VOLUME XXXVll NUMBER 4 NEWS ETTFR ITnAca Ny MARCH ,951 Lincoln-TA Exchange- PROPOSAL FOR BRANCH APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED FOR 1951-52 AT OLMSTED REJECTED Applications for the Lincoln Colle e - Telluride Asso- ciation exchange scholarship for 1951-22 are now invited. QUARTERS NOT AVAILABLE Gregory Votaw, the present American scholar in the Negotiations between Telluride exchange, has written from England that he is endeavoring Association and the Utah Power and to obtain other financial means of continuing his studies Light Company, which have been ac- at Oxgord in order to free the position for other candi- tively pursued by direction of the dates. 1950 Convention with the object of relocating our primary branch at Candidates for the scholarship should have : Olmsted, Utah, ended wsuccessful- 1. at least one year of training under the.auspices of ly with the receipt early in March Telluride Association or Deep Springs of a statement from the Power Corn- 2. sufficient academic advancement to work fruitfully at pany explaining their inability to the graduate level consider such a proposal under 3. single status. present conditions. The idea of re-establishing Keith A. H. Murray, Rector of Lincoln College, has re- an ported that Lincoln probably will not designate anyone as Association branch in the old In- the English scholar in the exchange for the coming year. stitute Building in Provo Canyon, This tentative decision has been reached because the Lin- one-time center of Telluride In- coln College committee felt that the present panel of ap- stitute activities and forerunner plicants did not provide anyone of the particularly high of the present Association, has calibre that Lincoln feels should be implicit in the ex- been current in TA circles for change. .some time. It was only last year that, faced with the eventual ne- Forms for application are available from Chancellor cessity of moving our primary branch from its present location Johnson, and must be filed with the Chancellor by May 15 for consideration by the Lincoln College Exchange commit- in Pasadena, discuss ions conducted tee and the Convention committee which will make the final with officials of the UP&L Co. recommendation to Convention. gave rise to the hope that a move to Olmsted might actually be feas- The exchange scholarship plan was organized ln 1949 ible. and is further expression of relations between the two in- stitutions which have extended over many years. The schol- At the suggestion of the Pow- arships at Lincoln and at Telluride House in Ithaoa are er Company, an Association cmit- for board, room, and tuition, and are normally expected to tee headex b James R. Withrow,Jr. run for a two-year period, subject to satisfactory perfor- drew up an lbpage proposal for mance. The policy of the Association requires that the submission to the Company. It ex- American scholar in the exchange should be of the highest plained in detail the history of possible quality. the association*^ educational work, its present operations, and the The present English scholar on the exchange is Peter program proposed for a branch at Parker, who is studying at the School of Industrial and Olmsted. Labor Relations at Cornell. Parker, who was graduated from Oxford in 1950, intends to return to England this In rejecting the proposal for summer, and will not be back next year. the present, President Q.M. Gadsby cited the increase in the Power Company' s activities near the Olm- sted Plant and explained that this PREFERMENT WOTICE had forced such a crowding of the All persons who plan to apply to the 1951 Con- buildings in the area (including vention for preferment in any form should write the the Institute Building which is Chancellor at once for information and blanks. Mem- used in part today for the housing bers and non-memb-rs alike should mail their formal of several employee families applications for preferment as soon as possible. the space was even inadequa1 e that for . their own use. TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER NEW FUNDS REPORT ROBERT F GATJE EDITOR AS of the 15th of March, receipts from the current New Funds Drive totaled approximately $6,700 of the $10,000 goal AssoclATEs CURTIS KARPLUS established by the 1950 Convention. Several area reports H E LMUT W BOEN H E I M are still incomplete and the Drive is by no means over, but even if the present rate of new contributions is maintained PUBLISHED IN ITHACA NY until June, receipts will probably not exceed $7,500 in BY TELLUR~DE ASSOC~AT,O~ pledges and cash by the opening of this yearcs Convention. FAR EASTERN POLICY REPORT d"ing the past three years* 8) The Communist-led terrorists in pros- By G. William Skinner perous Malaya do not have widespread popular Several salient features of the situation su port, but are aided by the jungle terrain in East Asia should f lrst be mentioned before ani by the lack of government protection for offering tentative suggest ions with regard to isolated Chinese farmers, who consequently American Far Eastern policy. must cooperate with the terrorists. goes the way 1) The ltimnutable Eastt1 is a fantasy. The 9) While the Quirino regime entire region, from North China to Indonesia, the Chinese Kuomintang* the is in social and nationalistic ferment, end Hukbalahaps are gaining eff ective leadership the concomitant chan~es- are revolutionary in the philippine their rapidity. 10) The government of Indonesia, in many ways unequal to the challenge of independence, 2) There is now no politicalalternative to the communists I N~~ D~~~~~~~~ on the nonetheless has vigorous nationalist support. mainland. The Kuomintang reghi, whose power was based on entrepreneurs interested primari- 11) Finally, it should be remarked that ly .in imediate and on landlords con- a11 of Southeast Asia 1s a dependent area: cerned only with preserving the agrarian sta- Only with aid from outside can tus quo, was completely dlscredlted before its flight to Formosa. ;~~~t:~:n~f~~Zta~i~~~P~~~~:~~~~E~~~~~.~~~- 3) The Peking regime is basing its domes- Given the situation inadequately summar- tic policy on Marxism-Leninism, which in oper- ized here, what course should America take in ation precludes many Western goals and values, its East Asiatic policy? There is no polfit in and its foreign policy on the principle of attempting the impossible. We cannot over- "leaning to one side," i.e., coordination with throw the Peking regime nor win its true, the Soviet Union. friendship with the United States, and we can- not create an qti-Communist block of South- 4) The clique which the 0. S. favored in east Asian countries who will stand in the South Korea maintained its tenuous power by front line agains t cormnunis t aggression. We attracting all Koreans with vested' interests can, however, aim realistically at effecting in various aspects of the old social structure, maximum Chinese independence of Moscow and at while the. clique In the North favored by the enabling Southeast Asia to do without Commun- USSR consolidated its power by- capturinn- - and ism and Russia. directing revolutionary forces. As for China, it would appear that the U. S. has little to lose and possibly much to 5, The regime In Vietnam is gain by recognizing the Peking regim? and not sentially a French pu~pet;it can gain wide-"- blocking its admissionto the N. Recogni- spread support Only by taking for get- tion will greatly increase the reliability of ting the French out of Indochina. our intellinence and the audience for our Pro- 6) The Philbul government of Thailand, paganda and; above all, will open up new pos- while unenlightened and totalitarian in many sibilities for political maneuvers to weaken respects, has widespread popular support. Chinese ties with the USSR. In bargainlng with the Chinese, we should make full use of 7) The Union goverrynent of Burma, left- the fact that Formosa is virtually at our dis- wing in political coloring, has gained consid- posal (though its fate had best be settled in erable pres tige by defeating the various in- tthe U. H.), that we are in a position to end surgent groups that challenged the governmen3 the drain on the Chinese economy resulting from the Korean war, and that we alone can of- BILL SKINNER ha6 jurt returned from a yeer in China f er enough capital, equipment, and goods to under the Commnirtr and a mbrequent tour of Southeart enable China to raise quickly the economic le- Amia. He is Field Director of the Southeart Aeia Pro- vel of its populace. By aiding the National- gram conducted by the Dept. of Sociolo,cy and Anthropo- ists, on the other hand, we crystalize anti- logy of Cornell Univereity on a grant from the Rocke- American sentiment in China and, if anything, fe$ler Foundation. Bill attended Deep Spring8 in 1942-3 weaken the strength or our own position. Even and war elected to Association memberehip in 19.46. He if advisable, reconquest of China by the Kuo- returnr to the Phr East thin mummer with hie bride, the mintang would be impossible. former Mire Carol Bagger. PAGE TWO TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER Economic aid is the key to our Southeast Asia policy, but it must be administered with DEEP SPRINGS NOTES certain aims in mind and according to clearly def ined pr lnciples . We should encourage the By Miles C. Everett production of commodities which bring in for- eign exchange and of basic consumer goods The biggest event of recent weeks has which now must be imported in large q~antities. been the arrival of Commodore William G.