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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1944)
Oregon Emerald ANNE CRAVEN Acting Editor ROSEANN EECKIE Business Manager NORRIS YATES Managing Editor FRANNIE MAIER Advertising Manager ELIZABETH HAUGEN News Editor Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. From battlefield to college campus is a long' step, and none know it better than you students who have returned to the University as veterans of World War II. Because of the im measurable difference between your present environment and that which you recently left, you form an element of the stu dent population which is totally new. The majority of you have seen life, to use a trite but rather apt phrase, to such a degree as those who have never gone to war may never hope to see it. Some of you have “smelt powder,” a few of you may even have killed. A portion of you have been wounded or disabled. The experiences of many of you may have changed your whole outlook on life. A man can hardly see his buddies dropping, bombs falling on civilians, or children starving without radically altering some of his former views. You men who are returning to the campus this fall are bringing with you sociological, political, and personal ideas which have seldom, if ever, been introduced in strength to the academically and socially sleepy old U. of O. • • • Such being the case, you will be shouldering a heavy load of responsibility both this year and in the years to come. You are agitated, discontented, possibly cynical, as a result of what you have gone through and what you have seen. Your restless ness will manifest itself in far more activity per person than idle average student who has never been shaken out of his somnolence. You will be centers of attraction, you will be a definite influence in campus social life, and most important of all, you will, by expression of your views, be undeniably potent agents in the shaping of the viewpoints of many of your college friends and acquaintances. Those of you who choose to mingle in campus politics—a tempest in a teapot after the battle of France and the Pacific—will be the most enterprising, the hardest hitters, the most energetic cam paigners. Jt has worked out that way before. You will be to the University what the veterans as a whole will be to the .United States on a large scale. It will be interesting to watch developments in both cases. * sjc s|; * Having delivered ourselves of our lecture, we bid you wel come with the hope that many more of your comrades will soon join you, and our strongest wish is that every man who was forced against his will to break off his college education because ol the war will soon be back in the lecture halls at his old desks, beginning again where he left off.—N.Y. jbuj, 'Ijou'i Oum fyadti . . . I picked up my mail this morning and as usual there was a lot of literature from people and organizations which I had either never heard of before or had met only through the mail. Here were four envelopes each containing information that someone had thought important enough to spend the postage to send a copy to me. And there was something definite they .wanted to convince me of whether 1 was interested or not. No doubt you've had the same experience. You've had your mail increased by unexpected information on most every imag inable subject, but with an emphasis on political information on everything from plans for world peace to who to vote for for dog catcher. And what does it all mean? Why is an orchestra leader you've never met or even heard of so interested in con vincing you that he is a 4-F and not a draft dodger that he will spend money to furnish you with a short booklet on the matter. You’re a University student and people expect you to know what is going on in the world and to have opinions on matters of importance. They want to help you mold those opinions— hence the flood of information directed your way. The question is how to evaluate tliis multitude of facts from sources with which you are not acquainted and of whose integrity you are not certain. This source of information is not to be wholly condemned because it doesn't arrive with a complete explanation of why it is being sent and who wanted you to read it, but it is to be taken under consideration with an eye to what you are subtly or boldly being told, and why. If the government of an occupied country operating in a foreign country weekly sends you in formation on its country, its history and future, you are likely AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF i Major Lyle J. Defenbaugh, Infantry, of Omaha, earned liis Silver Star for gallantry in action in Tunisia. Under heavy machine gun fire aimed directly at his position, which silenced the radio, he disregarded all per sonal safety, and remained in full view of the enemy within close range to shout directions and orders to two of his companies. Our praise for liis heroism is not enough, we must buy War Bonds and hold ’em. U. S. Treasury Department Qloballu Speakuta, By BILL SINNOTT Bill Bullitt’s recent article, “The World from Rome,” in “Life” has probably caused more adverse comment than any thing the Luce magazines have published since Clare’s husband wrote his “The American Century” a few years ago. The current “Life” is full of denunciations of our first am bassador to the Soviet Union. Our leftists claim that Bullitt is nothing more than a Fascist agent—a Nazi in disguise. Life prints a review of Bullitt’s article by K. Demidov; an edi torial writer for the kept Russian press, that appeared in “Pravda.” “Pravda” means "truth.” The two leading Moscow papers are the “Pravda” and the “Izvestia,” which means “news.” One remembers the old bromide that there is no news in the truth and no truth in the news. Comrade Demidov maintains that Bullitt always was a Fascist. That in fact during his missions to Mos cow and Paris he was working for the final victory of the “New Or der.” Russia Controls Committee Demidov claims that the Polish Committee of National Liberation, under the chairmanship of Edward Osubka-Morawski, is entirely free from Kremlin control. The “Prav da” article further maintains that there are only a few Communists on the committee. We believe that not even the Russians expect us to believe this. The Polish committee is a stooge of Russia. The members of the Pol ish government-in-exile in London, recognized by Britain and the United States as the de jure gov ernment of the country, has never even heard of the men composing the Soviet-sponsored committee. We believe these Poles are pro fessional revolutionaries of the Kuusinen type. This committee recently conclud ed a treaty with the White Rus sian S. S. R. providing for an exchange of populations after the war—the first use of the “Sixteen Republics” swindle that has de luded so many of our pinks. Demidov really froths because Bullitt believes that the Soviet Union could dominate the Soviet republics of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. The Russians took over the Baltic countries by force in 1940. They then arranged “free elections” by which the peoples of the three countries became Soviet citizens. Demidov Wrathful The comrade is wrathful because Bullitt said that the partisans of Marshal Tito have been killing Chetniks. It is worthy of note that the Chetniks were fighting the Germans before the party line switched in June, 1941. Bill Bullitt came from one of the best main line families. He was Wilson’s unofficial envoy to Lenin and Trotsky after the October revolution. Bullitt believed that the Com munists regime would endure in Russia. He had a major share in arranging the Prinkipo conference that the allies refused to attend. Bullitt resigned in disgust from our peace commission when Wilson followed the Lloyd George-Clem enceau plan of a “cordon sanitaire” of small states to insulate western Europe from the Red menace. Bullitt married Louise Bryant Reed, the widow of Jack Reed. Reed is the most famous Portland er abroad, the author of “Ten Days That Shook the World.” Bullitt Goes to Kremlin With the advent of the New Deal, Bullitt became our first en voy to the Kremlin. He was soon fed up with the Soviet paradise and was succeeded by the husband of the Post Toasties heiress (one for gets his name). Bullitt was happy as ambassa dor to France. Though Bill was a to find it interesting, but also worth considering in the light of whether you are getting an honest picture and both sides of the question. Just because a candidate for office floods your desk with mail and fills your head with catch phrases, you still must try to see the question clearly. Just because someone has thought enough of an idea to print it and mail a copy to you, there is no reason that you must accept and believe it 100 per cent. Be an intelligent reader and see both sides of the question, digest what you are offered, but don't let your source of in formation end there. If you are interested in the question don't reach a hasty conclusion just because you've heard a nice glittering side on the story, dig up some facts of your own and don't depend on the mail box flood.—E.A.N. liberal he had aristocratic tastes (like his boss). His friends were those fascinating ladies like the Comtesse de Montgomery, the Duchesse d'Harccurt, and the Mar quise de Grussol who ran the Third Republic in its dying days its boudoirs. Bullitt was the real ruler of France from 1938 on. Daladier and Reynaud asked his advice on- every important measure. He stayed in Faris to meet the Germans. Bullitt advised F. D. R. to recognize the marshal of France and his Vichy government. 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