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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 28, 1952
'New' Doctrine Is Nothing New
The recent and controversial "Eisenhower Doctrine" for the Middle East isn't the first such one the United States has proposed to soothe that turbulent part of the world.
Former President Harry Truman on March 12, 1947, asked Congress for $400 million to aid warravaged Greece and her neighbor, Turkey. The request, labeled the "Truman Doctrine," was put into effect in the two countries.
Mr. Truman said the United States was, at that time, the only country in a position to defend small democracies against totalitarian regimes and the spread of aggression. Communist-inspired skirmishes in Greece prompted him to ask for supplies and equipment to be sent to the Greek army. He said if Greece should fall into the hands of an armed minority, the result would have an immediate effect on Turkey and serious disorder might spread throughout the entire Middle East.
Mr. Truman asked Congress to authorize American civilian and military persons in the two nations to help in reconstruction and in supervision of spending American dollars.
There is evidence that spending more than two billion dollars in Greece has brought rewards to that country and to Western interests.
A Communist take-over, which 10 years ago seemed inevitable, has been averted. The Greek economy has been boosted by industrial and agricultural increases of 50 per cent since 1952. An impressive air force and army have been built up, providing strength to Western defenses. Much of the American aid was used to alleviate refugee problems.
But there have been unfavorable results, too, and many of them have been detected only in the past year or so. There are jeers now at American
and British diplomats serving in Greece. There is still widespread poverty in the country. (The average worker gets less than $200 a year.)
The Eisenhower Doctrine, so called since the President's speech to Congress Jan. 5, aims to show Russia that the Middle East can't be taken without war or the risk of war with the United States.
It is concerned with the welfare of more countries than was the Truman Doctrine, and it has to cope with a problem of "little wars" now flaring throughout the Middle East. It faces a situation created by years of fear and distrust among unneighborly neighbors.
In his appeal to Congress, President Eisenhower said the Russian interest in the Middle East was one of power politics and the hope of eventual domination there.
The President asked Congress to authorize United States cooperation with nations in the Middle East in the development of economic strength. He wanted authorization for the Executive to undertake programs of military aid and cooperation with any nation wanting them.
Such assistance, he said, would include using the armed forces of the United States to secure and protect the integrity and political independence of such nations against overt armed aggression from any nation controlled by international communism.
He asked for $200 million to carry out these proposals. There has been, of course, clear-cut opposition or praise for the Eisenhower Doctrine. For the most part, it is probably regarded as another of the inevitable and necessary dollars and cents evils which has, as in the past, fallen to the lot of the United States. —Joan George
Old Campaigner Says
"Well, son, I was goin' tell you about the Night People today but I may not get to it. I'm still a little tied up about that traffic that is always most usually tied up. I feel the urge for a little expostulating on that subject."
Before we had time to light up and listen the Old Campaigner had sat down and started talking.
"I think I misjudged them fellers that dang near ran me down the other day while I was trying to cross the street by the Art Museum. I decided that I had better look into the matter and give it a little more personal study—from a distance, of course.
"I settled myself in a tree about 100 yards from the street so I could not possibly get hit and watched that mess at noon yesterday. I used the very binoculars that Teddy used after sittin' on top of San Juan Hill.
"Of course I did not come by these glasses personally. I only seen Teddy once—well, I seen his picture but it was a very good likeness I am sure. That's about the same thing. In fact, some people could talk all day about seein' Teddy that way and never get around to tellin' you that they met him through a picture. Not me though—truth, you know."
"Anyway, I watched that mess and it was a pitiful sight to behold. There was a bumper crop of cars and that's just the way they was—bumper to bumper. That was on
Here's the Dope
Oread. They was acomin' and again' both ways and the poor fellers on 14th Street was left with two choices.
"They could either push out in front of the cars on Oread and make them stop thus endangering the lives of them drivers and him drivein' and walkers like me or he could set there and suck his thumb until the traffic cleared up and enroll in some night classes.
"Now that ain't much of a choice, is it? There must be a solution I says and when it comes to me it hits me so hard I almost falls out of my tree. Take the cars off the Hill. And then I says that this is a little extreme so why not put up a stop light.
"I am on record as saying there is no place it is needed worse. I wonder why one hasn't been? This would be a fair thing for all and would keep someone from getting killed.
"Well, when somebody does get killed they will probably put a light up. I will just nod my head smugly and say 'I told you so.' But there is the solution for you just like that.
"I promised to tell you about the Night People but I don't have time today. They are waiting for me so we can go to work on that tunnel. I am not going to be the one that gets killed so somebody puts up a stoplight. I will not be a martyr and why pretend. Stick to the tunnel till somebody wakes up, I say.
"You sure meet some strange fellers around here. Me and the Night People were down in that tunnel fixin' up a rest station—sort of a refreshment bar you might call it—when this feller walks in and asks can he live there.
"Said his name was Orwell and he wanted to move in in 1984. That's really lookin' ahead to the housing shortage, I'd say. Wasn't all that I guess. Kept talkin' about bein' afraid of his big brother. Never saw anybody so afraid of his kin in my life.
"Well, like I say, the world is full of strange animals and us humans has got our share. We just give him a little refreshment and told him to come back in 1983. The Night People are waitin'. I got to get back to work. I'll come back and tell you about 'em next time."
Jerry Thomas
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Feb.28,1935
Forrest C. Allen's Kansas Jayhawks come through to defeat the Oklahoma Sooners 33-29 and win the Big Six championship for the second straight year.
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