-Campaign Note
Saturday an independent voter made an important decision. It was a
decision which a number of people have made during the past few
months and perhaps more will make. This decision was more important
than the rest because of the person who made it—Senator Wayne Morse
of Oregon. Senator Morse said in part:
“The demagogery, double talk, and dangerous desertion by Eisen*
hower in this campaign of his once professed political principles leaves
me with no honorable course of action but to disassociate myself com
pletely from his candidacy.
“Eisenhower is not telling the truth when in political desperation he
now claims he has not entered into unconscionable compromises with
the reactionaries in the Republican party. I know he has.
“My decision to repudiate Eisenhower has not been an easy one to
make because I was the first Republican Senator to declare publicly
for Eisenhower.
“However, the Eisenhower I supported for the nomination is not the
Eisenhower who is dangling and dancing from campaign platforms at
the end of political puppet strings being jerked by some of the most
evil and reactionary forces in American politics.”
Morse will vote for Stevenson on Nov. 4. So will a great many other
disappointed independent voters.
Noteslloj the Editor;
Approval, Censure
© VY. D. P.
For the Record
Dwight D. Eisenhower is a
man that is excellently versed
on foreign affairs, he has the
attribute of, getting people to
work for him and with him in
close harmony, and he is also
an efficient organizer and leader
of great bodies of people.
There is probably no other man
in the world that has a more
intimate knowledge of foreign
affairs, and has much respect
paid to him by foreign nations
and their peoples, as does the
general.
Shortly after the Second World
War he proved this when as head
of SHAPE he organized the
North Atlantic Treaty nations
into a group with optimism and
cooperation. Not only in Europe
does Eisenhower have an unpre
cedented record, but also in the
far East where he served for
four years as senior military as
sistant in the Philippines.
As he accomplished the impos
sible in organization in SHAPE,
he did the same in World War
II, in getting the full support and
cooperation from Russia's Mar
shall Zhukov, Britain’s General
Montgomery, and France’s Gen
eral DeGaulle.
Eisenhower proved that you
can operate a project with a
small and efficient staff for at
SHAPE headquarters he had be
tween four and five hundred
people doing the work for four
teen natons.
There was no deadwood in this
organizaton of Eisenhower’s,
something you cannot say about
the Pentagon where overlapping
and mis-management are very
pronounced. You ask “Why hasn’t
- General Eisenhower done some
thing about the mis-management
in the military where 80 per cent
of our national budget is al
lotted.” You will have to remem
ber that General Eisenhower was
in an advisory position only, and
it is the job of the Senate and
president to allot money in the
most efficient manner and to
keep mis-management down to a
bare minimum.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
general, educator, and diplomat,
is a man who has a wealth of
knowledge and the background
that is essential to guide our
great nation to a peaceful and
prosperous future.
Francis Gillmore
Dick Lyons
John Tonack
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Republican Ditty
The Emerald had an editor,
“The best throughout the land;’’
In every kind of issue
He took a fair, impartial stand.
Elections were his downfall.
He took a partial stand,
Wrote an editorial,
Said, “Stevenson's my man.”
The staff was in an uproar;
The campus, much the same.
Letters, words and 'phone calls
Gave Larry lots of blame.
Now this gal goes for “Ike,”
And so do all her friends.
But, this she’d like to say
Before the ditty ends.
Though, voting for the man,
Is quite the ideal way,
If Stevenson gets in,
The Demo party’s here to stay.
What about this, Larry?
If the Democrats hold sway,
Can’t the party tell their man
To go the socialistic way ?
By M. A. Allen
(Ed Note: Our sense of rime
scheme is pretty awful, but ..,
What Webster says of “social
ism”
We’d be very glad to note.
But we think it’s just another
“ism”
Over which Ike seems to gloat.
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Congratulations
818 E. loth
October 16, ’52
Oregon Daily Emerald:
In regard to the Emerald’s
support of Governor Stevenson
for president, I wish to commend
you upon your wise and sound
choice.
I have in the past admired
General Eisenhower very much,
both as a general and candidate
for president, until he fell under
the power of just a few influen
tial men, who are promising the
people everything for which their
party does not stand. For ex
ample, his promises to farmers
are highly out-of-bounds. A man
of such character should not be
"bossed” but should stand on his
own two feet and advocate what
he himself believes to be right.
Governor Stevenson admits
corruption, and uses his back
bone in defending what he be
lieves wil benefit the country and
ALL of its people. No one pushes
him around—not even President
Truman. I further believe that
Stevenson’s knowledge of domes
tic and foreign policy is much
broader than that of Ike, who
cannot dig into these problems
and present them to the people.
If General Eisenhower is un
able to tell us now, how will he,
if he should become president?
Marilyn Jaehnke
Fascism Won't Beat Communism
By E. A. Van Natta
Emerald International Affair* Analyst
One of the hottest issues in
volved in American foreign pol
icy formation is the question of
what to do ‘about fascist Spain.
To many political and military
leaders in the United States
Spain should be induced to take
an active part in the build-up
against the Soviet Union because
it would be, they argue, a valu
able asset to tlie west, militarily
speaking, and also because she is
an avowed enemy of communism.
Spain Compatible?
Other leaders feel that, al
though Spain might prove to be
a wel( ome addition to any mil
itary alliance, her corrupt and
brutal fascistic regime is hardly
compatible with the western
democracies' position in the pres
ent battle of the idealogies.
The real value of Spain as a
military ally is rather doubtful.
Her army is reported to be in
very poor condition as regards
morale and material. While the
Spanish soldier leaves little to be
desired as a capable, tough fight
er he nevertheless has a very
limited technical knowledge of
machine warfare.
Dictator “Deans" on Army
Furthermore, the Spanish dic
tatorship leans heavily on the
army for its continuance in pow
er and in the event of a war
France would probably be very
reluctant to send this maintainor
of the "status quo" too far from
home.
Many American military ob
servers see Spain as the logical
area in which to concentrate the
main bulk of European defensive
preparations. They maintain that
the entire peninsula could be used
as a “redoubt" in case of a Soviet
thrust to the West.
Little Encouragement
This idea does little to encour
age faith among the continental
allies of the United States. When
Western Europe thinks of de
fense lines anil barriers she
thinks in terms of the Elbe and
the Rhine. A successful defense
at one of these rivers would mean
that these countries would not
have to go through another pain
ful "liberation” as they did in
19-14-45.
The worth of Spain as a "re
doubt” can also be questioned
because of the miserable condi
tion of its rail and highway net
works. Other facilities which are
needed in any large-scale mili
tary movement such as power
and harbor installations are prac
tically nonexistent.
One Billion for Defense
One U. S. military investiga
tion committee in Spain estimat
ed that at least 1 billion dollars
would be needed to make the
peninsula suitable for limited de
fense.
Still another factor to be con
sidered in using Spain as a bas
tion of defense is the question of
whether or not a Soviet army
which was strong enough to turn
Western defenses on the Elbe and
the Rhine might not be strong
enough and have sufficient mo
mentum to pass through the
Pyrenees before a retreating al
lied army would have time to
“dig in.”
Acceptance a Crime
For the United States to court
Spain for her military potential
ities would be a big mistake but
to accept her present regime,
even in a watered-down version,
an an ideological ully against
Communism would be a crime n
crime against the Spanish people
who are held in complete bond
age by Franco and his rabble.
Fascism in Spain, as formerly
in Germany and Italy, thrives on
the "red menace.” The Spanish
people are as apprehensive of
Communism as they are of Fas
cism, especially since the Keil
double-cross during the Civil
War.
An Automatic Red
It is extremely doubtful that,
should the people be able to slip
out of the Fascist yoke, they
would turn around and slip into
that offered to them by the few
Communists at present in Spain.
Hut to Franco and his gang any
one who disagrees with the pres
ent government is automate ally
condemned as being a "Red."
The Spanish dictator already
lias many admirers in the United
States including su< h men an
Democratic Senator McCarran of
Nevada. And should some of the
"Holy Crusaders" behind Kb.cn
hovver come into office in No
vember, Franco’s stock will prob
ably go up to an all-time high
here in the United States.
Common "sense and decern /
should tell most Americans that
one can’t expect to win an ideo
logical battle against Soviet
Communism by using for a wea
pon its degrading counterpart
fascism.
‘Goodbye to Berlin": Isherwood
With shutter open the camera focuses,
quite passive, recording, not thinking
By Michael Lundy
One of the best of recent Rig
net pocket reprints is Christo
pher Isherwood’s "Goodbye to
Berlin,” from which the hit play
"I Am a Camera” was drama
tized.
A College Education
“I didn’t realize that you could draw that well ... Worthal—Ever
thought of taking some courses over in fine arts?”
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Isherwood’s book is in the firm
of somewhat disjointed narra
tives of characters anti events ir.
Berlin during tiie early 1930':
when the Nazis were beginning
their rise to power.
First Person
It in written in first person,
hut as the title of the play i: ’
dicates, the author functions as
a camera, “with its shutter open,
fjJite passive, recording, not
thinking.”
The places and people Isle r
v, ood sees and knows pass in
front of him and he records their
crumbling morals and stricken
lives without censure or praise.
Neither nostalgia nor awkward
emotion is allowed to dim the
vividness of this chronicle of a
period.
Booms Conic Alive
the author has an extraordin
talent for making a room
or a street come alive with all its
smells, sights and sounds, and
lie needs only a short-paragraph
to do it. The characters, too,
come alive in all the aspects of
themselves, their weaknesses and
strength, their moral innocence
and physical degeneracy.
"Characters” is a poor word to
use, for these are real people,
some of the most sharply drawn
portraits we have read.
"Goodbye to Berlin” is in six
short parts, each one dealing
with a different aspect or group
of characters Isherwood comes
into contact with. They form a‘
roughly continuous narrative.
Book Pulls Together
The book’s beginning is very
fragmentary, as the author’s 1
camera eye focuses momentarily '
on different scenes and people.
Gradually the book pulls to- ;
gether, the characters touch, the I
separate threads of ideas and '
moods knit together, and the _
reader is drawn into the story.
Then as the book nears its
end, with the coming of the Nazis .
and the collapse of Isherwood’s
friends, disjointed episodes and
fragmentary scenes pull the >
reader out of the story, and he
is again only an impartially ob
serving camera.