choice but to recognize the true state of affairs. They reported these events to their Communist editors in Belgrade and Warsaw . . .
The book covers the period from World War I armistice to the New Deal, slightly more than a decade but in reality a part of the Twenties.
The Lawless Decade by Paul Sann (Crown) is the story of the 1920s with all its turbulence, scandals and unrest. George Hornby selected the pictures which go a long way toward making the book attractive to the viewers as well as the readers.
Sann's prose is terse, fast-reading and highly condensed. His accounts of the famous scandals and trials of the era bring back to life for a new generation a period which only the oldsters can recall in any detail.
Here are the Snyder-Gray trial, the Peaches Browning romance, the Hall-Mills murder, dapper Jimmy Walker, Al Capone, Al Smith, Gertrude Ederle, Lindbergh and the parade of people and events which filled the newspapers of the Jazz Age.
...TV Notes ..
Those who have been missing the comical Marion Lorne, who played the school teacher on "Mr. Peepers" for several seasons, will find her back in a regular TV vehicle next fall. She will be with Joan Caulfield in a new situation comedy series, "Sally," for NBC.
A new dramatic western series starring Richard ("Medic") Boone will occupy the 9:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday - spot on the CBS network in the fall. "Have Gun—Will Travel" is the title, and Boone, of course, plays as gunfighter.
Another TV drama that will make the transition to the stage is "The Broading House," seen last year on the "U. S. Steel Hour." Will Lorin based it on a short story by James Joyce. He will write the version for the stage which the Theater Guild and George Kondolf plan to present next fall.
Another filmed series prospect for fall is "The Reluctant Eye," concerning the humorous adventures of a private detective. Dancer Bobby Van has been signed for the leading part.
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