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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 26, 1964
Frenchmen Criticize De Gaulle For 'Sugar Daddy' Reputation
By Joseph W. Grigg
PARIS — (UPI) — President Charles de Gaulle of France is coming under heavy fire for trying to play "Uncle Sugar" too much and too often.
He has been getting a lot of political mileage by showing that France, in proportion to its population, hands out more foreign aid than any other country—including the United States.
Now, as De Gaulle sets out to win more friends and influence more people with additional largesse to Latin America, Frenchmen are beginning to kick at picking up the tab.
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A HEFTY DEBATE has been launched in the French press over assertions that De Gaulle's program of economic handouts is bleeding France dry.
It is being charged that France is squandering money on palaces and armies for African rulers that could well be put to use on highways, schools and housing for this country.
It is being asked why Frenchmen should pay out aid funds to Latin America when millions still are without proper housing in France itself.
De Gaulle is well aware of the mounting storm of criticism. He tried to head it off in part in his Jan. 31 news conference by emphasizing the importance of France's foreign aid effort.
HE PLANS A counterattack against critics of his foreign aid program in a series of speeches during a meet-the-people tour of North-Eastern France in April.
France currently is spending more than $1.2 billion annually on foreign aid. Although the United States spends nearly three times that amount, it does, in fact, make France per head of population and in relation to her national income the world's largest dispenser of foreign aid.
Nearly all of it goes to France's former African colonies currently.
By far the greatest proportion of this—more than $200 million annually—is given to Algeria under the 1962 Evian agreement, which gave the former French North African possession independence.
BUT IT IS being asked now why France has sent nearly 20,000 schoolteachers to Africa—14,650 of them to Algeria—at the French taxpayer's expense when French schools and universities are desperately undermanned.
Raymond Cartier, one of France's best known newspapermen, touched off the foreign aid debate in a recent series of articles in the weekly
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Paris-Match, in which he noted among other things that one out of six French homes still has no running water and one in four is more than a century old.
He pointed out that most of France's canal system was built in the reign of Louis XIV, more than 300 years ago, and that France today c ranks only seventeenth in the world in its telecommunications setup.
Why, Cartier acked, should France pay out to build gleaming marble
palaces for the "strong man" rulers of her former African colonies, many of whom since then have been toppled by revolutions despite the backing of French funds and French troops.
The pro-government daily La Nation hit back with an angry rebuttal, arguing that France can fully afford her foreign aid handouts and that in any case her place in the world makes it her duty to help underdeveloped nations.
Templin Residents Listen To Debate by Candidates
About 200 Templel hall residents heard the first debate between candidates for Student Body President and Vice-president last night.
Stressing experience and qualifications in student government, Marshall Crowther and Jim Cline, Vox Populi running mates, said they want to promote growth with a sense of responsibility.
Bob Stewart and Kaye Whitaker, University Party candidates, each explained two planks in the UP platform, saying their programs are "things students themselves can effect."
BOTH CROWTHER and Stewart emphasized the importance of voters becoming informed on the issues, the candidates stands, and past records of the parties.
"You must match up campaign promises with what has a good chance of becoming reality." Crowther said.
Following five-minute speeches by each of the candidates was a question-and-answer period. Asked what their parties could do to benefit Temple hall, Stewart answered, "We want to seek out those who are interested in each hall to apply for student government appointments."
CROWTHER REPLIED to the same question, "Vox Populi wants to benefit all the students. Any student who is qualified will receive appointments."
One man asked the vice-presidential candidates about their stand on the civil rights issue.
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Cline said, "The Human Rights Committee of the ASC is designed to take care of the Sigma Nu problem. It's their own problem as a private student group. I feel the Sigma Nu clause is a rather trivial matter."
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Miss Whitaker said, "We are very interested in this matter and want to actively support the HRC."
One man asked Cline, himself a resident of Templin, why an access road to the Engel Road complex (in last fall's Vox Populi platform) could not be built, since Vox is now proposing an addition to the football
Cline said, "We can get a road built if you all collect money to build it. The Board of Regents will not vote any funds for it. The stadium expansion would be paid for by a price increase in student season tickets."
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SDX Elects Officers
The professional journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi, has elected new officers.
They are: Don Black, Hugoton junior, president; Rick Mabbutt, Shoshone, Idaho, junior, vice-president; Russ Corbitt, Chanute senior, secretary; and Gregory Swartz, Overland Park junior, treasurer.
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