'AGE FOTIR "THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, DECEMDER 2,1954 'AGE FOIIK 'TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2,1954 )EPORTATION CASE: Buick Navidzadeh - Honesty Didn't Pay BUICK NAVIDZADEH, a young Iranian law- yer and national police lieutenant who is doing graduate work in the Law School, is in a precarious position. Currently.on $1,000 bond to insure his appearance at a deportation hear- ing Wednesday, Navidzadeh may be sent to his homeland if not granted political asylum here. If this happens, he says he faces almost cer- tain death. Background on Navidzadeh's case, which is being handled by professors Beauford J. George, Jr., and William W. Bishop of the law school, goes back to 1948. At that time the 30-year-old student completed work at both an Iranian law school and the national police school. As soon as he had completed his studies, he es- tablished Gendarmerie Magazine in his native country. The magazine was published by him during the next four years. During his tenure as publisher, the young lawyer made powerful enemies. One of these is an Iranian army officer who received a 15- day jail sentence after the lawyer reported the officer attempted to rape Navidzadeh's secretary. Other enemies were made when Navidzadeh informed government officials that army officers had attempted to steal gasoline and other supplies from a United States mission in Iran. 'They have since threatened to "get even" with him for his ac- tion. And this was where Navidzadeh's troubles be- gan. For he claims if deported his execution will undoubtedly follow shortly after his re- turn to his native country. Prof. George rightly believes the student's story, for if Nav- idzadeh is forced to return to Iran the un- scrupulous officers he once accused of crimes will undoubtedly put on a short sham trial which could only end in Buick's execution to get him out of the way. In many countries military officers would not wield such power over others. But in Iran the situation is different, for a military juntN headed by Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi presently rules the country. True, the Shah of Iran is titular head of the government but Zahedi, who was a Nazi agent in Iran during the Second World War and was finally kid- napped by a British group, actually rules the country, being supported by the military. Buick came to the United States early this year to study for master's and doctor's degrees here. He was given a passport by the Iranian government which was supposed to be valid until November, 1955. American immigration authorities gave him permission to remain here as a student through May, 1955. Then two months ago Navidzadeh's private supply of funds in Iran was kept from his use by his government. However, the grad- uate student Is paying part of his stay here with a University scholarship. About the same time the Iranian government charged Navidzadeh with being connected with Communist activities back home and ordered him to return immediately. Refusing to com- ply with this request, Navidzadeh told Iranian officials that he came here with the permis- sion of the Shah and added that this was a situation in which he doubted justice in Iran. Then things began to happen fast and fur- ious. The Iranian government cancelled Navid- zadeh's passport except for purposes of his im- mediate return home. Under U.S. law, there- fore, the United States Immigration and Nat- uralization Service was forced to conclude that the student no longer possessed the necessary credentials to remain in America to study. Immigration authorities ordered him to leave the country or face deportation. Two days ago he was placed under $1,000 bond furnished by a surety company. The bond was financed by several Ann Arbor residents including a pas- tor and officials of Lane Hall and the Interna- tional Center. These officials agreed to finance the bond as private individuals, not as repre- sentatives of the two groups. Next step in the case will occur Wednesday when Navidzadeh is due to appear before another deportation hearing in Detroit. This hearing will be strictly a formality, Prof. George has said. The student is due to pre- sent a petition during the hearing for po- litical asylum in the United States. Then evi- dence on his case gathered during the next few months will be sent to Immigration Serv- ice headquarters in Washington for the fi- nal decision on his request to remain here in the United States. What does Navidzadeh have to say in an- swer to the charges that he is a Communist? Just this-"In Iran the military junta govern- ment labels anyone who disagrees with it a Communist. I am in no way connected with or sympathetic to Communist Party activities in Iran or elsewhere. However, I am opposed to certain terrorist policies and practices of the present Zahedi regime. I believe in constitution- al monarchy and the Shah. I believe in God and I hate Communism. One final point remains to be added. It is this-to get into this country Navidzadeh had to pass security requirements proving he was not a Communist. He evidently pass- ed these tests, as he is now here. Of course, only one side has been heard from, as the Iranian ambassador to this country has made no comment on the issue. However, the two Law School professors han- dling his case, the local citizens who helped get him the $1,000 bond and numerous students, faculty and administration personnel believe Navidzadeh is telling the truth. In his own words, "I want to finish my stu- dies here first. Then I'll go home if it is safe to do so. If it would be too dangerous to re- turn, I'll wait. After all, I need to stay alive for myself, mey family and my people." -Joel Berger "Do You Mind If We Put Another Aisle In Here?" F t 3 _ SREPBIEMO ~t ( t, - C URRENT MOVIES At Architecture Aud... . THE BICYCLE THIEF in Italian with English Subtitles. ONE OF THE world's most hon- ored films, The Bicycle Thief is a moving and inspiring story about a man's attempt to survive in a complex society. Laid in post- World War II Rome, it soon trans- cends its special background to be- come a universal view of a human being caught up in a social or- ganization which professes hu- manitarian benefits, but ironically deprives him of rudimentary necessities to keep alive. Not wishing to stifle his play- ers and theme with excessive story-line intricacies, Director Vit- torio DeSica has used just a bare suggestion of a plot. Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) gets a job as a bill poster, which he hopes will enable him to feed his wife, Maria (Lianella Carell), son Bruno (Enzo Staiola), and an infant. Maria pawns the family linen to get the bicycle necessary for the job; and the next morning Antonio begins to paste posters of Rita Hayworth on the dingy and crumbling buildings. When a thief runs away with the bicycle, An- tonio is faced with loss of work. The remainder of the film docu- ments an all-day Sunday search by father and son for the lost bi- cycle. Most of the film is taken up with this search, and DeSica holds interest by having the pair wand- er through the streets of Rome, letting the viewer perceive the tragedy-comedy that is life. Some- times there is hope; then again dispair confronts the searchers. THE PHOTOGRAPHY, done without lighting effects, is crude, fuzzy, and often very dark in a fascinating way. Its lack of Hollywood slickness provides it with a kind of overpowering real- ism. Except for the thief (Vittorio Antonucci), the entire cast is com- posed of non-professionals. DeSica directs with great attention to fine details; closeups mirror every " twitch and movement in the act- ors' faces. The Bicycle Thief has taken its place as a classic among motion pictures. --Ernest Theodossin TODAY AND TOMORROW By WALTER LIPPMANN LONDON NOW THAT we are once again talking about a "bi-partisan" foreign policy, we are likely to do better with it by remembering the facts of life. For the light it throws on the present situation one of the most important facts of the old bi-partisanship was that it was not a col- laboration or a combination of the two parties. It was a coalition made up of administration Democrats and non-isolation Republicans. This bi-partisan coalition came into being just before the war when Roosevelt brought Stimson and Knox and many other Republicans into his administration for the purpose of conducting the war as a national effort. Later on the Republican wing of this coalition found a leader in Sen. Vandgnberg and after that in Mr. Dewey and Mr. Dulles. This coalition dominated the Senate for the period which lasted ap- proximately from 1945 to 1950. The period of the bi-partisan coalition saw the American entry into the United Nations, the adoption of the Marshall Plan, the formation of the North Atlantic Security Pact, re- armament, and the first phase of the Korean War. We shall misunderstand the problem which President Eisenhower now faces if we misread the history of bi-partisanship in the past. It would be a misreading of it to fail to realize that the crux of the old bi-partisan agreement was a coalition of Democrats and of the Re- publicans who were opposed to the isolationist Old Guard. Sen. Taft, who was by no means an irreconcilable isolationist, was nevertheless, not in this coalition. That is a measure of how far it was from being a combination of the two parties. FOR PRESIDENT EISENHOWER it is more difficult than it was for Roosevelt and Truman, indeed it was a wholly different mat- ter, to work a bi-partisan policy. For among the Congressional Republi- cans the reliable supporters of the President in foreign policy are prob- ably only a minority in their party. For Roosevelt'and Truman bi- partisanship meant taking their party virtually as a whole into a coali- tion with one wing of the Republicans. For Eisenhower it would mean taking a faction of his own party into a coalition with the Democrats. This difference will make it impossible for him to forget that to be bi- partisan with the Democratic party as a whole threatens to widen the differences in his own party. It is just as well to have no illusions and so not to become too much frustrated and too disappointed because the impossible does not hap- pen. This need not mean, and there is good reason to think it will not mean, that the Democrats will oppose or embarass the President in matters of defense, high strategy and high policy. But it is likely to mean that we are not going to see again the kind of collaboration which prevailed in the days of Vandenberg's greatest influence. THESE ARE NOT the only reasons why the situation today is very different from what it was in 1945 to 1950. In those days the great questions were whether Congress would ratify the commitments and would vote the appropriations upon which our system of postwar alli- ances has been founded. The problem was how to persuade Congress to agree, and the solution of the problem was found in the bi-partisan coalition. But now the main commitments have been made and the alliance exists. The great question is no longer whether Congress will ratify more commitments. For none is really needed, though we have gotten into the habit of making them much too freely. Nor is it any longer a great question whether Congress will appropriate enough money. The end of foreign aid to subsidize our alliances is now clearly in sight. The great question today in the relation between Congress and the Administration turns on how far Congress is going to participate in, indeed to dominate and control, the conduct of foreign policy and the administration of our foreign affairs. The problem today in Washing- ton is no longer how to persuade Congress to accept the proposals of the Administration. The problem is to keep Congress from running the State "Department and from invading and usurping the Constitu- tional powers of the President. THE GREATEST difficulties of the Administration, the gravest dan- ger now threatening our national interests, stem directly from the Congressional usurpation of the powers and responsibilities of the Executive. It is this that paralyzes our action in the outer world. Two men symbolize the two aspects of this usurpatipn. One is Sen. Know- land, who is using his office as party leader in a persistent effort to dominate the making of policy. Sen. Knowland does not advise and consent. He threatens and attempts to coerce. The other is Senator Mc- Carthy who has made a shambles of the dignity and independence of the Executive branch of the government. What the Administration needs tne most from Congress is strong resistance to this Congressional usurpation. To make themselves the center of this resistance is the biggest contribution which the Demo- crats, now in control of the Senate committees, can make to the na- tional security and the public good. They can join with the Eisenhower Republicans in liberating the President from the veto which Mr. Know- land exercises over policy, and in liberating, perhaps one should say in stimulating, Mr. Dulles to get rid of the commissars who have infil- trated the administration of the State Department. (Copyright 1954, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) DREW PEARSON: Washington Merry-Go- Round WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Dulles had known about the 13 U.S. fliers held by China ever since the Korean truce. They had been mentioned frequently in Pei- ping radio broadcasts, 'so anyone listening in also knew about them - .Nothing was done to secure t h e i r liberation. . . .Predictioni: Look for Moscow to intervene with Red China to free the 13 Ameri- cans as part of the current coex- istence'overtures. . . .Ike is not go- ing to be able to squeeze Senator Knowland out of the Senate GOP leadership no matter how often Knowland punctures and pillories the Eisenhower foreign policy. Ike has been pretty peeved at Know- land's speeches, but when his er- rand boy, Vice-President Nixon, talked to GOP Senate solons they wouldn't stand for bouncing Know- land. . . .Incidentally, they didn't know whether "McNixon" was speaking for himself or the Pres- ident, because Dick would like nothing better than to get his fel- low Californian, Senator Know- land, demoted. .. Sen.Herman Welker of Idaho mistook the new senator from Nebraska, Roman Hruska, for a senate aide and started ordering him around. Hruska promptly told Welker to get his own glass of water... . Friends of Colorado's Gene Milli- kin, one of the most respected members of the Senate, would like to work a deal whereby he would resign to let Gov. Dan Thornton take his place prior to January 1. Thornton would step down from the governorship to be succeeded by Lieut. Gov. Allott, who becomes senator in January. Allott would then appoint Thornton to the Sen- ate . ..Ifthis triple play is too long delayed, Big Ed Johnson, Democrat, will step into the gov- ernor's mansion and the deal won't work. Dixon-Yates Dickers The Dixon-Yates combine has been dickering with the famed Steve Hannegan public relations firm to improve its relations. They need it. (Only trouble is that one of Ike's closest golfing partners, William E. Robinson, is head of the Hannegan firm,).. . .When Cong. Charley Howell, Democrat, who ran for the Senate in New Jersey, got a letter from the Dem- ocratic National Committee asking for $100 to pay for the recount of Senate votes in Ohio, he wrote a caustic note that if the Democrats really wanted to pick up another Senate seat they could spend their money recounting ballots in New Jersey. There, he pointed out, Clif- ford Case, Repulican, has a mar- gin of some 3,000 votes, while in Ohio, George Bender, Republican, has a 6,000 margin over Senator Burke, Democrat . . . Democrats say they are 'so tired of having Republicans count them out in- Hamilton County, Ohio (Cincin- nati), that it's worth $75,000 (cost of the recount) to teach the Re- publicans a lesson . . . Astute Venezuelan Security Chief Pedro Estrada was in Washington to con- fer with J. Edgar Hoover. He re- ports that Venezuela, whose oil areas could be a tinder box in case of war, is safe from sabo- teurs. .. The Food and Drug Ad- ministration has given a clean bill of health to use of boric acid in baby powders. After a careful ex- amination, FDA found boric acid beneficial. Congratulations Congratulations to Douglass, Kans., on its 75th birthday last week. My grandfather, one of its earliest settlers, lived there be- fore it was incorporated. He trav- eled to Kansas in a prairie schoon- er from Litchfield, Ill., where he was town constable. The Santa Fe RR had just been built, but he couldn't afford to travel that way and take his family. 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Still an Enigma: Alger Hiss, LAST SATURDAY a man released from a Federal prison in Pennsylvania could be thankful that the law permitted him time off his sentence for "good behavior." Consider- ing the rather brilliant career he had made for himself, this was about all for which Alger Hiss could be thankful. It is not easy for a man to be tried by others and condemned on the word of a self-styled martyr. And yet, Hiss was sentenced because the testimony of Whittaker Chambers was accepted. Alger Hiss was a member of the Yalta Con- ference, executive secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks monetary conference and secretary gen- eral of the United Nations Charter Conference in San Francisco during and after World War II. All three of these conferences have since been in for their share of criticism and attack. A FTER 10 years in the State department, Hiss resigned in 1946 and became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Two years later Hiss resigned this post as rumors and accusations about him were already flying in Government circles. That same year Chambers, before a House subcommittee, testified that he had known Hiss as a Communist Party member. Hiss, before the subcommittee, countered many of Chambers' statements. After Chambers repeated this on a radio broadcast, Hiss sued him for defamation of character. Hereafter Chambers came up with documents he said had been stolen from the State department and other Government files for the Communist under- ground. Whittaker Chambers deserves another glance. He was a member of the Communist party for 14 years, breaking his ties, he said, in 1938. He admitted having been an active cell member. After the war both he and Elizabeth Bentley got into the news limelight as they spoke out against the Communist threat in America. HIS IS NOBLE for anyone: no-one denies it. But giving Chambers a second look is interesting. We have here a man who turned on his government and joined the Communists, and then turned on this group to come back to the first. In any society, such action would not be regarded lightly and all subsequent committee investigators to his Maryland farm to a specific vegetable and its contents: the now infamous "pumpkin papers." These were five films with 200 photographs of classified Government documents, one supposedly in Hiss' handwriting and some others allegedly typed on an old typewriter belonging to Hiss. THIS LED to Hiss' indictment by a grand jury on two counts of perjury before the House subcommittee. The first that he had denied passing any documents to Chambers and the second that he had denied meeting Cham- bers after Jan. 1, 1937. (Chambers said that Hiss had passed his information after this date.) A hung jury ended Hiss' first perjury trial in 1949. He was convicted in a second trial the following year. The decision was upheld by the Appeals Court and the Supreme Court refused to review the case. (Justices Reed and Frankfurter abstained from this decision as they had each been character witnesses for Hiss.) Hiss has steadfastly maintained his inno- cense of the possible spying charges and there have been many persons who coricurred with his remarks that Chambers could easily have forged some of the contents of the "pumpkin papers." WHEN WE remember that the "peace" that followed World War II has been one ap- proximating hysteria where the Red scare is concerned, it can readily be seen that the Hiss case was not one of black-and-whiter Hiss insists he was part of a frame-up; others have said that he was an agent of President Roose- velt and had joined the Communist party to spy on their activities. .After leaving prison Saturday, Hiss told the press that he intends to continue his effort for vindication of the conviction stemming from the "fear and hysteria of the times." He also spoke of the attacks made against him while imprisoned and unable to answer. Though there is still a large amount of "fear and hysteria" in America today, one can only hope that more Americans are mature enough to become more sensible to the Com- munists-in-government scare and permit Alger Hiss a fair chance of clearing himself. In any SCP Paint Party *.*. To the Editor: P OSTER - Painting - Party f o r Common Sense Party will be held Friday at 7 p.m. The meeting wil not take place in University residence halls. For information concerning the place of the Paint- ing Party, call 3-2804. -Bill Allen Sunday Magazine . .. To the Editor: QELDOM DOES anyone bother 4 to praise, we are all so busy adversely criticizing The Daily. As a result, the enthusiasm with which The Daily Sunday Magazine has been greeted by almost all The Daily readers has not come to light in this column. However, The Daily editors may be interested in knowing that all, to our knowledge, found the vari- ety and depth of the first Sunday Magazine made its reading among the most stimulating aid pleasant occupations to be made available to students in recent years. Thus, it was no surprise to find that the experience of publishing the first Sunday Magazine led to a second edition which made the first seem dull by comparison. The opportunity is being afford- ed readers for obtaining reason- ably complete interpretations of special areas of current events and art, for obtaining clear pictures of specialized topics. For this The Daily deserves the highest praise and thanks. -Leah Marks Norman Gelber Janet Neary * * * Senate TV ... To The Editor: REGARDING Louise Tyor's edi- torial opposing TV broadcasts of Senate committee meetings-- TV serves the important function of providing the public with in- formation, as well as entertain- ment. It is a great medium for THERE are too many lawyers in the T. S Accnrding to "The communication. If the meetings of the Senate are open to the public, why then shouldn't those Ameri- cans who cannot afford to attend these meetings personally, and who are concerned with the issues at stake, be permitted to witness these meetings? The Senators don't fear the public in the gallery, whi' then all the concern about the audience viewing the TV screens. Is it merely because the audience is acknowledgeably larg- er? "Only in states in which the power of the people is supreme has liberty any abode." -Howard S. Crandell, '57E DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) 'Heavenly and Earthly Fire :" Readings fromthe Poetry and Prose of the Sev- enteenth Century. Thurs., Dec. 2. Au- ditorium A, Angell Hall. 4:10 p.m. Department of Astronomy. Visitors' Night, Fri., Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. Dr. Leo Goldberg will speak on "Radio Signals from the Stars." After the illustrated talk in Room 2003 Angell Hall, the Stu- dents' Observatory on the fifth floor will be open for telescopic observation of the Moon and Jupiter, if the sky is clear, or for inspection of the telescopes and planetarium, if the sky is cloudy. Children are welcomed, but must be accompanied by adults, Academic Notices 401 Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Application of Mathematics to Social Science will meet in 3409 Mason Hall, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 2. F. Harary will speak on "Directed- Graphs as a Mathematical Model." Seminar in Applied Mathematics will meet Thurs., Dec. 2, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 247, West Engineering. Prof. C. L. Dolph, "Remarks on the Schwinger Variation Principles." Seminar in Mathematical Statistics will meet Thurs., Dec. 2, at 4:00 p.m., Room 3201 A.H. J. Meagher will con- clude his discussion of Chapter 5 and Miss Irene Hess will begin discussion of Chapter 6 in Cochran's Sampling Techniques. Biological Chemistry Seminar: "Com- parative Cellular Energetics," under the direction of Dr. J. F. Hogg, Room 319, West Medical Building, Fri., Dec. 3, at 4:00 p.m. present Handel's "Messiah" Sat., Dec. 4 at 8:30 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 5, at 2:30 p.m., in Hill Auditorium. University Choral Union, Musical Society Orches- ttra,, Alice Lungershausen, harpischord- ist; Lucine Amara, soprano; Lillian Chookasian, contralto; Charles Curtis, tenor; and Donald Gramm, bass; Les- ter McCoy, conductor. Tickets (75c and 50c) will be on sale until 12:00m. Dec. 4 in Burton Tower, and at Hill Audi- torium box office one hour before each concert, Exhibitions Museum of Art. French Textiles, 1685- 1800, through Jan. 2; Whistler Prints, through Jan. 2. Alumni Memorial Hall. Open 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. weekdays, 2:00- 5:00 p.m. Sundays. Events Today Miciigan Crib. Trip to Circuit Court Thurs., Dec. 2. All interested meet Bill Tyson, 1:00 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 2, in front of Hill Auditorium, to go to Judge Brakey's courtroom for the 1:30- 5:30 p.m. session. Late-corers should join the group in the courtroom on Huron Street anytime during the after- noon. Christian Science Organization Testi- monial Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Fire- side Room, Lane Hall. International Center Tea. Thurs., Dec. 2, 4:30-6:00 p.m., Rackham Building. Young Democrats. "India's Position in the Clash Between East and West" will be the discussion topic Thurs., Dec. 2 at the Michigan Union. Room hardt. Assistant Professor of Bacteriolo- gy. Rackham Amphitheater, Thurs., Dec. 2, at 8:00 p.m. Refreshments. Open to the public. Business meeting, 7:00 p.m. Initiation 7:30 p.m. Welcome ad- dress by Nat'l. Chancellor, Dr. Karl F. Lagler. S.L. Travel Show Thurs., Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. A student panel will discuss experiences in Europe and a travel agent will give advice on low cost opportunities for student travel. First Baptist Church. Thurs., Dec. 2 7:00 p.m. Yoke fellowship in Prayer Room. Bahai Youth Group meeting at 8:30 p.m. i the League, Thurs., Dec. 2. Open to all. Hillel. Musicale 8:00 p.m. Coming Events Lane Hall Coffee Hour. The Christ- mas tree will be decorated Fri., Dec. 3, 4:15-6:00 p.m. Lutheran Student Asso- ciwtion will be guild host. Episcopal Student Foundation. Stu- dent-conducted Evensong at 5:15 p.m., Fri., Dec. 3, in the Chapel of St. Mir chael and All Angels. Canterbury Club, 7:30 p.m. Fri., Dec. 3, at Canterbury House. Prof. Helen Dodson of the Mc- Math-Hulbert .Observatory will discuss "Certainty and Uncertainty." Hillel. Fri. Evening Service 7:15 p.m. Conducted by Rabbi Joseph Katz and Cantor Martin Glantz. Rabbi Katz will speak "On the Future of American Judaism-A Tercentary Topic."