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RSDAY, MAY 12, 1960
NIGHT EDITOR: FAITH WEINSTEIN
The University and the City:
Two Disputing Worlds
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BACH MASS:
Choir Falls Short
Of Baroque Ideal
OHANN SEBASTIAN'S Mass represents a culmination of two long
and distinguished lines of musical- tradition. It is a high point in
the long history of polyphonic settings of the Ordinary of the Roman
Catholic Mass, which included such indelible figures of the past as
Machaut, Des Prez, Palestrina, and the Venetians and of the present,
Igor Stravisky.
This work also represents the fulfillment of that magnificent era,
the Baroque. For proper effect in a work of this importance and com-
plexity, scrupulous attention to detail and overall conception must be
maintained. The particular musical effects that the Baroque composer
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MAYOR CREAL made it clear Monday night
that his policy of "gradualism" in the area
of human relations is a euphemism for in-
activity. In doing so, he pointed up what seems
to be a growing disagreement between the
University and the city.
In naming three new individuals to the Hu-
mnan Relations Commission, Creal refused to
re-appoint two qualified University representa-
tives, Vice-President for Student Affairs Lewis
and Mrs. Arthur Carr. Both were "charter
members" of the Commission when it began
operations three years ago. Both are active
workers in human relations problems. Both
are generally classified as "liberal" in their
Commission activities.
SINCE THE Mayor's extreme "gradualism"
conflicts with the thinking of Lewis and Mrs.
Carr, his decision regarding the appointments
is understandable.
But it is not praiseworthy.
It gives further indication of the Mayor's
unhurried attitude towards certain of Ann
Arbor's weighty problems concerning human
relations. Creal seems to be deliberately de-
emphasizing two plans long-considered and
seriously needed-urban rehabilitation and an
ordinance on discrimination in housing. He
has shown little positive interest in either.
Both problems are ugly things, and both
delicate political issues. But both demand
greater and more immediate consideration than
they are receiving.
THIS KIND of conservatism practiced by
Creal only serves to tarnish Ann Arbor's
reputation as the Midwestern Athens, or less
symbolically, as a progressive, modern com-
munity.
The tarnishing might become all the worse
if the new Commission is less active, as Creal
would have it be.
When the Commission was established under
another administration three years ago, it
generated much excitement and promised
some mitigation of the city's serious race rela-
tions problem. It was assumed the Commission
would be dynamic then, and it is preposterous
to assume otherwise now, as the Mayor does.
FURTHER, it does not' seem appropriate to
bypass University personalities in selecting
Commission members, particularly when those
personalities have shown interest in receiving
an appointment. It goes without saying that
Ann Arbor is composed of two overlapping
communities: the city and the University. It
should also go without saying that each
communtiy has a legitimate interest in the
activities of the other, particularly regarding
common problems such as discrimination.
It is unfortunate that the Mayor did not see
fit to renew the appointments of Lewis or
Mrs. Carr. His action points up a broader
conflict of interests between the city and the
University which may reci'1t in 1,nreasing
friction.
ONE CAN safely make the generalization that
the city and the University are working at
cross purposes. Human relations problems are
steadily improving on campus, due to consider-
able attention from elements within the Uni-
versity. But in the city they stand still, re-
ceiving scant consideration. The one com-
munity, represented by the Mayor, has slowed
progress in discrimination problems. The other,
represented by Lewis and many others, has
energetically tried to progress in the area.
A conservative city on one hand, a pro-
gressive University on the other. Relations be-
tween the two should hardly be amicable in
the coming ytar.
-THOMAS HAYDEN
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sought to express are best com-
emunicated by clarity and precis-
ion of parts and harmonic rich-
ness. This does not imply an in-
tense decibel-level.
LAST EVENING'S performance
of the Mass by the University
choir and orchestra under the dir-
ection of Maynard Klein fell short
of these stylistic ideals.
Theentire ensemble was too
large, thus blurring the overall
lucidity of the music. A chorus of
sixty expert singers and twenty-
five comparable instrumentalists
is more than adequate for this
work,
* * *
MUCH CREDIT must be given
to the ,chorus for maintaining as
much clarity as they did. Attacks
were precise, balance and diction
was very good, and a certain vig-
orous enthusiasm pervaded their
contribution to the work. Never-
theless, the very full sounds pro-
duced by over 200 singers seemed
to make the music sound turgid
and somewhat insensitive.
The orchestra showed a lack of
thorough preparation. Imprecise
attacks, faulty intonation were
among the major difficulties.
Plaudits are in order for the
trumpets and soloists: Louise
Scheldrup, Patricia Martin and
Harry Dunscombe.,
Perhaps the best single per-
formance of the whole affair was
tympanish Harold Janes, who had
an eminently fine sense of style.
THE VOCAL soloists were gen-
erally competent. Mary Ellen
Henkel's "Laudamus te' shows a
fine sensitivity to the essential
lyric, devotional character of the
music. Muriel Greenspon's "Agnus
Dei" displayed her usual rich con-
tralto voice to best advantage. She
seemed to be personally involved
with the music.
The work is indestructible and
its essential grandeur was con-
veyed by those participating. It
is to be hoped that a more scrup-
ulous attention to stylistic detail
will be maintained in future per-
formances.
Thanks. are due to Mr. Klein
for allowing the campus to hear
this magnificant piece.
--Gerrard Roberts
Irwin Gage
INTERPRETING:
Cm a ,'Gears Shift '
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
WITH SEN. Hubert Humphrey
out of the running and yice-
President Richard Nixon about
ready to shift into gear, the politi-
cal situation has lost some of its
preconvention aspects for this
moment and begins to take on
some of the flavor of an actual
Presidential campaign.
And this comes at a time when
the nation is heavily preoccupied
with international affairs, the Re-
publican administration in a mud-
dle over its handling of them, and
with important international con-
ferences beginning.
BUT RIGHT NOW there is no
real attention-getting campaign
among the Democrats,, which
leaves thedstage very largely to
Nixon and. Kennedy and than
chances of the two parties.
Sen. Stuart Symington is still
working hard, of course, but the
campaign among the Democrats
just isn't what it was before West
Virginia. Johnson, who is making
a powerful run behind the scenes,
may change this soon.
In the meantime, Nixon faces
new problems just when his cam-
paign is about to open.
President Dwight D. Eisenhow-
er's campaign for peace, which
was expected to prove a strong
plank for bridging some of the
streams Nixon will have to cross,
has taken a setback. Relations
with the Soviet Union. are worse
than they have ever been.
The domestic political aspects
of this are being soft-pedaled to
give the nation a unified front at
the summit conference.
But the Administration is under
criticism for ineptness, bad judg-
ment and general bungling, and
only a major recovery in this field
can keep it from having its effect
on Nixon.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Herter-ICA Dualism Awkward
I
By DREW PEARSON
MAX LERNER-
Red Flag Forever
TEHRAN-I fear that Communist leaders
don't take diplomatic exchanges and prom-
ises with great seriousness, but they do take
seriously the twists and turns of Party doctrine.
Hence it is strange that the Asian press has
not paid more attention to the ideological
broadside issued by the top Chinese Com-
munists in late April, to mark the 90th anni-
versary of Lenin's birth. It was in the form
of an editorial statement by "Red Flag,"
which the Central Committee of the Chinese
Communist Party uses to lay down the theo-
retical line for the faithful.
Here in Iran where Communism is banner,
and where the urgent threat is from Russia,
one would except to find little interest in this
pronouncement from Peking. But the leaders
and people of India, Southeast Asia, and Japan
where the threat is from China, could scarcely
exaggerate its importance. What gives it even
more point for Asia is the fact that it was
published exactly when Chou En-lai was in
New Delhi assuring the Indian people of
China's friendship for "thousands and tens of
thousands of years."
RED FLAG DOCTRINE'S bearing on
Russia is perhaps its most obvious aspect,
although in my judgment not the most im-
portant. Clearly enough Russian Communist
doctrine stands in the way of Chinese Com-
munism's Big Leap--whether forward into the
future or backward into the darkest part of
human history is a question still to be settled.
The Russians have faced latter-day Twen-
tieth-century realities, including the suicidal-
ness of nuclear warfare and the shadow of
common doom that ties men of all ideologies
today in a common humanity. The Chinese, by
rejecting this "soft" doctrine, have taken a
doctrinal position opposed to Russia's. They
cannot build their commune system with Rus-
sian doctrine, nor do they dare give their
people even the minor leeway the Russians now
give them sincetStalin's death.
Most of all the Chinese do not dare give
up the idea of a monstrous conspiratorial
enemy -- the United States outside and the
"Rightists" within-which is so malevolent and
Editorial Staff
THOMAS TURNER, Editor
PHILIP POWER ROBERT JUNKER
EdItorial Director City Editor
JrM B"NAGH. ................Sports Edltcr
PETER DAWSON ............ Associate City Editor
CHARLES KOZOLL ........... rrsonnei Director
JOAN KAATZ .,.... Magazine Editor
BARTON HUTHWAITE . Associate Editorial Director
PRED KATZ«..... ..... Associate Sports Editor
DAVE LYON ................Associate Sports Editor
JO HARDEE ................. Contributing Editor
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dangerous that any means is justified'-in fight-
ing them. The Russians, largely because of
their achievements in science and technology,
now feel strong enough to get along without
the symbol of the Enemy-Who-Must-be-De-
stroyed-at-Any-Cost. The Americans, having
survived the McCarthy era, can also get along
without it. The Chinese cannot.
EST I BE misunderstood I must add that
this declaration of doctrinal war against
the Russian heresy, by Chinese orthodoxy,
must not be taken as meaning that China and
Russia can be played against each other in
world power politics.
When the cards are down the Russian
cards w ould be with the Chinese. For all their
doctrinal rivalry they are part of the same
world camp.
AS IF TO GIVE point to the fact that
Chinese Communists expect their Russian
brothers, as well as their Asian Communist
brothers, to help them in the coming show-
down with India, suppose, says the "Red Flag"
doctrine, that a Communist nation "is com-
pelled to launch counter-attacks in a defensive
war." And suppose it "goes beyond its own
border to pursue and eliminate its enemies
from abroad." In that case it would be the duty
of every Communist anywhere to give up the
Russian doctrine of "bourgeois pacifism," and
come to the help of his Chinese brothers.
And why? Because such a war would be "a
just war to end the unjust war when and if
the Imperialists should unleash it." To under-
score the point the Red Flag Doctrine insists
that such a counter-imperialist war-perhaps
even a preventive one-would be "completely
justified, absolutely necessary, and entirely
just."
This is an interesting preview of things to
come, and one worth noting by those who be-'
lieve that Indian-Chinese border differences
are merely the outcome of differing versions
of historical maps and documents.
WHAT RTMAINS is the bearing of the Red
Flag Doctrine for the world as a whole. If
anyone thinks that peace is assured through
the "balance of terror," and that no one will
dare to plunge the world into a war which
would mean suicide for civilization as a whole,
let him ponder the words of the Chinese Com-
munist elite: "Until the imperialist system and
the exploiting classes come to an end, wars of
one kind or another will always appear
Communists must make two preparations: one
for the development of the revolution and the
other for non-peaceful revolution . . . They
must master wherever possible more and more
of such new techniques as atomic weapons and
rocketry."
And the risk? Not the "annihilation of man-
kind," the Red Flag Doctrine assures us, there-
I -
THE DISPATCH of the Ameri-
can "observation" plane over
the heart of the Soviet Union
shortly before the summit confer-
ence highlights a situation which
has plagued United States foreign
policy ever since the war.
It is the fact that we have two
Secretaries of State.
One is the official Secretary of
State, Christian Herter. The other
is Allen Dulles, head of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency. In many
cases, Secretary of State Herter
has little idea what the super-
secret arm of the United States
government, Central Intelligence,
is doing. More than once Central
Intelligence has severely disrupted
United States foreign relations.
* S S
LAST WEEK, state department
and Pentagon officials were telling
the truth-as far as they knew it-
when they put out that phony alibi
about pilot Powers having oxygen
trouble over Lake Van. This is
what they were told by the CIA,
and they seemed so convinced the
story was true that a good many
newsmen, including this writer,
-believed them.
This was how the United States,
on the verge of one of the most
important international confer-
ences in recent years, got caught,
first spying, and then lying.
No country could have been put
in a more humiliating position.
And no country could have had
its bargaining power at the Paris
r a
talks more neatly pulled out from
under it.
Note - all Premier Khrushchev
has to do, to make his propaganda
sockeroo devastatingly complete, is
to take pilot Francis Powers to
Paris and personally hand him
back to President Eisenhower with
the gesture: "We don't want him.
We won't punish him because he
was merely carrying out capital-
istic orders. You can have him.
But don't let him come our way
again."
And since Khrushchev is one of
the most skilled propaganda art-
ists in five continents, he may well
do this,
WHAT CENTRAL Intelligence
was up to was to spy on what
secret stunt the Russians were go-
ing to pull just before the summit
conference. It will be recalled that
Russian scientists hit the moon
just before Khrushchev came to
the United States, and it has long
been rumored that they would
launch a man into space just be-
fore the summit.
The chief Russian missile cen-
ter is northeast of the Caspian
directly on the course taken by
pilot Powers on his ill-timed flight.
His telescopic cameras were sup-
posed to pick up any sign of Soviet
scientific activity which might sur-
prise the world just before the
summit,
IN WASHINGTON, Central In-
telligence is known as the hush-
hush agency. It is also sacrosanct.
Congress does not Investigate it.
Congress does not even try to get
a breakdown on the use of its
funds. Congressional appropria-
tions committees are eagle-eyed
with every penny spent for propa-
ganda by the United States infor-
mation agency, and Rep. John
Rooney of Brooklyn. has even cut
back that agency because it hasn't
employed certain Voice of Ameri-
ca personnel from Brooklyn.
Not so with Central Intelligence.
It can afford to pay pilot Powers
$2,500 a month and not be an-
swerable to Congress. It can also
afford to invest in the two gold
wristwatches, seven ladies rings,
500 rubles plus the gold French
francs, which gave Khrushchev
the opportunity of getting off that
wisecrack about being wrapped in
cellophane in the "cultured Ameri-
can way."
"Why," asked Khrushchev, "was
all this necessary in the upper
layers of the atmosphere? Maybe
he was to have flown on to Mars
(with those seven ladies rings) to
lead astray Martian ladies."
* * *
ONCE BEFORE, Central Intelli-
gence caused a serious rift in
American foreign affairs when Col-
onel Nasser was building up a
stockpile of Russian arms and si-
multaneously spreading all sorts
of propaganda charges against the
United States.
At that time, Secretary Dulles
sent his assistant secretary in
charge of Near Eastern affairs,
George Allen, to Cairo with a
personal note to Nasser. It was
couched in strong language.
But before Allen arrived, the
Central Intelligence agent for that
area, Kim Roosevelt, called on
Nasser and told him that though
the note was tough, it didn't mean
what it said.
The incident caused a furor in
the Middle East and a grave ques-
tion as to who was really running
American foreign policy.
-- * * *
NO CIA personnel can ever ad-
mit they work for the CIA. Even in
Washington they are anonymous
.. . for some time Air Force planes
used to make reconnaissance
flights over Russia. But since the
flight of military personnel over
another country could be an act of
war, this job was transferred to
the CIA. When a plane flies over
50,000 feet, it's hard to spot. Pow-
ers' plane was flying at 65,000.
But specially built cameras can
take excellent photographs at this
altitude. Experts who know how to
read them can tell exactly what is
going on 65,000 feet below .,.
modern spying long ago abandoned
Mata Hari techniques. It now con-
sists of long-range lenses, elec-
tronic listening devices, plus the
poison needle-if' you're caught.
Powers had the needle but did not
use it . . . Soviet planes have never
been caught over the continental
U.S.A., but vapor trails have been
picked up over Alaska, Iran and
Canada. One reason Soviet planes
don't try to spy on the U.S.A. is'
because every one of our bases is
known, while very accurate aerial
maps can be purchased from the
United States government. All the
Soviet embassy has to do is go
down and buy them.
(copyright 1960, by the Bell Syndicate)
TO THE EDITOR:
Arab Students
Protest Aid Cut
DAILY
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
To the Editor:
RECENTLY, the United States
Senate passed a bill to cut
foreign aid to the UAR with the
intention of applying pressure so
that Israeli ships be allowed to
pass through the Suez Canal. We
hope that the President will cor-
rect this breach of instituting
power politics by vetoing the bill.
Indeed, it is very regrettable for
those of us Arabs who were grati-
fied by the improving relations
and mended breaks between the
two countries, to see this regres-,
sion.
The President of the U.S. has
supported the American ideals of
freedom and self-determination
when he divorced the U.S. from
the Tri-partite aggression against
Egypt in 1956.
* * *
WE ARE most anxious to main-
tain our friendly relations with;
the U.S. when we receive proper
encouragement. It is this same
principle that guides us to de-
plore the recent action of the
Senate. Is it too much to ask of
the United States to be neutral
in the persistent conflict between
Israel and the Arabs?
The Arabs would be more than
happy to comply with the UN
resolutions concerning free pass-
age of Israeli ships through the
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Spectators:
Stadium: Enter by Main St. gates
only. All should be seated by 5:00 p.m.,
when procession enters field.
Yost Field louse: Only those holding
tickets can be admitted owing to lack
of space.aEnter on State St., opposite
McKinley Ave.
Graduation Announcements, Invita-
tions, etc.: Inquire at Office of Student
Affairs.
Commencement Programs: To beFdis-
tributed at Stadium or Yost, Field
House.
Distribution of Diplomas: If the ex-
ercises are held in the Stadium, diplo-
mas for all graduates except the School
of Dentistry, the Medical School, and
Flint College, will be distributed from
designated stations under the east
stand of the Stadium, immediately
after the exercises. The diploma distri-
bution stations are on the level above
the tunnel entrance.
If the exercises are held in the Yost
Field House. all diplomas except those
of the School of Dentistry, the Medical
School, and Flint College. will be dis-
tributed from the windows of the
Cashier's Office and the Registrar's Of-
flee, lobby, Ad. Building. Following the
ceremony, diplomas may be called for
until 9:00 p.m.
Doctoral degree candidates who qual-
ify for the Ph.D. degree or a similar
degree from the Graduate School and
who attend the commencement exer-
cises will he given a hood by the Uni-
versity. Hoo given during the cere-
mony are all Doctor of Philosophy
hoods, Those receiving a doctor's de-
gree other than the Ph.D. may ex-
change the Ph.D. hood given them dur-
ing the ceremony for the appropriate
Suez Canal when Israel is ready
to carry out the other 72 resolu-
tions which were passed against
her. Among the most important of
these is the problem of one mil-
lion Arab refugees who were given
the choice of going back to their
homes or being compensated for
the loss of their properties.
-Bourhan Tayara
--Jehad Manna
Real Story . . .
To the Editor:
ON PAGE five of The Michigan
Daily of May 5, 1960, there ap-
peared an article by Miss Maine
Jackson entitled "Organizations
Neglect Student Participants."
In this article Miss Jackson
said . . . "The Democratic Social?
ists scheduled and publicly an-
nounced a lecture on a subject of
popular interest to be held at
4:15 p.m. last Friday. Then, with
no further announcement, the
Club unofficially cancled the lec-
ture - letting those individuals
who wished to hear the guest
speaker search in vain for a
meeting which never would be...
It seems ironic that an organi-
zation so directly concerned with
human relations would be so apa-
thetic and even 'negativistic to-
ward private individuals interested
in their Club."
* * *
LET ME give a resume of what
actually happened. The Demo-
cratic Socialist Club planned a
lecture. They applied for per-
mission from the lecture com-
mittee and the permission was
granted.
Then, being "an organization
directly concerned with human re-
lations, the D.S.C. postponed (not
canceled) their lecture so that it
would not conflict with the Con-
ference on Human Rights in the
North. At the time this lecture
ws postponed, the D.S.C. had put
up no posters, sent out no mail-
ing, and had not put any adver-
tisement in The Michigan Daily.
* * *
HOWEVER, Miss Jackson had
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