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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 13, 1964
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A Lindley Visits Lindley Hall
As a tall, distinguished-looking man toured the KU campus yesterday, he voiced a request to drive past Lindley Hall.
Suellen McKinley
Lindley's campus tour was conducted by Lance Burr, Salina senior, Janice Gibson, Independence senior, and Kay Lutjen, Des Moines, Iowa, junior, all members of the All Student Council Hosting and Hospitality Committee.
He said that most people in the world know what the present United States' foreign policy is; and that in the free world the people approve of that policy and are assured that it will continue.
"I think the fact that President Johnson was elected by a large vote increases his prestige in the world and will also be of value to him in Congress." Lindley said.
"PEOPLE SHOULD have confidence that we are going to do what we say we'll do," Lindley said. "The old notion of being clever in diplomacy may have been fine for a diplomat of a small country."
"But when representing the U.S. in any capacity, you should have a straightforward policy. The U.S. is the most powerful nation in the world." Lindley said.
As special assistant to Dean Rusk, Secretary of State, Lindley travels with Rusk when he goes overseas and makes some trips with him in the U.S. Lindley also is a member of the Policy Planning Council of the State Department.
IN HIS SPEECH at the Jayhawk Festival last night, Lindley said that the way he got his present job was unusual. He had previously been chief of the Washington bureau of Newsweek magazine from 1937 to 1961.
In view of all the newer buildings to be seen on campus, the request may have seemed strange. Not in this case, however, for the man was Ernest K. Lindley, son of former KU Chancellor E. H. Lindley and special assistant to the Secretary of State.
LINDLEY VISITED KU before he was to speak at the Jayhawk Fall Festival last night in Kansas City.
Lindley said the explanation for his switch from journalist to State Department employee is that he succumbed to a flattering challenge.
"Some of my friends from the State Department . . . told me that I had been solving our international problems so neatly as a columnist and commentator — in 750 to 1,000 words per problem, at the rate of at least one a week and sometimes one a day," Lindley said.
Lindley's answer to their suggestion was that they should continue to read his advice for free, and he added:
"IT WAS TIME, they said, for me to demonstrate the efficacy of these magical short-cuts," Lindley said.
"Why should I confine my advice to one department, and take a pay-cut, when I was already advising the entire U.S. government, and a good many foreign governments as well."
LINDLEY LOST the argument, and for the last three and one-half years has found himself watching the world situation from the seventh floor of the State Department.
Lindley said in his speech that the main components of the U.S. global strategy are to prevent the expansion of the communist empires, while strengthening the free world; to assist underdeveloped areas in modernizing their economic, social, and political systems; and to improve the arrangements and institutions which weave the free world together.
He said the State Department felt one common interest that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had was in avoiding a thermonuclear holocaust and that a few limited agreements in this area had been reached.
"While we hold aggression in check and build the strength of the free world," Lindley said, "we also seek areas of common interest with our communist adversaries."
"BUT, AS SECRETARY Rusk has emphatically stated, limited
agreements do not constitute a detente," Lindley said. "Large and dangerous political issues remain."
Lindley cited the U.S. educational system as one of the greatest sources of our national strength.
BORN JULY 14, 1899, at Richmond, Ind., Lindley attended Indiana University, the University of Idaho, the University of Kansas for one term, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and received his B.A. and M.A. in the honors school of modern history.
"I believe that higher education does reduce the percentage of people who can easily be beguiled and bewitched," Lindley said. "Our young people must be prepared, literally, to cope with whatever happens, including situations nobody has yet clearly envisaged."
Lindley was originally scheduled to speak at the 1963 Jayhawk Fall Festival. The event was to have been held Nov. 22, the day of President Kennedy's assassination, and was cancelled.
Lindley said his return to KU for the 1964 Jayhawk Fall Festival is the first in seven or eight years.
LINDLEY EMPHASIZED the importance of education by quoting his father's words: "Nothing is more expensive than ignorance."
During the past year, Lindley has served as a member of the U.S. delegations to meetings in Paris, Tokyo, Manila, Holland, and Washington.
With his forty years of journalistic experience, Lindley has covered every presidential campaign since 1924. During and since the Second World War, he has written extensively on world affairs and American foreign policy.
About 500 persons heard Lindley speak at the Fall Festival, sponsored by the KU Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City. Also speaking at the Festival was W. Clarke Wescoe, Chancellor of KU.
AT THE LUNCHEON yesterday, his host was Walter Sandelius, professor of political science at KU, a fellow Rhodes Scholar of Lindley's at Oxford.
The KU Brass Choir, under the direction of Kenneth Bloomquist, was also featured on the program. The musical ensemble toured Southeast Asia last spring.
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