Seventieth Year .. EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN pinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Will ea STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 rals printed in The Michigan Daily ex press the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. "Do We Use Re-Runs or Are You the Summer Replacement?" DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Tr 'illo Maneuvers- A Pact with CastrQ? (EDITOR'S NOTE: What's going on in the Dominican Republic where Tr illos are being shuffled about the g6vernmental scene at a dizzy pac Possible answer to the puzzle-an important one in the Latin Americ picture--are examined in the following article by a veteran of AP servi in most of the nations of the Western hemisphere.) By BEN F. MEYER Associated Press' News Analyst WASHINGTON-Strange occurrences affecting the top comman the Dominican Republic could mean that foxy old Rafael TI is in deep, deep trouble. Or that he.s just being foxy. OQ both. Announcement of resignation of his brother Hector as Presi of the Generalissimo's own appointment as ambassador to the U kY, AUGUST 9, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW HAWLEY Tshombe Decision Unsound On UN P 'HE REFUSAL of Katanga's Moise Tshombe to allow United Nations peace troops to iter his secessionist state should raise some ebrows among those who looked to him as a estern friend and the antithesis of his Congo lleague, Patrice Lumumba. Tshombe brought this state out of the con- .sion originating from the Congo Republic's dependence. Those who had looked with dis- vor upon the bestowing of freedom on im- ature African states saw in Tshombe and his ate a stabilizing factor in the madness of frican nationalism sweeping the continent. He had handled Katanga's affairs in an 'derny and level-headed manner. He displayed s friendliness for the West by relying on the :perience of Belgians to help him when the ongo first rejected all Western assistance. He pt his government stable under a democratic -ocess. His state retained order when rioting nd mutiny were the rule in the Congo and narchy seriously threatened Lumumba's new 3untry- Now, when UN troops attempt to enter atanga in a helpful gesture to see that order being kept, Tshombe refuses to admit them. ATANGA has declared herself independent of the Congo and thus does not want UN 'oops in her territory. Congo's Lumumba called z the international peace force to maintain rder in his republic and since the Katanga rovince has not been officially recognized as a >vereign state by the UN or any country, the N troops are within their rights in seeking to enter the country. The delicate situation in the Congo area demands such action. Should Katanga be found in an orderly condition, as it appears the situation stands now, and in no need of UN forces, there would be no further action by the world body. Tlae small UN force would certainly not attempt to occupy the province forcibly when it was ap- parent the residents wanted to be left alone and were capable of ordered self-government. The UN has no right and would not attempt to assert any right to subject these people to the rule of Lumumba's Congo. This would be interference in internal affairs, which is con- trary to the UN charter. THE KATANGA government has much to gain from allowing UN troops to see how its affairs are conducted and to see the people truly desire separation from the Congo. For, although UN recognition would not be immedi- ate because of that body's impartiality, it certainly would improve the views of other countries toward Katanga, in seeing her co- operative, and might even hasten recognition of and to the neophyte state. Tshombe's reaction to the UN force appears unsound in view of the reputation of the in- ternational body and the long range good will and benefit for Katanga. When Dag Ham- marskjold, UN Secretary-General, warns of world war should Tshombe remain adamant, the situation is indeed grave and should war- rant reconsideration by the African chief .of his own important decision. -MICHAEL BURNS MYSTERY FICTION: NewNovels, vos. Reprints Nations, removal of other Trujillos' from high posts and other develop- ments could be part of a puzzling but well - considered long - range plan. For one thing, why has the Dominican Republic for some months been strangely uncritical of Cuba's Fidel Castro? There apparently has been reason for complaint, because Castro's forces twice-the Dominican government charged formally-invaded the is- land nation in a patent attempt to topple trujillo. ANOTHER, and perhaps more significant, things is that the changes in Ciudad Trujillo came just about 10 days before Hemis- phere foreign ministers are to meet in Costa Rica Aug. 16 to hear' Venezuela's charges against the Dominican government. Venezuela accuses the Trujillo regime of' hatching the recent attempt to assassinate Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt, and of other plots against the Venezuelan re- gime. Announcement of the General- issimo's appointment to the UN could mean several things. It might create the impression, just before the foreign ministers meet, that Trujillo and his family are leaving the Dominican Repub- lie and that a new and democratic regime is abuilding there as the new President says. This might soften any verdict the foreign ministers reach and, once that situation is out of the way, Tru- jillo could pick up again where he leftoff. OR, IT COULD mean that Tru- jillo is using the UN assignment Q a means of gaining asylum in tie United States. Amidst all the speculation about what *rrujillo might be planning, experts here seem agreed on one thing: things are looking pretty bleak for the Generalissimo, de- spite a political machine of uniin- agined power, built up in his 30- year rule of the little nation in the Caribbean. There have been serious plots- admitted by his own government- against his regime. Then, too, the United States, among others, is applying economic pressure on the Trujillo regime, and his govern- ment and his country seem to be having serious financial troubles. Only last week, a Dominican radio station referred to Cuba's rebel leader in glowing terms, with such expressions as "Fidel is brave," and said Castro's revolu- tion is "advancing against all the foreseen conflicts and obstacles." This sort of thing has been going on for months, making some people wonder if Castro and Tru- jillo have a mutual aid pact. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p m. two days preced- ing publication. TUESDAY,. AUGUST 9, 1960 VOL. LXX, NO. 35S General Notices Attention August Graduates: Colleg og Literature, Science, and the Arts School of Education, School of Music School of, Public Health, School o: Business Administration: Students are advised not to request grades of I o X in August. When such grades at absolutely imperative, the work mus be made up in time to allow your in. structor to reportthe iake-up grad not later than I a.m., August 18 Grades received after that time ma defer the student's graduation until , later date. Recommendations for Departmenta Honors: Teaching departments wishin to recommend tentative August grad uates from the College of Literature Science, and the Arts, and the Schoc of Education for departmental honor (or high honors in the College o L.s.&A.) should recommend such stu dents in a letter delivered to the Of flce of Registration and Records, Roon 1513 Admin. Bldg., before August 18. The General Library will be close< Saturday, August 13, and will cntinu to be closed Saturdays and Sunday through September 18. The library il be open during this, period, Monda; through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5,p.m The Undergraduate Library will als be closed Saturday, August 13, but wi remain closed through September 11 From Monday, September 12.througl Friday,- September 16, the Undergradu ate Library will be open 8 a.m. to p.m. daily. Both libraries will resum, regular schedules Monday, Septembe 19. Divisional libraries likewise will b closed Saturday, August 13. Hours fo the intersession will be posted on th doors of each library. A few individus libraries will be closed during part, c all, of this period, and these librarie as well as the Undergraduate Library will be serviced by the Circulation De partment of the General Library, o days when no library hours were sched uMed. All libraries will be closed Labor Day Monday, September 5. Recitals Student Recital: Solveig Steen wi present a recital in Rackhamn Assembl Hall on Tues., Aug. 9. at 8:30 p.m. i partial fulfillment of the requiremeni for the degree Master of Music. Mi Steen has included in her prograr compositions by Bach, Haydn, Bei thoven, Bartok, and Chopin. Open I the public. Lectures Linguistic Forum Lecture: Prof. Pat W. Friedrich, University of Pennsy vania, will discuss "The Consonanti (Continued on Page 3) SOTHERS SEE IT: 'Search and Seizure' T THE START of Summer Quarter main library officials initiated a new policy which niversity of Washington Daily staff members ave affecitonately dubbed "search and seiz- re." Unarmed guards at the front and science ading room entrances inspect books, note- >oks, briefcases and an occasional purse as brary users trudge past. The new system has been greeted by a curi- as mixture of violent objection, hearty ap- oval and the cherished University reaction-- rathy. For half an hour the other day we questioned eryone emerging from the library's main en- 'ance as to their reactions to the "customs spection." A few approved of the system; two called it naulting, embarrassing and inconvenient." he representative reaction of the rest was, Huh, Oh, I don't know. It's all right, I guess. haven't thbught much about it." Whatever the reception, library officials as- sure us the policy is here to stay. The form may vary, but the guarded entrances will continue. AN INTERESTING speculation on the situa- tion is: Amid all the confusion, has anyone stopped to figure the difference between guard's salaries and the value of missing books? The University of Washington's former sys- tem of open stacks and no inspection was the exception, we are told, not the rule. Most other colleges-Idaho, Stanford, Princeton (and the University of Michigan)-have either a closed- stacks policy, an inspection system similar to ours or a combination of the two. Until a few years ago, in fact, the University of Washing- ton employed the closed-stacks system. Search and seizure seems to be here to stay. But let's have a moment of silence for the honor system, which apparently is going the way of all flesh as apathy reigns supreme. -SARA HARRIS University of Washington Daily MAX LERNE Rea mn~w m ee o s Short Shrift gz ., W ..,,7 F7 4ATTER OF factly, almost casually, Khrush. chev has asked for another summit con- ontation with Eisenhower, this time for a top iscussion of disarmament. I don't know how Luch pleasure it gave President Eisenhower to efuse. Those who think history is too grim for iese little private ironies and satisfactions for- et how Eisenhower must have suffered in hose May days in Paris as he took Khrush- hiev's insults in silence. As for 'Khrushchev, the moral to draw is hat in pusuit of the Communist cause private motions do not exist, any more than public onsistency. Instead of "reason of state," which as always enabled diplomats to lie, the Com- runists have a kind of "reason of history," hich justifies every act-however cynical or antastic-by the onward historic march of ommunist power. R. NIXON'S public wrath at Sen. Kennedy for taking the "low road in the campaign" must not be taken very seriously either. This is 'hat I should call the ethical-note-as-a-tacti- al-device. Kennedy accused Nixon of having etrayed the hapless Secretary Benson, whom. at least in public) he only recently supported nd whom he has now had' to scuttle because therwise Benson would cost him the farm taces. Nixon has a right to change his position, ut it is strange for him to strike a high moral ttitude when Kennedy points out the change ,nd questions whether he has any beliefs. The most fascinating question about Nixon, uite aside from these campaign exchanges, is. 'hat psychiatrists call the identity question: midst the bewildering change of masks, cos- .ues and faces over the years, just which of he guises constitutes his true identity? Who ,nd what is the real Nixon? THE LITTLE ACORN of Mr. HammarskJold's UN force in the Congo, which will soon be going to the mining area of Katanga as well, may and must in time grow into a big oak of a permanent UN military force. But we would be wrong in thinking of it simply as a UN army. The great role of the UN in the future, on which world survival itself will be tested, will be as the repository of a monopoly of world atomic power in the form of an atomic police. The disarmament debate is largely illusory, since disarmament as such will never solve the problem of nuclear war. As it stands, what we mean by disarmament is merely a reduction in arms-in fact, right now all we mean is a ban on further testing. Its importance lies in its being a token or symbol of the willingness of the nuclear powers to stop for a moment in the destructive idiot arms race, and listen to the quiet inner voice of reason. In the end, beyond these token moments of reason, peace will have to depend on giving a monopoly of these weapons to a world author- ity whom both sides-all sides-trust. We must be eternally grateful that Mr. Hammarskjold and Mr. Bunche are the kind of men who do get the confidence of every side. They show that it is possible to build up the kind of neu- tral UN attitude on which the neutral UN atomic police unit will depend. NOTE that Nixon has finally chosen a man called Finch as campaign chairman, after first hinting 'ie would be his own. I thought for a while, with Nixon being his own chairman and writing his own acceptance speech, that he would turn out to be the doingest do-it-yourself candidate in the history of candidacy. HE CUBAN Communist paper Hoy says Cas- tro will make two speeches at coming big THOSE WHOSE reading tastes run to mystery and suspense fiction these days often face the difficult choice between a new work by an untried author and a reprint edition of one or more works by an established writer of twenty or thirty years ago. The quality of writing and sus- pense in recent novels is compar- atively high, but seldom does a new work surpass the "classics" of the genre in sheer ingenuity of plot. The latter complaint can be made of 'Herbert Brean's recent The Traces of Brillhart (Harper & Brothers, $3.50). Swiftly paced narration carries the reader from beginning to end in a daze of wonder. mostly at the acuteness of the magazine writer turned de- tective and his gay New York friends. But the circumstances them- selves, which concern a murdered songwriter and lyricist who keeps turning up at parties and dinner engagements, leaving his hat and coat about and playing snatches of his hit songs, are less exciting than they might be. Even the suspense-and there is some-is seldom related to solv- ing the crime. The real charm of the novel lies in its affectionate portrait of New York life and the adventures of a sharp magazine writer and his girl friend Twit- Twit, a real cut chick. FAR FROM New York City is the setting of Eric Ambler's first new novel in several years. Pas- sage of Arms (Alfred A. Knopf, $3.95) combines Indian, Chinese, American and British characters in a tale of gun running in Mala- ya that is quite up to Ambler's pre-war standard in espionage novels. Here the narration is as shrewd and calculated as the internation- al businessmen who plot to move an illegal shipment of guns out of the country through Singapore. Once again the author involves an unknowing outsider, this time an American businessmen, in the activities of contraband profiteers. And, in Passage of Arms, Ambler again demonstrates that he is one of the few mystery writers who have any claims on the legitimate novel. The only worthwhile addi- tion to this novel might be a good map. * * * AMBLER IS also represented these days by a bargain, 632-page volume containing his four great post-war cloak-and-dagger nov- els. Intrigue (Alfred A. Knopf, $3.95), since it was first published in 1943, has the particular dis- tinction of being a reprint of re- prints. -Buttwenty years has not dulled the finish on Background to Dan- ger (1937), Cause for Alarm (1939), A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939), or Journey Into Fear (1940), the four novels included in Intrigue. A Coffin for Dimitrios in par- ticular is one of the "classics" of Best of William Irish (J. B. Lip- pincott, $3.45), collects the works of Cornell Woolrich-William Irish, an author whose early stories far exceed in quality anything he has written in recent years. Two novels and a volume of six short stories are included; Phan- tom Lady (1942) is the best known, having also achieved the status of "classic," while Deadline at Dawn (1944) is interesting and After-Dinner Stor'y (1944) in- cludes some of the better mystery short stories written in the 'for- ties ("Rear Window" is one of them). Irish is one author of old whose tempo of suspense is high. The hero of Phantom Lady spends most of his time waiting to be executed for a murder committed while he was seeing the town with a flashily-dressed woman whom everyone insists was never there. * * * NONE OF THE novels so far mentioned boasts of a detective- one who runs through a series of books---and the trend today seems to be in the other direction. All the more surprising, then, is Philo Vance's appearance in a reprint of a 1927 adventure, 8, S. Van Dine's The 'Canary' Murder Case (Scribner's, $3.50). The second of Vance's cases. this book, like the others, is filled with footnotes and maps and dia- grams to give the aura of actu- ality so much demanded in crime fiction of the 'twenties and 'thir- ties. The puzzle itself is one of the formal ones characteristic of the time and noticeably lacking in crime fiction today. The drawback, of course, the same in all Van Dine's mysteries -his. detective, Philo Vance, is undoubtedly the world's most ob- INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Cuba May Propitiate U.S.-Russia Showdown ERIC AMBLER *, . cloak-and-dagger master noxious investigator. Appended to the book is an early essay by Van Dine, "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories," which is as in- teresting as the novel itself. -Vernon Nahrgang By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst PRESIDENT Eisenhower has an- nounced an intensification of the United States' arms program amid new warnings that World peace hangs by some very tenuous threads. Some of the threats he recounted himself in his message to Congress. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO.ROUND: Ike To Be Silent on Defense Budget By JACK ANDERSON (EDITOR'S NOTE: While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation, his column is being written by his as- sociate, Jack Anderson.) W ASHINGTON-In the name of politics, Vice-President Nixon has gently persuaded the Presi- dent not to veto any reasonable increases Congress may vote in the defense budget at the coming -special session . . . still smolder- ing over the Nixon-Rockefellet call for more military spending, Ike snorted petulantly that he would not support defense in- creases, but he grudgingly agreed not to oppose them. The Pentagon's chief press agent, Assistant Secretary Mur- ray Snyder, has ordered the gen- erals and admirals to attribute the extra spending to '"the chang- ing situation." He doesn't want the Democrats taking credit. Vice- President Nixon has called in the military chiefs to give him a see- abrupt maneuver caused Powers' engine to flame-out at 70,000 feet, then he wore out the battery try- ing to start it as he spiralled down. This probably left him without enough juice to ignite the dynamite that was supposed to blow up the plane. Powers record- ed his observations on a secret tape which the Russians probably will play at his Moscow trial. The joint chiefs are deeply dis- turbed over the danger that Fidel Castro's younger brother Raul may turn Cuba into a Communist base. The air force has spotted two dozen Soviet.rjet fighters, all late-model MIGs, in Cuba. It is also known that Russian pilots and technicians came with them. Cuba's trackless, almost impene- trable Sierra Maestra mountains could also hide secret missile launching sites. These could be supplied easily by submarines, using the island's many excellent harbors. * * * Vice-President Nixon's decision to ditch Secretary of Agriculture Benson reached Republican speech writers too late. They had already prepared farm speeches for the Republican "speech kit," defend- ing Benson. Here is what they suggested GOP Congressional can- didates should say about Benson: "I would like to puncture a popu- lar myth which the Democrats have been peddling-that Secre- tary of Agriculture Benson is to blame for the farm problem. Let's. remember this one_ important poit: the secretary of agriculture is an administrator. He does not make the laws. He only enforces them. The Democratic-controlled Congress never has given the ad- ministration a farm law it asked foi" THE SPEECH WRITERS, per- plexed over how to' handle the U-2 incident, finally , decided to claim it as a victory. Here is what they Dag Hammarskjold, reporting the UN on Africa, said the "wor was close to a "peace or war" cri; which was not conined to tl Congo. Cardinal Spellman told t Roman Catholic Eucharistic Col gress at Munich Saturday th 1960 is the world's most dangero year since 1939. AGAINST THIS background, t: President's agreement to sta spending money Congress alreai has appropriated does nt see likely to satisfy the demand f defense buildup revealed by rece political moves in both parties. * * , ONE OF THE worst aspects the. situation today is the wa psychology being built up in R China, and the belief often e pressed by international Commu ist leaders that, even if there is atomic war, they can win. President Eisenhower said-" of us know about Cuba. But- don't know all about Cuba, y It does appear that Cuba alrea has become the Communist 01 post in the Western hemisph which the president has st would not be tolerated. Having practicaly exhausted t American-owned business targ which he has used to play on C ban nationalism and so hide foi brief time the economic failure his revolution, will Castro ma his last throw, at Guantananm And how will the United Sta' and Russia react, now that t Communists consider Cuba virt