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University Daily Kansan Monday. Feb. 19, 1962
President Kennedy's plan to purchase $100 million in United Nations bonds (the total bond issue is for $200 million) is in an uncertain stage right now. It is under attack by some members of Congress, who object to the refusal of other members of the United Nations to pay their share of U.N. expenses.
The U.N. Bond Issue
SO A COMPROMISE proposal is being discussed. It has been suggested that a solution to the problem would be that the United States buy the same amount of bonds that the rest of the Western aligned nations purchase altogether.
This plan is sound for several reasons. In the first place, the Western world—and especially the Common Market nations—are quite capable of shouldering their share of the burden. The fact that they have not is a sad commentary on their sense of responsibility. When a nation is suffering from economic problems, it is possible to excuse such action. But several nations have simply refused to pay their assessments because the United Nations is not operating entirely as they would like it to.
YET IT IS TO the advantage of most U.N. members (certainly to those belonging to the Western world) to support the United Nations. The United States has disagreed with actions taken by the General Assembly in the past, yet it has not reacted by irresponsibly refusing to pay its share of U.N. costs.
The bond issue is for a small amount when compared to the amounts being spent on foreign aid each year, but it is necessary to rescue the United Nations from a financial crisis due to the cost of its Congo operations. And, if the United Nations really seemed in danger of folding from lack of funds, the United States would undoubtedly step in with the necessary money.
Yet the proposal for buying U.N. bonds in the same amount as the rest of the Western aligned nations (in combination) purchase should both sooth Congress (which is irritated because the United States has been meeting the financial obligations of other members to keep the United Nations functioning) and to make other nations realize that the United States cannot continue to meet their obligations for them indefinitely.
—William H. Mullins
Today India Goes to the Polls
By Baldev Mitter
New Delhi, India, graduate student
The Indian nation, which forms the largest democracy in the world, elects its representatives through a secret ballot which, to be exact, starts today and ends on Feb. 25, except in Punjab and Kerala, where it will last for a day. Feb. 24. Every man and woman who has reached the age of 21 years has a vote. And it is up to them who they elect — an opinion that will be respected by those who lose, because this is how a democracy works. This has, in fact, struck all political parties in India and the nation abroad, more so because the electorate is large — 210 million voters — and because nearly 70 per cent cannot read or write.
THE ELECTION is for the Lok Sabha (House of People) and for the Legislative Assemblies, also known as the Vidhan Sabhas. The Lok Sabha has 507 seats. Seven members are nominated, two Anglo-Indians and one each from the central administrative areas. The Jaminu and Kashmir Assembly elects six members, which are formally nominated by the President to the Lok Sabha. The snowbound five Parliamentary Constituencies, four of Himachal Pradesh and the one Granga, will have elections in April. The Legislative Assemblies, excluding Janimu and Kashmir, have 3,099 seats. The elections are to be held for 2,833 seats. Kerala (126 seats) and Orissa (140 seats) have had mid-term elections. In the second half of March the elected representatives will, in turn, elect members to the Rajya Sabha (council of states) and Legislative Councils.
of whose members one-third retire every six years.
SINCE THE elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies are simultaneous, each voter will get two ballot papers, pink for the Assembly and white for the Lok Sabha. In this election, a new method, know as the "marking system," is being used, which means indicating the vote on the ballot paper itself. The ballot bears on it the names, and opposite are the facsimiles of the symbols of the contesting candidates. The voter puts the ballot into a box before the presiding officer within the view of the polling agents. The counting of votes and tabulation of results will be between Feb. 25 and March 1, except in some cases where polling may have been marred by untoward bappenings. But no result will be announced before the polling is over throughout the country to avoid the repercussions of victory or defeat in one constituency or the other. On March 3, the Election Commission will issue notification giving the names of all members elected to the new Legislative Assemblies, thus "duly constituting" them.
The elections of the president and the vice president will be held on May 6 and the results will be declared by May 10. With the installation of the new President on May 12, the entire gamut of the poll will come to an end.
The parties in the arena are the Congress Party of Mr. Nehru, the Communist Party, the Praja Socialist Party, the Swantandra (Independent) Party, the Jan Sangh (People's) Party, and some other communal organizations.
Worth Repeating
I disapprove of the lecture system on either side of the Atlantic. If what it said is worth saying it's in a book, and if it isn't in a book either it isn't worth saying or it's about to be published in a book. The printed page is less obtrusive than the professionality.—Harold Fitzgibbons and Anthony D. Loehnis
College faculties should be shaken up a little. Intramural warfare notwithstanding, life is too easy for many. There are the ineluctable corruptions of teaching: the too-quick dominion over students' minds, the sleazy omniscience, the sacredetal aura of the lectern. It would be wise to have more faculty seminars, and teams of teachers handling the same class in active opposition to each other. All too often it is considered bad taste for professors to discuss ideas—they are inherently monologists—and some faculty dining-rooms have the starchy chattiness of a British officers' mess. —David Boroff
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Our country has exchange programs for teachers and students with many nations in all parts of the world. Some teachers from darkest Africa will undoubtedly be skilled in domestic science so we will soon know how to prepare our enemies for Sunday dinner. —Ed Abels
THE RULING party is facing a tough opposition in some parts of the country, though it will sweep the majority of votes with the "personal charm" of Mr. Nehru. While the Congress party is canvassing on the plea of the successful implementation of the five year plans and raising the country's economy, the opposition charges the ruling party with corruption, nepotism and unsuccessful handling of Kashmir issue and the incursion of the Chinese on Indian borders.
Though some are watching with keen interest how the Communist Party fares in Kerala, West Bengal and Orissa in view of its open sympathies with Peking, there are others who are anxious to see what the Independent Party of Shri Rajejahalachari, ex-governor-general of India, reaps as a result of its anti-Nehru propaganda. This Independent Party of ex-governor-generals, ex-ministers, ex-rajas, ex-landlords — will create a tense atmosphere of opposition, but it is not expected to find favor with the poor, teeming millions of India.
The communal parties like the Jan Sangh, Akali Dal (which demands a separate Punjabi-speaking state for the Sikhs) will exploit the situation in the Punjab and some parts of the United Provinces and will certainly take seats from the Congress Party.
PERHAPS THE most keenly contested election will be held in North Bombay Constituency, where Mr. Krishna Menon is opposed by Acherya J. B. Kirplani, Mr. Menon, political favorite of Mr. Nehru, disciple of Bertrand Russell and a world renowned carcastic diplomat, banks highly for his success on Congress and Communist support. Nehru's personal appeal, his performance in the United Nations on Kashmir problems and the successful liberation of Goa; the equally witty and sarcastic Acherya Kirplani, political emissary and disciple of Mahatma Ghandi, former president of Congress, exponent of Ghandian philosophy, one of the most respected opposition members — accuses Menon of pro-Communist policies, of being soft toward an aggressive China, of using un-Ghandian ways for the liberation of Goa, and antagonizing the international world. When Menor exploits national fervor on Goa, Kirplani's voice condemning the violent means is strengthened by many disciples and associates of Ghandi who still believe in un-adulterated non-violence.
The defeat of Mr. Kirplani would destroy the backbone of the opposition.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Though it is undoubtedly the Congress Party that will be returned with an absolute majority, it is necessary that the Indians return a sizable opposition lest India's democracy become a "democratic dictatorship."
*UP HERE NOW MIMA BREWERS - IT'S GEMMED MORE
PRINCIPAL TO SERVE THE CLOSE - INGREDIENTS*
Movie Censors — A Viewpoint Editor:
One of our political science intellectuals has delivered an insipid commentary on a review by Bill Charles. This in itself is seemingly harmless. However the inferences drawn and the defaimation by innuendo should be sharply refuted.
This fellow with the Biblical moniker infers that movie censors in Kansas are less qualified to pass judgment than those in New York City. In particular, there are three ladies who are to be singled out for public scrutiny. And finally, and one does not fully understand how this coheres with the main theme, Lawrence is said to be different from New York City. (Thank God for the latter, since many of us emigrated from that barren wasteland to escape the environment.)
NOW WHY, if aesthetics and artiness is the sole criteria by which the cinema should be judged, did the City License Commissioner prohibit the showing of eight movies in the past nineteen months on the grounds that the topics were controversial or irreligious? It is all right, however, to peddle the sordid trash that pollutes the screen in the immediate vicinity of Times Square. Remember what happened at the attempt to show Charlie Chaplin's production Limelight? Incidentally, one of the productions on the Commissioner's list won an award at Cannes.
After taking a course 'in the contemporary theater at Cooper Union, one was led to conclude with Professor Buckingham that there are more censors with sectarian interests than creative producers. Most of them seem to operate out of New York, from where they branch out to exercise their thought control when they are not proffering brotherhood awards.
THE BROOKLYN Tablet has had quite a bit to say about what license to exhibit all films would mean, and who the modern censors are. Maybe we should consider the problem on a national plane instead of singling out a few dedicated, albeit misguided, censors.
Henry Commager Steele, an authority venerated by the liberals, has pointed out in detail that the so called "hate sheets" often furnish statistics and reports which are considered "not safe" by the conventional journals. In that vein, I should like to see Conde McGinley's "Common Sense" placed on the library racks. That New Yorker, together with the other New Yorker, Joey McWilliams, claim that they cannot publish in that great metropolis.
Since the library tells me that such publications are usually placed on display at the request of the Political Science Department. I wonder whether it might not be wise to add such items in order to provide a greater refinement to the spectral analysis of political expression.
Baroid Senick
Baldwin graduate student
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