IGE FOUR I TOTE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1952 ________________, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 195~ DORIS FLEESON: Democratic Candidates WASHINGTON - President Truman has hinted again that he will soon reveal his 1952 intentions, and a galaxy of aspiring Democrats is reverberating like a harp in the wind. If the President does not choose to run, his heir-apparent remains the Chief Jus- tice of the United States, Fred M. Vinson. A national magazine has already fore- handedly dispatched a staff writer to the Supreme Court to prepare its own word picture of the great man and the writer perceived at once that the Chief Justice was not precisely taken by surprise. All the Vinson biographical notes were summarized and arranged and his political memory had been well oiled. Anecdotes suitably illustrating each phase of his long career in government tripped lightly from his tongue. Mr. Vinson was more than co- operative; he was well prepared. Despite the advantage of his close asso- ciation with the powerful incumbent, the Chief Justice is not the only statesman pre- paring at the drop of a word to receive the homage of his public. Sen. Estes Kefauver's formal announce- ment will not be long delayed. He was en- couraged by a decision of the CIO's Poli- tical Action arm to support him for Vice- President on a Truman ticket; he is as- suming that can be translated into first place if Truman retires. Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma has a modest committee organized which is ready to go on to bigger things when the time is right. Friends of Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman have been hinting to the old Roosevelt wing of the party that he and not Senator Kefauver is the logical heir to their support. Vice-President Barkley threw a tin hel- met into the ring in Korea. The Veep and the Chief Justice are both Kentuckians and Kentucky politicians are still torn by the prospect that they may have to side for and against a Kentuckian. They can get no hints, much less assurances, that this may not be their hard fate. Considerable political activity is report- ed also in the vicinity of two close friends and cooperators, Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas and W. Stuart Symington, the retir- ing RFC administrator. Democrats who have recently swung through the west, southwest and midwest report it in two ways. Some suggest that Senator Johnson is willing to make the sacrifice. Others put forward the novel idea that the Senator is only managing Mr. Symington's candidacy for Vice- President on a Vinson ticket. Mr. Truman's party appears to want him to act decisively on the administration scan. dals but it is prepared decidedly to renomi.. nate him. Party regulars insist he can beat Senator Taft easily, and General Eisenhower with a slam-bang effort. Yet the candidates among them declare the scandals injure Mr. Truman only, not the party. They are all genuinely eager to snatch the nomination and if he does bow out, his choice, Justice Vinson or another, will by no means have it all his own way. (Copyright, 1951, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writer only. This must be noted in all reprints. INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Eisenhower's Answer By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Press News Analyst CLOSE FOLLOWERS-and leaders-of the Eisenhower for President boom showed little sign yesterday of interpreting too liter- ally the General's words about taking a per- sonal part in the pre-convention campaign. There was no more question about his willingness to accept the nomination. There had been none for the last four or five months in the minds of those who knew something of his relationship with Columbia University, of which he is Presi- dent-on-leave, and of his true political attitude. Nor was there any further question about his party affiliation, just as there had been none in these same circles all the time. There was the question, however, of what Eisenhower considers the requirements of the "present assignment" in Europe which he says he will not seek to escape in order to participate in the pre-convention cam- paign. On the face of it, this sounds as though he wishes to accept the Republican nomi- nation if his friends can obtain it for him, but that he will not come home to run for it. He says in his statement that actual nomination would transcend his present duty, and virtually says that running for it does not. The question in the minds of his support- ers, however, was at what point he would consider his present assignment to have ended naturally. They have expected all the time that, once the tables of organization for European de- fenses have been drawn, Eisenhower would consider himself free to come home. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been feverishly at work on this in recent weeks. In some capitals there is great opti- mism-in others not so much-that most of the important questions will be settled at Lisbon early next month. The timing of the real, concrete, Eisen- hower boom, with the announcement of his entry in the New Hampshire primary, the New York Times and Chicago Sun- Times endorsements, and his own state- ment in Paris, seems to be connected with the end of a year's work in NATO. His assignment was to get European defense started. He was never expected to stay be- yond "the end of the beginning." He and he alone will have to determine when that point has been reached sufficiently to re- lease him from his pledges to it. Statements from his backers yesterday, however, showed no signs of worry that he would not get home in time for the two or three big speeches they have planned for him before the convention. "If There's Anything I Hate It's Sloppy Neighbors" /4 4 EXECUT+YE EPARTMS DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 1 k (Continued from Page 2) ON THE7 Washington Merry-mGO-Roulid} WITH DREW PEARSON - - ri WASHINGTON - Though the future of England depends to some extent on the Churchill-Truman conferences, there will be two groups of people watching the Chur- chill conferences just as intently as the Bri- tish. They are: 1. The master-planners inside the Krem- lin. 2. The leaders of Western Europe-the French, Belgians, Dutch, Italians, whose farms and factories have been fought over for centuries. Both groups will be watching for the same reason: to see if President Truman is able to win Churchill over to European unity; or whether the reverse happens and a new Anglo-American alliance is super- imposed on top of the North Atlantic Pact as its domineering directors. If the latter happens, there will be joy in the Kremlin and sorrow in Western Europe. But if the former happens, and Churchill is won over to a United States of Europe, there will be much gnashing of teeth in the Kremlin and much joy in Western Europe. -UNITED STATES OF EUROPE-- T HASN'T been published, but some ad- ministration advisers have been pushing a plan for an all-out United States of Eur- ope. They even propose that in the future the United States refuse to put up money for the individual nations, but put up money in a central pool for a United States of Eur- ope. Thus, if the British wanted to stay out, they would get no dough. If they came in, they would get their pro rata share of the money in the U.S. of E. kitty. CHUCK ELLIOTT: NIGHT EDITOR C1INIEMAL At The Michigan . . DETECTIVE STORY, with Kirk Doug- las and Eleanor Parker. Whether or not the President will be able, or will even try hard to sell this to Churchill remains to be seen. But here are the. argu- ments used backstage by administration ad- visers: A. The American people are tired of spending tax money to aid Europe with no end in sight. They are willing to spend mon- ey if it accomplishes a definite, set objective; but they are not willing to pour money into a bottomless pit. It encouraged just the opposite of a United States of Europe. Thus, the French steel industry was rebuilt to compete with the Belgian steel industry and with the steel industry of every other country. There was no pooling. of resources or breaking down of unhealthy customs barriers. C. Eisenhower has been trying to get North Atlantic Pact nations to pool their war in- dustry as well as their armies. Thus, each could make a specific weapon instead of all competing against each other in making the same weapon. So far his success has been limited. D. Moscow's best argument is that Europe cannot go back to its old patchwork system of small, rival countries and survive. Euro- peans know that in this at least the Com- munists speak the truth. Europeans know this is true just as Detroit knows it could not survive if it were permitted to sell automo- biles in Michigan only; just as Pittsburgh knows it could not survive if its steel markets were restricted to Pennsylvania. The Communists argue that Europe's only salvation is unity under the Soviet. More advanced West European leaders, such as French Foreign Minister Schu- man and Count Sforza of Italy, argue that. to offset this there must be European unity-not under Russia-but in coopera- tion with England and the U.S.A. Those are the arguments that some ad- ministration advisers have put up in back- stage discussions. M* * -DIVIDE AND RULE- N CONTRAST, here is what the British have done to oppose European unity: DIVIDE A[) RULE-Traditional British policy has been to balance the two strongest continental nations against each other- usually France against Germany. Inevitably this leads to war. INVASION OF THE RUHR-Best illus- tration of how British aloofness encourages war took place on March 7, 1936, when Hit- ler invaded the Ruhr. All Athat day the French Cabinet sat, telephoning to Londoi, asking a pledge of British support if the French army steeped in to block the Nazis. But London refused a commitment, and with the vital iron and coal fields of the Ruhr in Hitler's hands, war then became only a matter of time. After the war, German officers told U.S. examiners how Hitler had given the invad- ing Ruhr army two sets of orders-one to advance; the other to retreat in case of French resistance. UNION WITH FRANCE-In June 1940 when England feared for its life and need- ed an occupied France as a partner, Chur- chill sent an impassioned plea to French Premier Reynaud: "At this most fateful moment in the history of the modern world, the govern- ments of the United Kingdom and the French Republic make this declaration of indissoluble union ... . The two govern- ments declare that France and Great Bri- tain shall no longer be two nations, but one FrancolBritish union .. ." That was how far Churchill was wliling to go in 1940. Ten years later when the French urged, begged, implored British cooperation in the Schuman plan for the cooperative owner- ship of that age-old cause of war-the Ruhr -Britain remained aloof. And last month, when Eisenhower urg- ed Churchill during their lunch in Paris MATER OFA By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP THE PROFERRED EMBRACE WASHINGTON7-The real story of Winston Churchill's American visit looks like being depressingly simple. The great British Prime Minister came to this country to offer an embrace. But when the caller walked in the door, he found the temperature in the parlor al- ready glacial, and the young ladies sitting with extreme primness on the extreme edge of the hardest sofa. Under the circumstances, the embrace is all too likely not to be offered after all.j This perhaps too frivolous image expresses an immensely grave choice by the American policy-makers. This choice is still tentative, and may perhaps be altered in the marathon conversa- tions that are now going on. But even before Churchill arrived, President Truman, Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson and their advisors had rather obviously decided not to grant the British leader what he mainly wanted, which was a strengthened part- nership between America and Britain. A conflict of world views was involved. In the world view of Wins- ton Churchill, a strong, intimate and organic partnership between America and Britain is the only possible core and center of the West- ern alliance. He is known to believe that the two nations' wartime partnership has lately been allowed to lapse in a most dangerous way. And although there were many other vital issues to discuss, his main object in coming to this country was to restore the Anglo-American partnership to full working order. * * . * THE CHURCHILL world view was formerly shared by many of the wisest American policy-makers. As recently as 1949, the brilliant Ambassador-Designate to Moscow, George Kennan, all but got ap- proval for a plan of the sort that would appeal to Churchill. But the State Department of Dean G. Acheson now fears that closer partnership with Britain will entail "sacrificing Europe." This Acheson State Department remembers with, resentment the foot-dragging British approach to the various projects of Euro- pean union. It shrinks from bruising the feelings of the French and other, lesser Allies, by forming special links with Britain. And it shrinks also from involvement in Britain's liabilities outside Europe, such as the bitter unpopularity of the British in the Mid- dle East. For these reasons, Acheson does hot want what Churchill wants. He is even reported to have said that he could not see why the Prime Minister bothered to come to Anerica, since everything was being satisfactorily handled by himself and the British Ambassador, Sir Oliver Franks. This general complacency about existing arrangements has also been expressed in the claim that Britain and America "are partners already." *t * *~ * IN FACT, however, the links that still survive from the former Anglo- American intimacy today conceals a frightening deterioration of Anglo-American relations. At the same time, Britain's world power position is now decaying with frightening speed. And these processes of deterioration and decay in turn confront the American policy- makers with a brutal dilemma, which they are wishfully seeking to ignore. If these processes continue unchecked, what remains of the old Anglo-American collaboration must at some point break down; and the Western alliance will thus lose its present substitute for a backbone. Meanwhile power vacuums will appear, in the Middle East and other strategically vital regions, where British power is now, so to speak, only hanging on by the skin of its teeth. Ameri- ca will be left to carry the entire burden of Western leadership, which'is too great a burden. The power vacuums will be filled- but by Soviet power. And so the Western alliance will come to ruin in the end. On the other hand, these looming consequences can still be avoided-most narrowly avoided-by pooling the power and influence and resources of Britain and America, in the partnership Churchill desires. The price of forming this partnership will be considerable, no doubt. American aid must be provided, to find some relatively endur- ing solution of Britain's economic problem. A truly joint European policy, involving important departures from the present British view point, must somehow be hammered out. Other thorny differences of view must somehow be smoothed away. But this price, which Secretary Acheson seemingly does not wish to pay, will really buy something. In truth, it will buy survival, for America and the British Commonwealth together and united will con- stitute a commanding combination, that will rally the weak, reassure the waverers and-deter the aggressors. It is to be hoped, therefore, that Winston Churchill's old magic works again, and that this op- porutnity to give real strength and power to the Western alliance-- which-may well be the last opportunity-will not be willfully lost. (Copyright, 1951, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) In this firm. A man graduating in February with an Actuarial Science de- gree is eligible. Beech Aircraft Corporation of wichi- ta. Kansas has openings within the firm for Electrical, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineers to fill positions as Designers, Draftsmen, and Techni- cians. The University of California, Los Ala- mos Scientific Laboratory at Los Ala- mos, New Mexico is again having a summer graduate -program which is open only to graduate students or to those who have obtained their under- graduate degrees and intend to carry on their studies. Men in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Civil, In- dustrial, Mechanical, Electrical, and Metallurgical Engineering may apply. The California State Personnel Board of Sacramento, Calif., announces an examination for a Junior Civil Engi- neer, which will be held on March 1. February graduates may accept tem- porary authorization following gradua- tion until the test is taken in March. Applications must be postmarked not later than February 2. The blanks are available in the Bureau of Appoint- ments. The Spencer Chemical Company of Charlestown, Indiana, needs a Mechan- ical or Chemical Engineer for their Maintenance department. The Toledo Scale Company of Toledo, Ohio, has openings for men in their Sales and Administration departments. Engineers interested in sales work and Business Administration students are eligible.. Bowser, Inc., of Fort Wayne, Indiana, has available positions for Industrial Engineers to work as Tool Engineers. Application blanks are available. The County of Kalamazoo, Kalama- zoo, Michigan needs a woman to serve as Assistant Probation Officer. A wo- man holding a Sociology or Psychology degree that has full-time use of a car is eligible to apply. The J. I. Case Company, of Racine, Wisconsin needs Mechanical, and In- dustrial Engineers as well as Business Administration students to fill posi- tions as Product Engineers and Man- agement Trainees. For further information and applica- tions contact the Bureau of Appoint- ments, 3528 Administration Building. lectures University Lecture, auspices of the Department of Geology. "Mountain Building Chronology and the Nature of the Geologic Time Scale." Professor Edmund M. Spieker, Chairman of the Department of Geology, Ohio State Uni- versity. 8 p.m., Wed., Jan. 9, 2054 Na- tural Science Building. Prof. Spieker is lecturing under the auspices of the Distinguished Lecturers Committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The public is invited, Sigma Xi Lecture. "Autoradiography and Applied Nuclear Energy Research Method." Dr. Henry J. Gomberg, As- sistant Director of the Michigan Me- soral - Phoenix Project. 8 p.m.,Wed., Jan. 9, Rackham Amphitheater Academic Notices Engineering Mechanics 2A Experiment Make-Up Opportunity. ,There will be an instructor in the laboratory (Room 102 WE Bldg.) on Thurs., Jan. 10, 1 to 4 and Fri., Jan. 11, 1 to 4 to' direct the make-up of experiments unavoid- ably missed during the semester. Actuarial Seminar: Thurs., Jan. 10, 10 a.m., 3010 Angell Hall. Mr. R. J. Myers,yChief Actuary, Federal Social Security Administration, will speak Dn the topic: "Atuarial Basis for Social Insurance in the United States and Great Britain." Astronomy 11 make-up laboratory will be held at 2 p.m., Tues., Jan. 8, and Wed., Jan. 9. Doctoral examination for George T. Baxter, Zoology; thesis: "The Relation of Temperature to the Altitudinal Dis- tribution of Frogs and Toads in South- eastern Wyoming", Tues., Jan. 8, 2089 Natural Science Bldg., 2 p.m. Chair- man, L. R. Dice. Docotral examination for Albin Paul Warner, Education; thesis: "The Mo- tor Ability of Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Boys in the Elementary School," Wed., Jan. 9, West Council Room, Rackham Bldg., 2 p.m. Chairman, P. A. Hunsicker. Doctoral examination for Tom C. Bat- tin, Speech; thesis: "The Use of the Diary and Survey Method Involving the Questionnaire-Interview Technique to Determine the Impact of Television on School Children in Regard to Viewing Habits and Formal and Informal Edu- cation", Tues., Jan. 8, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., 2:30 p m. Chair- man, G. R. Garrison. Composers' Forum, Wednesday after- noon, Jan. 9, 4:15, Rackham Assembly Hall, under the direction of Ross Lee Finney. The program will open with Aaron Copland's Sonata (1943), fol- lowed by Four Preludes by Roland Tro- gan, Sonata by Rolv Yttrehus, Suite for Oboe and Piano by Elaine Friedman and two compositions by George Cac- ioppo, Music for String Orchestra and Trumpets, and Festival Overture. The public is invited. Exhibits Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial Hall. Drawings from the Museum Col- lection, Abstractions with Thread, and Photographs of American Architecture through January 27. Weekdays 9 to 5, Sundays 2 to 5. The public is invited. Events Today Science Research Club. Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Program: "Applications of an Electronic Comput- er to Research Problems," by Robert M. Howe, Aeronautical Engineering; "An Investigation of a New Technique for the Determination of Cardiac Output in Animals and Man," by Robert G. Farris, Surgery. Christian Science Organization: Tes- timonial meeting. 7:30 p.m., Upper Room. Lane Hall. Congregational-Disciples Guild: Tea, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Guild House. Square Dance Group meets at Lane Hall, 7:15 p.m. Opportunity for in- struction. All students invited. Michigan Dames. Regular monthly meeting, 8 p.m., Rackham Building. Mr. Ragnar Arnesen, an Ann Arbor ar chtiect, wil speak on home planning and will also show slides. Coming Events Undergraduate Botany Club will meet near the East entrance of the Natural Science Bldg., 7:20 p.m., Wed., Jan. 9, for transportation to home of Dr. Jones. Meeting Relative to the University's New Electronic Calculator, In view of the expected acquisition this spring by the Tabulating Service of a Card Programmed Electronic Cal- culator from the International Bus- iness Machines Corporation, a meeting will be held Wed., Jan. 9, 4 p.m., in the Rackham Amphitheatre, to explain the capabilities of this machine and the conditions under which it will be avail- able for use. This electronic digital computer is much in advance of any computer the University now possesses. and it is hoped that all staff members and graduate students whose research could be aided by modern calculating equipment will be present. An expert from the I.B.M. Corporation and mem- bers of the staffs of the rabulating Service and the Statistical Research Laboratory will speak and answer ques- tions. Congregational-Disciples Guild: Sup- per Discussion Groups, Wed., Jan. 9, 5:30 to 7 p.m., and Freshman Discussion Group, 7 to 8 p.m., Guild House. Literary College Conference Steering Committee. Wed., Jan. 9, 4 p.m., 1011 Angell Hall. Folk and Square Dance will meet at Barbour Gym, 8 p.m., Wed., Jan. 9. Michigan Arts Chorale. Meet at 7 p.m., Wed., Jan. 9, University High School auditorium. Union Weekly Bridge Tournament. 7:15 p.m., Wed., Jan. 9, in the small Ballroom, Union. Everyone is welcome. Coeds may obtain late permission from their housemothers. Winners will re- ceive 2-weeks' free admission. Runners- up will receive 1-week's free admission. Civil Liberties Committee. Meeting, Wed. Jan. 9, 8 p.m., Room 3D. Union. All those interested are welcome. Society for Peaceful Alternatives. 8 p.m.,. Thurs., Jan. 10, Union. All those interested are invited. Questions of a five-power conference, and policy in general will be discussed. U. of M. Rifle Club wil meet at the ROTC Rifle Range, Wed., Jan. 9, 7:15 p.m. All members shoul attend to practice for the shoulder-to-shoulder match at Columbus, Ohio, on Sat., Jan. 12. tir Ski Club: Meeting to discuss weekend ski trip and between-semesters ski trip. Movies. 7:30 p.m., Wed., Jan. 9, Room 3-A, Union. American Society for Public Adminis- tration Social Seminar. Thurs., Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham Building. Speaker: Former Congressman Albert J. Engel. "Con- gressional Control of the Bureaucracy" Members, wives, and friends are invited. 04r