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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 12, 1957
British Comment On Soviet Shift
The following are comments from prominent British newspapers on the recent upheaval in Soviet Russia's political hierarchy:
The Daily Mail (Conservative) says: "Even in the blood-stained history of the Soviet Union the expulsion from office of Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich and the demotion of Shepilov are matters of first class importance."
The paper thinks that the latest events are the final outcome of a struggle between Khrushchev and Malenkov, which Khrushchev has won.
"Such a result," it continues, "is unexpected. That the fight was being waged had been well known for months, but most observers thought Malenkov would prevail. This was because of Khrushchev's disastrous failures in foreign policy."
The Daily Mail wonders what the latest development in the Soviet Union will mean for the world.
"Khrushchev," it says, "has shown himself to be cunning, ruthless and unreliable. The West must treat with him and with the regime he now dominates, but would be foolish to trust either. The same applies to all the top Communists. But it can at least be said of Malenkov that he appeared to have a more human approach to human beings than have the men who murdered Hungary."
Another Conservative paper, the Western Mail, thinks, however, that the changes reported from the Kremlin give cause for cautious optimism: "The down-grading of Mr.
Molotov, long known as the iron man of Russian foreign policy, could hardly be unwelcome to the nations who suffered his intransigence; nor will there be many regrets in the West for Mr. Shepilov, the architect of Russia's recent disruptive policy in the Middle East."
The paper thinks that it is reasonable to hope for a lowering of the world temperature.
The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Herald (Labor) describes the changes as "the most startling purge of the Soviet Communist Party's high command since Stalin's time," and "a decisive move by Khrushev to complete personal supremacy." The correspondent says: "The charges in the communique announcing the dismissals are so serious that it seems certain there is more to follow—quite possibly trials."
The News Chronicle (Liberal): "The new convulsion in the Kremlin is of double importance for the West. It shows more clearly than ever that there are now two forms of Communism—Soviet and Chinese—towering over Asia, and that for the immediate future in Europe the West must negotiate with Khrushchev's diplomacy, not Molotov's. At any time this would be a choice between two evils. Mr. Khrushchev, who at least is no icy robot, may yet prove the lesser."
The paper makes the point that the Pravda editorial which preceded the news of the dismissals implicitly flouts the Chinese Communist doctrine of allowing anyone in the fold to differ.
Beware Of Rhus Toxicodendron!
Brothers and sisters, hear me now. So you're going on a vacation? All right, go already. But listen to the voice of sad experience. Namely mine.
Take rod and reel, if you will. Take tent and mosquito net, gun, camera, geiger counter, racquet, boots and saddle. Take whatever implements you judge will help you tame the great outdoors, but take also this—caution in the presence of Rhus Toxicodendron.
Lack of caution will get you the bleariest mess of billious exterior this side of the horrors of Hades. That is, unless you're a newborn babe. According to some medicos, newborn babes are resistant to the ravages of Rhus T.—which is the scientific name for poison ivy.
Everybody else had better beware. You may think you're immune. That's what I thought all my life, up until last month. Brother...what a total disillusionment. I say total because during my bout with poison ivy the poison reached a totality of spread over my beautiful pink body.
Immobility set in. For two weeks, I was a mottle of itchy decorum. While thus pinned down, you have plenty of time to think. When you have poison ivy, you think about only one thing—your own itching. You become a supreme authority on the subject.
At the end of this pondering period, you realize there is no way to define itching properly
except by invoking the concept of purposeful action. Which is exactly what Webster's unabridged Dictionary resorts to when trying to define the feeling: "Itching, adj. Having the irritated feeling that induces scratching."
Even medical dictionaries take the easy way out and define itching as a sensation in the skin that produces the desire to scratch.
Well, what kind of sensation is it? Widespread poison ivy is an army of angry ants goosestepping across your skin to a rock 'n' roll beat. It feels the way burning leaves sound. It is a terrible thirst that slakes itself in tabasco. It is a myriad of tiny explosions like popcorn endlessly popping.
It is the supreme example of the kind of sensation that sets afire the desire to scratch. But with poison ivy you're not supposed to scratch. Musn't touch. Scowl and bear it.
That brings us to the complex of the large itch that isn't scratched. When a massive, total itch is denied the historic remedy of the scratch, it gets moody and turns inward on itself. Ten thousand demons are set loose at skin level. Panic grows.
You get the cold sweats in reverse. Crawling chills and underskin shivering rattle your frame Just thought you'd like to know how it feels. Had a wonderful time on vacation. Wished you were there—instead of me.
Doc Quigg, United Press
Twenty-four students at Indiana University are undergoing an intensified program of "rushin' your Russian," according to the Indiana Daily Student.
Indiana Rushin' Russian
The 24 have sworn to use the Russian language exclusively during their five-week stay at I.U. Indiana's workshop and the one at Middlebury Conn., college, are the only two of this kind in the United States.
Awakening to an alarm clock which tingles to the "Song of the Volga Boatman," the students look forward to four hours of classes a day supplemented by supervised study periods in both the afternoon and evening.
In addition to these "brainwashings," workshop officials thoughtfully provide a faculty member to be present at each meal. According to reports, the unfortunate who misplaces an accent during the course of a meal may well have to go with his coffee left unsweetened.
Evenings are spent listening to Russian records or lectures on Russia, learning Ukrainian folk songs, or watching Russian movies.
Men and women participants in the workshop are housed in adjacent dormitories which make it possible for them to shout their
Russian "sleep tights" across the way.
Coeds who cross their legs in public can be expelled from Bulgarian universities for "Bourgeois behavior," according to reports from the Crusade for Freedom. The weight of this offense is doubled if she happens to be smoking or drinking a glass of wine in this unseemly position.
Indiana's workshop may sound somewhat restricting to many students, but it stacks up not at all alongside the rigors devised by Bulgaria's Red schoolmasters.
To make the "system" unbreakable, the "Responsible" appoints one student as a "Watcher," and the "Watcher" may denounce the "Responsible" if he feels he isn't getting the job done. Confusing, isn't it?
The behavior of Bulgarian university students is watched over by a professor called the "Responsible," who is appointed by the faculty rector to superintend a group of students.
The Bulgarian cut system requires a student who misses more than two classes in one subject to repeat the entire year—or two full semesters.
—Kansas State Collegian
The first TV presentation of Francis Poulenc's opera, "Dialogues of the Carmelites," will be given next season by NBC's opera company. Date will be announced later. The work had its opera house premiere last Jan. 26 at La Scala in Milan, Italy. It was done there in Italian but the NBC presentation will be in English.
TV Notes
Lowell Thomas is going to make a series of seven hour-long color travel programs for CBS as his first venture in TV on a regular basis. Dates and times of showing remain to be decided.
"The Charles Farrall Show" and "Dear Phoebe," series starring Peter Lawford, are back for another ground on NBC for the summer. The former is at 10 p.m. Tuesdays, the latter is Monday-through-Friday at 5 p.m. for seven weeks.
A new NBC summer show is "The Big Moment," a filmed series of highlights in the sports history, with Bud Palmer as host. Fridays at 9:30 p.m.
Summer replacement for "Tales of Wells Fargo" in the 8:30 p.m. Monday spot on NBC will be "Action Tonight," an action-suspense film series, July 15 through Sept. 2.
Marie Antionette, a "dainty morsel" of a girl who became a queen and then a national scandal and tragedy, gains fresh life in a new biography. French historian Andre Castelot has fashioned in "Queen of France" (Harper) a scholarly work that bubbles with a novel's narrative pace and suspense. Embellished with the rich and racy words of Marie Antoinette herself and her relatives, friends and enemies, this is a personalized account of the 14-year-old arrogant child who wed the future king of France.
Total espionage was a Japanese invention. A British former spy, Ronald Seth, says that for more than 50 years Japan was the unchallenged leader, numerically speaking, in the spy game. Its agents covered half the earth. They were so numerous that no one ever counted all of them.
As the Queen gains dimensions through Castelot's masterful writing, so do King Louis XV, the strange apathetic ruler and husband and the score of hangers-on of high and low birth—who played their parts in the tragic collage of French royalty.
Espionage had reduced the element of chance to a good gamble by the time Japan was ready to strike at Russia in 1904. The rest of the world was surprised by Japan's quick success but not the informed Japanese. . . .
Japanese innovations improved on Stieber's art. One, according to Seth, was the Japanese patriotic society idea, such as Black Ocean and Black Dragon.
Books.
Seth has written "Secret Servants" (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy) an unofficial history of Japanese espionage. His most important sources of information were Japanese foreign office documents in Washington.
They were brilliantly successful in paving the way for Russias defeat by Japan in 1904, and in the conquest of Manchuria. Collaborating with Germans, they made possible the grand coup against the U. S. fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The Germans were the teachers at spying and the Japanese were eager pupils. In 1876, when Japan was expanding contacts with other nations, a Japanese delegation called upon Wilhelm Stieber. Bismarck's master spy.
The father of modern espionage was by then retired. He was flattered that the Japanese regarded him as the best in his line. He taught them his methods.
Marie Antoinette has never lived more vividly than in Castelot's retelling of the early years, the marriage, her brightest days as queen, her extravagances and shocking unworldiness, her supposed love affairs, the haunting melodrama of the purloned necklace, the revolution and the last ride to the guillotine. The French Academy has corated Castelot for this work.
Everybody talks about the teenager, and Purdue University seems to feel it finally has done something about him. Purdue, after 15 years of opinion testing believes it has found out what he thinks about everything from brushing his teeth to the Bill of Rights. Tabulated, broken down by age, geography, religion, and economics, the findings of the Purdue Opinion Panel appear now in "The American Teenager" (Bobbs-Merrill) by Dr. H. H. Remmers, head of the Panel, and D. H. Radler, hired by the Panel to translate their graphs into words you or I can understand.
The findings:
From 25 to 50 per cent of American teenagers feel that the Bill of Rights should be done away with Eighty per cent like school.
A number of them feel scientists are the nearest things to monsters since King Kong.
Most of them are convinced politicians are crooks.
Eighty per cent think it is all right to neck on dates, but 50 per cent know their parents would disapprove.
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