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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1952
Three Important Events
This Week Affect Everyone
rrms WEEK is filled with three major
events.
Heading the list is, of course, the start
of a 15-day Christmas recess. But before
the holidays begin, two other prominent
events are scheduled.
These are:
• Giving of blood—Wednesday with a
200 pint goal which must be met.
• The Air Force and Army football game
—Thursday in Kyle Field, with proceeds
needed to replenish the depleted Student Aid
Fund.
No one will have to worry about the stu
dents starting their holidays on time, but the
other two days are everyones concern.
The blood donation drive at A&M always
has proved successful with more than enough
students volunteering. However, this time
about 45 more pint-pledges are needed to as
sure the completion of the goal.
Ike Closer
To White House
IT’S OFFICIAL now.
Gen. Eisenhower is President - elect.
Eisenhower will not be the 33rd President
but the 34th, according to the Eisenhower-
Nixon Inaugural committee.
They explained it thusly: “Grover Cleve
land served two terms separated by four
years, so Eisenhower will be the 33rd man to
be President. Government reference books
list President Truman as the 33rd President,
but the official program for his inauguration
in 1949 called him the 32nd. So, Ike will be
listed in the program as the 34th, correcting
the erroneous count.”
If you are confused, here are the official
figures on the final election returns. Eisen
hower defeated Stevenson by 6,616,233 votes
in the record-smashing 61,547,861 ballots
cast. The national count was:
Eisenhower. 33,927,549
Stevenson 27,311,316
Others 308,996
Votes cast yesterday by the Electoral
College showed Eisenhower carrying 3 9
states with 442 electoral votes and Stevenson
won only nine states with 89.
The total vote broke the previous record
of 1940 by 11,727,549, and exceeded the 1948
aggregate by 12,859,572. Thirty-nine of
the states showed a better than 70 per cent
turnout.
Texas voted 53.1 per cent Republican ov
er the 24.6 GOP votes cast in the 1948 elec
tions. Of the total 2,076,846 votes cast,
1,102,878 were for Eisenhower and 970,128
were for Stevenson.
Texans cast 929,601 votes more in 1952
than in 1948. Only the inauguration cere
monies which will be held Jan. 20 remain be
fore Eisenhower takes the No. 1 hot seat in
the United States. From then on, it’s Pres
ident Eisenhower.
One company pledged 100 per cent, but
some men are being rejected because they
have given before. Other units'have failed
to turn in their pledge list.
The 12th Man Bowl football game, the
first of its kind here in many years, has the
support of students who are playing in the
game, but spectators also will be needed to
make it a success. Besides the benefits
which will be derived by students when the
aid fund is reactivated, they also will be al
lowed to miss drill by attending the per
formance.
Help make both events a success. Your
participation will benefit everyone concerned
—that means you.
SLC Selections
Fair and Proper
^TWENTY-THREE seniors were named last
night to Who’s Who in American Col
leges and Universities from A&M by the Stu
dent Life Committee.
Operating under new regulations and se
lection system, the committee deliberated
critically in picking the men who they felt
represented A&M as Who’s Who.
Under an amendment from last year to
the SLC Constitution, only students who had
been enrolled at A&M for 6 semester (or four
semesters for transfers) were eligible for
the award. In the greater number of cases,
students now classified as juniors were inel
igible.
By tradition some persons selected to
Who’s Who may not be thought as such.
Yet, the committee named 17 corps and six
non-corps to the honor which showed a prop
er and fair representation of all seniors.
The committee should be commended for
their work.
•
“The ivisest may always leami
something from the humblest peas
ant.”—J. P. Senn.
Europe for Defense,
War Still Continues
TPHE WORLD continues to strive for peace
in the Far East while in Europe military
leaders of the Atlantic Alliance agree to use
atomic weapons in planning its defense.
Also included in the strategic, defense
plan of Europe is the possible use of West
German and Yugoslav armed forces and
forming a new Naval command in the Med
iterranean.
The disturbing factor is that while na
tions are quick and eager to band and form
defenses, few show the same vigor in trying
for peace. Casualties in Korea continue to
mount with no solution visible on the hori
zon.
GIVE A PINT OF BLOOD WEDNESDAY
U.S. Offers New Policy of
"No Compromise in Korea’
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Dec.
16 — (A 5 ) — The United States last
night laid down a “no compromise”
policy on a Korean truce and serv
ed notice it cannot see any purpose
in sending fresh plans to the Reds
for settling the prisoner of war
issue.
“The responsibility for whether
there shall be peace in Korea
clearly lies with the Chinese Com
munists and North Korean authori
ties and their supporters,” the
State Department said in an offi
cial statement after Red China re
jected the U. N. plan for ending
the Korean War.
The United States statefhent
came as U. N. delegates studied
carefully the blunt rejection by
Red China of the U. N. Assembly’s
Korean peace plan and Peiping’s
stiff counter-proposals.
The terms laid down by the Chi
nese Reds are identical to those
put forward earlier by Russia’s
Andrei Y. Vishinsky and rejected
by the Assembly in a one-sided
vote.
U. S. Must Lead
Their study was being made
against the background of U. S.
President-designate Eisenhower’s
statement on Korea that “we must
go ahead and do things that in
duce the others to want peace
also.”
A British spokesman quickly
followed with a statement that the
Chinese refusal “raises serious
problems which will require care
ful consideration by her majesty’s
government.”
He promised that Britain will
continue to stand by the U. S. in
Korea in maintaining issues of
principle, with the hope that
“some way around this deadlock”
can. be found.
France called the answer “de
structive of ’hope.”
The U. S. said it regretted the
Chinese Communists “flouted” the
views of the Assembly and again
rejected peace in Korea.
“The United States government
reaffirms its determination to con
tinue to fulfill its responsibilities
in Korea,” the U. S. statement
concluded.
Ike Discusses
European Unity
With Advisors
NEW YORK, Dec. 16--(7P)
—President-elect Eisenhower,
just back trom his Korean
“look and learn” trip, plunged
yesterday into talks on Euro
pean unity against communism.
Eisenhower conferred with John
L. McCloy, former United States
high commissioner in Germany,
and John Foster Dulles, who will
be his secretary of state.
The nature of the talks indica
ted the President-elect was weigh
ing whatever plans he might have
concerning Korea with the rest of
the world picture.
McCloy, who lunched with Eis
enhower and Dulles, said “we talk
ed about the steps that might be
taken in relation to European uni
ty, a subject we have all been en
gaged in and interested in for a
number of years.”
Subjects Covered
Asked if West German rearma
ment was discussed, McCloy said
“not particularly, except in rela
tion to other things.”
The talks covered “a wide va
riety” of subjects, McCloy said.
McCloy was high commissioner
in the former enemy country for
three years marked by tension be
tween Soviet Russia and the West,
with Berlin as the focal point. He
retired last August.
McCloy is slated to become
chairman of the board of the Chase
National Bank on Jan. 19, suc
ceeding Winthrop Aldrich, whom
Eisenhower has designated as am
bassador to Great Britain.
Words—Unimpressive
There was no amplification frorj
Eisenhower’s headquarters on hii
statement yesterday, as his plan*
arrived from Korea, that the en
emy would not be impressed bj
words “but only by deeds—execu
ted under circumstances of our
own choosing.”
Nor was any date announced for
his expected meeting with Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, former Far
Eastern commander who was fired
by President Truman.
James C. Hagerty, Eisenhower’s
press secretary, said only that the
meeting would not be held today.
MacArthur said recently there
was a “clear and definite solu
tion” to the Korean fightipg, and
Eisenhower messaged to MacAr
thur an expression of interest.
By Walt Kelly
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