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IT'S A SECRET:
Some Campus Organizations
Pursue Strange Policy
BEHIND THE recent revelation of facts about
the potential danger in fall out from hydro-
gen bomb explosions lies a great difference of
opinion on exactly what is secret and how much
the American people have a right to know. Of
course this is not the first case of withholding
information from the public: the press must
continually struggle to have its members ad-
mitted to even the most harmless committee
meetings in Congress and other governmental
bodies across the nation.
Only recently, for example, the Board of
Regents recognized the right of accredited cor-
respondents to attend their meetings.
The press is not entirely selfish in its motives.
While they realize that much "hot news" is
discussed behind closed doors, they also believe
firmly that the, people can make the wisest de-
cisions for their own governing if they are well
informed.
AT THE University level, the atmosphere
should lend itself to greater freedom of
discussion than any other place. Yet, the situ-
ation is just the opposite.
The most recent instance we can cite is the
closing of discussion to a Daily reporter by the
Student Legislature Executive Cabinet when
they were planning how to dispose of some
$5,000 in their accounts before the transition
is made to Student Government Council.
The $5,000 came from the pockets of a good
many students in the campus community: they
rightfully should be able to read some account
of how those funds were disposed of.
The next offender against freedom of infor-
mation would appear to be Joint Judiciary
Council. Joint Judic has continually refused to
open their meetings or parts of them to Daily
reporters or other students. The secret trial and
sentencing of violaters of University regulations
is vaguely reminiscent of Star chamber pro-
ceedings.
THE COUNCIL would probably plead, at this
point, that the offender would prefer to
remain anonymous at such a proceeding, but
an option should be given to the violater to
choose whether he wanted his trial in the open
or not.
The Inter-fraternity Council has an ingen-
uous plan to keep certain discussion "off the
record." At their meetings, a portion of the
gathering is set aside as "house president's
time." Although the rest of the meeting is open,
this house presidents' time is closed to Daily
reporters. Anything the IFC decides to discuss
in private may be postponed until the doors
are carefully locked and guarded.
At least one major group on campus-Inter
House Council-rates a gold star on their chart
for keeping their discussions open. They sel-
dom pull the curtain of secrecy between their
meetings and Daily representatives.
IT IS puzzling as to why some of these organi-
zations-Student Legislature in particular
-should attempt to withhold information from
the people they supposedly represent. If SL
expects to gain the support of those people, they
must be able to account fully and openly for
their actions.
However, SL's moves at their Wednesday
meeting to open up financial discussions to the
press and public deserve commendation, if they
are carried out in good faith.
After all, $5,000 ain't hay.
--Wally Eberhard
"What Happened --- Was There A
Dissenting Opinion?"
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HADRIAN'S MEMOIRS:
History Unexhausted
Mine for the Novelist
"Hadrian's Memoirs" by Marguerite Yourcenar. Farrar, Strauss, and
Young, New York City, 1954.
"HADRIAN'S MEMOIRS," Marguerite Yourcenar's novel shows
that even if History has been the novelists' most heavily worked mine
in recent years, it is still unexhausted. A disappointing assay has shock-
ed readers in many samples, revealed fool's gold in others. Wise read-
ers, after experience with tarnished goods, have learned to test the
product with acid of skepticism.
Mine. Yourcenar is more resourceful' than most literary prospec-
tors, and a better craftsman; she chose new territory, and worked
with conscious discipline toward a definite end. Her ore, when puri-
fied, revealed considerable ductility. "Hadrian's \Memoirs," if not gold
filigree, has at least the handsome, lasting value of well-wrought silver.
History Known helped Mme. Yourcenar in writing her novel, but
History Unknown was undoubtedly a greater spur to her creativity.
What western historians can say conclusively about Hadrian's life is
little more than a catalogue of dates, names, and inscriptions, which
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,
Radio Free Europe Beams
Truth Through Iron Curtain
AMONG THE many agencies which seek to
sustain the hope of Communist-dominated
people and inform them of the true state of
world affairs, none does a more effective job
than Radio Free Europe. Working through Cru-
sade for Freedom, it attempts to enlist the sup-
port, moral and financial, of the American
people,
Pres. Eisenhower, a staunch supporter of
Radio Free Europe, declared it "essential to
each free nation that it support freedom in
others where freedom still lives." "The Com-
munists," he continued, "have told an infinite
number of lies to make their people hate Am-
ericans. Therefore, the primary purpose of Cru-
sade for Freedom is to fight the big lie with
the big truth."
The "big truth" is being beamed twenty-four
hours a day to an audience composed of Poles,
Czechs, Slovaks,' Hungarians, Rumanians, Bul-
garians, Russians and other East Europeans.
Ironically enough, Munich, once the apple of
Hitler's eye and predestined by him to be the
capital of a Nazi Europe, has become the head-
quarters of this campaign to keep the hope of
freedom alive in the Soviet 'empire'.
Russia has continually tried to "jam" the air-
waves, but Radio Free Europe beams all 22 of
its transmitters into one country at a time.
EMPLOYEES NUMBER more than 1,100 of
whom about 200 are Americans. Many of
the others are distinguished European intel.
lectuals-writers, artists, musicians, editors-
or just plain people who have managed in the
mosts extraordinary ways to escape from bon,-
dage and live now to convince their less for-
tunate compatriots that they are not forgotten.
None of the stations encourages listeners to
escape, much less to engage in attempts at re-
bellion. A political advisor in Radio Free Eu-
rope declared that one object of the radio
campaign was to prevent futile action-to de-
ter rather than incite patriots from hopeless
gestures of revolt.
A study made by Foreign News Service, at
the request of the U.S. State Department, re-
vealed that news is what the Iron Curtain in-
habitants want most of all to hear. They also
like stories of refugees' experiences, commen-
taries on current events, political satires (par-
ticularly jokes about the Communists), des-
criptions of life in the West, and broadcasts
keyed to special groups (i.e. farmers, miners,
technical workers). However, they are allergic
to propaganda, which they are able to spot.
very easily.r
T HE DAY'S NEWS is broadcast every hour
on the hour and summarized again in the
nightly commentaries. Its round-the-clock op-
eration enables more people to listen since
hard work and the secret police make it hard
for these people to get near a radio.
Voice of America, the British Broadcasting
Company, and Radio Liberation are not as ef-
fective as Radio Free Europe because they can
only transmit an hour or two a day. Also, the
first two are government-controlled agencies,
limited in what they can do.
Radio Free Europe, on the other hand, is a
project to enable Poles to speak to Poles as the
voice of free Poland, Czechs to Czechs, and so
on.
CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM is a private Am-
erican organization, begun in 1950 and
supported by voluntary contributions. It in turn
financially supports RFE in the hope that voices
of freedom, in a particular country's own lan-
guage, are as valuable as fighting planes. The
entire. project is worth more than it costs be-
cause, if nothing else, it stops the aggression
of the Communist mind.
,The outlined mission of Radio Free Europe is:
1. To sustain hope
2. To provide accurate information on the
International situation
3. To maintain ties between the captive peo-
ples and the free world.
ITS TOTAL EFFECT can be seen in the smug-
gled letters of listeners, statements of re-
fugees and Russia's desperate attempts to
"jam" RFE's wave-lengths. But probably the
best evidence can be found in the fact that
the Communist press is constantly defending
the regime it represents against accusations
made nowhere but in radio broadcasts.
Soviet authorities have been obliged in many
instances to punish local functionaries to ap-
pease a public opinion aroused by broadcasts
about local scandals.
One of the most successful broadcasts con-
cerned the brutality used by guards at a prison
in Recsk, Hungary. Radio Free Europe receiv-
ed detailed information from an escaped pris-
oner; and for two weeks emphasized the Recsk
camp situation, naming names and giving cir-
cumstances of incidents of brutality. The in-
sistent publicity resulted in the dismissal of
the guards, reduction of prisoners' working
hours and production norms, and improvement
in their treatment and food.
RADIO FREE EUROPE'S effectiveness in
bringing "the big truth" to Communist-
dominated peoples certainly merits greater sup-
port than ever before. For every dollar, 100
words can be broadcast-100 symbols of demo-
cratic freedom.
"Truth dollars" are being raised this week
by Crusade for Freedom to continue the opera-
tions of Radio Free Europe. Contributions can
be mailed to: Crusade for Freedom, % Post-
master.
--Merle Mayerstein
LYL Registration ...
To the Editor:
HE DECISION of the McCar-
ran Board to "register" the
Labor Youth League as a "Com-
munist front" carries political per-
secution to a group of organized
youth for the first time in the his-
tory of our country. It would be
folly to think, with such a step-
ping-stone laid down, that any
other youth organization with any
guts, imagination or ideals, pos-
sesses immunity from similar
treatment just because it is not a
"Communist front."
Neither is the League a "Com-
munist front." But the League (1)
favors international control of A
and H bombs; (2) opposes UMT
and the McCarran Act; (3) fav-
ored a cease-fire in Korea during
that war.
What is unusual about such
ideas? Just thif: these and other
counts are the basis on which the
League was found to be a "Com-
munist front." Why? Because the
Communist Party stood on the
same side of these issues as the
League.
But millions of Americans, in-
cluding most youth organizations,
stand on the same side of these
issues as the McCarran Act is so
dangereous: it contains a built-in
verdict of "guilty" against any or-
ganization any of whose ideas-
"parallel" those of the Communist
Party.
The decision of the McCarran
Board, if upheld by the Courts,
means not only outlawing the
1YL, but also outlawing the ideas
which it and millions of other
Americans adhere to. There is no
better way for demagogues to cap-
ture the mind of America than by
turning over to them the power to
outlaw ideas.
The dangers of the McCarran
Law, which, according to Truman's
veto message, "put the Govern-
ment of the United States in the
thought control business," are real,
not imaginary; immediate, not
far-off. The League will appeal the
decision; but only the most out-
spoken liberal and progressive
comment can counter the aura of
fear and make a just result pos-
sible.
-Mike Sharpe
Labor Youth League
Incongruity ..
To the Editor:
MISS ROELOFS' sympathy for
the professor who is faced
with teaching inadequately pre-
pared freshman is well placed. And
if the high schools are failing to
properly prepare students for col-
lege, then, certainly, a good share
of the blame must go to the high
school teacher. But to name the
schools of education of the vari-
ous colleges and universities as the
one great cause for the poor qual-
ity of high school teaching is in-
congruous. Our writer forgets that
the prospective secondary school
teacher spends about seven-eighths
of his time in the literary college
and only about one-eighth in the
School of Education. It would be
more just therefore, if the Uni-
versities must be blamed for poor
high school teaching, to lay seven-
eighths of the fault at the doors
of the literary college. This done,
the Education School will be only
too happy to assume its share.
Given time for reflection, perhaps
Miss Roelofs would have wished"
to state that "the poor prepara-
tion of college freshman stems
from poor training the freshman's
high school teachers have received
(in their departments of speciali-
zation) ."
But her implication is quite
right, the cycle can be vicious.
Perhaps the freshmen who come
to the well-meaning professor of
history represent a multifold re-
turn of the bread which said pro-
fessor has cast upon the waters in
the form of poorly trained high
school history teachers. But then,
poetic justice is something without
which no reputable literary col-
lege should be.
Denton May
even largely interpreted would fill
only a few pages, a few chapters
at most. Here History Known
stops; here Mme Yourcenar began.
Her work was far more com-
plicated than the writing of His-
tory only would have been since
she had to present Hadrian as
Hadrian appeared to himself, if
she were to insure artistic integ-
rity. It was necessary for her to
encompass, in a scholarly way, an
enormous mass of collateral ma-
terial and then imagine her way
into the very self of one of Rome's
most complex and gifted men.
This is her finest achievement;
Mie. Yourcenar sensed what most
novelists have not: If one is to
write well of the early Christian
era, then it must be done from the
point of view of non-Christians.
This may sound simple, but men
were not labeled atheists until
there was a God to disbelieve. The
most difficult thing for any Occi-
dental to conceive is the West
without Christianity and all its
myriad ramifications. Such a
world cannot be imagined, and
this is not to lbass a value judg-
ment on Christianity, much less
on the inadequacy of western
imaginations: It seems incontro-
vertible fact.
(How many novelists, with var-
ious axes to grind, possessing little
to ostensibly enormous talents,
have, in writing of the first cen-
turies after Christ, presented "pa-
gen" characters resembling fallen-
away Christians who need only
hear the Sheperd's voice to return
to the flock and commence a
monosyllabic confession of in-
nate, childlike virtue. Slave girls
jumping into pits with a "saved"
light in their eyes and a prayer
to the One True God on their lips,
trying to save their lovers who are
slain anyway, are the stereotypes
which come to mind.
(Actually, of course, it never has
been the business of a Christian
to become a martyr unless all
other means of preserving con-
science are removed. And these
writers have, it seems to me, done
little more than sustain in wat-
ered measure the idiotic myth of
Rousseau's noble savage whose
crude exterior conceals a simple
child of nature possessed of every
imaginable virtue.)
HADRIAN as he thought he was:
Historians have agreed upon
enough so that all but plausible
legends may be eliminated. Gib-
bon says Englishmen would have
enjoyed life most under Hadrian
of all the emperors, suggesting
that Rome and the Empire were
pleasant, well-ordered civilized
places with considerable empha-
sis laid upon exercise of reason.
They were that-nearly a quarter-
century of peace and enormous
advancement in every direction:
law and the legal system, art and
architecture, tactics and military
reform, imperial economy and
trade; Pax Romana, indeed. But
Gibbon-and other writers corro-
borate-says that Hadrian was by
turns a gentle, fatherly emperor
and a harsh tyrant, and in either
turn possessed of great restive-
ness. Hadrian visited every prov-
ince in his imperial capacity at
least once, some several times,
while his successor never bestirred
himself from Rome and its con-
fines during his twenty-three year
reign.
Hadrian the Emperor comes
from Mme. Yourcenar's book as a
more civilized, nobler Tudor who
lacked none of their miraculous
sense of knowing how to make
agents do their bidding and of
just how much the public would
bear without becoming surly and
discontented. He was more refined
and sophisticated of mind and
spirit than any Tudor, but he,
like them, had tenuous claim to
throne which he was anxious to
secure. The wise monarch is not
necessarily brilliant; the wise
monarch gives his people what
they need: Peace, trade, markets,
and, for good measure, an imper-
ial show that will sooner or later
convince them of his indispensa-
bility, conditions the Tudors and
Hadrian nurtured carefully, to the
ultimate satisfaction of all.
One reviewer says that Mme.
Yourcenar's literary predecessor is
tachment of his problems." The
"Memoirs" are written as a letter
to Marcus Aurelius, a private epis-
tle by an old man who knows death
nears and is, indeed, detached. A
civilized man writing to his son
and imperial heir can reasonably
assume that his instructions and
advice will be better taken if they
are dispassionately expressed. The
shouting was, over, for Hadrian,
and neither he nor Marcus would
have permitted themselves to be
guilty of intellectual immodera-
tion: Eccentricity, perhaps, but
immoderation, never.
H ADRIAN does not apologize for
his mistakes, but he does ex-
pound upon them; his hindsight
is no obsession, but a' guide for
Marcus' foresight. He admits he-
has been a pleasure-seeker, a man
who not only enjoyed living but
who sought to embellish each of.
the arts, including statecraft, that
he touched. He was capable of
great love and his confession of
love for Antinous makes one feel
self-conscious, caught in a mael-
strom of guilt, Freudianism, sins,
and damnation, because his words
are so much more nakedly pagan
than it is now possible to be.
Rightly so: Hadrian would not
have regarded himself as homo-
sexual as the word is now used
with its overlay of legal, religious,
and social dissanction.
Mme. Yourcenar's attitude to-
ward Hadrian's love is expository.
The fact of its existence is estab-
lished; to ask Why? or Was it
morally Right? is neither helpful
or important. Hadrian, in retro-
spect, says of his love for Antin-
ous:
"Halcyon seasons, solstice of my
days . . Far from embellishing
my .. . happiness, I must struggle
against too weak a portrayal; even
now the recollection overpowers
me. More sincere than most mel
I can freely admit the secret cause
of this felicity: that calm so propi-
;ious for work and for discipline
of the mind seems to me one of
the richest results of love. And it
puzzles me that these joys, so pre-
carious atbest, and so rarely per-
fect in the course of human life,
however we may have sought or
received them, should be regarded
with such mistrust by the so-called
wise, who denounce the danger of
habit and excess in sensuous de-
light, instead of fearing its absence
or its loss; in tyrannizing over
their senses they pass time which
would be better occupied in put-
ting their souls to rights, or em-
bellishing them."
THIS approach to Hadrian's love
for Antinous could be appraised
as "modern," which, however en-
lightened, it is not. It is a sane
approach, but every institution
forbids, and no contemporary em-
peror, however absolute, would risk
the inevitable censure of openly
avowing love for another man.
The treatment is modern, then,
only in the sense that Alcibades'
attitudes are modern, which is to
say they are without age, and that
the greatest lover is really Socra-
tes or the Socratic part of any
man. The sexual aspect is a mat-
ter of conscience between the lov-
ers, and between each of them and
whatever Higher Authority he
chooses to admit as tribunal. To
carp otherwise will prove nothing
save human inhumanity and hy-
pocrisy.
Hadrian emerges, in the end, as
an enormous, triumphant, and de-
feated man, a fitter object for re-
flection than a mere historical
montage, because he becomes
whole. As a novelist's product he
is almost unique because he stands
so tall; contemporary novelists
have presented so many mean, "un-
have presented so many mean
"unspeakably insignificant mor-
tals" from one ghastly county in
Mississippi or another that one
may be somewhat surprised to dis-
cover 'the concept of the super-
human has not altogether wither-
ed from the artistic consciousness.
"Novelists," Desmond McCarthy
once wrote, "may be said to en-
joy a first-rate prestige when their
works both delight the many and
satisfy the discriminating few."
Mme. Yourcenar's first novel may
not bring her that first-rate pres-
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three bound copies of their disserta-
tions in the office of the Graduate
School by Fri., April 29. The report of
the doctoral committee on the final
oral examination must be filed with the
Recorder of the Graduate School to-
gether with two copies of the thesis,
which is ready in all respects for pubu-
cation, not later than Mon., May 23.
Engineers: "Employment Interview-
ing" will be discussed by Prof. John G.
Young at a meeting sponsored by the
College of Engineering Fri., Feb. 18,
at 5:00 p.m. in Room 311, W. Engineer-
ing. All students who expect to inter-
view this semester are urged to attend.
Fri., Feb. 18 is the last dy for stu-
dents in the College of Architecture
and Design to add courses to their elec-
tions.S
Law School Admission Test: candil
dates taking the Law School Admission
Test Sat., Feb. 19 are requested to re-
port to Room 100, Hutchins H1ll at
8:45 a.m.
Aeronautical Engineering Colloquium
Fri., Feb. 18, 4:00 p.m., in Room 1504
East Engineering Bldg. Eugene Turner
will discuss "The Theory of Luminous
Shock wave." Feb. 25, Mr. Turner will
give a second colloquium on. "The
Experimental Results obtained on the
Luminous Shock wave."
Logic seminar will meet Fri., Feb.
18 at 4:00 p.m. in 3010 Angell Hall. Dr.
Buchi will continue to discuss "Defina-
bility in Formal Systems."'
LS&A Students: No course may be
added to your original elections after
Fri., Feb. 18.
Scholarships for Engineers. Applica-
tions from undergraduate engineers for
the 1955-56 Scholarship Awards are now
being received. All applications must
be in by Fri., March 11. Blanks may be
obtained in the Secretary's office, 263
West Engineering Building.
Doctoral Examination for Howard
Melvin Dess, Chemistry; thesis: "The
Preparation and Properties of Complex
Fluoroarsenate Compounds," Sat., Feb.
19, 3003 Chemistry Bldg., at 10:00 a.m.
Chairman, R. W. Parry.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Concerts
The Budapest String Quartet-Josef
Roismann and Alexander Schneider, vi-
oiins; Boris Kroyt, viola ,and Mischa
Schneider, cello; will perform in the
three concerts of the 15th Annual
Chamber Music Festival Fri. and Sat.
nights,and Sun. afternoon, Feb. 18, 19
20. At the Sun. afternoon concert the
group will be assisted by Robert Courte,
violist in two quintets.
The programs to be heard are as fol-
lows:
Fri., Feb. 18, 8:30 p.m.-Haydn Quar-
tet in G, No. 1; Lees Quartet No. 1; and
tile Schubert in A minor, op. 29.
Sat., Feb. 19, 8:30 p.m.-Mozart Quar-
tet in D, K. 499; William Denny's Quar-
tet No. 2; and the Quartet in E minor,
No. 2 by Beethoven.
Sun., Feb. 20, 2:30 p.m.-Beethoven
Quintet in C major; Bartok Quartet No.
1; and the Brahms Quintet in G major,
Op. li-
Tickets are on sale at the offices of
the University Musical Society in Bur-
ton Tower; and will also be on sale an
hour before each concert in the lobby
of the Rackhm Building,
Events Today
Ukranian Students Club, Meeting will
be held Fri., Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Men's Union, Room 3G. Members and
guests are cordially invited.
Westminster Student Fellowship Ice
Skating Party and Taffy-Pull. Fri., Feb.
18. Meet at the Student Center of the
Presbyterian Church at ' :30 p.m. to go
to the Coliseum as a group. Bring your
ID. Return to the church at 10:30 p.m.
for a taffy-pull.
Episcopal Student Foundation. Can-
terbury Coffee Cltch at 4:00 p.m., Fri.,
Feb. 18, at Canterbury House, adjourn-
ing at 5:00 p.m. to attend the Lane Hall
International Coffee Hour. Canterbury
Campus Series: Dr Harvey Spencer,
Psychiatrist, University Health Service,
will discuss "The Interpretation of Psy-
chology," 7:30 p.m. Fri., Feb. 18, at
Canterbury House.
Economics Club-Fri., Feb. 18, at 8:00
p.m. Rackham Amphitheater. Mr. Judd
Polk, Council on Foreign Relations, will
speak on, "Problems of the Present
Sterling System." All staff members and
graduate students in Economics and
Business Administration are especial-
ly urged to attend. (Mr. Polk will speak
on the night originally assigned to
Prof. S. Chesterfield Oppenheim of the
Law School. We hope to hav.: Prof. Op-
penheim speak before the Economics
Club at a later date.).
Hillel: Fri. evening services 7:15 p.m.
Conducted by Sigma Alpha Mu Frater-
nity.
The International Tea will b'e spon-
sored by Inter-Guild in the Lane Han
Library from 4:30-6:00 p.m. Fri., Feb. 18.
The Congregational-Disciples Guild:
8:30 p.m., Fri., Feb. 18. Guild party in
Pilgrim Hall of the Congregational
Church (State and William Streets).
First Baptist Church. Fri., Feb. 18.
8:00 p.m. Guild Party.
Acolytes meeting Fri., Feb. 18 at
8:00 p.m. in East Conference Room,
Rackham Building. David Luce will
read a paper on, "An Alternative to
the verifiability Theory of Meaning.
Refreshments.
. Married Lutheran Student Group,
Fri. evening. Meet at the Center. The
Rev. Richard Knudsen of Detroit,
pastor of an inter-racial church, will
speak. Corner of Hill St. and Forest
Ave.
Dr. Richard A. Musgrave of the
Economics Department will lead a
panel discussion on "Economic De-
velopment in Burma," at 7:30 p.m.
Fri., Feb. 18, at the International Cen-
I.
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press News Analyst ,
THE AMERICAN decision not to
urge the Chinese Nationalists
to evacuate any more islands has
upset Britain.
From her own standpoint, Brit-
ain has gone a good way in sup-
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Meame
porting Washington's firm atti-
tude about the defense of Formosa.
She recognizes the Peiping regime
as the government of China, and
remembers, despite Churchill's
statement that it is outdated, the
Cairo agreement that the islands
belong to China.
If it were not for Hong Kong,
for which the Chinese, both Na-
tionalist and Red, have long been
presenting claims, it is doubtful
if London would have gone even
as far as she has.
When the latest crisis developed,
Britain agreed to the defense of
Formosa and government leaders
firmly defended it against strong
opposition in the House of Com-
mons.
At the same time, however, they
approached Russia for help in per-
suading Peiping to rely on politi-
cal rather than military action,
and devised the idea that Nation-
alist-held islands immediately off-
shore should be surrendered for
the sake of establishing a blue
water moat between the contend-
ers.
Now the United States, through
Secretary Dulles' speech in New
York Wednesday, has turned that
down. In addition, Dulles expressed
no hope for the Anglo-Russign ne-
gotiations, although the British
still maintain hope themselves.
Britain is still working for an
agreed cease-fire. Dulles express-
ed respect for United Nations ne-
gotiations hut America's real ex-
...That is the Question
WE WONDER . .
*WHY RESIDENCE halls students must strain
their already over-burdened budgets to
pay for a new quadrangle while the athletic
administration department is wondering where
to build its next swimming pool . . . .
S* * *
WHY WE bother to have registration since
everyone changes their elections the first
week of school anyway ...
* * * *
W HETHER THE Bermuda shorts ban will be
lifted when the knee-length garments be-
come popular on campus this spring ...
WHAT POLITICAL science courses would do
without the Sunday New York Times .e. .
WHY THE Literary College doesn't institute
some type of program which would help
its students plan for future careers while tak-
ing "cultural" courses .
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