PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1951 The Nebulous Parties , "ike !" BOOKS SENATOR TAFT'S recent declaration of candidacy for the Republican nomina- tion for President has set the wheels in mo- tion, and the usual political hoopla involved in the run for the White House will soon reach its height. The Republicans look as uncertain as ever. The Democrats are beset by big and little scandals, and they haven't found a candi- date other than Mr. Truman who could keep the divided vote together. What does the choice leave the voter? To an independent voter, one who is interested in a constructive platform no matter which party builds it, the 1952 election is a pretty depressing prospect. The Republican party has shown itself to be alive and kicking when it comes to flay- ing Mr. Truman, Mr. Acheson, Mr. Boyle, and anyone else who has made a few mistakes and bears the title Democrat. But the Grand Old Party has not, come up with a Grand Old Platform. Just where does it stand on foreign po- licy, the probable 'big issue' in next year's campaign? You can listen to Senator Taft, and he will say: "I go along with the administration, but not all the way. Aid to Europe, but not troops for Europe. Save Chiang Kai-Shek, but not at the cost of fomenting a death struggle in the Orient." Or you can listen to Mr. Hoover, and he will say: "We can help our friends, but in the ultimate we must retire into this im- pregnable fortress America and wait out the storms." Or the old General, whose political inten- tions are still misty: "The Far East is our great interest, and we must at all costs save the Far East, even though it may mean full warfare with the Chinese." Or you can listen to the liberal wing of the party, still a minor force, and in the person of such a man as Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.: "We must carry the policy of containment to its legitimate end. We must make friends in Europe, and our foreign policy must be clear and consistent." And from this a voter is supposed to know what he's voting for. The Democrats, however, are not much better off in the field. Dean Acheson has done an excellent job on technical grounds, but the objectives of the Department of State have been ambivalent and hazy in the last five years. The containment policy is the one great and lasting achievement of Mr. Truman's administration. But the incumbent party has shown itself to be wavering on Far Eastern policy. Even such a pronounced action as the Korean de- fense was actually inconsistent with an Acheson declaration of February, 1950. And the question of the Nationalist Chinese is still left hanging, with no positive course in prospect. It seems evident that the party which can present to the public a foreign policy program of sufficient clarity and appeal will be the winning one in 1952. The Re- publican party, if its old guard leaders can be reconciled to allowing such liberals as Lodge and Stassen a voice in policy, could end the drought it has suffered po- litically for twenty years. Which would be a good thing for the coun- try, on the grounds that a new view, though not necessarily a better view, is usually more vigorous and more productive of positive results. -George Flint LIFEMANSHIP, or The Art of Getting Away With It Without Being An Abso- lute Plonk, by Stephen Potter. BREAKING ITS WAY through the deluge of scholarly works and sound research is Stephen Potter's thesis on "Intimidation by Conversation," f i r s t introduced in his "Gamesmanship," now expanded to cope with the problems of everyday life. In a hilariously funny satire on accept- ed social behavior and scholarly presenta- tions in general, Stephen Potter offers the sophomoric individual a guide to "being one up on the experts." "How to be one up-how to make the oth- er man feel that something has gone wrong, without being a cad, but rather, making the other guy feel like a cad" is the goal of the Lifeman, according to Potter. Potter has compiled the most successful "gambits, ploys, attacks and counter-at- tacks" of such great Lifemen as Harry Gatt- ling-Fenn, G. Cogg-Willougby and Odoreida. "There is no finer spectacle, Potter says, than the Lifeman, so ignorant that he can scarcely spell the simplest word, making an expert look like a fool in his own subject or at any rate breaking the upness of a man who has really been to Russia, has actually read history at Oxford or has written a book or something. He offers a six word Block for interrupting the expert in his steady flow. EXPERT (just back from a fortnight in Florence): And I was glad to see with my own eyes that this Left-wing Catholicism is definitely on the increase in Tuscany. LIFEMAN: Yes, but not in the South. These six words, according to Potter, will suffice in almost any situation. To give add- ed effect the Lifeman should produce a map of the area in question with the southern portion shaded. Potter informs his aspirants that these are available in small packets con- taining areas selected at random and should be carried at all times. Potter points out that the true Lifeman can say anything no matter how obvious as long as he does so in a "plonking" voice -roundly, hollowly, dogmatically. This tone of voice will imply that he has approached his conclusion the hard way, through a long apprenticeship of study, when actually the only study involved is the read- ing of this enjoyable guidebook with dia- grams and freehand drawings of railroad tracks. These illustrations serve to supplement the lists of O.K. words, O.K. authors, and sug- gested conduct for success in weekendman- ship, Telephone management, Newstatesman- ship and Damned-good-journalist play, and Notes on Contemporary Woomanship includ- ing Being One Thing or the Other, or alter- natively, Being One Thing and Then the Other. -Gayle Greene -y I ' \ f [DAILY OFF"ICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) sociation of University Professors will - --- ---- -meet at 8 p.m., Rackham Ampitheater. may be taking Junior Management As- Speaker: President Harlan B. Hatcher. sistant and Junior Professional Assist- ant examinations. Union Weekly Bridge Tournament. Tuesday, November 6, representatives Union Ballroom, beginning at 7:15 p.m. of the Detroit Arsenal, Center Line, Beginners are encouraged to attend. Michigan, and the Detroit Ordnance winners wil receive two weeks' free District, Detroit, Michigan, will be here admission and runners up one week to interview Junior Engineers. free. Coeds must sign out with their Tuesday, Noy ember 6. a representative House Mothers. of the Canada. Life Assurance Company, of Jackson, Michigan, will be interview- Dance Clubs Seminar. Modern and ing February graduates of Business Ad- Ballet will meet in Barbour Gym, 7:30 ministration for life insurance selling p.m., Slides shown on dance from the leading to possible Branch Supervision Fine Arts Dept. Everyone welcome. work or Management, or possible Head Office Appointments. Chaplain's Weekly Open House, 702 Tuesday, November 6, and Wednesday, Tappan, 7:30 p.m. November 7, a representative of Merck and Company, Inc.., of Rahway, New Fniern Council. Meeting 7?:15 Jersey, will be interviewing Chemists at p.m. W. Engineering, Annex. All mem- the BS and MS levels for work in re- bers please attend whether notified by search and development, and Chemical mail or not. 'Ensian pictures will be Engineers at the BS, MS, and PhD taken. levels for work in process development, pilot plant, and production operations. Wesleyan Guild: Do-Drop-In for tea Wednesday, November 7, a represen- and talk, 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., in the tative of the Chain Belt Company of lounge. All visitors are welcome. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will be inter- viewing February and June graduates KappaIKappa Psi: Meeting, 9.30 p.m., of Mechanical Engineering, Civil En- Harris Hall. gineering, and Metallurgy. For further information and appoint- MIMES 'Ensign Picture, Room 3-A. ments, contact the Bureau of Appoint- Union. All members to be the-re at ments, 3528 Administration Building. 7:15 p.m. ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round with DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-Even while Princess Elizabeth and her consort are in Washington, U.S. diplomats are appraising the cold realities of the British elections. And they are wondering whether the dynamic, dramatic Mr. Churchill isn't going to be a lot more difficult to work with than drab, pedestrian Clement Attlee. Three weeks before the election, the State Department got an inkling of this in the form of a confidential cable from the Ameri- can Embassy in London that Churchill planned a grandstanding meeting between himself, Stalin and Truman. Since Truman will not go to Europe and Stalin will not come to Washington, such a move would play right into the hands of the Moscow propaganda machine which claims we are the warmongers and won't even discuss peace. Furthermore, State Department officials recall vividly though pleasantly those dramatic days when the beslippered Winston traipsed through the upper halls of the White House, his crimson and gold kimono flapping round his half-naked torso, keeping Harry Hopkins up until 3 a.m., and finally pushing British policy across on the re- luctant Roosevelt in various parts of the'world. Today, American policies have largely become British poli- cies-in Greece, Turkey, Western Europe, Japan and China. But in those days, British policies usually became American policies, thanks to the tireless, persuasive, masterful man in the red and gold kimono, who would not sleep until he had persuaded U.S. leaders to yield. A lot of memories come crowding back to the diplomats who at- tended those meetings. Vivid memories of a vivid personality who do- minated whatever meeting he attended and usually shaped the world the way he wanted it. Here are some of them: CHURCHILL AT CASABLANCA-Here Winston put across two things: the Italian campaign through the "soft underbelly of the Axis," which did not prove to be soft and which many U.S. strategists felt was a mistake; second, a pledge from FDR that the Mediterranean theatre would be British-dominated . .. This meant American com- munications even between our own personnel had to be sent over Bri- tish radio; that all transportation was okayed by the British, that all political decisions were British, that a British general superseded Gen. Mark Clark in Italy . . . It also meant-after the war-that the U.S.A. supplied the tanks, the lend-lease, the UNRRA supplies in Greece, while Churchill fixed policy. CIURCHILL ON GREECE-Shortsighted Churchillian policy in Greece can best be summarized in his own words, a telegram Churchill sent to Gen. Ronald M. Scobie, British commander in. Athens: "Do not hesitate to act as if you were in a conquered city . .. You should not hesitate to open fire on any armed male in the Greek capital who assails the authority of the British ... Keep and dominate Athens." ... British highhandedness in Greece, taken without consulting the U.S.A., finally forced London to dump the entire problem in our lap. We have been both paying the bill and fixing policy since. Before, we merely paid the bill. BRITISH IN EGYPT-The one-sided results of the Churchill- FDR political deal for the Mediterranean were inadvertently summar- ized by U.S. Near Eastern Commander, Gen. Benny Giles, at a press conference in Cairo . . . "Gentlemen," he said, "I have noticed that you have been writing political news. You are war correspondents. You are part of the U.S. army and you will write nothing critical of British policy in the Middle East." CHURCHILL ON CHINA-Meeting with Chiang Kai-shek and FDR in Cairo in 1943, Churchill flatly opposed an Allied campaign over the Burma Road .. . This was what Chiang wanted most. But Church- ill, vetoing it, argued for a campaign to retake Britain's old posses- sions-Singapore and the Malays . .. At this Chiang started to pack up, threatened to go home. To assuage him, FDR proposed the British give up Hong Kong, making it an international port under the United Nations. Churchill's reply: "I did not become Prime Minister to liqui date the British Empire." . . . Chiang returned to China empty-handed, and it was this failure to get political support-not Pro-Communist ad- vice by George Marshall-which really started the downfall of the Na- tionalists. CHURCHILL AT OTTAWA-One of the constant battles between the U.S. milittry and Churchill all during the war was the Far East. General Marshall, then chief of staff, wanted real sup- port for Chiang, not make-believe warfare . . . At Ottawa he was so impatient that there was almost an open break with British Chief of Staff Sir Alan Brooke- - I ,iv ;y MAGAZINES 1 PEERING FROM behind a rather repul- sive cover, the October issue of Garg- oyle is one of the best to be seen in eons. The composite picture on page one, while not as well executed as the MacArthur ad in the last issue, was convulsing enough. The Gargoyle "Spacial for da Frashmans" blossoms forth in the particular type of genius we always suspected lay latent in the Garg office. The lead-off article of the magazine, it dals with the touching story of "Leetle Rad'idink Marx," a "veectom of feelthy kepitaist hexploitation." From there, one progresses to a little gem entitled "That's My Pig-a hammy story by Deen Bacon." This opus will be a source of great delight to them that like puns. To others, however, it will be one elongated groan. Personally, we like it. The "Ann Arbor Expedition" provided a new twist in Garg's running battle with their Generation office-mates. Ostensibly a take-off on Professor Cameron's Near East expedition, it pictures the trials, tri- bulations, hardships and hazards of a group of "scientists" who trekd across the wilds of Ann Arbor. Harry Reed's expose of the General Li- brary provides one of the better features of the book. Although it dragged a bit along about the middle, it comes to a roaring cli. max ending with a typical Gargoylian punch. The two middle pages are devoted to a Halloween cartoon, and signal the emer- gence of one of the finest cartoonists ever to dapple the pages of the Gargoyle. Happily, it steers away from the oh-so-arty rut into which the good gray magazine has slipped, of late. Larry Scott, the author of the cartoon, has. also graced various and sundry other INTERPRETING THE NEWS: India China By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Press News Analyst SARDAR K. M. Panikkar, India's Ambassa- dor to Red China, has returned to New Delhi for a vacation which seems primarily designed to promote India's relations with her Communist neighbors. India, as you know, has refused all along to believe that Red China is so bad as painted in the West. India, as repre- sented by people like Panikkar and Prime Minister Nehru, thinks she can play the role of "third force" between the contend- ing groups and come out of it without' getting involved, and perhaps with an enhanced position for herself. Panikkar now excuses Red China's con- quest of Tibet, which made India very ner- vous at the time, by explaining that the Reds are only following through on tradi- tional Chinese policy as maintained by Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists. He seems to overlook any Tibetan rights in th e mat- ter, of their long maintenance of freedom from Chinese control, and the implications of conquest by force. He likewise attributes Chinese military intervention in Korea to China's traditional position, rather than to the* machinations of international Russian Communism. Panikkar's return home has been fol- pages with his marvelous sketches for com- mercial ads. A real talent, the guy's got. The Photoquiz, featured somewhere to- ward the tail-end of the booklet, is another highspot. It combines an hilarious selection of photos with an hysterical selection of quizes, which produces a thing of beauty and a joy forever. The art staff came through with a mag- nificent effort, if one overlooks the hideous cover which it generated. The overall lay- out is exceptionally clean. After several is- sues of experimental make-up, the staff fi- nally settled down and gave out with some- thing that was both new and readable. The large "32" on the final page con- fused us a mite, but we have finally dis- covered it to be the number usually as-o- ciated with the final page. Also praise-worthy are such features as "Who Stole My Dinosaur?" "Too Much Band," "Me and My Aardvark," and the ever-lunatic ad parody. -Max G. Gottlieb '°S i DRAMA a THE CURRENT Arts Theatre Jean-Jaques Bernard's The; raises certain issues concerning production, Sulky Fire, the nature and effect of theatrical technique which fair- ly demand discussion. M. Bernard has written a play which is the epitome of the naturalistic style. The plot, in the sense of those events which determine the course and outcome of the action, is slim: a Frenchman returns home after four years in a German prison camp and discovers that his wife has had to bil- let an American officer; the officer writes to her and finally sends a messenger to ask her to go with him to America. It is significant that the last two incidents, which suggest to Blanche a means of es- caping her husband's torments, are entirely omitted from the dialogue and action of the play. And it appears that M. Bernard is prin- cipally concerned with the emotional tensions which they merely set in motion; the hus- ban's growing jealousy and suspicion and his wife's efforts to convince him of her fi- delity. This is as it should be in the natur- alistic, "slice-of-life" convention, for the problems of life itself arise most often from situations which events have merely insti- gated. Furthermore, the language of the play is the language of everyday, punctuated with silence as weighted with meaning as the spoken words. A play of this type demands the utmost of its performers, for the least evidence of falseness would destroy its life-like at- mosphere. And-we venture to say it makes equally great demands on its audience, for the slightest gesture or word may contain a veiled meaning that will alter or modify the entirie course of the play. It is neces- sary for the spectator who wants to receive from the play its subtlest connotations to remain constantly alert. In this endeavor, he is assisted by the playwright.whose duty it is to point up those 'attitudes which are most essential to the movement and meaning of the play. And this Bernard does with surpassing skill. His task sound. There is not a note of falseness in the entire writing of the play, and one of the spectator's greatest pleasures may lie in fol- lowing the seemingly endless operation of Bernard's final resolution to stay with her husband, couched in the last words of the play, one cannot be certain whether she will leave with the Anterican or not. This resolution leaves the situation in a highly ambiguous state, for it leaves open to the main characters two possible ways of fu- ture life: they will either be reconciled or spend the rest of their lives, as they have spent the course of the play, in conflict. There is no guarantee that Andre's suspicions will cease.- It is this reviewer's opinion that the ending of a play should leave in a specta- tor's mind a clear and single image of the characters' lives beyond the limits of the play itself. Otherwise, the spectator will leave the theatre confused by the meaning of the final curtain and uncertain of the playwright's definitive attitude towards his characters, the attitude on which to a large extent depends his own. And here M. Ber- nard fails us. It is a failing, however, which is particularly likely in the style in which he writes. Life itself proverbially has no ending, and the termination of a work of art that approximates as closely as possible life's realities presents a problem whose solution is necessarily unreal and therefore untrue to form. This indicates, perhaps, an ultimate breaking-point in the natural- istic style. Whether Bernard is justified in making the demands on his audience that he does- and they are heightened by the intimacy of arena staging-is a question which each theatre-goer must decide for himself. How- ever, M. Bernard and the Arts Theatre Club are both highly skillful in their own domains, and the objections which have and do arise from the nature of the play must finally be not to performance but to form. -Lawrence Osgood "S-TETRR TS NOYT' much ollpetive secunity Lectures Lecture, auspices of Lane Hall and the Unitarian Students' Association. "The Art of Staying Sane." Rev. Jos- eph Barth, pastor, First Unitarian Church, Miami, Florida, author, radio speaker, and public relations director of the University of Puerto Rico, 4:15 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 1, Kellogg Auditorium. Brian Aherne, noted actor, here to- morrow. Brian Aherne, distinguished star of stage and screen, will present a dramatic program "Great Moments in Great Literature" tomorrow night, 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium as the third number on the 1951-52 Lecture Course, Tickets are now on sale at the Auditorium box office, which is open today 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and tomor- row from 10 am. to 8:30 pm. A cademic Notices Engineering Mechanics Seminar: Wed., Oct. 31, 101 West Engineering, 3:45 p.m. Prof. Paul F. Chenea will speak on "Analysis of a Hydraulic Servo." Semiinar in Organic Chemistry. Ed- ward Leon will discuss 'Hydrogenation- Dehydrogenation with Aluminum Chlo- ride," at 7:30 p.m., wed., Oct. 31, 1300 Chemistry Bldg. Visitors are welcome. Seminar in Physical Chemistry. A. F. Beale, Jr., will speak on "The Heat of Vaporization of Mercury" and W. B. Hillig on "The Molecular Aggregation of Aluminum Hydride in Ether," 4:07 p.m., Wed.. Oct. 31, 2308 Chemistry Bldg Visitors are welcome. Events Today Congregational-Disciples Guild: Sup- per Discussion Groups meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Guild House. New members welcome-by reservation. Gilbert & Sullivan Society: Women's Chorus Rehearsal, 7 p.m., League. Mock Military Court Martial, con- ducted according to new Uniform Code of Military Justice, and presented by Senior Army ROTC Students. 7:30 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium. Public invited. Electrical Engineering Research Dis- cussion Group. Meet 4 p.m., 208 E. Engineering Bldg. Dr. Jules Needle will speak on "A New Mechanically and Electronically Tunable Magnetron." All E.E. graduate students are invited. Michigan Arts Chorale. Meet 7 p.m., University High School auditorium. S.L.A. Department Chairmen meet at Lane Ball, 4 p.m. Student Science Society. Meet at 7:30 p.m. 1400 Chemistry Bldg. Dr. Pidd of the physics dept. .will speak on "Nu- clear Physics and its Relation to the Other Sciences." All interested are welcome. University of Michigan Rifle Club. Meet at 7 p.m.. at the R.O.T.C. Rifle Range. First try-out session of the semester. The weekly practice hours for the Rifle Club are M-F 11 a.m., T- Th 9 a.m., and W 7-9:30 p.m. Everyone is invited. Folk and Square Dance Halloween Meeting, 8 p.m., Barbour Gym. Westminster Guild: Tea 'n' Talk. 4-6 p.m., First Presbyterian Church. Sociology Club. Coffee Hour, 4 to 6 pm.at Club 600 in South Quadrangtrle. Plans will be announced for the forth- coming Sociology Colloquium. All un- dergraduates, graduate students and faculty are invited. Student Legislature. Meeting, Room 3-LMN, Union, 7:30 p.m. Women mem- bers of the Legislature will not need late permission. All candidates are re- quired to attend the meeting. Any in- terested student is invited. University Lutheran Chapel. Refor- mation Day Candlelight Vespers, 9 p.m., "Christ Really Did Free Us!" Polonia Club. Meeting, 7:30 p.m, In- ternational Center. The evening will be devoted mainly to the learning and singing of Polish songs. All students of Polish descent and all others in- terested are invited. Refreshments and dancing will follow. ComingEvens International Center Weekly Tea for foreign students and American friends, 4:30-6 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 1. Hillei: Friday evening services. 7:45 p.m., Lane Hall. After services the Hillel Dramatic Group will present a skit based on a short story by Peretz. Everyone is welcome. Hillel: weiner roast, Sat., Nov. 3 at the Island. The group will meet at 8:15 p.m. at Lane Hall. Reservations may be made at the Administration Building. Refreshments. Finance Club: Meeting, 7 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 1, Bus. Ad, Bldg., room number will be posted on the bulletin board. All students with an interest in this field are invited. Final organization of the group is the main purpose of this meeting. U. of M. Sailing Club. Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 1, 311 West Engineer- ing Bldg. Plans to be made for M.S.C. regatta. Shore school for new mem- bers. Literary College Conference. Steering Committee meets with Introductory- Courses committee Thurs., Nov. 1, 4 p.m., 1011 A.H. ... It was after this row that Churchill proposed M a r s h a I1 take over the European Allied Command. This would get him out of'Washington where he had the power to allocate troops to either theatre; put him in tu- rope where he woul4 become ab- sorbed with European problems. CHURCHILL ON S E C O N D FRONT-Wisest policy Churchill ever argued during the war years was at Teheran-regarding the second front. At Casablanca, the 2nd front came up again. Churchill de- creed: "I will not squan!er the seed of the British Empire." . . having in mind the inevitable loss of British youth, Churchill then laid down a flat ultimatum that in any cross-channel oper- ation, Britain would supply 25 per cent of the troops, the Uni- ted States 75 per cent. This stopped U.S. military planners cold. Six months later, at Teheran, Churchill argued for a continued 2nd front through the soft under- belly-namely, Greece, Yugoslavia, Austro-Hungary. Stalin demanded a 2nd front across the channel, aimed at the heart of Germany... What Churchill had in mind was keeping Russian troops out of the Balkans, and politically he was right. But what the U.S. General Staff had in mind was military strategy and winning the war more quickly. So they ruled out the long transportation haul through the Mediterranean to the Balkans, vo- ted with Stalin for the shorter, quicker jab at Germany via Eng- land. Militarily they were right. Shortly thereafter the war was won. But the cold war, which Churchill foresaw, has been drag- ging on ever since. (Copyright, 1951, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 0 11 r Hillel: Music Group will 7:30 p.m 209 S. State St. Everyone is welcome. J '5 Senior Society: 7:30 p.m., 227 Mar- tha Cook. meet at Apt. 3. 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