PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FIUDAY, DECEMBER 1$, 19513 PAGE FOUR I~1UDAY, DECEMBER 1~, 1~63 THE MICHIGAN DAiLY BMATTER O By JOSEPH ALSOP "You May Find Something In Your Stocking Soon" TODAY AND TOMORROW: Avoiding a Showdown.onEDC SINGAPORE, Malaya - The situation in Malaya is passionately interesting, but for none of the usual reasons. The war against communism here is a toilsome, weary business, lacking the drama of great actions and great risks. The problem here has not been solved, but it is under control. There is not the slightest likelihood that the world will soon be rocked by a Malayan crisis. Visit Malaya, however, and you can see coming events casting their shadows be- fore, them with dramatic distinctness. You can see it in the expression of polite panic that crosses the faces of British of- ficials when you ask, "What will happen in Malaya if Indo-China falls under Com- munist control?" You can see it too, in the immediate, grim reaction when you inquire, "What will be the effect in Malaya bf the emergence of Communist China as a major military pow- er?" Above all, you can see this shadow of com- ing events in the whole pattern of the strug- gle against Communist struggle in Malaya. The hope of rescue from abroad is the main- spring of the Communist effort here. The Malayan Communists would have given up by now if itwere- not for the promise, "Fath- er Mao is coming to your aid before long." That promise is all that keeps the terror- ist fighting in the jungle on the verge of starvation and against overwhelming odds. In other words, the Malayan war is only a function, as the mathmeticians would say, of the larger contest fior power in the Far East. Both of the truly exceptional men who lead the British and Malayan effort here, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer and Malcolm MacDonald, are absolutely clear on this point. Let the Communists in Indo-China be de- feated. Let the growth of Communist China's military power be decisively halted. Then these men believe the long, bitter and cost- ly struggle in Malaya would be ovei' almost the next day. But let Indo-China be lost. Or let Southeast Asia begin to be directly men- aced by Chinese military might before sta- bility has been achieved in the countries along China's borders. Then it will be just the other way around. Even the few hundred hard-core Com- munists who lead the jungle war here are human beings, after all. The hardest have their breaking points, as the collapse of the Greek Communists has already proven. The Malayan Communists are very near the breaking point today. But they do not break because they can still reasonably think they will be out of the jungle, and sitting in the high seats of the mighty, if they will just hang on a little longer, until Father Mao is ready. By the same token, any improvement of Communist prospects in Asia will cause a violent deterioration in the situation here. Partly this is because of the prevalence in Malaya of the "wait-and-see" attitude which is such a problem in Indo-China. This prob- lem is also greatly inflamed by the peculiar fact that the Chinese population of this country is now as great as the native Malay- an population. Here, in its most extreme form, you find the universal Southeast Asian question of the overseas Chinese. * * * * THE VERY few who have troubled to read Chinese history (which has its sharp les- sons for the world nowadays) will remember how China proper was only gradually occu- pied by the Chinese people in a series of wave movements spreading over more than 2,000 years. The Thai people of Siam, for example, were driven out of Central China by the Clinese advance at about the time of Christ; and were again driven out of South China into their present country in the 10th cen- tury. In many ways, the situation in Malaya today rather resembles the situation in Central China when the braver Thais fled to save their nation. Wealth and enterprise, commerce and the professions belong to the Chinese and not to the Malays. The Malays are em- bittered because they think the Chinese have taken their country from them. The Chinese angrily claim the influence their position entitles them to. The large major- ity of the Chinese here are anti-Commu- nists today yet most Malayan Communists are also Chinese. Moreover, almost all the Malayan Chinese feel a sneaking pride in the strength Communist China has al- ready shown. Very great numbers of them will want to support their compatriots in the jungle if and when the Communist drive in Asia shows even greater strength. They will then hope-and reasonably -- to take over Malaya as Central and South China were taken from the Thais in the old days. Nor does the story end there. The Brit- ish have to date kept peace between Malays and Chinese. They have now promised full independence to the Malay Federation. No one whohears Gen. Templer or Commission- er MacDonald on this subject can doubt the sincerity of the British promise. But in- dependent Malaya will be a monstrosity un- less a working partnership has been estab- lished between the Chinese and Malayan sectors of the population here. It all adds up to the dictum of Marchall Phibun of Thai- land, that "A Free world policy in Asia which does not address itself primarily to the problem of Chinese Communist power, is By WALTER LIPPMANN ONE of the many vices of diplomacy by public statement and press interview is the temptation, almost irresistible, to draw the issues much too sharply and much too soon. If the public statement is to sound bold and decisive-and what public man does not wish to sound bold and decisive-it must proclaim a crisis and announce a showdown. The issue has to be defined as black or white, as yes or no, as fish or cut bait, as are you with us or against us, as put up or shut up, etc. etc. Yet the one thing that nobody in the West can want, that nobody in the West can afford, is a crisis and a showdown over the complex, explosive, and momentous problem of the relations of France and Germany, over the E.D.C. and NATO. What is at stake is, as Secretary Dulles said, the formation of a lasting partner- ship between France and Germany. This partnership is essential to the peace and security of Europe. So great a thing can- not be brought about by a showdown. It is often said that there is no good alter- native to E.D.C. It would be truer to say that there is no good alternative to Franco-Ger- man reconciliation. That is why it is the business of all concerned to avoid a show- down which may compel us to consider the undesirable alternatives. The undesirable alternatives are those which in any way prevent the reconciliation of France with Germany, or align the United States and Great Britain with the one against the oth- er. Instead of trying to force the issue of rati- fication, our real interest is to stay with the problem of Franco-German relations until it is resolved. By staying with the problem, I mean taking the position that there is for us no alternative to a Franco-German recon- ciliation. If E.D.C. can be used to promote a partnership, we are for it; if it is an ob- stacle to that partnership, we are in favor of revising it. For what matters is not the ratification of E.D.C. as it stands, but a Franco-German reconciliation and partner- ship. We shall merely be talking ourselves into an insoluble mess if we identify-if we treat as if they were one and the same thing- the ratification of E.D.C. and a Franco- German reconciliation, It is at least an open question whether the most serious obstacle to Franco-Ger- man reconciliation is not E.D.C. itself in its present form. That will surelybe true if E.D.C. is allowed to become, or even to appear to become, primarily an American project. For we had better realize that if the French and the Germans are to work together sincerely from now on, it must be because they want to do that and not be- cause we demand it. E.D.C. Is a very different project today than when it was first proposed more than three years ago. tI has been radically modi- fied to make it acceptable to the Germans, and to make it a reasonably practical mili- tary device in the eyes of the professional soldiers of NATO. It can be modified still further to make it politically acceptable to the French-and we may add to the many all over Europe, including Germans, who! support silently the French view. * * * * THE CRUCIAL question is whether E.D.C. will mean that on the ground in Europe, the predominant forces of the western world will be German troops. It is evident that in the not too distant future the United States will wish to reduce to something like token forces its ground troops in Europe. The Brit- ish may well wish to do the same. Now there is no need to doubt the absolute good faith of the Adenauer government in order to recog- nize that with the strongest army, Germany will have the strongest voice in the political affairs of the continent. We must not forget that while the new atomic weapons may be decisive in war, it is the conventional weap- ons and particularly the infantry that are of paramount importance in a cold war in- side a continent. As Germany is a great power with great political grievances, the danger of giving her predominant politi- cal influence in Europe is something that no far-seeing statesman can afford to ig- nore. To recognize this is not to argue that Germany should not be armed, or that Germany should not become a member of the western community. It is to argue that the French are right in wanting to be sure that they will not be left alone on the ground in Europe with a superior German army: that in some effective and reliable way the British and the Americans will be present also. This does not call for any "agonizing re- appraisal" of basic United States policy. It does require a re-appraisal of much that was military dogma three years ago. As a matter of fact this re-appraisal is actually in progress. Since E.D.C. was first conceived three years ago there has been a big change in the military appraisal of the ground, forces needed in Europe. This re-appraisal is due to the development of the new weapons and, also, to the great and decisive progress made by NATO on the southern flank of the Rid salient in Europe. What has not been re-appraised as yet are the military assumptions upon which were based the original demand for a large Euro- pean ground army. Yet there is good reason for wondering whether such a re-appraisal will not show that the big ground army is no longer a good military investment, and that it may at the same time be a political lia- bility. We should avoid a showdown on E.D.C. For if the treaty is defeated, we shall be left with a hopeless breach between France and Germany. And if the treaty is ratified under pressure and in a deeply divided country, we shall only have forced the French into a shotgun wedding. That does not augur well for the happiness of either party. The wise course is to persevere in the search for the basis of a true agreement, to persevere no matter how long it takes, pro- vided the time.is used for negotiation and for re-appraisal aimed at reconciliation and partnership. (Copyright, 1953, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) /1 , pROPoS p ; , pA.,t Rp,, s - _ .__. .ot S 1 :___ r--. o GRES .s --- , ; + j j "" ,, 'r ~* ,r r . . _ _ . p.. sy. , _,.p ; ' ......_.... .,. t , 4, Yt F' v * j ... tS .1r / : but 6' t . JT 4 fe i ap i9.3 'F«E WASrt n+jG r' -7n1 po ST' ti tetter4 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 304 words in length, defamatory or libelous letters, 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. _r * Crary Plan... To the Editor: A FEW weeks ago the Daily pub-, lished a report on the Crary' plan concerning the rescheduling of the current semesters here at Michigan. I was at the time of the general impression that it was a suggestion and that it would soon be dropped. I was therefore, somewhat shocked to read the cur- rent article in today's Daily. This article caused much discus- sion among my friends and we have come to the following con- clusions. 1. The completion of finals be- fore Christmas, it is claimed, would eliminate the lag between finals and the beginning of the second semester. However, the ar- ticle states that there would be or could be a lag between finals and the end of the second semester in May. I fail to see then where any- thing has been accomplished in this catagory. 2. This plan had it been in effect this semester would have meant that students would have had to be in school 14 days before Labor Day. 3. The plan would eliminate any possibility of students obtaining jobs at resorts because most re- sorts continue their seasons opera- tions until after Labor Day. 4. The latter part of the sum- mer is for many families vacation time. This time of the year is most ideal for vacations especially from the weather standpoint. 5. This objection I feel, is most important. There would be no va- cation time between the beginning of school and the end of finals with the exception of the very short Thanksgiving vacation and presumably Labor Day. Due to this it would be very difficult for students to find time to "catch their breath." This is true especial- ly since Thanksgiving vacation is so short and much time is spent traveling. I am of the opinion that the quarterly system has more ad- vantages and less disadvantages than the proposed plan. --Walter C. Averill A Stronger Jow. . , AFTER I read about the fight be- tween Jim Balog and Guy Fos- ter, I recalled my encounter with the "Duke." Under somewhat sim- ilar circumstances, I also tangled with Balog, only in my case, Balog had no reason whatsoever to touch me. It seems that another boy and I were having an argument over the use of a word when Balog grab- bed me, hit me in the jaw, and tore my brand new sweater down the front. Apparently my jaw is stronger than Guy Foster's, but I lost a new sweater for no reasop at all. Even though I had two wit- nesses, I was unable to do any- thing about the incident. Now that a person has been se- riously injured, maybe the needed action will be taken. In any case, let's hope that Balog will learn to respect other people and their property-for a change --Jon D. Mandell, 157E f 'r ON THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-HOUND WITH DREW PEARSON r' WASHINGTON-John Foster Dulles has performed a lot of diplo- matic chores, but never before has he been given the job of operating a stapling machine. That, however, was what he did over the Atlantic ocean en route from Bermuda. With him as co-clerical worker was Admiral Lewis Strauss plus one of the most distinguished secretarial staffs ever to do paper work. What happened was that Ike was late in polishing up his famed atomic energy speech. Even while flying to New York, he applied the last finishing touches. As he did. so, his secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman, copied it out on a large-type typewriter, so the President could read it easily. Simultaneously, Mary Caffrey, Jim Hagerty's secretary, cut the mimeograph stencil. In the rear of the plane, Hagerty himself ran the mimeograph machine. C. D. Jackson, who largely wrote the speech, put the pages together. Admiral Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Com- mission, helped him, while Dulles stapled the pages. Dulles was a little slow, however, and only 200 copies of the speech were finished when the Columbine landed. So the secret ser- vice grabbed copies of the stencil, rushed them to the UN mimeo- graph room, where more copies were ground out of the speech which had been billed-and was-one of the most momentous of the Eisen- hower Administration, S** * * --BARKLEY STOLE SHOW- NOT MUCH of what he said got into the papers because it was off the cuff with no mimeographed text, but Alben Barkley's spicy humor was the smash hit of the Democratic dinner in Philadelphia. Slyly referring to the way the Democrats backed away from him at the Chicago convention last year, Barkley said: "When they asked me to come here, they told me I was to be toastmaster. But at 6:30, Steve Mitchell called and said Senator Francis Myers was to take that job. It wasn't the first time the Demo- cratic party has switched to me." The crowd roared. "Last year when Eisenhower won by such a big -margin, I figuredI the Democrats would not come back for a long time," continued the venerable Kentuckian, "but in recent months I've begun to change my mind. "The situation reminds me of a husband in Paris whose wife died and afterward he discovered she had been receiving the at- tentions of another gentleman who appeared at the funeral, weep- ing. The husband was restrained in his grief, but the other man was not. He could hardly control himself. After the coffin was finally lowered into the grave, the husband patted the other man on the back and said: 'Don't feel too bad, old pal. I'll marry again soon.' " That, implied Barkley, was how the Democrats are cheering up the Republicans today-with the promise of being elected again soon. -WASHINGTON WHIRL-.- 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 f1 a.m. on Saturday). FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1953 VOL. IXIV, No. 73 Notices The automobile regulations will be' lifted from 5 p.m. Dec. 18 until 8 a.m. Jan. 4, 1954. All offices of the University will be closed on the Saturdays following Christmas and New Year's. Unless oth- erwise specifically requested, all Uni- versity buildings will remain locked over the holiday weekends. Requests for the opening of buildings on either of the two Saturdays should be madeI to Mr. Edward Warren, Chief Building Custodian, Ext. 2826. -Herbert G. Watkins The deadline for receipt of applica- tions for RESEARCH CLUB GRANTS- IN-AID has been extended to Jan. 18. Applications may still be obtained at the offices of the Graduate School. Nelson International House applica- tions for the .spring semester are now being accepted at the J. Raleigh Nelson House for International living. All in- terested parties should call NO 3-8506 or come in person to see us at 915 Oakland Ave. Doctoral Examination for Julius Mathew Hill, Education; thesis: "Fac- tors Influencing the Effect of 'Correc- tive' Information about One's Apti- tudes on Change in Vocational Inter- est," Fri., Dec. 18, 2532 University Ele- mentary School, at 10 a.m. Chairman, E. S. Bordin. Doctoral Examination for Elizabeth Antonia Puglisi, Education and Psy- chology; thesis: "The Bio-Psychologi- cal Determination of the Adequacy of Informants in American English and Brazilian Portuguese," Fri., Dec. 18, _ East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., 4t 1:30 p.m. Chairman, J. F. Shepard. Doctoral Examination for Richard Nicholas Schmidt, Business Adminis- tration; thesis: "A Consideration of Some Aspects of Business Growth," Fri., Dec. 18, 816 School of Business Admin- istration, at 2:30 p.m. Chairman, D. R. G. Cowan. Doctoral Examination for Ann Filing- er Neel, Psychology; thesis: "The Nature of Defensive Behavior as Studied by Perceptual Distortion," Sat,, Dec. 19, 7611 Haven Hall, at 1 p.m. Chairman, H. L Raush. Doctoral Examination for Glen Dale Garman, Psychology; thesis: "The Strong Vocational Interest Inventory as a Measure of Manifest Anxiety," Mon., Dec. 21, 7611 Haven Hall, at 2 p.m. Chairman, E. L. Kelly. Events Today Episcopal Student Foundation. Tea from 4 to. 5:30 at Canterbury House, Fri., Dec. 18, followed by student-led Evening Prayer in the Chapel of St. Michael and All Angels. All students in- vited. I*4 CURREN MOVIE t A.t the State.. CITY OF BAD MEN and BOR'S WIFE THY NEIGH- USUALLY WITH a poor picture I can re- lax, sit back in my seat, and sleep awhile. With the introduction of cinema- scope, however, this kind of an escape is impossible. The oversize images on the screen beat down with a technicolor intensity that penetrates even the closed eyelids. So this time I bought some popcorn in the hopes that a gastronmical diversion might afford protection from the brooding omnipresence of the screen. Fortunately, the popcorn brought on an unquenchable thirst, which gave me an excuse to take drinking-fountain breaks. Thus suitabely fortified by popcorn and water, I settled down to endure the cur- rent double blast at the State. The first feature is aptly named Thy Neighbor's Wife. It is an interesting example of Hollywood film technics about the turn of the century except that it was made this year. The standard equipment is all there including a sweetly demure young heroine emeshed in the web of a villain. Our dash- ing hero arrives just in time to sign a mur- der confession and to get thrown into jail. But the villain makes his fatal mistake when he strangles the heroine. Our last glimpse of him occurs as he mounts the gallows while silhouetted against the sky filled with storm clouds and the shrill crys of a vulture. While viewing the City of Bad Men is is, advisable to take hold of both armrests New Books at Library Ca(rv.n'pmire-Ex'nt iht Im herd.New Yv+ and then duck. The return of Brett Stan- ton and his gang to Carson City seems to be the signal for the largest pyrotechnic display since the Black Tom explosion of 1917. This all takes place in the midst of the preparations for the Fitzsimmons- Corbet fight. The combination of such self- expressive tendencies leads one to suspect, that neuroses was an unknown quality in that day. After curbing his baser instincts, Brett is able to win away his old girl friend from the clutches of a perfectly normal and respec- table cad who might have led her into a life of domestic bliss. But everyone is happy in the end, so why quarrel? Both these films are calculated to leave the departing student with a mind sufficient- ly beclouded to endure the rigors of a two week vacation at home. But the popcorn only leaves a salty taste in the mouth. -Dick Wolf SINCE THE WAR the French Mediterran- ean coast from Antibes to Marseilles has been the scene of magnificent creative ac- tivity in the fine arts. The activity has in- volved the talents of the three greatest fig- ures of twentieth-century art in France: the painters and sculptors Matisse and Picasso; the architect Le Corbusier. Through their recent works these three men have done much to avert the economic collapse predicted for the Riviera at the end of the war, when the English and Germans could no longer travel in numbers or style. Today the French coastal area is swarming with tourists once more. Most of them come for the sake of weather, wine, food, and other recreational facilities, not excluding the Bikini bathing suit. But a sizable and grow- ing n-iihrn oftourists .cme t oePicasso's J 1 l I 1 ATTORNEY GENERAL Brownell's 17-year-old daughter, Joan, is The New York State Civil Service Dept. practicing what her father preaches. Accidentally bursting into a has announced that the last date for Negro church, she discovered she was the only wvhite person present, filing for the Professional and Technical Assistant examination as well as for sat down and stayed for the entire service . . . After War Claims the Public Administration Intern ex- Chairman Dan Cleary passed away, President Eisenhower was so amination has been extended to Dec. 24. Applications must be postmarked on or anxious to replace the other two Democratic commissioners that he before that date. Application forms and wrote a curt letter dismissing them while they were out attending announcements are still available at' Cleary's funeral . . . The President occasionally drops into the Army- the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad- Navy club for unannounced visits with his old cronies. As a result, ministration Bldg. the Secret Service has run a security check on all the club's em-' PERSONNEL REQUESTS. ployees . . . Mamie Eisenhower has promised to swing the champagne The Kentucky State Department of bottle at the launching of the Navy's first atomic sub,. . Senator fH ains ector unII n hexamination forInpecorVII for the Home Acci- McCarthy made a big point of the fact that Brig. Gen. Telford Tay- dent Prevention Section of the Depart- lor's service record was marked with a red "flag." This column can ment. Requirements include a college report that McCarthy's own record at the Pentagon is similarly "flag- or Public Health plus 4 years of exper- ged" . . . Georgia's scrupulous Senator Dick Russell, leader of the ience in Sanitary Inspection work. (A Southern bloc, is so burned up at Republicans that there's no chance Master's degree may be substituted for of forming another GOP-Southern Democratic coalition next ses- be filed no later than Dec. 27, 1953. sion. Russell is sore over the Eisenhower Administration's handling The TennesseenValley Authority, of the farm problem, its use of FBI files to attack the Democrats, Knoxville, Tenn., needs Civil, Mechani- and the GOP drive to eliminate segregation. tecturai Engineering and Architectural * * * * graduates to assist in the design, con- ._.Ck A A T .JT: .. A 14~T~It tTstruction, and operation of hydro-elec- 4 h -- A11LL i1Ll~tf1 Y- T HOUGH A little slow in moving, the Eisenhower Administration played no favorites in prosecuting the smugglers of $1,000,000 worth of Charolais cattle into Louisiana from a hoof-and-mouth di-E sease infected part of Mexico. Alphe Broussard, the man who brought the prize cattle, has now been indicted; also Antonio Enrique Gilly, the man who sold the cattle to him; and William L. Babb, the man who actually did the smuggling. John Minor. Wisdom, Eisenhower's No. 1 political adviser in Louisiana, was retained as attorney for Broussard, but defended the case over-the-table, pulled no wires under the table. * * * * -INSIDE THE PENTAGON- THE CHEMICAL CORPS has built an imitation A-bomb, made of smoke-producing chemicals, white phosphorus grenades, nitro starch, napalm, sand and gravel. When exploded, it shoots a column of smoke into the air with a mushroom-shaped cloud at the top. The idea is to simulate an atomic explosion, and add realism to battle maneuvers . . . There's increasing pressure inside the Navy to convert - + .. +,- rn in-y Ln Flnc~i n _+.-- ~l ic il l urrl - t tric and steam generating plants. The U. S. Civil Service Commission has announced an examination for Ac- countants to fill positions as Internalf Revenue Agents, GS-7, and SpecialI Agents (Tax Fraud), GS-7, in the In- ternal Revenue Service of the Treasury Dept.t For further information about these and other employment opportunities,} contact the Bureau of Appointments,' 3528 Administration Bldg., Ext. 371. PERSONNEL INTERVIEWS DURING JANUARY 1954. The following companies will have representatives at the Bureau of Ap- pointments to interview February and June graduates during the month of January: Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa, Denham & Co. (Detroit adver- tising agency), Aeroquip Corp. (Jack- son), Kroger Co. 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