THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1953
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Formosa & The Seventh Fleet
NEW PRESIDENT takes the oath of of- Our government will find that, inst
flee and shortly after reads a dully Chiang assuming the preponderent sh
ded speech to a joint session of Congress. the burden, the United States will be
ce spoken, these words bring 150 million so. At the present time we cannot su
ericans closer to a third world war. Chiange in any full scale military a
without sacrificing our rearmament
Via television and radio, President Ei- gawith uripo.a
rihower tells the American public that gram in Europe. yh
What is infinitely worse, though,
has freed Chiang Hai-Shek to attack danger that Chiang will involve us
e Chinese mainland. The United States third world war.
venth Fleet no longer will shield the In the first place, any invasion of th
iinese Communists from Nationalist nese mainland, no matter how' effectiv
rtees. probably unite the xeonophobic C
'erhaps, it* would have been worthwhile people against - foreign-supportedf
the President to have considered some With the feeling of nationalism stillo
he basic implications of his "free Chiang" rampage, Chiang's attack will be view
nciation before plunging the United an attempt to jeopardize the integr
tes into a suicidal "get-tough" policy. China. It will not be seen as a liberatin
neuver. The image of the corrupt an
here are some of the problems which E roristic Chiang is still a reality to the
hower overlooks:nsepoe.
'or years our press has ignorantly built e
nyth around the fighting strength of If Chiang does succeeed in gaini
Lang. An appraisal of the facts, however, foothold on the coast, he will be forc
ald reveal that the Generalissimo has rely heavily on American reinforcemen
ninally only 600,000 men under his com- sustain his troops against superiorn
nd. Of those who are capable of fight- bers of Communist troops.'
,most have no combat experience. Many Our reinforcements can either tak
them are old and disillusioned garrison form of guns, tanks and planes, or A
irds who fled to Formosa several years can soldiers. The involvement of sucha
k. The younger ones are green troops.
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As a result it is impossible to tabulate
the number of troops Chiang has who are
capable and willing to fight. Chiang also
is plagued by the fear pf wholesale deser-
tions in the Nationalist ranks, as happened
during the Chinese Civil war.
Chiang's air force amounts to a mere 200
planes which may be used for immediate
combat duty. lmost without exception, they
are obsolete World War II models. Due to
the Nationalists' problem in supplying
these planes with fuel and ammunition it
is difficult to predict for what period of time
they can be kept in flight.
Chiang's navy is composed entirely of
small ships. And yet, according to President
Eisenhower, the Nationalists will be con-
cerned mainly with "commando raids." If
this is the case, however, it becomes im-
possible to see how Chiang will be able to
constantly transport his troops back. and
forth across a hundred miles of water for
"spot" attacks.
It Is obvious, then, that Chiang's army
cannot sustain itself for any length of
time without foreign aid. This help, nec-
essarily must come from the United States
in the form of economic and military as-
sistance.
assistance might be catastrophic.
If we do find ourselves in a minor war
with China, we must be ready to deal with
Russia at the same time. The Russian gov-
ernment has a military alliance with the
Chinese Communists and it is possible that
they would come to the aid of China if
called upon to do so. The Administration
simply passes this off as a "calculated risk."
By some mystical process of logic, the new
Administration claims that by keeping the
Chinese Communists busy at home, they
will not be able to adequately defend them-
selves in Korea. However, it might be well
to point out that the Communists are more
able to fight another war in the Far East
than we are at the present time. It is dif-
ficult to exhaust the manpower of a country
with 400 million people.
With the stakes so high and the dan-
ger so great, it is inconceivable that Pres-
ident Eisenhower could have made such a
drastic decision.
Instead of our fleet "protecting" the Chi-
nese mainland, the real fact of the matter
is that we have been protecting ourselves
from the possibilities of a new war by keep-
ing Chiang totally inactive. We must con-
tinue to do so, or face the consequences.
-Mark Reader
BOOK REVIEW:
MATTER OF FACT
By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP
XASHINGTON-History is shaped, per-
haps more than history ought to be
shaped, by the personal character of a
President of the United States, and by the'
way he works. The case of President Dwight
D. Eisenhower is particularly interesting,
since Gen. Eisenhower is a military' man
taking over the greatest civilian job in the
world. This is a preliminary report on the
way the new President is tackling his tre-
mendous task.
As everyone knows by now, the White
House is already buzzing by 8:30 in the
morning, when all members of the Presi-
dent's staff (somewhat to the distress of
some of them) are expected to arrive on
the dot. What is not so well known is
that the President may have been out
of bed as much as three hours before the
White House opens for business. By 8:30
he has breakfasted long before, read his
newspapers and some essential docu-
ments, and squared away for a hard-
driving work day that may last twelve
or even sixteen hours. The President's
only relaxation these days consists of an
occasional brief spell of his beloved paint-
ing before an early bedtime.
Understandably enough, exhaustion is
already etched on the faces of some of the
new President's White House subordinates.
But Gen. Eisenhower himself seems in-
capable of fatigue. It is probably just as
well that the President has this enormous
capacity for work, since he has a special
quirk which one of his assistants des-
cribes as "an auditory rather than visual
intelligence." He learns far more readily
through his ears than through his eyes.
He likes to have his speeches, for example,
read aloud to him, and he corrects and edits
them by voice (most astutely-he hates un-
necessary complications in style). This prac-
tice of hearing rather than reading wherever
possible is actually less time-consuming
than might be supposed, since the Presi-
dent's "auditory intelligence" is remark-
ably quick.
When he became President he had lit-
tle more knowledge of the budget pro-
cess than the ordinary citizen-which is
precious little. Accordingly, he called in
Budget Director Joseph Dodge to brief
him and his staff. Dodge did a brilliant
job. Even so, many staff members were
utterly defeated by such mysteries as
"obligational authority" and "unexpended
balances." But Gen. Eisenhower instant-
ly grasped the-essential-points, and wrote
himself most of the part of his State of
the Union message dealing with fiscal
matters. This ability to go quickly to the
heart of a complex subject is a central
Eisenhower asset.
Another Eisenhower asset is, of course,
the famous charm, which leads the Presi-
dent to put a very high value on personal
contacts. Typical is his determination to
eat a meal, over the next few months, with
every Republican on Capitol Hill. This sort
of thing leads to an extremely crowded
schedule of appointments-too crowded, in
the view of some of his subordinates. But
although the President is accessible, he has
no patience with people who waste his time.
In the presence of time-wasters, Eisen-
hower's cheerful briskness shades over in-
to brusqueness, and a hint of the Eisen-
hower temper begins to appear. Those who
have been present on the rare occasions
when the President has lost his temper say
that this is a memorable experience. An-
Eisenhower rage is truly towering. His face
flushes a deep red, the jaw juts forward,
and the usually genial blue eyes turn to ice,
freezing the offender in his tracks..
No-one, in short, who enters the White
House forgets for a moment who is Presi-
dent of the United States. But although he
is very much master in his own house,
Eisenhower, like all Presidents, is already
beginning to muster around him a sort of
inner council of a few men on whom he re-
lies very heavily. The key man on his staff,
of course, is Sherman Adams. But Adams
sees his job as ensuring that the President
makes the decisions he must make, rather
than influencing the nature of these deci-
sions.,
At the moment, the men who most in-
fluence the President's decisions are Bud-
get Director Dodge, (a modest man, but
one of the most powerful in Washington),
Treasury Secretary George Humphrey,
and Attorney General Herbert Brownell.
As of today, neither of the two chief
cabinet members can now be counted in
the inner circle, although Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles may join it on
his return from abroad. So, ultimately,
may Defense Secretary Charles E. Wil-
son, when he masters his immensely dif-
ficult assignment, although for the mo-
ment Wilson is more in need of the
President's advice than the other way
around.
Another candidate for the inner circle
is obviously Admiral Arthur Radford. Rad-
ford deeply impressed both Eisenhower and
Wilson on the pre-inauguration Korea trip,
and he may become Chief of Staff, in which
case he will certainly have a profound in-
fluence on nolicy. Yet excent for Radford
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DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Conantrs Views on Education
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-(M-"If the battle
of Waterloo was won on the playing
fields of Eton, it may well be that the ide-
ological struggle with communism in the
next fifty years will be won on the playing
fields of the public high schools of the
United States."
These are the words of Dr. James Bry-
ant Conant, retiring president of Harvard
University, written before his designa-
tion as United States High Commissioner
to Western Germany.
As a basis of national unity, he pleads for
the strengthening and improvement of the
free, tax-supported, locally controlled Am-
erican public school, in his new book: "Edu-
cation and Liberty-the Role of the Schools
in a Modern Democracy."
Dr. Conant's views on private and public
school education--expressed in 1952 before
an educators' meeting in Boston-were laid
before the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee by opponents of his appointment as
high commissioner. His views at the Bos-
ton meeting-interpreted by some as an at-
tack on Roman Catholic parochial schools--
are re-stated more fully in his book. He
writes:
"I know of no one today who wishes to
suppress private schools. * * * Putting the
idea into effect would involve such dras-
tic state action as to, be repugnant to our
fundamental ideas of liberty."
"But," he adds, "unwillingness even to
consider advocating state or national ac-
tion to suppress private schools is quite a
different matter from being indifferent to
their expansion. It is certainly a very dif-
ferent thing from acquiescing in the use
of tax money directly or indirectly for the
support of private schools. * * * A dual sys-
tem= serves and helps to maintain group
cleavages, the absence of a dual system
does the reverse. 'This is particularly true
of secondary schools. * * * I would plead
with those who insist as a matter of con-
science on sending their children to denomi-
national schools that they might limit their
insistence on this type of education to the
elementary years."
-Among other things, Dr. Conant "regrets"
a trend toward private education "in some
of our Western cities, in particular . . . for
sons and daughters of the well-to-do." The
founding of independent schools, he sug-
gests, "is a challenge to those connected
with public education."
He says that the education-pattern
evolved in the United States in the last
three-quarters of a century "has provided
a great engine of democracy which has
served this nation of many creeds."
"Without it," he writes, "I doubt whether
so many different national cultures brought
Concerning himself especially with high
school and college education, Dr. Conant
examines the whole field of education in
English-speaking countries. And he pro-
poses an increase in the number of two-
year colleges In this country able to award
bachelors' degrees in general studies.
He concludes that "in spite of the in-
adequacies of many of our high school
programs and the undeveloped nature of
our two-year community colleges, we
have made great progress in the last twen-
ty-five years in our attempt to provide
adequate schools for all American youth."
"For the future," he writes, "we must en-
deavor to combine the British concern for
training the 'natural aristocracy of talents'
with the American insistence on general
education for all future citizens. If we can
do that, then our industrialized society will
prosper and at the same time the neces-
sary degree of instruction will be provided
for all people so that in their hands (in
Thomas Jefferson's words) "Our liberties1
will remain secure."
Dr. Conant proposes a ten-point program
that includes actual contraction of the four-
year programs in universities. He would
transform "all the present four-year col-
leges into institutions with high academic
standards and arrange the curricula with
the thought that a majority of students in
these colleges will go on to professional
training after two, three or four years, de-
pending on the ability and drive of the in-
dividual."
In urging that we popularize the two-
year local college for general education,
he suggests that:
"We endeavor to create a climate of opin-
ion in which the length of education be-
yond (age) 18 is not considered the hall-
mark of respectability."
He urges "far more scholarships for high
school graduates."
He advocates continuing experimentation
with "general education at every level for
the future manual worker, the future sales-
man or executive, and the most highly spe-
cialized university graduate."
But throughout, he is especially concern-
ed with adhering "to the principle of a com-
prehensive high school with a common core
of studies and differentiated special pro-
grams."
"But in so doing," he says, "we (should)
make far more effort to identify the gift-
ed youth and give him or her more rigor-
ous academic training in languages and
mathematics."
At the last, he says, "the answer to the
question, 'can we achieve national unity
through our nublic schools and still retain
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Lectures
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Williams, noted British actor, go on
sale today at the box office, Hill Audi-
torium. Mr. Williams will impersonate
the famous author, Charles Dickens,
and will present a solo theatrical per-
formance of scenes from Dickens' nov-
els. The program is presented as the
fifth number on the 1952-53 . Lecture
Course. Box office hours are 10-1, 2-5.
Sigma Xi Lecture, open to the public.
"Food for the Future: The Trend of
Crop Production and Some Problems in
Plant Physiology," A. Geoffrey Nor-
man, Professor of Botany and Research
Biochemist in the Michigan Memorial
-Phoenix Project, Wed., Feb. 11, 8 p.m.,
Rackham Amphitheater.
Visiting Lecturer in Wood Technol-
ogy. Mr. Gordon L. Freedman, President,
Freedman Artcraft Engineering Corpor-
ation, will meet with wood technology
and other interested students at 7:30
p.m., Feb. 11 2039 Natural Science, to
discuss the control of products quality
in the wood industry.
Academic Notices
Philosophy 63, Philosophical Bases of
Communism, Fascism, and Democracy,
will meet in Angel Hall, Auditorium A.
Psychology 145, Learning and Memory,
will meet Mon., Wed., and Fri. at 2
p.m. in 3427 Mason Hal.
Seminar in Engineering Mechanics.
The first meeting of the spring semester
will be on Wed., Feb. 18, at 3:30 p.m.,
101 West Engineering Building.
Political Science 2, American Political
Institutions, will meet in Angell Hall,
Auditorium B.
Interdisciplinary Seminar in the The-
ory of Growth (Economics 353) will
meet in full session on Thursday from
4:30 to 6, beginning Feb. 12. It will
meet in the West Conference Room of
the Rackham Building, with the excep-
tion of March 26 and April 23, when it
will meet in 24444 Mason Hall. The dis-
cussion for Thurs., Feb. 12, will be
"Introduction to the General Theory of
Growth," Professor Boulding.
Course 402, the Interdisciplinary Sem-
inar on the Applications of Mathemat-
ics to the Social Sciences, will meet on
Thurs., Feb. 12, at 4 p.m., in 3409 Ma-
son Hall. Mr. Leonid Hurwicz of the
Economics Department, University of
Minnesota, will speak on "Problems of
a priori. Information in Decision-Mak-
ing Under Uncertainty."
English 226. Members will meet in
Professor Reinhard's office on Wed.
at 3 p.m. This notice supersedes all oth-
ers.
The University Extension Service an-
nounces the following courses opening
tonight in its adult education program
in Ann Arbor. Registration may be made
between 6:30 and 9:45 p.m. Monday
in 165 School of Business Administra-
tion, Monroe at Tappan.
Elementary General Psychology. In-
troduction to the principles of psychol-
ogy with a survey of motivation, emo-
tion, perception ability, and personal-
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graduate credit). Instructor: Dr. Eliza-
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p.m., 31 Business Administration Build-
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Great Books I. This University of
Michigan Great Books course is an in-
troduction to and an analysis of books
'that have affected Western civilization.
Selections are made from many periods
' of history and types of writing, their
literary merits as well as their signifi-
cance for Western thought and action
being discussed. Section I, open to be-
ginners, 'starts tonight and will meet
on alternate Wednesdays; Section II,
open to those who have had Section I,
will begin on Wed., Feb. 18, and meet
on alternate weeks. Instructor: John
E. Bingley. Eight sessions, $8. 7:30 p.m.,
69 Business Administration Building.
Introduction to Literature of Music.
Brings to the layman a practical meth-
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176 Business Administration Building.
Writing Workshop. Designed for stu-
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dividual students may be arranged.
Instructor: Prof. Donald R. Pearce.
Sixteen weeks, $18. 7:30 p.m., 171 Busi-
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Concerts
Concert. The Minneapolis Symphony
Orchestra, Antal Dorati, Conductor, will
be presented in Hill Auditorium, Thurs-
day evening, Feb. 12, at 8:30, in the
seventh concert in the Choral Union
Series. Mr. Dorati and the orchestra
will play the following program: Mo-
zart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"; De-
bussy's "La Mer," and the Brahms
Symphony No. 1.
A limited number of tickets' are
available at the offices of the University
Musical Society in Burton Tower daily;
and on the night of the concert after
7 o'clock in the Hill Auditorium box
office.
May Festival season tickets are avail-
able at the offices of the University
Musical Society in Burton Memorial
Tower at $11.00, $9.00 and $8.00 each
(6 concerts). By purchasing season
tickets a considerable saving is made
over the individual concert ticket
prices.
Faculty Concert. Arlene Sollenberger,
contralto, will present a song recital at
8:30 Wednesday evening, Feb. 11, in
Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Mabel
Rhead Field, Professor- Emeritus of Pi-
ano, will appear with Miss Sollenberger.
The program will open with works by
Handel and Brahms. After intermission
Miss Sollenberger will sing Bloch's
"Poemes d' Automne," and a group of
English songs by Carey, Ferrata, Quilter
and Ilgenfritz. The program will be
open to the general public without
charge.
Events Today
Technic -Tryout Meeting. All those in-
terested in working on the staff of the
Michigan Technic, the Engineering Col-
lege magazine, are invited to attend a
tryout meeting Wed., Feb. 11, 7:30
p.m., in the Technic office, 205 west
Engineering Annex.
Roger Williams Guild. 7 p.m., High
School Room, Dr. G. Merrill Lenox
speaks on "Responsibility of the Church
in Human Rights" as our second speak-
er in our series on Human Rights. For
those who can come at 6:30, there will
be a potluck supper in the same room.
Motion Picture. Twenty-seven min-
ute film, "Protozoa" shown Mon.
through Fri. at 10:30, 12:30, 3, and 4
o'clock, 4th floor, University Museums
Building.
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WASHINGTON
M1ERRY-GO-lOUND
WITH DREW PEARSON
by Dick Bibler
(EDITOR'S NOTE-Drew Pearson is now on a trip to Berlin and Paris
to check on crucial developments there and report on the progress bf John
Foster Dulles in unifying our Allies.)
BERIN-The most important question in the world today is what's
happening behind the iron curtain?
What's the reason for the purges, the indirect attacks on cer-
tain Russian leaders, the wave of anti-Semitism, the flood of
political refugees daily streaming across the border at Berlin?
Upon the answer to this puzzle depends the answer to the ques-
tion of peace or war and here in Berlin, the only place where
there is a gap in the iron curtain, is the best place to get it.
My own diagnosis from talking to those who have been behind
the iron curtain and to intelligence experts follows:
1-Some parts of the over-expanded Soviet Union are gorged
from too much conquest and are on the brink of revolution today,
various other areas in the Soviet orbit are seething with unrest, and
the Red leaders in the Kremlin need scapegoats. Hence the purges
and the pogroms.
2-On the face of things, Russia is a long way from war and
is in no position, to wage it. However, dictators sometimes start
war to divert attention from their own failures. That Is the
greatest danger in Europe today.
To understand what is happening in the Soviet Union you have
to remember that there are only about 40,000,000 Russians in the
U.S.S.R. and the over-all policy of the Kremlin is to operate and to
control the other parts of the Soviet Zones-from Mongolia to Czech-
oslovakia and from Turkestan to Poland-for the sole benefit of these
40,000,000 Russians.
SEETHING REBELLION
THUS, WHILE THE forty millions around Moscow have never had
it so good, the other diverse and nationally minded millions-who
are expected to raise more crops, to build more factories, to lay more
railroad lines and to support the Soviet war machine-are restless and
rebellious. That is why a new word has been coined and added to the
already long list of isms and for which one can now be tried for
treason-nationalism. That ism was among the charges made against
Vladimir Clementis and some of the other Czech leaders. They put
Czechoslovakia ahead of the Soviet Union. Deputy Premier Rudolf
Slansky, on the other hand, was convicted of leftism. He carried the
doctrine of Communism too far to the left.
Today the greatest danger spot for revolt in the far-flung
Soviet orbit is Poland. There peasants are seething over crop quo-
tas and collective farms. The revolt in Poland ranges from pro-
ducers sending poor seed to collective farms, for which nine
state agricultural farm directors were found guilty, to just plain
refusing to make grain deliveries.
Peasants have become so rebellious that Soviet officials eve
enlisted several hundred priests to encourage crop deliveries. Sabo-
tage of Polish railroads continues and, in general, the nation is clos-
er to emulating Tito's Yugoslavia than any other land ruled by the
Reds. In fact, Allied observers are a little worried for fear that the
Polish revolt might come prematurely and be stamped out so severely
and ruthlessly that restlessness would be discouraged in other parts
of the Soviet empire for years to come.
Other areas in which this restlessness is most apparent today are
the Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Georgia (the birthplace of Stalin), Ar-
menia and Turkestan.
RUSSIAN PURGES
F YOU LOOK back into Russian history it is fairly easy to see the
reason for the current purges and the wave of anti-Semitism,
Probably the worst campaign against the Jews took place in 1905 after
the great Russian drought of that year when Prime Minister Sergei
Whitte and Czar Alexander needed scapegoats to blame for the wide-
spread starvation.
Again it is important to remember that in 1914 the Russian
military, fearful of unrest at home, wanted war. That was why.the
Russian military attache in Belgrade was in contact with the little
gang of Serb assassins who bombed Archduke Franz Ferdinand at
Sarajevo thereby touching off World War I. That was also why Rus-
sia wasted hardly a minute before coming to Serbia's defense by de-
claring war against the Austro-Hungarian empire. Unrest was ram-
pant in Russia and the little groups of generals around the Czar ieed
ed a war to keep their shaky empire together. That is the biggest
danger inside Russia today.
STALIN'S RECORD
COUPLED WITH this danger is the fact that Joe Stalin is the most
suspicious man in the world: Though Harry Truman once paid
tribute to Uncle Joe as a man he could get along with, history on the
other hand points to the probability that Stalin is the most ruth-
less and blood-thirsty man ever to rule a world power and that he,
more than anyone else, is responsible for the Soviet Unions unending
wave of purges.
It was Stalin who plotted to put himself rather than Trotsky
or one of those much closer to Lenin in Lenin's shoes. It was
Stalin who later manipulated the murder of Trotsky in Mexico.
It was Stalin. who carried out the purge trials of the 'thirties in
which Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky an other top Russian mili-
tary leaders were shot. It was Stalin who put Maxim Litvinov in
the doghouse when he became too friendly to the United States,
and Stalin who recalled Ambassador Troyanovsky from-Washing-
ton when he got on intimate bridge-playing terms with U.S.
Senators. And it is Stalin who has either maneuvered or condoned
the present wave of anti-Semitism and the purge trials in Czecho-
slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland.
Stalin is smart enough to know that his restless empire, havin
bitten off far more territory than the Czars did and having suffered
acute indigestion, is in no condition to wage war. But Stalin is an
old man. He has little time left to live.
Will his successors share the same view or will they do what the
generals around the Czar did in 1914-throw the world into war in
order to cement their cracking.empire? That is the biggest question
to which every European chancery would like to have the answer.
(Copyright, 1953, by the Bell Syndicate)
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