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Larry Hobart, Editor Sally Thurston, Business Manager
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Jim Haycox, Editorial Assistast
It's Great to be a Winner!
We congratulate the Oregon football team and coaching
staff. It’s great to he on the winning side. Especially against a
California team.
Several times in the last two years of Coach Casanova's
career at Oregon his men have fought southern teams right
down to the wire only to lose by narrow margins.
For example, take the Cal game last year, which the Ducks
lost 28-26. That was considered a moral victory to end all
moral victories. But California had the most points.
Last Saturday, Oregon had the most points. That is the sort
of victory we like.
Next Saturday the Ducks will end their season against Ore
gon State. Here’s hoping they won't be satisfied with any
thing less than a real victory.—(B.G.)
The American Way Isn't the Only Way
“America is the best country in the world.”
You hear that broad statement quite a bit. It sounds pa
triotic and loyal and anti-Communistic. Yet it is perhaps one*
of the biggest blocks in the United States to the promotion
of international understanding.
Americans have become a little smug about their position
in the world. They like to talk about mass production, equal
rights, Horatio Alger, and high standards of living. They are
sometimes prone to ignore the construction achievements of na
tions much older than the United States.
Howard E. Wilson, formerly with the United States "Edu
cational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and now a rep
resentative of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, spoke to the International Relations Club Wednesday.
He suggested two points which would aid in furthering in
ternational understanding:
1, An understanding of the culture of other peoples.
2. A strong sensitivity and a deep humility in approaching
a study of other peoples.
International understanding is not a wishy-washy friend
ship, Wison said, but an intellectual understanding without
pre-basis and pre-judging.
We liked what Mr. Wilson said: The American way is not
the only way. Too few people consider this. They allow na
tional stereotypes to block their vision of the real people.
They become wrapped up in a tradition of “Americanism”
and discard reason.
Rewards of Teaching
•"To Professor Smart: for four years of kindness, thoughtfulness, fair
ness, consideration—The senior class.”
SWEDEN IS NEUTRAL
Scandinavian Views of NATO
by E. A. Van Natta
At the present time only two
of the Scandinavian countries
are members of the North Atlan
tic Tieaty organization while the
third, whether for better or for
worse, has chosen the straight
and hazardous {-nith of "neutral
ity.” Norway shows the most en
thusiasm for the Atlantic Pact,
while little Denmark goes along,
if somewhat hesitantly. Sweden,
numerically and economically the
strongest of the three, is politi
cally and tempermentally about
3 00 per cent "neutral.”
In the late winter of 1919 the
Swedes gave some indication that
they might be willing to abandon
their cherished' neutrality which
had successfully kept them out
of two world wars. For some time
talks had been going on among
the three Scandinavian countries
concerning the possibility of cre
ating a purely Scandinavian de
fensive alliance.
Both the Danes and the Swedes
agreed that such an alliance
would be the best road to secur
ity. From the Swedish point of
view any step which would orient
their policy further toward the
West might very well be inter
preted by the Soviet Union as
a hostile act which would more
than likely induce the latter to
immediately occupy Finland.
Norwegians Differ
The Norwegians, however,
looked at the situation in some
what a different light. They con
tended that a Scandinavian de
fense pact could not possibly be
effective unless it received arms
and supplies from the United
States. The proposed plans for a
North Atlantic alliance were
gaining momentum at this time
and Norway felt that some sort
of a tie-up with the organization
would be highly practical.
The difference between the two
countries was soon resolved, al
though many Norwegians and
Swedes are still skeptical as to
the results. On February 9, 1949,
the Swedish-proposed pact was
made public. Article 12 stated
that during the validity of the
Notes to the Editor
Mr. Larry Hobart
Emerald Editor
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Dear Larry:
I would personally like to
thank you and your staff for the
cooperation and efforts exerted
to make Homecoming activities
and developments known to the
students through the Oregon
Daily Emerald.
As you well know, it is the
Emerald that makes or breaks
the success of many activities—•
insofar as publicity is import
ant. And on such an occasion as
Homecoming, publicity is impor
tant.
I can therefore report Home
coming a tremendous success,
giving a good share of the credit
to you and your staff for the
wonderful response shown.
Sincerely yours,
BOB METZ
Chairman, 1952
Emerald International Affairs Analyst
pact (20 years unless renounced
after 9 by one of the signatories)
none of the three nations would
be permitted to conclude a mili
tary union with any other nation.
At practically the same time the
U. S. National Security Council,
sitting in Washington announced
that any nation not allied with
the United States would not re
ceive American military aid.
Soon after this announcement,
Norway, which to a great extent
looked toward the West for her
security, had to make a choice
between Western support and
Scandinavian alliance without
such support. She chose to turn
toward the West while Denmark,
feeling herself politically isolat
ed, did likewise. Sweden, prefi r
ring political isolation to West
ern alliance, chose to remain
neutral.
Norway Supporting Pact
Today Norway is apparently
giving whole-hearted support to
the Atlantic Pact although most
Norwegians admittedly continue
to hope for what they know to
be impossible namely, neu
trality. Norway is not putting
her financial position under too
severe a strain since only G per
cent of the national income or
20 per cent of the budget is going
for military expenditures.
The Norwegians arc extremely
touchy about the political im
plications, both internally and ex
ternally, of having foreign troops
stationed in her territory. Even
though Oslo Is th«- site of H1(>
hcadcpiartors of the Northern
Sector of NATO Norwegian oif). ,
rials have been very emphatic
about no foreign troops b< ,ng
stationed in their country.
Danes Cool To Pact
Tlie Danes arc much less < n- .
thuslastic about the Atlantic
Pact than are the Norwegians.
Strategically they are but a few
short miles from the Soviet zone
of Germany with no intervening •
natural barriers whatsoever.
Once the war starts, Denmark
realizes that she will be occupi*'/
almost immediately by SovV»'t*
troops. Tlie Danish Army had to .
start from scratch after Wor i
War II but with American a I
and the steady persuasion of*
General Eisenhower it is beg li
ning to show some signs of re
juvenation.
As for Sweden, there is no in
dication that she has any intt n- ■
tior.s whatsoever of giving up
what she calls neutrality. Recent
incidents with the Soviet Union,
such as espionage conducted by
the Soviet Embassy and th«- at- <
Tack by Soviet air craft of Swc.J
ish army planes over the Baltic
Sea, have not as yet caused the «
Swedes to look toward the W-st
for future security. Fear that
Swedish membership in the At* ”
lantic Pact would bring on in
immediate Soviet occupation of
Finland is apparently us strong
now as it was in 1SM9.
'PrisonerofjGrace': Joyce [Cary
Novelist has earmarks of greatness
Laughter, sympathy, vigor discerned
By Michael Lundy
Wo are departing this week
from our avowed policy of re
viewing reprints to recommend a
newly published novel, "Prisoner
of Grace,” by Joyce Cary. The
book is available both at the
University library, for free, and
at the Co-op rental library, so
we feel it is within the means of
penny-clutching students,
Joyce Cary is one of the very
few present day writers who
shows all the earmarks of great
ness. Until recently, he was al
most unknown in America. But
when such barometers as the
Book of the Month Club (which
picked “The Horse’s Mouth”
three years ago) and Time mag
azine (which gave Cary their
cover and entire book section last
month) endorse a writer, one
can be sure he has at last achiev
ed both critical and popular ap
proval.
“Enthusiastic Spectator”
Cary is an enthusiastic spec
tator at the game of life. His
joyful chronicles of people in
their native habitats, whether
they be English drawing room or
African jungle, fairly bubble over
with laughter, sympathy, and
vigor.
Nina, the narrator of “Pris
oner of Grace,” is a beautiful,
amiable and perceiving woman,
whose only fault, if it can be
called that, is a realization of
other people’s needs and feelings
so strong that it causes her to
give in to their wills, in pref
erence to her own.
Nina’s love, from childhood on,
belongs to Jim Latter, her cous
in, an impetuous, idealistic aris
tocrat. When Nina is still quite
young, he falls into the habit of
creeping into her bed to warm
himself during the night. This
has its inevitable outcome; Nina
becomes pregnant.
The omnipresent Aunt Latter,
a fierce but sensible old maid]
promptly arranges a marria _•<;
with a poor cleik who ha.s pnii
tical ambitions, one Chester Nun
mo, who ha.s been awkwardly a:.,i •
unsuccessfully courting Nina .01
some time.
Chester Great Character
This Chester Nimmo can St r I
with Cary's Gulley Jimson 1. 1
Sara Monday as truly great ci 1 -
actors in fiction. Nimmo beco:..«
an extremely powerful politic .11
by using every known tuck,
fraud, betrayal, charactcrizat ....
and ingenuity, in an unscrupuf .
and unmerciful manner. He lo ps
Nina with him in the same v. y,
even though he knows that J.m
has managed to become the fath
er of a second child to her, and
that she is In love with Jim (in
her own rather vague, drifting
way/. Nimmo believes everything
he does is right and lie manages
to make others believe it. The
amazing thing about him is that
he remains throughout the book
a sympathetic character!
It is not until Nina is 45 and *
Chester is G2, at the end of his
political career, that she manages
to escape, divorce Chester, marry
Jim, and give birth to her first
legitimate child. Happy ending ? ^
Not quite.
Old, But Much Alive
The inimitable Nimmo man- •»
ages to inculcate himself into
Jim's and Nina’s household and
takes every opportunity to make
love to her behind the madly
suspicious Jim’s back. The took
ends with all three dwelling to- **
gether in a stew pot of mixed
emotion. They are old, but they j
are, like the whole book, very
much alive.
The hurried student, used to a • I
fast-paced fare of crime, sex and
science fiction, may find the hook
drags at times. But anyone will" -1
ing to spend a couple of l0I1f>
evenings will.find his reward in •
some of the best writing being
done today.
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