Reds Tell LBJ They're Peaceful
SALT LAKE CITY —(UPI)— President Johnson said today that he has received a "heartening" offer of assurance from Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin that the new Russian regime will work with the West in a continuing quest for peace.
Johnson said this in a campaign speech here at the Mormon Tabernacle. In an apparent reply to a speech made there three weeks ago in which Republican Presidential Candidate Barry M. Goldwater blamed the administration for moral decay, Johnson told an audience of more than 8,000:
"WE ARE ALL GOD'S children and the true morality of private life is the true morality of a free society: The Golden Rule—do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
The President spoke after having breakfast at the Hotel Utah with convalescing 91-year-old David O. McKay, President of the two-million member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The president also attended a breakfast reception by the $1,000 a membership "president's club" of Salt Lake City. From the Utah capital, Johnson's campaigning day next included an airport rally at Wichita, and a speech tonight at
Philadelphia's huge convention Hall.
IN TELLING ABOUT Kosygin's message, which arrived Monday night, Johnson declared that it was in answer to his own assurance to the Soviet Union that America's basic foreign policy "remained unchanged" despite the toppling of premier Nikita Khruschev.
"This is a heartening response." Johnson declared. "We must not underestimate the danger of Communism—but neither should we underestimate the danger to all the world if nuclear power is unleashed and if we do not move toward peace."
Johnson said Kosygin promised the new Soviet government would "maintain its own search for peace with the West" and that it "would continue its communication with the United States and would continue to explore areas of mutual interest."
WHEN GOLDWATER spoke at the tabernacle, he accused Johnson of having dictated a Democratic platform which showed "utter disregard for God" and he said the administration had failed to lead the way in attacking morality—and that, indeed, the administration was corrupt itself.
Nixon Voices Doubt
EAST ST. LOUIS—(UPI)—Richard M. Nixon said today peaceful messages from the Kremlin to President Johnson are, at the present time, "not worth the paper they're written on."
Nixon, campaigning in Illinois with GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles Percy, made his comment in response to newsmen's questions concerning a message from Russian leaders to the president.
"The new leaders of the Kremlin are going to do the same thing they've done all along." Nixon said. "We must convince the leaders in Peking and in the Kremlin that they run the risk of war if they try to advance Communism."
The former vice-president said, "I would expect the new regime in Russia would pledge that they are for peace and then ask for credit for wheat."
CRC Votes to Cancel Demonstration Plan
The Civil Rights Council voted last night to call off demonstrations Homecoming night. The vote was 30 to 23.
"The CRC has no plans to demonstrate in the future," James Masters, Kansas City senior, and chairman of the demonstration committee, said.
"And there was no motion on the floor to reconsider making plans to demonstrate," he said.
"WE WANT TO wait and see if the steps taken by the ASC will solidify before we take action," Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika senior, said.
Bgoya authored the amendment passed by the ASC Tuesday night which ordered KU organizations to strike discriminatory clauses from their constitutions by a fall, 1965, deadline. The proposal must still be approved by Chancellor Wescoe.
"If the bill is not signed, then we must decide what action to take." Bgova said.
THE COUNCIL had three alternatives, Bert Rinkel, Scott City senior, said.
The first was to demonstrate as planned; the second was to call off the demonstration in view of the ASC's recent action; and the third was to put off the decision until Friday night.
"The alumni will be here at Homecoming, and we can't compromise too soon," Rinkel said.
"WE WANT TO" remove the alumni pressure from the fraternity and sorority systems," he said.
"We can look at it from three angles," Rinkel said.
"First, we can demonstrate and not worry about the popularity of it; second, we don't have to be part of the status quo, in other words, conflict brings answers; and third, the demonstration could do damage if the ASC is on the move," he said.
Ragsdale said he hoped to impress the students that the bill would have great influence.
Brian Grace, Lawrence second-year law student, was invited to the CRC meeting by George Ragsdale, Lawrence graduate student, to read the ASC amendment.
At the close of last night's meeting, it was unanimously decided to open the next meeting, Nov. 4, to a discussion of possibilities for a demonstration depending on what happens this week.
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62nd Year, No.30
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Past UN Leader Asks West to Show Strength
Thursday, Oct. 29, 1964
In commenting on the UN, Malik said a world without a UN is more dangerous by far than a world with it. "Regarding its limitations and weaknesses it must be viewed as a limited organ for peace and international security," he said.
By Janet Chartier
Charles Habib Malik, former president of the United Nations General Assembly, said last night that communism is everywhere making greater inroads than the West, and that the West must show strength with justice to save face with the world.
"The UN was never meant to secure peace alone," he said. "No nation can trust its security and the peace of the world to the UN alone."
Speaking in Hoch Auditorium Malik said the minds of the world are not at ease, "International peace between the two great giants has been maintained," he said. "We hope it will continue after the last two weeks."
HE CITED the cold war between Russia and China and between Russia and the United States as examples of unrest. He also mentioned problems in Cyprus, Latin America, America, and the South East.
MALIK ASKED if it was law to do justice to some by doing injustice to others. "What can we do to salvage values and what are they?"
"We are at a loss on where to begin and what to say," Malik said. "We are tempted in so many ways; we are tempted to give up. But we cannot give up because life presses on with insistent demands."
"What is really making headway, if you want to know the truth, and few people want to know the truth these days, is the interpretation that is either non west or anti-west," he said.
He said communism is making greater inroads everywhere. "There is an attack on truth and reason. Truth should be guarded, sweetened, and qualified."
Malik called the Russia and China
Kremlin Hits Nikita With New Attack
MOSCOW —(UPI) -The Kremlin's rulers today launched a new attack on Nikita Khrushchev.
The new attack came after Communist sources disclosed that Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky took a direct part in Khrushchev's ouster.
The Soviet Union's authoritative magazine Kommunist accused Khrushchev without mentioning him by name—of fumbling leadership and one-man rule.
In a pre-publication summary released by the official Tass News Agency, Kommunist listed a long line of "sins" that it said were "alien" to Soviet life. The "sins" included:
"Imature conclusions, and hasty decisions and actions divorced from reality, boasting and empty phrase-mongering, addition to administrative measures, reluctance to take into account of what has already been evolved by science and practical experience."
The weather bureau predicts fair and mild weather will continue through tomorrow. Temperatures will drop to the upper 40's tonight with light and variable winds.
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split insignificant. A much deeper matter is China's desire to communize the world through war and Russia's desire to do this through peaceful co-existence, he said.
"WHAT CAN be done with the most compact and homogeneous mass of humanity?" he asked. He feels the exploding of the atomic bomb proves the high industrial level China will reach.
"That fused with pride, arrogance, and unmitigated hatred for everything not Chinese," Malik feels, means China will continue to be a problem.
"Russia by her geographical position could play a mediating role, a bridge between the East and West," he said. "She may someday be the chief agency to bring China and the United States together."
"One cannot breath today in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, or even in the United States without breathing in mixtures of Lenin and Marx," Malik said.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to understand the world today without grappling with communism, he added.
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Charles Malik
... Russia should not have to pay debt.
USSR, France Owes UN
Charles Malik has served the world and his native country for over 14 years.
He has been a delegate to the UN from Lebanon, chairman of the UN Commission on Human Rights and president of the UN General Assembly.
At a news conference held before his speech last night, Malik was asked what action he thought the UN would take against the USSR for refusing to pay its assessment for the peace force actions.
"IT IS INTERESTING that you single out Russia in this question," Malik said. "There are 15 nations who have not paid the same assessment. France is among them. Why don't you ask about France?"
"These nations would tell you that you voted to take the actions, so you are responsible for paying for them," Malik said.
"I want to emphasize that these nations are not delinquent in the payment of their regular dues, but only on assessments for extra UN operations in the Congo, in Cyprus and in the Middle East," he said. "They are all members in very good standing except in this area."
"RUSSIA WOULD say that these actions serve your interests, not hers. Since she does not expect you to pay for actions that are mainly in her interest, why should you expect her to pay for yours?" Malik said.
"I cannot disassociate this charge from your present political campaign," Malik said. "I think everyone will forget about it after next Wednesday."
When asked about the possibilities of the admission of Communist China into the UN, Malik said:
"THE PROBLEM WITH COMUNIST China is not whether she can get the necessary vote to allow her to enter," he said. "But what will happen to Formosa if such action were taken."
"Communist China, like Formosa, doesn't recognize a split in China, and Communist China will not come into the UN until we give her Formosa. The real problem is the place of Formosa in the United States security system, for if Formosa doesn't a seat in the UN, she doesn't exist," Malik said.
"You Americans feel as if you were the doorkeepers of heaven, and Red China is on the outside, begging to get in," Malik said.
"YOU WANT RED CHINA to come in under your terms. How do you know she accepts? In fact, she has never applied personally for membership in the UN, although other countries have done so in her behalf." Malik said.
"The United Nations is not an American tool. It is an association of the nations of the world," he said.
"One of the major accomplishments of the UN," Malik said, "was the education of the American people about how to deal with the rest of the world, through working within the UN and having its headquarters physically located in New York City.