| Summary: | Page 4 THE CONCORDIAN November 10, 1967 One of the Works of David West, a scuiuture entitled "Pensive," is currently showing at the Berg Art Center. Wright's Clarinet Sounds Off David E. Wright, clarinetist, will appear in a Concordia faculty-recital Friday, Nov. 10, at 8:15 p.m. in the Hvidsten Recital Hall. His first two numbers, both for clarinet and piano, are Pou-lenc's "Sonata (1962)" and Brahms' "Sonata, Op. 120, No. 2." John Mclntyre, artist-in-residence at Concordia, will be at the piano. Following the intermission Wright will be assisted by Mclntyre and soprano Jane Scheicher in "Parto! Ma Tu Ben Mio, K. 621," by Mozart. He will then perform "Sonata for Solo Clarinet (1933)" by John Cage. The concluding number is "Ritmo Jondo (1952)" for clarinet, trumpet and percussion by Carlos Sumach. Assisting Wright will be J. Robert Hanson, trumpet, and a student percussion group in-cluding Cheryl Alswager, Dale Stevens, Charles Jensvold, Shirley Anderson, Michael Crary, and Judy Pennings. Wright will also perform in a chamber-music recital on Feb. 16. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (CPS) — The perspective of an East European Communist is unique: he takes a critical view of both East and West. He is very critical of the much more dogmatic Chinese Commu-nists and, to a lesser extent, of his Soviet comrades. And, of course, he has a critical outlook on Western capitalism. Part of the reason for this real-ism is that he is in contact with much more moderate Commu-nists in Italy and France who have a working knowledge of the machinations of the bour-geois state. And Eastern Europe is undergoing a Marxist kind of renaissance. The basic doc-trines are being examined, often modified, sometimes discarded completely, by men accustomed to critical thinking, like Adam Schaff of Poland, Ivan Sviiakof of Czechoslovakia, and others. Dr. Egan Busch, editor of Mez-inarodni Politica, a magazine of political commentary published by the Czechoslovakian Commu-nist Party, is such a Communist. He says that "Never has a foreign policy issue had so much importance here as does the Viet Nam war." With the exception of normal diplomatic relations (which have not been broken), the Czech gov-ernment is not receiving any prominent Americans in any of-ficial way. When U. S. Chief Justice Earl Warren was in Prague recently to lecture on the American constitutional sys- Steve d'Araxien tern, he was greeted by the min-ister of justice, an unusually sub-ordinate official to welcome a man of Warren's stature. And when Richard Nixon was in Prague he got no welcome at all. "Individual contacts are being made," Busch says, "but there is no official contact at all. It is almost a subconscious process/* Busch says Czech political -an-alysts see Republican nomina-tion of a Vietnam dove in 1968. He says this is the logical re-sponse to the fact that U. S. prestige is at an all-time low in Europe (standing on a metro platform in Paris, I was de-nounced as an assassin) and that America should realize that "no act taken by De Gaulle has help-ed (French) prestige as much as the pullout of Algiers, especially among the under - developed countries. And Algeria was re-garded as a part of France." Busch says anti-communism is not "a religion, more like an anti-religion or a creed." To be perfectly frank, I would say for many years Communism was a creed, not a political opinion, in the Soviet Union. But Commu-nism is supposedly based on sci-ence. "America has such an emo-tional reaction to Communism that she hasn't a chance of un-derstanding. Anti - Communism grew in two big steps. After World War I it did not differ from the reaction in Europe. But after the Second World War, anti-Communism in Europe de-veloped in a classical way. But not in the United States," he stated. Because this weekend is designated as Sadie Hawkin's weekend, the Kappa Psis are having a pizza party for the Sigma Psis tonight at Tom's pizza beginning at 6:00 p.m. Take a study break! Go to Normandy Night sponsored by the 10th & Main Avenue—Moorhead How do East Europeans feel about China? "The American fear is not a realistic assessment of China/' Busch says. "For fifty years you have been poisoned by prejudice (against the Soviet Union).When the menace proves to be not as expected, you find another fear. Here people are upset about China, but not frightened. One day the Chinese will find out all this is idiotic. This is not Communism, not Marxism . . . People here are inclined to make jokes." "I believe that if America had normal contact with China, she couldn't do what she is doing. It's like Stalinism. If there were not so much isolation, there could not be so much distor-tion," he added. As Busch sees the world, the essential division is, as the Chi-nese assert, between rich na-tions and poor, between citified nations and^agrarian nations. But he does not agree with the Chi-nese that the way to eliminate the differences is through vio-lence. "The essence of revolu-tion is change, not violence," he emphasized. Unfortunately the distance be-tween the rich and poor is in-creasing. He believes the best way to deal with the situation is for the two blocs to cooperate in helping the third world. "We must get together and develop a program* The Chinese have a program for the world. We don't/' Busch stated. Meanwhile in Czechoslovakia young people are demanding more freedom and are looking to the West for new models. "Young people don't understand our system of one party govern-ment. They say, 'In the United States there are two parties.' Why, they don't realize, in Czechoslovakia we used to have ten or twenty parties." Tension between militant young people and moderate par-ty members like Busch is in-creasing. With loosened restric-tions on travel, young East Eur-opeans are traveling all over Europe, talking to Provos in Holland and New Leftists in England. When the magazine of the Writers Union was recent-ly taken over by the Party in a dispute over what can and can-not be said in Czechoslovakia, and was transferred to other hands, they were upset. And they want to know what to do. One thing is certain, with the increased tourism that the Party wants for financial rea-sons, not much can long remain the same in Eastern Europe. Birdites Announce Total War on U. S. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CPS)—The independent repub-lic of Bird Island, situated in the middle of a city lake here, has declared total war on the United States, according to the British news service reporters. The newly proclaimed repub-lic has a population of six. It would have been seven, but one of the founding fathers fell over-board from the landing craft— a dinghy—and had to swim back to shore. Danish police on the Banks of Lake Sortedamssoeen were mak-ing invasion plans today because the Bird Islanders — students from an organization called Zenith—refused to give up their 1200-square-yard country. The group has sent a telegram to the United Nations seeking membership and a cable to the U. S. Embassy here declaring total war.
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