The dangerous game From Berlin to Bolivia, from Hanoi to Helsinki, from Lahore to Lisbon, this country and her state department engage in frenzied—and often fatal—games of political chess. These chess games—there are hundreds of them—represent the culmination of U.S. foreign policy as it affects the world. For better, or for far worse, the checkmates and stalemates that result determine not only the fate of this nation, but also the fate of humanity. But it is disheartening to realize that the players of the U.S. chess game are only men—men who may err, men who can be too tired or too confused to walk the policy tightrope, to place the pawn. IT IS EQUALLY DISHEARTENING to realize that our foreign policy makers—from the President on down—are often of different opinions and of different sentiment. Without question, one group of men who influence foreign policy are of Pentagon mentality. They think in terms of guns and not butter. Their economic swear-word is overkill. They view foreign policy—and human existence—in terms of technology,and logistics. Yet they are as necessary to our "chess" team as their counterparts, the humanists. For it is the humanists who sit at the opposite pole of our foreign policy making. It is the humanists who put surplus grain on the docks of Bombay and medical supplies in the slums of Rio. Without the humanist point of view in our state department, there would be no Peace Corps, no attempt at elections in Vietnam. SO THE HUMANISTS and the technocrats must sit side-by-side and plan the strategy for our next move. They disagree because they really have nothing in common, but they compromise because they have no choice. They play the game continuously and simultaneously around the world, and they get tired —damned tired. But what happens when they get too tired, when our humanists and our technocrats finish one exercise in foreign policy only to find that they have spawned three or four others to take its place. What happens when the dog begins chasing his own tail, and catches it. -Dan Austin "And Now. To Get Back To The Subject Of Ethical Conduct——” © 2017 MERBLOCK THE CATHOLIC PRESS Manchester's 'Death of a President:' fact/fiction bears a schmaltz history By SCOTT NUNLEY "For all in whose hearts he still lives — a watchman of honor who never sleeps." From its inscription to its epilogue, "The Death of a President" is a sentimental book. That William Manchester should be the national "historian" of the event only underscores the fact that the death itself is still too near at hand. Perhaps, as with "In Cold Blood," the literary aspects of a "history" may sometimes overshadow its factual content. It is with disappointment that the reader opens "The Death of a President" and soon finds— "They had to go, because the state's Democratic party was riven by factionalism. Governor John Connally and Senator Ralph Yarborough were stalking one another with shivs." Frequently Manchester's prose appears to slip into some profound realm beyond the reader's grasp: "Johnson had been running a broken field since birth, but his current problems were authentic." Whatever Manchester's intent, his attempt to deify John Kennedy results in a continual indictment of the "virtually impotent" Vice President. "My thought:'" Manchester records Orville Freeman. "What a diff. place the W.H. will be..." Manchester has conducted exhaustive research and compiled a volume of staggering detail. Some of the details are historically important and a few even contribute to the reader's picture of the actors in the tragedy. Manchester's description of the Jack Ruby type, for example, is powerful: "He is usually overweight, middle-aged, has puffy eyes, wears broad lapels and outrageous neckties, and decorates his stubby fingers with extravagant costume jewelry." But on the whole, the detail of Manchester's book is a monument to sentimentality. Face after face swings into view, contributes its bit of anguish, and is replaced. Critics have already begun the long task of annotating Manchester's "details." Walter Lippman has accused Manchester of employing small fictions where the drama of his book needed to be heightened. Certainly it will be years before access to the Kennedy Library's Manchester files resolves the question of research and accuracy. But enough can be seen already to judge that the book is more concerned with the image of its subject then with mundane facts. William Manchester obviously believed that his work was scholarly and thorough; "It therefore seems fair to assume that should any new studies of this subject appear in the near future, they must be largely based upon the Commission's work, mine, or both." Future histories of the assassination however, will seek out further sources. his attention upon the people who mattered. achieving objectivity in a breathless pace of reportage. But the bock as a whole wears upon the reader. Each American suffered through the tragedy; each American was somewhere doing something when it occurred. A record of every act of shock and pain in every locality would still not be a record of the event itself. Manchester's epilogue "Legend" is the least successful section of his book. "... the martyrdom of heroic figures nearly always occurred in the waning days of autumn," comments Manchester, making of the late President some twentieth century agrarian diety. "What the folk hero was and what he believed are submerged by the demands of those who follow him." LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS *WATCH IT WITH THOSE BRUSH HANDLES WILL YOU MAC?121* What the myth is, Manchester has floridly defined. Who the man was must wait for a more probing discussion. Official Bulletin Foster Students; Sign up now, People-to-People office, Kansas Union, for the PIP tour to the Kan Canon baseball game. First computer sorted game. Van zuslan Student Center Meeting 7:30 pm. Forum Room, Union F- daily. Apr. 14. Everyone is cordially inited. Summer Crossroad: Experience for departing foreign students, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 11-17, 1967. Applications available. 226 String Invitiation Festival: Invitations Available Now, 226 Strong. SUA Current Events Open Press Conference. 3:30 p.m., Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., Jayhawk Room, Union Psychology Colloquium. 4 p.m. Prof. James Stachowiak, KU, Forum Room, 1120 W. 56th Street. SUA I Lauret Lecture Forum, 4:30 p.m. Uaf Aldon Bell; Jayhawk Room, Union O. North Dewton, 4:30 p.m. Sponsored by The Latterdays Classical Film, 7 & 9 p.m. "Kuhle aupe" (Whither Germany?) Dyche ause. Freedom Concert, 7:39 p.m. Mess Martin Luther King Jr. Kansas Union Dallbeom Public reception follow McCollum Hall. 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