NO TIME FOR AN IP POLICY
Proposals to meet the urgent re
quests of the State Department and
the National Military Establishment
with what is being called an “if
draft” miss the meaning of the pres
ent crisis in American diplomacy. Ah
“if draff* would register men now
but call them into the forces only
when “an emergency” developed. The
position of the State Department and
the defense authorities is that an
emergency already exists.
The degree of emergency may be
open to debate. Even so, ifs and
buts have no place in the strategy of
holding the line against Communist
expansion in Europe today. They are
ruled out by these necessities:
1. It is the present line that must
be held.
2. The line must be held now.
The sense of crisis that ap
parently grips Washington at this
moment is partly due to recognition
that Moscow has now extended its
react to the limits indicated in the
political-military arrangements which
in wartime permitted Soviet power
unchallenged influence in eastern
Europe and Finland.
Immediately beyond this area lie
Italy, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
The future of Italy may be decid
ed in elections there on April 18, and
with it America’s position in Greece
and Turkey. The outcome of those
elections may be decided by the abili
ty of the United States to extend its
influence through economic and poli
tical aid to Italian moderates, who
must face, Italian Communists aided
by Russia.
The future of Scandinavia does not
lie in scheduled elections but in the
ability of the Scandinavians to resist
naked power pressure from Russia
aiming at an alliance like that now
being “negotiated” with Finland.
These things are known. But more
stress needs to be laid on the fact
that what is happening in Italy and
Scandinavia is happening. That -is the
important thing for the American
people and the American Congress to
realize. It is in the present tense.
It can be answered effectively only
in the present tense. That is why
both the^ American State Department
and the department of defense are
asking Congress for bold, decisive
action to back up the American voice
in Europe.' ^
Military preparations should not—
they do not—preclude continuation of
economic support with which Euro
pean states can resist Communism in
ternally. They are an addition to,
and cannot be a substitute for, peace
ful efforts or European reconstruc
tion. They are a counter on the pow
er plane to Communist power pres
sures, so graphically illustrated in
Finland and other Scandinavian
countries, where economic justifica
tions for Communism are negligible.
If-ing and but-ing run the risk of
ultimately sabotaging the American
diplomatic effort to prevent war
through clear warnings to potential
aggressors. If-ing and but-ing can
do immediate damage to American in
fluence throughout the world by in
dicating—unintentionally and inaccu
ily—that the American people are
in their attiude toward inter
directed from
draft” by planning to draft
■ in some future crisis
to repudiate the
fs position that a
and now. Moscow
and unjustified
courage from the distinction.
So what the American Congress is
called upon to do now is to make
clear that the United States is pre
pared morally, and is preparing
physically, to hold the main line ol
democratic influence in Europe again
st further Communist pressures. It is
on that line that the peace of Europe
can )>est be defended, along with its
freedom.
Pitt County Has 56
Students at State
N. C. State College’s winter term
enrollment includes 56 students from
Pitt comity, a survey of the .institu
tion’s registration figures indicates.
The school now has an enrollment
of 5,151, including 5,093 men and 58
women. Veterans of World War II
now enrolled in the college number
number 3,884.
The College’s School of Engineer
ing attracted the largest number of
students, with 2,922 -reporting for
classes, and the School of Agriculture
drew 1,036. The School of Textiles
was third, with 820, and the Division
of Teacher Education registered 307.
There are 66 unclassified special stu
dents.
The following students from Pitt
are enrolled at State:
Heber K. Adams, GrjeenvSLle; Joe J.
Allen, Greenville; John K. Allen,
Greenville; Joseph N. Andrews.
Bethel; James D. Barnhill, Green
ville; William L. Barnhill, Stokes;
Frank E. Briley, Greenville; James
C. Brooks, Grimesland; Melvin V.
Buck, Greenville; Jesse R. Butts,
Farmville; Carl P. Carey, Greenville;
Noah W. Carroll, Greenville; Lin
wood C. Dail, Winterville; Alton L.
Dale, Grifton.
Hardee, Greenville; Andrew M. Has
sell, Greenville; Larry L. Hodges,
Stokes; Edward E. Holland, Green
ville; Henry G. Johnson, Fountain;
Frr.ncis A. Jordan, Jr., Greenville.
Vernon D. Kemp, Farmville; Char
les A. Lewis, Greenville; Lowell F.
Liles, Farmville; Chares H. Manning,
Greenville; John W. May, Winter
ville; Bruce R. Mayo, Greenville; Al
lie J. Melton, Jr., Farmville; Benja
nfin D. Moore, Jr., Stokes; Harold L.
Nobles, Stokes; John H. Paylor, Jr.,
Farmville; James E. Phillips, Foun
tain; Meredith N. Posey, Jr., Green
ville; Robert T. Riddle, Greenville;
William E. Riggs, Greenville.
Alton F. Rowe, Jr., Ayden; David
Hi Smith, Ayden; John E. Spearman,
Greenville; Powell Tucker Speight,
Winterville; David C. Stokes, Win
terville; Hugh T. Stokes, Jr., Green
ville; Charles H. Thomas, Green
ville; Elmer K. Tucker, Grimesland;
Clarence C. Vincent, Jr., Winterville;
James C. Whitehurst, Jr., Ayden;
William K. Whiteley, Greenville; Ar
thur Williams, Jr., Winterville;
Richard K. Woraley, Greenville; and
John A. Worthington, Winterville.
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