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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday. June 17, 1958
French Accept De Gaulle
Gen. Charles de Gaulle has made an encouraging start as the "authoritarian" premier of France.
He has shown both moderation and firmness in the first stage of his task of bringing France back from political chaos to stability.
The French people, as a whole, have accepted him with evident relief.
Governments of the countries allied with France in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, while they are still watching closely for the development of his foreign policy, appear to be increasingly confident that he will not weaken the western side in the cold war.
The only elements which seem to be unhappy over developments since Gen. de Gaulle took office on June 1 are the right-wing extremists, who want him to be a swashbuckling dictator, and the Communists.
These are enemies calculated to win Gen. de Gaulle friends among moderates both at home and abroad.
Gen. de Gaulle's first act in office was to appoint a cabinet, including three former premiers, in which the moderate right, middle-of-the-road and moderate left parties are represented.
The right-wing extremists who, by means of a military revolt against the government of former Premier Pierre Pflimlin, brought Gen. de Gaulle into office, were excluded completely.
The Communists, who threatened riots and revolutionary strikes if Gen. de Gaulle became premier, have been strangely inactive.
Soviet Russia, too, sat on the fence for a while. But now, apparently, the Soviet government has made up its mind that from the Communist viewpoint Gen. de Gaulle is up to no good.
At least, the official Russian Communist newspaper organ Pravda Wednesday published a savage attack on Gen. de Gaulle by Jacques Duclos, the French Communist party leader. This attack was broadcast also throughout the Soviet Union by the official Moscow Radio in its home service.
The right-wing extremists who staged the revolt in Algeria and Corsica that led to Gen. de Gaule's emergence as premier have openly challenged his authority.
The so-called "all-Algeria committee of public safety" Tuesday sent Gen. de Gaulle a demand that French political parties "disappear"-suspend activities—until a national referendum is held on the premier's proposed constitutional reform plan.
The committee also called for a similar "committee of public safety" in France itself. This would mean that Gen. de Gaulle would subject himself to the direction of the extremists.
Significantly, this challenge was relayed to Gen. de Gaulle by Gen. Raoul Salan, whom he named the supreme authority in Algeria.
Gen. de Gaulle retorted with a message to Gen. Salan calling the extremist demands "unfortune," "untimely" and "perempotry." Implicitly, he rebuked Gen. Salan by telling him that he had no business taking sides in the situation.
The attitude of both the right-wing extremists and the Communists indicates that the French political crisis is far from over.
But Gen. de Gaulle is not the man to let anybody tell him what to do, and he seems to have the support not only of the French people but of the overwhelming majority of French army officers. —United Press International
Tumbleweeds Bad Publicity
TOPEKA, Kan.—(UPI)—Democrat Gov. George Docking today protested to the State Department about a Brussels Fair display depicting Kansas with an exhibit of "three beautifully mounted tumble-weeds."
The Kansas governor said the display at the international fair in Belgium showed "three beautifully mounted tumbleweeds, highlighted by indirect lighting."
"This is unfair to the beautiful state of Kansas," Gov. Docking said.
"I'm glad they didn't put up a couple of cigar store Indians and put a sign on it saying 'This is a typical Kansas resident.'"
The governor said a sign under the tumbleweeds exhibit directed viewers to the fact that "they roll across highways and at times block roads."
Gene Sullivan, the governor's executive secretary, called the whole thing "lousy public."
Gov. Docking said the Kansas Industrial Development Commission was sending over a color film of Kansas to fair officials "that shows the true beauty of Kansas."
He said Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy may be able to spend a day at the fair as an ambassador of Kansas.
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TV Notes
CBS will offer four new live night-time programs during the summer. The first, "Sing Along," started June 4, and will be on each Wednesday from 7:30 to 8 p.m. "Keep Talking," a new panel show with Monty Hall as master of ceremonies, starts June 27; 10:30 to 11 p.m. Fridays. A one-hour version of the network's five-a-week day series, "The Verdict Is Yours," will bow July 3; 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays. A new quiz series called "Number Please" is slated for the 8:30-9 p.m. slot Tuesdays, beginning July 22.
Another TV play by Rod Serling, his fourth original of the season for "Playhouse 90." will be seen on that CBS program June 19. It is called "A Town Turned to Dust," and it tells of the moral disintegration of a southwestern community in the 1870's after it deliberately frees a murderer because his victim was not accepted by the community.
A new ABC program set to begin July 11 is "ESP," the initials standing for extra-sensory perception. It will be seen Fridays from 9 to 9:30 p.m. Participants, screened by psychologists, will compete with each other for cash awards in a series of unusual experiments to determine which has the highest degree of this so-called sixth sense. Home viewers also get a chance to play for prizes.
For color set owners: NBC's "It Could Be You." Monday-through-Friday at 12:30 a.m., will get the tinted treatment beginning June 30. The show, seen in black and white, has been on the air since June 3, 1956.
"Have Gun, Will Travel!" goes on summer repeats for CBS on June 21.
Steve Allen's NBC Sunday night program has been renewed for another season by the bus sponsor which picks up half the tab on alternate weeks.
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