Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: DENISE WACKER PROBLEMS OF INDIA: S ituation Calls for Increased U.S. Aid A &A The Paradox Of A University T HE RELATIONSHIP of the University and the Legislature typifies the paradox of the very existence of a university. A university is an institution dedicated to an attitude, a way of looking at things, a process. The Legislature, on the other hand, is an institution dedicated to the immediate values and problems of the state and society which have created it. In effect, the scholar must inquire and question. He cannot, or at least should not, accept the myths and popular explanations offered by society. The Legislature and the in- dividual legislator, on the other hand, are products of the very myths which the scholar ought to question. Inherently, there must be conflict between the two institutions. BECAUSE the Legislature holds the purse strings, it is the University which has had to compromise. This is why the University has a speaker ban. In practice, the speaker ban precludes almost no one from expressing ideas which are not prohibited from expression by state and fed- eral laws. Advocacy of violent overthrow of the government is against federal law. These in- dividuals could not air their views publicly at the University whether or not there was a Regents' bylaw. The bylaw also prohibits the advocacy of violation of state and federal laws as well as University regulations. But it is only vaguely understood what this means; as in the case of someone speaking on civil disobedience, and it is highly doubtful that this will be enforced with any strictness or at all. HAT IS DISTURBING about the speaker policy is that the University is compromis- ing its transcendent values in return for ap- propriations. It is worried about image as opposed to reality. It is concerned that people will think it a "hotbed of radicalism." It is stating that the University must impose upon itself values other than the intellectual pro- cess itself. In all fairness, the University does have cause for worry. As a recent Daily survey and many past actions have shown, many Legis- lators are ready to cut appripriations and take other action if the University were to have a completely open speaker policy. The Uni- versity, to' them, is a place where scientists and technicians are trained, where people can be prepared to enter any number of respect- able professions. But this is all the more reason for the University to take an independent course even if it means slightly less money. After all, it is only another form of this institutional schizophrenia for the University to measure itself in terms of its budget or the total dollar value of its plant. It is true that faculty salaries and research funds are critical issues. But to say that the size of the University budget means anything in itself is plainly silly. It takes no cognizance of the functions of the University. / HAT IS REALLY BAD is that in making these compromises, the University may be strengthening its image and its facilities while destroying itself. In effect, the University is giving in to the very myths which it ought to question, to the very prejudices which are being explored within the institution -itself. I wonder what the Universtiy would have done if it had existed several thousand years ago and a man named Socrates tried to speak; or if it had existed several hundred years ago and a man named Galileo had tried to speak; or if it were located in the Soviet Union sev- eral years ago and a man named Boris Pas- ternak had tried to speak. The principle involved in these instances is exactly the same; these men opposed some of the most basic values of the society in which they lived. They were radicals whose views were considered "unsafe" and beyond the ac- ceptable range of ideas allowed within the society. History has, or probably will, justify Socrates, Galileo and Pasternak. There have been many others, now forgotten, who were persecuted and later proved wrong. To dissent does not make one inherently a prophet. But the examples above point to one conclusion: that our ar- tites of faith must be considered as articles of faith. We must recognize the inherent pro- vincialism of any age or place and deal with them accordingly. A UNIVERSITY is the only institution within society that can do this. With no premises except the intellectual process itself, a uni- versity should offer the opportunity to reach any conclusion. It is a difficult and in some ways an impossible ideal. The University does not control society. Even though the ideas of today's University may become tomorrow's society, the University does not have the power to eliminate the Smith Act today. But it does not have to support the lie chance, limit the University and its faculty and students to the level of automatons. This has happened at other universities. At the University of Mississippi, aside from any implications of the Meredith case, the faculty has long been kept under wraps. Faculty mem- bers, every year, must submit a list of all or- ganizations to which they belong. Similarly, at the University of Illinois, a faculty member was fired because he said there was nothing wrong with pre-marital sexual relations. Here at the University, faculty members have been fired because they refused to answer questions before the House Un-American Ac- tivities Committee. Several years ago stu- dents were disciplined for bringing a Com- munist speaker to campus. Only last spring, University President Harlan Hatcher received an irate call from Sen. John Smeekens (R-Coldwater) protesting the ap- pearance of Frank Wilkenson and Carl Braden who had served prison terms for refusing to answer questions before HUAC. THE LEGISLATORS and their attitudes, quite aside from their appropriations power, symbolize all the pressures that fall on the University to avoid completely free thought. They run the gamut of men one might expect to find in a fairly broad spectrum of ordinary middle-class experience: farmers, lawyers, real estate salesmen, small businessmen of all sorts, a few schoolteachers, and a few wealthy men. But they have little or no understanding of the critical function of scholarship. Their con- cept of higher education and indeed all edu- cation is rudimentary and limited. They are both upset and confused by anything which exceeds their own experience. This limited viewpoint is easily illustrated by the ,confused and laughable ideas of some of the more extreme examples. One legis- lator wants all speakers barred from univer- sity campuses who oppose the free enterprise system. Another feels that while the Legis- lature is not capable of setting University policy, it ought to have a voice in selecting University administrators. Still others wanted the John Birch Society banned from campus. An often-expressed opinion was that academic freedom should be complete but that the United States is "at war" with the Communists and the University ought to be true red white and blue about the whole thing. One legisla- tor even said that he was "shocked" that any- body could ask him whether Communist speak- ers should be allowed. Certainly the legislators have a right to think and say what they wish. But their state- ments do reflect a lack of incisiveness, a lack of understanding of what the real issues are. They are based on slogans and prejudices rather than thought. Having been elected, they probably reflect the popular will. If one doubts that they have a mandate from the people, then one need only look at the huge collection of signatures that a petition campaign managed to gather against the lifting of Wayne State University's speaker ban two years ago. There is no real question of what the people want. IT IS NOT that the University ought to'be in necessary opposition to the ideals of society. A University professor or student may well wind up with the same conclusions as the society in regards to Democracy, free enter- prise and individual freedoms. But hopefully they are conclusions based upon a more round- about process of questioning, of the recognition of beliefs of beliefs and of an understanding of the implications and consequences of the conclusions. It is in the area of form rather than con- tent that the sccholar, along with the Univer- sity, is necessarily at odds with society. The University strives to bridge the gap between myth and idea, analyzing the meaning of what most people simply accept. But there is always the possibility of somebody reaching a different conclusion; and within the academic ideal one must always admit the possibility that he is right. THE UNIVERSITY and the scholar are caught within the context of the society. Rather than choosing to face the issue with courage, the University has chosen to insti- tute speaker bans. Worse, it has chosen, when it dismissed professors for their refusal to answer HUAC's questions, to draw a line between thought and its translation into action. A University ought to stand above the society in which it exists. Its faculty ought to transcend the issues of the moment as much as possible in order to understand them better. If we recognize the impossibility of carrying this concept to its ultimate and not undesire- able consequences, we ought at least to recog- nize the disparity between the ideal and the reality. The University must provide leader- ship in a society which it does not lead. It is forced to be dependent upon men who re- flect all the prejudices and provincialisms its processes attempt to limit. (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last of a five part analysis of India's problems.) By PHILIP D. SHERMAN Daily Guest Writer MADRAS-If you came to In- dia now, you likely wouldn't hear the standard correspondents' joke: "If the United States really wants to fix the Russians, it should let them have India." The present situation is too serious for humor, but it should not conceal the fact that the tem- perature of Indo-American rela- tions hav been constantly fluc- tuating. There have been Goa and Kashmir, "socialism," "neutral- ism" and allegagations India is too "soft" on international Com- munism. Embodying these sup- posed evils and a good many more besides has been Mr. Menon. All this has led to some skep- ticism above and beyond normal about aid to India, and the under- lying realities that have fed this skepticism aren't going to dis- appear once the border crisis either dies out or is solved, if it is. Fortunately, the recent Con- gressional foreign aid cuts report- edly will have little effect on In- dia, but the real issue is not hold- ing the line on aid but increasing it. IN STARK contrast to U. S. shilly-shallying: a Congress MP's private warning that economic aid must come quickly and in greater amounts. If democratic India shows progress over the next 15 years, he says, maybe she will succeed. But if the West waits for serious danger signals before rush- ing to the rescue, then it will be too late, just as it was in China. Right now, foreign aid looms importantly in India's Third Five Year Plan, which calls for $5.5 billion in outside help, one fourth of planned investment. East and West have given or pledged 43 billion. Over the years, the United States has loaned or given more than $4 billion to India, with major em- phasis on food production, power generation andhigherstechnical training. (The University is part of an American educational con- sortium sponsoring a technical institute at Kanpur.) Recent loans: $18 million to enlarge a private sector power plant and $30,000 to study peanut uses. AID COMES from appropria- tions, rupees earned from com- modity sales under Public Law 480 and the Export-Import Bank. (See table.) In order to make the rest of the West pay its share, the U. S. con- tributes to India only as much as a consortium of its allies and the World Bank. So far this year, each side has pledged $435 million. The U.S. will give $65 million more if the rest of the so-called Aid India Club also coughs up. Assessments of the U.S. program vary. In answer to usual general allegations of "waste," Ambas- sador John Kenneth Galbraith said after a recent tour of U.S.- backed projects that India is us- ing its aid well. A major criticism is that in- terest ought to be lower and loan repayment periods even longer. It is also pointed out that P.L. 480 grants cost the U.S. very little since, under price support pro- grams, it would buy the commod- ities it ships to India anyway. And use of sale proceeds only transfers money, rather than creating additional capital. SCELIG S. HARRISON says U.S. aid appears based on the premise India will preserve demo- cratic institutions. His own view -there's a good chance she won't -makes him ask what the U.S. will do ifrthe central government either breaks down or becomes authoritarian. Harrison also says that in ex- tending aid to large established private firms, the U.S. tends to back a social-economic order that dissatisifies many. Citing the fav- orable effects of a grant of $30 million in surplus World War II machine tools, he argues for more aid to small and growing business. He also advocates more for pub- lic sector heavy industries such as steel. Such projects may not al- stitute but a necessary supple- ment for internal striving for ec- onomic growth and political sta- bility, two of the ingredients in such a stable system of indepen- dent states. To the greater ex- tent foreign assistance can make for faster achievement of these internal goals, it should be given. * * * IN non-Communist Asia the king-pin of such a system is India. Her collapse would mean wide- spread instability and concomit- ant Communist opportunity. Faced with immense problems and rising expectations, India clearly needs help in all areas of development. The present border crisis only magnifies this need. At the best, HERE'S A program-by-program summary of United States loans to India as of May 4, 1962, a table that's already out of date. USAID Technical Cooperation Program $ million Grants................................. ...... 351.6 Loans (repayable in dollars or rupees) ............. 156.1 USAID developmental loans (repayable in dollars) .... 363.8 US Development Loan credits (repayable in rupees) .... 513.4 Public Law 480 assistance ........ ..................2,497.3 Emergency Flood and Famine Relief grants .............5.5 Export-Import Bank loans (repayable in dollars)......... 246.9 1951 Wheat Loan (repayable in dollars) ................ 189.7 Total 4,324.3 MORE THAN HALF this total, $2.23 billion or 51.5 per cent, is in loans repayable in rupees. Another $1.3 billion (30 per cent) is in straight grants and the remaining $800 million (18.5 per cent) loans repayable in dollars. its record. She already has sub- stantial social overhead capital, and if she has not met all her eco- nomic goals, still her accomplish- ments have been considerable. She recognizes her failures. India possesses all the compon- ents Ambassador Galbraith has maintained a nation needs to use outside capital properly: a sub- stantial literacy and adequate managerial and technical know- how; social justice to distribute development's dividends; a reli- able apparatus of government, and a "clear and purposeful view of what development involves." Finally, India's geography and present trade patterns incline her towards the West, as do the wide- spread use of English, and the Western backgrounds and pro- democratic sentiments of most of her leaders and much of her elite. But the latter three, especially, won't last forever. Common sup- port for the UN is another tie. IT IS OBJECTED India should not be aided because she won't line up behind the United States, has been "soft" on Communism and has accepted Soviet bloc eco- nomic aid. Here would have been the replies before the present crisis: 1) India is in fact pursuing a policy of self-interest with which the U.S. doesn't always agree but which is not even close to conflict with basic U.S. goals since India desires above all to maintain her independence,prosperity and ter- ritorial integrity. 2) For the basic text of non- alignment policies of new nations suspicious of colonialism, Ameri- cans ought to read Washington's Farewell Address. 3) As long as her interests and security aren't threatened, why shouldn't India get aid from all? 4) India isnt quite as soft on Communism as sometimes appears. She opposes internal subversion and the Congress party definitely opposes Communism at the polls. In stressing Communist means of violence and suppression of liberty, Nehru is awake to Communism's internal threat. Internationally, he does remai na bit suspicious of the West, a result of his anti-colonial heritage. But sometimes he is right, and he recognizes basic changes are taking place. Although inclined to be a bit lenient with Communism's international poli- cies, Nehru has never condoned aggression and is doubtless learn- ing a good deal from what's nap- pening to him in the north. 5) Inclined itself toward moral preaching, the West should be a bit more tolerant of India. Be- sides, India's opinions only have as much effect as the West allows them to have. Also, India needs peace to develop, and she works for it in her own way. In some cases, she might be right. 6) Like any other power, India has sometimes been wrong. * * * INTERNALLY, the bugaboo is India's easy-going socialism, whose nature has already been reviewed. Generally, Americans should con- sider the possibility their own clas- sical liberal ideas are at least par- tially inapplicable to new contexts, both in and out of their own so- ciety . Finalily, what should be done? 1). Economist-publicist Barbara Ward suggests a "Marshall Plan" approach, with the West making a political commitment to success- ful Indian development and pro- viding adequate appropriation and machinery to ensure effective and continuous cooperation. What ever the name, future programs must involve more outlays, for India can and must develop faster. 2) Lower interest ,rates and longer payoff periods on loans, not to say more outright grants, would ease the future burden on India's economy. 3) Trade policy must be adjust- ed. India can earn much needed foreign exchange if allowed to trade. The prospective end of Com- monwealth preferences would be a serious blow. New trade patterns and agreements must be encour- aged. 4) Since it is presently conduct- ing, in effect, an arms race with itself, the U.S. should rethink its joining India-Pakistan policy. It gives arms to Pakistan instead of more development aid and then India diverts potential develop- ment money of her own to main- tain military equality. Foreign aid fills the gap. Unfortunately, it's easier to ask re-thinking to sug- gest new ideas. 5) U.S. universities should pro- mote Indian studies and educate even more' qualified Indian Stu- dents in skills they can't adequate- ly learn at home. Opihion leaders taking their clue from the intel- lectuals, must mobilize the nation to its proper business. For Mao has merely underlined the MP's warning: enough, now, before it is too late. 1 I ways be economically as sound as presently aided ones, he ex- plains, but they are important, politically, as symbols of national aspiration and foreign sympathy. The U.S., in fact, is dickering about a steel mill, and one report says aid will be approved. But given the critical importance of agriculture, power and technical training, it's hard to see how aid can be diverted from these cri- tical areas. Rather, the more showy projects require additional aid outlays. The matching principle is criti- cized reasonably as tying U.S. a"d too closely to policies of stingier European powers; but how can they be induced to pay their shares? * * * UNION FINANCE Minister Mor- arji Desai and many others favor the multi-lateral aid approach, with aid actually administered through neutral agencies like the UN and World Bank. The Soviets. many say, should join the West. Coordinated, multi-lateral aid can be more effective, and there will be fewer fears of "strings." Sup- porting this, Harrison adds it's dangerous for both parties if In- dia depends too much on any one nation for aid because this would tend to obscure her own fincal responsibility for development. It would also tie her development too closely to her friend's policy. There remains the basic ques- tion-should the U.S. aid India at all. The answer-yes, of course, the only thing really wrong today is there isn't enough foreign aid. In its present search for secur- ity and some external economic opportunities, the United States is clearly interested in peace,-sta- bility and keeping territory and power from falling into her op- ponents' hands. Thes objectives can be most easily secured by creation of a stable system of prosperous nations, each guard- ing its own independence and ter- ritorial integrity. Foreign assistance is not a sub- development plans will have to be altered to suit military require- ments if the crisis is prolonged. At the worst, substantial increases, both in military expenditures and in foreign exchange outlays for weapons purchases will necessi- tate cutbacks in development plans, which nevertheless retain their critical importance. Barred by India's own policy from giving military aid, the 'West, through economic aid, can still help almost as directly to maintain the inde- pendent nation's territorial integ- rity, economic progress and in- ternal stability in face of a Com- munist threat. According to latest reports here, the U.S. will ship some arms to India immediately on a commer- cial basis, but won't worry about immediate Indian payment. Why not broaden this deferred payment idea a bit with elements in already successful programs? A lend-lease arrangement might be made; the U.S. was sympa- thetic to Great Britain, but no ally, when the program was orig- inally passed, and Britain retained her freedom of action. This would save India, as it did Britain, from having to make payments in scarce dollars. ANOTHER idea: just as with P.L. 480 commodity shipments, why can't the U.S. accept pay- ment in rupees and then promise to invest the proceeds in a similar sort of revolving fund. After all, it pays for the grain in dollars. Why not the same for arms it would purchase at home for the expr s purpose of sending them to belyagured India? The United States further as- serts its ideals of democracy, lib- erty and social justice, ideals which India follows. It is impor- tant therefore that democracy acquit itself adequately in the development race in comparison to more radical or chauvinistic in- stitutions and ideas. Although the present situation is surely chang- ing conditions, it has been argued that such a "competition" between India and China is given more stress than Asian attitudes actu- ally warrant, it wouldn't be wise to chance this and, in any case, the U.S. should feel a moral stake in the success of a liberal nation as such. On a more prosaic level, foreign aid to India, or any other place, stimulates American trade, as aid- backed purchases are made in the United States. And if, in the short run, it means a resources drain, in the long run a healthy and grow- ing world economy, of which India would be a major part, means profitable opportunities for inter- national trade, investment and specialization. * * * STAYING at this level, it' can be argued that, unlike many oth- er nations, American aid to India will do some good. India has made a good start on development and shows every sign of maintaining I LE DESTIN': A Franct Agaigsl By GLORIA BOWLES SUNDAY in France has tradi- tionally been set aside for go- ing to mass, but the French seem to have taken to going to the polls on this day, too. A nation which has experienced a series of referenda in the last year and a half will this Sunday be asked to choose a new Assemble Nationale. Parliamentary candidates repre- senting President Charles de Gaulle's party, the UNR, cam- paigning hard, hope the French will reaffirm theirconfidence in Le Grand Charlie, and in the new constitutional amendment provid- ing popular election of the Fifth Republic's President passed by referendum only two weeks ago. THE LEFT in France, however, greatly fears a UNR victory. The fear has been translated into an unexpected move by Socialist leader Guy Mollet, who entertains few hopes for an SFI0 win in the first round of voting, when it takes a majority to win, but looks to an alliance in the second round of voting, when only a plurality is needed. The Mollet proposal for an alliance to defeat Gaullist candi- dates is not in itself disturbing until one names the party the SFIO hopes to join: the Com- munists. French democracy, in a year when French democracy has been endangered time and again, finds before it another threat. Guy Mollet, one of the nation's great- est democrats, so much fears the right that he feels obliged to join e~ Divided t Herself UNDERSCORE: Indispensable UN Preserves the Peace By H. NEIL BERKSON AT THE PEAK of the Cuban crisis, some bright quipster re- marked that the United Nations had proved indispensable before it had become effective. The quip was perceptive, per- haps, more than it was humor- ous. For the UN is indispensable today-it is needed simply because it ranks prominently on that tenu- ous list of factors responsible for keeping the world at peace. The current college generation little understands the meaning of peace because it doesn't know war. This generation barely recalls Korea; World War II is nought but an historical event. Few can grasp the import of the fact that there were over 15 mil- lion military casualties alone be- tween the years 1939-45, or that that war will have cost the United States $700 billion by 1972. More- over, who can understand the endless personal tragedies which lie behind every statistic of that war, indeed, of every war. * * * THE WORLD of 1945 lived in tragedy. And it was a bewildered, desperate world which begged for relief. "We, the peoples of the United Nations," this world com- mittPi to ,itin. "Dtm ine. t At times, the UN has failed mis- erably. At times, its sacrosanctity has been mocked by the vicious, treachery of national whims-our own and those of other' countries. But every success the UN has had is worth a thousand mistakes, for every success strengthens the dream of its founders-the dream of world peace. \* * * ASSUREILY, the UN's signifi- cant role in international power politics is a mark of its success. The organization has defied its opponents by weathering crisis after crisis. It has grown stronger each time it has been called upon to save the world from the hell of war. In what other hands could the impossible Congo situation have been placed? Who has main- tained the truce in the Middle East? Who has kept the nuclear powers talking instead of fight- ing? Whom did both East and West ask immediately to mediate the Cuban crisis? The UN has been invaluable in these confrontations. At the most dangerous periods of the Cold War the UN has kept the channels of communication open so that nei- ther side has fallen into war through misunderstanding. It has been a mecca for the exchangerof ideas on how to save the world. 'rhP,. giirival o-f humay~nity is a the extreme left. Mollet obvious- ly has great qualms about the man who is running his country, and the people who are giving him the powers of a dictator. Those who love France, and her people, and admire the revolution whose call for Liberte, Egalite and Frater- nite has inspired many men since 1789, cannot help but be greatly disturbed when a man of Mollet's conviction feels himself compel- led to join the Communists. THIS SOCIALIST attempt to defeat the right is helping to legit- imize an extreme left whose power in France increased in multiplying proportions to every OAS bomb that was exploded in Paris and in Algeria. The Communists took full advantage of unrest in France, masterfully exploited a tense situ- ation and provided a fervent oppo- sition to the terrorist activities of the Secret Army Organization. On the liberal side of the Algerian question, the Communists began to look as though they weren't so bad after all. Though the Party polled 20 per cent of the votes cast in the 1958 parliamentary elections, constiu- tional manipulation has knept them from taking a proportionate num- ber of seats in the Assembly. Al- liance and coalition is the Com- munists' only chance for power in France. It is ironic that Mollet should be the one to offer the chance. The Socialist concession to alliance with the Communists, a purely negative move, is one of the sad- dest pieces of news to come out of France in a long time. The Mollet announcement does not portend well for French democracy or po- litical stability. GENERAL de Gaulle came to power in France in 1958 to put down an army rebellion in Al- geria. He put down the rebellion,, and even a war. But France's problems are far from being solved. Though outwardly it appears that de Gaulle and stability reign peaceful, there is trouble bubbling under the surface. France, as she goes to the polls this Sunday in November, harbors an extreme right which is dwind- ling but ever present, an extreme left whose power is increasing, an aging President, and a constitu- tion which only that President can MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Delightful Experience T HE NEW YORK Opera Com- pany combined an outstanding cast, chorus, and orchestra to present Mozart's opera, "The Mar- riage of Figaro." From beginning to end, the opera was delightful and enjoyable, both musically and artistically. Susanna, sung by Doris Yarick, was purely delightful throughout the opera; the climax of her per- formance was her final aria. "Deh Vieni, Non Tardar" in the fourth act, in which she displayed a small voice, but she was very con- vincing in the role of he page. The remainder of the cast was of equal excellence, particularly Don Basilio, whose voice is of fine quality and projects very well. Some of the singer seemed to have difficulty being heard in the lame auditorium, but this is rather in- nate in opera production in Hill Aud. THE OPERA COMPANY orches- tra deserves special commendation