TjtfESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1952
PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
'Letters : to
Madam Editor: ,
It was very pleasant to find
Dick Murphy's clear and- out
spoken letter in such a pro
minent place in Thursday's
paper. I thought it to be one of
the best things I have read
there for sortie time, and would
like to express my appreciation
to the author and to the editorial
- staff . May I also say a few words
on'vthe subject of intellectual
freedom? - -
- Itf -"is- indeed amazing that so
much premium has come to be
placed on conformity in ideas,
in this country, which was origi
nally a haven to those who
wished to-dissent. One must re
member that conformity spells
the stagnation and . ruin of a
society, as can be seen from his
tory (of both remote, and recent
times); "whereas, for continued
survival the first essential is
adaptability But we cannot
have, adaptability and reliable
- guidance for . change unless we
Not Guilty
Rio De Janeiro, Jan. 26 The
second day of the Inter-American
Congress of Students saw
most of the delegations abandon
diplomatic subtlety and fall into
one of two clearly defined
camps the communists on one
side and the anti and non-communists
on the other.
The Uruguayan delegation
sparks the Marxist team and
never misses an opportunity to
stick a rusty harpoon through
Uncle Sam. Then, reading from
left to right, we have the Ar
gentine anti-Peron student fed
eration, the delegation from
Cuba, the Panamanians, El Sal
vador and the single delegate
from Honduras. The Peruvian
delegation is split, one pro
communist and one anti.
This left wing aggregation,
which the Brazilian spectators
bitterly refer to as . the "Cock
roach Clique," came to Rio
mainly to embarrass the United
States and to stall, block, and
delay the formation of a Pan
American Student Association
which', they, claim - would "be
used as a tool of Wall Street to
split the student world and fur
ther subjugate the: masses of
Latin America."
On the opposite side of . the
fence are 'the United States
National Student Association
(which, ironically enough, is
sometimes labeled pink here at
home), the Brazilians (the
Communist Party is outlawed
in -Brazil), Costa Rica (where
students beat down a commun
ist revolution in 1848), Colum
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have complete freedom . of
thought and discussion and un
less we attempt to divorce sen
timent from reasoning (as far
as this is humanly possible).
But'in this country, one finds
a trend away from these; not
only is there a policy, direct
or indirect, of curtailment of
thought, but there seems to be
a concerted attempt by a large
part of the press and radio to
; rouse the sentiments of anger
and hatred in certain serious
matters which are in. '-.urgent'
need of dispassionate reasoning
from all. The consequences of
these policies may be ruinous,
and it is to be hoped that your
recent articles make readers
aware of the gravity of the situa
tion. , . '
S. G. Ghuye
Madam Editor: ,
During the present discussion
on the preservation of academic
freedom, it might . be well to
point out the reason behind the
bia, Nicaragua, the Canadians,
Paraguay, and Ecuador.
The stalling tactics of the
"Cockroach Clique", based on a
keen knowledge of parliamen
tary procedure plus iron-clad
vocal chords and supercharged
glands, are clever, disgusting,
and even amusing. Early this
morning the student statesmen
filed- into the meeting chamber
to find the delegation tables ar
ranged in two long parallel col
umns stretching the length of
the room. Uruguay took the
floor and for three hours pro
tested that "Uruguay was shov
ed clear up against the wall and
the acoustics were lousy and
the principles of group dynam
ics would put Uruguay . at a
disadvantage and the whole
thing was a Brazilian-American
plot to weaken Uruguay's posi
tion." .
They made a motion to ar
range the tables in a semi-circular
pattern and Cuba second-
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1 o y a 1 1 y oath. International
Communism, directed from
Moscow, employ? certain tech
niques which the people feel
are dangerous. Rather than
come into the open with its
ideas, gaining power and pres
tige from the merits alone of its
beliefs it seeks control of or
ganizations through subtle in
filtration of their offices until
finally the policy making
branches of. the organizations
np longer represent their mem
berships. Through crafty mis
representation, Communism at
tempts the eventual overthrow
of our constitutional foxxn of
government. -
All educational institutions
are naturally high on the list of
desirable organizations of which
to gain control. In order, to ex
pose and curb these disguised
activities, we have devised the
loyalty oath, which fundamen
tally is a declaration of the in
dividual's adherence to our
constitutional form of govern
ment and to his not being a
member of the Communist Par
ed with a ten minute harangue
on freedom of speech. Then
Uruguay claimed that a mem
ber of their delegation was
denied a Brazilian visa because
he was a communist. Argentina
insisted that the Congress dis
band, until a committee could
deliver an official protest to the
Brazilian Foreign Minister. The
chairman, who was strangely
enough a . lad from Uruguay
temporarily chairing the session
while the Congress President
(a Brazilian) was investigating
a riot outside the building, came
u p with this parliamentary
gem, "All those in favor of dis
banding, the session remain
seated." Before the Americans
and Canadians had even tuned
in on the translated the session
had broken up and fifteen ex
huberant Latins were piled into
a taxi headed for the Foreign
Minister.
And so ended the second day
of this Tropical Zebra Derby.
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But by denying any association
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