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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 29, 1967
Senate debates reason for switch
By Merriman Smith UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The World Bank confirmed Tuesday night that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara had been nominated as its new president and an argument broke out on the Senate floor over whether his impending departure from the Pentagon was really voluntary.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., whose late brother brought McNamara into the cabinet in 1961, said he had headed McNamara's shift to the international lending institution "wasn't a
question that he submitted his resignation."
Kennedy referred to "news reports" he had heard during the day, including one that McNamara was "transferred—I don't know what the word would be—to the World Bank."
He was joined by Sen. George Murphy, R-Calif., who said the nation had the right to know "under what circumstances . . . how this was done."
Expressed concern
Others expressed concern that President Johnson's proposal of McNamara for the new post might
foreshadow a major, pre-election escalation of the Vietnam war.
One was Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Another, Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-RI, said McNamara has been the "steadiest and strongest voice of moderation" among Johnson's Vietnam advisers and the change of jobs would produce a "very real hardening of position" on the war.
The White House, while still refusing to confirm the nomination, denied at the same time McNamara's departure would mean any change in the conduct of the war.
Dean of the Polish Film School and president of the International Federation of Film Archives, Jerzy Toeplitz, will talk on "Cinema in Eastern Europe" at a public lecture, 8 p.m. Thursday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Polish dean to speak on European movies
Toeplitz, a visiting professor at the UCLA Motion Picture Division this year, will be a guest of the KU radio-television-film department and department of Slavic and Soviet area studies, Thursday and Friday.
Robert Kennedy saw McNamara at the Pentagon for about an hour Monday evening after news of the Defense Secretary's nomination swept through Washington.
the chamber while Pastore was still speaking.
During his lecture, Toeplitz will show student films from Poland.
The Polish film critic and historian, vice president of the International Film and Television Council, a division of UNESCO, was editor of "Kwartalnik Filmowy" (Film Quarterly), 1951-1966. He is now editor of the monthly magazine, "Kino" (Cinema). Toeplitz is the author of a four volume work, "The History of the Art of Cinema," and the book "Film and TV in the USA."
Toeplitz was born in 1969 in
Charkoff, Poland, and studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University, receiving the LL.D. degree in 1933 and the Ph.D. in 1957. In 1948 he was made rector of the Polish State Theatrical and Film Academy in Lodz and since 1958, has been director of the Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Roman Polanski, director of the film "Knife in the Water," is one of Toeplitz's former students.
Edward Kennedy said he had heard, in effect, the shift had been imposed on McNamara. It should be a matter of record if a decision had been made "that his services were not needed," Kennedy said.
The bank's 20 executive directors met Tuesday on "routine matters" but a spokesman said no formal meeting had been called to vote on a successor to bank president George D. Woods.
The spokesman, who confirmed McNamara's nomination, said such a meeting could be called at a moment's notice. Another source close to the bank said he expected action on the proposal "within the reasonably near future."
"You're playing down the integrity and courage of Lyndon Johnson," he added. "Let's not make McNamara a puppet and let's not make Lyndon Johnson a tyrant."
Pastore said. "All this innuendo about this man being pulled out because we're going to accede to the hawks is ridiculous.
Bobby sat still
Sen. John O. Pastore, D-RI,
said Kennedy's report was "ridiculous" and that McNamara was too intellectually and financially independent to be pushed around if he were humiliated.
"I think it is absolutely wrong to infer by innuendo that this man has been pushed to another post,"
Kennedy's brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-NY., was at his seat during the floor exchange. He did not speak, but appeared to hand his brother a note as he left.
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