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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 27,1952
Editorials
Well Done, Team; On To Helsinki
Trying to do K-State one better over Silo Tech's record of last year, the University of Kansas basketball team went to Seattle with one idea in mind—to bring back the NCAA championship and did it.
This is the first time in 12 years KU has reached the NCAA finals and the first time in history a Big Seven team has won this nationally coveted title.
This year's basketball season has been a great adventure for KU. Some of the games were close even into overtime, but even the ones we lost carried more than their share of excitement. Everyone has had good reason to feel proud of the KU coach and team.
Clyde Lovellette has practically thrown every Big Seven and NCAA personal record to the wind. And the complete record will show that
KU is finishing its greatest basketball season in the history of the school. KU went to the NCAA tournament with the best over-all record of any team there.
Students, faculty, and townpeople have supported the team wholeheartedly. In the past few days, studies have gone uncompleted as eyes and ears were glued to receiving sets in hopes of watching and listening to the KU Five march on to a higher bracket.
Numerous telegrams and congratulatory messages have been given and sent to the team, and a parade and rally have been planned. But however it is expressed, all KU cage fans in one way or another want to say, "Well done, fellows, well done. All of us can't help being proud of you—On To Helsinki!" —C.P.
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Comments . . .
(From the Beatgice Sun-Times,
Nebraska)
The term "free enterprise" has a larger application than to the economic system. It applies, for instance, to the small, private, non-tax supported colleges which are both examples and nurseries of individual initiative, but which are forced to struggle for their continued existence in today's world.
The publishers of "Who's Who in America" declare (Ed. note: not to be confused with the college Who's Who):
"With limited funds and limited equipment, and endowments that yield less and less, these private schools . . . have been doing a better job than the state in the production of leaders in every walk of life . . The leaders, thinkers and builders are coming today from the small colleges . . . far out of proportion to the enrollments of these institutions.
"Spokesmen for these colleges plead that under today's stringent conditions they must turn for help either to Washington or to the business community . . . Certainly it would be a catastrophe to have the small independent college disappear from American life . . . Those people who value free enterprise in the economic field would do well to support the variety, richness and elasticity of free enterprise in the academic field."
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New French Government Faces Trouble On All Sides
Antoine Pinay, 60-year-old "independent," assumed the premiership of France on March 11 to succeed Edgar Faure's "middle-of-the-road" government which collapsed 40 days after its birth over a tax increase issue.
The Frenchmen's distrust of the new government is not groundless. With the Gaulists and the Communists, the two largest parties and extremes at right and left, in opposition, the Pinay cabinet has been patched together from several minor parties that exist in between. The Socialists' refusal to participate has made his government somewhat rightist but no less fragile than Faure's.
The new prime minister, who has formed the 17th cabinet of the Fourth Republic of France, frantically is hammering out measures for the cure of the country's economic ailment. However, not many Frenchmen agree that he is the surgeon for the operation.
A huge budget deficit, galloping inflation, and swelling taxes, coupled with the chronic Communist threat, plus upsurging Pan-Arabism in African territories, seem to be too heavy a burden.
Clamors are growing among the French people, weary of a feeble hodgepodge government, for a strong hand to lead them out of the mess. Indications are that many a Frenchman, fearful of Russia, is beginning to look to the Gaullists for the job.
This certainly is a threat to France's democracy, no less serious than that of Communism. There is little doubt that Gen. De Gaulle is a totalitarian. It should be recalled that his party boycotted popular vote for the new national constitution in October, 1945. If the general should be returned to power, he would rewrite the constitution to snatch the power from the National Assembly with his "strong hands."
As a key nation of the North Atlantic Treaty organization, France is supposed to play a leading role in the unity and defense of Western Europe. Should she follow a path to an extreme, whether left or right, NATO partners' steps will be broken. The problems of France are the problems of democracy. —Yujiro Maeda.
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