THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1951
'GE FOUR
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS marked the
sixth anniversary of the United Nations
yesterday by calling for a re-evaluation of
the world organization. The editors have de-
cided that the UN has "failed to ease the
cold war, failed'to check the spread of Com-
munism in Asia, succeeded in alienating the
Arab countries from the West, fallen short
as a means of collective security, been used
by unscrupulous governments as a diplo-
matic medium for intrigue" and above all
been unable "to enforce its judgements and
uphold the ideals of its charter."
Editorial writers for the Detroit paper
even fear that "if we are not eternally
on guard, the UN Charter can be used to
supercede our own Constitution and set
aside the constitutions and laws of the
several states."
Not only does this editorial completely
fail to grasp the meaning and purpose of
the United Nations, but represents an iso-
lationist view that endangers both the UN
and this country.
To thFree Press, the only purpose of the
UN seems to be a building of collective se-
curity against aggression. The States De-
partment in its publication "The United
Nations Today" cites this as one reason for
the existence of the UN. But it also includes
the providing of machinery for adjusting
differences between nations, and, more im-
portant, building the conditions that will
favoi peaceful and friendly relations among
people.
Surely the UN is succeeding in this
last. Its many specialized agencies-the
International Refugee, the Food and Ag-
riculture, the World Health, the Interna-
tional Labor organizations-the Interna-
tional Bank for Reconstruction' and De-
'velopment, as well as many more are all
functioning successfully, if obscurely. It
is these, groups that are building the core
of international understanding and co-
operation for which the UN was establish-
ed. One has only to meet with UN repre-
sentatives to be inspired with this spirit of
successful one-worldness that the UN cre-
ates. These people believe in UN, and are
making it work.
Apparently the Free Press editorialists
have never met any sincere UN representa-
tives. For in its editorial, it has expressed
the nationalistic doctrine that can condemn
the UN to the same fate as the League of
Nations. To the Free Press the UN should
be stopping the spread of Communism. Yet
was this the aim of the UN? Is it the fault
of the UN that the West and East are split,
or is it the fault of our own diplomatic poli-
cies?
The Free Press fears for the Constitu-
tion. it fears that the UN treaty will af-
feet our domestic relations. "This never
entered the heads of the framers of the
Constitution." Of course many of the
changes in the running of our government
--now in effect-never entered their heads
either. This nationalistic view coupled
with the idea that the UN Is an instru-
ment for furthering our own policies is
what could mean the end of the world
organization.
The UN, if completely successful, means
a new international set-up, new way of liv-
ing. Instead of calling for a judgement of the
UN in terms of the old world, the Free Press
and its suppoorters would do well to start
living in the present and thinking in the
future -Vernon Emerson
CURRENT MOVIES]
At The Michigan..
"MR. IMPERIUM," with Lana Turner
and Ezio Pinza in beautiful but numb
technicolor.
THIS MOVIE almost didn't make it. MGM
held up its release until a second movie
with Ezio Pinza had received the acclaim
befitting the South Pacific star. Then they
released Mr. Imperium even when the sec-
ond picture didn't get the expected ovation.,
. they might just as well have not.
Placing their hopes for success on the
fame that left the "South Pacific" mati-
nees crowd swooning over' middle-aged
Pinza, Hollywood failed to offer anything
else.
This is the story of a Texan, Fredricka
Brown, clean, wholesome, chicken sandwich
and milk type girl, wise to the line of a
foreign Prince of somewhat ancient vintage,
but falling for it anyway.
For some obscure reason she dislikes the
idea of Mr. Imperium's ever becoming a
king although she seems American in every
other respect.
At a climactic moment, Prince's royal
poppa succumbs and Pinza leaves to take
over the throne, leaving wide-eyed Miss
Turner in the lurch.
Twelve years later finds an older and
wiser Fredricka Brown now Fredda Barlo,
Hollywood star and King Pinza now just
plain Al Imperium, running around in a
cowboy suit, pushed off the throne by
revolution.
The two get together at an intimate resort
run' by a somewhat naive Marjorie Main,
General Surplus
State Of Election Emergency
AS THE burgeoning of army-navy stores
throughout the land in 1946 and 1947
testified, war creates a welter of surpluses
and' as many problems of what to do with
them. Not the least of these is the problem
of surplus generals.
A general is a delicate item in the com-
misary of war. Inculcated with specialized
training and an overbearing sense of his
eliteness, he is not easily malleable to
peacetime usage. Hence, generals are not
nearly so disposable as, say, cartridge
cases or bivouac equipment.
This is not to infer that the West Point
product is not so useful as a shell casing--
he just does not make as good a lamp base
or ash tray.
He can take charge of an occupation-but
there are jut so many occupations after
every war, two in this case. He can com-
mand a police action-but there , are just so
many of these, also-only one, at the mo-
ment. He can be retired to San Antonio or
Fort Worth- there, to live out his days in
polo and parade reviewing-but most gen-
Pep Rallies
MONEY TO FINANCE football pep rallies
is now being sought by members of a
new pep rally committee.
Under a novel plan, finances will be
provided by student donations and pro-
ceeds from a Cinema Guild movie. The re-
quired amount for this fall's Friday night
doings is $350.
Whether or not it can be mustered up
under the adopted system is irrelevant. The
question lies in the appropriateness of the
monetary sources.
The number of Cinema Guild movie-
goers in attendance at pep rallies is un-
doubtedly low. Furthermore, it seems
rather ridiculous that students should vol-
untarily support a University tradition
which is supposed to be beneficial to a
small athletic population.
Most logically, the Athletic Department
should reach into its massive pocket and
pull out the necessary financial support for
its boys. A department which has such a
comprehensive interest in football players,
including eligibility, tickets for games and
what they wear on their sweaters, should
certainly feel some obligation to supply them
with the morale-building ritual.
-Barnes Connable
Narcotic Plait
NEW YORK'S Thomas E. Dewey has come
up with some remarkably progressive
ideas designed to stem the flourishing nar-
cotics racket in that state.
The Dewey Administration plans to auth-
orize a system of grants-n-aid to hospitals
and clinics with the explicit purpose of pro-
viding adequate treatment for habitual ad-
'licts.
Moreover, with state financial backing,
additional hospital facilities will be built
toprovide medical and psychological care
for anyone coming under the influence of
the drugs.
Another reform New York is planning is
to tighten its hold on the state's narcotic
supply." Finally, Dewey proposes that the
prison terms for peddlers and any other per-
sons handling narcotics illegally be in-
creased.
Actually, Dewey's'reform program is noth-
ing more than another feather in his crime-
busting hat. Michigan's State Legislature
would do well to consider the New York Plan
with some close attention.
-Cal Samra
erals would reserve this course only for their
extremely declining years.
Which, to besure, leaves us in a pretty
pass, what with all the spare geperals we
have after the second world war.
However, President Truman, an ex-cap-
tain, but nonetheless sensitive and respon-
sive to the feelings of higher-ranking-of-
ficers, seems to have hit upon an unfor-
tunate means of disposing of the surplus
warriors.
The four-and-five-starred soldiers have
been diverted to the cabinet, the diplomatic
service and almost every other nook and
cranny and strategic sinecure in these Uni-
ted States.
Thus, in violation of a principle which has
been predominant ever since our early years
we have seen a general named secretary of
state and secretary of defense, a general and
then an admiral accredited as ambassador
to the Soviet Union, a general put in charge
of civilian defense, an admiral heading a
loyalty board, and now a general nominated
as this country's first ambassador to the
Vatican.
Some of these appointments are open to
criticism on the ground that the men in-
volved were manifestly unqualified for the
post-others have no such vulnerability.
But all may be excoriated on a common
basis in that they are links in a tighten-
ing chain of military uniformity which
is strangling this government.
Nevertheless, with the influx of military
men into the civilian posts of government it
is almost inescapable that the military men-
tality, too, should take hold.
And this is happening. Press-gags, over-
abundant security regulations and a budget
policy which lobs our productive might out
to sea in the form of sixteen-inch shells, are
all part of it.
The infiltration of the generals into ci-
vilian government is not the arch-villain
to the perilous times but a contributory
accomplice. As an evil which seems to most
Americans unpatriotic or unwise to attack,
it is doubly dangerous.
Nevertheless, faced with a choice between
these United States, imperfect as they are,
and an "Arsenal America" run by the mili-
tary, it behooves us to find some other ave-
nue in which to divert our surplus generals.
-Zander Hollander
Taft/Club
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of a Lawyers for
Taft Club forming on campus has some
interesting implications. In the first place,
it shows that conservative student interest
is rallying and willing to work for a candi-
date who expresses and stands for con-
structive conservatism in the Republican
Party.
Secondly, it gives a hint as to the pos-
sible strategy of the Taft campaign; a
strategy based perhaps on professional
and group interests that are concerned
with keeping the country safe from social-
istic influences.
Another encouraging sign of Republican
plans is their strategy of building up the
party to a greater extent in the South and
working to capture the interests and votes
of some of the minority elements. This shows
that the Party is recognizing the truth that
they cannot win without support in the ma-
jor cities and cannot root out the Democrats
from leading congressional positions until
they set a few political fires down South.
All of this points to a re-vitalized Re-
publican Party which is going to be a stiff
contender to any Democratic slate, no
matter who the Republicans choose them-
selves.
If the Republicans spend enough time on
organization and develop an effective party
appeal, they can win with either a conser-
vative or a liberal.
-Harry Lunir
ON THE
Washington Merry-Go-Roumd
with DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON-A vitally important argument over European de-
pLfense strategy is keeping the tele-cons busy between Washing-
ton, London, and General Eisenhower's Atlantic Pact Headquarters in
Paris.
The debate started when Eisenhower suggested a way to take
the offensive in the psychological war with the Kremlin-namely,
recruit military-age refugees from behind the Iron Curtain into a
volunteer legion.
Eisenhower believes that up to 100,000 men-three to five divi-
sions-could be recruited from Russian, Czech, Polish, Baltic and
Balkan escapees. Most of these men left Iron Curtain countries be-
cause they hate Communism, and Eisenhower believes the existence
of such a legion would be further inducement for Oominform troops
to desert.
He received a dash of cold water, however, from London and
Washington. The British, who support refugee committees of their
own, are opposed to a large fighting force independent of the For-
eign Office; and the foreign legion Ike proposes would be equipped,
armed, and trained largely by the United States.
Another objection is that the refugees' fanatic hatred could
not be controlled and might erupt into war as soon as rifles are
issued. At one conference, the British representative frankly
stated: "We fought one war to liberate Eastern Europe, and our
cities were bombed out for it. We are not anxious to start another
war."
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, was also skepti-
cal when he conferred with Eisenhower recently. He said the Joint
Chiefs of Staff have no faith in troops under refugee command, and
pointed out that escapees can volunteer in the American army.
Eisenhower replied that very few escapees have enlisted, and for
a very simple reason: they don't want to be integrated among strange
American troops. But-if organized into their own foreign legion they
would like to get a crack at the Communists in control of their coun-
tries.
-SENATE PROBE OF ESCAPEES-
MEANWHILE, A GROUP of farsighted senators has introduced a
resolution proposing a Senate investigation of escapees in West-
ern Europe. Behind this is the fact that both American and Allied
officials in Europe have so badly muffed handling these escapees that
some want to go back behind the Iron Curtain. Russian escapees are
handed back and forth between U.S. Counter Intelligence, Central
Intelligence, and Military Inteligence, then either turned loose to find
a job on the Germany economy or allowed to go to seed in refugee
camps.
-CROP SECRETS-
IN HEADLINE-CRAZY WASHINGTON, the issuance of a monthly
crop report by the Department of Agriculture may seem mere rou-
tine news. However, newsmen reporting on future crops are treated to
a spectacle of mystery and suspense that rivals the launching of a
new Atomic weapon.
The ceremony, believe it or not, is climaxed by Secretary of
Agriculture Charles Brannan getting locked up in his own depart-
ment.
All this is because back in 1905 a report on the estimated cotton
crop leaked prematurely and speculators made a big killing. Since
then the epartment has devised an ironclad "security system" to make
sure it doesn't happen again.
The night before general crop estimates (on wheat, corn, cotton,
etc.) are to be released, field reports from farm states are secreted
in a box, reinforced with two locks, in the main Agriculture building.
At 5 a.m. the next day, the box is removed, under an armed guard, to
a. corridor-on the second floor of the adjacent South building.
Here the whole corridor is locked off, with armed guards at
each end. Nobody can get in without a special pass and, once in,
there's no getting out until the 3 p.m. deadline for releasing the
crop repoort.
To make sure there is no communication with the outside world
in this, agricultural "Shangri-la," all telephones are disconnected.
Guards even lower and latch the venetian blinds in the large room
where the crop estimates are prepared, so there will be no signaling
from windows. (This was how the 1905 "leak" occurred.)
At noontime, lunch is wheeled in for members of the crop report-
ing board and their aides, but not even the food bearers can get out-
once they're in-until 3 o'clock. Secretary Brannan, who usually ar-
rives about 2 o'clock to read and sign the finished report, also must
sit it out, a prisoner in the department he rules.
Just before the deadline, copies of the report are taken to a
special press room and placed on a table near a battery of tele-
phones. Across the room, reporters fidget behind a white line
painted on the floor, like trackmen toeing the starting mark.
Not until S.:R. Newell, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Economics, yells "Go!" on the stroke of 3 p.m. can the newsme
cross the line and phone in their stories. Then Secretary Brannan, a
free man again, returns to his office.
(Copyright, 1951, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
DORIS FLEESON:
On Ministers & Nuncios
WASHINGTON-President Truman lunched at the Capitol with
Senate and House leaders of both parties 48 hours after his sur-
prise appointment Saturday of Gen. Mark Clark as Ambassador to
Vatican State. A polite time was had by all. The Vatican was not men-
tioned nor were any of the other controversial issues that increasingly
divide the President from his former colleagues.
The battle lines are being drawn, however, and doubt is ex-
pressed that, whatever the outcome on principle, General Clark
will become a Vatican envoy. General Clark has shown no inten-
tion of retiring from the Army. A few years ago when the Presi-
dent wanted to make a brilliant officer, Lieut. Gen. Laurence S.
Kuter, head of the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Senate Military
Affairs Committee indignantly rejected a Truman request that
the General be allowed to retain full service status in a civilian
post. General Kuter chose the Army.
Opponents of the Clark nomination are turning to this precedent.
The White House has already said the President would not jump the
gun with a recess appointment.
General Clark is understood by armed services committee members
to aspire to the post of Chief of Staff of the Army. Retirement would
end that, of course.
Discussion is turning also to the sending here by the Vatican of a
Papal Nuncio in exchange for an American Ambassador. Early dis-
patches assumed that the Pope would respond promptly with a Papal
Nuncio which is the Vatican's equivalent of an Ambassador.
Diplomatic circles raised the question of his probable status,
pointing out that a Papal Nuncio automatically becomes the Dean
of the diplomatic corps in any country to which he is assigned.
Catholic authorities here said this was true. They described it as
a matter of custom going back to pre-reformation days when the Ro-
man Catholic Church's authority was not questioned by Christians.
These authorities said also that if and when an American Am-
bassador to Vatican State is approved, they would expect the Aposto-
lic Delegate, who now represents the Roman Church here in religious
matters, automatically to become Nuncio. They suggested that the
question of his automatic elevation to Dean of the diplomatic corps
was secondary and incidental and was up to the diplomats of the
corps to decide.
A comparison to England, like America a Protestant country, was
suggested by the same authorities. England ha long had Vatican re-
presentation.
British diplomats said the comparison between their situation
and what apparently is contemplated by President Truman didn't
quite hold. The Court of St. James sends a minister, not an ambas-
sador, to Vatican State and Vatican State is represented in Lon-
don by an Apostolic Delegate.
They agreed that a Papal Nuncio does become automatically
Dean of the Diplomatic corps wherever assigned. Their understanding
is, however, that a Papal Nuncio is never appointed except to a coun-
try which has negotiated a Concordat with the Vatican. Their im-
pression is that only Catholic countries do thi
President Truman has not done it-at least, so far as the country
knows.
A State Department spokesman, who ought to know,' said that the
matter of a Papal Nuncio had not been brought up in the current ne-
gotiations, and no name of one had been cleared by State and the
White House. It would appear that this spokesman was aware that 4
Concordat would be a necessary preliminary.
This raises the question of why the President did not, follow the
London pattern of trading a minister for an Apostolic Delegate in-
stead of desiring to name an ambassador.
Precedents in"these matters, all extremely important to dip-
lomats, go back to the Congress of Vienna. They are taken very
seriously-and so is the post of Dean of the corps. In Washington
the Dean of the corps is established by the seniority system in vo-
gue in Congress, the ambassador with the longest service being
Dean. Currently that is the Norwegian ambassador.
His potential successor-possibly, that i, before Truman 'got
busy over the weekend-is the Nicaraguan Ambassador.
(Copyright, 1951, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Dispersal in' Malaya
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TO THE EDITOR
The Daily welcomes communica-
tions frong its readers on matters of
general interest, and will publish all
letters which are signed by the writer
and In good taste. Letters exceeding
300 words in length, defamatory or
libelous letters, and letters which for
any reason are not in good taste will
be condensed, edited or withheld from
publication at the discretion of the
editors.
Directory Omission ..*.
To the Editor:
AFTER PURCHASING the Stu-
dent Directory for the year
1951, I not only paid the retail
price of one dollar, which I will
make sure is deducted from my
income tax, but even went to the
extent of drumming up sales for
this complete (????) book. While
thumming through the hundreds
of pages I couldn't help to stop at
G. Shock!!! my name wasn't there.
After spending a few minutes of
cogitation over this catastrophe,
I looked again. The only conclu-
sion I could come to was that it
was, by no fault of mine, omitted.
I've paid my tuition, my residence
fee, which they willingly accepted,
and I have been participating in
four major subjects. The fault
then must lie with the publishers
or editors of this one and only di-
rectory.
In the future you would be much.
better off if you not only checked
but re-checked all the names and
spellings of the students who at-
tend "Ole Mich."
-Carole June Grutman
3015 Stockwell
By J.M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press News Analyst.
BRITAIN IS NOW hopeful that her cam-
paign for containment of the Commun-
ist guerrillas in Malaya will prove successful
within a year.
But she has been forced to adopt a very
tough program to get started on the road
where large army contingents have failed.
She is now conducting a resettlement and
land "sterilization" project which involves
forceful removal, if necessary, of residents
of areas near the jungle who, because of
either sympathy or terror, have been aiding
the Communists.
Many of these people were among those
who fled the cities of Malaya during the
Japanese occupation, preferring to eke out
a living on the land of outlying areas. Their
farms, scattered beyond the limits of police
protection, have been the prey and the sup-
port of the Communist bands who issue in-
termittently from the jungles in raiding
parties to keep the economy of Malaya up-
set. Not a few of the squatters, in a land
where people seek any sort of change from
their squalid economic condition, have been
Morley, now in the United States on a
lecture tour, insists, however, that in the
long run the resettled people will be better
off. School and health projects are being
pushed, within the limits of the govern-
ment's ability, and if the campaign does pro-
duce containment of the Communists, eco-
nomic conditions will be generally better for
all of the 2,000,000 Malayans, 2,000,000 Chi-
nese and 1,000,000 Indians who comprise the
population,
The effect of the deportation of these
peoples is not to create a continuous steri-
lized zone along the edges of the jungle
which the Communist raiders must cross.
In many places the rubber plantations and
tin mining settlements run right up to the
edge of the jungle. But in them the Com-
munists have to fight for what they get.
The resettlement program bars them from
access to food and other supplies.
The program was developed when it be-
came apparent that troops were not the ans-
wer to the problem.
C. BE FIRM, even to be tough, does not
mean to be dictatorial; we must always
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