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University Daily Kansan Friday. Feb. 16, 1962
The Summit Proposal
President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan turned down Wednesday a proposal for a top level meeting on disarmament. Their move represents a new and needed attitude on the part of the Western powers.
Kennedy and Macmillan had sent a letter last week to Soviet Premier Khrushchev asking that the foreign ministers of the 18 nations taking part in the Geneva disarmament conference March 14 open the first round negotiations.
Khrushchev replied that the conference should be opened at the summit level—the heads of the governments should open negotiations.
Kennedy answered that he did "not believe that the attendance by the heads of government at the outset of an 18-nation conference is the best way to move forward."
HE ADDED that he would be "quite ready to participate personally at the heads of government level at any stage of the conference when it appears that such participation could positively affect the chances of success."
The United States' reply was drafted after Secretary of State Dean Rusk conferred with Sir David Ormsby-Gore, the British ambassador, and Herve Alpland, the ambassador of France.
The United States' attitude on the conference is bound to prove excellent grounds for Communist propagandizing. There is perhaps a tie-in between the Communist's release of U2 pilot Powers and Fred Pryor for Colonel Abel and Khrushchev's call for a summit conference. The Russians apparently gained nothing else from the move judging from the way they hushed up Abel's entry back into the fold.
The Communist leaders are fully aware of the impact of the release of Powers to the United States. Khrushchev's "summit conference" immediately after the move could well be an attempt to put the United States in a bad light of world opinion.
Pravda, the Moscow Communist newspaper, had already taken advantage of Khrushchev's move for the conference. In a New York dispatch, it said:
"The initiative displayed by Khrushchev caused something similar to panic among those in Washington who hoped that the solution of the disarmament problem could be buried in endless fruitless negotiations at a low level."
PRAVDA AND Khrushchev would undoubtedly prefer a top level conference where charges could be hurled back and forth with full press coverage guaranteed. Perhaps Khrushchev is hoping for a repeat of the May 1960 summit conference where the U-2 incident gave him an excellent opportunity to enlist world opinion by expounding on the goodness of communism and Russia vs. the imperialistic United States.
The 1960 summit conference should have proven the value of "low level" planning beforehand. Kennedy has evidently learned this lesson.
By rejecting Khrushchev's proposal, Kennedy has seized the initiative for the summit conference. Rather than mutely following the Communist demands, Kennedy has taken the stand of demanding a sensible approach to a summit conference.
His move deserves the respect of American and world opinion.
YAF Identified
Editor:
In Monday's Daily Kansan you published an editorial on the proposed YAF poll of economics and political science professors. Alongside was a cartoon depicting a YAF man on an elephant.
I thought the editorial was good. The cartoon bothered me. YAF is a student organization, I believe, but the representation seems to be that of a 19th century professor—or does the paucha deceive我? More important, I hope the use of an elephant was not the cartoonist's way of inferring that the YAF organization is trying to run the Republican Party. My impression is that YAF wants "true conservatism" to triumph — and finds both the Republican and the Democratic Parties unsatisfactory vehicles for achieving this goal.
I would like to make it clear that YAF is not a Republican Party organization. Since this might be inferred from the cartoon, I'm grateful that the elephant has been depicted carrying YAF down the road to progress despite YAF's "backward look."
One last query: should I also be concerned about the elephant's odd-ball eyes?
Earl A. Nehring assistant professor of political science YR Faculty Adviser
YAF and Payton Castigated Editor:
Instructor Fringsheim's letter to the editor on Tuesday was quite accurate in its evaluation of the campus YAF chapter but with one error. Charles McIlwaine is a student but Marick Payton is not enrolled! When Mcllwaine and Scott Stanley cruised the state and country last summer to talk in the name of conservatism(?) few members of the NAM or chambers of commerce questioned their academic standing. Stanley was refused admission to our School of Law last year due to academic deficiencies. This sounds about par for the course—out of three YAF leaders only one is a bona fide student of the University. Shouldn't students be members and officers in student organizations? Why should the UDK print so much tripe by someone such as Payton who is not a student?
What we need at KU is a student chapter of the ADA so that liberals can be organized under one umbrella too.
Why, I'd bet that Payton would back the candidacy of General Walker as governor of Texas. I would wager that he believes George Romney to be a Red since Mr. Romney said that he was definitely opposed to the John Birch Society.
Fred Callard Lawrence resident
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YAF Criticized
As an alumna of KU, I cannot resist commenting on an article appearing on page four of The Kansas City Star. Feb. 12, headlined "Professors face a political quiz." Assuming that the various statements quoted are accurate transcriptions, I'd say there are a few confused students (or non-students) on the hill this term.
Second, the thought of polling the faculty members of the economics and political science departments, to determine their political views, strikes me as being dreadfully immature and somewhat horrifying. I'm sure you have all heard of spoon-fed education? Now there is a demand for spoon-fed politics.
If you are really concerned about the political views expressed by members of the economics and political science departments, then take their courses, do the assigned reading, challenge the professors in class and in private discussion; but, if you are interested in preserving freedom, don't inquire, through the medium of a poll or survey, into the political views of the faculty for the purpose of labeling personal convictions like so many tubes of toothpaste — white, green, or peppermint stripe. Such an invasion of privacy smacks of the police state, nothing else. I am sure that
FIRST, the article says that Marick Payton, chairman of Young Americans for Freedom (a conservative student group) is not a student. Now, how the chairman of a student group can be a non-student is something I don't understand. If the conservative students must have a leader, let them choose one of their own number, thereby preserving their own freedom through honest representation.
most KU students would not want to be involved in such activity.
MOREOVER, isn't it rather naive to think that one's political views are determined or influenced by the members of only two departments of the University?
The Star quotes Payton as saying "The present administration inherited this imbalance," referring to "professors here with welfare state leanings." Oh! Viva la "imbalanced!" A balanced atmosphere is rather static, is it not?
As a rule, the students more than supply the necessary conservative element, having been raised in conservative families, in conservative communities, in a conservative state. If there is an imbalance, my guess is that, considered all together, students and faculty (the two necessary and equally important elements in the educational process), the "imbalance" would be right of center, not left.
I WILL be anxiously waiting to read another article in the Kansas City Star, stating that the students at Kansas University who know what freedom is, who are conscious of its fragile nature, and who are cognizant of its assailants, have asked their professors to refrain from submitting to the "poll" outlined by Marick Payton, or to any questionnaire infringing upon their rights as citizens in a still free society.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Margaret E. Gulick Class of 1955
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"IT WAS MY TURN TO SIT BEHIND BIFFO—YOU SLEPT BEHIND HIM IN HISTORY."
By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA, by Henry James. Harper Torch-
books. $1.85.
This is one of two great novels that Henry James published in 1886, the other being "The Bostonians." Neither enjoyed popular success, and when the author did his collected editions two decades later he completely ignored the latter book. This is a shame. These novels reveal a Henry James that seldom appears in the other books.
"The Princess Casamassima" almost makes one think of Dickens. The setting is London and the subject is social reform and social reformers. The hero is an illegitimate son of a woman who was condemned for murdering her lover, ostensibly the father of the hero. And the hero, who bears the interesting name of Hyacinth Robinson, is first a slum-dweller and then a youth binding books in the Soho district and becoming caught up in the Socialist thinking then sweeping Europe.
The Princess herself is a kind of do-gooding lady of the aristocracy who enjoys slumming and who wants to get to know the people. Hyacinth becomes her special lap-dog, but he gets to love the good life too much, and he comes to regret the oath he took in a courageous moment at a Socialist meeting.
The Princess, for her part, then loses interest in Hyacinth. She has given her fortune to the people, and she is living in poverty, and she has a new interest. And Hyacinth comes to a tragic end.
Underneath, one might say, lies the typical Jamesian theme of an innocent in the toils of a person of more sinister design. Hyacinth is as innocent as even a Daisy Miller or a Christopher Newman. But there is more than this. There is, as in "The Bostonians," sharp criticism of the starry-eyed reformers of the time. James had no patience with these people, and though his novel deserves consideration along with the social novels of Howells, James was no lover of common man.
But, even if one disagrees with James' interpretations and is disturbed by his attitude toward reform, he must admit to the compelling theme and the brilliant treatment. For a well-rounded insight into Henry James—too often treated as one who depicts the "international theme"—the student should add "The Princess Casamassima" to his shelf and to his reading list.
Some schools are friendly, other are cold. In some the intellectual life flourishes; in others the intellectual life has to fight for its existence. There are fraternity schools and Bohemian schools, rural and urban, religious and militantly secular. And there are those colleges—more interesting than most—in which many of these tendencies are complexly intertwined, and the student must define himself as he unravels the twisted strands.David Boroff
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It is my experience that those who are most positive about political problems are able to be positive only because they do not know all the relevant facts. Those who are most harsh in their judgments are able to be harsh for that same reason. When the whole of a problem is known, solutions become excessively difficult and judgments are not easily made.—John Foster Dulles
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