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Daily hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year, No. 117
Thursday, April 2, 1964
By Lee Stone
Morse Questions Value Of South Viet Nam Fight
South Vietnam is not worth the life of a single American boy, Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon Democrat, told KU students last night. The statement was greeted with applause.
"A puppet is a puppet, and South Viet Nam has not had more that a U.S. puppet government in its ten years of existence," Morse said to an audience of about 500 assembled in Hoch Auditorium.
"I DO NOT believe that more than the tiny fraction of its fourteen million who have benefited and prospered from American assistance can be considered to be 'free' in any sense that Americans understand the word." Morse said.
What we are fighting for "is that
The U.S. should call a meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) or the UN to resolve the trouble in South Vietnam, Morse said, trouble which is costing us American life and money. SEATO "was created to deal with threats to the peace in Southeast Asia, and an amendment (in the SEATO agreement) specifically described South Vietnam as an area of . . mutual interest to" SEATO parties, Morse said.
we are trying to pre-empt the area from what we fear may be Communism." But not for Vietnamese freedom. Morse said.
SEATO PARTNERS are New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, France, and Great Britain.
MacArthur Still Critical; Hospital Asks for Blood
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center issued a call today for six pints of blood for ailing Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Volunteers at the big facility immediately filled the request.
Officials said the blood call did not constitute a crisis in the condition of the 84-year-old critically ill general. They said they simply wanted to have "fresh blood" on hand in MacArthur's recovery room. But the hospital said previously MacArthur's recovery chances are "not good."
EARLIER MEDICAL bulletins on his condition said MacArthur had received more than 21 pints of blood since his three major operations in a period of 24 days.
Officials said this was not the first time a call had been issued for blood among personnel at Walter Reed but they said it was the first time it had been done in Mac-Arthur's name.
Today's call was filled almost immediately, officials said.
First indications of a weakening heart yesterday dimmed hopes for MacArthur.
As the 84-year-old General of the Army ended a month in Walter
Reed, doctors said his chances for recovery are "not good."
TWO TELLTALE signs of the heart's condition quavered yesterday. His blood pressure dropped slightly and his pulse increased moderately. Both previously were stable.
A later bulletin reported some improvement in blood pressure. But even so, it said the old soldier's condition—still critical—had deteriorated within the past 24 hours.
Early today, his condition was reported unchanged.
Gen. Henry S. Murphey, Walter Reed commandant, also said MacArthur's kidney's were failing to waste from his body. While the prognosis is "not good," Murphey said there still was a definite chance for recovery.
MURPHEY'S HOPE was reflected in the great and small who spiritually were at the aging warrior's bedside.
A guard at the Smithsonian Institution telephoned the center to ask about MacArthur.
"We hope so." he added.
Morse said our SEATO partners are not with us in South Vietnam. "Is it because none of our treaty partners thinks we are right in trying to hold it as a U.S. area of influence?" he asked.
"He promoted me from Corporal to Captain on the battlefield—I'll never forget it."
The U.S. acted unilaterally in South Vietnam—not with our SEATO partners, Morse said. Our action was based on the "domino" theory, he said.
Morse said that the theory held that "South Vietnam was the first "domino" in the line. Next to it was Cambodia and Laos, then Thailand and Burma. Below Thailand stretches the Malaysian Federation, and beyond that. Indonesia."
"We convinced ourselves that any nations not imbedded with American economic and military aid programs, and all their attendant advisers, was as good as Communist," Morse said.
ALL WERE expected to drop into the "lap of Communism" if South Vietnam did so, Morse said.
He added that a "country not in the Western camp was considered to be in the Communist camp."
None of the Southeast Asian countries except North Vietnam which was never in the row, has become a Communist state. He said they are undemocratic and totalitarian, but so are South Vietnam and Thailand.
"THE MOST optimistic American forecast for South Vietnam was made by the Secretary of Defense when he said we would aid that country 'forever.'" Morse said.
Morse departed from his prepared text at this point to say the Secretary of Defense had no legitimate right to commit the American people to support South Vietnam "forever."
MORSE ALSO criticized U.S. aid to India and Pakistan. "Out of both countries are coming increasing reports of anti-Americanism generated by the aid we give the other," Morse said.
He said "One of the other fallacies of foreign aid is the assumption that the recipients will really line up against Communism.
If a nation's interests are opposed to Communism it will line up against it with or without our aid. If its interest coincides with Communism, all the aid we send them will not make much difference." Morse said.
Brazilian Congressional Move Installs Provisional President
RIO DE JANEIRO—(UPI)—Congress installed its own provisional president of Brazil today as sea and ground forces were reported converging on Porto Allegre, last military stronghold of hold-out President Joao Goulart.
The effect of the congressional action in the third day of revolt and turmoil in Brazil was to leave the country with two presidents—Goulart, who doggedly refused to quit, and Ranieri Mazzilli, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies who was first in line of presidential succession.
The crisis between the anti-Communist rebels and Goulart appeared to be nearing a showdown in the "cowboy state" of Rio Grande Do Sul where Goulart still had army support. The President had fled there from Rio after pausing in Brasilia, the capital, where he disclosed he had refused rebel demands that he quit.
REBEL GENERALS began the revolt against Goulart Tuesday night in protest against his drift to the left which the generals said was heading the country toward communism.
The anti-Goulart "Radio Liberty"
Radio Liberty reported that Second Army artillery and infantry forces were headed for Rio Grande Do Sul and that the main part of the Third Army which had been loyal to Goulart was defecting to the attacking troops. The radio said the garrison at Parana and the Third Infantry and Cavalry division had joined the rebels.
station, broadcasting from Sao Paulo. said today a destroyer and two torpedo boats had been sent to blockade Porto Allegre, "aiding 2nd Army (rebel) troops" who are marching on the city.
A DISPATCH FROM Paso De Los Libres, Argentina, said Brazilian troops at Uruguaiana across the border in Brazil had revolted and seized the post office, telephone exchange, power station, and banks there yesterday. The troops were part of the Third Army.
Radio Liberty consists of hundreds of radio stations in Sao Paulo state and elsewhere which are operating jointly with identical news and martial music programs.
There has been no major fighting in the revolt as yet, but the Goulart faction said its troops were moving toward the rebels in Sao Paulo.
Congressional leaders said a president to serve the balance of Goulart's term—probably Maj. Gen. Amaury Kruel, commander of the 2nd Army, or some other anti-Communist military leader—will be elected within 30 days as required by the Constitution.
THE PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT, in an "inaugural" speech, appealed for the help of Congress and the armed forces to "dissipate the anguished crisis of the Brazilian nation."
Weather
The cloudy skies and shower activity that began yesterday afternoon will continue tonight and tomorrow, according to the weather bureau. Temperatures will be somewhat cooler tonight and tomorrow. Tonight's low temperature will be in the low 50's.
Mazzilli was sworn in at the presidential palace in Brasilia 35 minutes after Senate President Auro Moura Andrade had formally notified a 9-minute joint session of congress that Goulart had "abandoned the presidency."
FREE RIDES—The Vox Haul bus and several University Party cars were busy carrying students to the polls today as the election went into its last day. Driving the UP car was Ballis Bell, Abilene freshman, and riding was Roy Rawlings, Kansas City sophomore. (Photo by Tom Moore)
Light Vote Today Despite Big Rallies
Political rallies last night didn't appear to inspire any more voters this morning as the voting was lighter than yesterday at the same time.
Dick King, Kansas City sophomore and elections committee chairman, described the turnout this morning as "not as good as yesterday."
"But if today is any indication, the vote will probably run around 4,500." King said. In last spring's election, students cast 3,922 ballots.
KING SAID THE voting yesterday was fairly heavy for the first day. There were 2,496 votes cast yesterday, making the total for the first day and a half of the election 3,075 votes.
The total votes for the school districts at 11 a.m. today were college men,1,007;college women,755;education,409;engineering, 291;fine arts,149;graduate,157;business,157;law,59;pharmacy, 61;journalism,34.
The voting turnout continues to be the heaviest at the polls in Strong Hall where this morning's vote, up to 11 a.m., was 302, while 161 votes were cast at the Kansas Union and 116 votes at Murphy Hall.
The results of the race for student body president will be computed by 1 a.m. Friday morning or maybe later, King said.
TOTAL VOTES for class officers at 11 a.m. were: seniors, 260;
juniors, 199; sophomores, 278.
The polls were scheduled to close at 6:15 p.m. today, and the counting of the ballots was to begin at 8:30 p.m., King said.
The first day of campus elections was topped off by political rallies and car parades by both political parties.
THE UP RALLY was organized by a small group of party members who procured torches and posters. The group headed by Melville Linscott, Topeka junior, notified UP members at 8:00 p.m. last night that a UP torch parade would begin at 9 p.m. in O zone. By 9:00 p.m. cars began filling the lot and were sent out again to pick up UP supporters at the freshman women's dormitories.
UP people milled around in front of GSP chanting "It's our year" and "All the way with Bob and Kaye" while about a dozen Vox people paraded their painted sheets in front of the UP people.
Vox Populi was not sitting around during this time; they were organizing their own rally in the Joseph R. Pearson Hall parking lot. The rally was called on the spur of the moment and Vox was not equipped with torches or signs. Party supporters, however, gave them white sheets painted with the letters "VOX."
UP had picked up some freshman girls and returned to O zone to start the rally. They picked up UP placards. Men and women in about 250 cars started for North College to start the rally at 9:40 p.m.
AT NORTH COLLEGE the UP people picked up about 30 torches, and amid much shouting and honking, moved in front of Gertrude Sellards Pearson (GSP) residence halls.
The crowd, which was estimated at 1,000 by campus police, was almost all UP. After 15 minutes of shouting and honking, the crowd moved to Corbin Hall to be met by about 55 girls sitting on the roof who were yelling slogans for both Vox and UP. The crowd migrated to their cars after about 12 minutes of cheering.
BY 10:00 P.M., VOX HAD finished its rally, having paraded in small groups at North College and later at West Campus.
By 10:00 p.m., UP was hitting its prime. Again 30 torches were handed to UP men, this time as they entered the west dormitory area. First they assembled in front of Lewis Hall, chanting their "It's our year" and "All the way with Bob and Kaye." The dormitory residents looked out of their windows with puzzled faces at the chanting UP supporters. Five minutes later, the crowd of about 950, according to campus police, moved in front of Hashinger Hall and began the chants again.
Next they visited Ellsworth and Templin Halls. Each time they chanted for a dormitory group, a few of the residents came down to join, the remainder would just look on curiously.