Cuba, Laos Increase World Tension
By United Press International
A Cuban radio station in Oriente Province said today bands are playing in the streets of Cuban towns and the people are following them in wild jubilee.
"It took two years for the gringos to prepare an invasion," the announcer said. "They weren't here 72 hours until we ate them up."
Castro Claims Victory
This followed the announcement by Cuban Premier Fidel Castro that the assault by counter-revolutionary exiles had been crushed and that his nationalist government was again in control.
Diplomatic officials meanwhile viewed the latest developments in Cuba as meaning that the anti-Castro forces appeared to have lost the battle but not the long-term war to overthrow Castro.
Meanwhile in Washington, President Kennedy and his top advisers held a high level assessment of the Cuban crisis today in a 50-minute cabinet meeting.
THE WHITE HOUSE session took place as a high American source said the United States expects a continuation and intensification of guerrilla operations based in the Escambray Mountains in Cuba.
Anti-Castro forces already there were reported to have been bolstered by additional men and supplies during the disorder of the past three days.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a news conference in Marietta, Ga., that anti-Castro forces undoubtedly would continue to fight for freedom despite the apparent collapse of the recent invasion.
The London Evening News said today that the Castro victory in Cuba was a "disastrous political setback" for President Kennedy. Other West European newspapers expressed generally the same view.
The Communists were jubilant but predicted new "American-backed" attacks on Cuba.
The official Soviet government newspaper Izvestia predicted a new armed attack against Cuba will momentarily. The East German news service said the United States already is "recruiting new mercenaries and furnishing more ships and arms."
THE LONDON EVENING NEWS claimed the Central Intelligence Agency was intimately involved in the
LONDON — (UPI) British diplomats predicted today a cease fire agreement in Laos would be reached soon despite Moscow broadcasts apparently putting a damper on the prospects.
Defeat for Kennedy
Cuban invasion preparations and said, "If it turns out to have been a flop, the outcry is likely to be loud and bitter."
The Madrid newspaper Ya said, "If Castro prevails then Castroism will inflame all South America."
Soviet author Ilya Ehrenburg told newsmen in Moscow that United States aid to anti-Castron Cubans could bring a nuclear war as well as renew the cold war.
British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts told newsmen at a Burmese reception in Moscow "We are very near an agreement on a cease fire in Laos."
Izvestia and the Communist Party newspaper Pravda greeted Premier Fidel Castro's victory announcement with big headlines: "We share your joy with Cuba!" and "A Crushing Blow on the Band of Hirelings!"
HE MADE THE STATEMENT a few minutes after holding informal talks with Soviet Vice Premier Alexei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
IN LONDON, MICHAEL Foot, a fiery left-wing laborite member of Parliament, told the House of Commons the American role in Cuba was "an act of folly and crime." The government rejected his views.
Roberts said a cease fire communique would be issued simultaneously in Moscow and London when it is ready but added, "there still are a few matters of details to be worked out."
A similar optimistic statement was issued in London by the foreign office. But almost immediately Moscow threw cold water on cease fire hopes with a new charge of American "provocation" in Laos. Moscow Radio charged that stepped-up U.S. military aid to the
Laos Cease-Fire Near
Laotian army was a "provocation" aimed at prolonging the conflict, to increase tension in the world and to prevent a peaceful solution in Laos.
THE MOSCOW BROADCAST condemned specifically the American plan to send uniformed U.S. military advisers into the front with the Laotian army to train them in their fighting with the Pathet Lao guerrilla forces.
Daily hansan
58th Year, No.124
Wadsworth, Dupree Laud Peace Corps Idea
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
An authority in the field of international relations and a specialist on middle eastern foreign aid visited the campus within the past week, and both supported the snowballing interest in the Peace Corps.
They agreed that the Corps is a stride forward in international awareness, but warned that without organization and strategic planning the Corps could be a failure.
JAMES J. WADSWORTH, newly elected president of the Peace Research Institute, and former ambassador to the UN, was optimistic and "pleased that university students were in favor of the plan."
A bit more cautious was Louis Dupree, American Universities Field staff specialist on the Middle East and Central Asia, who said, "the Peace Corps will either be a monumental success, or a monumental failure."
Mr. Dupree also urged research and investigation of all areas before the Peace Corps could actually be put into effect.
"SUCH A PLAN cannot work in all countries," he stressed. "For instance, the neutral countries of Central Asia would not invite volunteers for they would have to grant an equal liberty to Russian visitors whom they do not want."
"In other words, the traditions and mores of any country will be difficult to learn, to accept, and more importaant, it will be difficult for the people to accept the students. Some won't."
"I don't think it has much of a chance in the middle eastern areas either," Mr. Dupree said. "And girls could not be allowed to go into Moslem countries, for it's an accepted opinion that American girls, who don't wear veils, are sluts. Movies and magazines simply emphasize the misunderstanding.
MR. DUPREE said that another major hurdle in the program will be physical fitness and the acceptance of casualties and deaths.
"There have been a number of deaths among technicians in our aid programs in countries such as Afghanistan from disease. Mothers will have to accept the fact that the venture might be a dangerous one.
"There is no middle of the road success for the Corps," he said. "It is not a stars-in-the-eyes, Onward Christian Soldiers project. It must have a brutal training program to succeed."
MR. DUPREE added that the Russians are predicting the Peace Corps program will be a failure. "They are saying that the American adults failed, so now we are sending our children over to do the job."
Mr. Wadsworth pointed out that the Peace Corps is at present "like the weather. Everybody's talking about it, but nobody is doing much about it.
"THEERE ARE A great many things we need to know about the program, its limitations, its effect on both the country and the volunteers," he said.
The weatherman has stepped up his forecast of multitudinous rains, leaving Lawrence with a Relays weekend prediction typical of KU Relays weekends.
Typical Forecast; Rainsoaked Relays
"This will take research and concentrated study, which will be undertaken as one function of the Peace Research Institute."
For the fourth straight year Saturday should present an overcast, chilly atmosphere accompanied by runny crepe paper, soggy pioneers and muddy thinclads.
Generally fair and windy with unseasonably warm temperatures today, reads the weather report. Partly cloudy tonight with scattered showers or thunderstorms and turning colder. High today in the upper 80s. Low tonight 55 to 60.
QUEEN FINALISTS—Five KU women have been announced as finalists for Jayhawker Queen. Photographs of the five finalists will be sent to Paul Newman, motion picture star, who will pick the Queen. Finalists seated left to right, are June Owens, Altamont sophomore, Sherrie Scogin, Prairie Village junior, and Nancy Borel, Falls Church, Va., sophomore. Standing are Katherine Echels, Kansas City, Mo., junior, and Elizabeth Gray, Topeka junior.
People Plans Taking Shape
More KU men are needed as brothers for the People-to-People program for next year.
Bill Dawson, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said only 30 applications have been received.
One hundred foreign students need brothers. Applications must be in soon so they can be processed and the sponsors of each foreign student chosen." he said.
Men interested in the program are to contact Dawson.
SISTERS FOR the women foreign students will be chosen by the AWS. Fifty KU women will be chosen from
the 100 applications that have been received. The sisters will be announced at All Women's Day, May 1.
The People-to-People committee plans to contact members of local civic groups and churches to encourage their co-operation in a plan to show foreign students American homes.
The committee plans to sponsor a foreign student to visit a home in Lawrence for dinner and an exchange of ideas. Lawrence residents who want to participate may ask for a student from a particular country or area of the world.
Thursday, April 20, 1961
Bulletin
WASHINGTON—(UPI) —President Kennedy warned today that American restraint in intervening in Cuba "is not inexhaustible."
Kennedy said that, should the inter-American doctrine of non-interference fail to guard against outside Communist penetration, this country would not hesitate "in meeting its primary obligations which are to the security of our own nation."
Kennedy said that if the time came when the United States had to act alone to protect its own security, it did not intend to be lectured on intervention "by those whose character was stamped for all time on the bloody streets of Budapest."
The Civil Rights Council may be making some progress toward ending discrimination in Lawrence barber shops, but no answers from Greek houses concerning discriminatory clauses have been received.
CRC Eyes Gains In Barber Shops
John J. McCabe, Lawrence senior, told the council last night that one barber he talked to has suggested calling all the local barbers together to discuss the racial question.
"He said he might he willing to take responsibility for arranging the meeting," McCabe said. "He seems concerned about the problem.
"The barber told me he had been asking some of his customers what their reactions would be if he cut Negroes' hair, and he said about one-third of them said they would not come back." McCabe said.
McCabe said he had received little cooperation from two other barbers he had talked to.
Inere have been no responses yet to a letter the CRC sent all Greek organizations concerning housing discrimination. The letter asked for information on discriminatory clauses, local and national. The Council met in executive session 30 minutes before admitting the press.