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Fight for Freedom
THE WAR in Europe is ended. The war in the
Pacific continues. The war against fascism
is a never-ending fight.
None of us needs to be reminded that the job
is not finished. The battles go on on Okinawa
and in Burma. Japan still holds much of the
Chinese mainland. There can be no let-up in
the war loan campaigns and blood bank drives.
We feel a tremendous sense of relief that at
least in one hemisphere the killing and the
bloodshed are finished, that the lights are
going on again in Europe. That is the extent
of our celebration.
The feelings of the men and women in Ger-
many are summed up by the words of Ger-.
man foreign minister Ludwin Schwerin von
Krosigk:
"From the collapse of the past, let us preserve
and save one thing-unity, the ideas of the na-
tional community, which in the years of war
have found their highest expression in the
spirit of comradeship at the front and readiness
to help one another in all the distress which has
inflicted the homeland."
Here is proof that the Germans do not inter-
pret their surrender as the defeat of fascism
but only of their military might. They cling
to their 'ideas,' the same ideas which plunged
the world into war and they glorify those ideas.-
It is these ideas which we must destroy-the
racism, the nationalism, and the doctrine of
aggression which fascism represent. We mus~t
build a world in which there is no room for
these concepts.
We can chalk up a victory in the sense that
we have destroyed and are destroying the cen-
ters of fascism-Germany and Italy, indicating
the, failure of fascism as a political system.
Spain, Portugal and Argentina may continue to
share fascist ideas but they can find little com-
fort in what were formerly living examples of
fascism triumphant. Forced underground, they
will nevertheless continue their insidious propa-
ganda, but with the rising sun fast setting they
may realize how untenable their ideas are.
They will, at least ,begin to question.
From the military standpoint the war is half
over. True victory, however, must wait until
there is no longer even a remote possibility
of a single man or a group of men dominating
other men.
The fight for freedom has been with humanity
from time immemorial. It does not end with
the cessation of hostilities. The truly great mer,
of history have been those who made a positive
contribution to that fight. From our leaders and
fighting men to the most modest civilian who
helped in the scrap drive, all have a stake in
the fight.
With every resource at our command we will
continue the war against Japan. We cannot
take a holiday until casualty lists from the Paci-
fic become curios and collectors' items.
When the war in the Pacific is finished, not
v+ unil +h f-lhtin- hc ovr The nrnhlms that
"THE LIGHTS are going on again-all over
the world." This is the burden of a well-
known song; somehow it suggests to me the
words of Foreign Minister Grey of Britain in
1914: "The lights are going out, one by one,
all over Europe."
There has been a greater or less degree of
blackout of human civilization ever since 1914;
perhaps only a "brown-out" in the years of un-
easy peace in what- H. G. Wells called the
"fatuous 1920's," but certainly a black-out dark
enough at all other periods. Can we get those
lights burning again this time? That is the
question.
Probably the historians of the year 2145 A.D.
will consider the First and Second World
Wars as merely phases of one great struggle,
always celtering around Germany, and sepa-
rated merely by a truce or armistice. At least
it is certain that we have been granted in
1945 what God so seldom grants to anyone,
a "second chance." We can now seize the
opportunity which was fleetingly ours in 1919
to build a world government strong enough
to cope with the aggressions of Germany,
Japan or anyone else. If we fail to take
this second chance it will be hard for God
or history to pardon us, or for us to pardon
ourselves.
Military Record .. .
CERTAIN reflections inevitably occur at this
hour of final reckoning. One is that, from
the technically military point of view, the Unit-
ed Nations have done better than any other
wartime coalition in the whole of history. Hit-
ler sneered at our "military idiots"; his empire
crumbled under blows not only heavy but well-
aimed. Since the turning point came in the
autumn of 1942 (the Russian stand at Stalin-
grad, the British victory in Egypt, the Ameri-
can landing in Morocco, the naval triumphs in
mid-Pacific) the strategic pattern of the war
has consistently followed the plans of our civil
and military leaders.
Another reflection is the incredible moral
depths which our enemies have plumbed. Even
the First World War was exceptionally bar-
barous, but in the present war Germany has
proceeded from the murder of individuals
here and there to the deliberate extermina-
tion of =nations and peoples. The Germans
were no primitive or illiterate peasant folk
who "knew no better"; racially, they were of
the same stock as most of us, and they had a
rich cultural background and high stand-
ards of education. That such a people should
have given dictatorial power to a gang of
sadistic maniacs seems incredible; that tens
of thousands of highly educated men, includ-
ing scholars and physicians, should have car-
ried out their worst orders with a zestful,
gloating lust seems even more incredible.
Yet such are the facts. Photographs and the
accounts of war correspondents on the spot
have made it impossible to dismiss the atro-
cities of this war, as superficial people did
those of the last war, as mere "propaganda."
Our feeling is not so much one of ordinary
anger as of sheer dismay-if the most highly
educated races are capable of doing such
things was not Goethe right when he made
Mephistopheles declare that man used his
intellect chiefly to make himself "more brutal
than any beast?"
Another dismaying reflection is the incredible
folly of the stunned or blinded onlookers of
the grim tragedy of the past thirty-one years.
Americans who talked of security in isolation,
alike in 1914 and in 1940; British and French
who tried to appease a burning fire by fresh
buckets of oil in 1938; Russians who made a
pact with Germany in 1939; Oxford students
who took foolish vows never to fight for their
country; Michigan students who invited Nye
and Wheeler to the campus as the highest ora-
cles of wisdom, and derisively chanted "T
Yanks are not coming this time!"; American
capitalists who talked of Fascist refuge from
Bolshevism; American communists who talked
of "the Imperialist War" until Russia's own
toes were stepped on; Poles who made ten-
year peace pacts with Hitler; Lindberghs who
saw a "wave of the future" in the Nazi victo-
ries; politicians who voted against the lend-
lease which saved America from being a front
-PAST
PREMATURE thunder crackled in the news
world Nov. 7, 1918 when an International
News Service report carried by the Detroit
Times announced the end of fighting four days
ahead of time.
The Daily was on the streets with an extra
proclaiming the news in four inch "railroad"
type (unknown to today's paper), but wisely
crediting the news to the Detroit paper. The
next day, Friday, burst the bubble with "Peace
Reports Contradictory."
Saturday, the football extra devoted half the
front page to a banner announcing that the
Kaiser had abdicated. The remaining half !of
the page was given over to the evidently almost '
as important report that Michigan was lead-
ing 13-0 at the beginning of the fourth period'
in a football game with the University of Chi-
cago.
-Milt Freudenheim
trench of battle, by keeping Britain as an
armed bulwark for our own shores-what a med-
ley of voices, repeating infinite folly, now echo
ironically down the years!
Moral Iaw Is 1aw.W. .
BUT OUR deepest thought is that, after all,
the moral law is law. Battles, they say, go
not to the righteous cause, but to the strong
battalions. But it is also true that unrighteous-
ness, in its various phases-pride, greed, arro-
gance, cruelty, injustice-rouses against it bat-
talions too numerous and too determined to
conquer. A reasonable and moderate Germany
and Japan could, I think, have conquered the
world; partly because of the blindness of other
nations and partly by arms and cunning. But
that is because people would surrender to them
rather than endure war. Where conquest, how-
ever, means enslavement and terrorism, the
motive to make peace, to make alliance, to sur-
render to the inevitable, is taken away. Allies
and neutrals are alienated, enemies aroused to
last-ditch fury, one's own subjects dulled and
brutalized, by such a policy. Hitler lost the
war on the day that he determined to wage
it ruthlessly; for against ruthless oppression
all men that are men will organize, arm and
fight.
Now all the power is in the hands of the
United Nations. The future will be what they
make it. If we can avoid the crimes of our
defeated enemies, and the follies of our own
dazed and ignorant past, the lights may really
go up again-this time for keeps!
-Preston Slosson
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
V-E Celebration
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
THERE are more ways than one of celebrating
V-E Day. It seems to me that the minority
party in, the House last week, celebrated V-E
Day well in advance of the event. The issue was
President Truman's veto of a bill which would
have exempted all farm workers from the draft.
President Truman must have thought about the
thing deeply before deciding on his veto. It is
likely that he talked the matter over with a
soldier first, and I don't mean a corporal. The
Democrats sustained his veto by a vote of 164 to
30, but the Republicans voted to override him
by 154 to 12. The Republicans were guided in
this matter by Representative Martin of Massa-
chusetts, the minority leader, just a day after
Mr. Martin had been present at one of those
let's-all-cooperate lunches with the new Presi-
dent.
I don't see how the Republicans in the House
can escape the charge that they were celebrat-
ing V-E Day, before it happened, and perhaps
over-celebrating it. General Marshall, chief of
staff, is deeply worried about a certain demo-
bilization of the spirit in termsof citizens get-
ting drunk and singing under the lamp posts,
to the detriment of the war in the Pacific,
But there are more profound celebrations than
these taking place, and the vote in the House is
one of them, and the danger represented by
thee celebrations is rather greater than any
peril into which we are put by the spectacle of an
individual citizen getting himself boiled.
The Wall Street Journal has also begun what
seems an exaggerated celebration of V-E Day,
starting before the event, by an editorial cam-
paign demanding the end of price control. This
kind of celebration of the end of the war in
Europe is probably more risky than sidewalk
ceremonies involving the unlimited use of fire-
water. For from the very same issue of the Wall
Street Journal, indeed from an article on the
very same page (a fact so pat that I hate it, it's
too crushing, it's inartistic) I learn that war pro-
duction will have to continue at 85 per cent of
the present level for at least three months, and
will stand at 60 per cent even a year from now.
These figures certainly offer no basis for wip-
ing out wartime controls. As between the dan-
gers of throwing confetti and throwing out the
OPA, I'd say let the public throw confetti.
We may be in for a wild party with the end
of the war in Europe, but a rather different
kind of wild party than the sort we've been
expecting; I mean a wild party in which the
automobile makers, say, will get the green
light on producing autos, and will then find
themselves short on one item, cloth, perhaps,
fer seat covers, and will have to fight the
armed services for it, while the armed services
fight the Japanese, and while dealers alerted
too early cry for stock. Meanwhile the War
Manpower Commission would be on its knees
in the marketplace, begging for workers to go
into war plants, as against taking jobs offered
by private industry, suddenly freed of price
and wage controls.
Can we take price control off the civilian sector
of our economy, leaving our millions of soldiers
and their dependents to competewith their small
government allotments in a market-place gone
mad?
It seems to me that the least we can do in
the presence of death is to be quiet and order-
ly, and that as against this kind of continuing
wild party, the citizen who merely lets out a
shout and a song and maybe fixes himself a
hangover for a day or so is behaving in a more
moderate, and on the whole, more appropriate
manner.
(Copyright, 1945, New York Post Syndicate)
TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1945
VOL. LV, No. 141
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Notices
Student Tea: President and Mrs.
Ruthven will be at home to students
Wednesday afternoon, May 9, from 3
to 5 o'clock.
Orchestra Rehearsal: University
Symphony Orchestra will rehearse
this afternoon in, Hill Auditorium,
3:45-4:45 p.m. (CWT).
The Summer Session of the Grad-
uate Curriculum in Social Work,
which is given at the Rackham Mem-
orial Building in Detroit, will open
for registration Friday and Satur-
day, June 15 and 16, classes begin-
ning Monday, June 18. The session
will close Friday, Aug. 10. This is a
change from original dates set.
Choral Union Members will please
return all copies of Festival music,
and receive their book deposit re-
funds of $2.50, on Tuesday or Wed-
nesday, May 8 or 9; between the
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the offices of the University Musical
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After Wednesday no refunds will be
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Junior Girls Play: Anyone wishing
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Play may do so by bringing $1 for
each picture to Miss McCormick's
office in the League today from 2 to
4 p.m. (CWT). This is absolutely
the last chance, so order your pic-
tures this afternoon.
The Annual French Play: The pic-
ture of the cast is exhibited in the
lobby of the Romance Language
Building. Please place your order at
once with the Secretary of the De-
partment, Rm. 112.
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Lectures
Dr. Donald E. Webster: Cultural
Attache to the Amerian Embassy
in Turkey will lecture on "Modern
Turkey" in Kellogg Auditorium at
3:10 p.m. today. The public is cor-
dially invited.
University Lecture: Mr. R. H. Mark-
ham, member of the staff of the
Christian Science Monitor and for-
mer Deputy Director of the Office
of War Information, will lecture on
the subject "Post-War Prospects in
the Balkans" at 7 p.m., Thursday,
May 10, in the Rackham Amphithea-
ter, under the auspices of the Depart-
ment of Sociology. The public is cor-
dially invited.
University Lecture: Mr. Flavel
Shurtleff, Professor of City Planning,
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, will speak on "The Field of Town
Planning", on Tuesday, May 15, at
3:15 p.m., in the Rackham Amphi-
theater, under the auspices of the
College of Architecture and Design.
Exhibitions
Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of
Sculpture of the Institute of Fine
Arts: In the Concourse of the Michi-
gan League Building. Display will be
on view daily until Commencement.
Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition
by the Artists of Ann Arbor and
vicinity: In the Mezzanine Exhibition
Rooms of the Rackham Building
daily, except Sunday, 2 to 5 and 7
to 10 p.m. The public is cordially
invited.
Events Today
Soph Cabaret: Refreshment Com-
mittee will meet at 2 p.m. today in
the League. The room will be posted
on the League bulletin board. Any-
one wishing to work on the commit-
tee is urged to attend, as are all
present members.
A.I.Ch.E.: There will be a meeting
of the A.I.Ch.E. at 6:30 p.m., Rm.
3205 East Engineering. All Chem. and
et. Engineers are invited to attend.
Prof. G. G. Brown will speak on
"High Pressure Gas Fields".
Refreshments will be served.
The University of Michigan Po-
lonia Club will meet at 6:30 in the
International Center. A program in-
cluding songs and a discussion of rel-
evant Polish topics is planned. Plans
for the forthcoming outing will be
completed. Refreshments will be
served.
All students interested in Polish
culture are welcome.
A.I.E.E.: The Electronics Group
of the Michigan Section of the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers will hold a meeting in co-
operation with the A.I.E.E. Student
Branch today in the Rackham =Am-
phitheater at 6:45 p.m.
Profesor J. S. Gault of' the Depart-
ment of Electrical Engineering will
speak on "Servomechanisms." A
motion picture and demonstration
will accompany the lecture. Guests
are welcome.
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SUNDAY afternoon's May Festival
Concert reached a new high in
musical entertainment. Never before
in Ann Arbor has the Philadelphia
Orchestra been in such superb form.
A rare combination of pianistic artis-
try and orchestral grandeur made this
occasion one that will be remembered
for a long time.
An exceptionally well-balanced
program opened with Mr. Orman-
dy's arrangement of Bach's Chorale
Prelude: "O Mensch, bewein' dein'
Sunde gross." The orchestra's ex-
traordinary conception of this pro-
found bit of music was almost eth-
ereal in its presentation. To say
that Mr. Ormandy possesses a thor-
ough comprehension of Bach's sac-
red compositions is no exaggera-
tion. Acknowledgement again
should be given to the 'cello section
for unusually expressive tone.
The reading of Mendelssohn's Re-
formation Symphony was indeed a
gem. The audience was rewarded
with a delightfully refreshing inter-
pretation. Clean attacks, precision in
technique, and pellucid tone in each
instrumental section were but a few
of the characteristics of this per-
formance.
The second half of the concert con-
sisted of the playing of Brahms' Con-
certo No. 2. It is common know-
ledge that Rudolf Serkin is one of
our most gifted pianists. There is
no limit to his skill in executing the
most difficult passages. Yet (and
this writer is cognizent of the fact
that she is leaving herself wide open
to dissension) Mr. Serkin left some-
thing more to be desired. He does
not strike this listener as being as dy-
namic in Brahms as he is in Mozart
or Beethoven. When performing Mo-
zart or Beethoven Mr. Serkin is a
paragon.
Nevertheless the concerto was a
work of beauty. The Andante
Movement was worthy of lofty
praise. The enthusiastic applause
that followed the Concerto was a
manifestation of the audience's
thorough approval.
By Crockett Johnson
What a scandal! I'd give a lot to
know the real facts behind this-
THE SIXTY-SECOND season of
May Festival Concerts was ter-
minated Sunday, night with some
glorious singing. , The major part of
the evening was devoted to Beetho-
ven's majestic Ninth Symphony.
This final concert began with
Bruckner's seldomheard Te Deum.
The performance was a thoroughly
integrated one. The orchestra was
in its usual good form and the Choral
Union under the direction of Hardin
Van Deursen displayed its excellent
capabilities. The four soloists, El-
eanor Steber, Hertha Glaz, Frederick
Jagel, and Nicola Mascona presented
the quartet passages with impeccable
skill. Mr. Jagel's solo work was pleas-
ingly effective. His low tones con-
tained a great deal of power and
control.
The highlights of the Beethoven
symphony lay in the choral singing
of the fourth movement. Mr. Or-
mandy accomplished almost unbe-
lievable effects in choral workman-
ship. The various sections of the
chorus responded beautifully to his
directions. It was a truly inspiring
performance.
The work of the quartet, surpris-
ingly enough, did not attain the per-
fection set up by the Choral Union.
On the whole the singing of Misses
Steber and Glaz was by far more
satisfactory than that of Mr. Jagel
and Mr. Mascona. Mr. Jagel was
guilty of much forcing which resulted
in poor tone production. Mr. Mas-
cona is the possessor of a big voice
but his lack of control weakens his
potentialities.
The orchestra gave a very ex-
pressive performance. The first
movement was a trifle disappointing
j from the standpoint of instru-
mental unity. However the second
and third movements were magni-
ficent in their mighty depth. The
powerful conclusion of the last
movement was thrilling in its emo-
tional significance.
-Kay Engel
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