Gallagher Predicts Algerian Freedom
Algeria will gain independence from France within a few years, an American Universities Field Staff speaker told a Daily Kansan press conference yesterday.
Charles F. Gallagher, visitingAUFS expert on North Africa and the mid-East, stated yesterday afternoon in a Daily Kansan press conference that Algerian rebels will accept nothing short of independence from France.
"The question is not if Algeria can gain independence but how long it will take," Mr. Gallagher said.
"Algerian independence is not progressing at the pace the nationalists would like, nor is the French movement to keep the colony under its thumb moving along well under the strong Fifth Republic.
"There is no definite French political program for Algeria and there is no move to fit in any presumable political program at the present time."
Algerians Dynamite
Mr. Gallagher outlined the Algerian rebel leaders as self-made
men who take action instead of theorizing. He stated that when independence was won, a left of center type of government would probably be set up.
"Algeria is very important today in that it will control the major oil interests in North Africa and will also have the best fighting force in the Arab world," he said.
Shifting to the mid-East, Mr. Gallagher blasted our misconceptions about Nasser and the Arab world.
"These misconceptions are largely due to Zionistic propaganda on the Arab world which is distorted to present only the bad side of the picture."
Attacking the press, he said:
"The New York Times is the worst paper in the world on the subject of the mid-East. The editorial pages are a scandal and read like reports from the Israeli foreign office. The editors don't even believe their correspondent stationed in the mid-East!"
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The Christian Science Monitor and The Manchester Guardian were cited
Charles F. Gallagher
as two leading papers giving the best coverage of the explosive midmid-East area.
Continuing on the subject of Aral
nationalism, Mr. Gallagher stated that there is very strong public opinion in favor of a united Arabia and mentioned that Nasser is moving into a dead center position between the Eastern and Western worlds.
"There has been strong talk of an Arab federation in North Africa and I can see this as a probability in the near future," Mr. Gallagher said.
He also tabbed Jordan as a likely candidate for membership in the United Arab Republic composed of Egypt and Syria and forecast its entrance into the UAR within two years.
"Saudi Arabia will probably also come around to joining the UAR," Mr. Gallagher said. "The present dynasty is living right now on borrowed time."
The remainder of Mr. Gallagher's schedule is:
Tomorrow: 9:00 a.m.—Recent World History, 110 Strong, "Arab Nationalism and Power Politics." 11:00 a.m.—International Trade, 33 Strong, "Economic Geography of North Africa." 2:00 p.m.—Civil Unrest, 400 short, "North Africa in the Arab World."
Thursday; 11:00 a.m.—International Organization, 13 Strong Annex B, "The
U. N. in North Africa." 3:00 p.m.—Comparative Party Systems, 13 Strong Annex B. "Political Institutions in the North African States."
Friday; 8:00 a.m.—Elements of Sociology, 11 Strong Annex E. "Changing Social Factors in North Africa." 9:00 a.m.
—Recent World History, 110 Strong. "The Algerian Question." 11:00 a.m.—International Trade, 33 Strong. Economic Development, 293 Press once. 2:00 p.m.—The Editorial, 210 Flint. "The Algerian Question." 4:00 p.m.—Current Events Forum. Union Browsing Room.
Monday: 9:00 a.m.—Current American Foreign Policy, 1 Strong Annex E,
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1 Strong Annex F, Sociology of the Berbers," 11:00 a.m.—International Politics,
1 Strong Annex E, The Algerian Factors,
Practices, 303 Bailey, "Changing Social Factors in North Africa."
April 28: 7:30 p.m.—Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, William Allen White Reading Room, Flint Hall, "North Africa in Transition."
April 29: 8:00 a.m.—World Geography, 426 Lindley. "North Africa in Transition" 9:00 a.m.—Political Geography, 403 Lindley. "Arab Nationalism and Power Politics in the Middle East" 1:00 a.m.—Strong Annex E. "Emerging North Africa." 1:00 p.m.—Problems in the Social Sciences, 208 Strong. "Economic Geography of North Africa."
56th Year, No. 130
Polish Visitor Speaks On Arithmetic Problems
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, April 21, 1959
Waclaw Sierpinski, professor of mathematics in Poland, still vigorous after more than half a century of teaching, delivered a lecture, "On Some Unsolved Problems of Arithmetic," to a KU graduate class yesterday.
Prof. Sierpinski read his lecture in French from a script, illustrating his remarks on a blackboard. Jacek Szarski, a dean at the University of Krakow, Poland, who is at KU this semester to work on a mathematical research project, translated for students whose mathematical French was below par.
Several of the KU mathematics faculty would have been able to follow Prof. Sierpinski in his native
Polish, but it was decided the remainder of the faculty and graduate students could better understand the lecture in French. Prof. Sierpinski speaks no English.
Born in 1882, Prof. Sierpinski is the oldest of Polish mathematicians now working actively. He has published over 600 papers and nearly 20 monographs and books.
Among his many honors, he is a member of the Council of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Academia dei Lincei of Rome, and the Academy of Sciences, Peru.
He will give a lecture on projective and analytic sets at 4:15 pm today in 203 Strong.
Around the Nation
Approval for Herter; Death for Starkweather
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today unanimously approved the nomination of Christian A. Herter to be Secretary of State.
Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark) said he would ask the Senate leadership to bring the nomination up in the Senate today if possible.
"There has been some confusion in the circumstances surrounding this appointment," Fulbright said. "I think that fast action by Congress will correct any impression that may exist that there is a difference of opinion about the appointment."
LINCOLN, Neb.—The Nebraska Pardon Board today refused to commute the death sentence of mass slayer Charles Starkweather and set his new execution date for May 22
The two men with whom the decision rested made their decision after hearing 20 minutes of testimony by the redhaired mass slayer who had admitted 11 killings.
The board members, Attorney General C. S. Beck and Secretary of State Frank Marsh, made their ruling immediately upon closing the hearing at the state penitentiary here. Starkweather, who once terrorized the entire Lincoln area, was
WASHINGTON—Roy W. Johnson, the Defense Department's space projects chief, said today the next discoverer satellite, Discoverer III would have a "biomedical space traveler" aboard.
meek and quiet-voiced as he made his plea for clemency.
Johnson left the impression last night that an effort would be made to eject the capsule containing mice and return them safely to earth. He said the biomedical information to be obtained from Discoverer III would be "very useful" to Project Mercury, the program to put a man into orbit around the earth in 1961.
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House of Representatives yesterday unanimously passed a bill calling for a maximum penalty of death for terrorist bombings.
The proposal also makes it a felony to make false reports of bomb threats.
Professor Says Shaw's Love Is Economy Symbol
George Bernard Shaw was not really interested in writing of love. He did so only as a way of illustrating his economic ideas, said the current Humanities lecturer.
Dr. William Irvine, of Stanford University, spoke yesterday at the Student Union Activities Coffee in the Trophy Room of the Kansas Union. He spoke on "G. B. Shaw's Women." He said:
"Shaw was really interested in socialism and revolution. The public would not listen to such drastic economic ideas. Shaw solved the problem by writing his kind of love story so it said very shocking things about economies and revolution without seeming to say them."
Dr. Irvine said Shaw's ideas about women came from his relationship with his mother and women who pursued him during his early career in London.
"Mrs. Shaw was a very rational, capable, and well informed woman. Her example caused Shaw to think of women as rational creatures," he said.
Dr. Irvine said while most women who pursued Shaw were fairly reasonable about it, one was not. Shaw's experience with this woman taught him that females do have aggressive tendencies.
Shaw's condemnation of the Victorian status quo committed him to utilize two types of female characters—the "womanly" woman and the "new" woman, he said.
Further experience showed him that woman also was ferocious in achieving her desires, he said.
"The 'womanly' woman is the Victorian woman. She is the sort of thing which Shaw does not approve. The 'new' woman is a rationalist; a realist," he said.
Dr. Irvine said Shaw was against the conventional romance, such as melodrama, presented on the stage in his time. He said:
"He was, on principle, against ordinary love scenes. He couldn't write that kind of love affair. To Shaw, love was a battle of will, wilt, and even physical force. These combat Shaw could do wonderfully well."
Will Gift Be a Painting Sofas, Trophy Case?
A championship trophy case to be placed in Allen Field House will be recommended as the senior class gift at the senior coffee April 30.
Robert Billings, Russell senior and chairman of the senior gift committee, said that this recommendation and two other gift possibilities would be presented to the seniors on a ballot.
The class members will have the final decision on the gift.
The other two suggestions are furnishings for the new addition to the Kansas Union, or a painting of a Kansas scene to be placed in a display panel at Dyche Museum.
"Many people feel that the fine athletic tradition that we have had here at the University through the years deserves an appropriate place to display trophies received as a result of outstanding work on the part of KU coaches and players," Billings said.
The recommendation includes six cases which would cost $1,750 and could be delivered in a short time.
"The cases would be located in a place where a great many people would be able to view them and their contents through the years. A fitting plaque would be attached to credit the class of 1959 for their gift." Billings said.
The championship trophies are now located in the Trephy Room of the Kansas Union, the chancellor's office, the coaches' offices, and other places around the campus.
Considerable cloudiness this afternoon. Clearing east tonight Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer over state. Frost east portion with freezing temperatures tonight. Low tonight 25 to 35. High Wednesday 50s.
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SPORTING NEW STRIPES—Three members of the Air Force ROTC unit show the birdie their new-type stripes, a change this semester over the previous regulation stripes. They are, from left: Edward Bailey, Atchison junior, Kim Wiley, Wichita senior, and John Durrett, Prairie Village sophomore.