PAGE FOUR
Editorial Opinion
Khrushchev May Have
Overacted Summit Role
As if he were starring in a Hollywood stereophonic,
Todd-A-0 super colossus, Nikita Khrushchev pushed his
summit performance to the limit yesterday in an attempt
to hi mg down the curtain at the beginning of the first act
and expecting a thunderous ovation for his Soviet stage
The portly, bald-headed thespian changed the script,
however, from the usual "cast of thousands" to a cast of
one with an audience of millions.
Climaxing his soliloquy in appropriate fashion,
Khrte,lichev made the most natural exhortation expected
of an avowed atheist. With outstretched hands he whim
pered. "As God is my witness, my hands are clean and my
soul is pure."
The communist chief took full advantage of inept U.S.
blunders of the past week to influence his captive audience
that the full blame for current international tensions rests
with the U. S.
Not allowing even the Big Four meeting to remain
sacrosanct, the master strategist played it to the hilt with
but one aim in mind—to pile up as great a propaganda
advantage as possible.
Often portrayed in the American press as a buffoon or
clown, Khrushchev donned the high hat and tails of the
ringmaster and literally turned the meeting into a farcical
three-ring circus.
And in the eyes of uneasy millions who awaited the
results of this summit conference with bated breath, the
Russians' top box office attraction may be guilty of
overacting.
For it was he that clamored for the summit meeting
all last year while the U. S. remained cool to the idea. He
was the one who was not satisfied with lower level con
fei ences but maintained that the only way any meaning
ful agreements could be reached would be at a council of
the Big Four chiefs.
And then when the fateful day arrived he proved that
his primary interests were not in reaching or even at
tempting to reach solutions to any of the critical issues that
face the divided World today but only to squeeze out every
drop of anti-U. S. sentiment.
He betrayed the professed goal of his own long-sought
summit conference and subverted it to a base propoganda
SOUI ce.
It hardly appears that the U. S. or any other nation
for that matter, will be receptive to his pleas for a delayed
conference some six or eight months hence or place much
faith in his acting in the interests of peace then.
As for Eisenhower's canceled trip to the Soviet Union,
the President will probably use the time to extend his
visits to Asian countries. Khrushchev succeeded in cut
ting off one of the U. S.'s best offensives—the popular
appeal of Eisenhower—to the USSR. But in this age of
globe-trotting diplomacy it will be just as important to
utilize that appeal in Asia.
Khrushchev is not as dedicated to the Communist
theory that communism can be built upon the ruins of
capitalism as Stalin or Mao Tse-tung. He does not want
war. But the U. S. diplomatic corps from lowest to highest
echelon must sharpen its tactics for it is dealing with one
of the most cunning minds seen in modern history.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Letters
Grad Protests
Cutting of Plank
On Prejudice
TO THE EDITOR: Thursday's
Collegian reported the Campus
party has dropped the anti-dis
rimmation plank from its plat
form The reason stated was that
the issue is "personal, rather than
one on which SGA could express
the opinion of the entire student
body."
Of course this reason is a legi
timate one: certain issues are per
sonal, and are not ones on which
any government may give a prop
er opinion,
The merits of the Pittsburgh
Pirates, the appeal of Picasso's
art, the desirability of Marilyn
Monroe, whether or not Bermuda
shorts look good on knobby knees,
my mother's cooking all are
subjects dear to my heart I
would rise in revolt against any
government purporting to repre
sent me in these matters.
But these are matters of taste
and inclination they are cer
tainly not within the realm of
governmental activity. The realm
of government is to express and
enforce those ideas which would
be ineffectual if left to individual
action.
And the issue of discrimination
in the nation, and in State Col
lege, Pa ,does fall within this
realm. Discrimination and preju
dice are particularly ugly forms
of stupidity, having painful re
percussions upon a large segment
of the American population. Such
stupidity exists, unfortunately, in
State College: any SGA assembly
which fails to recognize its exis
tence is merely sticking its head
in the sand.
When a political party has its
members elected upon the
strength of a given platform, and
then proceeds to rescind portions
of that platform, it is exhibiting
embarrassing immaturity. The
time to amend platforms is before
elections, not after.
To claim that the anti-discrim
ination plank does not represent
the entire student is false logic
carried to its most expedient end.
Representatives were elected on
their platforms their platforms
obviously expressed the opinion
of the voters. Shouldn't SGA en
force those opinions?
—Stanley Jernow,
Graduate Student
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Interpretin
U.S. to Be Blamed
For Paris Crisis
By I M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The world is going to blame the United States for the
Paris crisis despite the appearance that Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev is merely seeking more time to exploit the
propaganda weapon handed him through the U 2 American
spy plane incident.
Indeed, there was some reason for believing all along - that
Khrushchev, faced by an unyield
ing Allied position on Berlin,
would aim primarily at putting
the blame for continued world
tension on the West. Hope for any
meaningful easement had dwin
dled long before the May Day
flight.
Then Khrushchev was given the
opportunity to take a position
against the United States which
any country
would have tak
en under similar
c i re u m stances.
But he did have
a choice.
He could have
passed up the
U 2 opportunity
if his interest in
lessening te n -
sions at the sum
mit and end- ROBERTS
ing the flights that way had
been transeendant
It was becoming obvious by the
end of last week that the United
States would have to drop the
flights because of the attitude of
her Allies if for no other reason.
To have continued them in the
face of the Soviet ultimatum
Letters
Frosh Speaks on Apathy
TO THE EDITOR: Dear Mr. T.ew
is (re letter, Saturday's Collegian),
thank you so very much for re
plying to the letter which I wrote
and was presented on Friday.
However, I do feel that the sar
casm and barbs which were prev
alent in your answer were un
called for. You seem to take my
original contention of general
apathy as personal insult, or as
an insult to the men in the Nit
tany dorms. How very wrong you
are.
Speaking of the only dorm with
which I am relatively familiar
(Nittany 29), I can say that I
have never seen such comradeship
among an .independent group of
men. It is because I admit to this
that I feel that these men deserve
much more than what they are
getting.
While again misinterpreting
my original thesis, you seem to
think that a good average equals
an intellectual. Of course, a good
average can indicate intelligence,
Jr. Residence
TO THE EDITOR: I was one of
those so-called "leaders" who
heard Dean Lipp speak last Tues
day evening about her new policy
at Penn State. Since I am a fresh
man, I am not familiar with the
old regulations of women, but
I think most of us will agree that
the changes being made are almost
worth a note in the Penn State
history books.
It occurred to me as Dean Lipp
spoke that the women on this
campus who protest the most
against her policies are so ambiv
alant in their thinking it is a
wonder they can remain hero at
all.
Are we so weak that we cannot
accept out situation and adjust to
it? We are supposed to be women,
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would have been provocation be
yond the realm of calculated risk,
and would have created a world
storm.
If President Eisenhower had an
nounced discontinuance of the
flights before reaching Paris,
Khrushchev might have been
thrown off balance and the world
would have accepted it as a ges
ture to save the conference. As
it is, it appears to have come too
late to prevent a break between
Khrushchev and Eisenhower.
Khrushchev, as late as last
week, was talking about bypass
ing the U 2 incident at the sum
mit and promising to negotiate
there in good faith. But that
would have stopped the tide of
Allied and neutral criticism of the
United States, something that
finally proved too good for him
to give up.
HOSPITAL
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Schmitt, Keith Straley, Carole Sweeney.
Hon arc( Warren, Evelyn Wilson.
but, actually, what is intelligence?
If you consider a man an intellec
tual merely because his average
is good, you are greatly mistaken.
To memorize facts and figures
doesn't require a vast amount
of physical and mental exertion,
but, however, to be able to ad
judicate on these facts, to inter
pret clearly, to read widely, to
converse intelligently, and to
broaden oneself through contact
with life and people does.
This is the principal core of
my argument. For I believe that,
in general, the student becomes
so engrossed in his required books
that he forgets the world about
him.
This is why I have taken the
time to answer your letter. I'm
glad to see you angry, since it il
lustrates that, unlike many, you
are more than a mere mass of
protoplasm. Whether we agree or
disagree is irrelevant. We are
thinking that is enough.
—Regina Vassalotti, '63
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not blubbering children who pro
test just for exercise.
Let's give our dean a chance.
She is human and might make
a few small mistakes, but let us
all learn together; this is what
college is for.
The new resident counselor
plan is a good one. It probably
will take time to get started and
working efficiently but as long as
there are veople willing to work
on it, it will succeed.
Too of ten we criticize the work
of other people without the
slightest notion of helping out.
If we want to be treated like
adults then let's' act maturely.
Basically this mature attitude is
all we need for effective commu
nication.
—Lillian Dawson, '63
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