PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER I1, 1953 %ditatele te By HARRY LUNN Daily Managing Editor STUDENT AFFAIRS Committee's decision yesterday to strike out the controver- sial signature rule from regulations govern- ing the Academic Freedom Week program came about because of a change in the con- ditions surrounding the Week rather than through a change in SAC attitude toward the need for responsibility and identifica- tion in the program. When the program was presented for SAC approval a week ago, the plans show- ed no conception of the need for respon- sibility for the activities, and no consider- ation of the ramifications of such a program when conducted without this sense of responsibility. Student Legislature's willingness to ac- cept full responsibility was not known, and the vague assurance that the program would be "sponsored" by SL gave SAC little know- ledge to operate on. However, the program needed approval at that meeting if it was to go on at all, and SAC attempted to set up certain ground rules for it. Committee members were least happy about the pro- vision requiring all motions to be signed by those who favored them, but believed this rule necessary considering the lack of thought and responsibility surrounding the plans as presented. When SL in its next meeting accepted full responsibility for the program and worked out an adequate procedural plan, SAC was able to reconsider the signature rule and substitute for it the plan to send all resolutions to SL for further action. Under the revised plan the work of the meetings and plenary session tomorrow will receive later consideration by the acknow- ledged student body spokesman, the Legis- lature, and thus will become something more than a set of resolutions by a relatively small group of students who happen to at- tend tomorrow's discussions. This is en- tirely compatible with the purpose of Aca- demic Freedom Week to cause students o think about the problem. It will also give the questions raised much wider considera- tion and circulation. Certainly there should be no impression that SAC was deliberately trying to limit student freedom in originally setting, up the signature rule. Had a clear understanding of SL's willingness to take charge of the program been in evidence, and the program itself more explicitly outlined, the rule would never have been imposed in the first place. C URRENI MOVIES~ At the Orpheum ... THE SINNERS with Suzanne Cloutier MUCH LIKE an untamed river running its torturous path to the sea this film has its placid pools and raging rapids. It runs angrily through narrow passages and vents its fury in a wild rush that ends in quiet wa- ters. It is unreasonably and intensely logi- cal. It is thoroughly human. In a setting reminscent of the Carpa- thian Mountains rather than tranquil France the misunderstood and forgotten products of society are tossed in an at- tempt to ease the social conscience. The girls in this human cesspool are alternate- ly under the direction of a psycopath and an almost Christ-like matron. Into their midst is thrown an innocent whose true love brings out their hidden humaness. The story of Maria and her attempt to reach her lover form a focal point for the plot action. Her dreams of escape are made a reality by her fellow inmates. They lie and cheat not to gratify their own interests, but to help someone else: their idealized selfs. An almost transcendental quality pervades the atmosphere of the reformatory as the lines of good and evil are drawn. On one side stands those whose suffering has made them see the "good." On the other stands the one who finds in power not a means but an end. Interwoven in this fabric are the faces; alone and yet together; divided and yet unit- ed. These faces convey more than any lan- guage can express. They are a tribute to Julien Duviviers astute casting and forceful direction. Suzanne Cloutier expresses her love with an esoteric quality seldom achieved on the screen. She stands in remarkable contrast to the hardened faces of her compatriots. She suffers and yet she loves. For her love she is assulted, but this only intensifies her love. She is withdrawn and yet worldly above all. The plot is nebulous, but the acting more than compensates for this inadequacy. Even without any plot the sheer intensity and quality of the entire cast would have made this a fine picture. TODAY AND TOMORROW: On Talking About Talking - Two Alternatives The End Of The Trail By WALTER LIPPMANN BERN-There are two views, each with highly reputable and responsible sup- port, on this strange business of talking with the Soviet government --about whether we could, should, would, and might talk with the Soviet government. In principle of course they and we have and are now -and will always be ready to talk. And certainly there is no denying that by means of dip- lomatic notes, public speeches, press con- ferences, official and semi-official inter- views we are talking quite a lot. But the perennial theme of all the talks is the ques- tion of having some talks. There is a view, full of charm and at- traction, which holds that instead of talking about talking about Germany, why not, if either of us has anything practically important to say, does he not say it? And why, instead of talking about having Five Powers talks about the Far East, does not someone say something that is so interesting and so important that five power negotiations would fol- low as a matter of course? Those who take this view might argue that the practice of public diplomacy and of propaganda and of psychological war- fare have become such a plague that for their part they will take nothing seriously unless it is first communicated confiden- tially. This need not be regarded as a universal rule for all time, a retreat into secret dip- lomacy and an abolition of informative and inspiring public utterances. It would be rather like going on a temporary diet which is hygienic but unappetizing. The time would come when the great resounding declara- tions could be resumed. But there would be an interval devoted to the realities-to re- alizing what is necessary and to finding out what is possible. This probably cannot be done after the debauchery of public opin- ion during the past twenty years of war, cold war, and revolutionary propaganda except. privately through confidential talk. This somewhat brusque and impatient view might be summarized by saying that if the great protagonists in the world conflict believed that they could or should negotiate on the great issues, they would be negotiating. The reason that they only talk about negotiating is that in fact they do not feel themselves to be in a position to negotiate. The other view reflects what is no doubt a riper wisdom. It starts where the first view leaves off. To be sure, one who holds it might say, all this talk about talking shows that the powers are not ready to talk. But some day, who knows, they may be. And in the meantime, little sir, what would you have them be doing? Would you have them be silent, glaring ominously at one another and shining up their weapons, leaving the field of public attention vacant and open to all the mischief makers, the ax grinders, the careerists, the adventurers, the demagogues and the diplomatic racke- teers? * * * OF COURSE, these public exchanges of talk about talk are avoiding the real issues. But it is better to avoid the issues unless they can be resolved, waiting to see whether they may not dissolve or wither away, rather than to rush at them and to succeed only in aggravating them. Among those who hold these views, the most veer now to the one and now to the other. But there is, I believe, a rather widely agreed opinion as to what real talk about Germany, if and when it ever begins, would be about. It would not be about free elections. For they would not be conceded before there was agenuine agreement, and they would follow automatically if there were an agree- ment. It would not be about German re- armament which all the world knows must take place in some form and in some meas- ure. Real talk would be about the frontier between Germany and Poland, about where it is to be, about whether and how the frontier could be guaranteed. The extreme optimists among those who are still hard headed think that the Soviet Union's ir- reducible terms for a German settlement would be an eastern frontier, perhaps some- what but not greatly modified in Germany's favor, which committed everyone, includ- ing especially the United States, to a guar- anty that this frontier would not be altered by force, that it marked the eastern limits of German territorial expansion. There is not now any such proposal from the Soviet Union. Nor is there any present prospect that such an offer will be made. Moreover, there is no present prospect that the German Republic would ratify such a treaty or that the United States Senate would solemnly guaranty it. It is no more than a theoretical possi- bility, to be kept in mind, perhaps one should say in the back of our minds. It is not to be mistaken for a practical possibil- ity in any near future that we know of. (Copyright, 1953, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) M ? r; o XetteA'4 TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or libelousletters,'and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. Thank-You, Capitalists To the Editor: IN THE light of present circum- stances, Lenin's statement of 1920 takes on added significance. When the French bourgeoisie makes Bolshevism the central is- sue at the elections, and abuses the comparatively moderate or va- cillating Socialists for being Bol- sheviks; when the American bour- geoisie, having completely lost its head, seizes thousands and thous- ands of people on suspicion of Bol- shevism, creates an atmosphere of panic and broadcasts stories of Bolshevik plots; when the British bourgeoisie-the most 'solid' in the world-despite all its wisdom and experience, commits, incred- ible follies, founds richly endowed 'anti-Bolshevik societies,' creates a special literature on Bolshevism, and hires an extra number of scientists, agitators and parsons to combat it-we must bow aid thank the capitalist gentry. They: are working for us." V. I. Lenin, "Left Wing" Com- munism, An Infantile Disorder found in Lenin, Selected Works, Vol. II, Foreign Languages Pub- lishing House, 1947, pp. 632-633. -Neil Bernstein Willard DePree Ronald Witt * * * Harry D. White... To the Editor:' HERE IS A foul odor emanat- ing from the much-to-do over Harry D. White, five years dead. The unpleasant smell is not the result of Brownell's attack upon Truman and his administration. Truman is honestly deserving of harsh criticism. After Truman's succession to Roosevelt, the bulk of the New Dealers went into exile. Racke- teers, political hacks, fixers, five- per - centers - the ,hangers-on of every city machine-moved in. But infinitely more important than this pervasive corruption was Truman's consolidation of government under business royal- ists and the military brass. Gov- ernment by educators, lawyers and men of general ability as it was under Roosevelt, was replaced by government by special interest. Now the Republicans have per- fected the tie-up between govern- ment and corporate wealth. The odorsome thing is the gen- erally accepted conclusion that White was a traitor and a spy. Press, radio and public officials alike render into insignificance a most significant fact - the fact that a grand jury, confronted with all the 'damning evidence' from the FBI, refused to indict White or any of the others now named as spys! Not only was White not CONVICTED, neither was he even INDICTED! This was the same grand jury that indicted the twelve Communists-certainly not a 'white-wash' jury! White, a staunch New Dealer, was one of the devisors of 'the Civil Works Administration and the defeated Spend-Lend bill. His most brilliant achievement was the Bretton Woods international monetary stabilization program, which led to the setting up of the Intl. Monetary Fund. The Bretton Woods program killed the Bank of Intl. Settlements in Basle, Swit- zerland which did business with the Nazis throughout the war. The president of this Nazi-dominated bank was Thomas J. McKittrick, director of the First Natl. Bank of N.Y.! The law firm whose cli- ents had the biggest stakes in German cartels was that of Mul- les! -Larry Hochman, '5S IBrown ell's 'Public Service' WHEN ATTORNEY GENERAL Herbert Brownell completed his testimony Tues- day before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee his concluding statement was that in publicizing the Truman role in the Harry Dexter White appointment of 1946 "I . .. pray I have performed a significant public service." If Mr. Brownell had had the slightest -conception of the effects his actions on the White Case would have on the nation he would have realized that he was ask- ing providence for a miracle in the fu- ture of American governmental affairs. An analysis of the consequences of the present attacks on former Presiden Tru- man will make it quite evident that the case and its future developments will do im- measurable harm to the country's welfare. The main argument that Republicans raise to justify the Brownell position is that' Truman obviously made a mistake in pro- moting White and that it is the duty of the Administration to awaken the people to such "blindness." However,. this argument, which in ef- fect proclaims that it is right to win Con- gressional elections by advertising past mistakes of the opposition, does not up- hold the slanderous and insulting tactics Brownell used in bringing the controversy to light. Moreover it tends to overlook the ir- reparable damage the sensationalized at- tacks on Mr. Truman will have on the Re- publican Adminitration and more import- antly on the country's welfare. First, the condemnation of President Tru- man in American papers and magazines has done irreparable damage to American pres-. tige abroad. The New York Times recently reported that European newspapers have definitely disapproved the assailing of Mr. Truman. At a time when our relations with New Books at Library Hayes, Alfred-In Love: New' York; Har- per Bros., 1953. Kasack, Hermann-The City Beyond the River: London; Longman, Green & Co., 1953. foreign nations are so insecure, we can not risk having political incidents injure our international reputation. Secondly, the White case is a blow to precedent. In the past, an ex-President has never been subpoened before a Con- gressional committee to defend his ad- ministration. Yet Velde continues to pres- sure Mr. Truman to testify before the House Un-American Activities, commit- tee. Also it has never been the policy of a new administration to make a direct attack on a President as soon as his term is ended. In the future it is highly pos- sible that controversy over an ex-Presi- dent will be kept in the limelight until his death. Thirdly, sensationalizing the appointment of spies in government will increase the pre- sent tension and fear of communism throughout the country. This will give Con- gressional committees ample opportunity to conduct their proceedings against groups and individuals without limitation. The re- sult could easily be that rights will con- tinue to be ignored and innocent people will be accused with less and less basis. Fourthly, since the Eisenhower Admin- istration's policies have been greatly depen- dent on Democratic Congressmen, its 1954 legislative program will encounter many difficulties in Congress. Brownell's blast hit the former leader of the Democratic party; and Democrats will henceforth feel greatly obligated to back him in every way possible. This means that both the coun- try and the Republican Party, which was counting a great deal on its legislative -per- formance in the forthcoming session to raise its chances in Congressional elections, will suffer. Lastly, the accusations against Mr. Tru- man have degraded the Presidency of the United States. Through the American press' slipshod, sensational, and mislead- ing accounts of some of the aspects of the case a man who loyally served in the nation's highest office with the voter's ap- proval has been condemned and villified. The practice in the past has been to let historians with their patient and careful methods make a judgment on an admin- istration and not to allow politicians using smear tactics in this field. With these arguments considered one wonders whether the accusations by Brown- WASHINGTON-Some readers have suggested that I put the late Chief Justice of the United States in the position of being pro- Communist or a Red when I reported earlier this week that Fred Vin- son, when Secretary of the Treasury, transferred Harry D. White to the International Monetary Fund and advised President Truman to keep him in that job, under surveillance. Since Fred Vinson is dead and cannot defend himself and since the last thing I wish to do is reflect on a great man and a very dear friend, I should like to set forth further views of the late Chief Jus- tice on communism. I had occasion to discuss this general subject with him on a camping trip in the Adirondacks not long before he died.1 It is a fact that in the summer of 1945, shortly after he be- came Secretary of the Treasury, I warned Vinson that Harry White was not a good man to have in the treasury I did this because I thought it was a service to Vinson and to the country, but I told Vinson that I could not fully substantiate the evidence against White. It is a fact also that Fred Vinson recommended the transfer of White from the Treasury to the Monetary Fund. Mr. -Truman ob- viously knew little about personnel matters inside the treasury; fur- thermore had great confidence in Vinson, and the last thing he would do would be to tell him how to run the treasury. Vinson had been a leader of Congress, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals: Economic Stabilizer; Defense Mobilizer; and head of the RFC. After 30 years in government, he knew far more about government administration than Truman and the brand new President leaned heavily on him. m * w* CARELESS HARRY VAUGHAN FURTHERMORE THE President was justified in leaning on him. On the other hand, the President was not justified in leaning on Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, a genial dilettante who exercised terrible judgment in picking such friends as John Maragon and got Truman into all sorts of trouble. Despite repeated exposes in this column showing up Vaughan for what he was, Mr. Truman continued to trust him with handling highly sensitive FBI reports. It was Vaughan who either failed to deliver or else failed to emphasize the importance of the first two November and December, 1945, FBI reports on White. Fred Vinson, however, considered 'an "old reliable" in gov- ernment, took the position that White had a right to face the FBI informant who charged him with being part of a spy ring. Hoover in turn refused to reveal the informant, causing Vinson to recommend that White was innocent until proved guilty. This may seem old fashioned in view of current public opinion. But at that time public opinion was different. * * * * IKE AND STALIN A T THAT TIME, the public -had seen General Eisenhower receive from Stalin the highest decoration given by the, Soviet. They had seen pictures of Eisenhower and Marshal Zhukov sitting together in Berlin night clubs. They knew that Eisenhower had stood at Lenin's tomb with Stalin in paying joint tribute to Soviet troops. And they read Ike's statements about a partnership between the two nations. This was about the time Vinson was recommending that Harry White be transferred to the monetary fund-a period only six months after the end of the war with Japan. It was also about the time General Eisenhower was writing in his book: "overshadowing all goals for us Americans was the contribution we locally might make toward establishing a working partnership between the United States and Russia." So perhaps in this atmosphere it's understandable that Fred Vin- son, then Secretary of the Treasury, might well conclude that the suspected Harry White could merely have been overzealous in promot- ing the Russian-American part- nership Eisenhower talked about, and wanted more time to watchp White and review the facts. At any rate, I do not hesitate to tr g rtD ilpf review these facts in defense of 1. j one who is now dead and cannot defend himself. Sixty-Fourth Year * * Edited and managed by students of WHITE AT WORK the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of TWO OTHER events are inter- Student Publications. esting in reviewing the Vin- son-White situation. One took Editorial Staf place at Bretton Woods, N.H., in d the summer of 1944 when White Harry Lunn.........Managing Editor Eric Vetter ..............City Editor and Henry Morgenthau negotiat- virginia Voss..........Editorial Director ed the International Monetary Mike Wolff ........Associate City Editor Agreement. It was to administer Alice B. Silver..Assoc. Editorial Director this that White later was ap- Diane Decker..... .Associate Editor dHeleneSimon.........Associate Editor pointed. Ivan Kaye.............Sports Editor White was the chief author of Paul Greenberg.... Assoc. Sports Editor that agreement, and Vinson, who Marilyn Campbell......Women's Editor was present at Bretton Woods, Kathy Zeisler....Assoc. Women's Editor watched him negotiate it. Don Campbell.......Head Photographer Ironically, the Russians re- Business Staff fused to sign . the agreement; said it would be controlled by Thomas Treeger..... Business Manager the United States, was an in- William Kaufman Advertising Manager srumnt f cpitaistaggan.Harlean Hankin. . .. Assoc. Business Mgr. srument of capitalist aggran- William Seiden..Finance Manager dizement. Vinson knew how James Sharp....Circulation Manager White had bucked the Russians at that conference. Probably Telephone NO 23-24-1 +I.e,* ninp rpen.,mho h- n 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 sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 2552 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (before 11 a.m. on Saturday). SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1953 VOL. LXIV, No. 53 Notices Late Permission. By action of the Stu- dent Affairs Committee, all women stu- dents will have 1:30 a.m. late permission on Sat., Nov. 21. Housing applications for graduate and undergraduate women students now registered on campus and wishing to move for the spring semester of 1954 will open at noon on Tues., Dec. '. ONLY THOSE WITH NO HOUSING COMMITMENT MAY APPLY. Applica- tions will be accepted for both Resi- dence Halls and League House rtc,=r- modftions until the number of available spaces are filled. Veterans who expectato receive edu- cation and training allowance under Public Law 550 (Korea Bill) must pick up Dean's Monthly Certification in ap- propriate school office, get instructors' signatures for November, and return that certification to the Dean's office on or before Dec. 3. Photography work for 1955 J-Hop. All those persons interested in doing the photography work for the 1955 J-Hop please submit petitions to the J-Hop Committee c/o Office of Student Af- fairs, by Wed., Nov. 25; 1953. Teaching Candidates for the Detroit Public Schools. The University Bureau of Appointments has been notified that the Detroit Public School System has vacancies in all fields for February and will welcome applications at the earliest possible date. If interested, contact the Bureau of Appointments or Mr. George Baker, Personnel Director, 1354 Broad- way, Detroit, Michigan. Lectures University Lecture, auspices of the Department of Journalism. Arnold vas Dias, Dutch war correspondent and cur- rently representative of various Neth- erland papers at the United Nations, 'will speak on "The Press in Europe," experiences of a war correspondent, Mon., Nov. 23, 3 p.m., Auditorium A of Angell Hall. Coffee hour following in Journalism Department, 1443 Mason Hall. Public is cordially invited. Academic Notices Astronomical Colloguium, Mon., Nov. 23, 4:15 p.m., the Observatory. Mr. B. Y. Mills, of the Radiophysics Labora- tory, Sydney, Australia, will speak on "Radio Sources of the Southern Hemis- phere." Interdepartmental Seminar in Ma- chine Computation. The next meeting will be held Mon., Nov. 23, 4:30 p.m., 429 Mason Hall. Dr. W. F. Bauer and Mr. Glen Graves, of Digital Computa- tion Department (MIDAC), Willow Run Research Center, will discuss "Analog and Digital Computation Methods in Nuclear Reactor Space Simulation." concert in the current Choral Union Series, Tues., Nov. 24, at 8:30,I n Hill Auditorium. The program will include songs by Brahms, Ivan Langstroth, Grieg; Mozart, Bach, Gounod, Kastal- sky; Folksongs from Latin America; Creole Folksongs; Negro Spirituals; and songs from World War II. Tickets are available at the offices of the University Musical Society, Burton Tower, at $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, and $3.00. Tickets will also be on sale after 7 o'clock on the night of the poncert at the box office in Hill Auditoriu&. Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial Hall, Fleischman Collection of Ameri- can Paintings, Nov. 15 - Dec. 8. Open 9-5 on weekdays; 2-5 on Sundays. The public is invited. Events Today First Laboratory Bill of Plays for the 1953-54 season will be presented free of charge in the Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre tonight at 8 o'clock.. Included on the bill are Christopher Fry's, A Phoe- nix Too Frequent; J. M. Synge's, The Shadow of the Glen; Zona Gale's, The Neighbors; and the second act of Sine tana's opera, The Bartered Bride, pre- sented with the school of music. The Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre opens at 7:30. It is not necessary to obtain tick- ets because the seats are not reserved. Hillel Foundation Activities for the week-end: Sat., Nov. 21, 9 a.m.: Community Serv- ices; 4 p.m.: Open House after Ohio State Game Sun., Nov. 22, 9 a.m.: Leave the Hillel Building for the Hillel "Kenes," All- Day Institute at the Fresh Air Camp Wesleyan Guild. Picnic with Ohio State Wesleyan Guild immediately fol- lowing the game. A square dance fol- lows this, with Grey Austin calling. S.R.A. saturday Lunch Discussion. Academic Freedom, discussed by a stu- dent panel. Note change of time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call Lane Hall, 3-1511, Ext. 2851, for reservation. The Congregational- Disciples Guild. After-game Open House at Guild House. Episcopal Student Foundation. Cider and doughnuts after the game at Can- terbury House. Newman Club. There will be a Dunk- ers Hour after the football game. Cof- fee and doughnuts will be served. Ev- eryone is welcome. Coming Events Foreign Language Group. The meeting Mon., Nov. 23, 8 p.m., East Conference Room, Rackham Building, will feature a talk by Professor Waldo Sweet on "The Use of the Aural-Oral Method in. Learn- ing to Read a Foreign Language." All membersof the teaching staff of the language departments, the English Language Institute, and graduate stu- dents are cordially invited. Young Republicans. Debate Meeting with Young Democrats, Mon., 7:30 p.m., Union. Topic: "Resolved, that the Re- publican Administration does not have an effective farm policy." All interested narsonflCinvited. x t A1 I The camera work is a tribute to the pre- ceding work of Eisenstein. Scene cutting and camera movements catch with pro- found understanding the fleeting emotions and general atmosphere. Perhaps the only other film to compare in this respect is the Lower Depths. i Murdock, James - Ketti York; Random House. 1953. Shalom; New