Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No. 96
Tuesday, March 6, 1962
Writer Edgar Snow Will Give Speech
Foreign correspondent Edgar Snow, the only Western writer to interview Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung since 1947, will speak at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser Theater.
Snow has been given perhaps the most liberal and extensive courtesies granted to any visitor to Communist China because he is considered by the Chinese Reds as "a writer, not a correspondent."
"Red Star over China," the most famous of Snow's 10 books, contains a full life story of Mao Tse-tung as told to him by the Chinese Red leader.
THE BOOK IS DESCRIBED AS "the first authentic account" of a revolutionary movement destined to conquer China and change the face of Asia. Prior to writing the book, Snow spent seven years in China, studied Chinese and taught at a Chinese university. He also has traveled extensively in the other areas of the Far East.
He has contributed articles on the Far East to various national magazines. He has worked for the Chicago Tribune, the New York Sun, Chicago Daily News, London Daily Herald and the New York Herald-Tribune.
Snow, known by some as "The Marco Polo of Red China," has reviewed his 26 years as a foreign correspondent in his autobiography, "Journey to the Beginning."
He was a war correspondent during World War II, and in a war time interview with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he wrote one of the
Prize Winning Skit Challenged
A special meeting of the KU-Y cabinet (the members are ex officio members of the Rock Chalk committee) was held last night to discuss the Revue.
The Rock Chalk committee of the KU-Y is investigating the possibility that the winning Kappa Sigma-Delta Delta Delta skit in last weekend's Rock Chalk Revue was taken from an original play, "Medium Rare."
THOMAS MOORE, executive secretary of the KU-Y, said the cabinet did not want to talk about the situation yet or disclose what happened at the meeting.
Bill McCollum, Leavenworth senior and co-chairman of KU-Y, said following the meeting that the cabinet was "unsure of the issue" and would therefore rather not make a statement.
The investigation was begun on the basis of information received late yesterday from students and faculty members.
This information asserted, among other things, that the skit was plerigered from "Medium Rare" almost exactly.
Normally, Rock Chalk skits lampooning college life include original dialogue and lyrics set to established music.
Moore said that no action has been taken by the committee and that it will look into the matter more thoroughly in the next few days.
Directors of the skit from the two houses involved indicated last night that they preferred to withhold comment at this time.
Weather
Generally fair this afternoon and tonight becoming partly cloudy tomorrow. Warmer with winds becoming southerly and increasing to 25 to 30 miles per hour by tomorrow. Low tonight in the 20s. High tomorrow 20s east to the 50s west.
few accounts of the President's thinking about Chinese and East Asian questions.
Snow, will speak under the auspices of the Committee on Asian Studies and the School of Journalism, will be interviewed in a press conference by journalism students at 4 p.m. tomorrow in 205 Flint.
Rights Group Fails to Convene For First Meeting
The KU Human Rights Committee failed to convene last night for its first scheduled meeting since early last fall.
Because only two of the committee's members were present, Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore and chairman of the ASC committee, postponed the meeting until 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
ONE COMMITTEE MEMBER who was absent from the meeting said later, "Brian called me but somehow we got our signals mixed up. I thought he was supposed to call me back if the meeting was going to be tonight."
Although the meeting never opened, Grace and Roberta Johnson Joliet, Ill., senior, discussed "organizational" matters for more than an hour.
Grace placed all matters discussed at the gathering "off the record" and said, "These meetings will run a lot smoother and we can get a lot more done at this meeting if reporters are not here. Of course, if reporters demand to attend I cannot and will not do anything about it. But I just think we could get a lot more done at this meeting because it is going to be just organizational."
GRACE SAID THE COMMITTEE will meet tomorrow "to discuss what to do in relation to the CRC and the problems they will bring to us. I think everyone who is really interested in civil rights issues should come to the meeting. It will be open and they can discuss their feelings on the subject."
The HRC meeting was the first called since Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told the Civil Rights Council two weeks ago to take any proposals they have concerning the University to the Human Rights Council.
Grace said last week that in his opinion there has been no reason for a meeting of the HRC until now.
PARIS — (UPI) — French police raided the homes of a dozen known extremists in the Paris area today and announced they had seized an arsenal of terrorist weapons in one apartment sufficient to "blow up a whole neighborhood."
Police Raid Arms Cache
The strikes against the Secret Army Organization (OAS) appeared aimed at assuring Algerian rebels that France will battle rightwing terrorists as relentlessly as it has the rebels over the past seven years. Peace talks are to resume tomorrow.
About 400 pounds of explosives and large quantities of arms—including a bazooka, sub machine guns and pistols—were found in a Paris suburban apartment occupied by two youths.
The apartment was searched after a truck in which the youths were transporting more explosives blew up last night. The youths escaped
Nikita Says U.S. Program Entails Atomic Blackmail
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Premier Nikita Khrushvice today called the United States plan to stage nuclear tests in the atmosphere "atomic blackmail" and threatened new Soviet testing.
In a letter to President Kennedy made public today by the Tass, official Soviet news agency, Khrushchev accepted the Anglo-American proposal for opening the 18nation Geneva disarmament talks next week at the foreign ministers' level.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY said last Friday night that the United States would resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere unless an agreement could be reached by late April for a test ban with adequate controls.
But he indicated that the U.S. test proposal put forward by the President would virtually wreck that conference before it started.
The President said he would go to Geneva and sign such an agreement if one were reached before American testing arrangements at Christmas Island in the Pacific are completed.
The President said his decision to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere was made to keep the Western world from falling behind Soviet nuclear weapons developments. His decision was made after careful analysis of the Soviet nuclear tests series conducted in the atmosphere last fall. The Soviets had prepared for these tests in secrecy while talks on a test ban were going on at Geneva, and carried them out without notification of the West. The Russians at that time tested weapons with a high yield of power equivalent to more than 50 million tons of TNT.
KHRUSHCHEY MADE no mention of these facts in his latest note. In a separate letter to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Khrushchey accepted the foreign ministers' level meeting "with regret," but made no mention of the "atomic blackmail" line nor of the Soviet threat to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
"ONE WHO HAS not set out to delude world opinion would realize that if the U.S. and its allies add another series of tests ... the Soviet Union will be faced with the need to hold such tests of new types of its nuclear weapons as might be required ... to strengthen its security
"You," Khrushchev wrote to Kennedy, "are opening another round in the contest in creating the most death-bringing types of nuclear weapons and are starting . . . a chain reaction which will become ever more tempestuous.
- Attacked again Western insistence on international inspections to protect the test ban treaty against cheating.
"You and your allies in aggressive blocs justify your decision to start
- Reiterated his belief that disarmament issues should be handled at the summit level.
Big 3 Ministers Plan Geneva Parlay Soon
- Denounced Kennedy's decision to resume atmospheric tests in the latter part of April unless Russia signs an effective test ban treaty by then—ignoring the fact that Russia last September broke a three-year-old testing moratorium.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—U.S. and British officials were gratified today at Soviet agreement to a Big Three foreign ministers conference in Geneva next week but they saw no sign of Russian readiness for a nuclear test ban agreement.
President Kennedy was expected to dispatch a quick reply to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev welcoming his decision to send Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Geneva as Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had proposed.
Though they said nothing publically, officials here expressed considerable disappointment over France's decision not to participate in the March 14 disarmament conference, originally scheduled to include 18 nations.
But officials here described the tone of Khrushchev's letter consenting to the meeting as "grudging" and saw in it little indication that Russia was ready to break the deadlock over a nuclear test ban.
As analyzed by U.S. Officials, Khrushchey's letter:
THE SOVIET LEADER AGREED to have Gromyko attend the East-West disarmament conference beginning in Geneva March 14 and also said Gromyko would be there a day or two early for the Big Three foreign ministers talks.
THE FRENCH DECISION WAS not unexpected, however. President Charles de Gaulle, while staying out
of nuclear test ban talks so far, has said he would join a final agreement if one were reached.
De Gaulle was said to feet that the disarmament forum is too big to produce any substantive progress and will degenerate into a propaganda exercise. He also is known to be reluctant to negotiate with the Russians when he feels his "hand is being forced."
Macmillan, supporting the idea of a U.S.-British-Soviet foreign ministers meeting before the disarmament conference, told the House of Commons yesterday the West was forced to resume nuclear tests to avoid being outstripped in weapons development by the Soviet Union.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk tentatively planned to leave for Geneva March 10. He probably will confer there with British Foreign Secretary Lord Home on March 11, and possibly with Gromyko and Home the following day.
KENNEDY AND MACMILLAN proposed on Feb. 7 that U.S.A., British, and Soviet Foreign Ministers meet just prior to the March 14 conference to make a major effort to settle nuclear test ban issues.
Kennedy, in his Friday announcement on future U.S. atmospheric tests, stressed that a treaty would have to include adequate inspection against cheating.
The United States and Britain presented Russia with a complete draft test ban treaty last April, which the Soviets rejected.
Officials indicated they were now thinking of changing the inspection provisions of the April treaty along two lines;
- Adding inspections against secret preparations for tests.
- Finding possible ways to refine inspection machinery, in the light of new scientific knowledge, so that it would provide the same protection but involve fewer inspections on Russian territory, to which the Soviets object.
new nuclear tests by saying that such tests have been held by the Soviet Union. But this argument does not hold water.
"I hope this is not expected of us, as it would look too much like atomic blackmail."
"THE FIRST TO make the atom bomb was the United States. The first tests of nuclear weapons were also held by it. The U.S. exploded atomic bombs above...Nagasaki and Hiroshima It was the U.S. and nobody else that forced the Soviet Union to start the development and stockpiling of nuclear weapons in order to insure its security."
KHRUSHCHIEV'S AGREEMENT to open the Geneva conference at the foreign ministers level was seen by Western diplomats here as an initial victory for the West.
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Kennedy Happy With Soviet OK
WASHINGTON — (UPI) – President Kennedy told Premier Nikita Khrushchev today he was pleased by the Soviet leader's willingness to drop demands for an immediate summit conference and instead open the Geneva disarmament talks at the foreign ministers level.
The President said he was "particularly glad" krushhev had agreed to let Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home prior to the formal conference opening on March 14.
AT THE SAME TIME the President said he did not now wish to answer Khrushchev's latest charges against the United States, including the complaint that Kennedy was indulging in "atomic blackmail" by his latest test ban offer.
He ignored Khrushchev's threat that Russia would resume nuclear testing if the United States goes through with its plans to hold atmospheric tests in late April.
Kennedy instead called on Khrushchev to drop "sterile exchanges of propaganda" and join him in "close personal support" of efforts to achieve disarmament.
TODAY'S BRIEF presidential note set the stage for the opening of the 18-nation disarmament conference March 14 and a preliminary meeting of Rusk, Gromyko and Home two days earlier.
Kennedy's message, dated yesterday and delivered in Moscow this morning, ran only about 140 words. He did not repeat his previous offer to hold a summit meeting in April or May if progress at the Geneva conference warrants.
Nor did the President reply to various charges of bad faith made against the United States in Khrushchev's Sunday message in which he grudgingly agreed to open at the foreign ministers level, instead of at the summit.
KENNEDY SAID he wanted progress—not propaganda—and "in that spirit. I shall not undertake at this time to comment on the many sentiments in your letter with which, as I am sure you know, the United States government cannot agree."
The President called on Khrushchev to join him in "giving our close personal support and direction to the work of our representatives" and "join in working for their success."