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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 30, 1963
Speaker Sees Similarities In Military Reluctance
The reluctance of the United States and Russia to use military force in recent confrontations has many parallels an associate professor of history said last night.
Prof. Raymond O'Connor, speaking to KU Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets and midshipmen in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, said U.S. military force was not used in the Hungarian revolt because America didn't have a preponderance of military force in terms of conventional warfare.
"WE WOULD have had to rely on nuclear weapons," Prof. O'Connor said in answer to a question following his talk on "Force and Diplomacy." "And then there would have been a thermonuclear war."
Prof. O'Connor said the same thing was true of each country's role in the Cuban Crisis — only in reverse order.
"We had the conventional forces, but I don't think they did," Prof. O'Connor said.
HE SAID HE didn't think Russia was capable of waging a conventional war with the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
Prof. O'Connor recalled the use of U.S. military force from the American Revolution to the present.
He said the development of devastating nuclear weapons has led to a greater understanding of military affairs on the part of the average person.
HE SAID THE American Revolution did not stand as a victory for the United States because there were more British troops here in strategic positions after the war than before.
Bible As Textile Book To Be Lecture Topic
Miss Louisa Bellinger of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., will speak to the Kansas Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Thursday.
Miss Bellinger will speak on "The Bible as a Source Book for the Study of Textiles," at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
He spoke of the role of force in the expansion of the country in the 1800's and said:
"Nearly all of this territory was acquired through the use of military force, either active or latent."
He said the Korean War wasn't a military victory, but showed the validity of limited warfare as an objective.
REFERRING TO the early years of the Eisenhower administration, Prof. O'Connor said the policy of massive retaliation allowed only nuclear war or retreat.
The professor called the Cuban crisis "an exceedingly severe threat to the American defense system."
He said the decision for using military force in the future might be made on the basis of "vital interest" instead of capability.
O'Connor said the United States is in the same position as European
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Prof. O'Connor also defended President Kennedy's prohibition of exile groups invading Cuba, explaining that the U.S. wants to be in control of matters that could lead to war.
"WEWOULD have been in violation of the United Nations Charter," he said. "If we're going to follow the patterns or policies of our adversaries, then we're no better than they are."
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Roy Towne, 84, KU faculty member for many years, died at his Everett, Wash., home last week. He had been in ill health for some time.
Retired KU Professor Dies At 84
Prof. Towne, who retired from teaching in 1949, was a faculty member in the Romance Languages department. He previously taught Latin and Greek at Hammeline University, St. Paul, Minn., and a Washburn University in Topeka. He changed his field to French at KU and became assistant professor before his retirement.
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