Ike’s Tour in Far East
 Today, President Eisenhower remarked that this tour is the most controversial and potentially hazardous enterprise in his long and so far successful series of goodwill missions abroad. He planed to visit four allied countries in the turbulent Far East.
 He went to the Far East by urgent invitation from the governments of the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. All of them assured him that he would be received with the same welcome that greeted him on his memorable trips to Europe, to the Middle East, to Pakistan and India. Those visits raised his prestige and that of the United States as peacemakers in the search for “peace with justice and freedom.”
 Unfortunately, the tour to the Far East is taking place in a drastically changed world situation. It was originally planned as an extension of his projected visit to Soviet Russia, following a summit meeting. But meanwhile, the Soviets blew up the summit meeting, vetoed the visit to Russia, and unleashed vituperative Cold War propaganda against the West, particularly. This propaganda is intended to incite their “Five Columns” in the Orient into violent demonstrations and threats designed to prevent Ike’s revised tour.
 In point of fact, the U.S. President is assured of rousing welcomes in three places—the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea. Left-Wing activists, who have attempted to organize demonstrations against him in the Philippines, have fizzled out, and Manila is putting on festive garb for him. Similar preparations are being made in Taipei. South Korea’s domestic upheaval has left America’s good standing there unchanged.
 The danger spot is Japan, where for weeks Communists, Socialists, fanatical students and Labor elements have joined forces in violent demonstrations against ratification of the new American-Japanese security pact, and are against the President’s visit and against the regime of Premier Kishi, who has been held responsible for both of these situations. These demonstrations, combined with Socialist sit-down strikes, boycotts and resignations in Parliament, threaten to make a mockery of Japan’s new democracy. Japan was ruled, before the war, by a “government by assassination” from the Right politicians. The Right drove Japan into a catastrophe from which it has been rescued by the magnanimity and generosity of the American victor. Now, Japan cannot accept a government by a Left-Wing that can only deliver the country to the Communists and rob it from the freedom, which the United States has preserved for it.


The Red Rose

 Last spring a little girl bought me a lovely red rose. I planted it beside the well in my garden. When I got up in the morning, I ran to the flower first. I smell it and then I said, “Good Morning, my dear.”
 Whenever I look at the rose, she is always smiling with her beautiful red face wet from the early morning-dew, which makes her so brilliant and sweet.
 When I water the rose, she says, “I was so lonesome that I could not sleep even a wink. From now on, don’t leave me alone." I said nothing, but smiled. But in my dream at night I kissed her a thousand times, until I met her the next morning.
 Sometimes I can not sleep well at night. She wakes me up, and then I ask complainingly why she was created in this world. William Worthwords, the
English poet, sums up beautifully what I wish to say in the first four lines of his poem:
  She was a phantom of delight
  When first she gleamed upon my sight;
  A lovely apparition, sent
  To be a moment’s ornament;
 Recently, my every conscious moment is haunted by her beautiful face. I fear being alone because, then the longing in my heart will be unbearable. Before bed at night, I run to her and kiss her like an addict resorts to heroin. Then I can find the comfort of mind to sleep.
 My feeling for her is deep and strong. I would not hesitate, for one moment, to boast of it to the entire world! IT is a love that has grown paramount in all my hopes and dreams.
 My feelings for her have grown more profound with each passing day. My greatest desire is to tell her how my heart feels. But as tradition does not allow that and too many eyes are there. I have to resort to these meager means.
 If I seem to be premature, it is only because I feel that my love can not be wrong. Such a wonderful feeling that I have for her can only come from God. It must be good.
 I have dreamt of her, as I have for all my future, in such a way as I dare not speak here.
 Oh rose! Red Rose! You have made me blind and deaf. But I am content with my being blind and deaf, because I love you so much. Yes! Love is so grand and wonderful, yet a painful one.
 I will transplant it to the flower-pot and I will place it on the table in my sleeping room, so I can see her all the time.

 

Mr. Chung-Ang Born on Campus
 Kyung-Nam Kim, a Physical Education junior, was chosen as Mr. Chung-Ang at the Contest held at the University Theater on October 28 at 2:00 p.m. There were 12 contestants.
 The contest, jointly sponsored by the University Student Body and the Association of Physical Education, was to help students have the sense of physical beauty.
 Kim measures 168 cm in height, 60 kg in weight and 113 cm around the chest.
 The second prize went to Duk-Myung Hong, a Drama and Cinema senior, and Dae-Hyun Kim, a Civil Engineering sophomore, received the third prize.
 At the same contest, the Muscle prize went to Sung-Keun Choi, a Physical Education freshman. He stands 166 cm, weighs 60 kg and measures 113cm around the chest.

Choi is proud of his muscle.
 The judges were: Professor Yong-Ki Paik, Professor Ung-Chul Park, full-time instructor Kyung-Soo Kim, full-time instructor Kyung-Yong Kim, and Soo-Bok Park from the Student Guidance Office.


 

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