T HE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, DEC. 19, 1944 n . . .' . t WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Behind the Trouble in Greece n ---i T he Pendulum '" it The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of re- publication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVLRT3ING SY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Pxblisbers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. C)IICAoo - SOSTON - - L a R S. * SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT EDITOR: LIZ KNAPP Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Goodfellow Drive ALTHOUGH final receipts from the sale of Goodfellow Dailies have not been tabulated, present totals indicate that the drive was a success. Members of the Daily staff realize that the student body and the faculty have been re- quested to "dig deep" within the last few weeks and therefore sincere thanks are extended to all who have so generously given to this worthy cause. In addition, those people who volunteered to sell copies of the Goodfellow edition carried out a praiseworthy job. The drive can be made a complete success if all those organizations which pledged con- tributions turn in those contributions to The Daily office before Friday. -Evelyn Phillips Nisei Veterans THE CAPT. Belvidere Brooks post of the Am- erican Legion in New York has invited into its membership 16 Americans of Japanese descent whose names the Legion post at Hood River, Ore., erased from its rolls in a movement of so-called patriotism. These 16 men are now fighting overseas in the ranks of the United ;Staties armed forces. If any group was patriotic, it is the Brooks post. No one can profess patriotism, and then turn around and knife loyal Americans in the back as the Hood River Legion post has done. Americans of German descent are not being de- nied membership in Legion posts, and yet the Germans are our enemies. Why then make a special incident in the case of Japanese-Americans? Could the reason stem from the fact that Japanese-Americans are of the yellow and not the white race? Hundreds of loyal Americans of Japanese descent on the battlefields today are fighting and dying for their country-America. With this American and patriotic act of the Brooks Iegion Post, they can rest assured that there are some Americans who are grateful for what they are doing-regardless of the color of their skins. -Aggie Miller Vacation %FFICIALS of the New York Central Railroad Co., have requested that students cooperate with the firm so that the maximum number of travellers may be accomodated during the holi- day season. Everyone knows of overcrowded trains, sitting on suitcases. and running to beat the next fel- low to the last seat. It appears that this situa- tion will prevail for the duration. The ODT has ordered that no additional space be allowed civilian passengers. This is as it should be. Actually, students haye been requested by the railroad to follow a few simple suggest- ions: (1) purchase tickets at least two days in advance of traveling time; (2) leave un- neesarv ligage in Ann Arbor; (3) ship By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 18-Those who have been sitting close to Roosevelt's and Churchill's elbows during recent hectic weeks say that much of the trouble regarding Greece, Italy, lend- lease and other things dates back to the calling off of the Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin confer- ence provisionally scheduled for just after elec- tions, about Nov. 22. It is no secret that Churchill was irritated over Roosevelt's decision not to proceed. How- ever, it has been a secret that not only was he irritated, he was boiling mad. And his ire undoubtedly influenced relations with Greece and Italy, definitely caused the partial failure of the Chicago Air Conference. Since then, Churchill has been working to have postponed the big three conference revived at an early date, and it now looks as if he had succeeded. Obviously the President cannot leave the country until he is inaugurated Jan. 20. But after that the meeting probably will take place. Judging by the temper of Churchill's critics in Parliament and hostile editorials in even the London Times regarding his Greek policy, the Prime Minister badly needs such a meeting to restore his shaky prestige. The inside background of the Churchill- Roosevelt irritation goes back to Churchill's flying visit to Moscow right after the Quebec Conference last summer. Personally Chur- chill got along famously with Stalin on that trip, though politically he didn't do much business. A lot of things, he felt, such as con- flicting British-Russian influence in the Bal- kans, Turkey, Iran remain to be settled. So he counted on ironing them out with Roose- velt after elections. The President, however, decided not to rush off to the Near East or Russia right after elec- tions. For one thing he didn't want to get in the middle of a Stalin-Churchill dispute. Churchill's Shaky Prestige... T HIS WAS when Churchill hit the ceiling. Insiders noticed that a lot of warmth dis- appeared from their personal telegrams imme- diately afterwards. There was one memorable occasion when the Chicago Air Conference reached a deadlock when Churchill seemed especially stubborn. The British and American delegations were not far apart, but neither side would back down. At one cabinet meeting in London, two British cabinet members urged Churchill to cable Lord Swin- ton, British Delegate in Chicago, to compromise. They felt British-American harmony was much more important than a point of commercial air advantage, and that the two chief allies of the war should not cause an important conference to go on the rocks because of their differences. Churchill, however, refused to budge. The conference ended with a patched-up agree- ment camouflaged as a real agreement. On top of this, conditions drifted from bad to worse in.Greece. It is quite true that Roose- velt had agreed to give the British a free hand in Greece. In fact, Roosevelt had carried this so far that all American political and underground operations in Greece had to have British approval. Roosevelt even backed up Churchill in supporting King George of Greece when most of the cabinet wanted to require a plebiscite before the King could return. So, unquestionably, Roosevelt shared in planting the seeds from which the present trou- ble springs. His advisers say, however, that he did not expect or even dream that British policy would drift into such a tragic impasse as oc- curring today in the streets of Athens. It has had serious repercussions not only with British public opinion but in the United States where it has given a new life to isola- tionist critics of Roosevelt's foreign policy. Those are some of the reasons why the President is reported now quite ready to sit down with Churchill and Stalin-if the latter is receptive- to iron out some of the cactus points of Euro- pean politics. War Shortages Before Nov. 7? GEN, BREHON B. Somervell was quick to pounce on Senator Brewster's accusation that the Army had soft-pedalled talk of war shortages before Nov. 7. The GOP Senator from Maine had stated bluntly in a closed-door On Second Thought... By RAY DIXON NAZI TROOPS start a new offensive, which means they're even more offensive than usual. Monkey Ward is having strike trouble again and, without doubt, all of the MP's in the nation are flexing their muscles in prepara- tion for carrying Mr. Avery out in his swivel chair. War might have raised th'e percentage of coeds on campus to an unbelievable height, but most of them turned out to be Goodfellows. Anybody want to bet that Congress will adjourn on schedule? They don't agree on very many things, but most of them prefer a White Christmas to a White House. Campus hep-cats no longer cut classes. They "pull a Fletcher." session of the Mead Committee it seemed to him very peculiar that there should have been silence about shortages before elections, then suddenly a lot of talk about war shortages just after elections. So hard-working supply General Somervell sent Brewster clippings and copies of all the public statements he had made both before and after elections. Brewster examined them carefully, came to the conclusion that his original complaint was right. Somervell was emphtic and prolific in urging greater production in June and July. But tapered off during the summer. In fact, the last emphatic statement Brewster could find that the General made urging production was around the first of September. On Nov. 1, six days before election, Somervell made another statement but Brewster felt that it was vague and lacked the old Wmervell punch. Senator Brester didn't consider it was any real disclosure of war shortages. But right after elections, all sides were heard from in the War Department urging greater production. (copyright, 1944, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Poilitical Miracle By SAMUEL GRAFTON N\EW YORK, Dec. 18-President Roosevelt has been pulling off one of his customary politi- cal miracles, and, as usual, almost nobody has noticed. It will be remembered that, not long ago, the conservative press was in a tizzy be- cause of "the power of the P. A. C." in Mr. Roosevelt's administration. Today the liberal press is in a tizzy because of the "power" of such conservative business men as Mr. William L. Clayton in the same administration. Serious writers, in opposite camps, have argued soberly within the last six weeks, that Sidney Hillman has much too much power in this gov- ernment, and also that Will Clayton has much too much power in this government. Do they both have too much power? Or is the truth, rather, that Mr. Roosevelt has been building a long organization, reading, in the usual manner, from left to right? Mr. Roosevelt likes to pass these miracles. The man who, eleven years ago, pinned together the political power of the conservative South and of the laboring North, to pass the greatest bundle of reform laws ever carried into the statute bools, knows this game as few men in our history have known it. The real story of the Clayton appointment is not that Mr. Roosevelt is supporting Will Clayton, but that Will Clayton is supporting Mr. Roosevelt; that he is supporting the same ma Sidney Hill- man is supporting. Is that bad? Would the liberals have pre- ferred that Mr. Clayton, and as many friends as he could muster, should stand in opposition to the President? Would that have given them a nice, homey feeling? It seems to me that if the President had offered Mr. Clayton the job of Assistant Secretary of State, and if Mr. Clayton had turned it down indignantly, on the ground that he opposed the President's foreign policy, the liberals of America would have been outraged. One can imagine what learned pieces they would have written on a "big business strike" against Dumbarton Oaks, etc. Well, Mr. Clayton was offered the job, and he accepted it, and he went meekly to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and he paced himself on record in support of the President's foreign policy, and the liberals are just as outraged as if he had done precisely the opposite. They have done their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, to make opposition where opposition has been conciliated. ,IN ACTING SO, the liberals have been mak- ing the unspoken assertion that the Presi- dent does not know what he is doing. They have not quite said that. They have fudged on the point. They have kind of left the President out of it. They have acted as if the recent State Department appointments had come out of a Christmas box, or had been dropped by para- chute. They have resolutely avoided answer- ing the question of whether, if these appoint- ments are evil, must not the President be an evil man? But now let us look for a moment at what the President has been building. The structure of support for the President's foreign policy now spreads all the way from the C.I. O. to the top sections of American busi- ness. With a few notorious exceptions, the entire conservative press supports that policy. There is no solid, organized political opposi- tion to it. Does anyone suppose that all this is a happy accident? One has a glimpse, here, of the utter objectivity with which the President must have labored to bring this condition about, of his iron willingness to pay whatever price has to be paid to do it. Do the liberals object to paying a price? What do they want? Bar- gains? It is unconvincing to hear liberals say that all is woe and confusion; that there is no pat- tern; that this mixture of Clayton and Mac- Leish in office, of support from Sidney Hillman and the New York Herald Tribune outside, is only a mess. There is a pattern. All these men and agencies are supporting the President. When the weathervanes all point the same way, it is idle nonsense to pretent one doesn't know how the winds are blowing. (Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndicate) By BERNARD ROSENBERG MEL RAVITZ, my friend and fellow columnist has some sage things to say on occasion in The Detroit Collegian. That publication is one of the few college papers still presenting some intelligent discussion of public affairs. Here is a sample article: AS AN Allied European military vic- tory draws closer and closer, it becomes increasingly incumbent upon the American people to decide one of the cardinal issues of the peace: the fate of a conquered Germany. I am writing now to expound a detailed program of action for that event. I am writing to emphasize what should be our overall intention and to estab- lish the inadvisability, the folly, the fearful futility of adopting any oth- er intention. I think that if war has any de- fense at all it will only be found in the justice, the goodness, the per- manence of the peace for which it was waged. In dealing, therefore, with Germany or in considering any of the problems with which we will soon be confronted, our single governing intention must be to cre- ate as just and as enduring a peace as possible. Yet, there are many people who are not guided in their thinking pri- marily by this desire to create a per- manent peace. Of course, they hate war; but with a more profound vig- or they hate the German people. They are determined to make them suffer as the Jews, the Poles, the Czechs, the French were made to suffer. They suggest sterilizing Ger- man adults and liquidating all at- taches of the Nazi Party. With these immature zealots I completely disagree. Long ago I rejected as false the Nazi theory of racial or national inferiority- whether it be applied by the Nazis to the Jews or by overly emotional Germanophobes to the German people. And I do not believe that wreaking vengeance upon any people will in any way contribute to the creation of an enduring peace. With John Milton I believe that, "Revenge, at first though sweet, bit- ter ere long back on itself recoils." No, I have not forgotten that the German armies have committed at- rocities often too revolting to relate. I know all the anguish and pain they have inflicted. But the barbarity of another is no justification for our own degeneration. I ask only if re- taliation for this misery will in any way recompense for it. Will it in any way rebuild a brok- en body? Will it give new hope to a bleeding spirit? Will it return liv- ing parents to an orphaned baby? Retaliation will do none of these things. To revenge ourselves on the German people will only sow the vit- riolic seeds for tomorrow's war. It will not weave a stronger strand in the fabric for tomorrow'speace. Thus, I do not glibly hope that the Russians will reach Berlin be- fore us. I do not want them eith- er to wreak vengeance upon the German people. I want to see made, in our time, a peace that will endure for all time. I want to see unfold before us a rare peace which as it matures. will bring happiness to the little men and women of our world. Despite our worried pretensions that we are desirous of a quick peace and that we are planning for a bet- ter postwar world I do not think that we are contributing to either. For we have taken unconditional surrender as the essential condition for peace with Germany and Japan. We shall not make a durable peace on the basis of fear. Yet fear is all that unconditional surrender is calculated to produce. Instead of this unfair and indefi- nite policy for dealing with enemy nations I suggest the following speci- fic demands: (1) That the German people dis- place their present government with another whose liberal intention is evident. (2) That they rapidly dis- arm, destroying the dies for their armaments as well as the armaments themselves. (3) That th.ey make res- titution wherever possible; both po- litical and economic. In return for these demands, I suggest that the United Nations guarantee Germany: (1) That they will help her and other conquered countries to establish themselves into effective regional federations as units of a larger world federa- tion. (2) That they will extend ma- terial aid to her and to all other needful nations, and that they will not use such aid as a political weapon. (3) That they will have free access to the sources of raw materials. (4) That in all issues of allegiance or boundary dispute, in- ternationally controlled plebesci- tes shall take the place of uni- lateral-or even trilateral-oppres- sion. (5) That as an indication of our good faith following disarma- ment by Germany we too imme- diately and completely disarm; that we oppose all suggestions of a resurgent militarism, and that we work co-operatively and demo- cratically for the maintenance of a fair peace.. . THE EDITOR of the Ann Arbor News has ventured to make a pronouncement of his views on the University Hospital situation in an editorial in the News on Dec. 15, in evident answer to my resolution for an investigation of that situation which I, as a member of the Univer- sity, felt it incumbent upon me to place before the University Senate This same editor in the News made a statement which is absolutely false namely that members of the Senate are pledged to secrecy on the discus- sions of such meetings. I called the attention of the editor to the falsity of his statement and he has twice declined to correct it. There is a Secretary of the Senate and doubt- less almost everyday the said edito meets Senate members none of whom have been expected to make any suc pledge. If I, a professor of mathematics were to attempt to instruct medic men in the niceties of medical sci- ence, I would be a fool, not fit tc teach in any university worthy of th name. Every year untrained men ir medicine, in philosophy, in literature and even in mathematics attempt tc instruct university men trained i these disciplines. Usually these arc misguided individuals suffering froir some aberration. The complaint concerning fees anc charges is applied by myself only tc patients treated in the Universit Hospital, which is at the same tim a hospital of the State of Michigan Millions of dollars have been spen by the State for this hospital and it facilities. It was not intended to b used as it has been for the exploita- tion of citizens of Michigan and fo the private profit of a group of ter or twelve University physicians When I state that the younger mer and others not in the grand ring arc exploited, I am stating a fact. I defy the upper group to have the Regent of the University call in privately with only two or three Regents pres- ent, this group and question their about the situation-or allow their to talk. At the Senate meeting I repeatedly requested of President Ruthven tha the ballot on my resolution be writ- ten. I may be a poor, benighted sort of individual who does not kno Robert's rules of order. But some- where I have heard that in Americe balloting is secret and a man's em- ployers are not supposed to know how he votes. At the Senate meeting were representatives of the clique largely heads of departments, anc any assistant or associate professo who voted for my resolution by standing or by raising his hand knm very well that that would be reporte to his chief and no promotion woul ever come to him. The American wa is to permit a secret vote, the Nazi way is to supervise the voting. Practically every man of distine- tibn in the group now at the hos- pital, the "clique" as I have properly called them, has made his reputation here. Put ten of them in Detroit and within three months the men who take their places will be the authori- ties. Only one former University doctor has made a real fortune and he did it by marrying a rich wife. Most of the men in question do not have that way out. An editor be- comes great partly by realizing his own limitations. However, I under- stand that the chief editor came into Journalism by the back door, having had training largely against the pub- lic interest in representing for years the private utilities in Lansing. -Louis C. Karpinski DAILYOFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) to look the matter up in his tariffs, he will find you are right.) Be sure to tell the ticket, agent that you require a tax exempt ticket at the time you ask for your ticket. Fail- ure to do this will require the making out of new tickets and wll.be un- economical both in time and in pa- per. Our over-worked railway em- ployees should not be put in a posi- tion where they are required to do extra work. S. W. Smith All - Campus Christmas Party: Thursday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m. The Mich- igan Union cordially invites the fac- ulty and student body to gather in Hill Auditorium to sing Christmas Carols and receive a Christmas mes- sage from President Ruthven. The program will be given in the com- munity fashion typical of the old American Christmas. Choral Union Members: Members of the Choral Union who have not already done so, please return their copies of "Messiah" at once, and receive in lieu thereof copies of other choral works which will be sung at the May Festival, between the hours of 10 and 12, and 1 and 3, at the offices of the University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower. Candidates for the Teacher's Certi- ficate for February and June, 1945: A list of candidates has been posted on the bulletin board of the School of Education, Rm. 1431 University Ele- mentary School. Any prospective -andidate whose name does not ap- pear on this list should call at the office of the Recorder of the School of Education, 1437 U.E.S. The hours for women students on the nights immediately preceding end following the Christmas vaca- ;ion will be as follows: Friday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m. (Dormitories and League Houses close for the vacation period at this time and those students cmainingtinAnn Arbor over Friday light will have to be in their resi- lences by this time.); Wednesday, Dec. 27, 12:30 a.m.; Thursday, Dec. 38, 10:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, Dec. 29 and 30, 12:30 a.m.; Sunday, Dec. 31. 2 a.m. Orchestra Rehearsal: The Univer- sity of Michigan Symphony Orches- tra will meet in Hill Auditorium at 1 p.m. for its next rehearsal. A meeting for all those interested .n woking on the Hillel News will be held at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, at the Hillel Foundation. All J.G.P. League House Zone Chairman please turn in all stamp noney in the League between four and five. Academic Notices Psychology 31, Makeup exam will 'e held today at 4:30 in Rm, 1121 Freshmen, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Freshmen may iot drop courses without "E" grade ifter Saturday, Dec. 30. Only stu- dents with less than 24 hours' cedit ire affected by this regulation. They nust be recommended by their Aca- lemic Counselors for this extraordi- aary privilege. Seminar in Special Functions to- lay. Professor Rainich will speak on Operators and the Orthogonal Polynomials. Rm. 317 West Engineer- ig. Graduate Record Examination in- lividual report charts are now avail- able at the Graduate School office. Students may call for them between 9:00 and 12:00 a.m. or 2:00 and 4:00 p~m." Lectures Lecture: "Razon y Fruto de Nicar- agua" (in Spanish). Dr. Mariano Fiallos, Minister of Education of Nicaragua, introduced by Professor Hayward Keniston; auspices of the Latin-American Society and the In- ternational Center tonight at 8. Kel- logg Auditorium. Open to the public. Events Today Le Cercle Francais will hold its Christmas meeting this evening at S o'clock in the Michigan Union. A special program has been prepared for the occasion. Assembly Board Meetings: The regular Dormitory and League House Presidents' meetings will be held today at 5 p.m. Dormitory presidents meet in the Kalamazoo Room. League house presidents consult the League Bulletin Board for place of meeting. The Christian Science Students' Organization is holding a meeting tonight at 8:15 in the chapel of the Michigan League. All are welcome to attend. Comin g Events La Sociedad Ilispanica invites you to help celebrate the holiday season by attending a Christmas program, Latin-American style. Christmas car- ols and customs of Spanish-speaking countries will be featured. Wednes- 41 ,L- with the regulations applying as laid down by the Board gents, by inquiry of Mr. Stem thereto of Re- or Mrs. .,,®.a r Perkins in the Business Office, if necessary. One thing is to be noted in partic-1 ular, namely: the University as a state institution is exempt from Fed-' eral taxation on transportation and in case any person pays such tax the Business Office is not permitted to reimburse him therefor. Ticket agents selling tax exempt tickets will require of the purchaser a tax ex- BARNABY By Crockett Johnson Sound effects will make our decoy doubly convincing. When I blow my ermine mating II C usfurnfocti1re! M~lbN 0 F-ur 3lope uledJ~.