World Affairs Week Panel Says Cold War May Be Thawing
By Giles Lamberton The relaxation of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union could signal the beginning of the end of the cold war, an SUA-sponsored panel decided yesterday.
Roy Laird, associate professor of political science whose speciality is the Soviet Union, and Harry Shaffer, associate professor of economies, who comprised the panel, continued that the present slackening was a tenuous beginning at best.
The impetus behind the marked relaxation of verbal and actual hostilities between the two major world powers was determined by three factors, Laird said.
- Increasing realization by the world's leaders of the meaning of nuclear war.
as the Roman Catholic Church has changed through the centuries, or as the concept of capitalism has been altered since the time of Adam Smith." We should encourage such change," he concluded.
- Common desire to maintain the high level of industrial development.
- LAIRD EXPLAINED Khrushchev's threatening gesture in shipping the missiles to Cuba was not the significant factor of the crisis. The removal of the missiles after President Kennedy's challenge was more significant, he said, because it showed the "measure of desire of the Soviet leader to head off anything that could trigger a major military confrontation."
- Recognition of threat to world peace by the emerging world power. Communist China.
Some of the relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are such that they could either solidify the detente or irritate it, Laird said. He gave, as an example, the recent massive wheat shipments from this country to Russia.
On the first point, Laird said a case could be made that Stalin, Truman, and Eisenhower were the last of the "pre-atomic statesmen" those who "still carried the tendency to solve international problems with the threat of military employment."
"IF A SUCCESSIVE regime were to stop any such shipments and tell the Russian people to buckle their belts, the result could be dangerous," he said. "Nations with hungry people tend to be beliose rather than friendly."
He said the Cuban missile crisis illustrated this point.
ONE OF THE 60 or 70 persons attending asked the panelists why they did not mention the possible demise of Communism.
Laird mentioned American presence in West Germany as another situation which is uneasily acceptable to both world powers at present. The military presence, which effectively blocks a Soviet military threat, is accepted by Soviet leaders. Laird said, because it, along with their control of East Germany, offers a strong impediment to either
A "deep-seated, long-standing attitude of animosity" hangs over the reprieve, Laird concluded. "But, if there is a meaningful lull, the record of the past will substantiate, I think, a renewal of the future."
Sudlow's Landscapes
Germany for rearmament, something which the Soviets genuinely fear.
Robert N. Sudlow, associate professor of drawing and painting at the University of Kansas, has a one-man show of landscape drawings in the Mulvane Museum at Washburn University in Topeka. The show will run through December.
SHAFFER SAID he agreed for the most part with the "excellent analysis" by Laird. However, he said Laird failed to mention what private citizens can do to improve relations.
"We have to try," he added, because if we fail, we shall not have another chance."
"I feel western Sovietologists should make a maximum effort to portray to the American public an accurate picture of the U.S.S.R." Shaffer explained.
"And citizens of this country should try to understand their Soviet competitors.
Shaffer answered that "Communism is here to stay as an ideology. But, it can change, just
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Wednesday, December 8, 1965
YAF Gives Out 4,000 Controversial Books
By Irvana Keagy
Feelings are mixed about the distribution of the controversial books, "None Dare Call It Treason," by John A. Stormer, which were given out Monday by the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) group at KU.
"I think we had a very favorable turnout of people who were interested in the books," Scott Campbell, Overland Park freshman and recently elected chairman of YAF, said.
"I was surprised at the interest the students showed in YAF. Many wanted to know when we had our meetings. A lot of people said they were glad to see the right wing doing something instead of always the left and the demonstrators.
"A NUMBER OF SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and SPU (Student Peace Union) members did not make favorable comments towards us," he said. A number of students had other tables set up beside the YAF tables, and were distributing literature of their own.
More than four thousand copies of the books were given to the KU students as the topic for an essay contest sponsored by the Americanism Educational League; their mailing address is in Inglewood, Calif.
Student entries are due by Jan. 2, and should either support or refute the arguments presented in the book. First prize for the nation-wide contest is $2 thousand, second prize is $1 thousand, and third prize is $500.
"THIS IS PART of a national essay contest and the students should read the book whether they have pro or con feelings toward it.
"I don't think we (YAF) can be condemned for passing out the books. We're just passing them out for the essay contest," Campbell said.
CAMPBELL SAID YAF saved several hundred copies of the book to "start an essay contest of our own in the future.
Campbell said. YAF members will evaluate the effects of the books and their reception on campus at a YAF meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in the Meadowlark Room of the Kansas Union, he said.
"If we do, we will supplement 'None Dare Call It Treason' with other books and information. But we really don't have definite plans yet," he said.
Other students had varied opinions, both pro and con on the books and their effect.
"PROBABLY A GOOD many students will not even read them. It was something free and it won't go any further," Bruce Cook. Newton junior, said.
"I think most of the people in the YAF have not even read it. If they actually believe this kind of stuff, they are in trouble," he said.
The introduction on the back of the book said that it "dissects the failures of the Eisenhower Administration just as effectively as it details the blunders of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson. It documents the concurrent decay in America's schools, churches and press..."
COOK SAID the statement was "ridiculous."
ANOTHER CRITICISM of YAF's approach to the essay was that the organization presented only sources that supplement the facts given in Stormer's book.
"The only place there is any decay is in the people who are passing these books out," he said.
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