European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday january 19, 109 Max Lerner Paris unwise to Hurt Israel Israel seems to have become an obsession for Charles de Gaulle replacing Britain and America As his no. 1 whipping boy. His latest adventure in pm barging arms shipments to is Rael will Only make Israel More bitter and the Arab commandos More confident of military Vic tory without a political Settle ment. To say the move was Neces sary to prevent bloody chaos is the usual de Gaulle rhetoric concealing More than it reveals. He has chosen Israel for unilateral. Sanctions partly because he is furious with the israeli leaders for having failed to heed his advice and for having added injury to insult by destroying planes in Beirut in which the French have a heavy investment. Thus de Gaulle uses the same selective retaliation policy that he finds so odious in the israelis and like them he has overreacted hastily and unwisely. It s unwise because whatever the French May gain by wooing the arabs is minor compared with what they lose As a mediating Force Between the arabs and israelis. If de Gaulle genuinely fears the bloody chaos in the Middle East against which he warns his punitive treatment of Israel makes him less effective in great Power peace action and makes the israelis More militant since they now feel they have their backs against the Wall. I have heard it argued that by siding with the arabs against is Rael de Gaulle keeps the soviet Union from posing As their sole Champion. Doubtless his Diplo Mats will use some such arguments quietly in Western Chan cell eries just As de Gaulle con stantly invokes the dread of a popular front government at Home. But to interpret de Gaulle s role As anti communist is As Clear As a fog and makes As much sense As a crazy quilt. In their actual consequences de Gaulle s two sanctions against Israel that of reneging on the contract for Mirage jets and now that of Emba going the Export of spare parts diminish Israel s strength and increase the Arab margin of weapons Power Over Israel. De Gaulle s actions must be seen alongside those of the russians. While the russians have armed the arabs and sent specialists to Fly the planes and Man the tanks and train Arab specialists de Gaulle has closed the last Crevice through which French arms could come to is Rael. The soviet Union and France thus Combine to give Israel the Well known one two punch. If that is an Effort to bring peace to the Middle East then i am the Leader of the Al Fatah fedayeen. Old age is a Shipwreck de Gaulle once said. Perhaps. But for Public figures who hold onto their posts even after their minds have grown rigid and obsessive the opinion expire ced in the column end cartoon on this Page represent Tho a of the author and Are in no Way to a considered a repro renting the View of the Star and Stripe itself or of tilt United slate government. Old age May be not a Shipwreck but a tyrannous Captain heading his ship nowhere endangering the passengers and deaf to mutinous grumblings in the Crew. The grumblings Are there at Paris even among de Gaulle s own party followers. His arbitrary acts against Israel last year and now have triggered Long standing resentments against his larger policies. The French press led by the Catholic conservative paper Figaro has almost uniformly reacted against the embargo c 1969, to Angele time Ira c. Eaker clues to Melvin Laird the incoming Secretary of defense will be charged with the management of the biggest business in the world. His work Force is More than 6 million people and his annual expenditures run $80 billion. There Are those who hold that this vast conglomerate is no longer manageable and Evi Dence from recent experience supports this conclusion. If a Secretary of defense can not manage this vast Domain of Roy Wilkins festively billions of tax dollars will be wasted and our country will not be adequately defended. In 1961, Robert s. Mcnomara came in As Secretary of defense under a mandate to insure civil Ian control Over the military and eliminate duplication and waste. After More than seven years of dedicated Effort Mcnamara retired from the Post no doubt feeling that he had put the generals and admirals in their but any fair and accurate assessment of his Success in the accomplishment of hit primary Mission providing an effective deterrent to War and a credible defence posture for the United states is hot reassuring. Fortunately there Are some encouraging signs that the de sense department can be a successful effective Enterprise. Ear Lier defense leaders succeeded in the primary defense Mission net ably Robert a. Lovett and Thomas l. Gates. An analysis of their the separatism delusion the Young Black militant Stu dents think blackness is the thing and they say they want Little Black campuses within White campuses All run completely by Black students. They mean they want Jim Crow. They Are trying to explain the failures of the Jim Crow system by the familiar and specious assertion that their group is renouncing White mid dle class values. The cry for autonomy in the study centers with curricula the hiring and firing of teachers and All administration in the hands of negro students moved the a act to warn of possible court action. A act statements were concerned solely with the All Black Campus idea. The proposals to teach Black history to recruit More negro faculty Mem Bers and to secure larger enrol ments of Black students Are sup ported by the a act. A spokes Man for the organization suggested that under present Laws tax Money May not be used to support Black racially segregated dormitories or study centers in colleges. Just As the a act fought and won on the question of tax Money being used by some state for colleges that excluded negroes so it is hinted that this year any racially segregated facility on a College Campus will be fought in the courts. The trigger that set off the pronouncement was the incidents at Brandeis University in Walt Ham mast., and at Queens col. Lege a free municipal University in new York City. At Brandeis Black students took Over the University communications Center containing the Campus switch Board and computer. No tile phone Calls could go into the University. At Queens College the disturbance was caused allegedly by students who were being Given special precollege training to enable them to enter the fresh Man class. One student Leader is quoted As declaring that their de mands were on a take it or leave it basis. There Are few Blacks at bran Deis Tome receiving special assistance. Further the new presi Dent or. Morris Abram has an outstanding record in human re lations including the Tough and Tricky special Field of american White Black relations. This earned him and his Liberal College no Points they were treated in the same fashion As were stubborn and hostile presidents and col Leges. In addition to possible violations of anti segregation Laws Black students backing Jim Crew Are really defeating the purpose of Block studies centers. Such studies Are valueless unless taught in the context of the times and of other history. Black stud ies should not be made and Black history taught in an hermetically sealed Black Compart ment separated from the rest of the Campus. And then there Are the prob lems of staffing a faculty and financing a Hundred or even two dozen full scale worthwhile Block centers. Already there or rumblings that in response to pressure some colleges have rushed in unskilled and inadequately educated teachers simply be cause they Are Black. In threatening court action to bar the use of tax Money the a act could be acting to save the Black students from their intoxication with blackish As a cure All for what ails race relations the problem is not that simple. Insistence upon an All Black Solu Tion May backfire into the racism and inequality inherent in the Jim Crow apartheid formula. Racial separatism is but a comforting delusion for those who impose it. C Reuter and Tribune Syndicate inc gement methods Sugg its some reasons for their Success which appear applicable today. Organization to one clue. The National defense act provides a sound organization. Under it the president As commander in chief exercises his authority for administrative control Over All defense matters through the de sense Secretary to the three armed service secretaries. This organization has not been followed during the past eight years instead there was centralization of authority in the of fice of the. Secretary. Jac complis All management functions at that level the Dod staff was increased tremendously generally with inexperienced Young self styled intellectuals theorists without practical experience. As a result there were Many mis takes. Another Pentagon deficiency has been the stubborn failure to recognize the legitimate role of Congress in defense matters. Many members of Congress be cause of Long tenure on military and appropriations committees Are More knowledgeable on de sense matters than most Penta Oniani. 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