THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday April 9y 1952
EDITORIAL PAGE
For Democratic Action
... 'American Radicalism'
Since 1940 an organization has existed within rights." It also advocates that the U. S. and
the political framework of the United States that Russia "can exist peaceably" together with a
ha been called everything from a Communist "firm, clear affirmative American policy."
This policy, according to the ADAs, can be
front organization to liberal democracy and Amerf- done morally( economically, politically and mill
can radicalism. This political minority of our tarily through: support of human and individual
country is officially labeled Americans for Demo-- rights, economic stabilization, rising living stand-
cratic Action and referred to as ADA.
Americans for Democratic Action had its be
ginnings, as far as can be told, in the New Deal
policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. According
to David C. Williams, author in "The Nineteenth
Century," of "America Moves Left," New Dealers,
progressive intellectuals and trade union leaders
began the ADA to "rally the forces of the non
Communist left."
Out of this "non-Communist" birth, ADA has
blossomed into a strong:, progressive, strictly
left-wing, under-fire political group. ADAs call
it "from New Deal to Fair Deal to American
radicalism.? Claimed as staunch supporters of
the ADA platform are such national personali
ties as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Jr., Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois,
Illinois Sen. Paul Douglas, Minnesota's Sen. Hu
bert Humphrey, Arthur A. Schlesinger Jr., of
Harvard, Prof. Richard Wade of Syracuse uni
versity and Representative Mrs. Helen Gahagan
Douglas of California.
In its first political test, ADA, under the
speakership of F.D.R. junior, campaigned for civil
rights, public housing, North Atlantic Pact, Mar
shall Plan, repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, liberal
ized DP legislation and repudiation of Franco
Spain.
Since then Americans for Democratic Action
have stood for: recognition of Red China in the
UN if they did not participate in the Korean war
ards and improved distribution, unswerving sup
port of democratic forces and effective guarantees
and assistance for democratic nations.
As a specific answer to Communist aggres
sion, these Americans, standing for Democratic
Action, say: "Events have fortified our convic
tion that Soviet expansion raises issues basic to
the survival of democracy and freedom. Com
munism professes to mean peace and economic
security; but in practice it means the extinction
of political and Intellectual freedom, and the im
position of police terror."
On the University campus, 43 students and
faculty members are active participants in the
Americans for Democratic Action. Their policies
and purposes seem clear; their motives and meth
ods, as with many political groups, are not as
easy to distinguish. Many attempts have been
made publicly to push the ADAs far enough left
to facilitate branding them as Communistic. David
Williams, British ADA, says that they have tried
to keep away from activities which would attach
the stigma of socialism or Communism to their
ranks.
Perhaps the ADAs have been justly criti
cized; perhaps the attacks on them have been
unfair and unfounded. Here are the facts. Take
them for what they are worth. Our country is
founded, in part, on the assimilation and amal
gamation of political minorities. Examine the
Americans for Democratic Action a political
minority. R.R.
A Tradition Perhaps
The junior and senior class councils, plus the
Barbed .Wire
Wylie
and did not attack Formosa; no United States 0fficers 0f the respective classes, have produced
intervention in Indochina since the UN was not extremely commendable results from their recent
actively participating there; aid to the "withering Thursday night meetings.
away of colonialism"; economic aid on a large- 18 pe0ple have come up with a plan
scale to Asiatic countries; abolution of "unjust for selection of the 1952 Junior-Senior prom king
systems or iana tenure in Asia; ana tree elections and queen that .sh0ws possibilities of becoming a
in Korea plus economic rehabilitation of 'that campus tradition. Each organized women's house
will elect their candidate for Prom king, while
each men's house will select their choice for queen.
'Candidates will beJudged on a 100-point
rating scale by competent and qualified Judges.
From the six women and six men finalists
chosen by the judges, the Prom king and queen
will be elected on the basis of applause, electrically-tabulated,
the night of the Prom.
Through their nomination proceedings, Junior
Senior leaders have introduced the element of
inter-house competition which undoubtedly will
country,
In line with these platform planks, ADA
champions fair-employment legislation, exten
sion of the TVA principle in river valley devel
opment, safeguarding rights of labor, federal
aid to equalize educational opportunity, continu
ation of rent controls, extension of social se
curity coverage, admission of more Displaced
Persons to the country, and opposition to in
creased military influence in the atomic energy
program.
In regard to U. S. foreign policy, this left- add to the success of the program. Through the
wing organization has urged the "support of non- services ' of qualified and reputable judges, the
Communists abroad as the keystone of effective class leaders may have averted much criticism of
foreign policy." The five cardinal wrongs of pres- unfair and partial judging. And, through use of
ent U. S. foreign policy, as attacked by the ADAs, the electric applause meter, the councils and class
are: military containment policy is enough; solid- officers are insuring the attendance at their Prom,
tation of any and all Allies in an unlimited crusade -JL-
against Communism; emphasis on imposing capi
talism on the rest of the world; the assumption
that fascism is dead; and the "fallacy of a catch-as-catch-can
program."
In regard to Russia, for whom the ADAs have
been accused of being a mouthpiece, it advocates
meeting the "moral challenge of the USSR with
unfailing support of human values and individual
This year's class leaders have done a great
deal of work toward strengthening their pres
tige. Perhaps their work will be sufficient to
warrant the class officers and councils becoming
an integral part of campus activity. At least,
in regard to the Prom and its king and queen,
they seem to have planned carefully and thought
well enough to promote a new tradition on the
campus. R.R.
So Much Good
President Truman and Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, who make and carry out decisions of
the U. S. and UN in Korea, are aware that the
support of their set course is neither whole
hearted nor unanimous. Many Americans are
troubled by their seeming goal: compromise with
out victory.
Critics of the U. S. Korean policy say that the
Korean war was part of the price paid for the
education of President Truman and Secretary
Acheson. They argue that the war can be made Korea can only encourage the Communists to try
worth while if our leaders fulfill their obligations, again, indicate that they have nothing to lose and
Most of them believe that the least to expect is everything to gain by aggression and that next
firm notice to the Communist alliance that further time ihe nope for a simllar compromise,
. . . Nobly Wasted
tice would not be necessary at the conclusion of
a war. American men died to destroy the
enemy's will to fight and to effect by their ac
tions what might have been accomplished
through words. They died believing they were
a contribution to the uncompromising stand that
would destroy the Communist's will to fight and
thereby prevent a world war. They died be
lieving that those who followed them would
fight on until the enemy was defeated.
The display of the U. S. moral weakness in
armed aggression in Asia will be met and defeated
without compromise.
But to those who have actually fought for
our leaders' "compromise without victory," the
U. S. policy appears unduly complacent. Ameri
can men should not have to fight and die to
provide such an education for Truman and
Acheson.
America has prevented the Chinese Com
munists from occupying South Korea. How
ever, the Koreans themselves have paid too high
a price for this freedom and security. The U. S.
has not defeated the Communists' purposes of
retaining power in North Korea, pointing out
to the world the U. S. weaknesses and their own
strength, humiliating us, and raising their own
prestige throughout Asia.
So much good has been nobly wasted to oust
The price paid for blood is too high. As the the enemy, Jbut in Korea, as elsewhere, the enemy
missing in action, wounded and dead list continues still exists and prospers. S.G.
to grow, Americans have no assurance that their
leaden fully understand the nature and purposes
of the Communists, that they are determined to
defeat them and are mobilizing the nation suffi
ciently and effectively.
If the war has shown Communists that Amer
icans have the ability to fight them, it has also
shown them that we lack the determination to
win, that We are willing to compromise and ap
pease, American soldiers did not die to show
they were capable of fighting the Chinese Com
munists to a stalemate.
And if the fact that our forces won the battle
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IiaS any meaning, then Wny Can we not regain the vacations and examination periods. On Issue published during
territory in North Korea that was ours until the .uterXion o
Chinese captured it and pushed us back and held :XS2fT
our forces? Why can we not at least liberate all E0"'? V: ,n t'on 1103, Act of Congrew of October
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Korea? The successful battles and war training EDITORIAL STAFF
experience to which the living are subjected do ?d,t-:;,;.: ,.Jnf"Kn"'r"I
f . ... ... Associate Editor Bath Raymond
nOl JUSUiy ine casualties. Managing Bflitor. uon rieper, Hue uorton
. flews Editors. Sally Adams, Ken Ryatrom, an Steffen,
ir HaJ " ni-. Ha.llv Hall
Snort Editor Marshall Kushner
Assistant rlporta Editor.... Glenn Nelson
Feature Editor Dick Ralston
Ag Editor pai. Reynolds
rtoeieiy sumor Connie Gordon
ftMrtographer Boh Bherman
Reporters. Leonard Zalleeu. Kara Htenhenaon.
Dob Plnkerton, Pat Ball, Peg Dart u nek, Ann Carlson, Elaine
Miller, Khtrley Murphy, Terry Barnes, Louie Kehoen, Greta
vraia, 000 Keener, Natalie Katt, Ron Gibson. Gerry Felman,
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BTJHTKFRS STAFF
A man mav usually be known by the " Mane jaen cohen
, V , - ,, ' . -A.10 Aea'stanl Btulneu Managers Staa Slpple, Arnold Stern,
books he reads as well as by the company Fete ,rt.ten
be keeps. Met Editor. .
American men did not die for the purpose
f giving notice to the Chinese Communists that
further aggression would mean war. Such no-
Daily Thought
.George Wllenx
. Dele Reynolds
Barb Wylie
With Ivy Day just around
the corner, thoughts of Mor
tar Board, Innocent and other
royal honors are most preva
lent in student minds. One of
the, less publicized events of
the great day's happenings is
the "Junior Jitters" party.
This gathering of expectant
juniors before the mighty day
is for the purpose of them all
shaking together one and
all. Is there going to be a
"Jitters" party this year?
Certainly one of the Univer
sity ' s smaller traditions
should not be forgotten.
The date
for the pub
lications pic
nic has been
set by those
all powerful
and already
great fervor
has been
created for
the annual
baseball
game be
tween the
Car nhusker
and Dailv Nebraskan staffs. It
should be a battle-royal on the
picnic s rounds when the two'
teams throw over their type
writers for baseball bats. Ah,
the power of the press.
Question: Have you ever known
a rabbit tnat was supersuuuus
enoueh to carry the left hind
foot of a man?
Famine in Tibet,' followed by an
outbreak of robberies and mur-
rlnro Viae rnmf in the wake of the
Chinese Comunist occupation. Of
course, this is just the first year
01 the five year plan.
News from Washington state
tells us that a robber told police
be was glad they caught him
because he wanted to get back
to the penitentiary in time for
spring football practice. Sport
ing of him to take it that way,
don't you think.
e
The assassination report that
was rejected at the mock United
Nations charter amendment con
ference seems pretty inclusive of
the goings-on in that committee
meeting. My only comment is to
wonder what effect it would have
on delegates if read before the
general assembly in Paris. Per
haps the Reds have missed a few,
just a few, tricks in their dealings
there.
Anatomy is something every
one has, but some how looks
better on girls.
Au revoir.
The China Question
Letferip
Let's File
To the Editor:
Few people have signed up for
the class offices to be filled soon.
think that these positions are
very important to the administra
tion of a good university.
More people should be inter
ested in serving m these very
worthwhile positions. Not only
Innocent and Mortar Board aspir
ants should be in the driver's seats
of this university. Sometimes I
think they don't even intend to do
a good job. They just want the
activity points.
Sincerely,
CONCERNED ONLOOKER
NU BULLETIN
BOARD
Wednesday
YWCA Commission Group, Fine
Arts, Ellen Smith southeast room,
4 p.m., leader, Elaine Smithber-
ger. ,
YWCA Commission Group,
Goals and Values, Ellen Smith
southeast room, S p.m. leader Nor
ma Lothrop.
Filing for NUCWA offices close
at noon at Union lobby booth.
Interviews for AUF position of
faculty solicitations chairman be
gin at noon.
Thursday
Applications due for Ag Union
committee chirmen and sponsors.
Filings close at 4 p.m. for Stu
dent Council college representa
tives. Obtain applications in Ad
ministration Building, Room 209.
Filings for Class Officers posi
tions close at 4 pm. in the Ad
ministration building, Room 209.
NUCWA applicants may nle at
a Union lobby booth.
(Editor's Note! The follnwln Is a meat editorial written
by Dr. l. M. Relnhardt, chairman of the department of soci
ology and aiithronollgy.)
History has a way of handing its blunders to
the right men, but the timing is often bad. We
know now why the League of Nations was killed
and what killed Woodrow Wilson. But the world
has had a second great war and everywhere men
go uneasily to bed. Statesmanship is as dangerous
as ever and "polities' as safe. We don't learn.
That is the difference between modern man and
a cat.
Someday history will expose the evils of our
policy in China. That may be too late. I think
history will show that the American policy of
hanging on to Chiang Kai-shek after his repudi
ation by the people of China was a monumental
mistake. This position, of course, does not im
ply any sympathy with Communist regimes in
China or anywhere else. States do not maintain
diplomatic relations because they love each
other's governments. It is the only way to carry
on diplomatic negotiations. It is necessary for
the essential business of International commerce.
We have no love for Russian Communism, but
we recognize it. I do not like the Tito regime,
but it has seemed to serve our interests to recog
nize Tito and to lend him money, Many people
who bitterly oppose the recognition of the Com
munist government in China are strong for normal
diplomatic relations with Franco Spain. Now I
am not in love with Franco Spain or with Peron,
but it is not inconsistent -with our national history
to give these countries diplomatic recognition.
From my point of view, it is a matter of survival
at the lowest honorable cost, and national honor
has never been defined in terms of the kind of
government a nation recognizes. ' Is it a govern
ment that presides over the affairs of the country?
Would recognition serve our interests? These are
the issue questions.
Recognition of the "People's Government" of
China at the right time would have made pos
sible a continuity of negotiations between this
country and China during a most critical period
in world affairs. Such negotiation could, I be
lieve, have been employed to keep China out of
the Russian orbit. ' We would have been able to
say to General Mao, "We do not want Man
churia; we do not want any part of Outer Mon
golia; we desire control over no northern prov
inces. We want the confidence and support of
the Chinese people. We have to offer you tools,
skills, sanitary engineers, medical facilities, agri
cultural experts and capital for the development
of your country."
What did Russia have to offer? What did we
get as a result of the policy we followed? We got
the China lobby, which as Drew Pearson has
pointed out and us will be fully documented in
fbrthcoming issues of "The Reporter," an "unbe
lievable propaganda network designed to influence
our foreign policy." One senator alone listed a
$2,000 . campaign contribution from one of the'
front men of the China lobby.
. . . A Mistake
We could have placed ourselves in position
to remoye the suspicions of the Chinese people as
to our aims in the Orient. As it stands now, we
have put ourselves under the necessity of having
to spend our military resources defending a posi
tion which points toward war, a war which history
may well have to explain' on the grounds that
China had a governmert that the mr porrful
nation on earth didn't like.
The consequences of such a war are horrible
to contemplate. Whatever else the results might
mean, they would not destroy Communism or
make the world safe only for the kinds of gov
ernments that we like.
Continued support of Chiang Kai-shek, more
over, puts us under the necessity of protecting
him with our fleet from an invasion by the gov
ernment and the people that drove him off of the
continent. What does Chiang Kai-shek have to
offer for the peace and commerce of the world?
For one thing, he offers an insistence that Japan
acknowledge him as the- head of the "sovereign
state of China." On the face of it, nothing could
be more unrealistic, and in my judgment, more
detrimental to the best interests of the United
States and Japan. Japan, by its very existence,
must do business with the mainland of China. It
must do business with China or remain a satellite
of United States, in which case we shall find our
selves with two satellites in the Orient Japan
and Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa.
There are differences of opinion as to the
effective strength of Chiang's military force. The
best information gives him about 500 thousand
to 600 thousand troops. The majority of these
are not combat ground forces and, according to
some authorities, at least one third of his troops
would be hospitalized or retired before the battle
started. How many would desert him, assuming
they could be landed on the China coast, no one
knows. All we know is that, for some reason
or another, what he holds now in the way of
an army represents what was left after every
thing else deserted him, bag and baggage, before
he came under the protective arm of the Ameri
can seventh fleet. It is argued by some that
Chiang Kai-shek could count upon the support of
guerilla "actives" on the continent. There is no
evidence to support this theory. It is certainly
known that few guerillas showed any interest In
taking a chance on Chiang Kai-shek when he
was at home.
In 1945, General Wedemeyer, commanding gen
eral at that time of the China theater, sent the
following cable to the Defense Department:
"If the unification of China and Manchuria
under Chinese National forces is to be a United
States policy, invelvement in fratricidal warfare
and possibly in war with the Soviet Union must
be accepted and would definitely require additional
United States forces far ,beyond those presently
available in the theater to implement the policy."
Chiang Kai-shek was then in China. He isn't
in China now.
Korn Kernels
Dell To Open Sundays
Following Free Movie
Dale Reynolds
Now that the "Pot Luck With
the Profs" dinners are over for
this semester, the Ag Union's Dell
is again open on Sunday nights.
After spring vacation, the Ag
Union will open at five p.m. to
show a free movie for all Ag stu
dents. The Dell will open immedi
ately following the movie, and
will remain open until 10 p.m.
They will serve hot and cold sand
wiches. The fountain also will be
open.
The television set will be on
following the movie.
The Ag Union has been op
erating very smoothly this past
year, thanks to the tremendous
job done by its director, ,Sally
Nelson. With a little support
and cooperation from Ag stu
dents, it should stay this way.
Applications are due this week
for five committee chairmen and
four sponsors of Ac Union ac
tivities. Applications may be
picked up in the Ag union of
fice.
Applicants must have a 5.5 av
erage and be carrying 12 Uni
versity hours. Any freshman,
sophomore or Junior is eligible to
apply.
1952 Farmers
'Wit
The committees are publicity,
hospitality, arts and handicraft,
dance, and general entertain
ment. Each committee will have
a committee chairman and a
sponsor, with the exception of
publicity and hospitality, which
will have one for both.
The sponsors serve on the Ag
Union board.
o
Entries for the
Fair Kodeo are
due this week,
so any Aggies
wishing to par
ticipate in any
of the events
should act now.
Anyone in
terested in par
ticipating in ro
deo events,
wuji.11 x u j iuue -
saddle bronc ,
r i d i n b. bare
back riding, Reynolds
roping, bull riding, wild cow milk
ing and a flag race, is to contact
any member of the University
Rodeo club before spring vaca
tion. Tickets are now on sale for the
it . - -
rodeo 85 cents for adults and
students. ,
Bleachers are now being set
up for the rodeo, and its going
to take a lot of work, so Ar
students should take it upon
themselves to support the Farm
ers Fair Rodeo by helping put
up these bleachers.
Tickets are also on sale now
for the Farmers Fair barbeque.
It's getting so bad at Ag col
lege now that instructors can't
tell whether absences from class
are due to the warm spring
weather or to the measles.
Main Feature Clock
Esquire: "Alice in Wonderland,"
7:24, 8:58.
Varsity: "Vatican," 2:37, 4:55,
7:13, 9:31. "The Big Trees," 1:00,
3:18, 5:36, 7:54, 10:12.
State: 'Snow White." 1:37. 3:37.
5:37, 7:37, 9:37, 11:00.
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3:45 Readings tor All
4:00 Musical Grab Bag
4:15 Moose Calls
4:30 UNESCO Show
4:45 Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
5:00 Sign Off
Mechanical Engineers
To Read Two Papers
two University mechanical en
gineering students will present
papers at the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers conference
in Fayetteville, Ark., May 5 and
e.
Cletus Lorensen, senior, will
present a paper on small boilers
and James Griffin, junior, will
read his paper on gas meters.
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