University Daily Kansan
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Monday, March 11, 1962
Nehru's Errors Brought Attack — Pringsheim
Five miscalculations made by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru caused Indian unpreparedness that led to the recent invasion by Red China, a KU instructor of political science said Friday.
- He believed the Chinese would not attack India.
- Klaus Pringsheim, speaking at the Current Events Forum, said the errors Nehru made were:
- He thought Russia would stop the Chinese if they did launch an attack.
- He thought China was not really capable of launching a forceful attack.
- He thought by living peacefully and stalling for time, India would eventually become strong enough to make China afraid to attack.
- He felt India's strategic position was improving.
Pringsheim said the Chinese invasion was not intended to be a campaign of conquest. Instead, he said, the action was a political maneuver.
"They wanted to tidy up their borders, and also inform the rest of the world that they are becoming a powerful nation."
INDIA MAY EVENTUALLY win the border dispute, according to Fringsheim.
PRINGSHEIM DESCRIBED the geography of the boundaries and gave a short history of the events which led to the conflict.
"It is difficult to say what the outcome would be in a fair decision of the dispute. But, in the long run, I would say that India would probably be adjudged the land," he said.
In 1950, China took over Tibet, a move recognized by Nehru, Pringsheim said.
The people of Tibet revolted in the spring of 1959, the KU instructor said, and large numbers of these rebels crossed the border into India, replenished their supply of ammunition and returned to fight the Chinese.
Pringsheim said this marked the beginning of strained relations between India and China—Red China felt it was unfair for India to supply rebel forces.
The tension between the two countries heightened until Oct. 20, 1962, when Communist China launched its invasion into the mountains on the India-China border.
Election Petitions Due Friday
Pettitions for non-partisan nominations for class offices, ASC positions and student body vicepresident are available in the Dean of Students office, 228 Strong Hall.
Petitions for student body positions require 400 signatures, Petitions for ASC candidates require 150 signatures of residents in the living district which are to be represented, or 40 per cent of that district, whichever is fewer. Candidates for class offices need the signatures of 50 members of their respective class.
Petitions must be submitted to Bob Tieszen, election committee chairman, by midnight Friday. Petitions will not be accepted any later than that date.
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Prof. I. M. Bochenski, of the Institute for European Studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, will present a University Lecture on "Religious Discourse is Beyond the Limits of Logic," at 8 tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
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Religion, Logic Base University Lecture
Prof. Bochenski will speak to the Philosophy Club, which sponsors the University Lecture Series, at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union on "Dialectical Logic."
Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music sorority, entertained 250 persons Saturday with American music at the International Club meeting.
The program of the evening began with three songs, "The River Is Wide," "The Fox," and "Oh, Shenandoah," sung by Aletha Curtis, Falls Church, Va., junior, and Diane Elliot, Sublette junior.
Music Sorority Entertains International Club
Joan Moege, Stafford junior, played 'Night Soliloquy" by Kent Kennan on the flute.
Sherril Murrow, Topeka junior, sang "My Man's Gone Now" from Porgy and Bess, last great work of George Gershwin and Gayle Mc-
Cain played Gershwin's piano preludes, No. 2 and No. 3.
Miss Carol McCoy, Tarkio, Mo. sophomore, entertained the audience by singing two songs, "The Fisher's Widow," by Clara Edwards, and "Welcome Sweet Wind," by Charles Cadman.
Club, said. "For the first time, we KU foreign students realized how much talent those sorority girls have.
Sermon on Wrong Topic
Joan Gilson, Liverpool, Ohio, junior, Shirley Braming, Oak Park, Ill., junior, and Donna Moore, Independence, Mo., junior, played the second movement from Frederic Ayers' Trio in D Minor, for piano, violin, and cello.
Commenting on the program Sami Afify, Cairo, Egypt, graduate and president of the International
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — (UPI)—Evangelist Don Chenowith in his sermon at Berea Baptist Church Sunday night quoted from St. Luke about the good man who would have kept watch if he had known what hour the thief would come. Police yesterday issued a three-state alarm for three men and five women who heard the sermon. They were wanted for returning to the church after the sermon and stealing $1,700 in equipment.
The story of a classic
In many ways the story of the Thunderbird is one of the most unusual in the automobile business. The whole idea of the car was born at one of the great European automobile shows. The then president of our company pointed to some of the small, lush sports cars that are always a center of attention at such shows and asked his companion, "Why can't we build something like these?"
The companion, who later became a vice president of the company, said, "It just so happens I have one on the boards. I'll show it to you when we get back to Detroit." Then as fast as he could discreetly get to a transatlantic telephone he called his assistant and told him, "Remember that car we've been talking about? Finish those sketches on it."
The Thunderbird became one of the few cars ever built that was produced essentially as the original sketches presented it. Most cars undergo countless changes in the design period. But there was a natural clarity and cleanness to the Thunderbird design that immediately captured all of us at Ford.
It was probably this clean, sharp look that won so many friends so fast when the car went into production. That first Thunderbird had its drawbacks. For example, it was too soft-sprung for true sports-car handling. But, the truth is, it was not designed in the European tradition of the fast performance car. Some people called it a sports car but we never did. We called it a "personal" car; a small, fairly luxurious car that was fun to look at and fun to drive. It had its own integrity: it was one alone.
We built the Thunderbird as a bellwether car for Ford. It was our intention to test new ideas before we put them into our Fords, Fairlanes and Falcons. The new Ford ride and Swing-Away steering wheel appeared first on the Thunderbird, for instance. However, we never foresaw the extraordinary influence Thunderbird would have on the whole automobile business here and abroad. Almost everybody offers the Thunderbird bucket seats these days. And the Thunderbird look is the most decisive styling of the '60s.
The Thunderbird is a classic, made so by a peculiar blend of magic ingredients of which we would love to know the secret. We're building cars right now we hope will become classics, but the truth is, we don't make classics, we make cars. People make the car a classic. And that's the story of the Thunderbird.
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