Wednesday, Feb. 28, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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Historian Predicts Russian Freedom
ST.LOUIS — (UPI) — A Harvard historian says that time is on the side of the Western world in the cold war because it is "almost inevitable that Soviet Russia will eventually evolve along more democratic lines."
William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, spoke at the 46th annual convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He said the very fact the Soviet Union is becoming a highly industrialized society, resulting in more goods being produced and a general rise in the standard of living, will result in increasing "demands for liberty and self-government."
"EVEN STALIN found it necessary, in 1936, to introduce a representative system with at least the semblance of Western institutions," he said. "Since his death, in the brief period of nine years, tremendous changes have taken place in the Soviet Union.
"Khrushchev has made one concession after, another, and is lavish in promises, holding out to the Russian people the prospect of eventually attaining the same well-being already enjoyed by the United States."
Robert Kennedy Ends World Tour
PARIS — (UPI) — Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy left by plane for New York today at the end of his 28-day round-the-world tour. He will report to President Kennedy on his talks with heads of government in Asia and Europe.
Kennedy, his wife Ethel and other members of the party left Orly Airport at 1:35 p.m. (6:35 a.m. Lawrence time).
IN AN IMPROMPTU news conference in the airport TV lounge. Kennedy told reporters he would report in Washington to his brother, the President, on his conversation in Paris with President Charles de Gaulle.
Kennedy brushed aside questions by reporters who wanted to know exactly what he discussed with De Gaulle in their 45-minute meeting at the Elysee Palace yesterday.
"I found the conversations with French officials, and particularly with President De Gaulle, most helpful and useful," he said. "A number of subjects were discussed and I shall report on my conversation with the President when I return."
A MEMBER OF Kennedy's entourage said the Attorney General had a talk at the Crillon Hotel yesterday with Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns who happened to be visiting Paris on official business.
Asked to comment on the Dutch- Indonesian dispute in the light of this meeting, Kennedy said:
"I expect the matter will be resolved peacefully but it is going to take some period of time. I don't think a settlement will come immediately."
Langer said two "portentous" changes are currently in motion in the Communist world. One is the "gradual transformation of Soviet Russia," and the second is "the progressive disintegration of the Communist bloc." These changes, he said, will make the Soviet Union easier to deal with in the future.
LANGER SAID the widening rift between Russia and Communist China is a manifestation of the changes going on inside the Soviet Union today.
"Indeed, one might argue that the quarrel between them stems primarily from the tendency of the Soviet leadership to abandon the uncompromising revolutionary belligerence of Marxist Leninism," he said.
"It seems most unlikely that this process can be reversed," the historian said.
Langer pointed to the "defection" of Communist China, which he said is proceeding at an altogether unlooked for pace, and he said it will encourage defections elsewhere in the blog.
Langer added, however, that it will probably be a matter of years before the definite form of the "new" Communist world will be discernible. In the interval Langer predicted that hard times will lie ahead for the United States. ___
CRC Will Discuss Chancellor's Action
Action will be considered and a letter to the University Daily Kansan will be drawn up at the Civil Rights Council meeting at 8 tonight in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.
Charles Menghini, Pittsburgh senior and co-chairman of the CRC, said, "We will decide what to do in answer to Chancellor Wescoe's suggestion that we refer all campus discrimination issues to the ASC Human Relations Committee."
Turn Signals to Be Amber
DETROIT—(UPI) —Amber colored front turn signals will appear on American cars in the 1963 model year.
The change has been recommended by the Automobile Manufacturers Association. The AMA also is studying a dual-intensity system which would increase daytime brightness of signals two to four times over that of present signals.
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