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THE NEBRASKAN iWeclnes'day, Februcrry V, Jul Ykbha&kuv rOBTI-frOUftlH TIAB rbllib4 Urea timet weekly Sn!jr. Wednesday u Fri artn( MkMi f r btortptUn litM ere ll.M Per eme.Hr er !!. f te Caller " Malle Slnrle cepy, Ceate. Entered eeeen4-clase natler M U feMofnce to Lincoln Nebre.ka, aner Act ef Cenrreai Merck . t7, an at P"l rate ! aetlece provided fer la SecUea MM. Aet el Oetober A. Ull, AaUierised SepWmbel EDITORIAL STAFT r,.toI. Harold W. Andereen M.a.rlnc'EditoVaV.V.V.. ...7.7 . Le-lle Jr.n GMtfrlly. Hetty I.e. Ha-taa Mewe Editor Janet Manen, Phyllle Teafarden, Mary Alice I'mnnA Khlrtov Jenkins. Che ok Petemon .7 .7 Betty King- Rl'SIvrSR STAFF RiilnMi Manarer miiorra anKnrom Assistant Bunineu Manaren Lorraine Abnm.on, hhirley Mo&en Kporta Editor Koeiety Editor LETTERIP Democratic? The Student Council committee investigating the uni versity health service has at last partially lifted the veil of secrecy which has thus far concealed the results of the investigation. In a letter carried in a story on page 1 of Committee-Chairman Stuart Goldberg reveals that the re sults of the recently-distributed health questionnaire have been compiled into a comprehensive report and submitted to Chancellor Doucher. "Tn th r nnrt " thr letter states, "we listed criticisms, comments and suggestions of the students and actually quoted the students to deck up tne cnuusms aim sugges tions made." But not a word is said as to what these "criticisms, comments and suggestions" were! In other words, the students are told that the results of the investigation have been submitted to Chancellor Boucher, but the results themselves are kept strictly hush-hush, a secret which must not be revealed to the very students who filled out the questionnaires! The letter concludes thus: "We feel that the actual contents of the report should not be revealed until the ad ministration has had a chance to act upon the matter, and we know students will realize the advisability of this. Reams of copy may be written in The Nebraskan about the question, but in the last analysis it is the administration that can actually act upon the matter. In the meantime, students will be constantly informed of everything that the Student Council and the administration does upon the stu dent health question." All of which brings up several pressing questions: Just WHY should the contents of the report not be revealed to the 'students? Is it at all certain that "students will realize the advisability" of such secrecy? If students are to be "constantly informed of everything that the Student Council and the administration does upon the student health question," why haven't they been told the results of the questionnaire? Why are they being kept in the dark? It is a basic postulate of democratic government that citizens must be well-informed, must know what their gov ernment is doing, if democracy is to function adequately. An uninformed citizenry, one which is kept in ignorance through suppression of facts, defeats the very purpose of democratic government, makes it a mockery. Yet here at the University of Nebraska this basic principle of democracy is being ignored. Students are kept ignorant of a matter which is of vital concern to them. Is this democratic student government? (Editor's note: This letter is printed in answer to the Letterip of last week's Nebraskan from the German-Japanese Council of International reace.) Dear Editor: Those who are ready to accept the German claim that the nazi form of totalitarianism has sprung from the inventive brain of its presiding genius are apt to forget that the groundwork for the theory had its roots in German political phi losophy which has had a long history and was given form by Fichte and Hegel. Perry warned us against ever trusting the Japa nese when he opened their ports. The fact that the majority of the people in this barbarious aggregation have not changed is vividly illus trated by the burning of Manila. Germany and Japan are not honorable nations, consequently the proposals of the German-Jap council "to seek an honorable peace" are not valid. Ask any infantryman whether or not he is fighting "fascist forces" or PEOPLE of barbarious nations and yor. will get an indication of how to deal with these countries so that they will not rise again. Ward Brunson. To the United Nations: On Feb. 14 the governments which met at Yalta issued a declaration in which they stated their intention to give Eastern I land to Russia and allow Poland compensa tion in East Prussia and in German lands to the east of the Oder. Although the Polish government, reorganized m accordance with the Yalta Declaration, has endeavored to ef fect an acceptance of this settlement, it now finds itself unable to stay in office with the continued support of its people unless further territorial concessions are made to it which will satisfy the demands of the heroic Polish people who have fought so valiantly in this war. We are therefore de manding (1) the return to Poland of the city of Lwow, and (2) the cession by Czechoslovakia of all of Teschen. Failure on the part of the Peace Confer ence to ecquiesce in tnese demands will necessitate the formation of a new Polish government by bringing in new pro-Russian elements. In this event, it need hardly be said, Poland will have become, for all practical purposes, a dependency of Com munist Russia. Signed, POLAND. To the United Nations: We German and Japanese liberals, who have suffered more from the tyrannical governments in our nations than any other people in the world, plead with you to re spect the integrity of our countries. We V Mail Clippings Harold Harshaw, Censor Ensign Donald Anawalt, SN, has been visiting in Lincoln, while on his way to the coast where he will ship. Sgt. WLILLIAM WILKINS, photo lab technic-, ian, has been awarded the Distinguished Unit Badge with the bronze Oak Leaf Cluster. Sgt. WIL KINS, DU, was a member of the class of 45. Sgt. KENNETH PETERS, Beta, has been awarded the Air Medal "for meritorious achievement in aerial flight." JOHN W. GREENE, Sig Ep, received Ms commis sion as a 2nd Lt in the Infantry on January 23, 1945. He left the "U" in 1943. PAUL H. HENSON, Kapa Sig, received his pilot wings and commission as a 2nd Lt. at Napier Field, Alabama. 1st Lt. LLOYD JERAULD was presented with the Distinguished Flying Cross for the success of the mission of the bombing of the oil refineries in Germany. LT. GERAULD graduated from UN in 1943. realize only too well the crimes which have been committed by the armies and govern ments of fiermanv and Japan and we recog nize the necessity of the rehabilitation of the devastated nations. However, we feel that the slaughter of the Japanese and the German people, the dis meherin? of our territorv. the imposition on us of excessive reparations, the dissolv ing of our principal industries, uie request -incr nf clave labor, and the denial to us of a voice in deciding our future will serve to set the scene for another war. We should be, therefore, admitted immediately on the ground floor of any world organization Peace can be secured not by further actions of revenge but through co-operative effort in a strong World organization, represent ing and controlling all nations. Peace can not be maintained through police force alone. The Liberal Party of Germany and the Peace Party of Japan (who will again come to the front at the end of the war) need to be supported in their fight against militaristic control. If revenge is sought, the result will onlv be a more embittered people " and the work of the Liberals will be in vain. The Underground Liberals of Germany and Japan. Conference . . (Continued from Page 1.) The Czechoslovakian and AuS' trian-German boundaries will re main as they were prior to 1938. Germany shall be unified as peo pie so desire as soon as there is no longer need for military occu pation. The Ruhr area is inter nationalized. Residents of occu pied districts will be permitted to leave voluntarily and to return to the country of their choice ex cept as otherwise provided. Polish borders and control of Dardanelles were discussed by committee five, territorial prob lems of east Europe. The Curzon line was decided as a boundary and referred to a subcommittee. The Dardanelles were recom mended as being internationalized but will be further discussed by the subcommittee. Discuss Balkans. The Balkan federation was basis for most of the discussion at the meeting of committee six, discussing territorial problems of Central Europe and Balkans. It was temporarily decided that Yugoslavia, Greece, Albnnia, Bul garia and Romania would form a loose confederation, with the big four acting as an advisory coun cil, giving Russia special advisory power in event of an emergency. Czechoslovakia will be given pre war boundaries. Transylvania is; bounded on the east by the! Transylvanian mountains and the: rest goes to Romania. A plebis-j cite will be held to determine the! wishes of the Transylvanians. Under decisions made by this committee, west Thrace will go to Greece, east Thrace to Turkey, South Dobruyia to Bulgaria, Salonika will become a free port and a plebiscite will be held to find out if Macedonia wishes to be independent. Pass Resolution. Committee seven, territorial problems of Italy, passed a resolu tion saying that Istria will be given to Yugoslavia and Trieste would be a free city and a free port. Colonies and Mandates, com mittee eight, passed resolutions on policies to be followed. The open door policy was adopted; the United Nations should have the power to send inspectors into the mandates at any time; peti tions by mandates are to be heard by the commission and can be appealed by the mandate to security council; mandates com mission should have the author ity to assign, transfer, terminate and change the character of any mandate; protection of mandates shall evolve not on mandatory power but upon the United Na tions who shall have the power by the security council to take any necessary military measures. A mandatory commission con sisting of all nations who have mandates plus five neutral na tions to be elected on a revolving system for a term of two years has been set up by this com mittee. Decide Mandates. Also decided was the disposi tion of Formosa and Piscadores island to China as dependencies; Bonin islands to be placed under mandate of United States; Japa nese mandated islands placed un der United States as a mandate; and south part of Sovinine island is to be restored to Russia. Committee nine, treatment of Germany, accepted reports as read in previous committee meetings and passed them. The re-education committee will meet on March 1 to state its resolutions. Treatment of Japan was dis cussed in committee ten. China demanded industrial reparations in Chinese territories formerly oc cupied by Japan and the motion was passed. The Japanese em peror will be taken as a war criminal from his office and tried as a criminal by the war criminal court. Accept "Woods" Proposal. Committee 12 on labor and economic problems adopted a re solution to accept Bretton Woods proposal. It was unanimously ST. 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(Continued from Page 1.) best reflected the fire of his Span ish dances. 4 Acclaimed in New York. Miss Morini first came to the United States when she was in her late 'teens, after yearly tours thru England and the continent. Her first New York season here was widely acclaimed and within the next two seasons she played from coast to coast. Returning to Eu rope for seven years of tours, then proceeding to tour Australia, Miss Morini came back to the United States to make her home and to become a citizen. This season's engagements have included per formances with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony and the NBC Symphony. Critics acclaimed her this year as "one of the great est of all of the violinists before the American public today." Miss Morini's Thursday night program, accompanied by pianist Gregory Ashman, includes selec tions ranging from the early Italian composer, Corelli, to the contempory Wieniawski, as fol lows: Sonata In G minor Tartlnl Variation on a theme by Corellle Tartliii-Krelnler Sonata In D minor Brahma Miaa Morini Elecie Rachmaninoff Scherzo in B minor Chopin Idr. Ashman Three Caprice Wieniawski Souvenir of Moscow Wieniawaki -Bulletin AIKANK. Aiiuuie win wnrt t TharadaT ad 7:M a. aa. la the Karalty Ioace f the I'skta. I f You Don't Li ke the Corn Crib Service If You Have Some Good Ideas Why Don't You APPLY For a Waiter's Job? Apply Room 1, West Basement of the UNION Wanted! A SIGN PABNTEK Hours Work: Fri. Aft. or Sat. Morn. Average Pay $5 to $7 a Week Apply at UNION OFFICE "WayEry n"