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MATTER OF FACT:
Stalin's Health
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By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP
RUMORS OF THE impending death of
Generalissimo Josef Stalin are an an-
nual crop, and the present heavy harvest
has produced the customary reaction among
the American experts. They will believe the
story when it has been officially announced.
Nevertheless, since the expectation that
Stalin must some day die is an important
point of American foreign policy, it seems
to be worthwhile to set down the known
facts.
In the first place, those Americans who
have the best means of forming a judgment
consider that Stalin has been far from com-
pletely well for some years. At one of the
war-time conferences, he actually confessed
to President Roosevelt that he had trouble
with both his heart and lungs. After Tehran
his plane was unexpectedly grounded at
Baku, whence he returned by rail to Mos-
cow. The reason for this, and his subse-
quent refusal to travel anywhere by air, is
thought to have been the sharp effect on his
lungs of flying at altitude.
In the second place, however, the same
men admit that Stalin may last a long
while yet. As his frequent trips to Sochi
indicate, he has been taking excellent care
of himself since the end of the war. His
holidays invigorate him greatly-when Sec-
retary of Commerce Averell Harriman vis-
ited Sochi during the greatest of all out-
bursts of "Stalin is dying" talk, he found
the Russian dictator looking better than
he had for years. And every one who has
ever seen Stalin regards him as one of the
toughest specimens of the tough Georgian
race. Thus there is .no telling whether this
crop of rumors, or the next one, or the
one after that, M~iay be right or wrong.
Meanwhile, whatever reliable facts can be
obtained on Stalin's health have an inter-
est far greater than mere gossip. Stalin's
death is in fact considered likely to produce
changes in Soviet policy. The argument for
this view is as follows:
After Stalin is removed from the world
scene, the experts expect the control of the
Soviet Union to pass to a sort of inner com-
mittee of the Politburo. According to this
theory, Molotov will be Stalin's official heir,
inheriting the outward trappings of leader
of they Soviet state. Beria, meanwhile, will
control the MVD-the changed but un-
changing secret police; the Russian Com-
munist party will be headed by Zhdanov,
hero of the Cominform organization meet-
ing; and to Bulganin will go the leadership
of the Bussian military forces. In other
words, while Molotov will get the trappings
of power, the fundamental levers of com-
mand will be held by his three juniors
among the Politburo's inner group.
History teaches. and the experts believe,
that there can be no stability in this quadri-
partite division of the power of an auto-
cratic state. What is anticipated was sug-
gested by George Kannan, State Depart-
ment planner, in his famous "M. X" article.
There will be a conflict, paralleling the con-
flict that convulsed Rome after the death of
Augustus. Then the Roman imperial house,
the Senatorial plutocracy, the state bureau-
cracy and the legions fought it out to-
gether, until only the legions survived to rule
the empire.
The inevitable similarities of the situation
that will obtain in Moscow after Stalin's
death are strikingly obvious. Moreover, in
this modern case, the conflict should be
rendered all the more embittered by each
of the different forms of state power being
personified in a single individual. The pre-
diction is that this inner conflict will rage
in the Kremlin from the day of Stalin's
funeral for an indeterminate but probably
considerable period. There will probably be
several permutations and combinations-
first three against one, then one against two,
and so on. And at last another sole ruler
will be chosen for the Soviet Union by the
ruthless law of the survival of the fittest.
What interests the experts about these
struggles is, of course, their probable effect
upon the Soviet state and power. The best
prediction is that the form of the Soviet
state will remain always outwardly unal-
tered, whatever dark melodrama may be
enacted within the Kremlin's grim walls.
But in such struggles, the starting points,
at least ostensibly, are always disputes over
policy. In the similar contest which took
place after the death of Lenin, both the So-
viet bureaucracy, and the Communist par-
ties at home and abroad were constantly
rent and riven by policy disputes. These
were chiefly mere outer manifestations of
the Stalin-Trotsky rivalry. Yet, the end re-
sult was the temporary crippling of the
Communist parties outside the Soviet Union,
and a drastic change in the Soviet Union's
foreign policy. The Stalin theory of "So-
cialism in one country" was officially adopt-
ed, while the NKVD hounded all dissenters
to the fitting end of heretics.
No wonder Stalin's health is now a sub-
ject of such intense interest; for his death
is also considered likely to result in another
great change in the direction of Soviet pol-
icy. No one is predicting whether the change
will be for better or for worse, but all are
hoping for the best.
(Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune)
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Third Party
To the Editor:
O NE OF MY acquaintances sees
no need for a third party now.
He is convinced that Wallace's
announcement of his candidacy
was bad politics. I asked for his
views. Did he agree with Wal-
lace's ideas? Yes, in general, he
did. "But all he will do now is
take votes from the Democrats
and assure us a Republican presi-
dent."
My friend wasn't sure that he
should vote at all. The country
in a mess and nobody in Wash-
ington changing this. I heartily
agreed about the mess-but
couldn't he do some good by vot-
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the "lesser of two evils"; for the
pawn of the devil instead of the
devil himself. After all, Truman
had some fine ideas on occasions.
Fine ideas-only to keep a few old
faithfuls' spouting that we must
stick with Truman. Nobody thinks
of putting the fine ideas to work.
There is no more need to talk
about the =lesser of two evils;!
Can't we see that they are as alike
as a left and a right thumb? They
admit that their foreign policy is
bi-partisan, seeing the country
through a little cold war. Pulling
together, mightily pulling the ship
of state through this: A Democrat
on the bridge, an honest general
the skipper, shipping orders from
downtown Manhattan, a mostly
Republican crew, getting us where
they want us to go. All of us pas-
sengers. The blue Mediterranean.
Marines in combat equipment on
deck. Battle air again. Saving
western civilization from eastern
hordes. Kings and generals are
most useful. Exceptionally safe
people who could never be ac-
cused of thinking even pinkish
thoughts. White like angels and
the empty faces of head cut off
by their henchmen. And bleach-
ing skulls of a new generation of
minutemen. Valley Forge-only a
memory of the old years, a dull
pale page.
Why a third party? To return
to Americans the "right to
choose"! Between war at any cost
and peace: not by arming but by
understanding. To revive for the
World the hope of America.
-Jack A. Mucas
Applause for Band
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Editorials published in The Michigan Daily.
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: NAOMI STERN
Tax Honeymoon
E FACT that 1948 is an election year
explains much of the political sleight
of hand show to which we are currently be-
ing treated. Perhaps it also explains the
anomaly of both Democrats and Republicans
outdoing each other in an attempt to sell
tax reduction to the people as their own
baby.
While the eye-gouging is going on, econ-
omists are whispering to apparently stone
ears that one of the most effective means
of Combatting inflation is to increase taxes
to sop up part of the money being used to
compete for scarce goods.
But President Truman, proposing a $40
out for all income taxpayers and each de-
pendent and an increase in corporate
taxes, in his State of the Union message
described his plan as an anti-inflation
measure to help the low income groups.
At best, however, this is only a poor sub-
stitute for an inflationary cure. After a
short lag, during which taxpayers will
enjoy the gains of a larger income, prices
will climb another notch, putting the con-
sumer exactly where he started-compet-
lug for scarce goods but with more money
than ever floating around.
In the meantime Minnesota's Knutson
dismisses the Truman proposal as politics
and announces his intention to continue
work on his own $5 billion tax reduction bill
which does not increase corporate levies. The
philosophy behind this brain-child appears
to be: You can have your cake and eat it
too. All you need is a few bucks more than
the next guy.,
When, the tax reduction honeymoon is
over, you still have inflation.
--Jake Hurwitz.
Cina
A NEW INSTANCE of the complete lack
of civil liberty which is characteristic
of Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Govern-
ment in China is the torturing and killing
by police of Tu Tsi-san, chairman of the
student body of the National Chekiang Uni-
versity.
This student leader was killed by the
underlings of bhiang: the same dictator to
whom Secretary of State George C. Mar-
shall has promised another $300 million.
Because the Nationalist government is
backward, corrupt, and violently anti-
democratic-because the vast majority of
the Chinese people themselves repudiate
it, many thinking Americans have ques-
tioned the validity of our policy in the
Far East,.the policy which during the past
five years has financed the Nationalist
government to the tune of four billion
American dollars.
In an attempt to change the Truman pol-
icy, which, as Brig. Gen. Evans F. Carlson
has said, ". . . is one of the greatest errors
ever made in American diplomacy . .
T. A. Bisson, W. E. DuBois, and Stanley H.
Isaacs have issued a call for a National
Conference on Amerian Policy in China
and the Far East.
Representatives of 'hundreds of organi-
zations have been contacted, including
groups on campuses throughout the coun-
try. At the conference they will discuss
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Great Year A htead
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
IT'S GOING TO BE a whale of a year;
friends. Such offers! Mr. Wallace offers
us peace, and an end of racial discrimina-
tion. That's good, nobody can say it isn't.
Mr. Truman offers a tax cut of $80 if you're
married, plus $40 more for each child, and
he also throws in housing, education, health,
higher old age pensions, an end to discrim-
ination, a 75-cents-an-hour minimum wage,
and a pacified and rebuilt Europe. That's
good, too. As for the Republicans they
haven't made their offer yet, but they will,
they will; for the moment they are em-
barrassed by their control of a Congress
which quite obviously doesn't intend to give
anybody anything.
The trouble with this bargain counter'
'though, is that if you reach for any of the
goodies on it, you're likely to lose your
hand.
If you trade with Mr. Wallace, you
may find that you have made Mr. Taft
your President. Besides, the Wallace can-
Youth's Ideas
HEARST'S "COSMOPOLITAN" magazine
has started a new series on American
colleges, which starts off this month with
that "colossal monument to mass educa-
tion," the University of Minnesota.
In, the course of the article, Collie Small,
the writer, presents "Minnesota Student
Leaders Sound Off," in which five students
present in a meaty three or four sentences
their opinions on schools, Russia, the Mar-
shall Plan and the future of the Capitalist
system.
The complete quoted comment from the
Associated Women Students' president
follows: "She likes big coed schools. 'They
give more opportunity for development of
the individual and offer a more varied
program.' She thinks capitalism is in the
United States to stay, and says definitely
she doesn't like the way Russia is acting."
Few philosophies have been summed up so
well.
The other succinctly presented comments
follow much the same pattern. The presi-
dent of the Democratic Farm Labor Club
is glad that Minnesota is coed, thinks that
there is a feeling between Russia and thQ
United States that may lead to war, is
doubtful about the Marshall Plan and will
didacy is a proposal to middle class Amer-
ica that it take a position to the left of
the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. It is about as
likely to do that as it is to walk down
Main Street in its pajamas.
If you trade with Mr. Truman, however,
you will find that, as of the present, he
can't deliver. The cookies on his counter are
only samples. He'll take your order for them,
and sometime in the future, if we get a
different sort of Congress, it may go
through, but I'll bet you get your new four-
door sedan first.
Mr. Truman and Mr. Wallace can make
promises, but have no real power;' the Re-
publicans have power, and are making no
promises.
One of the things that might happen
in November is the election of a liberal
Congress and a Republican President,
standing the present situation neatly on
its head. This could easily happen if Mr.
Wallace pulls 5,000,000 votes, mostly from
Mr. Truman, and yet mostly for liberal
Congressmen. We should remember that
the elder LaFollette drew 4,822,004 votes
as a third party candidate twenty-four
years ago, in a postwar period not too
unlike the present. And the total vote then
was much smaller than it is these days.
It seems to me the liberal voter has no
need to make an immediate choice; he can'
wait, and see, and figure out some way of
voting for himself, of working out the com-
bination that gives him the most, in both
White House and Congress.
This gives the liberal voter time for medi-
tating on how he happened to get into his
present dreadful fix. One reason is that
he wants too much glamor from his candi-
oate; he won't get out of the house and
vote, except for Clark Gable, or a reasonable
facsimile.
The 1946 Congressional elections were
the most crucial and also the dullest in
years, but without a Roosevelt to hotten
them up, the independent voters stayed
home.
You vote for a future, not for a face, or
against a face, and we must wait and hope
for the right combination to emerge out of
the spectacular electoral chaos of the mo-
ment.
(Copyright, 1947, New York Post Syndicate)
spring term, are requested to se- University Lecture: Dr. Paul R.
cure assignments in Rm. 2442, Cannon, Professor of Pathology,
University Elementary School, University of Chicago, will lecture
Thurs., Jan. 15, according to the on the subject, "The Problem of
following schedule: , Protein Hydrolysates for Intra-
English, 8:30-9:30. venous and Oral Alimentation,"
Social Studies, 9:30-10:30. Tues., Jan. 13, 4:15 p.m., Rack-
Science and Mathematics, ham 'Amphitheatre; auspices of
10:30-11:30. the Department of Biological
All foreign languages, 11:30- Chemistry. The Public is invited.
12:00.$
All others, and any having con- Academic Ntices
3:00 or by appointment. Doctoral Examination for Har-
old Stewart Courant, German
Students who wish to do direct- Language and Literature; thesis:
ed teaching in the nursery and "Hermann Stehr in the Light of
elementary grades during the sec- Literary Criticism: 1898 1940,"
ond semester must apply for Saturday, Tan. 10, 9:30 a.m., East
teaching assignments not later Council Room, Rackham Bldg.
than January 21. Application may Chairman, W. A. Reichart.
be made in Rm. 2509, University
Elementary School. Doctoral Examination for James
.__Stemble Duesenberry, Economics;
Hopwood Manuscripts : The thesis: "Consumption Function :
deadline for Hopwood MSS. in the A Study of Relations between In-
major and minor contests in the come and Consumer Expendi-
spring has been changed to Wed- tures," Saturday, Jan. 10, 2 p.m.,
nesday, April 14. 105 Economics Bldg. Chairman,
Z. C. Dickinson.
Food for the motorized unit of
the Friendship Train will be col- Physical and Inorganic Chemis-
lected Thursday, Friday and Sat- try Seminar: Sat., Jan. 10, 10:05
urday of this week. Boxes will be a.m., Rm. 303, Chemistry Bldg.
placed in the Union, League, Lane Prof. Paul Niggli of Zurich will
Hall and the Library. Canned speak on "Isomers and Mixed
foods of any kind, dried fruits and Crystals." All interested are in-
vegetables, sugar, flour, canned vited.
fats are especially solicited. Con-
tributions may be made at the Conflicts of Final Examinations,
above locations through Saturday College of Engineering: All con-
afternoon. Saturday, Jan. 10, at flicts must be reported, as an-
10:30, the Michigan Theatre will nounced on the examination
have a special showing of sports schedule, prior to 12 noon, Satur-
reels and cartoons; admission by day, Jan. 10. For instructions in
contribution of food items. reporting conflicts, see the bulle-
tin board adjacent to Rm. 3036,
Seniors: Senior Candidates for E. Engineering Bldg.
the following positions on the
Senior Ball Committee must leave English Concentration (General
statement of qualifications at the Program)
Information Desk, Otfice (it Stu- The English Concentration Ad-
dent Affairs, by Wed., Jan. 14. In- visers, General Program, will keep
dicate position desired. General special office hours during the
Chairman, Tickets, Publicity, Dec- week of January 12th for students
orations, Patrons and Programs, who wish to arrange their pro-
Orchestra, Building, Refresh- grams for the second semester. All
ments, and Finance. students who are able to see their
advisers in the week of January
The Merrill-Palmer School, De- 12th should do so in order to
troit, announces a number of lighten the advisory load during
Graduate Student Assistantships registrationweek.
and Fellowships for the academic! English concentrators -(General
year 1948-49 for both men and Program) are assigned to advisers
women. If interested, get in touch alphabetically, as follows:
with the Bureau of Appointments, A-G Morris Greenhut, 3216 A.H.
201 Mason Hall. H-P, H. V. S. Ogden, 3220 A.H.
Q-Z, Karl Litzenberg, 2212 A.H.
The State of Michigan Civil Each adviser has posted special
Service Commission announces an conference hours on his office
examination for Adult Education door.
Consultant III. Salary range,!,
$335-$395 per month. Closing date'
for filing applications, Jan. 28. For Concerts
further information, call at the The University Musical Society
Bureau of Appointments, 201 Ma- will present MYRA HESS, Eng-
son Hall. lish pianist, in the Choral Union
Series, Saturday, Jan. 10, 8:30
Bureau of Appointments and p.m., Hill Auditorium. She will
Occupational Information, 201 play the following numbers:
Mason Hall: Adagio, G major, and Toccata, D
The Commonwealth and South- major (Bach); Drei Klavier-
ern Corporation of Jackson. Mich- stucks (Schubert); Sonata, Op.
A limited number of tickets are
available at the offices of the Uni-
versity Musical Society in Burton
Tower daily; and after 7 p.m. on
the night of the concert in the
Hill Auditorium box office.
Events Today
Art Cinema League and the IRA
present Henry Fonda and Dana
Andrews in OX-BOW INCIDENT.
Also "Boundary Lines," a short on
racial discrimination, 8:30 p.m..
Kellogg Auditorium, Dental
School. Tickets on sale at Univer-
sity Hall, 10-noon.
Conference on Workers' Educa-
tion: Evaluative and planning
conference with reference to the
University of Michigan's activities
in workers' education, 10 a.m..
Michigan Union. Members of the
staff now engaged in such work
as well as representatives of the
University administration, of the
advisory committees, and of the
organized labor, will attend. Oth-
ers interested are invited.
Coming Events
Sigma XI: Open meeting 2
p.m., Wed., Jan. 14, Rackham Am-
phitheatre. Dr. W. H. Hobbs, Pro-
fessor Emeritus of Geology, will
speak on the subject, "The An-
cient Glaciers of North America
in the Light of Recent Studies of
an Existing One" (illustrated).
UMT Conference planning ses-
sion: Mon., Jan. 10, 4 p.m., Lane
Hall. Interested stulents welcome.
Delta Sigma Pi, professional
Business Administration fraterni-
ty: Formal initiation, Sun., Jan.
11, 1 p.m., Rm. 324, Michigan Un-
ion.
Alpha Kappa Psi, Profesional
Business Fraternity, formal initia-
tion, Sun., Jan. 11, 2 p.m., Chapter
house.
Inter-racial Association Mixer:
Sun., Jan. 11, 4-6 p.m., Michigan
Union.
Cornedbeef Corner, B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation: Open from 8 to
10 p.m., Sun., Jan. 11. All students
invited.
YPCM: Membership meeting,
Tues., Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m., Michigan
Union. Planning of program and
membership drive. Public is invit-
ed.
Hot Record Society: Sun., Jan.
11, 8:30 p.m., Michigan League
Ballroom. Business meeting, lec-
ture and record concert on blues.
The public is invited.
THE UN - AMERICAN grand-
daddy of all, it seems, wants to
return to Washington now that
times are good for such as he.
Martin Dies, who once called Shir-
ley Temple a Communist, told re-
porters in Houston, Texas, that he
may run for the Senate in 1948.
The founder and first chairman
of the Un-American Activities
Committee is accepting speaking
engagements for the first time
since he was booed off the stage
at the 1944 Democratic conven-
tion at Dallas. He says his itiner-
ay carries him through February.
Then he will decide if the race
appears to be a "dignified and de-
cent campaign."
-The New Republic.
USUALLY THE singer gets all
the glory and the accompanist,
the pianist, no matter how good, is
credited with only small part of
the program. This case can be ap-
plied to the Michigan Football
game and the band. The newspa-
pers forgot the remarkable per-
formance accomplished by the
Michigan Marching Band.
Two and a half million people
saw them in the Tournment of
Roses Parade. Here at least twen-
ty bands marched, but no other
band received the praise and ova-
tion that the West Point precision
marching and good music playing
Michigan Marching Band did. I
was standing among the Southern
California crowd in the parade
and heard the Californians say
that their 150 man band looks like
a high school band compared to
Michigan's.
At the game the formations
were perfect and the sense of
humor expressed was appreciated.
The band had marched more than
five miles by that time, but its per-
formance would make any student
proud even if he did not go for
football and marching bands.
In California the Marching
Band was an equal partner in its
performance to the football team,
not an accompanist only. Every
one of us would have been proud
to see it, especially when we un-
derstand how much work the band
put in to make our school always
remembered in Southern Cali-
fornia.
-Dezso Sekely
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of the two wonderful Michigan
institutions I was able to see New
Year's Day at Pasadena. I was
lucky enough to be one of the
9,000 Michigan alumni to get tick-
ets, and the team and that band
just about divided honors. I never
saw such a team or band and I
never saw a Michigan team de-
feated except that 2 to 0 defeat
at Chicago in 1905.
You see, I entered Michigan in
the fall of 1903, one year behind
Willie Heston, and graduated in
1906 (Law) again one year after
Heston, so I saw the Hammond
brothers, Lergman, Gernny
Schultz, Norcross, Redden, Cur-
tis, etc., play, and other Yost-
coached teams were some teams.
I forgot Graham, the short-red-
headed guard who used to get
down on punts before all receiv-
ers time and again.
Al Barlow, second string quar-
terback to Norcross, sat next to
me all three years through Law
school. He is now in the hospital--
didn't know whether he'd make
the game or not-so his son told
me. I have seen him quite a few
times-also Donahue, Hurt and
Parker of Los Angeles, and my
very good friend Edgerton
Sprague of Santa Ana.
The oldest alumnus I saw at
the game was a 1918 man, but
there probably were others still
older. I did so want to go to the
48th reunion of my class last year
but was ill. In 1937 I drove a new
Oldsmobile from Lansing to
Cleveland and then home. I was
alone and stopped at Ann Arbor
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