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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 19, 1964
Mixed Feelings Beset British Students Over Labor's Win
The appointment of Harold Wilson as Prime Minister and the Labor party majority in Parliament have been received with mixed feelings by KU students from Great Britain.
Britishers elected 317 Laborites or Socialists, 304 Conservatives or Tories, and 9 Liberals. Labor won 56 seats previously held by Conservatives to gain the majority.
"I would have preferred to see the Socialists with a larger working majority," Hugh Taylor, graduate student from Stoke-on-Trent, said. "But I am glad to see them wipe out the almost unbelievable Conservative majority."
"This will help keep the two party system," he added. The Socialists have not been the majority party in 15 years.
"Harold Wilson, being an intellectual, has more in common with the rising maritocracy in Britain," Taylor said. The maritocracy is the new executive class in Britain who have gained prominence more from intellect than from background, he said.
Anand Chitinis, a graduate student from Birmingham, England, and a Liberal, said he was delighted to see the Liberals gain two more seats
this election. The number of liberal voters also increased from five per cent in 1959 to 11.2 per cent.
"I am delighted the Socialist majority, being so small, will not be able to do anything drastic," Chitnis said. "The Tories, by being out of office, will be able to revamp their leadership."
Conservative sympathizers are not so happy with the Labor majority. "Ive always grown up believing the Tories were best qualified because they had better chances to acquire techniques and abilities," Andrew Hornig, graduate student from Birmingham, England, said.
"I can't put my weight with either party," he said. "I don't think the Labor party has won or the Conservatives have lost," he said. "England is in a transition stage now. We can't look for a future in any one direction."
"The Socialists may do something that will be wrong and this will all have to be undone," he added. Hornig said he feels there will be a watering down of the party line because the Socialists are not strong enough to do any major thing on their own. He feels Britain is in a precarious position.
Chitnis, on the other hand, does not feel this to be a danger. "If something has to be done the Liberals will go along rather than let the government collapse," he said.
"The Tories have not been that different from the Socialists," Taylor said. "The two parties have become very distinct but the issues which separate them have become less clear."
Yale Dean to Speak AtHumanitiesOpener
Taylor said the parties have left extreme left or right positions and converged to the left of center, slightly to the left.
A notorious French author whose writings emphasized sexual play and sadistic practices in the 18th century will be the topic of the first Humanities Series lecture.
Taylor said the past policy of adding liberals and tories when a majority was formed under the Tories. "It is a lot fairer to add Liberals and Socialists together because they have more in common in economic and foreign policy," he said.
"The Malelediction of the Marquis de Sade" will be presented by Georges May, dean of Yale College, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser Hall. The lecture will open the 18th year of the Humanities Series. An informal reception by the Faculty Club will follow.
Dean May is a scholar in French literature who has published books on Racine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Diderot. He was born in Paris in 1920, was educated in France, became a naturalized American in 1943, and received the Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1947. Since then, he has taught French literature at Yale.
the campus, Dean May will speak to classes in European history and in French literature; will speak tonight in the English Room of the Kansas Union at a dinner arranged by Pi Delta Phi, French honor society. He will have luncheon Tuesday with French faculty members and graduate students.
Because of the severe parking problem on Mt. Oread, lecture-goers are advised to park in Lot Y and there board a free shuttle-bus to Fraser Hall; return trips will be made after, the lecture. Bus service will start about 7:30 p.m. from Lot Y, which is a half-block south of the KU smokestack. Shuttle-bus service will be offered for all Humanities Lectures this year.
"The only major point on which the Liberals will disagree with the Socialists is on Nationalization, the public ownership of things such as steel industry or trucking," Chitnis said.
Taylor said he felt the Laborists could retain their present position, despite the small majority of 22, unless they did something drastic which would force the liberals to align with the conservatives.
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"I do feel, however, there will be a general election in two years," he said. "Wilson will stay in without doing anything drastic when it looks as if he has a good public image, he will take his party to the people for another election to gain the needed large majority."
Chitnis agreed with Taylor, with one exception. "Wilson, a principled man, might bring up a major issue merely on principle and be defeated," he said.
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Wayne Poucher
Church of Christ 15th and New Hampshire
Oct. 18-23 7:30 p.m.
Professor To Discuss '64 Election Campaign
Herman LuJan, professor of political science, will speak before the KU-Y Current Issues Forum on "Campaign '64: Issues and Strategy the Democratic View," at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Cottonwood Room of the Kansas Union. Prof. LuJan specializes in political parties, political behavior, and campaign strategy.
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