PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1966 ,AEE-TTEMCIA AIYSNAMRH2,16 LABOR AHEAD: Conservatives Pose Minimal Opposition in British Election Policy Changes Part of De Gaulle Master Plan tI LONDON ()-Edward Richard George Heath faces the acid test of a national election only eight months after taking command of Britain's d i v i d e d Conservative party. Both friend and critic wonder if he is sufficiently blessed with that "divine spark" of leadership the late Sir Winston Churchill said any chieftain, political or military, needed for success. The March 31 balloting shapes up as a personal conflict between Heath and Prime Minister Harold Wilson, leaders of the two major parties, despite their avowed in- tention of keeping personalities out of the campaign. Opinion polls and some pundits put Wilson and his Labor party out in front. A commentator for Conservative newspaper has sid: "The Conservatives are at great rick of overwhelming defeat at the next general election." This commentator, Ronald Butt, writing in the Financial Times, said the Tories have failed to con- vince the "floating voters," those who owe no formal allegiance to any party, that the Conservative party defends their interests. These voters, most of them un- der 40 years of age, "see the Conservatives as still largely a party representing the well-to-do," Butt said. The London Times estimates these uncommitted voters consti- tute 35 per cent of the electorate. The Conservatives s e l e c t e d Heath as leader in an attempt to give a new look to Britain's oldest party, the party of Britain's land- ed aristocracy and industrial ty- coons, of such political giants as Pitt the Younger, Disraeli, Sir Robert Peel and Churchill. They passed over others who stood higher in party councils and chose a man as much like Wilson as they could find. Physically, the two men are similar. They were born 50 years ago: Wilson March 11, 1916; Heath July 9, 1916. Both are above average height,1 Heath an inch or so taller; bothj have silvery hair and are full- faced, heavyset. Both come from powerful mid- d'e class--Wilson the son of an industrial chemist, Heath the son1 of an industrial carenter. Neither; has large financial means. Both Heath and Wilson had' brilliant scholastic records and both 2epresent the new type of British politician: hard-working, well informed and masters of the technical details of government and politics. Wilson has shown himself a master parliamentarian. H e a t h has faced up to Wilson's steely barbs and thrusts with difficulty in House of Commons debates. In addition, the prime minister has produced what has come to be called the "politics of perpetual motion." One Conservative jour- nal has complained that Wilson produces next week's issue while the opposition is still trying to catch up with last week's. Heath took over the party lead- ership from Sir Alec Douglas- Home at a time when the Tories were deeply divided on a host of issues and clashing personalities. Some feel much of present-day Tory disarray stems from Prime Mirister H a r o l d Macmillan's choice of Douglas-Home to suc- cee-i him in October 1963. Many in the party believed others, not- ably the then deputy prime min- isi er, Richard A. Butler, were more suited. Party leaders are also divided over Rhodesia, economic policy, national defense and. foreign af- fairs. One group, led by the Mar- quess of Salisbury, opposes sanc- tions against the Rhodesian re- gime although the party supports the Labor government's action to bring down the rebellion. AP News Analysis1 French President Charles de Gaulle may well dismay his allies; with shock policy decisions because at 75, he 'feels he hasn't a great deal of time left in which to at- tain his objective: a France dom- inant in Europe and powerful in the world's councils. His planned withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organi- zation's military structure and his eviction notice to its headquar- ters and to U.S. bases in France are part of his grand design. So, for that matter, is his insistence on France having an independent nuclear force. All are in keeping with his desire to make his coun- try dependent on no one. He announced that foreign bases on French soil would have to be under French command and set 1969 as the latest date for ac- complishment of this. Then sud- denly his timetable was stepped up and he told the world he was pulling *his forces out of NATO and that their bases in France should be removed. A switch in tactics is not new and de Gaulle uses this method to keep critics off balance and opponents baffled. Many of his ac- tions appear paradoxical, but this apparently causes him no concern. " He is pulling out of NATO's military structure but he wants to stay in the council which creat- ed it. * He thinks war in Europe is now so remote a possibility that NATO has outlived itsIusefulness. Yet he has his scientists and mil- itary busy building a hydrogen bomb. In the latter connection, he refuses to sign the nuclear test ban. He feels it was created only after the atomic powers had their weapons. * He will have nothing to do with disarmament except on his terms: destruction of all atomic weapons and the means to deliver them. This is generally regarded as an unrealistic approach to a vi- tal problem. * He has kept Britain bewilder- ed with his about-faces on the Common Market. First he thought it was all right to have her as a partner. Then he vetoed the idea. Now he seems to be for it again. These twists and turns should not be taken as the result of a man trying to move in several direc- tions at once in broad and aim- less fashion. De Gaulle knows what he wants and where he wants to go. His next trip is to Moscow and speculation is once more rife that he plans some sort of agreement with the Soviet Union. But high French officials state categorically he will make no arrangements or treaties there, Yet, Soviet Ambassador Valer- ian A. Zorin told a luncheon meet- ing last Thursday the Soviet Un- ion would welcome a French-Rus- sian non-aggression pact. The So- viet Union, he said, would sup- port "anything of this kind ac- ceptable to France." He talks grandly of a Europe from "the Atlantic to the Urals," bringing Russia he undoubtedly is a realist who ogical utopia isf zon and may view. into Europe, and means it. But he knows this ideol- far over the hori- never come into He thinks the postwar domin- ance of the United States has led to a deadening paternalism and thus attacks the presence of Amer- ican business influence in France. He chides at the dollar and calls for a return to the gold standard, criticizes the fact that NATO is integrated-and with an Ameri- can general in overall charge. He says he doesn't want to be so attached to the United States that France would be dragged into American conflicts. And yet, dur-' ing the Cuban missile crisis he was the first to declare himself solidly on the side of the United States. This is paradox to many, but not to Charles de Gaulle. It offered him a fine opportunity to demon- strate what he means when he says he wants to get out of NATO but still be an ally. His NATO pull-out and actions against U.S. bases and military headquarters support such free- dom. He goes to Moscow in June unhampered by NATO's military alliance and obviously a loner in the Western camp. French of- ficials deny the visit played any part in his accelerated decision. And if Red China views his trip with suspicion, it may have been partly soothed by a minor piece of action in Paris last week. De Gaulle's police evicted the Nation- alist Chinese from their former embassy quarters. It may have been coincidence, but he rarely overlooks a bet. #i The bigger the campus the better for RANDE t.' Y. K~ THEATRE English Actress Presents Exciting Picture of Africa Saddles -0, t '., 1 hi1 f.'" f 3 5 ,t. By MARCIA WICK English actress Marcia Corvin appearing Friday night at the League in cooperation with the UAC Creative Arts Festival, pro- vided her audience with a stim- ulating picture of Africa. Miss Corvin's dramatic reading consist- ed of selected portions of Danish author Karen Blixen's "Out of Af- rica," an autobiographical account* of her years spent farming in the East African highlands. Miss Blixen, perhaps better known by her nom de plume Isak Dinesen, has written an absorbing tale of her life in Kenya. High- lighting the book are vivid de- scriptions of the highlands and excellent character portrayals which have been incorporated in- to Miss Corvin's program. Except for a lack of transitional devices between incidents, Miss Corvin's edited version of "Out of Africa" held together well and gave the audience a fairly accurate idea of the author's impressions. However, once past the script, the recital ran into difficulties. Miss Corvin's voice, slightly rem- iniscent of Jean Simmon's soft British drawl, was pleasant to listen to at first, but later seem- ed unnatural, as her speech be- came overly excited and emotion- al at times, and at other times, overly pathetic and pitiable. While Miss Corvin seemed en- thusiastic and appeared to enjoy her work, stage presence was con- spicuously lacking. Miss Corvin's gestures and stage movements were often ineffectual, quite abrupt, and unmeaningful to the audience. These were accompan- ied by extraneous movements that continually distracted the audi- ence and made it impossible for one to lose oneself in the vivid imagery of author Blixen's prose. The viewer could not ignore, for example, Miss Corvin's slipping shoulder strap, or the stray wisps of hair that she found necessary to pat back into place without fail. If Miss Corvin's performance lacked finesse, the text of "Out of Africa" made up for this short- coming. Born in Denmark in 1914, Miss Blixen married a Swedish cousin and accompanied him to Kenya, where they establishd a coffee plantation. These memoirs were, in her own words, "writ- ten to -wile away the rainy sea- son." '.Fascinated by Africa and its in- habitants, she compared herself to a person who has an ear for mu- sic, but does not discover the won- ders of it until the prime of his life. She indeed captured the "mu- sic of Africa" in her descriptions of the tall, slim, proud natives, for example, and the giraffes that reminded her of long-stemmed flowers, and the drought that seemed to be "the negation of all 'weather." Miss Corvin, perhaps initially attracted to this work because she at one time also lived on a farm in Kenya, stresses that she chose to use this work for two reasons. ACTION! LEE HORNBERGER SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING MOTIONS WHILE A, MEMBER OF SGC: " Student Bookstore Proposal " Student Housing Association * Principle of Student Participation in Selecting of Next U of M President First, in her opinion, author Blix- en is "certainly one of the most outstanding women writers of our century. In addition, she feels that these members have "universal values" that are applicable to all twentieth-century men. Miss Corvin's performance would undoubtedly have been improved had she not been hampered by performing in the stage-less Van- denberg Room of the League. She admitted that she felt too inti- mately tied to the audience during her recitation and that the nature of the dramatic reading demanded a stage. DO YOU WANT Departmental Student Advisory Committees? RUTH BAUMANN DOES! 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