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ELIZABETH HAUGEN
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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.
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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
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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.
Bullitt resigned and later - un
successfully sought the post of
mayor of Philadelphia. He is now a
major in de Gaulle’s army.
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