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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1964
Shift in World Powers Seen by Panel
A panel of four KU professors concluded Saturday evening that France's recognition of Red China may indicate a shift of the super powers or the possible establishment of a third world force.
The panel met with the International club in the Kansas Union.
"The recognition of Red China by France made us very conscious of the fact that a bi-polar approach to international politics has been a grossly misleading simplicity," Jarek Pickalkiewicz, visiting assistant professor of political science, said.
PROF. Piekalkiewicz feels that De Gaulle thinks the growing strength of Red China will force the Russians to soften their position in Eastern Europe because of fear from the Chinese border. De Gaulle thinks once Red China becomes more of a serious threat, Russia will be more likely to negotiate and eventually give in on the question of the unification of Germany, Prof. Piekalkiewicz said.
This fear of Red China will force Russia to weaken her controls of East-Central Europe, Piealkiewicz said.
"ALSO BECAUSE OF the growing Red Chinese power the Soviet Union is forced to weaken its controls of East-Central Europe and De
Gaule sees the possibility of even eventually uniting Western (Europe) with Eastern Europe, perhaps first on an economic basis," Prof. Piekalkiewicz said.
"The unification of Germany and eventually the unification of the whole of Europe is necessary for the realization of De Gaulle's grand plan of the creation of a third world force—a Europe so strong that it will achieve equal power with both the United States and the Soviet Union and to act as a political entity which will save the world by being between the two" he said.
Piekalkiewicz said that De Gaulle feels the U.S. is wasting its time in Viet Nam and that the only solution "is neutralization of South East Asia and in this way De Gualle plans to save not only the people of the region, but also to save the Americans from destroying themselves."
"DE GAULLE plans to support the Red Chinese desire to join the United Nations," Prof. Piealkiewicz stated.
Prof. Piekalkiewicz's opinion of De Gaulle's reasoning is "It is doubtful that Chinese pressure will force the Soviet Union to relinquish its grip on the countries of East Central Europe and permit them eventually
unification with Western Europe; rather it will result in the construction of a more fruitful cooperation based on the assumption of equality between the partners which will strengthen rather than weaken their common bond."
"More attention should be paid the fact that Red China has recognized France," Robert A. Burton lecturer in the East Asian Area, said.
HE SAID THAT Red China recognized France for her (China's) own national interests. Peking feels it must increase its influence and eventually take the leadership of the communist party since the present Russian leaders are not supporting the true communist line as the Chinese see the doctrine.
"As far as Peking is concerned, any party or group which supports Khrushchev and his friends does not have the interest of Communist Sovietism at heart." Burton said.
"Perhaps this is a fight for leadership of the Communist party. If this is the case, France's idea that China will be the new leader will put France as the third world power in return for France's support now," Errol E. Harris, professor of philosophy, said.
AS FOR DE GAULLE'S motives
Last Stop for Reapportionment Believed To Be Supreme Court
By Lee Stone
The reapportionment issue facing the Kansas Legislature today may be destined for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rep. Jess Taylor, R.-Tribune and a leader of rural forces seeking to reduce state representatives to one per county, said last weekend he is sure the issue will reach the Supreme Court.
Taylor said "big daily newspapers" in Kansas are responsible for the reapportionment conflict.
"The constitution doesn't say a word about population." Taylor said.
"THEY SPREAD the propaganda that this (wanting equal population for representative districts) is the way most people feel about it," Taylor said at a Topeka hotel Sunday night.
word about population." Taylor said. The Kansas constitution says: "It shall be the duty of the first legislature to make an apportionment, based upon the census ordered by the last legislative assembly of the territory; and a new apportionment shall be made in the year 1866, and every five years thereafter, based upon the census of the preceding year."
THE POPULATION of Taylor's Greeley County, as reported by assessors, was 2,241 on Jan. 1, 1963, and was gaining population at 2 per cent a year.
The Kansas Supreme Court declared the reapportionment statute of the present legislature to be unconstitutional. Although it commended the Senate for its reapportionment, the court declared the statute unconstitutional because a clerk had neglected to include the town of Leawood.
The court was less complimentary about the House's statute, Justice Fatzer, who handed down the decision, said the commendable results achieved by the Senate "have not, unhappily, been reached with respect to the distribution of the 20 'extra' seats in the House of Representatives."
THE COURT pointed out the "disparity of equality" in representation amounted to as much as 282 per cent.
Presently,14 per cent of the population can elect a majority.
If the constitutional requirements were met 19 per cent could elect a majority—a redistribution of only 5 per cent.
Rep. Taylor says the chances of reducing the representatives to 105 are good," but all members of the House do not regard such an outcome as desirable.
Rep. E. J. Dreiling, D-Ellis County, said in Topeka, "I think you should pay respect to the court." Dreiling did not, however, think the election of representatives on an at-large basis would be a proper solution.
"We should be able to get better representation than that," Dreiling said. He felt the smaller counties
would be overwhelmed by the city vote in that event.
THE AT-LARGE election question had been raised by Marion Beatty, the trial court judge in the reapportionment case. Beatty said in an opinion that courts may be left with no other alternatives. "The least radical departure from precedent would appear to be election of legislators on an at-large basis," Beatty wrote.
James E. Titus, professor of political science, believes the conflict between urban and rural areas is at the bottom of the state's rights issue. He said since rural areas tend to dominate state legislatures and often ignore city problems, cities look to the federal government for assistance. The inclusion of cities in federal voting districts tends to soften the effect of large rural areas with small populations.
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"...De Gaule feels that both sides should be encouraged in this development" and that "the only way to achieve this goal is to support both sides; hence the necessity for the recognition of China and the enhancement of Red Chinese economic and political status." Prof. Piekalkiewicz said.
Burton said that Red China feels if she can aid France in becoming the leader of Europe and becoming a big economic competitor, then she hopes to work France against the U.S.A.
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AS FOR DE GAULLE personally, "he perhaps is not losing any sleep that the U.S.A. seems embarrassed and hurt by his unilateral action, but it certainly does him an injustice to suggest that this step has been taken out of pique and antagonism for the U.S.A. or that he is at the bottom of a giant conspiracy to cut the U.S.A. down to size." Clifford Ketzel, associate professor of political science, said.
Prof. Ketzel feels that the act of recognition of Red China might have been better accomplished after the coming elections.
In reference to De Gaulle's ultimate aims, "It seems to me that Charles De Gaulle has objectives little different than . . . our own—the national interest of his own country and beyond that the interest of the non-communist world. It is in the methods that we differ, made irritating by the aloof and grand manner in which he chooses to announce and carry through his plans," Prof. Ketzel said.
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The beetles are at KU, too.
They are part of a genetic and ecological research program being carried on by the entomology department in Snow Hall.
These beetles differ from the human Beatles in that they don't make any noise, among other ways.
The beetles eat ground wheat and their own eggs. KU entomologists have been watching the old kind of beetles for more than four years.
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