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University Daily Kansan Friday, Jan. 18, 1963
De Gaulle vs. Europe
The working reality of the European Common Market represents the first concrete step toward the dream of a unified Western Europe.
But one man threatens to extenuate the dream.
That man is French President Charles de Gaulle.
It was De Gaulle the patriot who led the Free French in their struggle against the Third Reich during World War II.
And, today, it is De Gaulle the old patriot who risks the fate of France—and Western Europe—on the antiquated notion that France is still the ruler of Europe.
IT WAS DE GAULLE the aging patriot who came from retirement in 1958 to lead France in a crisis she had created for herself in Algeria
De Gaulle, strengthened by a recent vote of confidence from the French people, has taken it upon himself to lead the European Common Market—and no one but De Gaulle is applauding.
This week, for example, De Gaulle said that Great Britain could not join the ECM until its economy was "compatible" with that of the Common Market. The reaction to these remarks by the member nations of the Common Market was rapid—and against De Gaulle.
PAUL-HENRI SPAAK of Belgium said he was "embarrassed" by De Gaulle, and other Market leaders said they were "disappointed and disturbed." All agreed that his statement could do nothing but harm Western European unification.
The Common Market is not the only place De Gaulle insists on being nationalistic at the expense of his neighbors, however. In the area of defense, he has showed time and again that he is concerned about little except France.
In the days before he came to power in 1958, De Gaulle was a bitter foe of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He maintained that French participation in NATO should be curtailed, and claimed that the leaders of France had "sold out" to the United States.
Since he has been in power, his actions concerning NATO have been negative, at best. He told NATO leaders, for example, that France could not meet its manpower quota because the French Army was busy fighting the Algerian
War. Algeria is now a dead issue—and the soldiers still have not joined NATO.
RECENTLY, DE GAULLE'S hyper-nationalism has shown through quite clearly. Dismissing the fact that the United States has assumed the defense of Western Europe—to the tune of $25 billion thus far—De Gaulle insists that for France to maintain its "place in the world" it must have a nuclear striking force of its own.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
He accepts no compromise, he accepts no advice, he accepts no other truth except that France must be a nuclear "have" nation.
The United States position on this needs no defense and no clarification. If France has a nuclear strike capability, it means simply that there is more chance of a nuclear war.
Great Britain, once the mightiest nation in the world, has accepted this. Austria, once the ruler of Europe, has accepted this. Holland, once the mightiest trading nation in the world, has accepted this. France, ONCE a great world power, has not.
France is needed in Western Europe. She is the third largest producer of iron ore in the world, and is among the top ten in the production of bauxite, cement, coal, lead, pig iron, and zinc. She is among the leading producers of barley, milk cows, oats, potatoes, butter, meat, wheat and sugar.
THE TERRIBLE IRONY in all this is that France is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
And most NATO leaders admit that a NATO without France is a weak NATO. France is one of the strongest links in the wall of free nations surrounding Communist-dominated Europe.
Yes, France is needed in Western Europe—not to lead, but to cooperate.
The choice for Charles de Gaulle is simple. Either he leads his nation into closer cooperation in the Western European scheme of things, or France will be left in the lurch. And it is likely that if France goes, the success of the Common Market or any European unity at all is endangered.
What will it be, De Gaulle? Cooperation and salvation or futile nationalism and dammation?
—Zeke Wigglesworth
Editor.
Your headline, "Pakistanis Rap Speech, Defend Their Country," in the Daily Kansan of January 15, 1963, gives a completely erroneous and misleading impression to the readers. To restate our position and to eliminate the sensational part of your somewhat debatable journalistic style, we like to comment as under.
Pakistan Speech
Bureaucratic Government in Pakistan:
Bureaucracy by its very nature is slow moving, inefficient, corrupt and red tape is its essential element. Bureaucratic structures exist in all modern nations and they do not differ substantially but only in degrees. Civil Service of Pakistan, along with its share of these necessary evils, is composed of men and women of high caliber, integrity and dedication.
Although religion is one of the basic unifying factors, threat of India, economic interdependence of both wings, and the conscious realization among the people that if they do not hang together they will hang separately, is also important. Pakistan as a theocracy has existed only in the minds of prejudiced observers.
PAKISTAN'S GEOGRAPHY and the Problem of Unity;
Government Jobs Versus Prestige:
In Pakistan the private capital is limited. And as such significant investments are undertaken by the government. The government jobs, not necessarily high paying, tend to carry a greater security and stability. The exception could be made of top "elite" Civil Service of Pakistan. As the industrial base of Pakistan widens, more economic opportunities should follow and with it the qualities of private enterprise, self-reliance and independence of professions.
... Letters
There is great deal of intelligence and energy in the country, as Professor Drury himself admits, however, lack of opportunity ought not to be equated with the lack of motivation. A Pakistan, without sense of purpose or a motivating force, would have collapsed. The fact that it has not only existed but also has made reasonable strides towards progress in her different spheres of life, negates the charge of purposelessness.
Motivation of People;
We, the students from Pakistan, are happy that Professors Drury and Ketzel had the opportunity to visit Pakistan. Their evaluation of some of the problems that Pakistan faces, we greatly respect, although we may not completely agree with them. This difference of opinion as presented in your story, we fear, gives the impression of denunciation of Professor Drury's comments.
The last thing we intend to do is to "rap" professors or their speeches! We have a great admiration for them.
OUR ADMIRATION for Ketzel and Drury:
Rab N. Malik
Raja M. Naib
School Spirit
Despite last Monday's second letter to the editor, there are a few freshmen left who think school spirit involves more than a Frosh Hawk sweater and red-and-blue pompoms.
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Even before I came to KU. I heard about KU's school spirit from students, alumni, and the University itself. I have now discovered that this school spirit is really pride: pride in the educational standards, the excellent faculty, the serious students; pride in the beauty of the campus, indeed in the whole atmosphere of the University of Kansas.
Editor:
Margaret Hughes
Ottawa freshman
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Final Fling
Of course intercollegiate athletics and its student support are a part of KU and its school spirit. But so are a newspaper with the freedom to criticize whatever it pleases, and cheerleaders and pep club members who will admit they are not the only ones with school spirit.
Editor:
Well, as you may have guessed, the KU-Y freshmen lost a little money on their final fling. We don't even mind admitting it. In fact, out of 1150 tickets, we had about 1100 left. I hope that the Kansan feels privileged to be such an integral part of our success. Granted that we spent $34.50 for a grand half-page ad in the UDK. But I am wondering how much more than that we lost through the snide little piece "Final Fling Faces Flop" which appeared on the front page of the same issue.
Funny? I hope you all had a great laugh. As for me, and for several others, too, just remind me never to enlist your help again! It just doesn't pay!
SOMEHOW. I HAVE visions of some lowly reporter asking, "Sir, how can I raise my grade?" The answer, of course is, "Go out and get a front page story, kid!" So out goes our favorite character, and soon he returns with a hilarious front-pager: thoughtless, sarcastic, and minus the important fact (Freshmen Surprise—Class Sweat-shirts!)—but funny!
Kansas City freshman
Marion Gray
"OH, YEAH, BERT, BEFORE I FORGET IT WILL YOU TELL TH' TRACK COACH I SCHEDULED TH' ATHLETIC FIELD FOR THE ARCHERY TEAMS TO-DAY?"
BOOK REVIEWS
CATCH-22, by Joseph Heller (Dell, 75 cents).
"Catch-22" is a ribald, hypnotic masterpiece that smacks of greatness for its ability to take a reader's heart in its brutal hands and carry it through the private, humorous hell that men, faced with death, travel during war.
Author Heller stuffed more men-alive pathos into 463 pages than most writers are capable of distilling into print in a lifetime. Raskolnikov of "Crime and Punishment" first blazed the trail that bombardier Yossarian widened to four lanes in his search for the need to confront death for a cause.
But where Raskelnikov entranced readers in a morass of psychological nausea, Yessarian and his supporting cast of men-in-hell prince down the path of irrationality, with leg-slapping insights that alternately bring tears of laughter and a desire to scream for a halt to the madness.
Reading "Catch-22" is like courting a girl with designs of marriage: if, after you have gained a familiarity with the personality, you don't care for it, walk away. The author's vocabulary is not a milk teast offering; but the story of tortured, doubting men cannot be told with fidelity in front-parlor language.
the author calls an ace an ace and a streetwalker a whore, but filth is not displayed for its shock value alone. J. D. Salinger sounded the trumpet call of truth for the college generations in "Catcher in the Rye"; Heller's following may reach the size of the differentiated and disparate army that tramps the streets of the United States disguised as homogeneous look-alikes. It would be justice—he knows them all quite well. — TPM
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This is a novel not well known in this country, and one known mainly to earlier generations through chopped-up versions. The book is intact here, but except for a number of scenes of beauty and power it is a mishmash of Victorian romanticism and Darwinian realism.
Most students of literature know the name of Thomas Hardy, but they know it chiefly for his five famous novels, not for this one. Carl J. Weber, in an introduction, attempts to make a case for "The Woodlanders" as the best of Hardy's novels, but there is too much competition from the Big Five.
Surely few novels have heroes as noble (or perhaps as stupid) as Giles Winterbourne. Few have heroes as mixed-up or pliable as Grace Melbury. Few have villains like Fitzpiers who turn into heroes in the last pages.
THE WOODLANDERS, by Thomas Hardy (Harper Modern Classics, $1.40).
For sheer nobility it is difficult to find anything quite like these people outside Gene Stratton-Porter or Harold Bell Wright. Yet still, this is a novel that possesses a number of deep insights into man and his problems.-CMP
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