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Page 6 THE MAROON TIGER From The Nation’s The End Of Forebearance United Nations Notes: In the hours after President Kennedy’s decision on Cuba the inevitable pettiness of mankind appeared. The curious Goldwater conser vative party in New York produced speaker who screamed denunciation of Kennedy's weakness and de manded immediate invasion of Cuba and the military destruction of communism. Here and there in the country were persons so politically partisan and nar row of vision that they thought of the decision only in terms of politics. There were others blessed with second sight who insisted the embargo should have come much earlier. But the overwhelming reaction of most Americans was one of shock and the realistic conclusion that “it had to come; better now than to have learned of the nuclear weapons after they were in stalled and plentiful. At the United Nations the spectacle of the grim struggle between the world’s two military and economic giants attracted the minds and fears of most of man kind. Red China's momen tous aggression against India became, for time being, at least, a gory and meaning ful side show. This small war with so vast a potential previously had held all with a morbid sort of fascination. That India, the professional neutralist who had explained away her own military con quest of Goa as a moral self-interest move, is now at war with her neighbor lessened the shock of the United States-Soviet con frontation. This Asian blood letting prevents some of the more hypocritical and self- righteous opportunists in the U. N. from concentrating on the Kennedy decision. U. N. Record The United Nations was created 17 years ago. It has a record of accomplishments and of failure. It has a charter, which the Soviet Union signed, pledging mem bers against aggression. In those 17 years there has been slow erosion of the charter's principle. That Russia should in fact as sume direction of the Cuban government and staff it with military and techinal ad visers and managers and create there a nuclear strik ing base of enormous po tential is an affront not merely to the charter but to the demands of national sur vival. The United States could no longer restrain counteraction. Once Soviet nuclear bases were in fact placed permanently in Cuba and further augmented by mobile firing pads for 1,000- mile-range missiles, neither the United States nor any nation south of her would have been able long to en dure. With a base of such power in Cuba, "Castro” revolu tions would have been creat ed and supplied in Latin countries. Once a great many of these flames were rag ing they would have been quite out of the control of the United States or their own peoples. With Soviet ICBM missiles in Russia, East Germany, and in Po land, the United States and many other areas of the Western hemisphere for years have been in the enemy target. If the newer Cuban bases had been added, the position of nations in the Western hemisphere soon^spiritual splace even as the would have been doubly flanked by the ultimate power. Brazen Move It was a brazen move to so try to establish a major Soviet nuclear base that brought a patient United States to what Adlai Steven son described in the Secu rity Council as an end to the day of forbearance. Mr. Ste venson related how we watched Castro betray his own revolution into total itarianism, how he was free to join the Soviet bloc, to accept defensive weapons with impunity, and welcome thousands of Soviet techni cians and military experts. But when he turned his coun try over to the Soviet Union for a long-range missile base, then the day of forbear ance ended. So we come from /the indispitable evidence of photographs of the Russians building their bases in Cuba to the hour of decision. These photographs were shown to NATO and OAS members soon after the President’s speech; the effect was de scribed as electric. There will be no turning back. If war comes it will be one which will be horrible beyond compare, but the alternative was to sit and wait for the enemy to make world victory and enslave ment inevitable. Only that is worse than nuclear war. A Matter of Life and Death A nation is not a juxta position of individuals. It is a society based on commun ion of minds, union of hearts. India for centuries has been the mother to all those who made this country their home and helped them by providing intellectual nourishment and mother who lets each one of her children find in her the comfort that each individual ly needs. In our national concerns we adopt democracy not merely as a political ar rangement, but as a moral temper. It is of a piece with our great traditional habits of behavior. Freedom has no meaning save in the context of equality and there can be no equality without economic justice. These are not pos sessions to be defended but goals to be reached. We have often lapsed from our goals and suffered in consequence. In a mood of humility and national re pentance we should strive to correct our past mistakes, remove indignities which we have imposed on our fellow men and march forward. We cannot move into the future by walking backwards. Our way is very different today and we have to adjust ourselves to the traditional revolution which is in pro gress. It poses for us the greatest problem of our age, the matter of survival of the human race. At the same time, it pro vides a great opportunity for all us to take a moral step forward and enter into the new phase of human history. It is a question not so much of freedom or slavery, as of the life or death of ourcivili- Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Two students from Michigan were jailed when they arrived here with food, clothing, and medicine for Negroes being harassed for trying to vote. Local police said the ship- charged Donaldson and Tay lor with possession of nar cotics. Bond was set at $15,000 apiece and they were held in jail pending action by the Coahoma County grand jury. National civil rights groups began protests and legal ac tion to free them. Among those calling upon the U. S. Attorney General for help was Methodist Bis hop Edgar A. Love, Balti more, president of the Sou thern Conference Educa tional Fund (SCEF), New Or leans. SCEF was one of the groups that sponsored the relief shipment. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Atlanta, headed by Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., asked the Department of ment included narcotics do nated by doctors in Louis ville, Ky., from whence the truckload of material was sent. The physicians swore that there were no sedatives or narcotics in the truck when it left Louisville. Ivanhoe Donaldson and Benjamin Taylor, both 21, were arrested after their arrival at the Fourth Street Drug Store, operated by Aaron Henry, state NAACP president. The store is a receiving station for aid to starving people in the Delta area of Mississippi. The young men arrived at the store before it was open, so they went to sleep to wait for Henry. Police found them, took them to headquarters, and searched the truck. Officers then zation. We love life and should therefore believe in- the holiness of life. This faith would give us the strength to overcome moral inertia. We should not put national security above world security. The absolute sovereign Nation State is outmoded. Behind all na tional interests there is an irreducible minimum of values which are the posses sions of all mankind. All human beings wish to live and therefore need things which are essential for life. They wish to live well. They need certain ideas, philosophical convic tions, ethical postulates and political aspirations. All men can be freed from political subjection, econo mic slavery, and social in equalities. On the basis of community of society which will protect national values and preserve would security. If moral imperatives do not shape the pattern of our be havior, national and inter national, there will be fear for the future. Justice to investigate. Donaldson and Taylor were arrested on their second trip to Mississippi during Christmas week. They first delivered a truck- load of goods from Michigan Friends of the Student Non violent Coordinating Com mittee (SNCC), at Ann Ar bor. Donaldson and Taylor are students at Michigan State University, East Lans ing, and Donaldson works with SNCC. After delivering the first load, the two returned to Louisville to pick up food and clothing collected under auspices of SCEF; the Stud ent Nonviolent Action Com mittee (SNAC), Louisville affiliate of SNCC, and Louis ville CORE. Dr. Marshall King of Louisville had directed the gathering of medical sup plies to go along with the shipment. Dr. King said that he and a druggist checked the material carefully to make sure there were no objectional drugs. In Clarksdale, Henry said he thought the police object ed to the food and clothing as much as anything. He noted that aid to the hard- pressed Negroes here will cripple efforts of plantation owners to discourage regis tration and voting. He declared that police were looking for something to charge the students with, and “they’re using it against the total freedom move ment.” Henry said he hopes that people elsewhere will con tinue to send relief to this area, where thousands are on the verge of starvation FEBRUARY 1, 1963 Press I'M GIVING TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY THIS YEAR. MAYBE SOME YEAR IT WON'T BE NECESSARY. This space contributed by the publisher because of the voter-regis tration drive. He also asked friends everywhere to seek action by the Federal Government to aid the suf ferers and to stop harass ment of persons trying to help. “Let tons of material be the answer of the civil-rights movement to this latest harassment by Mississippi,” he said. BUSHED? STAY AWAKE TAKE ALERTNESS CAPSULES Combat fatigue almost im mediately. Keeps you alert and full of pep for hour after hour, after hour. Continuous Action Capsules. Completely safe Non-habit forming NO PRESCRIPTION NEEDED