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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, December 1. 1954
Around the World-
Winston Stirs Tempest Over Portrait, Nazis
By UNITED PRESS
Two controversies centered today around Britain's Winston Churchill.
One involved the portrait presented to him on his 80th birthday yesterday by both houses of Parliament. The other concerned his statement that he planned to use Germans against Russians in 1945 if necessary. ___
The latter was the more serious of the two arguments. Laborite Emanuel Shinwell announced he would ask Mr. Churchill to tell the House of Commons why he failed to inform Parliament of his 1945 actions.
Mr. Churchill stirred up the tempest last week in suburban Woodford when he disclosed that he sent a message to Field Marshal Montgomery ordering him to stuck down his rifle in issue to the conquered soldiers if the Russians failed to halt their westward march.
The statement brought an angry denunciation of Mr. Churchill by Moscow's Pravda, mouthpiece of the Communist party, and caused many observers to wonder why Churchill made this news public at a time when he is trying to achieve real peace in his time.
Churchill unintentionally was in the midst of another furor—over the portrait painted by Graham Sutherland. It shows Churchill as the artist said he saw him.
The Prime Minister said it "makes me look like an idiot, which I ain't." Conservative Robert Cary said "It's all right if you like a study in lum-bago" and Lord Haigham called it "digusting."
But leftwing Laborite Nye Bevan liked it. And Author Somerset Maughan, himself a Sutherland subject, said so will Churchill when he gets used to it.
Other international development nts:
Saigon-Viet Namese regular troops fought armed members of a politico-religious sect in a suburb
of Saigon. The army high command said the shooting, in which four persons were killed and 20 others injured, resulted from a "misunderstanding" between a police patrol and members of the sect in an area where Communist prisoners were under guard.
Library Shows Jewish Books
The Jewish Tercentenary Celebration, acclaiming the arrival of the first Jews in America 300 years ago, s the theme behind the exhibit in Watson library for the month of December.
The displayed books are part of a collection owned by Rabbi Abraham Karp, Kansas City, Mo. who will be at the University some time in the near future to speak on his collection.
The exhibit includes books printed in this country about Jewish life in general and books printed in Hebrew and German. Novels, books of poems, travel, history, grammar, religion and Jewish imprints in Kansas City are shown in the cases in the main hall.
In the show case outside the reference room on the second floor are examples of Jewish artwork from the museum of arts. Included are works of Jack Levine and Elie Nadelman, Jewish artists.
A catalog of the exhibits will soon be available in the library.
Tennessee Asks If Dixon-Yates Contract Legal
Washington—(U,P)—The Securities and Exchange commission had under consideration today a brief filed by the state of Tennessee and three Tennessee municipal power groups questioning the legality of the Dixon-Yates power contract.
The brief questioned whether the SEC can "properly" approve financial details of the Dixon-Yates agreement and claimed "substantial doubts" exist about the legality of the contract between the Dixon-Yates combine and the Atomic Energy Commission.
The contract provides that Dixon-Yates transmit power into the government-owned Tennessee Valley Authority system from a steam generating plant the combine will build at West Memphis, Ark. This power will free for other uses an equal amount of TVA electricity now being supplied to the AEC at its Paducah, Kv., plant.
The SEC must first approve plans by the Mississippi Valley Generating company, which will build the West Memphis plant, to sell $5,500,-000 of its common stock to two parent companies and its plan to borrow $100 million from banks and other institutions.
So far, the generating company has asked SEC approval only on the proposed sale of stock to the parent firms. The brief asked whether the proposed stock issue "can or should properly be passed upon" by the commission apart from the anticipated borrowing.
Orchestra to Give Concert
The University Symphony orchestra under the direction of Prof. Russell L. Wiley will present its annual fall concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium. ID cards will admit.
Pope Better Vatican Says
Vatican City — (U.P.) — Vatican sources reported a slight improvement today in the condition of Pope Pius XII.
The ailing pontifice arose at 7:30 am, and heard a mass recited by German Jesuit Father Robert Leiber in the private chapel adjoining the papal apartment.
Then the Pope retired to his study where, seated in a deep easy chair given to him by Roman Catholics in Buffalo, N.Y., he received an official of the Vatican secretariat of state for a regular daily report on Vatican affairs. He final announcement yesterday that the Pope will attend ceremonies closing the Marian year Dec. 8 was taken in Vatican circles as an encouraging indication of his improvement.
It was further revealed today that he has scheduled a Dec. 5 radio address, beamed to the Philippines, closing the Marian year congress being held in Manila.
Nevertheless, the Pope is being watched by doctors and nurses aroundthe-clock. The Pope suffered a recurrence last week of the stomach trouble that bothered him early this year and his doctors have prescribed a period of absolute rest.
Dr. J. M. Jewett, member of the Geological Survey and Dr. C. F Weinaug, chairman of the petroleum engineering department here will represent the State Geological survey at a meeting of the Interstate Oil Compact commission tomorrow through Saturday in Chicago.
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2 Chinese Students Differ on Blockade
Answering the question, "What do you think of Sen. Knowland's move to blockade Red China?" a Chinese student at the University sided with Sen. Knowland, while another Chinese student, a political science professor and a graduate student in economics sided with John Foster Dulles.
The four were interviewed today by the Daily Kansan, after the White House said Tuesday the blockade of Red China advocated by Sen. William F. Knowland (R.-Calif.) would amount to "war action."
peaceful means to protect the rights of Americans imprisoned by Red China rather than "now resorting to war action, such as a naval and air blockade."
Alfred Sim, a KU student from China said. "Senator Knowland's move is a sound decision. The Communists will react only to a show of action and power. If the Communists were ready for war they would need no provocation, therefore a blockade would be effective and would gain their respect."
In a major foreign policy speech Monday Secretary Dulles said the first duty of the U.S. is to "exhaust
Edmund Chan, student from Hong-
kong, said. "The blockade would
force the Red Chinese to depend on
the Russians.
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Prof. Geoffrey Moore, visiting Rose Morgan lecturer, said last night that it is the duty of the author of a novel to write material new enough to stimulate the mind, and Henry James found the method in unusual situations. $ \textcircled{4} $
Although dealing "with only privileged classes," Henry James presented life as he saw it, Prof. Geoffrey Moore, said last night.
"He traveled extensively and many of his books concern behavior of Americans in Europe. He portrayed the American as the innocent and the European as the experienced person." Prof. Moore said.
Prof. Moore divided James' writings into three periods with the first from 1875-1890. In this period James set the new world against the old. Prof. Moore said.
The second period ended in the late 1880s when Mr. James was concerned with the international situation, Prof. Moore added.
"The last period was his best," the lecturer said. Most readers consider "The Ambassadors" to be the peak in his writing, but "I think that the subject matter in The Wings
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