U.S. Problems: Through A European Eye
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This column I want as
means of contact between
the U.S. and Europe by way
of a Mid-West University
and Swedish University.
In general I intend to bring
up current topics, politics
mostly maybe, but also any
thing else that is worth
chatting about go pc-iiaps-
Wednesday,
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ITHMK JU AW TO flMA. fcWJT TRK TO SW ME
The Right Way
YDs Go Leff?
Kesume diplomatic rela
tions with Cuba! NATO
should have a non-aggression
treaty with the War
saw Pact nations! We should
withdraw our troops from
South Viet Nam! Abolish
the House Un-American
Activities Committee! Re
peal the McCarren Internal
Security Act! Recognize
East Germany!
At first glance, you might
suppose that these incredu
lous statements came from
a Young Socialist meeting.
Wrong. This scene was a
Berkeley, California, meet
ing of Young Democrats
from thirteen western
States. The date was Sunday,
August 18, 1963. The above
resolutions were passed by
these Young Democrats at
this time. $
According to these radical
resolutions, it appears that
The Far Left" is In control
of a great part of the Young
Democrat organization.
These "extremists" consti
tute a great danger to the
security and freedom of our
country since ifiiey control
as organization which has a
strong voice in the present
administration.
How can this group call
for negotiation leading to
"normalization of diplo
matic and trade relations
with Cuba when less than
ten days before Castro had
kidnapped Cuban refugees?
How can this group call
for a non-aggression treaty
between NATO and the Com
munist Warsaw Pact Na
tions, when it would serious
ly weaken NATO and be
come one of the greatest ap
peasements since Munich?
How can this group call
for withdrawal of U.S.
troops from South Viet Nam
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tber cans to be prima.
ing about, as Robert Frost
said), and I want to try to
bring you the views of Eur
opeans. I read the most import
ant European newspapers;
I have friends who do like
wise and we discuss. In fact
I have an old-fashioned open
house every Sunday evening
Oct. 9, 1963
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when doing so would crush
our entire Far East de
fense structure? This would
result in our surrender of
South Viet Nam and the rest
of Southeast Asia to Com
munist control.
How can this group call
for the abolishment of the
House Un-American Activi
ties Committee when it has
proven itself so necessary
to guard against internal
Communist subversion?
California GOP Chairman
Cas Weinberger has termed ,
the YD policy statement as
"dangerously irresponsible
and fantastic laughable
if we did not remember that
this represents the thinking
of a great many people
actively working for the
election of a Democratic
U.S. Senator and more
Democratic congress
men and legislators."
Republican National Chair
man BOl Miller has chal
lenged John Bailey, tbe
Democratic national chair
man, to explain these resolu
tions to the American peo
ple. Up to this moment, Mr.
Bailey has remained "curi
ously" silent.
Instead of ranting and
raving about the ex
treme right, the Democrats
" should tend to tbe weeds in
their own back yard. Cali
fornia Assembly speaker
Jesse Unruh, Democrat,
has shown his distaste
of this weed-filled yard by
stating, ' . . . I have no
intention of criticizing them
even though I disagree ve
hemently with the content
of the resolutions."
I am sure that many stu
dents would like to know if
the YD's on this campus
support the fanatical resolu
tions of their Western counterparts.
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when any of my frknds wha
feel like it buy a bottle of
cheap Spanish wine or a
package of California ra5s-
ins and come up here to
talk. You will get their opin
ions as much as my own,
and also those of my friends
all over Europe, mostly
former AFS-ers but also
others I have met travel
ing and now keep up cor
respondence with. In this
way I hope to be able to
give you varied aspects of
each problem.
And there is no lack of
problems'!
The overall dominating
one right now is the race
question and not only that
of the USA. The South Afri
ca question will be brought
up in the UN again, al
though I am rather rtain
that nothing will come of it
The U, of S.A. says the UN
has no right to meddle in
the internal affairs of a
member country, and the
UN majority claims the gov
ernment of South Africa is
committing a crime against
mankind and they are
both right. Sweden is one of
the countries almost ene
mies of South Africa; we
boycott all we can on the
consumer level. In the liq
uor stores Cap Constantia
stands on a special shelf
marked ""South African
goods'" and everybody is
self conscious about asking
for it; we have had trouble
with harbor workers refus
ing to unload South African
ships. Here in Lund the stu
dent committee on the boy
cott has been rather active,
printing big posters that can
be seen all over Southern
Sweden and in Lund in al
most every grocery store,
listing South African goods
that we should not buy. Nat
urally a small country can
never harm the South Afri
can economy substantially
mi Volvo businessmen
claim that a response boy
cott would hurt us much
more but we have formed
a strong opinion, which is
worth a lot, and more and
more countries are follow
ing. India just decided on
an official boycott, and In
dia is important.
The largest newspaper of
Sweden was criticized re
cently for running ad
vertisements on South Afri
can fruit, and the big strong
newspaper apologized!
Why is Sweden so anxious
to correct the wrongs of
South Africa? Honestly, I
think jt is pure idealism.
South African fruit is the
cheapest we can get and
often the only one; grapes
in the winter for example.
But we dont buy. We have
a genuine heart-felt horror
of the crimes that are com
mitted down there.
It may seem easy for us
we dont have a Negro
problem ourselves. We have
it even less than other
European countries (exclud
ing Norway, Finland and
Iceland), because we are
relatively isolated. Not
many tourists bother to
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come here and students ev
en more seldom. I remem
ber very well the first time
in my life I saw a Negro
it was an American jazz
musician; 1 was 13 years
old and I thought he be
haved like any foreiper, so
I did what I always did to
foreigners stared and
tried to listen to the lang
uage. Colored people visiting
Sweden sometimes say we
don't discriminate officially,
but deep down we are the
same as everybody else, we
stare anfriendly-like. No
wonder we tare at such dif
ferent persons and no won
der we dont smile. Swedes
dont smile unless they have
a reason. So this, I would
say, is a misunderstanding.
But we have similar prob
lems. We have Gypsies and
Laps, two odd groups of peo
ple, of & different race, with
their own languages, with
their own very special ways
of living. But they are two
small groups and so special
it is more of a cultural ques
tion: is it worth the trouble
saving their uncomfort
ble ) way of living or should
they be encouraged to as
similate -(which they could,
rather easily, I think)? Gyp
sies are often called thieves;
Laps are considered back
ward, but they are so few
that people don't stop to ask
whether a person is a
Gypsy or mot
So the Swedes can afford
to look down on racists.
Lund, by the way, is the
nlv town of Sweden where
Negroes are a regular part
of the city's looks. The nni
versitv dominates Lund
completely, one-fourth of
the population being stu
dents, and we have lots of
scholarships; especial
ly those which the students
themselves pay for and
which are given to Asians
and Africans, right now IS
persons on that type alone.
One of my girl friends is go
ing steady with a Northern
Rhodcsian. Another one is
married to an Indian.
No one thinks bad of that
But there are racists in
Sweden, too, even among
university students.
Talking about the race ri
ots in southern USA recent
ly, some of the comments
were:
"'I guess we have to try
to understand them, civil
war and everything. Poor
stupids.
Just Arrived!
H. I. S.
Corduroy Jeans
The Jeans You ve Been
Asking For!
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"Cannot help thinking of
what happens to those stu
dents after they get in to
their schools escorted by
police. What a gay life!
They certainly have some- .
thing to give their life for
though, something to fight
for."
"It seems to me they
would not have to make
such a big deal out of it.
They have their own uni
versities." "Who they? Do yon want
to divide humanity into arti
ficial groups? Are you a
racist?"
"Of course not. But it
does not seem to be worth
all the tearshed. Sooner or
later integration would
come naturally."
"Would it? All he people
teach their children hatred
and fear. And in South Afri
ca the development now
goes in the other direction."
"And you would have to
take the consequences. Dif
ferent universities, differ
ent types of general educa
tion, different types of peo
ple. So that way the actual
differences would grow!"
"That is another thing.
What do you say, Britt
Marie, you have been
there?"
"Not in the South."
"Is that so different?"
"I once had an offer to
go to the USA on a very Veil
paid job but I would not ac
cept for anything, Ameri
cans don't know how to en
joy life." i(Spaniard)
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The Daily Nebraskan has added a Swedish col-
BSttSlSe T& 21-yearld Spanish major at
the of Lund, in Sweden, is the new add-on.
Miss Thuren describes herself as 121 American
becausl she spent 1 of her 21 years m Los Angeles,
California, as an ex-
change student in the
American new ser
vice program.
Miss Thuren returned
to her native country
with very pro-American
feelings, but when
she encountered anti
American attitudes she
became very confused.
Now she reflects on
our c ountry as "a
strange country of
dreams, a country of
incredible successes
and cruel disappoint
ments, the hope of the
future and also very
dangerous."
Included in Miss
Thuren's forthcoming
columns will be topics
such as Swedish and
European attitudes to
ward political situa
tions, modem race
problems, sex, and
others.
"Californians do, I think"
(me)
""On, come on, always
California!"
There I had better stop.
My coming back to Cali-
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BRITT-MARIE THUREN
fornian topics all the tima
may not be any more pop.
alar in Nebraska than it is
in Sweden. That might al
so be a clue to why I al-
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