THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1957 UI 1ATTER OF FACT: Ike Launches Drive To Win Support of Independents By JOSEPH ALSOP BOARD THE EISENHOWER TRAIN-. For several reasons Gen. Dwight D. Eis- nhower's invasion of this pivotal state larks a crucial turning point in his cam- aign for the Presidency. Perhaps the most important reason was. Indicated by one of the little group of men who huddle all day long in this train's rear car, preparing the candidate's briefing and revising his speeches. "We've been through the valley' of the hadow," he said, "and now comes our time." This curious figure of speech, so sugges- ye of inner pain, referred to the General's mrs through the Mid-West, with all their istasteful accompaniments. Neither Gen. isenhower nor the majority of the ad- isers and politicians in his entourage have much enjoyed the process of compromise ith the Republican organizations in "Taft rritory." The General has certainly gone whole log to compormise and to conciliate. On foreign policy, he was a Vandenberg Re- publican In Michigan but almost a Dirk- sen Republican in Illinois. Before enter- ng Wisconsin he prepared a Milwaukee speech including a high tribute to Gen. Marshall which no doubt intjided to hint at least a qualified disapproval of Gen. Marshall's traducer, Sen. Joseph McCar- thy. But the tribute to Gen. Marshall -was never spoken at Milwaukee, where Eisen- hower ,said a great deal more about the need to suppress the Communist conspir- ay than about the need to preserve poli- ical decencies and individual rights. Both the General himself and the meti round him are visibly defensive about these nd other compromises and conciliations. So m told that the General had to use all his lf-control not to strike Sen. William Jen- er, when this cut-rate Sen. McCarthy, who as also called Gen. Marshall a traitor, al- iost embraced Eisenhower on the platform , Indianapolis. After the Indianapolis .eeting, it is stated, Eisenhower informed is staff that he could not take many more Kperiences like Jenner's public pawings. Eisenhower himself, of course, has said othing of this sort away from the privacy his rear car. But when he has discussed te course of the campaign with larger oups, he has gone out of the way to ex- wse his compromises as essential under the vo-party system. The danger of "European linter parties" is one of his favorite emes. The need to conciliate sharply con- icting Republican viewpoints, and thus to eserve the two-party system and avoid' European splinter parties," is much em- hasized. California is a turning point,'or at least Is expected to be a turning point, pre- cisely because the task of uniting the sore- ly divided Republican party is now re- garded as finished. The Eisenhower staff, presumably reflecting the General himself, sigh with relief because they see no more such hurdles ahead as the encounters with McCarthy and Jenner. Now is the time, they feel, to make their great appeal to the independent vote. Outwardly, this problem of the indepen- dent vote is the most puzzling single prob- lem of the whole Eisenhower campaign. Af-. ter all, Gen. Eisenhower was only nominated at Chicago because a majority of Republi- cans feared that "the independent voters would not take Sen. Robert A. Taft." But all through trese last weeks the General's appeals have been beamed, not at the in- dependent voters, but at Taft voters and other Republican ultras. - Yet this has not been quite so illogical as it may seem. Probably Gen. Eisenhower would not have gone so far in his compro- mising if it had not been for the com- pleteness of Sen. McCarthy's victory in the Wisconsin primary. At any rate, the idea has been to make sure of the pro-Taft and pro-McCarthy voters before going after the independents. Going after the independents means, first of all, the kind of intensive campaigning the General is now doing here and will do later in the East. From now on out, California and New York are to be regarded as the great prizes to be garnered. Going after the independents also means, presumably, a type of campaigning more ex- pressive of the views of such Republicans as Gov. Sherman Adams, Gov. Thomas E. Dew- ey and Gov. Earl Warren of this state (who advised the General to repudiate Sen. Mc- Carthy in toto.) The General is now to say, in short, the sort of thing that he was always expected to say by the leaders of the movement to nominate him. The theory is that the Mid-Western states are safely in the bag, now that the "splinter party" danger has been averted in that' region. By the same token, it is hoped that in the weeks ahead, the East and West Coast voters will cease to for- get about the General's Mid-Western campaigning; and will be happily im- pressed by what is now to be said. It is not the first time a candidate has shown different faces to different parts of the country. At any rate, the Eisenhower strategists are extraordinarily confident that their plan will produce a glittering victory; and for this confidence they can cite many solid causes. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Ined, DORIS FLEESON: Ike Drawing Large Crowds WITH GENERAL EISENHOWER IN CAL- IFORNIA-Republicans pin their hopes for victory on General Eisenhower's splen- did crowds which are being amply maintain- ed on the Pacific slope. Scouts who mingle with the audiences after the train has pulled away report only admiration and tributes to his per- sonal sincerity. Nobody complains that "he didn't say anything," which is the usual groan of the frustrated news re- porters. Eisenhower strategists offer this reason- ing: Their candidate is a national hero who creates a sense of trust in himself personal- ly. He is satisfying the desire for a change and it doesn't make much difference what he says-or fails to say, which is a lot of territory too. The Eisenhower camp is uneasy about President Truman's hard-hitting attack. It poses a dilemma for them. They could run against Mr. Truman but, (1) they have a healthy respect for him in a political fight and (2) they do not really trust their candidate's Australian crawl in social and economic waters. They draw some comfort from the fact that Truman's name will not be on the bal- lot November 4 and Adlai Stevenson's wi.h Stevenson is not quite the forgotten man of this campaign but he is failing, by a wide margin, to make his name a household word. Mr. Truman recognizes the peril of his overshadowing Stevenson. He takes it as a calculated risk because he is so sure the Democrats have the best of the issues and must drive them home to the people. He rea- sons that it's his logical assignment to do just that. Reporters issue one warning to the Eis- enhower staff's reliance on crowds as proof of victory. They have noticed that, while the crowds are indeed large and affectionate, they tend to thin out rather rapidly. Even before Eisenhower begins to speak, people start straggling away, sometimes in substantial numbers. They are not as sure as the staffers that the national hero has been transformed in- to tne political white hope. (Copyright, 1952, by the Bell Syndicate) JAMES MARLOWE: Korean Peace Hopes Dimming WASHINGTON-(AP)-Korean peace looks remote. Truce talks at Panmunjom have not officially ended but have broken down. Peace efforts shift now to the UN General Assembly which opens Oct. 14. There's no reason to expet peace after the debate there, either. The Korean war, beginning in June, 1950, is now more than 27 months old. Truce talks between teams of UN and Communist negotiators began 15 months ago. For the last six months the talks have bogged down over one question: The ex- change of prisoners. There have been no real discussions at Panmunjom since mid-July. The teams met more or less regularly every week just long enough to say they had nothing new to say and to declare another recess. On Wednes- day even the meetings themselves went into indefinite recess. This was at the request of Lt. Gen. Wil- liam K. Harrison, Jr., chief UN negotiator. He bluntly told the Communists the next move was up to them. This way: He told them to accept the UN proposal for settling the prisoner problem or make a "'construc- tive proposal of their own." The UN claims it holds 170,000 Chinese and Korean prisoners but says only 83,000 of them are willing to return to Com- munist control. The UN takes this posi- tion: It will not force any of its prisoners to return to China or North Korea if they don't want to go. The Communists, who say they have 12,- 000 Allied prisoners, take the opposite posi- tion: That all prisoners should be returned on both sides. Neither side has been willing to budge. While the talks limped on, the fighting in Korea continued. This week 15,000 Reds attacked the UN position in the biggest Communist offensive since May, 1951. This has not been regarded so far as the opening of a major Communist offensive to drive the UN troops out of Korea. Why the Communists have opened up this much now is not clear. It may be the result of decisions made between the Rus- sians and Chinese when the latter visited Moscow for important talks last summer. When Secretary of State Acheson an-' nounced several weeks ago there would be a full-scale debate in the UN Assembly, after it opens next week, it was a change from the American government's previous position. Until then Acheson had opposed UN debate on Korea on the grounds that it might interfere with the Panmunjom truce talks. That ceased to be a reason against UN debate when for months it was clear the Panmunjom talks had become a farce. The U.S. and Russia will slug it out in the Ulf as usual. Russaisse ndina er a hiL'h _n- "That Was When I Was Just A Little Kid" -XetteP TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which are sign' the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length imatory of libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in d taste wilt be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. " lI. Slosson Replies.. . To the Editor: IN THURSDAY'S Daily Mr. Cal FSamra put some questions to me, supplementing my debate with a Mr. Sallade. Q. "Has Point Four ... tended to entrench the power of reaction- aries to the detriment of more pro- gressive forces?" A. On the whole, no. Of course we have had to deal with govern- ments in power, and they vary in quality, but the raising of econom- < ic standards in any coutry is in the interest of political democracy ' " as well. Indeed, liberal and radical criticism of Point Four has chief - ly been that we ought to have done much more of it. Q. "Was it reasonable that the r United States should align itself with France in Tunisia and with - Britain in Iran when America has -x - consistently championed the prin- ciple of self-determination for all nations?" A. We have in no way actually intervened in either case. More- ON THE over, the question in Iran is not one of political self-government at WASH ING5TON all, but purely of how much pay- ment should be made for certain IE R -H 0mHO=UTVND oil wells. Q. "Why hasn't a Middle East WITH DREW PEARSON Defense Command been set up yet, when the onlydreal stumbling _ block is the Sudanese problem?" -----A. We have consistently tried ABOARD THE PRESIDENT'S TRAIN-Some people have seemed to set up such a Command. The quite surprised to learn that I was aboard Mr. Truman's tram.ahe Sudan (though I do not know One lady in Utah .remarked: "Do you really mean that the secret h th, thp, w d h ly it seems to have come as a sur- prise to Farouk! May I say, in general, that we do not necessarily "support" a gov- ernment anywhere in the world by recognizing it and dealing with it. We recognize and deal with dictatorships in Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Spain, Argentina, as we did with Hitler and Mussolini, simply because they are in -power. If Mao remains in power long enough, no doubt we shall even- tually recognize him, as we (and Russia) long recognized Chiang Kai-shek. I hope we are not especially fond of any of the re- gimes which I have listed. Of course, we have also the right to refuse recognition, but that (if the government in question is solidly established) is considered a hos- tile move. Sometimes we have mis- judged the strength or weakness of a regime (as Lenin in Russia and Franco in Spain) and have failed to weaken a government by a long withholding of recognition, and had later to reverse our stand. --Preston Slosson * * r Phooey! . . To the Editors: ?HOOEY on Don Harris, the new mupic critic! -Don Malcolm, Peg Nimz Stu Ross, L. H. Scott, David Cargo, Larry Pike "THE LAW, as a matter of fact, -is all things to all lawyers. It is all things to all lawyers simply because the principles on which it is built are so vague and ab- stract and irrelevant that it is possible to find in those principles both a justification and a prohibi- tion of every human activity un- der the sun." -Fred Rodell "I HATE, to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unpro- tected before his enemies." -Emerson z i i CIINIEMA 'I t The Orpheum . . ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, with Jose Fer" rer and Kim Hunter. IF THE ORPHEUM Theater continues its current trend-and the scheduling of "Quo Vadis" for next week makes it seem likely--it will become little more than an- other downtown second-run movie house. "Anything Can Happen" would be an en- tertaining comedy if one could divorce the elements of farce and slapstick from the in- numerable "messages" running through the picture. As it stands the humorous aspects seem to be present for the purppse of making this propaganda pill just a little easier to swallow. Jose Ferrer is cast as an immigrant from a small town in Georgia, one of the south- ern provinces of the Soviet Union. His Amer- icanization is the central theme of the pic- ture, opening all sorts of opportunities for exposition on the beauties of citizenship and the big hearts of New Yorkers welcoming Russian newcomers. The role is easily handled by Ferrer; In fact, it seems out of place for him to be put in the position of wasting his talents on a picture of this kind. Kim Hunter, although her dramatic abilities do not ap- proach Ferrer's, is placed in a similar situation. As a one hundred percent Ameri- ican girl (at any moment we might expect he to claim Mayflower blood) she can only capitalize on her normalcy, with no really untypical characteristics other than a flair for collecting folk music. All this picture actually lacks to make it comparable to Philip Hale's "The Man with- out a Country" is a choir in the background softly humming "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Admitting that some of the comic incidents are genuinely funny-Kurt Kasz- nar, Mikhail Rasumny, and a host of fellow Georgian immigrants do a wonderful job of making the audience laugh-the sentimental treatment of the story, and the basic idea idea behind it, remain rather obnoxious to the moviegoers who might rightly expect the Orpheum to present the best of the re-run and foreign films. --Tom Arp service let you on the train? I should think they would fear for the President's life!" However, it's very difficult to hate Harry in this, the twilight of his last term. Whether you agree with him or not, you have to admire the courage of a man who, at the age of 68, is up-early- and-out-late making eight to ten speeches a day for a cause he so fervently believes in. This, I believe, will rate as a history-making trip, and I am glad to be aboard regardless of whether Harry loves-me-or-loves-me-not. People have become so accustomed to seeing Mr. Truman whistle- stopping around the country that they don't realize just how historic his trip is. Never before in recent history has any outgoing President of the United States gone out and hit the hustings so vigorously for the man who may succeed him. When Calvin Coolidge was about to step down in favor of Herbert Hoover, he did not lift a finger to help Hoover's election. Calvin stay- ed in the White House and sulked. When Franklin Roosevelt ran for the first time in 1932, Al Smith, his predecessor in Albany, did not bestir himself. When Teddy Roosevelt was succeeded by Taft in 1908, he worked for Taft, but at nowhere near the pace set by Harry Tru- man. NATURE'S TURNOUT NO, THIS TRIP, averaging eight to ten speeches a day made on be- half of a man who didn't really want Harry to campaign for him, is definitely historic. And if the folks along the way haven't always reaized that history is being made, everything else seems to have turned out in full force to pay tribute to Harry Truman's last transcontinental whistle-stop. Never were the prairies more beautiful, the red peaks of the Rockies more majestic, the herefords of Nebraska sleeker, the aspens of Colorado more yellow, Utah alfalfa green- er and Iowa corn more golden than on this farewell to the scrappy, sometimes injudicious President of the United States. Even the weather, which has not always smiled on Ike Eisenhower, has been kind to Harry. No rain has marred his crowds or dampened his spirits. As a matter of fact, I don't think anything could dampen Harry's spirits. I have watched General Eisenhower look grim and weary after a few days of speaking. But Truman, aged 68 against the Gen- eral's 62, not only looks younger than the General, but seems to get younger the more he speaks. A CHANGED TRUMAN IT'S A SOMEWHAT changed Harry Truman, however, that's making this trip. Harry Vaughan, the bemedaled military aide (my pal) is not along. There isn't a single sign of military brass on the train; no cronies; no poker parties; only a group of young and earnest speech- writers. This time Harry isn't playing poker, he's playing for keeps. He talks privately about some of the mistake's he's made. He wishes he hadn't made them. He should have fired Howard Mc- Grath months before, he says, and cleaned out the Justice De- partment so the corruption issue would not have been hung around the Democratic Party's neck. The President's new seriousness has developed as he has watched the approaching spectre of possible Republican victory in November, and realizes that with it, most of the things he has fought for would vanish. There was a time when he did not think they would vanish, when he felt the General would continue the basic Truman policies. But for days now, as he has read Ike's speeches, Harry has been approaching a slow boil-a boil which spilled over at Oakland, Calif., and Colorado Springs. That boil was not over Eisenhower alone. It was directed also at Truman's own mistake at trusting the military. No Presi- dent in years has put so much faith in the military as Harry Tru- man; no President has appointed so many Generals to top civilian positions. Harry liked them, admired them, even gloried in them. But one by one, they have belied his faith. Franklin Roosevelt made use of many Generals, but he knew how to keep them in their place. Truman, on the other hand, ever since Battery D days when he was an obscure artillery captain in the Mis- souri national guard, has nursed a secret worship of the brass. ROLLCALL OF GENERALS SO HE HAS surrounded himself with them. One of the first was , Gen. Bedell Smith, whom he made Ambassador to Moscow and head of Central Intelligence, only to have him make a deadly, dam- aging statement about Communists in government at the very heart of the current campaign. Another was Gen. Al Wedemeyer, whom Truman made Am- bassador to China. Truman liked him, trusted him. But Wede- meyer became an active campaigner for Senator Taft. General MacArthur also had all sorts of enconiums heaped on his head by the President. He was kept in Tokyo against the advice of some State Department officials, and because Truman insisted on it. Then he, too, turned against his Commander-in-Chief. However. Eisenhower. Truman thought, would be different. He had wnecner ue zuuanese, wno are not Egyptians, desire Egyptian rule); they include also the Suez canal issue, the American support to Israel, and several other mat- ters. Not all of these have been resolved and, candidly, I do not think that the Arab states have the right end of all these controver- sies; Israel especially. Q. "Why was it that State De- partment intelligence was so mis- erable that the United States had no inkling whatsoever that Farouk was going to be overthrown?" A. I have no way of knowing whether the State Department ex- pected the fall of Farouk. Certain- DAILY, OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent2in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 2552 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (before 11 a.m. on Saturday). Saturday, October 11, 1952 VOL. LXIII, No. 17 Notices Late permission: Because of the I- Hop, all women students have a 1 *30 a.m. late permission on Sat., Oct. 11. Mechanical and Industrial Engineer- ing Seniors and Graduate students. Representatives from industry are scheduling interviews beginning Mon., Oct. 13, and in many cases are inter- ested in interviewing graduates of all the 1953 classes during the fall semes- ter, ratper than returning in the spring for a second visit. It is, therefore, very important that you file your Person- nel Card in the Department Office im- mediately. Even though the company may have an application blank, many of them require further information such as a Faculty Rating. Please watch the Bulletin Board at 225 West Engi- neering Buildingtfor the time and place of each interview. This also ap- plies to Juniors, for summer 1953 em- ployment. Japanese Festival, Mon., Oct. 13, aus- pices of the Museum of Art, College of Architecture and Design, Center for -Japanese Studies, and the Ann Arbor Citizens' Art Show. Chrysanthemum show, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., main lobby, Alumni Memorial Hall. Demonstration.of Japanese flower ar- rangement, Mrs. Tomoko Yainamoto, of Des Moines, Iowa, 3:30 p.m., main lobby, Alumni Memorial Hall. Lectures Annual Pharmacy Lectures, College of Pharmacy. Rackham Amphitheater. Fi- nal session beginning at 10 a.m., Oct. 11. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for victor Earl Amend, English; thesis: "The Develop- ment of John Galsworthy as a Social Dramatist," Sat., Oct. 11, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 9:00 a.m. Chairman, Kenneth Rowe. The Mathematics Orientation Seminar for beginning graduate students will meet from now on Mondays at 3 p.m. 3001 Angell Hall. At the next mecti , Oct. 13, Mr. Losey will discuss Boolean Algebras. Events Today Saturday Luncheon Discussion Group meets at Lane Hall,-12:15 p.m. Mr. De- Witt C. Baldwin will talk about his travel experiences in Europe this past summer. Hilel. All students interested in oh- Lutheran Student Association., Scat- anger Hunt this evening. Meet at the Student Center, corner of Hill and For- est Ave. at 8:30 p.m. Congregational Disciples Guild. Cider and doughunts will be on hand at Guild House after the game. Hillel Foundation. Registration still open for groups for personal adjust- ment conducted by Professor Max Hut and Dr. M. Gurin. If still interested, call Hillel Foundation, 3-4129. Coming Events Delta Sigma Pi, international frater- nity in the field of business adminis- tration and economics, invites those students to a Rushing Smoker at 927 Forest Ave., Sun., Oct. 12, from 2 to 5 p.m. Hillel Day: Sun., 6 to 7:30 Supper Club, featuring corned-beef sand- wiches. Dancing and games from 7:30 to 10:30. Everyone welcome. Newman Club is sponsoring a Com- munion breakfast, to be held immedi- ately after the 9:30 Mass, Sun., at St. Mary's Chapel. The speaker will e Dr. Meade, well-known surgeon from Lan- sing. Tickets are 50c. I. '4 4 Chinese Lobbies SENATOR WAYNE MORSE EUGENE, Ore.-On July 6, 1952 the late Sen. Brien McMahon and I introduced in the Senate of the United States a resolu- tion which proposed that the committee on foreign relations should make a "full and complete study and investigation for the purpose of determining (1) what attempts, if any, have been made by any individuals or groups of individuals representing the Chinese Nationalist Government, the Chi- nese Communist Government, or any other foreign government to influence the foreign policy of the United States since Dec. 7, 1941, and. (2) the extent and means, including methods of financing, of any such attempts." Repeated rumors, charges and coun- tercharges that foreign agents represent- ing foreign lobbies had been exercising im- proper and undue influence overcAmerican officials, both in thje executive departments of government and the Congress, had reached such widespread circulation in Washington that Senator McMahon and from high offices in Washington to justify turning in a first alarm. It is the opinion of this writer that a thorough investigation of foreign-lobby activities in the United States would dis- close that there is a very active Chinese Communist lobby working through Com- munist underground channels in the Unit- ed States. In all probability, it would be found that its propaganda network, with its phony Asiatic peace proposals and false accusations as to American foreign poli- cy in Asia and alleged United Nations atrocities and conduct of the Korean war, is well-financed by the Chinese Commu- nist government. The sources of this prop- aganda need to be ferreted out and dis- closed to the American people. Likewise there appears to be much evi- dence that agents of the National Chinese Government within the United States have been seeking to influence American public opinion in an endeavor to promote our be- coming involved in a preventive war in Asia. 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