THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 5, 1964
Will Eagle Fly;
Or Crayfish Crawl
As said earlier, we do not believe that this is a char
acteristic of a particular political party. More frig-htening - ,
it is an attitude of the American people—many who were
present at some of the tragic battles mentioned above. We
don’t know what has brougiit about this attitude. We are
just as lost for a way in which to reverse this trend.
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
TWO CHINAS
Could it be only a matter of time before the majestic
eagle clasping lightning and olive branches is replaced by
a muddy, slimy crayfish backing and snapping the air harm
lessly with his pinchers?
The United States is getting so much in the habit of
making concessions to every government that has a voice,
that the aggressive eagle is no longer representative of this
nation’s practical foreign policies. How long can this country
continue to back before it backs itself into a corner?
We don’t know. But we do know that this policy of
concede and then concede more is not the “stuff” that this
nation was developed with—or the history books have
deceived us.
It would be nothing short of silly to attempt to blame
a particular party or administration with this idea that we
must do everything possible to stay in the good with every
group of revolutionaries that have the nerve to call them
selves a government. This would only mean that we are
still turning our back on the real problem. That problem—
the United States government and the majority of its people
are afraid that this country might offend someone.
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Sometime, some way in the past two decades we have
gotten the idea that in order to successfully compete with
the Soviet Union the United States must befriend more
nations and receive their blessings, regardless of their atti
tude toward the U. S., than the Russians do.
We won’t believe that it is necessary for the U. S.
to accept insults with nothing more than a strong formal
protest, a few words before the United Nations and then
Reds, Nationalists Contend
For All World Recognition
concessions to the insulting governments that threatens to
lean left. If we must purchase the friendship of some nation
for such a price, then we question if that nation’s friendship
is worth the price.
“ In. my opinion it would be terrible for us to go totally
co-ed! Awful! But if it’s goin’ to happen, I sure hope it
happens while I’m still here!”
We can’t read a report of a demonstration before a U. S.
embassy building, concessions made to rioting mobs in states
that the U. S. has developed, and most of all the lack of
respect shown the flag of the United States of America,
without having names like The Bulge, Omaha Beach, Anzio
Beach and Heart Break Ridge run through our mind. All
were places where American men demanded respect for their
flag and the “Yankee” way of life. They weren’t afraid of
making some “nobody” angry. More likely they were afraid
of dying, but they died just the same.
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Even today we have American men dying in what is
diplomatically called “brush wars” of other nations. Our
dead men were serving only as advisers to one or another
nation that someone has decided we must have for a friend.
However, we do feel that Gen. Charles de Gaulle might
have a good chance of becoming Number 1 in what is
generally (very generally) referred to as the western world.
That is, de Gaulle’s chances are good if the U. S. continues
to give away its position.
It is time to stop. If we wish to remain the world leader
we are we must once again take on the attitude of a leader.
It will also be necessary that we accept the fact that a
leading nation will make those who follow it angry. But
that leader can not remain leader by making concessions.
We must always remember that even the eagle, which
carries lightning as well as olive branches, has angry enemies
—but they respect its might.
Walking back from class on
Tuesday, I was just about to
step out into the intersection of
Houston and Ross by the Fish
Pond, when I was suddenly sur
prised by the sound of a 54 Ford
roaring down upon me. I prac
tically fell back on the curb
just in time to catch a face-full
of water and to hear the car’s
horn after it was 30 yards on
down the road.
I might be able to take some
thing like that if it was the
exception around the A&M cam
pus rather than the rule. I know
of many instances and I am sure
that everyone else on this cam
pus knows of many instances
when they have been forced to
step back on the curb or run for
their lives to avoid being run
down by a student’s wife rush
ing to pick up her husband for
dinner of fish Jones trying to
get back to the new area for
noon formation.
The drivers who frequent the
A&M campus seem to have the
idea that the streets are their
playground and that pesdestrians
are people to be scared and then
laughed at when they climb a
street light.
Many a student drops his gears
into low and goes roaring off
down Military Walk leaving be
hind a cloud of burnt oil and
rubber. This may seem like
“good bull” to many but the day
is coming when we will have to
have observe Silver Taps for
some poor unsuspecting soul that
stepped out in their path.
Campus traffic regulations
state that “the maximum speed
on the campus is 30 miles per
hour, except vehicles will be driv
en at a speed of not more than
20 miles per hour in the main
campus area and the family
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housing areas.” The regulations
also state that pedestrians have
the right-of-way at all times and
that between classes, drivers
“must be extremely cautious and
when necessary come to a com
plete stop to protect the pedes
trian.”
The University of Texas has
practically these same regula
tions on their campus except for
one exception. They seem to
observe them. Before the A&M-
Texas game, my sweet young
thing got quite a kick out of me
as I hid behind a foadside bush
and prepared to sprint for my
life accross the main street in
front of Littlefield Fountain.
She laughted at me and drag
ged me out in front of an ap
proaching car which immediately
came to a stop in front of us.
I would hate to try something
like that on the A&M campus.
What is the solution on our
campus? I can’t really say that
I know for sure although it
wouldn’t hurt most people to
thing a little about what might
happen if traffic regulations con
tinue to be flaunted.
By ROY ESSOYAN
TAIPEI, Formosa 6P) — Two
Chinas as dissimilar as David
and Goliath are contending for
world recognition.
They will be fighting it out for
a United Nations seat late this
year.
The prospects for Red China
a hungry and aggressive giant
among nations, will be some
what improved if its current
embarrasing diplomatic muddle
over relations with France is
cleared up.
But Nationalist China, trim
and spry on its tiny island
stronghold of Formosa, still has
a slingshot full of pellets.
The slingshot is made in the
U. S. A., Formosa’s main sup
port. The United States will be
in Formosa’s corner helping
round up additional support for
Nationalist China’s seat in the
United Nations.
Paris and Peking got off to a
poor start when they announced
establishment of diplomatic re
lations Jan. 27 without clarifying
how it would affect the thorny
“two-Chinas” concept, according
to which both Chinas have ada
mantly refused to maintain re
lations with any government rec
ognizing the other.
There’s an Alice in Wonder
land quality about the whole sit
uation.
Two Chinas have been an op
erating fact of life on the world
stage since the Chinese Commu
nists drove Nationalist China’s
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
and his battered armies off the
mainland 14 years ago, and
Chiang established himself on
Formosa, 100 miles off the China
coast.
Since then Chiang and Commu
nist China’s party chief Mao Tze-
tung each have claimed to be
the only true and legal repre
sentative of China. Red China
and Nationalist China operate in
a vacuum as far as relations be
tween them are concerned.
effective as on the mainlati
Red China dwarfs Formosa in
size, population and military
strength, F o r m o s a’s 14,000
square miles cover less than
half of one per cent of China’s
vast area. Its population is 12
million compared to Red Chi
na’s 700 million. Though For
mosa has proportionately more
men under arms — 600,000 -
than any other country, it can
not compare with Peking’s 2.6
million-man army.
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has been pumped in by the Unit
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be a lot healthier if some of the
oriental Red tape were swept
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was founded, is still economical
ly sick and frequently hungary,
mainly because its leaders have
kept it isolated and because the
incentive and initiative of its
hundreds of millions of peasants
have been stifled by rigid Com
munist dogma.
Life in both Chinas is strict
ly controlled. The control in For
mosa is not as total, rigid and
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