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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. March 6, 1962
The President's Decision
The announcement by President Kennedy last Friday that the United States would resume nuclear testing by late April unless a test ban with "detection and verification" controls was achieved by that time is not really surprising. A number of factors pointed to such a decision long before the Presidential announcement came.
The breaking of the test referendum by the Kremlin was, of course, the decisive factor. The President has explained that while the Soviet tests did not result in any technical breakthrough that would imperil the free world, significant progress was probably made. Additional tests could result in a breakthrough that would give the Kremlin a nuclear weapons superiority extremely dangerous to continued world peace.
U. S. OFFICIALS stated last fall that if testing was resumed, tests of anti-missile devices, improved nuclear warheads and the much discussed neutron bomb would probably be conducted.
A plausible argument might be advanced against simply testing improved nuclear warheads, but the anti-missile devices and the neutron bomb fall into different categories. The antimissile devices in particular are something that have long been needed. As yet no effective antimissile device has been developed, but it is certainly a desirable weapon to have in the U.S. arsenal. In case of a nuclear conflict its importance would be enormous.
Many groups and individuals have expressed opposition to the resumption of nuclear testing, either on moral grounds or due to the possible effects of nuclear fallout from tests on the world's population.
IT SHOULD BE clearly understood that whether or not nuclear tests are resumed is not a question of morality. It is a question of necessity. The United States cannot afford not to resume nuclear testing. The possible effects of such tests on the world's population is entirely subordinate to that necessity. The possession of a decisive nuclear superiority by the Kremlin would be far more dangerous to the world's population than any fallout resulting from U.S. testing.
The decision to resume nuclear testing should be accepted for what it is: a necessary and unavoidable action. That decision, as President Kennedy has stated, can be reversed only by the signing of an effective test ban treaty providing for adequate inspection and controls. Considering the behavior of the Kremlin in the past, such a treaty is not likely.
—William H. Mullins
A YAF Member Replies To The Communists
Editor:
Some things never cease to amaze me, most recently the peculiar Looking twists that the Communists give to our American liberties to use them against us.
"YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HER DEMONSTRATION LAST YEAR."
Some important things are often forgotten about the Communists, among them that they ARE Communists and will behave as such. One of the essential doctrines of Communism is the overthrow, or takeover, of any government that gets in its way. This does not necessarily mean a shoot-em-up war where they come out showing true colors. How much easier and less costly to subtly influence thinking, so that all of a sudden one day their doctrines don't really look as bad "come to think of it" as they did last year, or maybe five years before.
SINCE THEY intend to "bury us" (I don't believe the far right made up that term, who do you suppose could have said that?), is it possible that they would go so far as to LIE to us? Or pretty up their ideas by using our favorite words about the ideas that our way of life is based on. They might at that.
The thing that must not be clouded over is the fact that they
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
DO intend our destruction, by one means or another, no matter how civic-minded they appear to be on occasion. The disguise of a little old lady isn't an old one for no reason.
Communists are not Americans, they are members of their party. They are not entitled to American rights. If we choose to extend them, it's a loan, not an automatic right. Those rights are something that are earned.
ONE MORE PUNCH in this comedy of using words that our fathers and sons and brothers died to give us the right to use—since when are the Communists qualified to speak on "the policies of the Right" (even the American Left doesn't appear to know; they're noisy, but issues they seem to feel, can be dispensed with), "the vital issues of peace, democracy, freedom of speech..." Is anybody besides me laughing at their script man?
Suzy Robbins
Americans might feel that they can tolerate Communism far across the waters, but the Communists cannot tolerate us. I would hate to wake up some day to find the tidy line between us had been moved under our feet while we slept.
San Pedro, Calif., junior and YAF member
At the Movies
"Tender Is the Night": produced by Henry T. Weinstein. At the Granada.
Ey Murrel Bland
"Tender Is the Night" is an unusual Hollywood production. Based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the movie is unique because it has the same realistic ending that is in the book. Many recent Hollywood writers have changed the endings so they are idealistic.
THE MOVIE CONCERNS a psychiatrist, played by Jason Robards, and his patient, played by Jennifer Jones. Dr. Richard Diver is an American psychiatrist practicing in an institution in Zurich, Switzerland. Nicole Warren is the daughter of an American packing company owner and is the patient. "Baby" Warren, Nicole's older sister, feels that Dr. Diver should marry Nicole to insure proper treatment. "Baby," played by Joan Fontaine, believes that money
DR. DIVER leaves the institution in Zurich and goes to a plush beachside home on the French Riviera where he concentrates on one patient, Nicole. After Nicole is cured, Dr. Diver becomes frustrated because he is not busy in his practice. Later, the couple decide it would be better if they separate.
The travelogue in the movie is excellent. Many scenes were shot on location in Paris, Zurich and the Riviera. The good color photography captures the beauty of these places.
solves all problems. (She has been left in charge of her father's business.) After Dr. Diver and Nicole are married, "Baby" makes sure the couple is well provided for.
The actors do a reasonably good job of acting. They make it clear that a conflict can arise when a husband and wife have contrasting goals in life.
If you want to see a relatively well acted movie that has an ex- ectional travelogue, then see "Tender Is the Night."
A Reply To A Communist Offer
Editor:
A letter from the Communist Party appeared in a recent issue of the Kansan imploring the fact that people are getting a one-sided impression of Communism and complaining that the Communists have been given no chance to speak in their own defense. Indeed, one might wonder why no Communists have spoken on this campus in reply to the numerous conservative anti-Communists who have appeared here. The letter from the Communist Party implies that it is because of the narrow-mindedness of the students here that no Communist has been invited to speak at KU.
I SHOULD LIKE to point out that the reason for the absence of Communist speakers on this campus has not been because the students did not want to hear both sides of the question. Quite to the contrary, the Communist party itself is to blame. As chairman of the Minority Opinion Forum, I have been trying to contact someone associated with the Communist Party in hopes of having them speak here. No less than three letters have been sent to various officials of the CP inviting them to speak at the Minority Opinion Forum.
Only one of these three letters got a reply. That reply came from Mr. Gus Hall, who is the national secretary of the Party. It was delivered over two months after I first wrote to him. The letter informed me that I would be contacted as soon as they were able to find a speaker. It has now been over two months since I heard anything from them. Thus, they seem anything but eager to see that their side gets a fair hearing.
I AM WRITING this letter because I want to make clear that the blame for the failure of a Communist to appear on campus has not been our prejudices against communism; instead, it is the apparent indifference and negligence of the Party itself. The Minority Opinion Forum would be quite happy to give the CP a chance to speak here; all they have to do is answer our letters.
Short Ones
Larry Laudan, chairman Minority Opinion Forum
Optimism, said Candide, is a mania for maintaining that all is well when things are going badly. — Voltaire.
Sound and Fury
The Traffic Control Plan
The administration is continuing work on the proposed traffic control plan to keep cars and trucks off the campus at certain times.
This is an admirable idea, yet the plans for the control seem a bit ludicrous, for several reasons:
1. Thousands of dollars are going to be spent on the installation of five control stations to be located at the periphery of the campus. It will take funds later for maintenance of these shelters.
2. Additional policemen are going to be hired to man these shelters. These men must be paid—more funds.
3. THESE CONTROL stations, no matter how they are built, probably will wind up looking like old-fashioned out-houses. What a lovely addition to the Chancellor's plan to beautify the campus!
4. Streets must be torn up, repaved, widened and rebuilt. In the instance of the station at Memorial Drive, the small, beautiful rock garden, (built at a considerable expense to the University) will be torn apart.
5. And last, why spend this money to keep students and faculty cars out, but let visitors in? There should be a way to do it that wouldn't entail such expense and wouldn't injure the psyche of college student.
Therefore, I submit this plan.
Therefore I stubout this plan.
Instead of stations, turn-around areas, traffic lights and extra policemen, why not use portable barriers between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.?
A SIMPLE SIGN, mounted on a well-designed, moveable, portable barrier could be placed at points beyond which traffic would not be permitted.
It should be so placed that emergency vehicles could pass.
This plan could be enforced by fines for student or faculty cars not having parking permits inside the campus area.
I propose that:
1. Traffic be allowed from the corner of 14th and Jayhawk north to the Kansas Union. This will allow visitors to both museums to use the parking lots by the art museum and will also allow visitors going to the Union for conferences to use the available street parking.
If there is any plan to keep vehicles off the campus streets, it should prohibit All vehicles. Students will cross the streets at various places and become less aware of approaching cars. A few vehicles allowed on Jayhawk Blvd. could be more dangerous than the many we face now.
And the funds proposed for the control project could be put to use to construct parking lots near the campus, perhaps the site of old Sunnyside.
-A Critic
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