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"You Mean There Are Other Crimes.
Connected With Them?"
THE FLAG, TOO:
)AY, FEBRUARV 24, 1959
NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT JUNKER
Senior Class Presidents
Should Still Be 'The People's Choice'
ANOTHER ROLL of red tape was added to the
University's ample supply last week when
, new procedure for petitioning for senior class
resident of the literary college was announced.
Under the new system, potential candidates
or the office must fill.out a special two-page
eport listing their aims and goals, as well as
heir potential policies in regard to the position.
At this point, a special "board in review"
akes over.
Consisting of the president of the current
enior class, the chairman and another member
f the college steering committee and a faculty
nember, the committee will analyze all sub-
nitted petitions. Each of the petitioners will
hen be called before the group for a thorough
creening.-
HERE CONSIDERATION will end and action
begin. At a special meeting, the group will
liminate "undesirable" candidates from the
ist to be presented to SGC's Elections Commit-
ee fo; the official ballot.
Theoretically, this procedure is designed to
eliminate unqualified candidates from the bal-
lot. But practically, it seems, besides being a
lot of unnecessary work for some very busy
people, not quite fair.
IN THE FIRST PLACE, the whole idea seems
a bit totalitarian. It is doubtful that any
board, no matter how impartial and arbitrar-
ily chosen, can be entirely unbiased in consid-
ering candidates on this basis. Personality-will
probably be a criterion upon which the de-
cision will be based.
Besides having an anti-democratic ring, the
policy is also too much procedure for such a
relatively unimportant action. Reading the
statements, interviewing the petitioners and
deciding on the proper Slate of candidates
seems like insignificant "busywork" that could
probbaly be left to the discretion of the voters.
Alter all, if the senior class is naive* enough
to vote for an incompetent president, they
should be stuck with their choice.
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Max SchulmanBoys.
TAKING place'in Putnam's Landing, Connecticut, fifty miles above
Greenwich Village on Long Island Sound, 'Rally 'Round the Flag,
Boys!' begins by informing us that the only notable thing that had
ever happened in that locale was the scalping of the founder of the
town. This information comes from a dens ex vocis, without whose help
we would undoubtedly be confused. At any rate, our hero, commuter
and publie relations man Harry Bannerman (Paul Newman), is threat-
ened in his private relations with his wife, Grace (Joanne Woodward),
Bury That Spirit,
who is so busy with committees,
town meetings, and the P-TA that
trying to have time alone with her j
"was like trying to get tickets
to My Fair Lady!", by sultress An-
gela Hoffa (Mrs.) (Joan Collins),
who changes into something more
comfortable at the drop of a hint
and plays rape-tempo music.
Things are complicated by more
explanations by the deus, Banner-
man's Walter Mitty-like imagin-
ary movies, and the entrance of
the United States Arrmy wanting
to build something top-secret in
Putnam's Landing. The something
top-secret, as usual, is a missile
base, which Mrs. Bannerman:
pickets with an unlikely group of
mothers and baby carriages.
MUCH OF Max Schulman's
corn is pared from the cob, but a
good deal of the humor remains.
Indeed, near the beginning of the
show, the laughs are fairly close-
packed; there were three belly-
laughs in the first twenty minutes.
But one of these was by trickery.
In a drunk scene in which Ban-
nerman swings from a chandelier
in the Hoffa foyer, he and Angela
are provoked to such laughter
that the audience would feel some-
what embarrassed if it' didn't
laugh, too. It does, but, for no
other reason. Later, the film be-
comes rather sober and almost
crawls off the reel. Still several
good comic high points are
reached- e.g., a beautiful lyric
which Opie Dalrymple sings to
Comfort Goodpasture contains
the lines, "I could kiss a sow If
I'm not happy now." One gets
the feeling that the director tired
of the film and couldn't decide
upon how to end it.
About the cast: it was rather
a surprise, after seeing them both
in serious roles, that Paul New-
man and Joanne Woodward do so
well in the comic; Neyman's tim-
ing is quite good - although he
gestures overmuch; Miss Wood-
ward plays her role in perfect
Grace Kelly comic taste. Dwayne
Hickman comes off better opposite
Bob Cummings. And Joan Collins
does slip into thing quite artfully.
The film is funny; three belly
laughs and an assortment of
minor guffaws are worth ninety
cents, if not much more. It is,
however, a shame, that with some
of the comfortable things Joan
Collins changed into, Twentieth-
Century Fox didn't make the pic-
ture into a "feelie."
--Fred Schaen
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1959
VOL. LXIX, NO. 101
General Notices
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Concerts
Student Recital: Acton Ostling, Jr.,
who studies euphonium and trombone
with Glenn Smith, will present a recital
on Tues., Feb. 24, at 8:30 n.m. Thy re-
cital, to be held in Rackham Assembly
Hal, will be presented in partial ful-
fillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Music (Wind In-.
struments). Mr. Ostling, who will be
assisted by Nancy Hallsten; pianist, has
included on his program compositions
by Galliard, Rossini, Hindemith, Barat.
Beach and Handel, and his recital will
be open to the general public without
charge.
Plays
Rossini's comic opera, " The Barber
of Seville;" Wed., through Sat., Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre. Ticket prices:
$1.75, $1.50, $1.00. Tickets available for
Wed. and Thurs. performances. 8:00 p.m.
The opera is being prseented by the
Dept. of Speech and the School of Mu-
sic. Lydia Mendelssohn Box Office open
daily from, 10 a.m.
Foreign Visitors
Following are the foreign visitors who
will be on the campus this week on the
dates indicated. Program arrangements
are being made by the International
Center: Mrs. Clifford R. Miller.
Mr. Basillo Uribe, Manager for Edi-
torial and Printing Operations, Haynee.
Enterprises, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Feb. 23-26.
Mr. Eduardo Medina, United States
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I
SENATOR JOSEPH McCarthy is dead. Yet
the distrust and hatred toward his fellow
men which embodied hisphilosophy of life
still lingers on '... everywhere.
Its ghost reappeared in Congress last July.
His old friend and crusader, Sen. Karl Mundt,
pushed through a loyalty oath which must be
signed before students are allowed to rec'eive
loans made available under the National De-
fense Education Act.
The oath is composed of two sections. Each
student recipient seeking federal 'aid is re-
quired to swear "that he ,does not believe in,
and is not a member of, and does not support
any organization that believes in, or teaches
the overthrow of the United States government
by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional
methods."
Secondly, the applicant .must swear to "bear
true faith and allegiance to the United States
of America and to support and defend the Con-
stitution against all enemies, foreign and do-
mestic.
.Actually, this statement makes little prac-
tical sense and does not accomplish its pur-
pose. True subversives will have no qualms
about.signing a loyalty oath but loyal, citizens
who sign are open to the possibility' of per-
jury prosecutions resting on vague allega-
tions or Improper and intimidating inquiries
about their conduct and their beliefs.
FURTHER, many professors and students
refuse to'sign the oath purely as a matter
of principle -- to those who feel any formal
affirmation of loyalty, the oath is an indica-
tion of lack of confidence in a nation of free
men.
To imply that a student seeking a loan is
more of a security risk than any other citizen
of the United States is an insult both to higlt
education and to student for it implies that
Communists and Communist sympathizers are
running rampant in the American colleges.
As the Reserve Tribune of Western Reserve
University said: "How long must the university
student be suspect? Exactly who in the Royal
Order of Red Tape still insists in equating edu-
cation with disloyalty, a student discount card
with membership in the Party, or >an Ivy
League sweater with a cloak and dagger?"
THE ACT has many tempting provisions
which makes the ° colleges hesitate to re-
fuse the federal money The main one ,is that
fe'deral loans command an unusually low in-
terest rate, plus, the provision that up to 50
per cent of the loan may' be canceled if the
recipient goes into teaching.
Although some"schools such as Harvard are
wealthy enough to match a federal loan for
any deserving applicant who refuses to, sign
the oath, others, including the University are
financially tightly pressed. For these reasons
they cannot afford to let the federal money
slip through their fingers.
Fortunately, some of those concerned about
education are aware of the opposition toward
the bill. Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare Arthur S. Flemming told the press
that the oath "will make it necessary for edu-
cators and students to'go through a procedure
that results in unnecessary expenditures on
the part of the Government without making a
contribution to national security."
Sens. Kennedy and Clark have introducqd
a bill to repudiate the loyalty oath provision.
However, according to Sen. Joseph S. Clark of
Pennsylvania the bill has only ,a slight chance
for passage due to the "overly patriotic spirit"
previously illustrated by the Senate. But the
only way to bury the remains of the McCarthy
era is to pass the bill.,
-RUTHANN RECHT
RUSSIANIZATION:
U.S. Called China's Imperialist Enemy
INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
The Military Goe ts Own Way
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Written by a
noted Indian social scientist, Shipati
Chandrasekhar; this article is based
on six weeks travel through Red
China. Among other things, it weighs
the Communist Chinese ehallenge to
the United States from an Indian
point of view.)
By SRIPATI CHANDRASEKIAR
For The Associated Press
AN INTRIGUING, if disconcert-
lng, aspect of the contemporary
Chinese scene is the tremendous
nationwide political propaganda
concerning who Red China's
friends and enemies are.
The whole nation has been
taught that there is one great
Socialist friend of China - the
"selfless' Soviet Union-and one
irresconcilable "imperialist enemy"
-the United States.
The first is understandable, for
it is the leader of the Communist
camp. It is also true that this
friendly Soviet Union, whether
friendly or not, is responsible for
90 per cent of the heavymachin-
ery, an overwhelming majority of
all technical experts and almost
all the blueprints of China's indus-
trial progress.
At every hotel in which I stayed
during my six weeks in Red China,
from Canto to Harbin in Man-
churia, 'I found that my fellow
guests belonged to some Soviet
delegation or other. These delega-
tions range from geological teams
tand steel experts down to acro-
bats and dancers. China is being
rapidly Russianized in dressband
manners, language and culture.
* * *
IN EVERY factory I visited I
was told the same story of the
"selfless help" of the Soviet Union
in giving technical aid and ma-
chinery. Whether it is the heavy
machine tool factory in Harbin or
the iron and steel complex at
Wuhan or the great new bridge on
the Yangtze River linking the
north and south of China with the
triple cities at Wuhan-all have
been accomplished with Soviet as-
sistance.
The Russians draw up the plans,
bring the machinery and raise the
plant with, of course, the help of
Chinese engineers and workers.
But the Russian engineers stay
behind the scenes and one sees
only Chinese manning the ma-
chines and directing thefactories.
The Communists have gone
about this business of Russianizing
China in a thorough fashion. In
a word, China is fast becoming an
image of Russia.
On the other hand, there is the
painful contact of China's attitude
to America. America has acquired-
the permanent adjective of "im-
perialistic" in the Chinese langu-
age.
* * *
ALL MASS l&EDIA-press, plat-
form, radio and the inevitable
loudspeaker-have been harnessed
to din into the Chinese that
America is the greatest menace to
peace and prosperity.
And, I believe, they have largely
succeeded in training a nation of
650 million to hate the United
States.
In every town the visitor is
greeted by a huge poster showing
a picture of Communist China
crushing America and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles.
educated Chinese staff has been
de - Americanized. After going
round in Tsing Hua University in
Peiping I asked whether this' was
the campus run with the Boxer
Idemnity Fund. I was told that
only a paltry few thousand dollars
had been spent on that campus
in the past, but that this was just
as well, as Tsing Hua trained only
"lackeys of American imperialism."
They have also closed down the
Peiping Union Medical College -
donaged and run by the Rockfeller
Foundation for a number of years.
I visited Union Medical and
found that the college was no more
but that the attractive hospital
had grown enormously and con-
tinues to minister to the ill. The
Union Medical College has now be-
come the Chinese Academy of
Medical Sciences.
But what is China's case against
the United, States? It is a simple
one. First, America should with-
draw the Seventh ,Fleet and get
out of Formosa so that the Com-
munists can occupy it. To them,
the Formosa issue is purely a
domestic problem.
"Taiwan (Formosa) is an in-
ternal problem. It is a continuation
of and extension of our civil war,
if you like. We know how to deal
with Chiang Kai-shek. We may
appoint him a governor and liqui-
date him for his past criminal
acts. But the Americans are in the
way." This, I think, correctly sums
up their attitude.,
The second grievance is that the
United States is pr'eventing China
from taking her place in the U.N.
These twin grievances sten from
the basic fact of America's non-
recognition of Communist China.
If Communism is the barrier, they,
ask, then how is it that America
has recognized the Soviet Union,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, etc?
* *' *
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL need for
creating anti-American hysteria is
evident, from the Communist
point of view. The creation of an
external enemy, who threatens to
destroy the very existence of
China, is a powerful force to ce-
ment internal unity and secure
support for the existing regime-a
regime which is not entirely loved
by all the 650 million Chinese.
There is no denying that the
Chinese Communists feel strongly
about their dispute with the United
States. Peace in Asia may well be
threatened by the way the: For-
mosa problem is solved.
"There are three ways to dispose
of ,it. One is to declare the island
independent and let the people of
Formosa choose 'whatever govern-
ment they like. The second is to
make it a United Nations trust
territory, as suggested recently by
Lord Attlee, former British Prime
Minister. The third way out is to
hand it over to the Peiping regime.
Whatever the ultimate solution,
the need for preserving peace in'
th earea is imperative. Here is an
area where India can exert its en-
ergies to enable the parties to
reach agreement. But then, there.
is no guarantee that peace will
endure, for the Communists may
open the question of Kowloon,
Hong Kong, and Macao.
Copyright, 1959, by the Associated Press
A FUTURE THREAT?
Mao's.ResigwnationCause for Worry
'By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
WHILE THE parliaments of the Western
Allies debate high strategic principle and
how much money to spend on defense, the
military departments go right ahead producing
new weapons and making shifts in emphasis to
meet their own concepts of what may be needed.
This does not mean that the debates are
academic, or that money does not have a direct
effect on the tools and the number of men
assigned to use them.
'It does mean that the military feels free to
go ahead ith essentials, taking up new stances
where necessary.
There has been a great deal of talk in the
UnitedStates, fo instance, of the approaching
obsolescence of manned airplanes.
Yet the Air Force has just unveiled new long-
range boibers and interceptors designed to fly
at 2,000 miles per hour, which will not be ready
for service' for several years.
IN CANADA, on the other hand, there is quite
a hassle over a recent decision to drop work
on a supersonic fighter and substitute Ameri-
can-made guided missiles for defense. Pride in
self-dependence is involved, as well as the
effect on an already sensitive unemployment
situation, as against a saving of less than a
billion dollars.
Britain, which has been cutting her over-all
military outlay in favor of the so-called nuclear
defense which has also caused much debate in
the United States, is nevertheless studying an
enlarged bomber and fighter program for'next
year..
Under it, new planes will be assigned to the
North Atlantic command in Europe and older
ones transferred to the Middle East.
The United States also .is keeping NATO in
mind with production of a new model troop
transport which could deliver paratroopers di-
rectly from U.S. bases to European battlefields.
WHEREAS AFTER World War -I a resurgent
Germany developed an air force in clan-
destine fashion, today her former Western
enemies are cooperating. Part' of West Ger-
many's occupation payments have been allotted
to development of the nuclear capacity of
British Canberra bombers based there. In re-
turn, Britain has promised to assign 100 flying
instructors to German forces for a period of
from three to five years.
This business of international flexibility in
the Allied military posture is not confined to the
air.
By PHILIP POWER
Daily Staff Writer
W were dropped some time
ago by Marshal Chen Yi, the
Chinese Communist foreign minis-
ter, to the effect that Mao Tse-
tung had decided to resign from
his position as President of the
Chinese People's Republic.
This intelligence set off a host
of explanations and rumors, both
in non-Communist and Commun-
ist circles that in one sense exag-
gerated and in another belied the
announcement's importance.
It has been suggested that an
hitherto unknown struggle for
power within the Chinese govern-
ment had turned against Mao and
that the. leading figure of the
Chinese Communist movement was
on his way out. Both the Yugoslavs
and the Nationalist Chinese sug-
gested a serious split with Khrush-
chev and the Russians.
* * *
THE ANNOUNCEMENT, ;made
under the aegis of the party's cen-
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tral committee, explained that
Mao's resignation would enable
him to "concentrate his energies
on dealing with questions of the
direction of policy," and also to
"set aside more time for Marxist-
Leninist theoretical work, without
this affecting his continued lead-
ing role in the work of the state."
Of course, anything dealing with
Communist China, and especially
with its internal political com-
plexities, is inherently difficult to
analyze. But, in spite of the fog
surrounding the problem, a few
more or less informed guesses can
be made as to the significance of
Mao's new move.
For one thing, it should be clear-
ly noted that 'Mao has only re-
signed from his position as titular
head of state, and not from his
position as head of the party.
His resignation for a largely
ceremonial and time-consuming
job has cost him no real power. It
is a commonplace that the real
power centers of Communist states
lie within the Communist party
organization and not in the state's
executive positions as such. Stalin
himself was able to dominate Rus-
sia entirely from his position in
the Communist party.
PROF. ROBERT WARD of the
political science department notes
that Mao, as head of state, was an
ex-officio member and chairman
of the supreme policy and defense
councils in China. These positions
are the result of Mao's position as
head of state, and are of consider-
able importance in the power
structure of China. The Chinese
have not as yet announced whether
Mao's resignation extends to them.
If so, Mao may have given up more
power than first appears.
Another puzzling question cen-
ters around the recent Congress of
the Communist Party held in Mos-
cow. Although all other Commun-
ist nations sent their "top men"
in their delegations, Mao did not
attend the meeting. Instead, Chao
loses him more power than one
might first gather. The commune
movement appears largely to have
been Mao's baby. since' its incep-
tion, and the apparent failure may
have resulted in a slap at Mao's
power.
As yet, however, no concrete in-
formation generally available from
China hints that Mao has lost out
in a power struggle or has had a
serious split with the Russians, as
the first" rumors would ave in di-
cated.
In all probability, Mao's resigna-
tion is' partially explained by the
Chinese themselves. Mao has never
shown much inteiest in the cere-
monial aspects of his position, but
has demonstrated considerable
concern with Communist political
theory. Before the Communist
takeover in China he had already
written several works on the sub-
ject. One might believe that Mao,
who is now 65 years old, may wish
to round out his life by re-inter-
preting Marxist-Leninist theory
within an Asian framework.
* * *
HE HAS a large task before him,
Marx based his theories on condi-
tions in highly industrialized coun-
tries containing a large industrial
proletariat..Lenin had to do a good
deal of rather fancy intellectual
footwork to justify a Communist
revolution in industrially under-
developed Russia, instead of Ger-
many, as Marx had assumed. Mao
faces as challenging a task, forhe
will have to transform an indus-
trial Western-oriented theory into
something applicable to Asian
countries which as yet are largely
unaffected by the industrial revo-
lution.
But the uncommitted nations of
Arian and Africa seem to be mov-
ing to an ideological vacuum.
Liberal domestic ideas appear to
have little penetration power in
more than a general sense, per-
haps due to the awkward and fum-
bling presentation attempts by the
Western nations. Communist pro-
paganda seems to be having a
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