Friday, May 16, 1958
University Daily Kansan
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Dean Smith Gets High Honor From Minnesota U.
Dean George B. Smith of the University, received the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota Thursday night in a special ceremony during the annual student award banquet of the Minnesota College of Education in Minneapolis.
DEAN GEORGE B. SMITH
President J. L. Morrill conferred the award, which is reserved for Minnesota alumni who have attained high eminence and distinction. The Minnesota regents vote to confer three or four awards each year on recommendation of the faculty committee on honors and the administrative committee of the Senate.
The Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia in 1948.
Around The World
French Premier Fights DeGaulle Threat
(Compiled from United Press)
French Premier Pierre Pflimli to end the threat of a French Charles De Gaulle ruler.
The Premier summoned Parliament to a crisis session today to proclaim a state of emergency and dissolve extremist organizations which might bring riot and bloodshed to Paris itself. The move would be but a step below a declaration of martial law.
The government has outlawed four right-wing political groups which have led many demonstrations in Paris against French Algerian policies, and moved in extra police and troops to back its position.
In Washington, a jitterty state department kept close watch today on the deepening French crisis to see whether France can survive its political storm and remain a dependable ally.
Powerful forces of armed police, republican security guards and mobile guards threw a cordon around the assembly as it met in emergency session to cope with one of France's greatest crises.
The department was so concerned and uncertain about the future course of French events it clamped a tight cloak of secrecy on its thoughts. It made no official comment on the crisis and officers refused to talk privately about it.
The government is faced with the possibility of an Algerian-hatched revolution to make Gen. De Gaulle the ruler of France and widescale Communist riots and strikes to prevent a "Gaullist Dictatorship."
The big question mark was Gen. Charles De Gaulle, French World War II resistance hero. Experts wondered how much support he could win as a result of his statement that "I hold myself ready" to take over the government.
Should the general's statement fail to spark a wave of support sweeping him into power, experts
n asked today for emergency powers revolution aimed at making Gen.
here think Premier Pierre Pflimlin may win support for a more liberal French policy on Algeria.
In Moscow, a top Soviet scientist said today there were no failures in the launching of Soviet Sputnik III. The Soviet claim was made by Prof. Evgeny Federov.
Asked to comment on reports that the Russians had tried—and failed—to launch their sputnik on May 1, Federov told United Press, "No, there were no failures." He made the denial after a news conference at which he disclosed that the new satellite is not expected to return to earth.
In Cage Canaveral, Fla., the Army "serubbed" a firing of the 1,500-mile range Jupiter missile today just one tense second before it was to have gone skyward in an apparent nose cone re-entry test.
The launching countdown actually went to zero, after being held for a few minutes at the minus-one point. But the test conductor ordered a cut-off and the big rocket's engines apparently did not ignite.
This firing was reported to have been an effort by the Army to prove it had licked the tricky re-entry problem. It was the first scheduled launching of the towering missile since an abortive test last December.
In New York, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov said last night flights of U.S. nuclear-armed bombers toward the Soviet Union were 'a menace to peace."
Menshikov said the strategic air
command's alert flights must stop "because they might lead to the most tragic consequences."
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The Soviet ambassador spoke at the 26th annual dinner of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity.
He declined to discuss the new Russian sputnik before his address, but said it was "a new step in science."
In Washington, the United States and Canada have exchanged diplomatic notes setting out joint arrangements for meeting a Soviet air attack on the North American continent, it was disclosed today.
Word of the exchange, not yet formally announced, came in testimony by Livingston T. Merchant, U.S. ambassador to Canada, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Merchant said notes have been exchanged between the two governments, formalizing the arrangements for the joint air defense of the continent.
The notes set out procedures to be followed by the North American
Air Defense Command, known as NORAD, with headquarters at Colorado Springs, Colo.
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