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University Daily Kansan
Thursday. Oct. 31, 1957
Zhukov's Fate?
Recent speculative comments on the Zhukov hassle include:
David Lawrence, writing for the N.Y. Herald Tribune, says, "The event publicizes the existence of a cruel dictatorship and gives the people of Russia notice that their only chance to get possession of their own government is by revolution.
"But the revolution will not happen until the people of the Soviet Union someday can get all the facts. ... If there ever was a time to broadcast some simple truths to the people of Soviet Russia, it is today when the whole world is given a dramatic example of the one-man rule.
"When the power to make war is in the hands of one man...the people are in constant danger of being plunged into a war they do not want. How/long will the Russian people tolerate the dangerous game? What are the allied governments doing to broadcast the significance of the removal of Zhukov? The opportunity is available to contrast what has happened ... with the democratic manner ... of the governments of the free world."
Jay G. Hayden, writing for the North American Newspaper Alliance, questions "whether Nikita Khrushchev can sweep the tremendous Russian military into his basket of power as easily as he has the other elements of government."
Mr. Hayden said that maybe the Red army is not something that can be sloughed off so easily. He said that "Josef Stalin's subordination of the military in the late 1930s' required several years and the assassination of most of the then heads of
the Red army. . . .
"One definitely cheering note . . . relates to the present crisis in the Turkish-Syrian border. If Russia was serious in its threat of war in that quarter it would not begin by firing or demoting its most distinguished fighting man."
Thomas P. Whitney, A. P. Foreign News Analyst, said in part, "Zhukov himself was a victim of Stalin's intrigues after World War II when he was demoted, much as he has now again been demoted, apparently because the party leadership feared his prestige and potential political power."
K. C. Thaler, U.P. Staff Correspondent, said, "The wily and iron-nerved Nikita Khrushchev has won another bloodless coup that signifies the beginning of virtually unrestrained one-man dictatorship in the Soviet Union.
"Soviet affairs experts said they did not anticipate any major trouble from Red army generals once Zhukov is effectively deprived of control over the armed forces.
"In the 133-man Central Committee as well as in the powerful 15-man Presidium (or high command) of the Communist party, Khrushchev has been cunningly strengthening the number of his supporters in months past.
Mr. Thaler reported that most experts discounted "Open army intervention since this would amount to a showdown between the party and the army. A defeat of the party would be tantamount to the beginning of the end of the Communist regime in Russia and of organized Communism worldwide."
Culture Course
A recently organized student committee will review the curriculum of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This committee will discuss recommended changes in open forums and then present the suggested changes to the faculty of the College.
This purportedly will give the students a voice in the formation and revision of courses. This could be a positive step toward better education. Here is a suggestion:
One of the frequent charges leveled at college graduates today is that they slide through four years of higher education and miraculously escape untouched by culture. Granted, many students prefer this. Some prefer a life of not knowing and not caring about art, music, literature, drama, philosophy, etc. But there are many students that receive their degrees and still haven't been able to strengthen their education with a really broad base of cultural knowledge.
Some students pursuing a specialized course find themselves with too few true electives and finish college with a rather narrow knowledge of our American culture.
The complaint is heard that a semester is too long to spend on many specialized courses in the arts. This could be true, especially for those that feel they can't spare the hours.
It seems that an inter-departmental course could be designed that would offer the student an introduction to the arts and give a basic background that the student would miss if he chooses the courses without plan.
Because of the subject matter the scope of the course would necessarily be limited. But a good basis of American Twentieth century art, music, literature, drama, and philosophy could be presented within the scope of a five-hour semester course. Other courses could explore other centuries and other countries.
The beauty of such a hypothetical course would be that each segment of study could employ the better lecturers from each separate department, offer a single presentation of a specific period of culture, and give the students a better grasp of our times.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
John Eaton
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