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December 10, I955
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Can Salem Girls Channel
Enthusiasm In Other Ways?
During the last four years I’ve often thought about why
Christmas seems a little more special at Salem than it does any^-
where else. Our Christmas spirit outshines even that of the
downtown shoppers on Christmas Eve, in spite of all the work
that inevitably piles up between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Actually it’s not too hard to understand. Add “peanuts,”
dorm parties, and the Candle Tea to the Ole Salem Spirit and
you’ve got an exuberance that can’t be matched.
But I wonder if our exuhrance could be channeled a little
better. When it comes to boyfriends, roommates, friends, and
parents we go all out—giving gifts and ourselves to others. But
what about the help fund, the veterans, our old ladies, and the
orphans? How do the orphans, for example, feel about their
Salem Santas—and how do they make us feel in return? Take
that bus ride Tuesday afternoon and find out.
Even if you’re like Suzie Salem in this week’s cartoon, take
time to enjoy the Salem season. And, by the way, have a very
Merry Christmas.
, , J. N.
Author Analizes Foreign Policy^
U S Attitude Toward Red China
T’was the night in November
and all through the dorm,
Not a radio was blaring, not
even a T. V.
The pins were hung on the girls
with care,
In the hopes that their pin-
mates soon would be there.
The girls were all up out of
their beds,
While visions of lovemaking
danced in their heads.
And so jingle bells began to chime
for Paige Bishop and Dianne Dove
as their joint Lambda Chi seranade
commenced. The mischevious trou
badours were unable to resist in
jecting a note of humor by depart
ing “On the Wings of a Snow
White Dove!”
Salem’s singing group “The Arch
ways” has taped a program for
television which will appear some
time before Christmas. The group
includes Linda Camp, Sheila Fogle,
Peggy Hart, Kathie Carpenter,
Carol Ann Derflinger, Bradley Car
penter, and accompanist Charlotte
Key.
The Christmas spirit of giving in
cludes all types of fraternal recog
nition: a Wake Forest KA lavalier
for Hannah Nicholson from Bobby
Poteat; a Wake Forest Sig Ep pin
for Sallie King from Chuck Hollis;
and a new pin for Donna Van Dyck
from Danny Moseley, after she lost
the first one. Donna is certain that
she’s the only Salem girl ever to
have been pinned twice to the same
boy with no intervening argument.
Ann Richert, in addition to her re
cently acquired pin, has also been
selected as the KA Rose at N. C.
State for the next year.
Replies from Operation Match
have at last arrived and each girl
who applied to the program has re-
By Erroll M. Clauss
Department of History
RECOGNITION OF REDCHIN.^?
By Robert P. Newman (New York;
The Macmillan Company, 1961. 318
PP)
On March 25, 1964, Senator J. W.
Fulbright, in a speech on the floor
of the U. S. Senate, urged the
American people to discard the old
myths of their foreign policy and
to address themselves to the new
realities of the world of the 1960fs.
"When our preceptions fail to keep
pace with events,” he warned," when
we refuse to believe something be
cause it displeases or frightens us,
or is simply startlingly unfamiliar,
then the gap between fact and per
ception becomes a chasm, and action
becomes irrelevant and irrational.”
Perhaps the most mythrshrouded
area of American foreign policy
today is our attitude toward Red
China. Because of the traumatic
shock of the Chinese Communist
revolution of 1949, large segments
of the American public find it un
thinkable to discuss the recognition
of the Peking regime or its admis
sion to the United Nations. Yet
the existence of this regime is a
major factor in world affairs and its
permanence can be doubted by no
thinking person. The present 47-47
tie vote on the seating of Red
China in the U. N. demonstrates
that the time is near at hand for
the facing of hard realities.
Robert P. Newman’s Recognition
of Red China? is a balanced, well-
organized and lucid examination of
the complex problem of U. S. policy
toward the mainland regime. It is
a valuable book for both the in
terested general reader and the stu
dent of international relations.
Newman begins his discussion
with an analysis of the changing
climate of opinion within which the
China debate has evolved during the
past four decades. He then pre
sents the major arguments for and
against recognition from the per
spectives of the moral, political, and
legal issues involved. The author
also deals with such thorny aspects
of the problem as the status of For
mosa, the seating of Red China in
the U. N., the possibility of Peking’s
rejection of U. S. diplomatic recog
nition, and the danger of a Com
munist-Nationalist reapprochement
upon the death of Chiang Kai-sheki
One of the most trenchant and
persuasive chapters of the book is
that devoted to “International Law
and the United States Precedent.”
“We began our career as a nation
seeking recognition from nations
which abhorred our own origin in
force and violence,” Newman re
minds the reader, “and we have
rarely shirked from recognizing
other governments with revolution
ary origins if they were firmly in
control and seemed stable.” Finally,
ceived several names for
Lmpatible dates.
has further received a brief not
from a Davidson candidate requeu
ing that she express a sincere be
lief in Protestant Christianity
send a picture of herself. At least
re’s a man who knows well his own
likes and dislikes, as he eoncludes
that they are both wasting
time if she fails to meet his qualifi
cations.
Lucy McCallum was even more
stunned than Judy when she
re
ceived a surprise caller during FqI.
lies practice. It turned out to be
one of her “mates,” who works for
IBM in Winston-Salem!
Florence Pollock may now have
need of Operation Match since two
dates called for her at the same
time on Saturday night. As Flo-
rence opened the reception room
door, she overheard one boy ask
the other who he w^as dating that
night. And it all ended in a Merry
Christmas I
this author points out that diplo
matic recognition does not imply
approval of a regime, only recog
nition that it exists. Such recogni
tion was accorded Fascist Italy,
Nazi Germany, Communist Russia,
and Franco Spain by the United
States.
Newman’s book is a thoughtful
analysis of current reality in the
Far East and, as such, deserves the
attention of anyone concerned with
the problem of realistic discussion
of American foreign policy. Our
deepening involvement in Southeast
Asia should not, in the name of
national solidarity, close discussion,
but, rather, should impel continued
and sustained debate.
Prisoners’ Release Causes
Rumors Of "Brainwashing"
By Sybil Cheek
Bmnors of “Brainwashing” have recently aroused public atten-
tionTSci Le more on one of the world’s trouble
Viet Nam Two American prisoners of the Communists Viet
cing arrived at a Cambodian border post Sunday evening, No
vember 28, after their release on the previous Saturday.
Sfft George E Smith of Chester, West Virginia, and Specialist
4 Claude M McClure of Chattanooga, Tennessee, returned to
the free world accompanied by La Van Diep, a Viet Cong repre
sentative. Later, at a news conference, Diep read a statement
to the effect that the Communists had freed the men because of
the popular movement in the U. S. against Johnson s policies."
At another news conference Tuesday, December 1, m Phnom
Penh Cambodia, both officers were reported by the United Press
to have expressed the desire to quit the Army m order that they
might head campaigns for U. S. withdrawals from Viet Nam.
The two are quoted as stating, “the U. S. has nothing to gam
from the war in Viet Nam, for the Viet Cong are the people."
Sgt. McClure reports that their captors treated them “very
well,” and never tried to brainwash them. The men made state
ments that they were fed “as well as possible,” forced to do little
physical labor, permitted to write to their families, as well as
receive Red Cross packages, and were never beaten or tortured.
During their two years imprisonment neither say that he saW
any North Vietnamese regular soldiers. Other Americans had
also been in their camp, but a number was not estimated.
Here in the States contrary opinion has been voiced against
the denials of the two Americans that they were brainwashed
by the enemy. General Wallace M. Greene, commander of the
Marine Corps expressed belief that the GI’s had been brain
washed. A member of Greene’s staff. Marine Major General
William R. Collins is of the opinion that the men were probably
released “because they were willing to make statements favor
able to their captors.” Sangord Gottlieb, political director of
the committee for Sane Nuclear Policy also supports this theorj'
of indoctrination.
The men had been held since November 24, 1963, when they
were captured during a Communist run on the Hiephoa Special
Forces camp southwest of Saigon. A third captive of this raid,
Sgt. Keimeth Roraback of Chester, W. Virginia, was a victim of
execution on September 26, 1965, as “revenge for the firing
squad deaths of Communist agitators.” This news was unkutown
to these men upon their release.
Sources;
Greensboro Daily News, December 1, 1965. p. lA
The New York Times, November 28, 1965. p. 87
Letters to the Editor
Faculty Clarify Decision
Dear Editor,
There has been a great deal of
comment from the student body
about the faculty decision to do
away with Faculty Follies. I wish
the students would answer just one
question for me. How in the world
is the cause of “unusually close, yet
respectful, friendships between fac
ulty and students” to be furthered
by the faculty making a public spec
tacle of itself? You girls who are
here at Salem now have never seen
one of these productions, but let me
assure you that they are an em
barrassingly bad collection of silly
and undignified skits. For all but a
very few of your faculty members,
this revue is an ordeal to be en
dured once in four years in the
name of good sportsmanship. In
my opinion it should have been done
away with years ago. You say that
you would like to know your pro
fessors as people and outside the
classroom. I think this is a fine
idea, but get to know them as they
really are and as they really act—
not as they look on a public stage
being silly and self conscious.
Surely there are many activities
that faculty and students can botk
enjoy—let’s find them.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Nancy Jordan
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Dear Editor:
In asking or inviting sotneo"' ^
do something I am sayings in
he has a choice. If he
may well be disappointed,
should not reprimand him k’’
choice he makes when I '”7® ^
asked him to choose. II '®.
stranger to me, I may won®
whether he refused my kv‘'*‘
because he did not want to
anything to do with me and rega
his refusal as a rebuff, as cos
the door on any genuine j
ship. If, however, he is my '
although a choice in a pafl"-.,
matter mav cause me
may cause me disapp
ment, it does not cause me to
our friendship is in any ^^7 ii.
paired. For it is only in kj®" j.
that one can say “No” wit
fidence that it will not be misi
preted.
Yours sincerely
Mary S. HiU