)e Gaulle Removes Pinay
Sor PolicyDissension
Fears Veto
M~oney Plans
Names Baumgartner
To Replace Minister
PARIS (iP) - President Charles
de Gaulle yesterday dropped An-
toine Pinay as Finance Minister
rather than let him exercise a
veto over Gaullist economic policy.
A Conservative who revived an
ailing French economy, Pinay had
quarreled with Premier Michel
Debre and some of his ministers,
insisting they were swinging to-
ward the left the economic policy
Pinay founded.
# In Pinay's stead, de Gaulle
named Wilfrid Baumgartner, 57
years old, governor of the Bank'
of France and a financial wizard
in his own right. Baumgartner's
lnancial orthodoxy equals Pinay's,
but he is considered somewhat
mtore flexible. '
Stoceks -Drop
The switch followed days of
political suspense which wobbled
the stock market as vain efforts
were made to have Pinay patch
his quarrel with Debre and the
cabinet's Gaullists.
Baumgartner, protesting he has,
no political experience, promised
he, will do his utmost to work for
continuance of financial recovery.
"It is guided by duty alone that
I have dust accepted the task,"
he told 'reporters.
Communique Issued
The whole story was obviously
highly displeasing to de Gaulle.
An Elysee Palace communique said
the decision had been taken "for
reasons concerning the interior
working of the government." It
went on:
"Gen. de Gaulle expressed to
M. Antoine Pinay his full appre-
ciation of the results obtained in
the policy of financial balance,
freedom of exchanges and mone-
tary stability adopted in 1958 to
assure a solid basis for economic
development and social progress,
and applied with success . . . this
policy will be continued."
His voice showing emotion, Pi-
nay emphasized he is not resign-
ing but was dropped by ministerial
decree.
He said after his second meet-
ing with de Gaulle in two days:
"Circumstances compel me to
withdraw from the government. I
remain at the disposition of the
country, wishing to help to suc-
cess the work which has been ac-
complished up to now."
CONFIDENCE FOR SUMMIT:
Ile Disclaims cMissile Lag'
Liberal 13 toe
May Falter
In Congress
"Liberal blocs that are revolt-
ing against Senate and House of
Representative leadership in Con-
gress will not get far," Republican
State Representative George
Meader told the Ann Arbor Rotary
Club yesterday.
"There will be no radical legis-
lation," Meader predicted. "The
rapid recovery of the economy
after the 1958 recession is prevent-
ing it:."
"However, a civil rights bill
should pass, but it won't be a
revolutionary measure," he de-
clared. "Such legislation will cause
considerable friction between the
conservative Southern and liberal
Northern wings of the Congress."
TO CUT RED TAPE:
Propose Change in Statutes
The Joint Committee on Pro-
cedural Revision has recommend- would provide a single form of sociation in such areas as i
ed a new set of procedural stat- civil action. Under present stat- trial procedure, trial practice,
utes which would cut the time, utes a foreclosure of a mortgage selection of furors, and appel
red tape, and expense of going to on real property would take place practices.
court in Michigan. in an equity action while any per- The Joint Committee's rex
Proa. Charles W. Joiner of the sonal property recovery in the the first comprehensive reviev
Law School and chairman of the same case would be held in a Michigan court procedures.
Joint Committee termed the rec- court of law. The new statutes more than a quarter of a cent
ommendations of major signifi- would combine the two court suits would eliminate several sect
cance. The changes would permit into a single civil action, saving of the present law, adopted
the present court system to pro- time and money. 1915. Such archaic and h
cesone-tidstaffcandelawyers iUnder the merged procedure provisions as the arrest for
increase in staff, andlawyers the court could take on more in certain instances and the
would be able to handle more cases, and witnesses would only ing of a person in a civil ac
cases than they now do, he esti- have to appear once. It would al- before a hearing would not
mated. low a broader joinder of law and authorized.
One of the proposed revisions i n a T 1 vn r
WASHINGTON (4') -President
Eisenhower brushedaside question
of a United States missile lag yes-
terday and declared: "I am not in
the slightest degree disturbed."
Eisenhower, the very picture of
confidence, assured a news con-
ference that when he enters sum-
mit talks with Soviet Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev, he won't
go in with any feeling of inferior-
ity.
"I believe," he said, "that the
matter of defense has been han-
died well and efficiently."
Eisenhower took his position in
a lively discussion that ranged
from Russian rocket tests in the
Pacific to the question of whether
the 1960 Republican political cam-
paign needs whipping up. It was
his first news conference since
Dec. 2.
National Security
The President also lost nis tem-
per-his face and neck turned red
-hen he was thrown a question
he took to imply that the nation's
national security is being handled
as a partisan political matter.
"I don't have to be partisan,"
the former five-star general said
in a clipped, precise way, "and I
want to tell you this:
"I've spent my life in this, and
I know more about it than almost
anybody, I think, that is in the
country, and on a basis of doing
what is good for the government
and for the country."
The highpoint of the half-hour
conference came about two-thirds
through. A reporter asked whether
there was any merit in the argu-
ment by some Administration
critics that "in talks with Chair-
man Khrushchev you would be at
a disadvantage because of the
prospect that the United States
will be second best in the missile
field."
Shows Inpatience
Eisenhower, with a slight show-
ing of impatience, replied with an
emphasis that increased as he'
talked:
"Well, let's put it this way: such'
an argument as that presupposed
that I come to any argument, to
any conversation in the feeling of
inferiority, that I am a little bit
. frightened, and I assure you I am
not.
"I believe in the United States'
power, and I believe it is there,
not to be used, but to make certain
that the other fellow doesn't use
his; and I am not in the slightest
degree disturbed by such a possi-
bility as you speak of."
Republican campaign--the with-
drawal of Gov. Nelson A. Rocke-
feller from the Republican presi-
dential nomination contest "does
give a certain atmosphere of no
competition."
That understatement brought
laughter, and so did another
Eisenhower observation that it was
well known he had no competition
for the nomination in 1956 and "I
don't see tnat it hurt that election
particularly."
MISSILE LAG?--President Eisenhower yesterday denied that the United States was second-best in
the missile race. This Air Force drawing, released two days ago, shows the launching setup for the
Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, and helps prove his point. Launching pads, nine in a squadron,
are to be installed at Air Force bases in Kansas. The only thing visible above ground would be the
movable launcher roof and the missile itself. At this point the missile is in full combat readiness.
NOSTRADAMUS TERMED 'FRAUD':
Two 'U' Students ee o nd of Worl
Soviet Union
To Promote
Disarming
MOSCOW (-) - Russian steps
to promote Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev's total world disarm-
ament plan are expected to be an
nounced soon.
Informed circles expressed be-
lief last night that a unilateral
program - perhaps a reduction
in Soviet armed forces - will be
voted into effect by the Supreme
Soviet (Parliament) at a session
opening today.
Cryptic remarks in Moscow
newspapers that the session will
be a vital one stirred speculation
on these lines.
And First Deputy Anastas I.,
Mikoyan said the meeting will be
unusually important.
"The whole world will hear
what we have to say," Mikoyan
told a visiting Chilean trade dele-
gation.
Indications were that the So-
viet lawmakers will be called on
to endorse a plan for implement-
ing some, though not all, of the
proposals'Khrushchev laid before
the United Nations General As-
sembly in New York last fall.
The time seems ripe for some
such action. President Klementi
Y. Voroshilov is to visit India in
early February and Khrushchev is
making a good-will trip across
neutral South Asia in late Febru-
ary.
Khrushchev suggested in his
Sept. 18 speech to the UN that
the world disarm itself completely
within four years. He presented a
plan to do away with armies,
navies, air forces, nuclear weapons
and military rockets, leaving only
domestic police forces for keeping
internal order.
The Premier returned to this
theme at a New Year's Eve ban-
quet at the Kremlin. Toasting the
New Year, he hinted that the So-
viet Union might cut down its
army on its own, and rely on
rockets for defense, if the West
delays a general disarmament
plan.
GRADUATION
CARDS
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By NORMA SUE WOLFE
The world is not coming to an
end this month.
Two University students who
have been perusing the pages of
Nostradamus' predictions say
there is no reference to either a
third world war or the end of the
world in the immediate future.
"In fact, the only reference I
found," Mary Wicker, '60, said,
"is that some big horrible war is
coming either November 23 or
December 21, 1999, and this could
mean the end of the earth.
"The editor of the book I read
was obviously trying to reword
everything," she continued. "Some
of the references seemed pretty
logical, but others were very gen-
eral and could have happened
anytime, anyplace, anywhere."
Reads Two Books
Bernard Berlowitz, '61, who has
read two books interpreting Nos-
tradamus' French quatrains agreed
with her.
"There are these vague -refer-
ences that can be interpreted a
thousand ways," Berlowitz ex-
plained. "Everything is almost
totally unintelligible.
"I was very fired when I heard
the story about the world ending,
but lost interest when I found how
he wrote," he said.
Berlowitz also found reference
to the 1999 war begun by a "third
anti-Christ."
"If we may assume that Na-
poleon and Hitler were the first
two, then the third is supposedly
yet to come," he said.
Nostradamus, who was born in
1503, supposedly anticipated both
Napoleon and Hitler. He referred
to both "an emperor who will be
born near Italy who will cost the
Empire dearly and will hold abso-
lute power for 14 years" and a
'"' Hister,' who will be in control
of an ever - growing territory,"
Berlowitz said.
Find No Evidence
As for Nostradamus' predictions
of World War I and II, both stu-
dents agreed his followers were
only reading their own interpreta-
tions into his "nonsense verses"
years after the events themselves
had taken place.
"I wonder how much of his stuff
there is that cannot be correlated,"
Berlowitz said. "Modern science
fiction writers do the same thing."
In 2150 a new world religion will
arise, Nostradamus predicted. The
people remaining after the 1999
war will unite and form this uni-
versal sect, Berlowitz interpreted.
"And Nostradamus also pre-
dicted Judgment Day in the 30th
century A.D.," Berlowitz said. "But
then, Hitler was supposed to re-
turn in 1952.
"Poppycock."
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