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University Daily Kansan Wednesday.Feb.27,1957
Can American Press Put —
Hole In The Great China Wall?
A small hole was opened in the great wall which surrounds Red China when Communist China invited 15 American journalists to visit the country last August.
But the Bamboo Curtain, which had been opened from the inside for the first time in seven years, was closed from the outside when the State Department quickly plugged the gap by refusing to lift its ban on travel to the Chinese mainland.
The group of American newsmen had been invited to spend September in that country, but the U.S. State Department refused to issue visas because China was still holding 10 Americans in violation of an agreement to release all prisoners. The department warned that anyone violating the ban might be subject to two years' imprisonment and $5,000 fine.
But three reporters entered Communist China in defiance of the State Department ban. The reporters went to China hoping to get first hand information of the situation in Communist China which would help to guide the United States in its future dealings with this dictatorship which rules more than half a billion people.
The State Department is now exploring the
possibility of revoking the reporters' passports, in addition to prosecuting all three of them under the 1917 Trading With the Enemy Act.
In Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' recent press conference, he implied that Red China would be willing to release the 10 American civilians it now holds prisoner, if the State Department would grant U.S. correspondents permission to travel in China. He said the Department also refused them permission to go on the ground that the United States does not recognize Red China and therefore cannot protect citizens who cross its borders.
The State Department's action reveals distrust of the capacity of American reporters to learn and accurately report the truth, and of the American public to make the proper use of what our free press publishes.
The newspapers should have the right to gather and disseminate information in all areas of the world. Our governmental freedom should enable American newsmen to travel, at their own risk, for a news-gathering purpose in any country in the world with which the U.S. is not at war. The government should not dictate the limits within which a free press can operate.-Marilyn Mermis
University of Kaiser student newpaper
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
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Our good friend Elrod approached us today on the verge of tears.
"Why do you approach us on the verge of tears, Erod?" we asked.
"Because," he stammered, "being a stalwart brother of the bond of Gamma Delta Iota, I was going to
help sod the intramural field March 9."
"And has something taken place that you cannot sod said in intra-nural field, our good friend Elrod?"
"Oh no," he sobbed, "but prithee is not such an otherwise
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noble project somewhat tainted when many autos will be encamped on our newly sodded sod lo that same evening?"
Elrod proceeded to tell us how the powers that be will park cars on the intramural field lo that same evening when five large fellows from a mountain school come to this noble institution to participate in trivilities with Wilton Chamberlain and commissions
"But Elrod," we conjectured,
"would it not be possible to alter
the project somewhat, so that all that brotherly hard labor will not be for naught?"
"Frithe what would you have us do?"
"Why not," we expostulated, "clear all the trees and brush from Marvin Grove? What nobler project can there be than rid this hodge-podge of native limestone of that mass of nature's own?"
"Eureka," quoth Elrod, "you are a veritable genius. I shall propose this to all my brothers in the bond post hastе."
We blushed modestly.
A very sneaky way of ousting liquor sales from the bounds of the fair borough of Lawrence has been proposed.
In 1948 a vote was taken to decide whether or not package liquor sales should be continued in Douglas County. Voters, including University students, decided that liquor sales should continue. The student vote, it is believed, was instrumental in this decision.
On April 2, a similar vote will be taken in the city of Lawrence.
The sticker is this: Spring vacation begins March 30.
Now we ask you!
Now we ask you!
—Jerry Dawson
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
.. Letters ..
Bouquet To Sally
"OK, IN THE BACK ROW — LETS HAVE THAT 'GIRLIE' MAGAZINE UP HERE IN THIS BASKET!"
It is the duty of the artist to make beauty tangible to others, and Sally Schroeder has contributed her share by providing us with an exhibition of her works.
Editor:
PALOMA BLANCA—One of Miss Schroeder's best works is pictured here. Perhaps this figure is the Mexican counterpart of the Miss Haversham in Dickens' "Great Expectations."
She seems to have captured one phase of the Mexican spirit, namely its emotional life. By contemplating Miss Schroeder's works, we can picture in our minds how that Latin type of people, the Mexicans, radiate sentimentalism. Her pictures could take the place of the melancholic tone of a Mexican poem, or the sweet sadness of a Mexican song.
Even though her paintings are derived from real facts and real beings, they proclaim their independence and erect themselves in autonomous value. Sally Schroeder does not express her intuition in a generic form, but rather seeks a form which reflects her personality. She pursues her own artistic ideal, and this ideal will have a prominent place in the manifestations of beauty.
The union of two opposites to create form is well expressed by joining the active and the receptive. For example, in "Mission de San Antonio" we can sense the feeling of space through the good combination of the near and the far. In "Hermanos en Azul," the super-position of cold and warm colors intensifies the pictorial value.
In short, Sally has shown a masterful ability to capture the serious aspect of a race which is Indian blood cast in a Spanish mold.
Mike Cardenas Chihuahua, Mexico graduate student
(Editor's note: Miss Schroeder's work is in the Art Museum. The exhibit will remain on the campus until March 21.)
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