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University Daily Kansan Monday, May 6, 1963
Leftist Gains in NATO
French President Charles de Gaulle inadvertently may have done the United States a favor when he turned down the proposal for a European nuclear force instead of independent development and control of nuclear weapons by each NATO nation.
The proposed NATO nuclear force actually would have been a means whereby the United States could supply other NATO nations with nuclear arms, at least the warheads if not the delivery systems. This plan would have strengthened the United States indirectly. And it would have helped the economies of the recipients by relieving some of the economic demands of their own defense budgets and allowing more to be diverted for non-military needs.
THE ADVANTAGES are obvious, but they must be weighed against the dangers. Giving atomic weapons to friends is fine—so long as they remain friendly. Not that the United States must have absolute control over the use of atomic weapons given to NATO allies, but there must be some sort of cooperative arrangement whereby the United States can exert considerable influence on the use of these weapons. Atomic weapons should not be passed out like candy bars—not when the survival of mankind may be at stake.
As long as our NATO allies are cooperative (not subservient, just cooperative) it would be to our advantage to provide them with nuclear weapons. But the prospects for future cooperation, at least with Britain and Italy, are none too bright.
Although British Prime Minister Macmillan's
Conservative government has not yet crumbled, it is far from solidly entrenched. The British Labor Party under Harold Wilson is slowly chipping away at the foundations of the Conservative government. There now seems to be a definite possibility, or even a probability if present trends continue, that the Labor Party will topple Macmillan and the Conservative party. This would put U.S.-British relations in a strained position at best. For although Wilson has disclaimed the ban-the-bomb movement along with its anti-American sentiments, these elements are still strong in the ranks of the Labor Party.
THE TREND in Britain is cause for concern all right, but it is small cause when compared with that in Italy. Although the British Labor Party might be difficult to work with, the Italian Communist Party would be nearly impossible to work with, at least where nuclear arms are concerned. The Italian Communists took one out of every four votes in the last Italian general election. This may be far from a position to take over the government, but it leaves the Communists in a strong position for obstructionist tactics. And the most significant point is that this represents substantial and unexpected gains by the Communists. If this trend continues, the extremely cooperative attitude Italy has had toward NATO undoubtedly will dwindle away and perhaps even be reversed.
De Gaulle's independent attitude may have saved the United States from a serious blunder.
— Dennis Branstiter
Errors in Northrop Story
Editor:
... Letters ...
There is seldom total agreement on important ideas. This was notably true concerning the Kansan reports (April 24th) on Northrop's lectures, Mr. Mason already (on April 26th) corrected the outstanding inaccuracies in the article "Senate Rapped by Northrop." There were also some items in the article on page 12, "Northrop Urges Unity in Religions of the World," which should be questioned:
(1) This time the fallacy of accent in the headline was not quite so obvious; nevertheless, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that Northrop urged "understanding?" (He is not working for the ecumenical movement, theosophy, nor Bahai.)
(2) EPISTEMOLOGY doesn't exactly mean some "integrating, all-encompassing knowledge"; nor did Northrop claim that all religions
can be reduced to similar terms through epistemology (the science of knowledge).
(3) The Kansan reported "modes of knowledge": radical empiricism and idealistic naive realism. Didn't Northrop also mention knowledge by logical constructs?
(4) True, the Buddhists are empiricists; they are also usually oriental, and they may conceive of God as quite "eminent," but didn't Northrop say "immanent?"
(5) Are worldly phenomena really "determinary?" ("Determinate" must be the word.)
(6) DID NORTHROP stress that "neither the Oriental radical empiricist, nor the idealistic Western naive realist can be related to good or evil?" Wouldn't it be more accurate to report that Northrop said that it is an error—perpetrated by Plato—to identify radical empirical knowledge (Oriental-Vedanta factor) with the principle of evil, and
knowledge by logical construct (Semitic Logos idea) with Good?
(7) Did Northrop assert that our religious thinking is in a mess because we have tried to combine the fruit of two modes of knowledge—the timeless Logos (a logical construct) with the historical Jesus (known via radical empiricism), thus rendering our theistic notion false?
Wilfred Danielson
Lindsborg senior
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"American Insincerity"
"Do You Think You Really Need Offensive Weapons?"
I find Miss Tescon's remarks concerning my use of the term "American Insincerity" which appeared in the Kansan April 29, too superficial to be debated with. If, after having traveled a great deal as she says, and met a lot of people, she still can't tell the difference between people who are sincere to her and those who are not, I feel sorry for her. Her ideas like "all people are alike," there are no differences except in "physical appearances," and that all is fine on the KU campus, reminded me of a naive country school girl. It is a shame to spend our years abroad living in a somnambulistic state.
Salwa Haddad
Lebanon, graduate student
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British Authoress Slams Males
Spring is here and the perennial panic among graduating senior girls has many an eligible bachelor clutching for plausible explanations of why remaining single is the best thing for both, if not all.
But a cheery young miss from England has reversed the role of boy and girl seekers, mate-wise that is.
THIS REVELATION OF girl-hard-to-please came to our attention through a promotional effort of an American publishing house which seeks to turn coin on this strange attitude.
This seeker of Superman is one Charlotte Bingham, the daughter of Lord and Lady Clanmorris, naturally of England.
It seems as though this girl will have none of this clutching at any man for the sake of avoiding spinsterhood. All she wants is Superman. Not the armor-skinned, reporter-in-disguise variety; just a good, everyday variety Superman.
It seems that Charlotte has a special knack for looking a weed in the eye and immediately being able to tell that he is not her vegetable. From this rare, uncanny knack rises thence the title of her autobiography, "Coronet Among the Weeds."
LEST YOU WOODSIE-MINDED readers smirk forever, it is here explained that Weeds, as referred to in the book, are a variety of men which is abundant in England.
The advertising blurb for the forthcoming book (what other kind is there?) tells us that Charlotte is tough and caustic, not to mention blessed with keen, burrowing insight. (Again, what other kind is there?) Example:
On the vanity of women who think they will find Superman without seeking him (a vital issue of our times; an answer could relax world tensions)—"They're usually too busy taking their sex appeal seriously. They take it so seriously they hardly ever think about how funny everything is. Especially their sex appeal. That's the funniest bit of all."
OKAY, CHARLOTTE. I'll buy that; but I have a strong candidate for runnerup: sexy-looking girls (see picture) who laugh about other girls taking their sex appeal seriously.
Another excerpt from this forthcoming book deals a crisp blow to the chinless set. "I think all chinless men should be eunuchs. When they look all flabby and start telling me about their mistresses I want to heave."
Well, Charlotte, I'm all in favor of a movement which would encourage young men to retain their high tenor voices, but while you can't stand fat, flabby, chinless braggards, I am equally repulsed by the prospects of fat, flabby, chinless choir boys.
FROM A SEX APPEAL standpoint, choirs should be filled with sexy-looking girls like yourself; it sure would beat having to suffer through pretentious diatribes of outraged, prosaic wit by royal-blooded young lasses with nothing better to do.
The advertising blurb also provides other bits of information which demonstrates that sexy Charlotte is a well-rounded personality.
As the blurb says, Charlotte is also wise. For example: "I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor. If you think of any sex maniacs you know, they haven't got a real sense of humor."
This leaves me to believe Charlotte needs to get out of the Weeds and meet the boys; like my old roommate at Kansas State; that guy used to laugh all the time.
- Terry Murphy