Cambodian Neutrality Believed Threatened
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By Phil Newsom
Foreign News Commentator
UPI—Under ordinary circumstances, the United States should welcome with loud cheers Cambodia's announcement that it was renouncing U.S. aid as of the first of the year.
But the circumstances are not ordinary.
One condition that makes them so is Cambodia's location bordering upon South Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand. A pro-Communist Cambodia would open up a new privileged sanctuary for the Communist attack on South Viet Nam and add to Communist pressures on Thailand.
A FURTHER circumstance centers upon Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia's 41-year-old saxophone-playing chief of state who since 1955 has been a maverick in southeast Asian politics and whose policy of "positive neutrality" has taken a number of twists and turns
For instance, in 1955 he renounced his title as king so that he could take an active part in Cambodian politics against the spread of Communism. The decision to renounce U.S. aid also was taken, he said, to halt a swing to the left.
- ABOUT COMMUNISM—"A prince and former king must be well aware that the first concern of the Communists is to get rid of the king and natural elite of any country they succeed in laying hands on . . . I have no particular liking for Communism."
In the intervening years, he also has had this to say:
- About South Viet Nam: The war in South Viet Nam is "already lost as far as the free world is concerned."
- About the United States: "(I have) lost all confidence in the Americans . . . who are the most unjust people in the world. . ."
- About Cambodian neutrality: "We want guarantees. . . If no one wants to give guarantees, I shall ask the Chinese Communists to send us enough forces to discourage aggression (from Thailand and South Viet Nam). I stress that this is no joke."
IN HIS EARLY days of "positive neutrality," Sihanouk patterned himself after Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, following the five principles of co-existence which Nehru also hoped would preserve the peace between India and Red China.
In the meantime, he also has been able to live in the best of two worlds.
U. S. military and economic aid since 1955 has totalled about $365 million or around $30 million per year.
COMMUNIST China allocated $40 million for four factories.
The Soviet Union contributed a $12 million hositpal. Another $35 million came from France.
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Dr. Charlton Hinman, University distinguished professor of English at the University of Kansas, has been invited to give one of the five principal papers at the 11th International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford on Avon, England, next summer.
Dr. Hinman's recently published "The Printing and Proof Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare" has been acclaimed by scholars as the greatest contribution to knowledge of Shakespeare in several decades.
He will be the second KU English faculty member within a year to be invited to make a principal contribution to an international conference. Last summer Dr. Harold Orel spoke on Byron at the 1st International Congress on the Enlightenment in Geneva, Switzerland.
He's Not Hungry
HUDDERSFIELD, England—(UPI)
-Irvin Robinson, 31, who has not worked for more than three years,
was ordered yesterday to find and
keep a job or go to jail for failing
to support his wife and eight children.
"I get fed up with jobs," Robinson said in his defense.
Seventeen senior chemistry professors devote many hours helping the beginning chemistry students. The professors seem to enjoy teaching the broad concepts of general chemistry again after having specialized for a number of years. And they have a broader background to draw upon than do graduate students.
the program next semester to take in the second term freshman chemistry students. Then all freshman chemistry students will be in the program.
Any professor knows it's almost impossible to have a personal relationship with students in classes of 160-400 students.
KU Professors Break Away From Usual Class Formality
Many improvements will be added in the future when we find out where the problems lie, he said.
Dr. Bricker said he would like to see senior staff members teaching general courses in many departments. "Nothing keeps you on your toes as well as this. We sometimes get so specialized that we lose touch with the general course," he said.
First semester chemistry students have added a lab to the lab. In addition to regular laboratory work each student spends two hours a week in a drill session with a senior faculty member.
The department hopes to expand
THE DRILL sessions are small, fewer than 20 persons, and a personal relationship is established between student and instructor. The student may ask questions and clear up problems of study. Night sessions are often available to those who cannot come during the day.
But the chemistry professors here are breaking the barrier of formality and increasing the caliber of instruction at the same time.
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