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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 27, 1963
Wade Says France Aidedby DeGaulle
Rv Terry Ostmeyer
The emergence of France as a strongly disciplined and prosperous country has been a swift, almost remarkable renaissance thanks mainly to Charles de Gaule, Ira Wade, Humanities lecturer, said yesterday in an interview.
Wade, director of the Special Program in European Civilization at Princeton University, said it has been only 12 years since the French nation was in a very "lamentable" position. It experienced little improvement until De Gaulle arrived on the scene in 1958.
"IN 1950 the country was characterized by utter futility, disillusionment, and frustration," he said.
Wade, who has spent much of his life in France, said the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, World War I, and World War II were the chief causes in France's plight. The country would rebuild only to see itself destroyed again.
"The French people simply lost their courage," he said. "The country nearly became Communist because there was no opposition, no more rebuilding, no unification, and no business. Everything was at a standstill."
He said between 1951-1958 there was somewhat of an improvement in France with immense gains in material prosperity, especially in business, yet the country lacked discipline and modernization.
"BEHIND IT ALL was a deep anxiety about a lack of stability in France." Wade said. "The greatest difficulty was that the country's governing body was in complete confusion."
He said too many political parties in France immobilized the nation and brought the threat of revolt.
Then, France turned to De Gaulle in 1958.
"THEER WAS A feeling of great relief, and I believe the people had great confidence in De Gaulle," Wade said.
Now, four years later, Wade sait the country has been modernized overhauled, and is definitely prospering.
He said De Gaulle's main plan was to bring back prosperity to France and, even more important, to create a strong internal order.
By the same token, he said, this new renaissance in France can be applied to the nation's position on matters such as the Common Market.
WADE SAID the history of the Common Market has in many ways been parallel to this rebirth of France. The former has been responsible for the prosperity of much of Europe and has thus stabilized the prosperity in France.
He said, however, it is merely a coincidence that the Treaty of Rome, which brought the Common Market into being, was signed by the six European countries in the same year that De Gaulle came to power.
He said the works of Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium, and Maurice Schuman and Henri Monnet of France have been the heart of the development of the inner economic power in the six-nation organization.
"THIS POWER developed through the genius of these men, not De Gaulle. I give him credit for the discipline of France," he said.
Wade described the Common Market as an umbrella protecting the economic successes of France and this is why De Gaulle does not favor the admittance of Great Britain into
the economic community at the moment.
"IT'S A CASE OF national selfishness, but I don't believe it will last France is holding off because I think it wants to make sure its former colonies secure the advantages of the Common Market," he said.
Wade also commented on the current labor strikes in France. He said the strikes are almost normal because the French economic system has been developed in a disciplined order.
These small groups want their cut of the new prosperity in the country, he said. It is not a form of hostility to De Gaulle.
"He (De Gaulle) is waiting carefully and letting the strikes work themselves down and then he'll step in." Wade said.
Wade said De Gaulle and France took a calculated risk four years ago and the country has responded tremendously.
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"I think it is an amazing thing that in these few years De Gaulle has turned France into the disciplined and powerful nation it is."
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Ugliest Man Contest Kicks off Campus Chest
McComb said this is the first year the ugliest man will be chosen, but Alpha Phi Omega hopes to make it an annual event of the Campus Chest drive.
The winning group will be awarded a traveling trophy "about as ugly as the man," according to Craig McComb, Prairie Village sophomore and chairman of the event. The winner will be announced next week.
One nickel equals one vote for the ugliest man on the campus.
The contest to choose the winner of this title is being sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity. The proceeds will be contributed to the Campus Chest drive.
POLLING PLACES have been set up in the Kansas Union. Strong Hall basement, and the Hawklett in Summerfield Hall. Each contribution of five cents entitles the donor to a vote for one of the five candidates pictured at the polls.
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Each of the candidates has been entered by his living group. Those participating are Grace Pearson, Joseph R. Pearson, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Ma, and Theta Chi.
ROBERT CATHEY, Shawnee Mission junior and chairman of the drive, said the goal this year is $10.-000. Sixty-five per cent of the money collected at KU will go to help
other students through the World University Service, CARE Book Fund and the KU Travel Fund.
The drive will begin with a Kick Off Coffee at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
L. C. WOODRUFF, dean of students, and Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance, will speak on aspects of the University and the Campus Chest.
House presidents, solicitors, All Student Council members, heads of the departments and members of the administration will attend.
The divisions are large men's dormitories, large women's dormitories, small men's dormitories, small women's dormitories, fraternities, and sororities.
A trophy will be awarded to the living group in each of six divisions that contributes the most money per person.
This will be the main organizational meting of the drive, Cathey said.
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"A NEW KIND of tyranny . . . oppresses all. The consequences of this turnabout have been shocking.
"The world has suddenly contracted. Man has lost belief in his own powers because he has lost knowledge of himself.
"You are beating you're head against a windowless and doorless self. Man remains alone, shut up within himself. He has freedom, but he'd planned to be free."
PROF. WADE said critical penetration of civilization is made possible through a force of idea which expands into elements. These elements cause a structure which produces a form. He said the form contains the meaning.
"In our present situation, we should re-unite our little humanity with all other humanities."
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