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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 19. 1961
KU's Way Behind
This University is dragging its feet while other schools are responding, nay, racing to answer one of the great challenges for this, or any other generation.
It has been over three months since President Kennedy issued the executive order establishing the Peace Corps and the immediate response was so overwhelming that it looked as if the country's campuses would be depleted of prime material. At Princeton, 116 students volunteered. At Northwestern, a special curriculum was set up with subjects pertaining to the requirements of the program. At the University of Washington, student groups banded together to begin training and study for particular work in various global areas.
KU's record? One young woman obtained an application form at the post office and sent it in. On a broadcast from Kansas City last Saturday night, she explained why she wanted to go and that, as far as she knew, no one else at KU was interested—at least nothing had been done to aid students in applying.
The ASC is in the process of organizing a committee with the purpose of coordinating Peace Corps activities here. But even this is a little late. Those students even remotely interested in the program don't have information about it or how to go about applying. Something should have been done long before this by the school. And looking at the present world situation, something should have been done by the federal government a long, long time ago.
Since 1945, Russia has had the very program we started three months ago. Its target is Africa, and there are now four institutes for study of African affairs. The graduating specialists train many of the men who will staff Russia's expanding diplomatic and technical missions throughout Africa. These are men whose knowledge of the local language, economics, and social structure will help them in their efforts to explain Soviet technology and to push Soviet propaganda.
Since 1958, when the Soviet propaganda drive in Africa was accelerated, its message has been simple:
"Before our revolution, we, too, were backward, oppressed and exploited. Now we fire rockets at Venus. Follow our socialist example—reject imperialism; abandon colonialism; and you too will be powerful."
This is convincing propaganda when it is spoken by a young man working beside a native in the fields, designing his roads, or building his house.
Regardless of what critics say of the U.S. program, with the proper selection of participants and extensive training, the Peace Corps will be practical, realistic, and successful. It will have to be because of the technical skills college people will bring to the program, the manpower supply available at colleges and universities, and the opportunity that it affords the Silent Generation.
KU had better start running.
Frank Morgan
Israel vs. Eichmann
Editor
In a recent comment on the Eichmann case in the UDK the following question was posed: "Should not the case be referred to the World Court?"
The answer to this is direct and simple. The World Court is not qualified to sit on cases between nations and individuals. The World Court's jurisdiction does not extend beyond grievances or disputes between nations.
What agencies are available? No institution was found after the last war to carry on the work of the Allies in the Nuremberg Trials. West Germany shudders at the idea of having Eichmann in their courts. Other nations such as the USSR, Poland, Hungary, and Romania, whose citizens were slaughtered by the barbarian, recognize Israel's right to try Eichmann and have opened their war archives to the Israeli government. I suspect that justice in these nations would be far swifter than it
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is in Israel whose government is affording the barbarian Eichmann every possible fairness.
Ira Wolinsky
N. Y., N. Y. graduate student
UN's Major Actions
Editor:
I would like to correct a few false impressions expressed by the reporter who wrote the article on the results of the Model U.N. sessions which appeared in the April 17 issue of the UDK. The writer was totally in error when he stated that "all major actions" were blocked in the meetings of last Friday and Saturday.
First, a resolution, proposed by a coalition of African and other nations, concerning reappointment of the Security Council was passed 62 to 14. The fact that it theoretically required ratification in accordance with the charter did not erase the fact that it was passed.
SECONDLY. A resolution submitted by Ghana to pledge effective support to U.N. operational forces in the Congo, with an amendment by Australia, was also adopted, but no mention of this was made in the Kansan article.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"I HELD HIS HANDS ALL EVENING — I WAS AFRAID TO LET GO OF THEM."
THUS IT WOULD appear to many of us that the reporter either wasn't there or wasn't paying attention during the proceedings, in the light of the significant developments which escaped his notice. I'm sure that most of those who participated in this year's Model U.N. would consider it a highly successful meeting as well as a very worthwhile experience. The facts speak for themselves.
David E. Elliott
Merriam junior
delegate from Ethiopia
Short Ones
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks. — George Farquar
A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.—Samuel Butler
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.-Samuel Butler
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"Well—Are You Coming or Not?"
HORIZON, January 1961. $3.95 per copy, $18.00 per year.
By Carl Lande
Assistant Professor of Political Science
This hard-cover magazine, companion to the older "American Heritage," inspires both admiration and disappointment.
"Horizon" has much to commend it. The publishers, clearly, have spared no expense, and their magazine is priced accordingly. The illustrations are excellent. The January issue contains some striking pictures of gold artifacts from Mycenae as well as nine superb reproductions of Chinese paintings from the Palace Museum Collection. Portions of that collection, which was evacuated to Formosa by the nationalist Chinese, will be seen at a number of American galleries this year.
THERE IS A WELL-ILLUSTRATED report on a communist Chinese crash program of archeological excavation of Chou grave sites in an area slated for inundation due to dam construction on the Yellow River. The text is somewhat sketchy and subject to scholarly criticism, i.e., its reference to "two thousand years of feudalism" after a period characterized by a "primitive commune system." This Maoist interpretation of Chinese history is unacceptable to non-Marxist orientalists. But this need not disturb the layman for whom the piece was written.
The January issue contains articles by distinguished scholars. Arnold Toynbee has written on "The Historian's Struggle with Religion." C. M. Bowra has contributed a piece on "Homer's Age of Heroes."
There are articles by or about persons of eminence in the world of theatre and dance: Tyrone Guthrie, David Hurst, Bredan Behan, George Balanchine. Certainly the editors have tried to provide, and have provided, much material of high quality.
YET DESPITE ALL THIS, "Horizon," considered as a whole, somehow misses the boat.
Too eager to enlist famous authors, too little concerned with total effect, the editors have given us a magazine which is syncretic, which has little clear purpose or personality of its own.
Its literary quality is uneven. Some articles have been written with care, others dashed off by authors whose opinion of Horizon's readers cannot have been high. The weight of the contributions fluctuates too greatly. Toynbee's piece, lifted from a forthcoming book, is profound. Some other articles are trivial. The range of subjects is overly broad. There seems to be something for everyone: Historical insight for the sage, theatrical reminiscences for the stage struck housewife, bright pictures for the young. The result is a hedgepodge, likely to please many, but satisfy almost none.
"HORIZON," APPARENTLY, is meant to be a family magazine for the rich. But do the rich need a family magazine? I doubt it. For the price of "Horizon," one can subscribe to several excellent magazines of a more specialized sort which, together, cover the same ground but do so much more satisfactorily. Examples are "Archeology," "Theatre Arts," "The American" "Historical Review," "Harper's," "National Geographic," and the "New Yorker." There are innumerable others. These magazines reflect purposeful editorship. Each draws contributions from all who write in its field, for each has a large and somewhat specialized clientele. The result is uniform excellence. In time "Horizon's" objectives, too, will acquire clearer definitions. The magazine has promise.