Elections Suspicious

"Syngman Rhee wasn't even living in Korea before the election and was forced down the peoples' threat. The election was suspicious. But there's no doubt that North Korea is the aggressor, and Russia is in with them."

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, called U. N. action "the most fortunate thing for peace in the world. There's no doubt that the Korean trouble was started by Russian aggression."

"We must continue to press for rearmament of the world as the only way to avert war," he added. "But this must be conducted in an atmosphere of affirmative social objectives such as the Fair Deal in America and the Labor Government in Great Britain."

"This war should be conducted by the U.N. and not by the United States," was the one statement that Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor, wanted to make. But he implied that the U.N. is correct in waging a war against aggression.

Plan Boomeranged

Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economics, also approved of U.N. intervention. "It seems quite clear," he said, "that the whole thing was engineered by the Soviets. It appears that they supplied tanks to the North Koreans and trained troops.

"Now the thing has boomeranged. It started mobilization both here and in Western Europe." By acting sweetly, Harris said, "the Russians are now trying to get out of it."

This is the fourth in a series of stories orienting the University against a war background. The first three articles covered left-wing clubs, faculty views on the Far East, and the new anti-Communist law. Economic mobilization and Western Germany will be the topics for two of the future features.