Defeat of Goldwater Urged By Two KU Faculty Members
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Two KU faculty members were among some 150 college and university faculty members across the nation who Sunday issued a point statement urging the "decisive defeat" of Senator Barry Goldwater in this year's presidential election.
KU's Roy D. Laird, associate professor of political science, and Jaroslaw A. Piekalkiewicz, assistant professor of political science, were among the 150 specialists on Communism, Russia, and China who signed the statement.
"We consider his policy recommendations to be dangerously misleading, confused, and contradictory.
"The course he appears to advocate would increase the risk of thermonuclear disaster. It would give credibility and comfort to the most extreme and most dangerous elements in communist movements around the globe." "It would alienate from our side many sincerely and devoted non-Communists. And, misreading the nature of the Sino-Soviet rift, it would spell an end to the hopeful but precarious growth of diversity in the Soviet Bloc."
THE STATEMENT said: " . we deem it an obligation to state that in our judgment Senator Goldwater has demonstrated little understanding of Communism.
The anti-Goldwater statement concluded by saying, "We urge his decisive defeat."
THE DECLARATION was the result of efforts by Professor Alexander Dallin of Columbia University who initiated the movement for the joint declaration by contacting his friends and acquaintances in the field of communism, Russian, and Chinese specialties.
Commenting on the statement, Laird expressed his feelings toward Goldwater's policies. "The extreme Communist element, of which China's Communist boss Mao Tse-tung is the main spokesman, is using Goldwater's tough stand on communism as an argument that the U.S. plans an all-out war when conditions are right," he said.
"This enhances the extremist Communist view that coexistence with the United States is impossible," Laird continued.
An extension of Goldwater's policy statements results in the conclusion that Goldwater cannot see, in the forseeable future, peaceful coexistence with communism, Laird said.
LAIRD INTERPRETS Goldwater's philosophy toward Communism as one in which the Communists must be defeated militarily or scared into surrender. "This is a complete lack
of perception of the nature of communism," Leaird said.
Piekalkiewicz said that Goldwater, from his speeches and books, has very little understanding of Communism.
"As specialists in Communism, we feel his election would be detrimental to the rift between Russia and the Chinese, and between Russia and the other forces that work for disunity in the Soviet bloc," he said.
GOLDWATER'S LACK of understanding would work to solidify the Communist block, Piekalkiewicz said. He called for continued U.S. friendly policy toward Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, and Bulgaria.
Piekalkiewicz said the signers of the anti-Goldwater statement were both Democrats and Republicans.
Piekalkiewicz charged that Goldwater would eliminate aid to these countries.
The charges against Senator Goldwater were answered last night by two Lawrence Republican officials —J. D. King, Douglas County Republican chairman, and Morris Kay, third district chairman of Citizens for Goldwater-Miller.
KING, IN a prepared statement,
said: "I do not know anywhere in
the world, except in the U.S., where
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people such as Associate Professor Laird and Assistant Professor Piekalkiewicz, both employed by the State of Kansas, can make this kind of statement of their own free will, without regard of, or fear of the consequences.
"As a resident of Kansas and a citizen of the U.S. (one who fought for the right of both of these gentlemen to make such statements and to express such opinions), and this despite the fact that I do not agree with them, it does give me an opportunity to illustrate the very point that Senator Goldwater has been making throughout this campaign.
"I KNOW that the American people will resent this unfair attack but will not deny them the right to express their views," King said.
Morris Kay, in another prepared statement, said: "The statement is almost identical to a feature article printed October 11, 1964, in the "Worker," the official publication of the Communist party in the U.S.
"The Communist party has attacked Barry Goldwater and urged the election of the Johnson administration.
"THE COMMUNIST party is known to support those who help to advance communism.
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