De Gaulle v. Pompidou
The battle lines are drawn
Foreign News Commentary
By ANTHONY TOBIN
United Press International
FARIS—(UPI) The new government of Premier Georges Pompidou is fighting a creeping erosion which could rend it and bring its downfall.
Problems began with the shocking resignation from the cabinet last Friday of Edgard Pisani, housing and equipment minister, a bearded and flamboyant 48-year-old former Resistance fighter who leads the so-called liberal left-wing Gaullists in parliament.
He quit—or perhaps was asked to step down—because of Pompiadou's decision to seek special powers permitting the premier to legislate by decree—in effect, asking the national assembly to give up for six months its right to debate and vote on vital economic and social legislation.
At the April 28 cabinet meeting, Pisani reportedly protested violently against the request for special powers, which he called "unwarranted and untimely."
Ministers Join Criticism Two other ministers—Social Affairs Minister Jean-Marcel Jean-
meney and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Andre Bettancourt—are also reported to have criticized Fompidou's move at the cabinet meeting.
Already the Independent Republicans, a power-balancing majority faction headed by former Finance Minister Valery Giscard-Destain, have served notice they will boycott the May 9 debate in which Pompidou will make his appeal for special powers.
The Rightist Progress and Modern Democracy faction also are highly critical of Pompidou's action, while the leftwing federation which with the Communists control 200 seats in the 487-seat assembly, called for a strong united front to fight the government's demand for emergency powers when it is debated May 17.
The two opposition groups aim to file a censure motion against the government which is short by one seat an absolute parliamentary majority and thus could be pushed from office if the Independent Republicans decide to vote alongside the Communist-left-wing combination.
Giscard-Destaing has said he
will vote for the government but only if Pompidou's request is "fully justified."
Cites Urgent Legislation
Pompidou will outline the reasons for his appeal before the assembled parliamentarians May 9. He maintains that in order to ram through the urgently needed economic and social reforms normal red-tape parliamentary procedures must be bypassed so the legislation will not be delayed.
Many observers believe the emergency powers move could be a shrewd political play on the part of President Charles de Gaulle to precipitate the calling of new general elections in order to attempt to gain a strong Caullist majority in the assembly.
If the Pompidou bid is voted down in the censure motion, De Gaulle, who so far has not moved to intercede in the internecine squabbling, would have the opportunity to dissolve the assembly and call for new elections.
If parliament allows the emergency powers bill to be passed,
De Gaulle also could chalk up a big victory.
Either way, observers believe,
he can't lose.
The people say...
To the Editor:
With all the noise coming from downtown Lawrence in recent days, and as a public service to KU students, I feel the UDK should reprint the enclosed letter from the April 15th issue of The New Republic:
Sirs:
James Ridgeway's article on "Patriots on the Campus" (March 25) hit very close to home for me, particularly in the matter of dossiers kept on students by university administrators. My first knowledge of any form of this practice came when I was a sophomore at the University of Kansas in 1963. The Student Peace Union, intending to hold a demonstration, duly notified the Dean of Students. He argued at length that the proposed demonstration (unprecedented at Kansas) should be called off, and when he would not do so, he pulled an extensive report from his files. The FBI, with the apparent cooperation of the University, had compiled a report about the SPU, a report which contained quite a large amount of information about what was, until that time, a relatively non-controversial organization
The matter rested for a time, but during the 1965- 66 school year it arose again with the public disclosure that the University kept extensive dosiers on all undergraduate students. These dossiers
“Silent Spring”
contained reports or behavior from dormitory counselors, along with routine academic and social records; they also contained records of public demonstrations in which the individual student participated. The students demanded an end to this spying; the University finally agreed that each student could, upon graduation, have his dossier "interpreted" to him by a person in the appropriate dean's office, and if the student wished, the dossier would then be destroyed. No one knows, of course, whether or not this destruction ever takes place when requested; and it is fully known that the FBI has full access to University records of all sorts, as was shown to us in the case mentioned above.
Tim Miller
Medford, Mass.
James McCrary
Lawrence junior
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Friday, May 5, 1967
UDK Book Review: Papa Hemingway
'Papa'-a vivid exciting portrait
By SCOTT NUNLEY
"Ordinarily Ernest advanced upon a telephone with dark suspicion, virtually stalking it from behind. He picked it up gingerly and placed it to his ear as if to determine whether something inside was ticking."
from "Papa Hemingway"
"With any luck, the reader will find his way to the heart of the thing himself." Hotchner notes in the foreward to his "Papa Hemingway." If the book is more memoir than biography, perhaps it does not provide all the evidence the reader requires. But it is a vivid and exciting portrait of Hemingway.
From the composition of "Across the River and into the Trees" to his suicide in 1961, Ernest Hemingway rode a wave of public acclaim and personal dispair. A. E. Hotchner, one of the more intimate Hemingway companions of those years, refuses to offer an explanation of the aging author.
"Something played off him—he was intense, electrokinetic, but in control, a race horse reined in . . . God, I thought, how he's enjoying himself!"
Cuba, Italy, Spain—Hotchner from his mid-twenties shared Hemingway's free weeks hunting, drinking, travelling. "Papa Hemingway" is immediately alive with the dialogue of those days. Notes and tape-recordings have furnished the details of conversation, Hotchner contends. However accurate he is, Hotchner's prose treatment of Ernest Hemingway is certainly convincing to the reader.
Hotchner's style reflects something of the understated tire of his patrone. Bullfight summers in Spain contain fascinating insights into the Hemingway world:
"When you break down in Spain it is unheard of to call for help. The proper procedure is that the driver gets out his tool kit and starts taking the engine apart; when it is completely apart, he wipes off each of the long line of parts he has lined up beside the road, then carefully reassembles them while beseeching God to assist in the automotive miracle he is attempting."
"Papa Hemingway" is dedicated in obvious adoration of the author of "For Whom the Bell Tolls," but an adoration of bleak as well as gay moments, of childish whim and temper as well as godlike courage and patience.
In the last years of "Papa's" life, there were terrible periods of sickness and doubt, but intermittent moments of great happiness. In 1959, Ernest returned to the hills of the Irati River in Spain—"What a hell of a happy time.' He watched a hawk plummet earthward and disappear, then re-emerge beating skyward with a small prey struggling in his talons. 'You know, Hotch,' he said, his eyes on the hawk, 'it's all better than The Sun Also Rises.'"
William Faulkner, an American talent eclipsing Hemingway, had not been very complimentary to "Across the River." Papa commented in reply: "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? . . . But there are older and simpler better words, and those are the ones I use. . . . You ever read his story The Bear? Read that and you'll know how good he once was."
Suffering through Hemingway's "Black-Ass" days, laughing at his animal tales, sharing his final adventures, A. E. Hotchner spent his young manhood with the novelist. There must be few better ways to mature, and few better ways to invest $1.25 than for "Papa Hemingway."
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