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Security Snafu
The latest Defense department snafu on
security is terrific. The Air Force and the
Army issued a list without any security
classification or stamp, of all our air bases
in Europe, North Africa and Japan, for use
in computing service men's transportation
allowances.
Included were some 50 British and French
bases where our planes sometimes land,
together with a detailed table of airmile dis
tances.
This information is old to a lot of our
traveling Congressmen and to a good many
reporters. If it isn’t old stuff to potential
enemy espionage agents, then surely our
worries about security ought to end right
now.
If such agents have to wait on a Penta
gon compilation to find out where these
peacetime bases are, they assuredly couldn’t
pinpoint even the location of the White
House.
But this wasn’t the Defense department’s
reaction, even though the offending list
came out over the signatures of Generals
Maxwell D. Taylor and Nathan F. Twining,
Army and Air Force Chiefs of Staff, wh"b
didn’t rise to their present positions by
flubbing security matters.
Into the “breach" charged Defense Secre
tary Wilson’s public affairs and information
assistant, R. Karl Honoman, who was put in
only last April to tighten up on security
matters. Honoman tightened up with a bang.
He asked for classification of the list—and
promptly marked it “for official use only,”
the lowest classification of all.
Meantime, Honoman’s men are busily
“probing” this momentous lapse of security,
and no doubt some level-headed military ac
countant guilty of nothing more than ef
ficiency and common sense will get his
comeuppance.
For the public and the press, however,
there is a special irony in this latest snafu.
Wilson has suggested that newspaper edi
tors, although they are experts on neither
security' or censorship, ought in patriotic
duty to censor the news themselves (an
idea that Harry S. Truman also threw out
in 1951.) But if the Defense department it
self can't agree on security or control of
its own releases, how does Wilson expect
civilians to do it for him?
From West to East
Nothing has been settled for certain yet
but there is a distinct possibility that next
year’s student seating arrangement at the
Multnomah stadium games in Portland will
be completely changed.
This is the word from Alumni Secretary
Bass Dyer. Dyer said early this week that
the alumni association has been investigat
ing for some time now the possibility of
changing the students’ seats from the west
to the east side of the stadium. He expressed
hope that the new plan could be put into
effect before the first Portland game in 1956.
According to Dyer, the student rooting
section always used to be located on the east
side, with the Duck players bench also on
that side. It has only been in recent years
that rooters have been occupying the long
and narrow bleacher seats on the west side.
Dyer went on to say that the main reason
that the change should be made is because it
would make a much more centralized root
ing section and would allow a vastly super
ior location for the University band.
The present set-up has the students
spread out along the entire length of the
field in just a few rows of seats. It makes it
next to impossible for the rally squad to
get any kind of organization for their yells.
It also makes the band spread out more than
is desirable for the most effective perform
ance.
Another point which comes to our mind,
which Dyer didn't mention, is that the cifr
rent arrangement leaves only a few hundred
really good seats for students. Bv good seats
we mean those located between the 30-yard
lines.
If the new plan can be worked out. all of
these difficulties will be remedied. The stu
dent section can be organized similarly to
the arrangement at Hayward field with the
many extra rows providing for a better cen
tral location. The band can be seated as it
should be and students in general will have
a better view of their grid warriors in action.
We are all in favor of the alumni asso
ciation’s idea and sincerely hope that it can
be worked out as soon as possible.—(B.R.)
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Streamlining of GB Armed Forces
Adds to Disturbed Atmosphere
By J. M. Roberts
Of the Associated Press
Great Britain announced more
than a year ago, soon after a
Similar decision by the United
States, that she would stream
line her armed forces to get
along with less manpower.
Nevertheless, her announce
ment that she will reduce her
army by more than 10 percent,
coupled with other developing
political and military trouBles
for the North Atlantic Treaty
organization, adds to an already
disturbing atmosphere.
Secretary of! State Dulles
said Monday that the new face
of Russian foreign policy has
not yet lessened the need for
maintenance of Allied power,
but it is being weakened just
the same.
France has greatly weakened
her contribution to NATO forces
in Europe in her effort to subdue
revolt in North Africa. That situ
ation also has put her at political
odds with much of the non-Com
munist world.
West Germany’s government
has just taken an election beat
ing from opponents of its pro
NATO rearmament policy, and
Russia is developing a powerful
campaign making German reuni
fication dependent on an end to
that policy.
The Greek-Turkish-Yugoslav
entente has just been made vir
tually inoperative by conflict
between Greece and Turkey
over their attitudes toward
British possession of Cyprus
and by Tito’s decision to re
turn to what he calls a more
“normal” relationship with
Russia and the Communist
satellites.
Egypt, where the Allies had
hoped to obtain a measure of co
operation in return for British
military evacuation, is playing
footsie with Moscow.
Generally disturbed conditions
in the Middle East are interfer
ing with practical operation of
the Turkish-Iraq-British-Paki
stan pact, and with the effort to
get Iran to join it.
The future of American air
bases in North Africa, which
carry the most direct threat
of retaliation for any Commu
nist aggression, is highly, ques
tionable as a result of the na
tionalist revolts.
The British position in pre
dominantly-Chinese Sing apore,
headquarters for all of her mili
tary force in the Far East, is
far from secure.
Some of these situations are in
herent in the fact that the world
is moving away from colonial
ism, and are being exploited by
the Communists for their own
purposes. Some, despite the pro
testations of Allied statesmen,
are being produced by Rusria’s
sweetness and light camp°.:'’,n.
Insofar as this latte-* ap
plies, Winston Churchill made
a most timely statement Mon
day:
“What improvement there may
have been during the past few
years in international affairs we
owe to the unity of the Western
world and to... a strong, bold
and united front."
If this easement continues, he
added, there may be a tendency
to drift apart again and go their
own way. That, he said, “would
surely lead sooner or later to a
catastrophe such as mankind has
never.known.’’ ..
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WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS AWAY
Public Relations Job
Takes Understanding
By Bud Hinkson
ASUO Prttidtnt
This is only the third week of
a new school year, and already
I've heard some of the same old
complaints: student criticisms of
the athletic department, the of
fice of student affairs, the eity
council, and even the faculty.
inow, per
haps some
of these
comp taints
are well
founded, but
straight ne
gative criti
cism seldom
results in
positive a c -
t i o n, and
too much of
it could be
Bud Hinkson detrimental
to the cause you are trying to
establish.
I am always glad to hear
how somebody feel* about a
problem, but I don’t like to
hear second-hand gripes which
help neither the University nor
the Individual.
The primary Job of the ASUO
is to maintain effective public
relations between the students
and related agencies, such as the
afore mentioned groups. We un
derstand that these agencies can
not an<l should not operate for our
benefit alone, but we do feel that
student opinion should be re
spected.
As an organization, we do not
want to make policy or decide
issues for Homebody else; this
we will leave to those who are
paid to perform those jobs. When
we do have a sincere Interest in
what la to be decided, we ceitain
ly will try to make this interest
known.
Hight now I am convinced
that all of the groups are
working for the same general
goal: the betterment of this
University, of this community.
We shall upon occasion dis
agree over the means of attain
ing this, but we should never lose
sight of our common purpose,
nor of the ability to cooperate to
achieve it.
With these ideas In mind, this
year’s ASUO Senate and execu
tive cabinet should go far in
giving the Btudent what he real
ly wants and needs.
Certainly a large part of our
success depends upon the atti
tude of those groups with which
we must work, but the remainder
depends upon you to express
what you want and to appreciate
what you get. Then maybe we ll
all get something worth appreci
ating.
or'eqor?
EGC5LD
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