THE MICHIGAN DAILY
THRSDAT, MAY 3, 1951
IS FLEESON
Churchill's Cancelled Visit
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Freedom To
"I Can't Stand To See You Suffer Like This"
(ASHINGTON-Winston Churchill can-
celed his journey to the United States
t because of the political situation in
eat Britain but because Harold Stassen
d B. M. Baruch, who were to have been
hosts, told him not to come.
In a trans-Atlantic telephone confer-
nce, the two Americans advised the Bri-
sh Conservative leader that the extent
nd intensity of anti-British feeling in
ie United States made his appearance
ere inopportune.
The Stassen-Baruch-Churchill telephone
nversation took place subsequent to the
moval of General MacArthur by President
'uman.
The political implications are obvious.
General MacArthur has been taken over
r the dominant Taft faction of Republicans
ho have made his limited-China-war cause
eir own. Mr. Truman is against it and one
ason is because we would have to fight
ed China without allies, the British and
eir Commonwealth nations being utterly
p6sed both to war with China and aid to
e Chinese Nationalists.
Mr. Stassen, a former Republican candi-
te for president, now President of the
rilversity of Pennsylvania, does not conceal
s continued political aspirations. He has
so called Mr. Truman our worst President.
r. Truman and Mr. Baruch had a falling-
it in the 1948 campaign and the President
as consistently rejected the pleas of Mrs.
oosevelt and other influential Democrats
at he ought to heal the breach.
Mr. Baruch emphatically rejects the
dea that any politics influenced his
advice to his old friend. He acknowledged
freely that he thought the times were not
propitious for a Churchill appearance here
but said he had advised against it from
he very start, months ago.
"The visit was Mr. Stassen's idea," he
id. "As soon as Mr. Churchill communi-
cated with me about it I expressed grave
doubts. The British are opposing us in many
fields, our people resent it, and I was afraid
they might take it out bn Mr. Churchill.
Mr. Stassen's doubts arose, however, fol-
lowing the MacArthur recall. Up to then
he had been eagerly pressing the invitation
which he had flown to England to extend
in person.
Administration circles dissent from the
Baruch-Stassen a ee. They feel that
Britain's wartime Prime Minister, who is
half-American, stands high above par-
tisanship in the minds of most Americans.
They had anticipated that Mr. Churchill,
the Conservative so acceptable to Republi-
cans except for his foreign-policy views,
would have a calming influence. They natur-
ally would not expect him to touch upon
personalities. What they had hoped for was
that the eloquent voice which rallied the;
free world in the 1940's could produce a
similar clarion call for these confused 1956's.
The capital had been unusually keen to
hear him, in fact, especially since the
troubles of the British Labor government
make it appear that he might soon again
direct the affairs of our principal ally.
Mr. Baruch ited many reasons for what
he believes to be widespread anti-British
sentiment at present. Among them are:
the British oppose our China policy, they
are against the Schuman plan which we
favor, they did not agree to the tariff
concessions of the Torquay Conference
but retained empire preference, we are in
conflict over allocation of raw materials
n'defense production, the British left-
wingers who follow Aneurin Bevan alarm
Americans when they put the welfare
state ahead of the security of the free
world.
He expressed the hope that Mr. Churchill
would come here when the present storm
had spent itself, but he is firmly convinced
that the present emotional climate makes
his visit now too great a risk.
(Copyright, 1951, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Grow
WE AMERICANS have the right to be
proud of what we have done but not
the right to stop growing. The most excit-
ing thing about America is that it has al-
ways been "unfinished business."
We've got to keep it unfinished busi-
ness and, above all, keep opportunity ex-
panding in the decade of tension that lies
ahead. That is not going to be easy. The
Kremlin is creating tensions and fears
which, unless we are on our guard, will
result in actions ill-considered and even
hysterical-actions that will constrict the
freedom vital to continued growth. But it
can be done if every proposal to curtail
either civil liberties or freedom of enter-
prise is subjected to a critical examina-
tion of its long-term effects.
Everyone recognizes that in order to give
priority to our defense efforts some economic
controls are necessary. But we should con-
stantly keep in mind that managers produce
most when they themselves have the power
to make operating decision's, and that work-
ers produce best at jobs of their own choos-
ing. Before imposing any control we should
make sure that it is imperatively needed
and that we make clear our intent to lift it
at the end of the emergency that brought it
into being.
Even more important . . . is the need to
maintain our civil liberties. Loss of liberty
is a terrible thing. Still vivid in my mind is
the contrast between the people of East and
West Berlin. In West Berlin, despite all
hardships, the men, the women, and chil-
dren stand upright, and there is hope on
their faces. In East Berlin the people tend
to cringe and if they look at one at all, that
look is furtive.
We can survive this decade of tension
in America. We can even expand for our-
selves and the whole world continuing op-
portunities for growth, if we refuse to des-
cend to witch-hunting but instead keep
the Bill of ,Rights as real as today, as up-
to-date as tomorrow.
To keep freedom alive at home, to keep
our house in order, is to broaden and butt-
ress a base of operations for the effective
leadership of the free world. America must
now be as eager to grow up as it has been
to grow.
-From "Peace Can Be Won,"
by Paul Hoffman.
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Cutting Expenses . . .
To the Editor:
HAVE noticed for some time in
the residence halls' kitchens
nd dish rooms a systematic cut-
ing on labor and intensifying the
abor tempo to extremes in order
o "balance the budget." Men and
women employees are getting ill
from these intolerable conditions
xisting in one of the greatest Uni-
versities in the country.
And yet, the wages are beneath
he present "price control level."
'he University fathers do not
"know" the real situation, or if
hey know they don't see the hard-
hips instituted by them to "bal-
ance the budget."
Now the library is closed on Sun-
day. It is the last straw. They say
hey wil save $60.00 by not paying
he personnel on Sunday.
In supporting Jim Brown's edi-
orial, the best way to "balance the
budget" is to cut all bureaucratic,
political overhead. To prove this
act, go in residence halls and see
how many people are holding jobs
which could be eliminated.
Here are some of them: house
mothers, house fathers, advisers
(?), and Asst. Advisors, Dietitions,
and Asst. Dietitions, directors and
sst. Directors and numerous straw
bosses and supervisors, and
lunkies.
Some times there are more
bosses than laborers. They are
making good money while the bal-
ancers of the University budget
are cutting on the little fellow and
ducational advantages which have
een for years. Instead to improve
he conditions, these University
athers are making it worse. This
s the real situation.
The bureaucracies and the poli-
icians must go! Improve the labor
onditions in the residence halls,
educational facilities in the
ibraries. Make it possible not for
a few but for all!
-Paul rilton Howard, Grad.
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OrF tACT
By STEWART ALSOP
0
WASHINGTON-It is perfectly obvious
that Sen. Robert A. Taft has bet his
political shirt on Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
And at least for the present, the bet seems
to be paying off handsomely.
At first, Taft inclined to take a rather
cautious line. But now, after consulting with
MacArthur in the General's sanctuary in
the Waldorf Towers, Taft has criticized De-
fense Secretary George Marshall and he
has lambasted Gen. Omar Bradley and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, who are much more
dangerous MacArthur antagonists than
President Truman. He has called for "a more
aggressive waragainst China."
And he has stated that we cannot lest-
tate to adopt the MacArthur program
"simply because we fear that the Russians
might come Into the war."
For a man who was not long ago oppos-
ing the North Atlantic pact on the grounds
that it might "provoke" the Soviets, this is
going pretty far. The fact that Taft has
gone so far must be considered in relation
to the fact that Taft is an active candidate
for the Presidential nomination-so active
that Taft workers are already lining up
delegates in pivotal states like Massachusetts.
Thus it is only reasonable to assume that
Taft is counting on his all-out commitment
to MacArthur to lead to his own nomination,
and to the final triumph of the Taft wing in
the inner struggle within the Republican
party.
* , *
TAFT MAY BE RIGHT. So far, two things
have happened. There have been some
muted protests from Republicans of the
stripe of Senators Morse, Duff, and Salton-
stall. But by and large, the Republicans in
Congress have lined up solidly-much more
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: RICH THOMAS
solidly than on any other foreign policy is-
sue-behind Taft. This has been a major
victory for Taft.
This in turn has markedly reduced the
chances of nominating Dwight D. Eisen-
hower on the Republican ticket, as the
Republican backers of Eisenhower in
Congress somberly agree. This has been
another major victory for Taft, for the
obvious reason that Eisenhower has been
the chief obstacle to Taft's nomination.
It is true that a new obstacle has been
erected, at least by Col. Robert McCormick
of the Chicago "Daily Tribune." It would
be interesting to know Taft's private reac-
tion to McCormick's suggestion that Taft
should take second place on a ticket head-
ed by Gen.' MacArthur. But in fact, it is
hardly conceivable that the Republicans,
should nominate a man who would be al-
most seventy-seven years old at the end of
his first term.
Thus the MacArthur crisis would seem at
first glance to be a tremendous bonanza for
Sen. Taft. But it may not work out this way
in the end. Much depends on how Gen.
MacArthur, who has not been accustomed
to answering searching questions, answers
the very searching questions which embat-
tled Democrats on the Russell committee are
steeling themselves to ask him. Much de-
pends also on what Marshall and Bradley-
who are by no means without a public fol-
lowing-have to say to the committee. Ad-
vance hints from the Pentagon indicate
that they will be, not bitter, but outspoken.
Finally, a great deal depends on wheth-
er Gen. Eisenhower is called home to tes-
tify. The chances seem a good deal better
than even that this will happen at some
point during "the greater debate."
Eisenhower is of course too sensible to
attack Gen. MacArthur or even to criti-
cize openly the course MacArthur advocates.
But his mere presence would underline the
greatest weakness in that course. It may
seem nonsense to label "isolationist" a po-
licy which calls for "a 'more aggressive war
against China." Yet the adjective is ac-
curate in the sense that this course would
isolate us from all our major allies. Thus
MacArthur (who never mentioned our Eu-
ropean allies in his speech) stands for the
idea that allies are not essential, which is
certainly one reason why he is acclaimed by
Taft and all the former isolationsts.
* * *
THE POLITICAL strength of the MacAr-
thur-Taft program derives from the
fact that everyone wants to end the Korean
war, by winning it. But its weakness is that
no one wants to end the Korean war by
starting a much bigger one, which we should
have to fight alone if only because our allies
are not yet prepared to defend themselves.
Eisenhower, whose great mission is to
help prepare our allies to defend 'them-
selves, is the very symbol of the idea that
this country's allies in Western Europe
are vital to our existence. Eisenhower's
return to testify would serve us as a very
powerful reminder of the weakness in the
cnrn nronoed by MacArthur and em-
CURRENT MOVIES
A t The Michigan'.
MAD WEDNESDAY, with Harold Lloyd.
IT IS A sad duty to report that the ve-
hicle in which the idol of silent screen
comedy has chosen to make his comeback is
a far from entertaining picture. Indifferent-
ly conceived, poorly paced, and heartlessly
mangled in the cutting rooms,it leaves scant
encouragement that Lloyd is ready to as-
sume the high station he surrendered those
many arid years ago.
The fault is probably RKO's and writer-
director Preston Sturges's more than it is
Lloyd's. The script furnished him has bril-
liant moments, but they are never more
than moments, and there is no clear reason
why the events must appear in the order
that they do. It is even possible that the
climactic slapstick scene with the lion on
the building ledge was originally intended
to appear earlier in the picture. This is only
a guess, but would account in some measure
for the bad lack of balance of the final pro-
duct.
What Lloyd tries to do here is carry the
character he had established in "The
Freshman" through a 23 year hibernation
as an office clerk to one "Mad Wednes-
day" when he rediscovers something of
the glory of the day when he scored the
winning touchdown back in college. The
final scenes of "The Freshman" are used
to introduce the character, and certainly
help to begin the current effort with a
promising vigor.
The unhappy result proves, however, that
no one concerned with the current venture
is up to the task. Mi;. Lloyd begins to lose
his character around the second reel when
he takes one fatal drink, and from then ci
in, there is chaos. No believable situation
or character is afterwards introduced, and
even the erstwhile girlfriend, as played by
Frances Ramsden, turns out to be such a
dud that her presence becomes annoying. It
is said that the tardy release of the picture
necessitated cutting the part because Miss
Ramsden's gowns were "out of fashion."
Perhaps tying his wagon to Howard Hugh-
es's star was Mr. Lloyd's first mistake. It is
to be hoped that he is not afraid to try
again. His talent is too rare to hide it per-
manently under a Shriner's fez.
-Bill Wiegand
Seasonal Demon
AN INSIDIOUS demon has been lurking
the streets lately, a bold, bright, red hot
apparition which hits almost all of us with-
out discrimination, sapping our academic
energies and turning the rooms of the li-
braries in-side-out.
Masquerading as a friend it draws us ir-
resistably to it, tempts us to unscholarly ac-
tivities, fills the arb and brings the canoes
WASHINGTON-Locked in the files of the House Foreign Affairs f
W Committee is some dynamite-laden evidence by a former adviser
to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, which would be of great interest b
in the MacArthur-Truman debate if it were made public. r
Secret testimony was given on April 6, 1949, before the Foreign 5
Affairs Committee by Maj. Gen. David G. Barr, former military ad- e
viser to Chiang. At that time Barr testified,, among other things, that e
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Chiang's staff officers were incompetent, lazy, derelict and in some N
cases downright dishonest. He described the surrender of some Man-t
if
churian cities to the Communists by Chiang's generals as so suspicious i
as to raise possible doubts of a sell-out to the enemy. In some cases,
Chiang's staff officers were not even present when the troops undert
t
them surrendered.-
General Barr also told how great quantities of Americane
equipment which we supplied the Nationalists forces fell into I
Communist hands, and in turn made the Red conquest of Chinaa
much easier and quicker.
In one case a big Allied supply base at Chinchow was left vir-
tually and mysteriously undefended. Considering the amount of Am-
erican equipment stored there, the actions of the Nationalist Chin-
ese had all the earmarks of a sellout to the Communists who shortly'
thereafter captured it. It was not long before all Manchuria fell to
the Communists.
General Barr testified that he believed Chiang himself was hon-v
est, but that his troops, lacking leadership, long ago had lost the wille
to fight. For a while the war against the Communists on the Chineses
mainland simply depended upon how rapidly Mao Tse-Tung's mend
wanted to travel.
For reasons best known to himself, John Kee of the House For-d
eign Affairs committee has been sitting on this testimony for twor
years. k
NOTE-Another witness who could shed great light on Chiangs
Kai-Shek's fighting qualities and his real feeling toward the UnitedE
States is Col. James McHugh, retired Marine Corps officer. McHughk
was aide to Chiang Kai-Shek during the war, speaks Chinese, and is2
or of the few Americans who have written a textbook in the Chi-
nese language. Experts such as Colonel McHugh and General Barr,
who have lived in China and know Chiang Kai-Shek intimately, should
be called as witnesses before the Armed Services Committee.-
* ** *
-TAFT AND MAC ARTHUR-t
FRIENDS OF Senator Taft report that the Senator's visit with Gen-I
eral MacArthur at the Waldorf Tower, New York, netted only twoI
things-Taft's firm conviction that MacArthur meant what he said
about keeping out of politics, and second, that the General could out-I
talk the rather loquacious Senator from Ohio.
Taft went to see MacArthur to find out discreetly whether theI
General had any political intentions; and second, if not, to lay some
diplomatic groundwork so that the General might later get on the4
Taft bandwagon.
MacArthur was cordial, but politically negative. He gave Taft'
a shortened version of his congressional speech, quoting it in sucha
verbatim detail that it almost seemed as if he had memorized it.
Taft, who is no mean talker himself, could hardly get a word in
edgewise.
Ta'ft's friends say that he did not tell the General that he, the
Senator, was a candidate for the presidency though he did hint that
the Republicans were most grateful to MacArthur for what he had
done and that they would certainly want him to be a leading defense
planner if they won in 1952.
However, MacArthur was noticeably cool toward every political
overture and in effect repeated his ambition to "fade away.''
-HISTORY REPEATS-
HERBERT HOOVER, who has been the chief confidante of General
MacArthur during the present big debate, paradoxically was on
the other end of a somewhat similar situation when he was President
of the United States.
Hoover made the mistake of ordering the court-martial of Maj.
Gen. Smedley D. Butler, a popular 'Marine Corps figure, after Butler
had stated in a lecture that Benito Mussolini, then Dictator of Italy,
had run over a child with his car but failed to stop. General Butler's
court-martial was ordered after Italian Ambassador Di Martino had
protested officially.
But immediately there arose a tremendous outcry from the Am-
erican press and public, and for weeks Hoover was the butt of possibly
more scathing criticism than Harry Truman.
The situation was somewhat comparable to the present Mac-
Arthur debate in that the Admirals did not like General Butler any
more than some of the leaders in the Pentagon love General Mac-
Arthur.
It was also significant that Hoover's popularity at that time had
sunk to an extremely low ebb, comparable to that of Truman's today.
In the end, Hoover did what Harry Truman has not done. He ab-
jectly surrendered and called off General Butler's court-martial.
(Copyright, 1951, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
and reasons behind SL decisions
before writing editorials on such
issues.
-Leah Marks
(Editor's Note-The 1947 SAC mo-
tion did not establish a regulation,
but merelyreaffirmed the existing
but unwritten policy. It is policy,
not the SAC's decision to maintain
it, to which Miss Hendleman re-
ferred.)
The Chief
YOU ARE underrating the Pres-
ident. I grant that he lacks
higher education and his manners
are not in accord with European
conceptions of the dignity of a
chief magistrate. He is a well-
developed child of nature and is
not skilled in polite phrases and
poses. But he is a man of pro-
found feeling, correct and firm
principles and incorruptible hon-
esty. His motives are unquestion-
able, and he possesses to a re-
markable degree the characteris-
tic God-given trait of this people,
sound common sense.
-Carl Schurz 1864
He whose honour depends on
the opinion of the mob must day
by day strive with 'the greatest
anxiety, act, and scheme in order
to retain his reputation. Forrthe
mob is varied and inconstant, and
therefore if a reputation is not
carefully preserved it dies quickly.
--Spinoza
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Fri., May 4, 8:30 p.m., First Presbyterias
Church.
University Museums:
Fri.; May 4, the University .useums
Program will travel to the far north,
in the first of four Travel Evenings in
May. Two movies in Kellogg Auditor-
ium, 7:30 p.m.: "Iceland, Land of the
Vikings," and "Alaska, the story of a
Frontier." Eskimo exhibit, 4th floor,
Museums Bldg.
International Radio Roundtable: aus-
pices of International Center and
WUOM. Discussions every Friday, 7:30
p.m., WUOM. Transcribed on WHRV
on Tuesday, 10 p.m. Subjects for dis-
cussion: American Literature, May 4.
Peace Through Co-operation, Mays 11.
Students interested in participating in
the programs may contact Hiru Shah,
Moderator, 8598.
Hostel Club: Sports and swimming
at I-M Bldg., Friday night.
Hostel Club
Sunday Morning Horseback Ride.
Meet at League at 9 a.m., Sun., May 6,
to bike to Glencoe Stables. Beginners
given instruction.
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Campus Queens
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To the Editor:
A LTHOUGH Miss Hendleman
has valid objections to the
wording of the campus queen ref-
erendum, the full value of having
such referendums should not be
discounted.
During the Student Legislature
discussion of this issue, some
members of SL claimed that the
body did not adequately express
student opinion as would be prov-
ed by a referendum. These mem-
bers said the campus would, in
overwhelming m a j o r i t y vote
against the prohibition on campus
queens and kings.
This referendum on which the
students split (just as SL did)
turned out to be a type of vote of
confidence since the vote says
that Student Legislature does ex-
press student opinion.
In my mind the chief value of
referendum is that they have al-
ways and I hope will always show
that SL is capp-ble of adequately
expressing studkwt opinion. SL is
representative of the student body.
As for certain points in the re-
cent editorial, I believe the editor-
ial could have been more factually
supported. An error was made
when it was stated that there is no
rule on the books against campus
queens.
The ruling was passed on March
10, 1947, and said that "the SAC
reaffirms its policy of long stand-
ing in denying permission to elect
campus queens and kings. By re-
affirming this policy in writing,
the SAC placed a ruling against
such elections on the books.
Miss Hendleman would say that
the count cannot be trusted and in
no way can be construed as back-
ing.for the SL claims that it speaks
student opinion. I can only say
that the wording should have been
simpler and more directly to the
point. However, I am sure that
anyone on a college level who read
the question (as any intellient vo-
ter does) had no difficulty in un-
derstanding it.
SL was interested in finding out
whether the students wanted the
ruling to remain on the books
That is what we wanted to know
and that is what we asked. Mis-
takes in voting probably balanced
out.
So I would say that the count
on the campus queen referendur
is quite valid and referendums
themselves are extremely valuable
for the improvement in stature of
the SL as a body that speaks for
the students and as a deservec
slap if it is not doing so.
Yours for finding out the icts
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The Game of Love and Chance, by Mari-
vuax. Presented by Le Cercle Francais. At
Lydia Mendelssohn.
THE PERFORMANCE, in French, got off
to a slow start with the actors tense and
afraid of their audience, and it was not un-
til the end of the first act that they picked
up and started the action moving. The sec-
ond and third acts went fairly well except in
places where the dialogue lagged. The play
involved the problems of a wealthy suitor
who has not yet met his prospective bride,
and of the prospective bride who is doubtful
about having her husband picked for her.
Arthur Hansen gave an exceptional por-
trayal of Durante the suitor. He played the
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