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University Daily Kansan Monday, April 24.1961
Foreign Affairs Little-Known
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Americans are "too apathetic and uninformed" in foreign affairs to protect their vital interests, William J. Lederer asserts in a new book published today.
Lederer was a co-author of "The Ugly American," which made the best seller lists in 1958. His new books, "A Nation of Sheep," takes both government and news media to task as sharing responsibility in the ignorance he says the public has of foreign events.
THE IGNORANCE, the book asserts, led to "our failures in Korea
Negro Poems Tell Anguish
The role of the "old-time, shouting Negro preacher" in providing an outlet for the American Negro's suppressed feelings about Jim Crowism was discussed at the Poetry Hour Thursday.
William L. Kuhike, instructor in speech and a staff member of the University Theatre, read poems written by James Weldon Johnson and Vachel Lindsey in what he called the style of the old-time, shouting Negro preacher after the Civil War and into the 1920s.
"He (the American Negro) made his church a place and his religion a vehicle for the outlet of his suppressed feelings," said Mr. Kuhleh.
He said the educatain of these preachers was not very good sometimes but that they were above average in intelligence and were good orators.
"The old-time Negro preacher was not inhibited by the biblical text," said Mr. Kuhklke. "He tended to look on the Bible as an outline. He felt that God didn't have time to write the whole text and where it was lacking, it was the duty of the preacher to fill in."
He said the old-time Negro preacher interrupted his sermon occasionally to "give the audience these little exhortations" to pay close attention.
Mr. Kuhike read "The Daniel Sermon" and "How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza" by Vachel Lindsey and "Go Down Death" and "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson.
Laos, China, Turkey, Cuba, Chile, Bolivia, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Iran and Iraq." The book is heavy in spots with opinions which the author does not take time to document.
In a chapter titled "The Laos Fraud," Lederer says that a false report of an "invasion" by a foreign Communist aggressor stimulated the dispatch of American defense material to a battle-front that didn't exist. "Tons of urgent defense material were frantically air-lifted to Laos. Millions of dollars of extra funds were spent in assistance. Nobody said how much. The Laotians knew, the Reds probably knew; but the American people were kept in ignorance."
LEDERER SAYS Americans are being led astray about Formosa too. "The Formosans are bitter on the subject of Chiang Kai-Shek—a regime which they do not want (they don't want the Communists either)."
I have seen Formosans grimace with anger when they hear Americans repeat the yarn that when Chiang arrived he found an ignorant, backward, and medieval populace in Formosa; and that by brilliant leadership he transformed the previously miserable island into an educated, skilled, and happy community. Of course this is false.
"Under the Japanese the Formosans were colonial, but they were 95 per cent literate.. Under the Japanese, the island of Formosa had been well developed technically. The entire area had been laced with a modern and efficient network of good roads, irrigation, and electrification. . Directly and indirectly, the U.S. probably spends about three-quarters of a billion dollars a year defending and upholding Chiang Kai-Shek.
Shek and the Soong family which has grown rich from him."
THE STATE DEPARTMENT and Department of Defense will not permit American citizens to know the cost, so we can only estimate. At present it is our national policy to defend and support Chiang Kai-
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Lederer finds much to criticize in the reporting of foreign news by the American press.
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"Unhappily, our blind confidence in the press is misplaced," he says. "True, we have some excellent foreign correspondents... It is these few old pros whose work we can believe ... However, in too many instances our foreign correspondents do not know enough about the culture, history, or language of the country concerned to write a first-class story. Neither do they have the time to sift propaganda from fact or to research the background of events."
GOVERNMENT bureaucrats who stamp practically everything "secret" and "top secret," officials who give out misinformation, secrecy in government, and the gullibility of the press which "simply acts as a mirror," for politicians, all contribute to the ignorance of Americans, Lederer writes.
Lederer says in a preface to the book that he was prompted to write it in response to letters from more than 8,000 readers of "The Ugly American," who, "in one form or another, asked the same questions: what can the average citizen do about the posture of the United States in foreign affairs?"
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The flowers are used by various University departments for decorative and ceremonial uses, and for outdoor planting done by the buildings and grounds department. Each department has funds for flowers.
Three Greenhouses on Campus Contain Variety of Plants
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LENDING OF PLANTS to offices, organizations or individuals is a specialty of the greenhouses. Some plants have been loaned for years but they may be exchanged for others whenever desired.
If one wants the effect of the tropics with palm trees, banana plants and jungle atmosphere, a visit to the tropical conservatory, located south of the buildings and grounds greenhouse, below Flint Hall, is in order.
THE TROPICAL CONSERVATORY contains a collection of tru-
ical and semi-tropical plants alien to Kansas.
Some of the plants in the conservatory are the Ficus pandurata, the rubber tree; a fruit-bearing plant commonly called the "Swiss cheese plant," because of the leaves full of holes, and lemon trees.
The art and botany departments frequently use the greenhouses for classes and some students spend many hours after class drawing and studying the plants.
Senior Recital Set
A senior recital will be given by cellist Marcia Minnich of Kansas City, Kan. and tenor Robert Bruce Gardner of Lawrence at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The program is open to the public without charge at Hoch Auditorium.
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