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McCoy Says Germans Develop Strong Post-War Democratic Rule
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Germany has established a strong democratic government since 1945, Donald McCoy, associate professor of history, said last night at the Humanities Forum in the Kansas Union.
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McCoy and two other associate professors reported on studies made in visits to European countries last spring.
Jack Brooking, associate professor of drama, told the Forum that chinks in the armor of French tradition are developing and George Worth, associate professor of English, said England faces a year of crisis in deciding whether or not to join the Common Market.
He said the Germans place great emphasis upon their democratic government, both internally and as a point of foreign policy:
"ONE POLITICAL step the Germans have taken since 1945," Prof. McCoy said, "is the establishment of republicanism in government."
- On the home front, Germans are reminded of the fruits and benefits of federalized, but representative, government.
- On the international level, the Germans use their democratic government as an instrument to gain world acceptance and respect—a respect which can then be offered to Germans as an example of what free government can accomplish.
THE GERMAN government, in keeping with its effort to convince all Germans of the worth of the government, also stresses traditional moral concepts, Prof. McCoy said. Part of that stress includes days of national atonement-days when the nation repudiates its treatment of Jews under Hitler.
"So much emphasis is placed here," Prof. McCoy said, "that the young people are growing weary of atoning for their fathers' sins."
"Time to allow the republic to group and assume its role in German life," Prof. McCoy concluded.
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Prof. Brooking said the French have drawn their traditions around them like armor and remain fundamentally unchanged.
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The great hope for Germany is time, he said.
"The French are concerned with De Galle," Prof. Brooking said. "They are afraid that he might limit their free-wielding concept of liberty."
"The French," Prof. Brooking said, "did not feel any need to go beyond their culture for ideas."
WHILE GERMANY has been open and receptive to non-German ideas, France has not.
Liberty to the French, he said, means an individual may believe and do as he pleases, but it also involves a respect for the beliefs of opponents.
"Whether or not these things will lead the French to greater acceptance of ideas not particular to their culture is difficult to say," he said.
In Paris and other larger cities some American ideas are evident, such as supermarkets, snack bars, and foreign tourist travel, he said.
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THE QUESTION of acceptance of new ideas in France is an unimposing one, but in England the question is grave and immediate.
Prof. Worth said one idea in particular is important to England—the Common Market. He said that unless England joins the other nations of Europe in this venture, it runs the risk of becoming the Portugal of the North Sea.
"The lines of division are not well drawn," Prof. Worth said. "There are people in both parties who favor joining. A little over half the people favor entering the Common Market and one political party, the Liberals, openly endorse the move."
PROF. WORTH said that although England in 1962 was nearly an affluant society, this is a year of crisis.
The decision England makes concerning Common Market membership will greatly decide the importance of her role in future European affairs, Prof. Worth concluded.
L. R. C. Agnew, professor of medical history, will speak at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow on "Humor in Poetry" at the SUA Poetry Hour in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
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