Morgenthau Hails Cuba Blockade, Doesn't Want U.S. 'Kicked Around'

Hans J. Morgenthau, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, termed Kennedy's blockade of Cuba "long overdue" in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday.

"A great power can't let its prestige be kicked around," Morgenthau explained. He saw no connection between U.S. bases in Turkey and the Soviet military build-up in Cuba.

Discussing other current issues, Morgenthau noted that China's aggression in India is an important illustration of China's disregard for public opinion, and of the determination of the Chinese to establish an Asian empire.

U.S. Economy 'Stagnant'

Morgeuthau went on to consider the problem of the "stagnating economy." He said that the economy is sluggish, and that we have reached a plateau, be a need for a complete change in our economic philosophy, he commented, because the present economy "is no longer dynamic enough for our growing population."

Speaking on a Law School Forum panel yesterday evening, Morgenthau considered the relations of means, ends, and justification to politics.

Morgenthan evaluated this relation as presenting "an apparent problem, not a real one." The means and ends relation in the academic world has little effect on the practical world, considerations with little thought to means or ends, he asserted.

Political Actions Immoral

We study the problem of means and ends because of our need to justify political actions in a moral way. Morgenthau noted that by trying to justify them. We try to make political actions appear more moral than they actually are.

The U.S. bears blame for the 1961 Cuban invasion not because the invasion was attempted, but because it failed; the means were not successful, he said.

Morgenthau concluded that although generally the end justifies the means, not every end justifies every means. There are certain moral limitations imposed by each society so that no one would consider doing everything possible to attain and end.

Appearing on the panel with Morgenthau were Wassily W. Leontief. Henry Lee Professor of Economics, and Arnold Brecht, Professor Emeritus of the New School for Social Research in New York.