PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1953 ,. IT SEEMS TO ME By ALICE B. SILVER France, the governments of West Ger- Associate Editorial Director many and Italy are controlled by those THAT THE United States' agreement with parties perceived to be "on the Western Franco Spain is now a fait accompli side" or favorable to this country, and will not and should not stem severe criti- simultaneously opposed to the fascist ele- cism of this act from American and Euro- ments in their respective countries. Im- pean quarters. plied United States support of fascist Spain Although the official reasons for the adds fuel to the fire for the fascist parties agreement are military, the by-products of in Italy and West Germany and weakens the accord cannot be brushed aside in the te anti-fascist forces. name of defense or security. Along this same line it seems safe to spec- First we must dispense of the sop thrown ulate that Russia would not, if given the to Franco opponents that, in view of our opportunity, conclude an agreement with alliances with West Germany and Yugo- Franco. Certainly the communists realize slavia, it is at best naive to oppose a their potential in Europe and the disastrous U.S.-Spanish agreement. The government effects an alliance with Spanish fascism of Western Germany is a diffeent one would have upon the Party's efforts. Per- than that of Nazi Germany in terms of haps the State Department has forgotten goals and principles and is not now con- the very pertinent fact of the European Pop- trolled by elements foreign to democracy. ular Front of the thirties and its appeal to As for our alliance with Tito's govern- the workers to join with communism to fight ment, the State Department has made it fascism. Faced again with real choices be- clear that all agreements with commu- tween communism and fascism, the Euro- nist Yugoslavia are based solely on ex- pean has not forgotten. pediency and no attempt has been made * * * * to glorify Tito as a friend of democracy. ANOTHER consideration to be weighed is On the other hand, the powerful Franco the economic aid itself which we have lobby in Washington has created an aura promised Franco. This aid is not given to a of virtue and respect around the corrupt geographic area-the area in which the ruler of Spain to the extent that he is per- bases are to be built-but to a specific gov- ceived as the Great Champion against Com- ernment-Franco's government. With a munism. The signers of the Franco agree- record of corruption, graft and dishonesty, ment have, unintentionally perhaps, per- this government is not-to be trusted. Putting petuated an attitude that there exists some aid into Franco's hands might well be like community of interest between the Spanish dumping funds into Chiang Kai Shek's Na- .government and the United States. tionalist lap during the Chinese civil war- The effects of this especially on the Eur- through such corruption and mismanage- opean community will be far flung and not ment much of American aid fell into the inconsequential when viewed in the totality hands of the Communists. This is not to of American foreign policy and the interna- say that Franco will give American dollars tional situation. to Communism. It is to say that the United It should be common knowledge that States will be aiding a government which the average European worker, given the they have little control over and which is experiences of World War II and the years completely unreliable. preceeding it, is more sensitive to the In addition our economic aid, it is readily dangers of fascism than communism. admitted by this government, will serve to Take France as an example. The fading further entrench a government which is away of De Gaulle's party signifies the in- patterned on and has received major im- ability of fascism to gain even a respectable petus from the political schemes of Hitler number in France while on the other side and Mussolini. of the French Communists are making fast As for the strictly military point of inroads into the population. The general view, this writer is not equipped to dis- strike in France last.month demonstrated cuss the details of defense strategy. How- among other things the divergence between ever, it should be pointed out that th ,a the capitalists and the workers. This is rele- has been much debate among the mili- vent to the question of communism's poten- tary as to the advisability of Spanish tial in France in that the concept of in- bases. Some experts have pointed out that dustry and labor striving towards a com- the bases under construction in North mon goal is imperative to a democratic phil- Africa would serve to protect the same osophy. The low 'living standard ;of the area and at the same time avoid an al- French worker plus this way in which he liance with Franco. At any rate, the ques- views capitalism help enormously the cause tion of bases in Spain as imperative to our of communism in France. defense program is still an open question. Our alliance with fascist Spain will have And because it is an open question, the its effects in Germany and Italy too al- alliance of the United States government though in a different respect than in with a man of Franco's color can be viewed France. While the fascist potential in only with despair for those concerned with these countries is much greater than in the total scheme of international affairs. Disunified Europe Grapples With Political Organization MATTER OF FACT By STEW-ART ALSOP WASHINGTON-In the last few weeks, and especially since the President's re- turn from his vacation, there has been a tremendous coming and going in Washing- ton, an undercurrent of excitement, a sense of being on the eve of great decisions. Last Thursday, the National Security Council held its most publicized meeting since it was formed. The purpose of this meeting-to consider the Soviet air-ato- mic threat to this country-was well re- ported. Two speeches, the first by the Secretary of State and the second by the President, served to highlight the impor- tance of the second by the President, served to highlight the importance of the meeting. Secretary Dulles told the United Nations that the means had been discovered to "wipe life off the surface of this planet." And, Eisenhower, in his Boston speech, stated that "the enemies of freedom are equipped with the most terrible weapons of destruc- tion." He told the country that "there is no sacrifice-no labor, no tax, no service-too hard for us to bear" in order to deal with this threat. Meanwhile, plans for "Operation Candor" have been under constant review. A "White House source" officially confirmed that the President had decided that it was time for the people to know the truth. This source even volunteered that the public release of the motion picture of the explosion of the world's first hydrogen bomb was being con- sidered. The significance of this is suggest- ed zy the fact that the mere existence of this terrifying movie, which shows the total disappearance of a large island under the bomb's impact, had previously been the top- pest of top secrets. Since the final decisions have not been taken, it is too early to say what manner of animal all this laboring of mountains may produce. But it begins to seem that the end result may be a mouse-a rather large mouse, but a mouse all the same. Obviously, all the evidence rather clear- ly suggested that the country was to be asked to embark on a great national effort to build up the defenses of the continent. In fact, one firm decision appears to have been taken. An attempt will be made to build an effective early warning system against airborne attack. This system seems likely to be established on the so- called McGill line across northern Can- ada, with extra protection provided by radar-equipped picket ships on the Pa- cific and Atlantic flanks. An early warning system was the first step towards an effective continental de- fense recommended by the Project Lincoln group, and all the committees which have followed it. Such a system, when complete, will provide sufficient warning for our great target cities so that evacuation, at least, may be attempted. It will also greatly increase the effectiveness of our totally inadequate existing air defense. It will, moreover, be relatively cheap. At least for the first year, the cost of the radar installations alone should be no more than a fraction of a bil- lion dollars. This will be, in short, a highly useful first step. But the vital second step-an all-out program to provide the country with the means to respond effectively to the warning-now seems unlikely to be undertaken. The reasons against such a program advanced by the highest De- fense Department policy-makers may be briefly and objectively listed as follows: 1. Bar national mobilization, little more can be done to beef up our air defenses than is already contemplated. Much of the equipment proposed in the Lincoln Project report and subsequent reports is still on the drawing boards-or even no more than a gleam in the eyes of the scientists. To go all-out now would mean buying a lot of obsolescent equipment in order to give the country a false sense of security. 2. Manpower, not money, is now the real limiting factor. The Air Force, like the other services, is reaching the bottom of the post-Korea manpower barrel. It is no use buying a lot of equipment if there are not enough trained men to use it. 3. The proponents of an all-out conti nental defense effort themselves agree that the system they advocate is useless against the ballistic missile. The United States hopes to have long range missiles for nuclear delivery by 1960. We must not expect that the Soviet will be far behind-- if behind at all. Indeed, one study pre- pared for the Joint Chiefs establishes 19- 57-58 as the earliest likely date for the first Soviet ballistic missiles. Therefore it would be unwise to make a great na- tional effort in a continental defense sys- tem which will be rendered obsolete soon after it is created. There is no doubt a certain cogency in all three of these points. Yet they amount to accepting a Soviet capability to devastate the United States in the rather near future. The final decision rests, of course, with the President. As he ponders all the difficul- ties-technical, fiscal, human, political he might do well to bear in mind the words of an old friend. "Survival," Winston Chur- chill remarked during the war, "can be an Tax Tree Surgeons {'.*- . e Jr4P'ir Q i' \ f K r ,, sM c s ATi A F lr6RRFyG °Z.,. , GtUE /ette6J 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 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. rZ J Cl C. t; d s' r e. t t: d 13 e f. c t t J a c t i s c C / / ' / , //;, /,r /. ,,,: Committee Vi8t *. To the Editor: THE HOUSE Un-American Acti- vities Committee has announ- ced its intention of coming to Mi- chigan on November 30. A visit by the Committee cer- tainly bodes no good for the stu- dents and faculty of the Univer- sity of Michigan. Although the McCarthyites protest much about rooting and "Communist think- ers," they do not hesitate to at- tack, smear and attempt to des- troy anybody-but anybody-who does no swallow McCarthy's bait in toto. Professor Lattimore, Gen- eral Marshall and Ambassador Bohlen can bear witness to this! fact. Representative Velde is the chairman of the Un-American Committee. His views on educa- tion are really interesting! On January 30, 1952, he introduced a bill into the House, which, ac- cording to the "Digest of Public General Bills" "Provides that the Librarian of Congress shall as soon as practicable after the date of the enactment of these provi- sions compile a full and complete list of all subversive matter in the Library of Congress. Such list shall be made available without cost to all libraries in the United States for hteir guidance in clas- sifying, marking, and segregating subversive matter." It goes without saying that when someone banishes part of human knowledge to the under- world of "fingered" ideas, con- flict of opinion is outlawed, and wit hit, liberal education. A fancy picture! Guilt by as- sociation with books! And this man wants to investigate ieduca- tion. We believe that the Committee should be kept out of Michigan. We further believe that should the Committee insist on coming despite all efforts to make it un- welcome, that it is a patriotic ob- ligation to ref'use to be a party to its "work," that anyone who refuses to cooperate retain his full rights as citizen, student or teach- er intact. We finally believe that every ef- fort should be made to secure due process for all persons hailed be- fore the Committee, including a bill of particulars as to charges, right to face accusers and of at- torney to cross examine such ac- cusers and other witnesses, and right of the accused to present his position in full. -Mike Sharpe, Chairman Labor Youth League 9 ON THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND WITH DREW PEARSON 1111 -, By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AP News Analyst SERIOUS FRENCH Cabinet split and an Italian demand for a Trieste settle- ment are the latest monkey wrenches in the efforts of European diplomats to form a supranational governing body for the Eu- ropean Coal and Steel Community and the projected European Defense Community. Deputy foreign ministers or France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg and West Germany are going ahead with the drafting of a charter for the political or- ganization, but in an atmosphere of when-when if not actually never-never. Of the three larger nations involved, only West Germany is enthusiastic. Frances nationalists are not ready to yield any sovereignty and have threatened to disrupt the Cabinet unless Foreign Minister Georges Bidault comes up with a new policy before Act. 20, when the foreign ministers are to meet to consider the proposed draft. At the opening of the Rome drafting conference, Premier Pella said Italy could- n't go along with unification until the fu- ture of Trieste was determined. To complicate the situation, the Bene- lux countries-Belgium, Holland and Lux- C U R RN At the State . . RETURN TO PARADISE, with Gary Cooper. HERE ARE many happy natives on this picture's fictitious Polynesian island. Nevertheless the audience has to face long stretches of boredom as maddening as any- thing a thoroughly deserted isle could pro- duce. The paradise to which Gary Cooper is to return when old and broken is far from heavenly when he visits it as a young man, ten years before the war. By de- vious methods, a fire and brimstone min- ister has obtained the governorship of the little islan'd and established a reign embourg-have injected the suggestion that, while they are at it, the charter should provide for a customs union and extension of the coal and steel control system into other economic fields. The opposition of the French Degaullists to the political union is a part of their op- position to surrender of French sovereignty to the proposed defense community. The idea of the unificationists is that the nations must have an international parlia- ment to supervise the fields in which they have pooled, or plan to pool, their interests. Thus EDC, if formed, would come under a civil' control which woudl also make the Coal and Steel Community, now standing alone, a subsidiary. The injection of the Trieste issue as a prerequisite. to agreement probably re- presents a more concrete roadblock than the political opposition in France. Yugo- slavia shows no slightest sign of relin- quishing her claim to most of the terri- tory outside the port city, which she pro- poses to internationalize. There is no prospect that any Italian gov- ernment will be strong enough politically to run the risk of letting go at any of the points across the Adriatic which are centers of Italian population or business interests. r MAQ'/IES Nor is he converted. But the people get their leader when he goes berserk over the ill treatment his native girl friend suffers at the hands of the wardens. Inevitably, a more personal conversion is in store for him. Will he marry the trusting native maiden or not? Obligingly, the girl dies in childbirth just as he reaches the proper decision, and Cooper becomes a wan- derer once more. There is nothing new in this story, but it is as prettily told as most versions. With his return, however, there is a bungled, rushed attempt to establish ob- vious parallels in the romance of a strand- ed pilot and Cooper's daughter. The old fly-by-night Cooper emerges as a true WASHINGTON-It isn't supposed to leak out, but Georgia's stern3 Sen. Dick Russell, leader of the Southern Democrats, wrote a blistering, four-page letter to Secretary of Defense Wilson, taking him over the verbal coals for his softness towards POW collaborators. ' A power in the Senate and No. 1 Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, Russell angrily demanded dishonorable discharges for POWs who signed false confessions or turned informer on their fellow prisoners. This is the inside reason why Wilson suddenly shifted to a tougher attitude toward the prisoners. Previously he had taken the advice of the Armed Forces Policy Council, which argued that some prisoners had been tortured and brain-washed beyond en- durance and were not mentally responsible for their actions. Asa a result, he ordered the Armed Services to consider each case separately and sympathetically. In his private letter to Wilson, the Georgia senator declared: "If we are again compelled to take up arms in our defense with, the idea prevalent that the Department of Defense does not dis- tinguish between those who resisted heroically to the last breath as compared with the collaborators and false confessors, I do not see how1 we can expect the young men from 18 to 25, who must figlft our wars, to measure up to what will be expected of them. "Permit me to suggest," Russell continued, "that it is most impor- tant that either you or the President or the head of one of the de- fense agencies or some member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff make some statement which will let every young American serviceman and young men who will soon be in the service clearly understand that our gov- ernment strongly disapproves of both collaborators and false con- fessors. "My views may be extreme," Russell added forcefully, "but I be- lieve that those who collaborated and the signers of false confes- sions should be immediately separated from the service under condi- tions other than honorable . . . . it is evident that the defense agen- cies under your direction hold other views." The Georgian also telephoned Adm. Arthur Radford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and gave him the same view. The Admiral listened sympathetically, but passed the buck to Wilson. NOTE-The United States has asked the British to crack down on Alan Winnington, correspondent for the London Daily Worker, who helped torture American fliers into confessing a part in "germ warfare." WASHINGTON WHIRL SENATE LABOR chairman Alex Smith has urged the White House not to name a new Secretary of Labor until Congress comes back. He argues that it will give opponents too much time to dig up ammu- nition against the appointee before he can be confirmed . . . Senator McCarthy's boy wonder, Roy Cohn, has been trying to shush up the fact that he was once almost fired from the Justice Department. His, father, a Democratic politician, pulled strings to get young Roy ap- pointed to the New York district attorney's office. But the D. A., Myles Lane, soon had enough of him and threatened to fire him. Again the elder Cohn pulled Democratic strings, and then-Attorney General Jim McGranery transferredf Roy out of Lane's jurisdiction. But McGranery also became fed up with the young man and notified him bluntly that he had two days to get out. Roy begged to be kept on, however, until he could transfer to McCarthy's committee . .. Another McCarthy assistant, Don Surine, was fired from the FBI for conspiring with a lady in a white slavery case. This is a matter of sworn testimony in the U.S. district court. TROOPS OUT OF GERMANY IN A DRAMATIC though secret bid to end the cold war before it erupts into an atomic-hydrogen war, German and Austrian dip- lomats have urged a new peace-by-negotiation plan. They have sounded out Russia and the United States about withdrawing their forces from Germany and Austria. The idea would be to break off contact between Russia and Am- erican foices in Europe, thereby reducing friction. Both sides would pull out of central Europe. Germany and Austria, in turn, would then guarantee strict neutrality in the power struggle between east and west. The British, anxious to reduce tension in Europe, seem to favor the plan. They are talking about combining it with a non- aggression pact, which would bring an armistice in the cold war. Fearful that the U.S. may not go along, the British will move to reduce the strains on Anglo-American unity by lining up more with U.S. policy in the Far East. This is the first time Germany and Austria have taken the ini- tiative in diplomatic negotiations since the end of World War II. Their diplomats, in sounding out the State Department about the dis- engagement plan, argue that Russia is now so preoccupied with do- mestic troubles that it might be willing to end the cold war and with- draw into its iron shell. NOTE-Chief difficulty with the proposal, however, is that the Red army only needs to withdraw a few miles into Poland across the border from Germany and a few miles into Hungary and Czechosla- vakia across the border from Austria. It could then move back to Aus- tria in a few hours. The American army on the other hand would have to 'withdraw either to French bases which are not too happy about U.S. troops, or else back across the Atlantic. WASHINGTON PIPELINE DURING THE RECENT French strikes, Ex.-Sen. Bill Benton of Connecticut was caught in France with no way to send dicta- phone records of letters and memos back to his U.S. office. Adlai Stevenson happened to be passing through on his world tour, and good-naturedly packed Benton's dictaphone records home with him .Now that th mohbiliation ormm h ssleaker off American DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) weaving, etching, enameling on cop- per, rug hooking, photography, book- binding, and others are requested.I Eight weeks. $6.00. Instructor: wilmat T, Donahue and Shata Ling.t Engineering Drawing. Lectures and discussions will cover the principles of orthographic projection; practice in5 the making of working drawings; cor- rect drafting-room practice in conven- tional representation; the use of in- struments; practice in lettering-free-t hand for dimension and notes andI mechanical for titles; reading and checking of drawings; drill on geo- metrical construction; instruction on1 blue and brown printing; practice inI tracing; original drawing on tracingf papers, Two two-hour drafting-room periods per week. Sixteen weeks. $27.00. Permission of instructor as well as additional assignments will be neces- sary to elect the course as Elemen- tary Drawing I, three hours under-1 graduate credit. Instructor: Philip O. Potts. Investment Fundamentals. A course1 of study designed to introduce laymenI to the more elementary aspects of se- curity analysis. The series of lectures will stress personal budgeting, empha- size sound over-all investment plan-l ning, and demonstrate useful proced-1 ures and techniques for electing and analyzing individual security issues for purchase.tClassroom discussion will as- sume little or no previous knowledge of investment principles. Six weeks.- $6.00. Instructor: Wilford J. Eiteman. Practical Public Speaking. For the1 student who desires a course devoted exclusively to training in public speak- ing rather than a basic course in the whole field of speech. Study, analysis,J practice, and criticism designed to pro- mote the asquisition of proficiency in extemporaneous speaking. May be tak- en for credit or without credit. Limited to thirty persons. (Speech 31, two hours of undergraduate credit.) $18.00. In- structor: Paul E. Cairns. Semantics. The effective use of the mental processes, particularly of mem- ory, analysis, and integration; applica- tion of the principles of general se- mantics to the solution of personal and social problems; training of the memory and of the ability to abstract and integrate; improvement of the emo- tions; practical hints on the correct use of words; recommended readings in general semantics. Eight weeks. $8.00. Instructor: Clarence L. Meader. The Opera. Brings to the layman a fuller understanding of and a basis for a deeper enjoyment of opera as a musi- cal art form. Deals with the fundamen- tal aesthetic principles of opera and demonstrates their application in works from Mozart to the present, heard on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. Six- teen weeks. $18.00. Instructor: Glenn D. McGeoch. Concerts Sttdent Recital. Unto Erkkila, violin- ist, will be heard at 8:30 Wed. evening, Sept. 30, in the Rackham Assembly Hall, in a program of works by Bach, Paganini, Bartok, Miihaud and Beeth- oven. Mr. Erkkila is a pupil of Gilbert Ross and a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Played in par- tial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree, the program will be open to the public. Events Today Congregational Disciples Guild. Tea at Guild House, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Scimitars Club will hold its first meeting of the year at 7:30 p.m., in Room 3-K, Michigan Union. Plans for the coming meet with Wayne Univer- sity will be made. Fencers, both exper- ienced and non-experienced, are in- vited. Kindai Nihon Kenkyukai. Meeting to- night at 8r pm., East Conference Room (3rd floor), Rackham Building. Stu- dents interested in Japan are welcome. Engineers. A tryout meeting for the Episcopal Student Foundation. Tea from 4 to 6 p.m, Canterbury House. Museum of Art Alumni Memorial Hall. Exhibit of Swedish textiles through Oct. 15. Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays; 2 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The public is invited. S.R.A. Council Meeting, Lane Hall, 5:45 p.m. Square and Folk Dancing. Instruc- tion for beginners and fun for experts. Lane Hall, 7:30-10:00 p.m. World University Service (formerly WSSF) meeting, Lane Hall, 7:30 p.m. Frank Sulewski, Regional Secretary from Chicago, speaking. Coming Events American Chemical Society, Student Affiliate. Dr. Elderfield will speak; on "Opportunities in the Chemical Pro- fession," at 7:30 p.m., Wed., Sept. 30, 1400 Chemical Building. All students interested in chemistry are invited. Roger Williams Guild. Wednesday aft- ernoon tea, 4:30 to 6:00, at the Guild House. Church Supper at 6:30 p.m. in Y Fellowship Hall with students as guests. Call 7332 for reservations. Roger Williams Guild. Yoke Fellow- ship meets Thursday morning at 7 a.m. in the church prayer room. In- spirational devotions followed by a breakfast. Through in time to get to your 8 o'clock classes. Le Cercle Francais will hold its first meeting of the year Wed., Sept, 30, 8 p.m. in the Michigan League. 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