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SPU Demonstration Raises
v The local chapter of the SPU claims
to be autonomous, and we believe they
are, but they certainly seem more than
willing to hit the streets with their
placards whenever the national associa
tion passes the word down.
Yesterday's rather pitiful demon
stration markedly indicates the lack of
support the SPU was able to muster
for this particularly ill-conceived pro
. test and the fact that the marchers
were almost outnumbered by report
ers testifies vividly that the march was
a dud.
And it is little wonder.
The protest was against our govern
ment's policy in South Vietnam, and
was touched off by Mme. Ngo Dinh
Nhu's visit to this country. The march-
. ers contended that the U.S. should with
draw aid to the Diem regime and that
, the United Nations should be author
ized to administer all economic aid to
, the peoples of both North and South
Vietnam; and further, that the UN
should hold free elections to determine
the government of both countries.
, These proposals seem to be so far re
moved from reality that they become
farcical when studied closely.
, In the first place, for the United Na
tions to administer funds to the peoples
of both North and South Vietnam and
hold free elections, the United Nations
would first have to get into North Viet
nam, and since that country is not a
member of the UN, just how are they 1
going to get there?
Baker's Departure A Tragedy All Around
As the Washington columnists ought
soon to be reporting, the resignation
of Senate Majority Secretary Bobby
Baker of South Carolina could have
far-reaching results on national poli
tics, over and above his possible in
volvement in some illegal business
practices.
Baker ranks in Washington as one
of Vice President Lyndon Johnson's
most stalwart supporters. He worked
long and hard up to and including the
1960 Democratic national convention
to get Johnson nominated. Although he
failed in that attempt, he took consid
erable satisfaction from the fact that
Johnson made the Number Two spot
on the ticket.
And, as all who have had the oppor
tunity to meet and talk with him know,
including UNC's five Congressional in
terns last summer, Baker was con
vinced that Lyndon was the man for
the Democrats in 1968. Now that Baker
is gone, it may well be that Johnson's
chances for the Presidency have also
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Already half of the mission is lost.
Secondly, for the UN to go into South
Vietnam, the proposal would either have
to pass the Security Council and Rus
sia's veto, or go through the General
Assembly. If it passed the General As
sembly and the Secretary General were
authorized to raise a police force, then
only those nations who wished to sup
port the policy would have to furnish
troops. Hence we are back to the Unit
ed States providing all the aid we pres
ently do, and having it administered by
the UN instead of us.
Thirdly, it is obvious that if the Unit
ed States had pulled out of South Viet
nam, or cut off all aid at anytime in the
past, South Vietnam would now be com
pletely in the hands of the Commun
ists. If we cut off aid at this point, it
would only be a matter of months be
fore that same end would be accom
plished. None of us like the idea of supporting
a tyrannical dictatorship, but either we
support the Diem regime, or we step
aside for an equally tyrannical Com
munist dictatorship. We submit that
the Diem regime is by far the lesser of
the two evils.
In the future, if the local chapter of
the Student Peace Union continues to
march in shallowly thought through
protests against political necessities,
they will find the number of their f ol-
lowers dwindling still lower than the -ten
or twelve who participated in yes
terday's demonstration.
departed to a significant extent.
Of more immediate consequence in
Baker's abrupt departure, however, is
the fate of the Administration's Civil
Rights bill in the Senate. Baker was a
nose-counter and strategist par excel
lence, and often acted as the Adminis
tration's emissary in the involved back
stage politicking of the Senate. With
him gone, the Administration may find
itself short-handed at a most crucial
time.
The worst part of the entire matter,
however, is that doubt has been cast
upon the integrity of a man who for
merly ranked as the most trusted as
sistant to the executors of the nation's
business. His case deserves the most
stringent investigation, and our fellow
Americans would be well-advised to
await the results of that inquiry before
passing judgment on this multi-talented
man.
New Name For State?
Perhaps it had to happen, but for
some strange realson we'd hoped it
never would. It's just that, well, State
College has always had such a nice,
. unspotted reputation. And now, well,
we can hear the Birchwags already.
"Dictator's den," they'll probably be
saying of State, once the Dragon Lady,
Mme. Nhu, has spoken there.
In a way, that's why we don't mind
the one-upsmanship visible in State
snagging Mme. Nhu over us here at
Carolina.
, After all, just think how confusing
it would be if we were known as a
"Dictator's Den" as well as a "Red
Nest."
iBesides that, State needs a good
short nickname, now that it's name has
been made so lawd-awful long. Still,
we're sad to see it happen. They do so
much else at State besides invite Dra
gon Ladies to speak, just as most of
us at Carolina are involved in a few
other things than simply holding cell
. meetings.
John Montague
Jim Wallace
Art Pearce
Fred McConnel
John Evans
Bryan Simpson
Woody Sobol
Sally Rawlings
Frank Potter
Dick Baddour
Bob Vanderberry
Thursday, October 10, 1963
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Trip
Trip Praised
As Encouraging
By RICHARD STARNES
The Washington Daily News
A group of American students
has defied the order of some
nameless State Department bur
eaucrat and has gone to Cupa
for a long, long-. visit. . ,
The students, 59 in number,
undertook their- journey in spite
of warnings that travel to Cuba
without a special validated pass
port could subject them to pro
secution, fine and imprisonment
on their return to the United
States.
It is encouraging that these
young people went ahead with
their plans. It leads one to hope
that the present crop of Ameri
can youngsters is not wholly
made up of faceless, frightened
puddings who believe Sen. Barry
Goldwater is real. Any yongsier
worth the salt to keep him heal
thy wants to see what is happen
ing in Cuba (and China as well).
What, one asks, is the State
Department afraid the students
will see in Cuba?
Is it that the State Depart
ment apprehends American boys
and girls are not wise enough
to see thru to the sham and bru
tality of a communist state? If
this is their fear, they reveal
only that it has been overly long
since they talked to any bright
students.
The truth is that no man alive
knows what classes of American
travelers are entitled to visit
Cuba legally, and what classes
are not.
One American reporter, Wil
liam Worthy, is presently appeal
ing from conviction on charges
that he went to Cuba without a
passport.
The point is that the right of
Americans to travel is given or
withheld at the arbitrary whim
of the State Department.
Edgar Snow, author of "The
Other Side of the River," is
white, and he obtained the Gov
ernment's blessing on a trip to
the China mainland. William
Worthy is a Negro, and he didn't.
Of course, the people charged
with the granting and withhold
ing of passports will be horrified
at the suggestion that their de
cisions are colored by the ap
licants' pigmentation, And, to
be sure, they are not. But what
does tip the scales?
Is it that one reporter is re
garded as more, responsible
and or reliable than another?
If this is the case, is it a func
tion of any Government agency
to decide which journalist may
ply his trade, and which may
not? What it means is that the
Government has taken a long
step toward deciding whose dis
patches you may read.
Mr. Snow put it nicely when
he wrote in the introduction to
"The Other Side of the River":
"In judging China today the
American reader can no longer
comfortably assume that he lives
under a system immune from
state intervention between him
self and the facts. Still greater
Them Not To Do
To Cuba Raises Onestion
conditioning by means of self
censorship is required if the pub
lic reflexes are to provide sat
isfactory responses to stereotyp
ed cold-war idioms increasingly
invoked by the state."
That, happy citizens of a free
and open democracy, is the heart
of the issue involving those 59
Students who have committed
the crime of wanting to see for
themselves. . - -
HUAC Again
Greensboro Daily News
Last week's unseemly row was
not the first the House Un-American
Activities - Committee has
had with impertinent youth. In
San Francisco three years ago
HUAC's probe of California high
school teachers led to a riot later
immortalized if that is the word
in the film "Operation Aboli
tion." We do not profess to know
whether either or both these dis
orders before the same congres
sional committee had been plott
ed beforehand. But those who
see in the unpardonable behavior
of these young men and women
the hand of a Communist plot to
undermine the legislative process
have not been reading the society
pages, which recently, to cite one
example, detailed a $10,000 orgy
of destruction on Long Island af
ter a debutante party. Violence,
tragically, is increasingly the re
sponse of those who value neith
er their elders nor their society;
and the mystery is hardly politic
al in nature.
The House Committee, this
time, set itself the task of in
vestigating the students who went
on an unauthorized tour of Cas
tro's Cuba this summer. At the
hearing the committee called a
young witness, Barry Hoffman,
who made the trip as a spy for
the FBI and the CIA. It was
his testimony that touched off
the disorders.
The trouble, of course, is that
the wrong congressional commit
tee, with the wrong record, un
dertook to do the job. No arm
of Congress is more cordially or
universally detested by college
students than the HUAC. And it
would be far better, we think, if
the State Department, whose
passport regulations they defied,
dealt with the students.
Nor are the values of these
students, however rudely vented,
so false as all that It is a pretty
distorted vision that could see
in Fidel Castro, the arch-betrayer
of his own revolution and a cut
throat who has put scores of
Cuban political enemies to the
firing squad, a political savior.
But the students, surely, may be
pardoned their shock at finding
they have been spied upon, at the
behest of their own government,
by one of their number. No one
likes informers.
At all events, the misjudgment
of students cannot be extinguish
ed by congressional committees
that belabor them publicly as
"pro-Communists." They will
only be embittered. Let the U.S.
government handle these junior
Don Quixotes with a maturity and
detachment they might wish to
. emulate.
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Different Views
Much Ado
(The Washington Post)
It would be impossible to find
worse champions of the right to
travel than the band of doctrin
aire and bearded adolescents
who came before the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activi
ties. They accomplished the al
most impossible task of making
that Committee look responsible.
We think the State Department
travel ban which these "students"
breached is a serious limitation
of liberty. We think the Un
American Activities Committee's
summoning of the "students" is
meddlesome folly; after all, their
conduct is already under investi
gation by a grand jury and has
been the subject of hearings by
a House Judiciary subcommittee.
But none of this affords any
justification for the offensive and
abusive conduct of the "students"
before the Committee. They have
succeeded only in clouding the
important travel issue. Students
are supposed to study. If these
young people really went to Cuba
to investigate conditions in the
island, they surely should have
come back with observations
more interesting and sensible
than the cant they have been
mouthing. They seem to have
learned nothing save the least
attractive of Cuban manners.
They have brought down upon
themselves the cruelest possible
punishment complete disregard
of their representations by per
sons seriously interested in the
problems involved. It is a pain
ful thing to see young people so
thoroughly discredit themselves.
Explanation ;j
The Tar Heel is now -
running a four-part series ',
on the summer trip to Cuba '
made by 59 students, four '''
of whom were from North f ;
Carolina, three of those be- !
ing former students at
UNC.
Today's editorial page f
contains different editorials ,
and columns that appeared
in newspapers throughout f
the country concerning
both the trip and the House
Un - American Activities
Committee investigation of
the group. r
SICK!
By ROBERT G. SPIVACK
The Communists especially
American Communists seem
compelled to make a travesty
of all the good causes to which
they profess allegiance.
Except for one short period,
they have never been able to
stand on their own feet in this
country. As a result, they often
injure decent people and many
worthwhile activities. Their
aims are rarely what they said
they were and people who
were innocent enough to be
Cuban's
Editor of the Daily News:
Not long ago I wrote some
comments on the U. S. students
touring Communist Cuba which
were published in this same
section. Today I will appreciate
if you publish these few words
about the Communist showdown
staged at Capitol Hill by those
same students and some other
persons, involved with the same
aim.
I have lived under Commun
ism and have had the sad priv
ilege to have met many Com
munists of my country (Cuba).
I em pretty well acquainted
with their methods and ways of
operations. They are masters
of deceit and are remarkable in
the brainwashing of people.
Their propaganda systems are
wonderfully worked at almost
no expense cr very little at all,
if eny.
They concentrate their efforts
on the youths. They know that
among them they find the most
fertile and easy people to work
in, because of their inexperi-;
ence and pride of self-thinking.
Some of them, especially col
lege or high school youths in
the ages between 13 and 20 or
so, become "socialists," "left
ists," "progressives" (these
words have been continuously
used by Communists to replace
the word Communists itself)
and even if most of them later
on desert and come back again
to democracy, they, as far as
Communism is concerned have
already played their "role" and
it is of minor importance to
have them fighting against.
They already gave their exam
ples to others and converted
other youths to continue a cycle.
I am concerned when I see
this kind and credulous people
of America being told so many
well elaborate lies (as those
contained in such a praise to
the terror, starvation and hu
miliation, which the Cuban peo
taken in were simply expend
able. I mention this background be
cause of the recent hysterical
performance by a group of al
leged "students" who visited
Cuba in defiance of American
travel regulations.
When the Un-American Activ
ities Committee sought to find
out to what extent, if any, Com
munists were involved, the al
leged students put on a "dem
onstration" that looked like what
might happen in en insane asy
lum if the inmates were sudden
ly thrown into a panic.
Ordinarily it does not make
,lmuch difference what young
men and women of the nutty
left do, anymore than the na
tion is seriously affected by
the antics of the nutty right
or by the wacky white youth
demonstrations in Birmingham.
There is always somebody
who lets off steam. When con
ditions in the country ere "nor
mal," these demonstrations us
ually take the form of panty
raids on girls dormitories, or
ripping up the goal posts after
the football game.
But the "students" belong in
a different category. These dem
onstrators try to give the im
pression that they were in keep
ing with the great protest tradi
tions of this country, the latest
manifestation of which was the
March on Washington.
Nothing could be further from
the truth.
The Washington march was
a well-disciplined, orderly dem
onstration of democratic pro
test. Although many expected
the worst, it did not happen be
cause the demonstrators had a
personal sense of dignity, re
garded their cause as of the
utmost importance, and were
determined to show the world
that American Negroes have
come of age.
But the pro-Castro crowd had
no such aim; nor was their real
purpose to test the validity of
College Paper Speaks Out
From The Daily Cardinal
(The University of Wisconsin)
The school year has hardly be
gun but across this nation's cam
puses an important political con
troversy has already flared up;
that issue centers around the 59
students who violated a State De
partment ban and spent part of
the summer in Cuba.
In a democracy, it seems to us,
a citizen's freedom from govern
ment authoritarianism does not
end at his nation's borders. If he
has a right to interpret national
events for himself, then he has
the same right to investigate on
the international scene.
There are those in this country
curious, or skeptical, or enthusias
tic about new governments, new
economic and political methods,
new forces on the international
scene. There may be changes, or
methods, or forces we do not like.
That is irrelevant, however, to the
right of American citizens to see
for themselves.
Concern
ple are presently, suffering).
I am concerned when I see
that well organized showdown
which is staged day by day,
marvelously mastered in favor
of the Communist propaganda
in this country, which is today
in particular the tour to Com
munist Cuba by some Ameri
can youths, and which tomor
row could be something eke.
I am concerned when the Am
erican people are confused by
the Communists when they ere
told about some injustices in
the country, of which, no doubt,
the racial issue is the worst,
that Communism is the "only
way."
Communists, among other
things, are experts in exploiting
the weakness of everybody end
every place in their favor. In
the U. S. A., which is the most
progressive and richest country
in the world, there are not too
many exploitable weak points,
but still there are some. The
racial problem, being the worst
is a problem which is boldly be
ing faced now. It is being solv
ed. It will definitely be solved.
The higher the standard of ed
ucation in the country is reach
ed, the sooner this social in
justice will be overcome. But
there is no need for the Com
munists (who are the worst
racists) to come to solve this is
sue, nor is Communism the
"only way" for its solution.
Communism is to be feared
more working from within. It is
not probable that a war will de
velop because Communists have
not planned so. They don't try
to conquer coming from the
outside. They will try to do it
in a more technical, elegant end
less noisy way. And it is bet
ter to be dead than to be living
under Communism. Do not let
this conclusion be learned from
your own experience.
Dr. Octavio Dioz
the government regulations pro
hibiting travel to Cuba. What
they wanted to do was to disrupt
the hearings so that the com
mittee members could not ask
questions and find answers. This
was not a demonstration; it was
a diversion. .
If those being investigated
felt or their lawyers felt
that the committtee were goin-
beyond its jurisdiction, they had
a perfect right to take the Fifth
Amendment or otherwise to
challenge the committee's au
thority. But these "demonstrators"
have apparently decided that
they can act as Castro hooligans
do in Venezuela and elsewhere
in the hemisphere. Their pro
tests were notably unoriginal
even after years of all kinds of
demonstration.
As an example of how little
they care for anyone or any
cause except their own one
demonstrator told a Virginia
lawmaker that he was no more
breaking the law than civil
rights leaders in Danville, Va.,
or Louisiana. By linking them
selves with the anti-segregationists,
these demonstrators
sought to achieve "innocence by
association."
But they were also creating
unnecessary difficulties for the
civil rights demonstrators, for
whom they profess to have so
much admiration. It is in this
way that they make a travesty
of the things in which they say
they believe. They behaved ex
ec tly as caricaturists used to
picture the ultra-Left; they even
looked like bomb-throwers with
beards.
There are other differences
between this crowd and i'ne
serious Student Non-Violent Co
ordinating Committee, as ar. ex
ample. But the pro-Castro "stu
dents" seek to obscure the dif
ference. Theirs was a "sick"
demonstration, as psychoan
alysts define the wrord "sick."
From The Charlotte Observer
Unquestionably some of thos?
who went to Cuba were of left, or
of Marxist, or of Communist per
suasion. That is also irrelevant to
their right of travel, unless they
were actively working toward the
subversion of our republic. We
happen to have faith that the re
public can withstand the action cf
59 students visiting Cuba.
If the Chinese or Cuban govern
ments choose to bar Americans,
that is their prerogative. Further,
the United States may tell prospec
tive visitors to totalitarian naticr s
that it cannot guarantee their safe
ty. But this is clearly not the same
ac forbidding Americans to travtl
through societies which we oppose.
The State Department would be
wise, we feel, to stop this kind cf
petty authoritarianism, and to al
low our citizens to travel where
they will. Surely there are more
important issues confronting u
than ping-pong matches with
Fidel Castro. Surely the right to
travel need not be abrogated ia
this instance.