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J Page 4 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, February 21, 19C5 r.-jy.v.v.-Avw.v.-i,.WA'.,IW'W.v He's Dr. Y. C. Wans Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens Co-Editors Larry Tarleton Sports Editor Second Class Postage Paid at Chapel Hill, N. ,C. A Well-Directed Eye Forward The Carolina Symposium, the nation's oldest and perhaps finest collegiate forum, might be consideretd -the prototype of . the purposeful, smooth-functioning campus organization. Since 1927, when its parent or ganization (the Institute of Human Relations) intro duced the practice of devoting an entire week to the exploration of one central theme, the Symposium has presented a maximum number of quality speakers and discussions for the enlightenment of the University community. In the process, it has been the recipient of some spectacular and well-deserved acclaim. A recent news item gives a clue to the origins of such constant success: "The Program Committee of the 1966 Symposium will meet," it said, "to consider pos sible themes and topics for next year's event." Thus, though the 1966 Symposium is over a year away, there is no thought of procrastination or delay. Such energetic dedication on the part of the Sym posium committee should not go unsupported by the student, body. If you have a suggestion for the 1966 Symposium, attend the next meeting and share your views. Or, if you are pressed for time, just send us a note and-we'll pass all suggestions on to George But ler, interim Symposium chairman. Perhaps you, too, can' play a part. They're Off! (Formally, That Is) The spring, election season formally kicks off this afternoon when the Student Party meets to nominate its slate of officers. The University Party will follow suit tomorrow night. Of course, the spring election "season has been in formally progressing" for some time now, and the two conventions should produce a surprise or two. The political parties are the seedbed for campus . leaders, and we urge every student who holds mem bership in either to attend the convention and cast a ballot. A party nomination, we suspect, is worth a thousand votes to any "Big Four" candidate, and with this advantage an independent's chances are some what dim. Thus, the nominees chosen today and tomorrow will probbaly include the future campus leaders. This year's excellent administration will be a hard act to follow, but we hope the two parties will make every effort possible to produce candidates who qualify as worthy successors. The U.N. And President De Gaulle The Minnesota Daily President de Gaulle's across-the-ocean debate with President-Johnson may not have been the last word in mature deliberation, but we think at least one of the General's proposals should be considered urgent. The five-power conference proposal to "revise" the. U.N. Charter has the dual advantage of aiming toward rrii T 1 CL a necessary goal and in- llie lalent OllOWS eluding the world's largest One of our favorite peo nation, hitherto excluded. pie, leady U'loole, brought The rumblings of the past The Professor F rom China By DAVID ROTHMAN DTH Columnist When Americans "pro tect" Southeast Asia, they tend to support the governments of crooks. When the Communists come to power, they often do so rid ing on the shoulders of nation al leaders. This is the opinion of Dr. Y. C. Wang (pronounced "Wong"). Long familiar with Southeast Asia, the 48 - year - old UNC professor is well equipped to talk about crooks and Com munists alike. Born in Peiping, Dr. Wang attended the London School of Economics. After receiving his j. degree in 1939, he return ed to China," where he entered the banking profession. When the Communists took over the Northern part of his country, Dr. Wang at first did not consider leaving. Nobody, he thought, could be worse than Chiang Kia-shek. But the Communists were just as bad, "and unlike Chiane. they were efficient. That's what scared me." At the time, the PeoDle's ar my did not have absolute con trol of Northern China, and Dr. Wang was given permission to leave. He went to Shanghai iust as his "old friends" were about us the program for the sophomore talent show yes terday, and it looks as though he's lined up an other success. Last year's performance, featuring gubernatorial candidate Ray Stansbury, drew a near-capacity crowd to Memorial Hall, and this one, we hope, will do the same." '. . The sophomore class has shown they are the most active of the four (although we readily admit the fresh men show promise), and Friday's talent show should to capture the city. Eventually, he reached Kun ming. He lived there for one year. Then, Dr. Wang heard his ra dio go dead. "I somehow guess ed what had happened," he says. "My old firends had caught up with me once more, and there was not much else I could do." The Keds had indeed caught up with Wang. They told the well-travelled scholar they wan ted his next desination to be Revolutionary University. Actually, though, Revoluntion- ary University was nothing but a concentration camp. Its only curriculum was Communist dogma. - Dr. Wang refused to attend the "school," and shortly after wards was threatened with death. "But the Communists," he jokes, "had more important people to shoot. Besides, I was on good terms with a local la bor leader, who convinced the authorities I wasn't that bad a 'reactionary.' " , In 1951, Dr. Wang finally was able to leave China. Six years later, he received his Ph.D. He is now a U. S. citizen. Dr. Wang feels that the Uni ted States usually supports crooks in Asia not because it wants to, but because the crooks are often the only peo ple to whom it can turn. few weeks from the Far East have not been encour aging. It's too early to tell whether Sukarno's thunder- ings about a Southeast Asian alliance outside the U.N. (and including China) , and China's claim now that it wouldn't accept U.N. membership if it were of fered, are serious or not. But if the statements were even so much as a trial balloon they are grounds for concern. If the de GauHe proposal is not the best one, let one of its be worth the price of ad- critics suggest an alterna mission. tive. Sen. Long And Rep. Boggs: Politicians From Louisiana THE DAILY REVILLE Louisiana State University Louisiana occupies a unique place among the several states with Sen. Russell B. Long's recent ascent to the post of Demo cratic Whip in the Senate. With Congressman Hale Boggs of New Orleans as House Majority Whip, the Pelican State now has the No. 2 man in both houses. While the floor positions command present attention, the two have even further power with their committee standings. Boggs is the third ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, and Long is second in command in the powerful Senate Finance Committee. That group is headed by Harry Byrd of Virginia, who at the ripe old age of 78 is likely to either die, fade away or settle down to his apple orchards in the not-too-distant future. It will be interesting to watch Long work at his new post. It is true that he has opposed the Kennedy-Johnson adminis trations on some key legislation; and Tuesday, barely more than 24 hours after his selection as Whip, he joined other South ern solons in a stategy meeting to combat the Johnson-backed measure to help choke off those long-winded filibusters. In view of such doings, one might wonder how Russell Long ever wrested such a job from two more liberal colleagues in the first place. Well, Long certainly is more liberal than the fore going will attest, and his victory also can be attributed to the fact that he went after it with somewhat more gusto than Sens. Pastore and Monroney. Moreover, unlike his famous father, he is equipped with that rare ability to soft-talk and arm-twistt the knack that put Lyndon Johnson in the same position in 1951 and then ad vanced him to the vice presidency. Also of interest to us is how this week's Washington devel opments affect things back in Louisiana. Evidently the Sena tor's standing with the homefolk has not exactly been attended by the Glory That Was Long. Too, we've given many thoughts that Gov. John McKeithen has . been rubbing his paws for a chance at the 46-year-old Long's seat come 1968. If the governor has consciously pursued that route, he has had few setbacks. Long supported cousin Gillis in the guber natorial chase, but McKiethen won it. Long again supported cousin Gillis in the Eighth District Congressional race, but another cousin, Speedy O. Long, won it going away with Mc Keithen's public endorsement. Long then struck a sour note with an obvious majority of his constituents by supporting President Johnson. McKeithen coyly kept his mouth shut, and Goldwater carried the state by a comfortable margin. But now we think Sen. Long has his head well above the political waterline after this eventful week. Inevitably there will be the Louisiana cries that "he sold us down the river," but we somehow think that, with the ways and means afforded by the Whip post, he should be able to keep his name intact among the voters. At any rate, if McKeithen does have ambitions to the Club, and if both men keep up their present pace, then the prover bial stage is set for one whale of a factional feud three years hence.' In the minds of most As ians, he says, "America is as sociated with the imperialism of. Great Britain and France." Thus, he claims, the dedicat ed national leaders of South Viet Nam and other countries cannot" afford being identified with the United States. For this reason, they refuse our assis tance. On the other hand, says Dr. Wang, power-hungry politicians are willing to win our favor. This is because they do not enjoy popular support, and must therefore deal with the United Sates. Having been ignored by the genuine leaders, Wang says, we have no chaice but to let the op portunists fill the power va cuum. Often, he says, they es tablish some semblance of sta bility, but actually this stablility is quite superficial. According to Wang, the gener al poplation, knowing the real motives of the opportunists, re fuses to voluntarily respect their authority, refuses to fight their battles against the Com munists. But the Communists? Dr. Wang believes China and Russia go out of their way to appear foes of imperialism. How can China get away with this? After all, China has tra ditionally regarded most ct Southeast Asia as within its sphere of influence. And what about Russia with its Europ ean satellites? .. Dr. Wang's answer is this Red China's 1949 revolution is interpreted in Peiping's pro paganda handouts as not only a repudiation of the old regime, but also as a repudiation of China's ancient imperialistic ambitions. - As for the Russions, they had their Communist takeover in 19 17. Out went the czars, and out with them supposedly went their dreams of expansion into the Orient. The Orient thai is what counts. Dr. Wang, of course, does not believe this propaganda. B u i many Asians do, and that, be feels, is one of the main rea sons behind the Communist suc cess. Conversely, the United States, according to Dr. Wang, is con sidered by the Asians to have been a staunch supporter cf the the imperialism of Great Brit ain and France. What did this imperialism mean? It meant many things. It meant, for instance, that 3$ years ago Peiping had parks that admitted foreigners only. This in a major Chinese city. European imperialism, Dr. Wang says, today means that in Hong Kong a similar situation still prevails. In Viet Nam, says Dr. Wang, it means that the Caucasian U. S. military advisors are look ed upon with suspicion not because being white in itself is considered bad; it is because it identifies the advisors witfe the hated French. The white skin that is all the natives see; that is enough they think, to reveal the worth of the soul contained therein. According to Dr. Wang, our problem, then, is to disassoci ate ourselves from the Europ ean powers at least, in the minds of the Asians. True the imperialism oE Great Britain and France for the most part has disappeared with history; this Dr. Wan knows. But surface symbols, such as the discrimination ia Hong Kong, still exist. These symbols, along with bitter me mories, are enough to forever perpetuate false stereotypes. The Asians, Dr. Wang says, have their own answer to im perialism: nationalism.
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