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Power, Politics
RECENTLY, Secretary of the State, Edward
Stettinius stated that he planned to draw up
a Pan-American mutual defense treaty to pro-
tect the American nations in case the proposed
international peace council fails. In effect, the
secretary is drawing together the Pan-American
countries into a small clique inside the peace
organization.
The inerits of this are dubious. If each of
the Big Three was to form its own clique
within the organization, the world would soon
find itself divided, once again, into power-
politics with each nation looking out for its
own interests. The evils of power politics are
many, as the past history of the world has
shown only too frequently. With Russia
bringing together the Balkans and possibly
the Scandinavian nations and post-war China,
with England attempting to counteract the
arrangement by forming outside alliances
with the European nations, and the United
States already planning to bring together the
Americas, the world may soon find itself in an-
other bigger world war.
Rather than try power politics again, let the
Big Three bring together the. entire world, re-
gardless of the geographic locality of each na-
tion, into one mighty political unit.
This one unit would leave no space for
conflicting smaller political enterprises like
Stettinius proposed to entangle themselves in
a mess. Unity would be obtained, and one
less cause for another world war would be
eliminated. -Phil Elkus
Allied Unity
THAT President Trumian should stay at houme
where he belongs is the thesis of a strongly
worded editorial in a metropolitan newspaper.
Wondering what could be the reasons for this
anachronism, we read further to discover that
"the Moscow press would not be boosting for
another meeting of this sort if Russia were not
eminently satisfied with the bacon Stalin brought
home from Teheran and Yalta."
No conclave can be termed successful unless
each of the participants feels that some measure
of satisfaction has been obtained. This princi-
ple of mutual 'satisfaction is the basis for world
peace.
The British and French clash in Syria. A Pul-
itzer prize winning newspaper says we must dis-
like a thing because Russia likes it. And this
is Allied unity.
-Annette Shenker
FEPC Funeral
A BILL appropriating $599,000 to the perma-
nent Fair Employment Practices Committee
has been laid aside "for future consideration" by
the House Appropriations Committee. The com-
mittee also reported it will await "legislative
developments." Thus, the FEPC appears doom-
ed. It cannot last beyond the duration without
additional funds. A committee which has ac-
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON-Despite all the ballyhoo about
grandiose plans for the trial of war crimi-
nals, the real fact is that as of this writing not
one Nazi has been listed for trial by the American
section of the War Crimes Commission.
The British have proposed aames. The Rus-
sians have gone ahead with an undetermined
number. And the U. S. Army has tried and
punished various Nazis who committed crimes
against American soldiers. But not one name
so far has been listed by the U. S. section of
the War Crimes Commission under U. S. Su-
preme Court Justice Robert Jackson.
Furthermore, at a secret meeting held in Wash-
ington a few days ago, Justice Jackson would
not be pinned down to conviction of any large
group of Nazis, such as the Gestapo or SS Elite
Guard, before Christmas. He even said he
wasn't sure they were guilty under interna-
tional law.
How peculiar the whole runaround regard-
ing the trial of Nazi war criminals is, has just
been emphasized in a confidential report to the
White House by Herbert Pell, former minister
to Portugal and Hungary and until recently
U. S. chairman on the War Crimes Commission.
Mr. Pell reveals in his report that some
State Department officials did not agree with
him that Hitlerites who beat up and killed
innocent victims because of their religion
should be considered guilty of war crimes.
Pell took a vigorous stand on this, and eventu-
ally his differences with the State Department
caused 'him to be euchred out of the War
Crimes Commission.
His confidential White House report dated May
23, 1945, follows:
Pell's Secret Report .. .
"LATE IN JUNE, 1943, I was appointed Amer-
ican member of the War Crimes Commis-
sion by President Roosevelt. I immediately went
to the State Department and in a few weeks was
ready to sail. I was informed that the British
government did not want the American com-
missioner to get to England until the commission
was ready to meet. I discovered afterwards
that no such suggestion had ever been sent
through the American embassy in London.
"I tried to get as assistant, Professor Sheldon
Glueck of Harvard, who was willing to come,
and a friend of mine, Paul Lienau. The depart-
ment sent neither of these gentlemen but pre-
ferred Mr. Lawrence Preuss. After a very short
time in London I discovered that a part of Mr.
Preuss's duties was to write private letters, mostly
abusive to me, to Mr. Sandifer of the State De-
partment, who in turn gave them to Mr. Hack-
worth, the legal adviser, whose division had
charge of war crimes in the department. When
I discovered this I told Mr. Preuss that he should
file his private letters of this character with
the commission's documents. lie did file some
of them but not all.
"In February, 1944, I moved, in a committee
of the War Crimes Commission, that crimes
against whomsoever committed for reasons of
race, religion, or political opinion should be .
treated as war crimes. Mr. Preuss, although
officially subordinate to me, rose in committee
and opposed this suggestion,
"A few weeks later a British general sent ine
by special messenger a document marked secret,
for which I had to sign. Mr. Preuss asked to
have some copies made of it. I refused to allow
this but told him that he could see the original.
Shortly thereafter he was discovered dictating
a copy of this document. I confiscated the copies,
the stenographer's notes, and the carbons and
immediately reported to Ambassador Winant,
representing the President, that I could not
accept the responsibility of secret documents
if anyone in my office could arrogate to them-
selves the privilege of making copies,
"Mr. Preuss was immediately returned to the
United States but to my surprise instead of be-
ing reproved for making private copies of
military secret documents he was placed in
honor in the State Department and has been
maintained and is now in a responsible posi-
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tion in San Francisco. These facts are known
personally to the Secretary of State.
FIRST blind stenographer to work on Capitol
Hill is Eric Simon Peters, 33-year-old New
Yorker, blind all his life. Working for Rep.
Augustine Kelley's committee on aid to the
physically handicapped. Peters takes dicta-
tion from a dictaphone, uses a regular standard
typewriter with no special equipment. . . .
When New York Congressman Gus Bennett
prcsented President Truman with a special
pocket Bible recently, Truman pulled a magnify-
- ing glass from his pocket and told Bennett,
"You see, I'm all prepared to read this gift,
which I'm very happy to receive."
California congressmen headed by Helen Ga-
hagn Douglas wet to the White House to ask
presidential support for their fight to block a
congressional ban on the transmission of public
power to San Francisco from the huge Shasta
dam. They didn't even get their story told be-
fore Truman interrupted. "You don't have to
tell iie about what you want," he said. "I've
been out there, I'm acquainted with the fight and
I'm definitely on your side. I'm ready to veto
any legislation to block use of the dam for
public power."
(copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
War Measure
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
r "HE NAVY laments. piteously that it, cannot
find 15,000 skilled workers to repair dam-
aged vessels in West Coast yards. The situa-
tion was "pretty good" until a few weeks ago,
but since the end of fighting in Europe, work-
men have begun to head east, toward old homes
and peace-time jobs. A wave-motion has set
in, away from the war.
Every man for himself; and maybe it's a
poor motto. But it is the motto which has
been given to our labor force by Congress, in
its stern refusal to set up any kind of dignified
unemployment insurance plan, adequate to
tide war workers through the agonies of per-
sonal reconversion. The situation in the West
Coast yards is merely the application, on the
wage-worker level, of the general principle of
every man for himself, which Congress seems
to favor as its guiding rule for reconversion,
Laissez-faire, no government interference, ev-
ery man for himself, and when's the next train
back to lemphis?
Meanwhile, however, we are closing in the
Japanese. As we do so, they become more des-
perate; their resistance stiffens. But our own
economy relaxes, our own mobilization slack-
ens. The natural result is that the Japanese
bring out increasing numbers of "Kamikaze"
or suicide pilots, while we can't find the workers
needed to repair the ships they damage. The
fighting grows more intense at the front, while
our organization at the rear shows signs of
going mushy.
1IHERE COULD BE no clearer proof that demo-
bilization of war workers is a war job, to be
handled by the federal government, with federal
funds, as a war measure. The way in which we
have botched it so far, And tried to make a
states' rights matter of it, is actually interfering
with the conduct of the war. Workers are fright-
ened. Chairman Krug of the War Production
Board, says there will be 1,900,000 unemployed
within three months. But even this figure was
dated before he issued it, for it did not include
a sudden Army Air Forces cutback of $3,500,-
000,000. It is a characteristic of our day that
statistics don't stay fresh very long; they simply
won't kep.
It is in this setting that Congress has chosen
to go on an ideological bat, prematurely bring-
ing out its slogans concerning a return to
states' rights, an end of war-time planning
and controls; all done agitatedly, avidly, like
children who can't wait for a party to begin,
We hear, for example, that the way to solve
the food problem is to get rid of the OPA;
suppress the OPA, in other words, instead of
the black market.
This is only another way of saying every man
fir himself' and if that slogan has seeped down
to the shipyards, it can also be said that it has
started at some of the highest political levels
in the land.
T[HERE WAS something rotten about the last
war, and we all remember it; a snide, shift-
less profiteering went on on the home front; my
child's memory of it is filled with pictures of a
suddenly expanding luxury all around the town.
It was a war which laughed, on the home
front, like a lady with scarlet lips, and if she
ever spoke, it was only to say every man for
himself. We have avoided most of that this
time, and it would be wrong to slip into it dur-
ing the last chapter. To avoid it, it is worth
having a few war- time controls, and spending
a little money on unemployment pay, and
holding back the slogans about individual
freedom, which end in the curious spectacle
of a cruiser left unrepaired because a man
has had to fix himself up, running for safety
in the dazed selfishness of the helpless poor.
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Notices
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at home to alumni, members of theV
graduating classes and their friends,
on Friday afternoon, June 22, from
3:00 to 5:00 CWT.
To Members of the University Sen-
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University Senate on Monday, June
11, at 3:15 p.m. in the Rackham
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Recommendations of the Senate
Advisory Committee on University
Affairs.
Report on Provisions for Veterans
by Clark Tibbitts.
Report on Intercultural Relations
by L. A. Hopkins.
American Red Cross: The Amer-
ican Red Cross, being urgently in'
need of additional personnel, has
asked the University to call this sit-
uation to the attention of women
graduates of this year anA the recent
past who may be qualified Social
Workers, Recreation Workers, Hos-
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for Club, Clubmobile, and Recreation
Centers, fordomestic and fo'eign
service. Those who are interested
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sonnel Recruitment of the Ann Arbor
Red Cross Headquarters, 25546, or
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Summer Employment Opportun-
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which is given at the Rackham Mem-
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for an additional term because of
the shortage of film and, paper.
HAYEK'S ROAD TO SERFDOM':
Distorted by igest Review
Phi Beta Kappa: The keys and
membership certificates have arrived,
and may be called for at the Observ-
atory on Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons.
Students desiring photographs of
Lantern Night see Miss McCormick,
Social Director, Michigan League.
Lectures
Ilopwood Lecture: Mr. Stiuthers
Burt, American novelist, will deliver
the annual Hopwood lecture on the
subject "The Unreality of Realism"
at 3:00 p.m. CWT Friday, June 15, in
the Rackham Lecture Hall. An-
nouncement of the Hopwood Awards
for the year 1944-45 will be made at
the conclusion of the lecture. The
public is cordially invited.
Academic Notices
Doctoral Examination for Edward
Nelson Palmer, Sociology; thesis:
"Factors Associated with Negro Un-
employment in Urban United States,"
Thursday, June 7, East Council Room,
Rackham Building, at 6:30 CWT.
Chairman, C, Tibbitts.
By action of the Executive Board
the Chairman may invite members of
the faculties and advanced doctoral
candidates to attendthis examina-
tion, and he may grant permission to
those who for sufficient reason might
wish to be present.
Concerts
The University of Michigan Sym-
phony Orchestra, Gilbert Ross, Con-
ductor, will feature Mozart's Con-
certo in C major for piano and or-
chestra; and Brahm's 2nd Symphony
in its second concert of the current
season at 7:30 CWT, tonight in Hill
Auditorium. Mary Evans Johnson,
a student of piano under John Kol-
len, will appear with the orchestra
in the Mozart Concerto.
The public is cordially invited.
Events Today
The Botanical Seminar will meet
today at 3:00 (CWT) in room 1139
Natui:al Science Building. Professor
Carl D. LaRue will discuss "Growth
and Regeneration in Embryo and
Endosperm." All who are interested
are invited to attend.-
A. S. M. E.: The final meeting of
the semester will be held at 6:30
CWT, this evening in the Michigan
Union. An illustrated talk on mod-
ern diesel engines will be given by
Prof. E. T. Vincent. There will be an
election of officers. All members are
urged to attend.
The University, of Michigan Sym-
phony Orchestra: under the direction
of Gilbert Ross, Will be heard in its
second concert o, the current season
at 7:30 p. m. (CWT), in Hill Audi-
torium. The program will consist of
compositions by Frescobaldi, Mozart,
and Brahms, and will feature Mary
Evans Johnson, pianist. The general
public is invited.
Institute of the Aeronautical Sci-
ences: There will be a meeting at 7:15
this evening, in Room 304 of the
MichigankUnion. Dr. A. M. Kuethe
will speak on "Supersonic Speeds."
Since it is the last meeting of the
present term, election of officers for
the Summer Term will take place.
Full attendance of members is urged.
Varsity Glee Club: Important final
rehearsal tonight for last public ap-
pearance this year. Announcements
regarding election of officers and
presentation of pins.
coming events .
Tea at the International Center,
every Thursday, 3-4:30 p.m. Faculty,
foreign students, and their American
friends are cordially invited.
Ann Arbor Library Club final meet-
ing of the year Thursday, June 7,
6:45 p. m. (CWT) Auditorium, School
of Public Health. G. W. Shepherd,
missionary and political adviser in
China, 1920-1940, will speak on
Chiang, Kai-Shek and the Soong
Family in modern Chinese history.
The Annual Senior Engineering
outing will be held on Saturday, June
9, at 2:00 at the Island. All senior
engineers and faculty are urged to
attend.
Alpha Kappa Delta will hold its
spring picnic this Saturday, June 9,
at 4:00 p. m. in the Arboretum at
the foot of the hill behind Prof.
Wood's house. Bring nothing. A
picnic dinner and a baseball game
will be waiting for you. In case of
rain phone the sociology office in
Haven Hall before noon, for imfor-
Departmental Library
due in the departmental
University Hall, Saturday,
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IN WHAT was perhaps meant as a
farewell gesture to the University
faculty and as the keynote of his
political career, Shirley W. Smith.
retiring vice-president of the Univer-
tity and recently elected alderman
from Ann Arbor's Sixth Ward. last
month distributed to the faculty, to
prominent townspeople and to town
and campus groups, reprints of the
Reader's Digest condensation of
Friedrich Hayek's, "The Road to
Serfdom," most recent in a long list
of misrepresentations of opinion
emanating from the Digest's rewrite
desk at Pleasantville, N.Y.
To assert that the Digest's con-
densation is a loaded distorted mis-
representation ef author Hayek's
book is no overstatement. Specifi-
cally, the Reader's Digest emitted
all mention of Hayek's discussion
of "the supremely important prob-
lem of combating general fluctua-
tions of economic activity and the
recurrent waves of large-scale un-
employment which accompany
them. Planning in the good sense"
is Hayek's solution for this prob-
lem. "In any case," he says, "the
very necessary efforts to secure
protection against these fluctua-
tions do not lead to the kind of
planning which constitutes a
threat to our freedom."
In another passage which the Di-
gest glibly passed over, Hayek, after
calling for a basic minimum suste-
nance for everyone, stated, "that
with this assurance of a basic mini-
mum all claims for a privileged se-
cuxity of particular classes must
lapse, that all excuses disappear for
allowing groups to exclude newcom-
ers from sharing their relative pros-
G ood Rcord
DESPITE discouraging rumors of
wholesale redemptions, less than
thirteen per cent of all money re-
ceived from the sale of war bonds
has been refunded through redemp-
tions.
It's a good record.
-Marge Jackson
By Crockett Johnson
perity in order to maintain a special
standard of their own."
Hayek again took up the pen
after the Digest misrepresented his
ideas in their April issue. In a refu-
tation of the Digest's condensation,
reprinted in the Congressional
Record of May 16, Hayek wrote-
"There is no justification- for tak-
ing up my argument against cer-
tain kinds of Government inter-
vention in internal affairs and
leaving out the equally strong case
against tariffs based on the same
principles; or to stress solely the
necessary restrictions of Govern-
ment activities which I discuss,
and leave out the equally strong
argument for the Government's
taking steps to curb the power of
the various monopolies."
And yet more - "My main con-
cern is now that I find far too many
people talking about what I am rep-
resented to have said rather than
about the argument that I have ac-
tually used. I certainly do not wish
to be held responsible for all the
interpretations of my views. If those
who wish to use part of my argument
for special pleading are allowed to
get away with it, this is not my fault;
there is enough in the book to an-
swer and refute them."
From the very start of their mis-
treatment of Hayek's book, the edi-
tors of the Reader's Digest zealously
attempted to fool the public. In their
foreword appears the following mis-
statement of fact: "Prof. Hayek . . .
sounds a grim warning to American'
and Britons who look to government;
to provide the way out ofrall out
economic difficulties." Retorted Ha-
yek-- "I wrote mainly with the Brit-
ish public and the British progres-
sives in mind."
In referring to the reception his
book met in America, Hayek wrote.
"I was first a little puzzled that a
book written in no party spirit should
have been so exclusively welcomed by
one party (Alderman Smith's party)
and I still feel that the interpreta-
tion of my book as a party document
is the result of some misapprehen-
sion."
But what makes Alderman
Smith's attempt at propagandizing
the faculty so serious is that the
insemination of political dogma in-
to the ranks of a University facul-
ty, whose very value as men of
research and instruction demands
that they evaluate a-ll views,
TONIGHT at
8:30.
8:30 will be presented tonight at
Maybe we should add EWT.
People that work iii Plav Production must
have a good time. At least they are always
playing around.
As we understand it, "Tonight at 8:30" is threo
separate plays, Judging by the names, it con-
cerns the Ways and Means of getting a Fumed
Oak into the Family- Album. This should at
least be educational.
The plays (or play) were written by Noel
Coward, but we wouldn't say that the mem-
hers of the cast are cowards to neglect four
nights of studying the week before the week
before finals.
BARNABY
A gingerbread house! Gosh, Mr. O'Mailley, liep
uf Bt thc h itiiin the (book lived in o -j
'--74 You're rigt, m'boy- Here's
I he onic on the 1bE! . .