NATO FEELER BY FRANCE
U.S. won't talk secretly
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson has bluntly informed French President Charles de Gaulle that the United States will not bargain away the foundations of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) behind the backs of its other allies.
In a swift note to the French president, Johnson rejected a French proposal for immediate Washington-Paris discussions aimed at eventual liquidation of U.S. bases and supply lines in France.
DE GAULLE, WHO IS FEARful that too close ties with the United States might drag France into a war it doesn't favor elsewhere in the world, wants to get rid of NATO headquarters within the next two years.
But Johnson said the other 13 NATO allies must have a voice in any such move. He also turned down De Gaulle's demand that any U.S. troops remaining on French soil after NATO headquarters are disbanded must be placed under French command.
The unusually swift and firm American response to this country's oldest ally was in reply to a French note in which De Gaulle demanded early renegotiation of a bilateral 1951 agreement covering
SDS spokesman doubts authority of new council
A spokesman for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) said he does not feel the Council on Student Affairs, created to deal with student questions about University policy, has the authority to deal with SDS's questions.
Jim Masters, Mission graduate student, said if the council has only authority to hear student questions and make recommendations to the chancellor, "then it is not the body for us to deal with."
Provost James R. Surface, who announced yesterday the creation of the council, said it would be the appropriate body for such discussions.
The council was created "for the direct purpose of having a channel through which these issues can be raised or discussed." Surface said. "If the council decides to recommend a change, then it would receive serious consideration by the chancellor."
the assignment of U.S. forces to France.
The council was not a legislative body.
"It's merely advisory to the chancellor," Surface said. But this is true of any official in the university except the chancellor, he added.
U. S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen has reported in the past from Paris that De Gaulle apparently wants:
DE GAULLE HAS SAID frequently that although he wants to retain some form of "Western alliance" with the United States, the NATO structure has outlived its usefulness.
Kansan receives newspaper prize
The University Daily Kansan has received the Karin Walsh Memorial Award presented at the MacMurray College Newspaper Conference to two outstanding publications.
THE FRENCH NOTE reached Washington yesterday. Four hours later Undere secretary of State George W. Ball called in Ambassador Charles Lucet to give him what was described an "interim" answer.
- The early removal from French territory of NATO headquarters, with the vast military bureaucracy it has built up during the past 17 years.
- The withdrawal of virtually all American forces from French bases, with any who remain being placed under De Gaulle's command.
The Kansan was judged the superior paper entered in the judging from a college with enrollment over 1,000. Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., won in the division for small schools.
Walsh, at one time the youngest city editor of a metropolitan newspaper in the U.S., was an executive of the Chicago Sun-Times at the time of his death last summer. He was also active in the MacMurray College conference, held annually in Jacksonville, Ill.
In it, the United States declared that the future of the U.S. bases struck at the very heart of NATO, which was created in 1949 to guard against the possibility of Communist aggression in Western Europe.
about the issue behind the backs of the other allies.
A high administration official said the President ordered the unusually prompt reply because he did not want France to entertain any idea that the United States would even consider talk-
ASC legislation slate light
A light agenda is expected at the All Student Council (ASC) meeting tonight in the Kansas Union. This is due to the extra meeting held last week handling the heavy pre-election flow of bills and resolutions.
The recently-formed ASC committee to investigate and evaluate student rights and regulations will meet today to discuss current issues, and will give a brief report to the council tonight.
Three amendments to ASC bills will be recommended for passage by the Committee on Committees.
One amendment, introduced by Kay Orth, El Dorado junior (UP—sorority), concerns seniority of faculty members judging Homecoming and Jayhawker queens.
The other amendments entail changes in bills on finances and the Student Athletic Seating Board.
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Daily Including Sunday
Young Republicans to send large group to convention
KU's Collegiate Young Republicans (CYR) will send forty delegates to the Kansas CYR annual convention this weekend.
"We will really be strong at the convention." Bob Miner, Great Bend sophomore and chairman of the organization, said.
Miner said that about 15 colleges and universities will attend the convention at the Town House Motor Hotel in Kansas City.
Leading KU's delegation will be Brian Biles, Hutchinson senior and State Convention chairman; Bill Porter, Topeka junior and State CYR chairman and Elizabeth Schmidt, Wilmett, Ill., sophomore and State CYR Women chairman.
Prominent guests at the annual convention will be Rep. Robert Ellsworth (R.-Kan.). Sen. James B. Pearson and William Tarrant, mayor of Wichita.
After registration on Friday afternoon the KU club will meet with other organizations from schools within the state.
Highlights of the convention will be the election of CYR Queen for 1966. Jody Loyd, Newton sonohomie, is KU's candidate.
"The idea of electing a queen started at our club and now has spread over other states and national CYR organizations," Miner said.
The contest will take place at a luncheon on Saturday. Guest speaker at the event will be Rep. Don Rumsfeld (R-III).
Rumsfeld, 33, is serving his third term in congress and is considered the youngest Republican member in Congress. Miner said.
"The convention's main purpose is to elect officers for the coming year and to make plans for the approaching elections," Miner said.
At noon Sunday, the women CYR will elect their officers for the coming year.
A very cool customer
(UPI)—Raymond P. Morales described the pretty young blonde as a "cool customer." She walked into his grocery store, ordered an ice cream cone, then pulled a .38 caliber revolver and ordered him to hand over the cash. Finally, she ordered him into a refrigerator and made her escape.
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Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 8,1966