I AID FOR SCHOOLS: A NECESSITY See Page 4 :Yl r e t Seventieth Year of Editorial Freedom Dai iiij PARTLY CLOUDY High--47 Low-36 Mild temperatures continuing tonight. VOL LXX, No. 70 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1S, 1959 FIVE CENTS SIX PAG Y M a : v + r a { i erter uestions -./VA.- Ito ---TO C .yc: :: C9iv Stamtc SOVIET EXHIBIT -- Vice-President Richard Nixon shows Nikita Khrushchev a washing machine during the exhibit at Sokolniki Park in Moscow this summer. The display at Moscow and the ex- change exhibit in New York City have been described as successful ventures in exchange programs. 'New Diplomacy' Top Story By THOMAS HAYDEN If there are historians to record 1959, they may legitimately call it a year in which towering men paced a shrinking globe. Because the men moved, so did whole nations. Because the' men talked, so did the whole world. And because the men smiled, the Cold War thawed, if only slightly. The men, in uncertain order, were Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle, Jawaharlal Nehru, Konrad Ade- nauer, Harold Macmillan. New Diplomacy... Together they are evidence for the year's most important story: the Rise of Personal Diplomacy. At no time in modern history did the leaders of great peoples travel so far and talk so much as they did in 1959. Their story is a continuous one, for at this moment the President of the United States travels some- where in Europe, closing his 22,- 000 mile peace mission. The President left America Dec. 3, with the words: "I have rela- tively few months left, and I de- cided to . . . make an effort that no President was ever called on before to make . . . I feel a com- pulsion to visit a number of coun- tries . . . and tell them exactly what I believe the United States is trying to do; that our basic aspiration is to search out methods z by which peace in the world can be assured with justice for every- body . . The peoples of Asia have re- sponded to the President's appeal. But when he steps off his trail in Paris this weekend, his appeal will have to be at least as great. In Paris wait de Gaulle, Mac- millan and Adnauer - leaders of the three European powers. They undoubtedly wait with an- a-ticipation and probably some *anxieties, for all has not been pleasant for the Westsin 1959. Disagreements. . . Eisenhower will face a major talks in Paris-that of trying to help mitigate differences among the Allies as they prepare for sum- mit talks with the Russians next year. An important factor in Western differences is the steadily increas- ing influence of de Gaulle, host at, the Western Summit. In one of the year's remarkable political movements, de Gaulle as- * sumed the French presidency in, January.hHe found himself the head of a country beset by trouble; for example, France pays some three million dollars each day of its five-year war in Algeria. The new president's goal: the restora- tion of French greatness. Over the last 12 months, de Gaulle has taken a number of dynamic stands and gained an in- creasingly powerful role in world politics. He finally succeeded set- ting back any East-West summit meeting until he first visits the United States, then talks with Russian Premier Khrushchev in March. De Gaulle also wants France to go ahead with the pro- jected test of its first atom bomb, and he has toured Algeria and asked the rebellious nationalist leaders there to come to Paris under safe conduct to discuss a' cease-fire. Also in Paris this week will be England's Macmillan, undoubtedly more confident because of the recent comfortable victory of his Conservative Party in the British elections. And with Macmillan will be his ally, but opponent over various Western policy questions, Ger- Berlin Problem . Germany-and more specifically, divided Berlin-has been the core of debate for months between East and West, but also among the Allies. Macmillan wants some form of interim settlement on the question of West Berlin's future. The United States has generally gone along with the British attitude. But Adenauer has consistently opposed any discussion of West Berlin at the summit, unless it is within the larger context of the whole German problem. He feels that any concessions to the Russians might damage both Germany and the Western posi- tion in Europe. De Gaulle shares Adenauer's misgivings about negotiations over West Berlin, but the British in- sist the larger German issue should not be brought up, since Russia is not willing to settle such a ques- tion except in its own terms. De Gaulle has also insisted on a "global agenda" for the summit conference next spring, and is re- TopTen The top stories of 1959: 1) Rise of Personal Diplom- acy; the travels of Eastern and Western leaders. 2) Conflict and Disagreement Blur the Way to the Summit. 3) Nehru and Asian Ferment. 4) Castro and Latin America. 5) The Steel Strike. 6) The 1960 Presidential Race Opens. 71 Herter and Geneva. 8) The Space Race. 9) Hawaiian Statehood. 10) Deaths of Dulles, Marshall. portedly displeased with the other powers' desire to keep the agenda narrow. The western nations will also have to deal with other issues af- fecting their unity, including France's resistance to integrating of European NATO forces and a growing rivalry between the two European trade blocs. Waiting quietly east of Europe while the Allies look for internal unity is the heavy, hard-thinking little man° who inspired a great number of world headlines in 1959, Russian Premier Nikita Khrush- chev. He has not uttered a word of protest at the delays caused by Western disagreements. He has spent a full year, visiting with Macmillan in Moscow last Feb- ruary and with Mao-Tse-Tung and Eisenhower this fall. The news that Khrushchev would exchange visits with the President of the United States was probably the single'.most im- portant news event of the year. It broke in late August,~following an exciting two-week trip through the Soviet Union by Vice-Presi- dent Richard M. Nixon. Khrushchev stood in the corn- fields of Iowa, at the speaker's table of the United Nations, and on the quiet grounds of Camp Da- vid during his American travels. He talked peace, but firmly. And, now he waits with apparent pa- tience for the return visit of the President and the resolving of Western difficulties. Disarmament ... Regarding Berlin, Khrushchev has said he wants a peace treaty and designation of West Berlin as a free city. Regarding disarmament, the Russian premier announced in December his concept of "univer- sal disarmament." Russia, he said, is willing to destroy all its stock- piles immediately if such a pro- gram is adopted. But the Red Premier's idea im- plies a four-year disarmament pattern with no controls until the 'program is complete. The West splits with Khrushchev on the is- sue of effective controls, arguing for a step-by-step disarmament program based on specific, effec- tive controls. (Here the West Ger- mans hedge slightly, fearing any limited agreements over Europe might result in neutralizing and disarming them.) No one could smother the nu- clear fuse in 1959, and the disar- mament issue continues as one of the critical points in internation- al relations. Farther yet to the East is the struggling Asian democracy of India, ridden not only by popu- lation and hunger problems, but by new enemies - the Red Chin- ese. Earlier in the year, Red China rampaged through Tibet and has lately caused much turmoil along the Indian border. In the midst of the rising threat See PERSONAL,'Page 3 Warns Allies Of Possible U.S. Cutback Aims Old Criticism At de Gaule Policy PARIS (P) - Secretary of State Christian A. Herter yesterday challenged President Charles de Gaulle's go-it-alone NATO policy. He hinted at possible United States troop cutbacks in Europe unless the Allies shoulder a full share of the defense burden. Herter echoed United States military leaders' dissatisfaction with the drift of the Western al- liance in a major, 40-minute speech opening the annual con- ference of NATO foreign min- isters. On the question of United States commitments to NATO, Herter told the 14 other partners in NATO: Will Maintain Troops "Let me assure this Council categorically that as long as the Soviet threat to our collective se- curity exists and NATO continues to command the loyal participa- tion of all of its other members, it is the policy of the United States to maintain American troops as an effective part of the shield in Europe." Herter then warned that the ability of his government to ob- tain appropriations from Congress to maintain United States troop strength in Europe is "related to the degree of effort and determin- ation demonstrated by our NATO partners." Under 'One Command The Secretary of State, insist- ing that NATO forces must -re- main under one command, de- clared: "We must maintain the principle of an integrated defense system." But de Gaulle, who has pulled the bulk of his military forces out from under the NATO command, stood pat. He told members of Parliament who called on him that he remained opposed to in- tegration. "During the last two wars," he said, "allied forces were not inte- grated. Nonetheless, they won vic- tories." Softened Edge Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville of France apparently tried to soften the edge of de Gaulle's sharp NATO policy, tell- ing his fellow foreign ministers: "We must maintain the balance of our forces. NATO is indispen- sable and we require the support of the United States in Europe." Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd of Britain backed Herter strongly. He said the NATO military effort cannot be founded on nationally directed, forces alone. Herter's speech wound up with a proposal for a 10-year plan to revitalize NATO for a global war of nerves against the Soviet Union. In order to assure what he called "a decade of peace with security," Herter proposed that the NATO Council get machinery going for some long-range planning in five areas - political, military, arms control, scientific and economic. * * * * Ike Relaxes Aboard Ship After Ovation in Atens Greeks Give Wild Ovation To President * * * * KING, PRESIDENT WAVE-President Dwight Eisenhower and King Paul of Greece were received by 750,000 spectators as they rode through the gaily decorated streets of Athens Monday. During his stay, the President was cheered at the 120-year-old Parliament hall at Athens-a cheer led by Communist- line deputies. After departing from Greece, the President boarded a cruiser in the Mediterranean. BLACK DAY: Witers To Miss UMW Head By ARTHUR EDSON Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer To the nation's features writers and columnists, to cartoonists everywhere, this is a black day in journalism. John L. Lewis is quitting, and where shall we find another? . This volcano of a man, who spewed molten prose, who roared, who glowered, who threatened, seemed born to be caricatured, to be described and quoted, to be hated violently or to be followed unquestioningly. In recent years he has been comparatively quiet. But in the background he could be heard oc- casionally, grumbling and rum- bling. Now, at 79, John L. is stepping down as head of the United Mine Workers Union that he dominated so long, and an incredible era has ended. Others May Assess Let others assess whether Lewis wielded his enormous power for good or forevil.Let others ponder whether he might have been a more effective force if he had not been so insistent on playing a lone, though grandiloquent, hand. Let's go back a dozen or so years to another time . . . when if a Congressman cried out against labor bosses, you knew he meant John L. Lewis. Ah, spring will never be the same in Washington again. Once spring meant magnolias, cherry blossoms, tourists - and the end of the miners' contract. Great Wrath Then up rose John L. Lewis, and great was his wrath. Even his silence looked cosmic. When Lewis decided on the silent treatment, he could stalk majes- tically through a crowd of report- ers like-as one columnist put it-- a frigate sailing through a school of minnows. Then the contract would be signed. MSU Council Favors ROTC As Voluntary EAST LANSING (M)-The Aca- demic Council at Michigan State University recommended last night that compulsory military training (RO TC) at that school be placed on a voluntary basis by September; 1961. Suddenly the snows melted on tentedly from his fat cigar, and he the summit. The famed eyebrows, would disclose details of another which had been lowered to half mast, would return to their normal position. Greets Reporters Reporters would be greeted by' their first names. Lewis's laugh would become an amiable bellow, the smoke would float up con- G'' May Get Pay on t ime Prospects are the University's' January payroll will be met on schedule; although the State Ad- ministrative Board yesterday passed over educational institu- tions in its allocation of funds, a University official said. At its weekly meeting the Board set aside $1.8 million in what he termed a "contingency fund" for' reserve payments, including uni- versity payments, payroll and wel- fare responsibilities. Although it was expected that the University would be paid yes- terday, the delay presents no diffi- culty because the payroll for which funds are due is not scheduled to be met until Jan. 5. fat contract. This is a timid age, and the words are weasel. If a politician wants to call another politician a liar, he says his opponent is some- thing less than candid. Who is left who can spend his words so abundantly, so lavishly, as Lewis? Different Meeting Ten years ago I wandered into a congressional hearing on mine safety. Normally safety is im- portant but dull. Yet here was John L. Lewis, crying out that 1,259,081 miners had been "maimed, mangled and killed" in the past 19 years. "A million and a quarter!" Lewis- thundered. "If I had the powers of a Merlin, I would march that million and a quarter men past the Congress of the United States-the quick and the dead. "I would have the -ambulatory injured drag the dead after them, so the Congress might see; and I would have the men whose eyes were shot out and who were dis- emboweled in the mines crawl in that procession along the cob- blestones so that the Congress might see them trailing their bowels after them." Dante didn't do much better in describing the inferno. Last Cheers Cap Visit Regarded as Triumph From Start to Finish IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ( -President Dwight D. Eisenhower relaxed at sea last night still warmed by the electrifying ovation his message of peace in freedom received from the Greek parlia- r.ent. The wild shouts and applause that echoed through the 120-year- old parliament hall at Athens were led by Communist-line deputies. ,t was the loudest and longest ova- tion the President has received from any body of legislators dur- ing his visits to seven nations. The cheers capped a visit that was a triumph from start to finish. Some 750,000 Athenians hailed him like a returning Trojan war hero on his arrival Monday. Athens was a riot 'of crowds, flags, balloons and banners up to the time the President boarded a helicopter in front of the Olympic Stadium and flew to the United States cruiser Des Moines in Phal- eron Bay. Even as he steamed away, he was pursued by a foghorn sym- phony from scores of motor launches, fishing boats and other small craft. Ten years ago American aid was instrumental in defeating Greek Communists in a bloody civil war. Yesterday 78 Communist-line dep- uties in parliament, mostly from the United Democratic Left (EDA), hailed the American President when he declared he wished to speak "on a cause close to my heart . . . the cause is peace and friendship in freedom." Zook To Ask Sigma Kappa Information On the agenda for Student Gov- ernment Council tonight is a mo- tion from Phil Zook, '60, concern- I g Sigma Kappa. The move requests that the local officers of Sigma Kappa present to the Council a report on changes, if any, since the convention of 1958 in the sorority's policies with respect to restrictions of member- ship for reasons of race or religion. A substitute motion is planned to delegate the problem to a com- mittee which shall determine the present position of the issue and whether or not Sigma Kappa is in violation of University regulations. Also, Executive Vice-President' Roger Seasonwein, '60, will move that SGC withdraw from member- ship in the National Student Asso. ciation Regional Committee. This will not affect menmbership in the parent national organization of NSA. A 'etween-semester reading and discussion program will be under consideration. The program will involve three areas, "A Discussion of Job," "A Discussion of 'J.B.'" and "An Analysis of Utopian Liter- atrre." Announcements of the Joint Judiciary Appointments are in order, along with the final ap- proval of the SGC questionnaire to students and consideration of the World University Service Drive motion. String Quartet To Perform FOUR OBJECTIVES: Lewis, Wife To Tour World BORROWED FORKS: East Quad Eats Meal University Vice-President for Thailand, India, Lebanon, Egypt Student Affairs James A. Lewis and Western Europe. and his wife will leave Monday on The first of the journey's four a six-week trip around the world, objectives, Lewis said, is that of with stops scheduled in Japan, meeting with members of Univer- sity clubs. In Hong Kong, Tokyo and London, he will visit regular University clubs and, in other areas, plans to meet with informal organizations made up of students and professors who meet periodi- cally.s The Lewises will visit "any re- lated educational enterprises that the University is interested in," he' said, specifying the English Langu- age Institute in Bangkok and the en'ineering school-sponsored In- stitute for Research and Produc- tivity in Tokyo. Through older graduates, he has been able to keep track of more recent ones-those who left the University in the past four or five years-and is "planning to spend one good. evening or afternoon with them "To me the most important part of the visit is to get their reactions East Quadrangle residents had their Christmas dinner last night with forks. As residents anticipated partak- ing of the festive meal with knives and spoons only, forks were bor- rowed from another quadrangle for the occasion. The news that forks were to be used for the evening meal spread very rapidly through the quid, but not soon enough to prevent a number of men from purchasing forks at local stores. Word of the best bargains in forks were passed along from friend to friend, the best reported bargain in metal forks being one for 19 cents. Others dug into their hoards of quad silver obtained be- fore the mass theft. The economically inclined bought packages of plastic forks, which were distributed to associ- ates for a few cents each. & ~