THE MICHIGAN DAILY -- WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: White House 'Lost Weekend' By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON.-It is now possible to give a play-by-play account of what happened in- side the White House during the "lost week-end." This columnist has been around Washington a good many years, but the events preceding Har- ry Truman's labor message to Congress were the most bizarre ever witnessed. They prove that Harry Truman's worst enemy is his own loyalty to friends. Here is what happened: On Friday morning, just after the rail strike started, Truman held a cabinet meeting. He was t'hopping mad at A. F. Whitney and Alvanley Johnston. Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach was equally burned up, but not at the strikers. He was sore at likable John Steelman, the White House labor expert, and John Snyder, the war reconverter, for messing up the negotiations. At the cabinet meeting, Postmaster Hanne- gan wanted Truman to go on the air with an appeal to the public, but no crackdown on labor. Secretary of War Patterson wanted the President to take over the railroads at once, even pro- duced a blueprint for the Army's strike-breaking operations. Secretary Byrnes said he thought a settlement could be reached but not by Steelman, in whom the unions had lost faith. At the cabinet meeting also, Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson asked how much money separated the railroad workers and the opera- tors-in other words, how much would it take to satisfy labor's unmet demands. Steelman, who had been conducting negotiations for more than a week, said he didn't know. So did Schwel- lenbach. So did Byrnes. But John Snyder volun- teered that they were between 300 and 500 mil- lion dollars apart. This very large estimate led Vinson and Byrnes to the conclusion that there was no possibility of negotiated settlement, and they then cast their weight with the Secretary of War in favor of letting the Army run the railroads. After the cabinet meeting Truman lunched with Snyder and Steelman. They urged him to use force to break the strike, also to go before Congress and ask for new legislation. After lunch, therefore, Truman called a special meet- ing of certain cabinet members and advisers, including Secretary of State Byrnes, Attorney General Clark, Secretary of the Treasury Vin- son, John Steelman, John Snyder, Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, and the President. Tru- man informed them he had decided: (1) to go on the air that night, and (2) address Congress the next day. He then outlined the general na- ture of what he wanted to say-some of it dras- tic. At this point, Secretary Vinson, realizing an important break with Roosevelt precedent was imminent, once again asked whether Snyder was sure of his figures regarding the distance between the railroad operators and the brotherhoods. Snyder then sheepishly ad- mitted that only between 25 and 30 million dollars separated the two. Steelman also confessed that the three impor- tant rules changes the union was really insisting NIGHT EDITOR: CLYDE RECHT Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. on would only cost the railroads 18 million dollars. A T THIS, both Byrnes and Vinson hit the ceil- ing. They claimed it was fantastic to let the whole country be tied up when both sides were so close to agreement. A settlement, they insisted, was both possible and probable, and it was un- wise in the light of this information for the President to take the strong action he con- templated. John Snyder, however, insisted that it was too late. Word had already gone out to the public that the President would address the nation and talk toCongress. He could not turn back. Truman agreed with Snyder and asked those present to return at 7 o'clock with drafts of the speech he was to deliver at 10 p.m.-a pitifully short time for any chief executive to prepare such a momentous pronouncement. Shortly after 7:30, the group re-convened at the White House. Secretary Byrnes stayed only a few minutes, and then left to meet with union leaders Whitney and Johnston. Principal speech writer turned out to be slow- moving, good-natured, presidential secretary Bill Hassett, known as a fair editor but terrible speech writer. He was only a second string man on the Roosevelt team. Snyder showed up for the meeting, feeling no pain. He interrupted the speech-writing from time to time with inane cracks which served no useful purpose. Several times Vinson and Schwellenbach tried to balance the speech by pointing out that the railroad operators had refused to make con- cessions. Each time Snyder and Steelman vetoed the proposal. Each time Truman sided with Snyder. Schwellenbach and Vinson both opposed Truman's personal denunciation of Whitney and Johnston, but Snyder shouted wildly that the two union leaders were trying to destroy "The Chief," and that they had to be named. Truman agreed. Finally, the speech was completed only 20 minutes before the President went on the air. At the time he made it, Truman didn't even know what kind of legislation he was going to request of Congress the next day. It was in this confused, uncertain atmosphere that the Presi- dent of the United States made the most im- portant political decision of his career. (Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) IT SO HAPPENS ..Internecine Strife No, .No, Let Me Take It .. . TWO OF OUR more innocent young lady friends went blithely out to the local all- night coffee venders and ordered a just- before-"Hours" snack, the other night. You've probably heard this one before, but for the record's sake it's come up again. It seems that our friends drank deeply of their coffee, then sat talking, each (you guessed it) calmly waiting for the other to pick up the check. No, neither of them had a cent. Rather Than Hollywood ALAN STEPHAN, the boy who makes Charlie Atlas look like a 98 pound weakling, came into the office the other day after pocketing the title of "Mr. America" in Detroit Sunday. Stephan, who looks "even as you and I" in a suit coat, turned down a movie contract in fa- vor of entering the University this fall. Which reminds us that Michigan's only representa- tive in the film capital will soon try to outdo his first celluloid effort. "Dr. Jekeyll and Mr. Harmon," which played some cities as "Hyde of Michigan," was the worst fumble T.D. ever made. * * * * All For You W E DOUBT THAT the campus' female popu- lation will respond with so much as a flut- ter of eyelids to the enticing offer of a summer's fun made by a YWCA camp in this area. "Coeds-what about your vacation plans?" their news release queries. "Do they include visions of swimming, hiking and riding with chums after exams are over and books laid away for the summer?" Then, coming down to anybody's level, the camp's press agent adds: "No fancy clothes are needed, just the slacks, sweaters, shorts and shirts you already have." It sounds like a "come as you are" party. '*.* * * Life With Gadgets One of those high pressure boys who works through the mail is after us again. This time we're being asked to buy a daily science column that'll "click BIG" with our readers. "Your readers will welcome the opportunity you give them to know in advance about new developments in post war items and gadgets, many of which will affect their every day living," we're told. All we're asking for is a handy gadget that will leave our every day living in peace. oLedter to thm 6cditor Amen In reference to Donald Parish's letter de- nouncing the Deutscher Verein's collection for the "poor starving Germans"-Amen! -Harry J. Slesnick Former guest of the German Gov- ernment at Stal- ag Luft I - Doubts Confirmed To the Editor: Without any knowledge of the basic issues involved, I would have serious doubts about a student's intelligence when he accuses some of the University faculty membership of "gross ignorance." When that student uses the fact that he has recently returned from Germany to explain the superiority of his intellect over that of the members of Dutscher Verein, my doubts are confirmed. I have been in Germany recently, too, and know just what astute, in- telligent observers all of us were. Beware, of any veteran who sets himself up as an expert on European affairs. At the risk of appearing to be such an "expert," may I recall to Donald B. Parish's mind the sight which is very com- mon in Germany now, as it is in many other countries? It is the sight of small boys and girls rummaging through garbage cans, fighting over scraps of food which Parish and I threw away because we took more than we could eat. I'm not a member of the Deutscher Verein, but please, Parish, if they want to help these kids, don't accuse them of "gross ignorance." And if you still desire to display your short-sighted- ness in the columns of The Daily, express it as your own opinion and not that of all the veterans on campus. Gerald Rees * * * * Benevolent Guidance To the Editor: A unique yet not unprecedented system of "benevolent guidance" is now in evidence on this campus. It has its special application to rooming houses for women. It is a system ex- tolling "loyalty to the house" and "loyalty to the director" in sacrifice of loyalty to oneself. It is a system that produces a rather expert type of espionage. Unfortunately, it is a system that also produces a genuine fear resulting in "cooperation" on the part of many, who, other- wise, would be pleased to forego their "special training." Substitute "loyalty to the state" for "loyalty to the house," then substitute "loyalty to the leader" for "loyalty to the director," and you have a familiar guide for individual action on a national basis. -Tom Schick D.RAMA Play Production presents "The Devil's Disci- ple" by George Bernard Shaw; at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. IN A SEASON marked by rather consistently dismal selection of vehicles, Play Production last night finally presented truly interesting theatre as they came to grips with the fabulous G.B.S.'s "The Devil's Disciple." Not one of his major plays by any means, it nevertheless has moments of typical Shavian wit, and good old melodramatic devices such as a twelfth-hour re- prieve from the scaffold, to interest all-comers. It has, of course, become fashionable of late to no longer look upon Shaw in awe and to make little of his work. Recent Broadway re- vivals have been "tolerated" because a Cornell or a Gertrude Lawrence was "breathing life into them". Whatever be the reason for this (familiarity breeding contempt; the fact that Shaw may have out-lived his vogue as a per- sonality), I must be unfashionable enough to admit I still enjoy Shaw. Last night's audi- ence seemed to concur in the opinion. It is not that Shaw got quite all that was com- ing to him at the hands of Play Production. At some points, through what seemed almost a posi- tive effort, the humor was rather thoroughly subdued. The opening scene, for instance, was played so literally for several minutes that Shaw's jibes at Puritan hypocrisy were complete- ly lost. Things picked up after that, until, with the arrival of General Burgoyne, a thorough, en- joyable reading was given to the play. Robert Bouwsma, as Burgoyne, was easily the top performer of the evening. Aided and abetted by Jim Bob Stephenson, as the Disciple, and Leo Fogelman who made a hilarious thing of Dick Dudgeon's trial. The rest of the cast performed with typical Play Production technical facility. Harp Mc- Guire and Mary Jane Wheeler, as the Ander- sons, didn't always get across the piousness required of their characters in the early scenes, but they were pleasant to watch. Carolyn Street as The Disciple's mother played with more venom seen since Laughton played Cap- tain Bligh. Serene Shepperd, as Essie of the unhappy natal station, was faced with the un- happy task of looking like something out of a poor man's "Tobacco Road", but she faced it bravely. --Barrie Waters DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- bers of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angel Hall, by 3:30 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). TIHUR SDAY, JUNE 6, 1946 VOL. LVI, No. 157 Notices Honor Guard: A meeting of the Honor Guard for the 1946 Com- mencement will be held at Water- man Gymnasium, at 4:00 p.m. today, for rehearsal. Tickets for Graduation Exercises: Entrance tickets to Ferry Field and Yost Field House for the graduation exercises on June 22 will be ready for distribution on June 7. Please apply at the Information Desk, in the Business Office, Room 1, Univer- sity Hall. Those eligible to receive tickets will please present their ident- ification cards. For Ferry Field a rea- sonable number of tickets to each graduate will be available; to Yost Field House, however, owing to lack of space, three only can be provided. Herbert G. Watkins, Secretary Faculty, College on Engineering: There will be a meeting of the Fac- ulty of this College on Monday, June 10, at 4:15 p.m., in Room 348, West Engineering Building. Students having lockers at Water- man Gymnasium should clear lockers and secure refund prior to June 20. Notice to all Graduating Engineer- ing Students: Caps and Gowns for the Commencement Exercises will be available for rental Monday and Tuesday afternoons, June 10 and 11, from 1 to 5 in the basement of the Michigan League. All Engineer- ing students must make their rentals on one of these days, as they will not be available after Tuesday. German Departmental Library Books are due in the departmental office on June 10 regardless of the due date stamped in the book. All NROTC students who have ap- plied for admission to the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for the Spring Term who have not re- ceived their admission certificates please call at 1209 Angell Hall as soon as possible. All women students attending Sen- ior Ball will have 2:30 permission. Calling hours will not be extended. Graduate School Summer Session registration material will be avail- able at the Graduate School Office starting June 10. Summer Session Bulletins will not be available until June 15. Recommendations for Department- al Honors: Teaching departments wishing to recommend tentative June graduates from the College of Lit- erature, Science, and the Arts, and the School of Education for depart- mental honors should send such names to the Registrar's Office, Room 4 University Hall, by noon of June 25. LaVerne Noyes Scholarships: Pres- ent holders of these scholarships who wish to be considered for the year 1946-47 should present appli- cations for renewal to F. E. Robbins, Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell Hall, before the end of the term. Mr. Eggleston of Aetna Casualty and Surety Company will be in our office today to interview men who are interested in insurance sales. Call the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall, ext. 371 for an appoint- ment. Junior mechanical and chemical engineers interested in try-out jobs with the Crane Company this sum- mer may make appointments for an interview this afternoon at the Bur- eau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall, or call ext. 371. Attention Engineers: A represent- ative from the Atlantic Refining Company will be in our office today to interview any men who are chem- ical, mechanical, civil, or electrical engineers. He would also like to talk to men who are physicists or physical chemists with a M.S. or Sc.D. degree. Call the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall, ext. 371, for an appoint- ment. Seniors in Aeronautical, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering: Mr. Nance of North American Aviation, Inc. (Inglewood, California) will in- terview graduating seniors on Friday, June 7, in Room 3205 East Engineer- attend the 1946 Summer Session ing Building. should report at the Secretary's Of- Applications blanks may be obtain- file, 263 West Engineering Building. ed in Room B-47 East Engineering Building. Interested men will please English 1, Final Examination sign the interview scnedule posted Schedule for Tuesday, June 18, 8-10 on the Aeronautical Engineering Bul- a.m. letin Board. Austin 103 Ec Riepe 207 Ec Bacon 206 UH Robertson Men interested in jobs as coun- Cnr 20beso3011 AH selors at a summer camp for crip- Chase 202 WPhy Sparrow E Hav pled children may obtain full infor- Dice 3209 AH Stimson G Hav ination at the Bureau of Appoint- Fletcher 16 AH Stocking 203 Ec ments, 201 Mason Hall. Fullerton 4203 AH Weaver 3017 AH Attention Civil Engineers: The Norton 209 AH Welsch 2054 NS Wayne County Road Commission is O'Neill 2231 AH Whan 2116 NS looking for civil engineers. Any sen- Plumer 3056 NS Wolfson 3116 NS iors or graduates who are interested English 2, Final Examination should call at the Bureau of Appoint- Schedule for Tuesday, June 18, 8-10 ments, 201 Mason Hall for further a.m. information. Abel 18 AH Markland 231 AH -- Baker 201 UH McClennen Women's Engineering Society: Will Bertram 1035 AH 2054 NS the members of the society please Boyd 225 AH Morris 3231 AH sign their names to the information Boys 1007 AH Muehl 2013 AH cards that have been sent out by Brower Needham 229 AH the secretary before they are remailed W Phy Lee Panush 2082 NS to Mrs. Dyer? Cohn 2003 NS Peake 2235 AH Edwards 1018 AH Rayment 2014 AH Willow llage Program for Vet- Engel 4003 AH Rich 3010 AH eras and their Wives: Everett 2016 AH Schroeder 35 AH Thursday, June 6: Home Planning Fogle W Phy 'sec Sessions 215 Ec Group invited to attend Tuesday Gramn 2219 AH Shedd 4208 AlE evening Safety Series program. Greenhut 1020 AH Smith 231 AH Saturday, June 8: Record Dance, Hawkins 2203 AH Stevenson 8:30 p.m. Auditorium. Haykins2293AHn1121 NS Sunday, June 9: Classical Music, Hayden 2 AH 121 NS Records, 3-5 p.m. Office. Huntley 6 AH Wells 2235 AU _, m _ King 2215 AH Wunsch 4054 NS LeeC tlir Hter, Make-up final examination for Hopwood Lecture, Harlan Hatcher,'both English 1 and 2, Tuesday, June "Towards American Cultural Matur- 18, 7 to 9 p.m., in Room 2225 Angell ity," Tuesday afternoon, June 11, ___ at 4:15 in the large lecture room of the Rackham Building. Announce- Concerts ment of this year's awards follows Carillon Recital: By Percival Price, the lecture. Open to the public. University Carillonneur, this evening at 7:15. Program: March by Mozart, Acade ic Noices Price's Sonata for 47 bells, and four Academic Notices ""' U"'O '*1'"'" Latin-American folk songs. The next Doctoral Examination for Henry program in the current series will Norton Bershas, Romance Languages be heard at 3 p.m., Sunday, June 9. (Spanish); thesis: "A Critical Edi- tion of 'La Gran Conquista de Ultra- Women's Glee Club, Marguerite V. mar,Book IV, Chapters 194-288," to Hood, conductor, assisted by the Navy be held today at 4:00 p.m., in the and University Choirs, will be heard East Council Room, Rackham Build- in its spring concert at 8:30 this ing. Chairman, C. P. Wagner. evening in Hill Auditorium. Open to the public without charge, Doctoral Examination for Isabel the program will include songs by Lockard, Anatomy; thesis: "Certain Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Rossini, Ker- Developmental Relations and Fiber nochan, Wood, and Hageman. Fal- Connections of the Triangular Gyrus lowing intermission the Glee Club will in Primates," to be held Friday, June present a group of Latin-American 7, at 1:30 p.m., in Room 4558 East songs. Medical Building. Chairman, E. C. Crosby. Wind Instrument Program: Harris Hall, Friday, June 7, 1 p.m. Mathematics Orientation and His- Soloists: Anthony Desiderio, clari- tory Seminar: Today at 3:00 p.m. in net, in Mozart's Concert Rondo in 3001 Angell Hall. Topic: Famous B-flat major; Wilfred Roberts, cor- Mathematical Electricians, net, in Gaubert's Cantabile et Scher- zetto; Vito Susca, clarinet, playing Zoology Seminar will meet this Fantasie by Marty; Robert Johns, evening at 7:15 in the Rackham Am- flute, in Mozart's Concerto in G ma- phitheatre. jor, K..V. 413; flute quartet of Bar- Mr. Royal B. Brunson will speak bara Litchfield, Lee Chrisman, Mer- on "Life History and Ecology of some rill Wilson, and Clinton Norton, play- Michigan Gastrotricha." Mr. Max ing Kohler's Grosses Quartett, Op. R. Matteson will speak on "The Life 92; Earl Bates, clarinet, heard in History and Ecology of Elliptio Com- Piece de Concours by Raboud, and planatus Dillwyn." The seminar is Promenade by Delmas. The public open to the public. is invited. M.P. 9. Foundry. Class will meet in ents front of East Engineering BuildingEveToday today at 12:45 p.m., for a trip to The English Journal Club will meet visit 'the foundry of Central Specialty tonight at 7:45 in the East Con- Company, Ypsilanti. Upon return ference Room of the Rackham Build- from trip a class meeting will be held ing. Dr. Frank Huntley will speak in Room 4307 at 4:00. on "Japanese Poetry and the Imagist Movement." Officers are to be elect- All students in geology going to ed for next year. Camp Davis should see Professor Bel- knap Friday morning, June 7, or be- The Modern Poetry Club will meet fore, and complete registration. 'tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3231 Angell Hall. This will be the final Attention June Graduates: College meeting of the semester. of Literature, Science, and the Arts, School of Education, School of Mu- Mortarboard. There will be a short sic, School of Public Health: important meeting of Mortarboard Students are advised not to request (new members) tonight at 7:00 in grades of I or X in June. When such the Russian Tea Room. grades are absolutely imperative, the work must be made up in time to al- Tea at the International Center: low your instructor to report the The weekly informal teas at the make up grade not later than noon, International Center on Thursdays June 27. Grades received after that from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. are open to time may defer the student's grad- all foreign students and their Ameri- uation until a later date, can friends. Sophomores with B standing inter- The Women of the University Fac- ested in enrolling in the College Hon- ulty will hold their final meeting of ors Program for their Junior and the year at 7:30 this evening in the Senior years should see Professor West Conference Room of the Rack- Dodge, 17 Angell Hall. Office hours: ham Building. Election of officers 1:00 to 2:30 daily, except. Tuesday. for the coming year will take place The members will vote upon the nev Students, College of Engineering: constitution and by-laws. Students, now enrolled, who expect to (Continued on Page 5) c t r r L M V } } L C C C C C C C L C a C a 4 1 x Y S 3 r G 1 r C a. x r C t r x y L 1 4 1r1 4 V y{ Ji Jx d e 0 if .e ,s e. N Swiss Precedent IN THE FIELD of foreign affairs chief attention is focused on the big names in world diplo- macy who move about the major stages such as the United Nations meetings in New York and the recent Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers. But there are other things going on in the cor- ners, so to speak, of world conference roooms. Some of these are just as important to a peaceful future as headlined affairs, reaching the economic origins and consequences of war. One such incident took place in Washington recently among representatives of the United States, Britain, France and Switzerlald in an attempt to get the Swiss to account for and give up hidden Nazi assets. The Swiss government was at first obstinate, although the yielding up of these assets had been ordered months ago by the Allied Control Council and their distribution arranged at the Paris reparations conference. It is well known now that Switzerland was headquarters for some of the most powerful German cartels and that the Nazis used these cartels to build up their own war machine as well as to hamstring preparedness in other na- tions as in the United States synthetic rubber shortage caused by Nazi monopoly. It is no secret that these Nazi cartels hope to resume business again. In fact, evidence has been uncovered that this is already going on. It is most important that we deprive them of their assets hidden in Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Ar- gentina and other caches, and that we are in- formed about their future plans. In the Washington move for Swiss cooperation, Swiss public opinion at home was a thorn in the side of the Swiss delegations who realized public approval would be denied any act seeming to indicate that the Potsdam decree had any legal force in that country. However, after ten weeks of negotiations, Swit- zerland signed an agreement May 26 formally giving to the Allies half the Nazi assets in that country, estimated by Allied officials at $700,- 000,000. In addition the Swiss are turning over $58,140,000 of the "looted gold" hoard the Nazis. had in Switzerland. Although the agreement will not become legal until ratified by the Swiss Fifty-Sixth Year 0 Edited and managed by studental of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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