V V V .~ ~ -Y ~, V - -V 'V - -~ ~- .y. ~ -- 7 ,' . ,. .. Y s ' "... - ' ..: -,c,. ?c. ..'. r. !t ,a .+ - yr ;i.. ; - , . Page Four THE MICHIGAN -DAILY Sundav. AAov 211 1 AAF Sunday, May 20, 1956 %JVFrIA, , &A,.14,VI1770 7 fiNE, MICHIGAN, DA 1LY Sunday, May 20, 1956 THE, MICHIGAN DAILY Th for a frequ "How end " You questi quiz- er the But answe words FOREIGNPOLICY An Indian Journalist Provides Some Observations About His Country's Behavior in the Arena of World Politics y ROBI CHAKRAVORJTI personal, emotional reactions and racy" because of the aimple fact India's foreign policy over coffee 1 the fact is that India has been 9EHRU a communist?" enters an area which is the grid- that he has signed a military pact or beer tend to take a "moralistic" to achieve a significant pos is is as expected a question iron of political experts. It involv- with the United States or some approach. An Indian is apt to among similarly situated cour visitor from India as the es a careful assessment of factors, Western Power. speak in terms of Gandhi's spirit- of the world as well as in rel ently - fired double - barrel: seen and unseen, understood and T i ual heritage and an American is to the polarised power-cente do you like this country?" misunderstood, wnich make the Thisi d viewing the problemap most likely to take an emotionally the world. Part of this ca Do you want to go back?' complex web of international rela- and dhou. A caller s decause disapprobating attitude regarding attributed to the political sta can answer the last two titut . nul.a e ruenany "softness" towards totalitarian it has been blessed with comr on a yu igt akl a Neruisdubd omuns ite s poliical institutions are ru'i on communist forces. tO other Asian countries. In ons s yu mghttacle . Nhru s dbbe comunstbe-democratic lines and not because -with yes or no, or as is often- cause his foreign policy appears it happens to follow the tortuous Moralistic approaches to an an- foreign policy is certainly an case, with both. "soft" toward international com- course of the foreign policy of an- alysis of India's foreign policy significant factor. the first question cannot be munism. Prime Minister of country other country. Foreign policy is hardly explain the phenomen of HrnHER India's foreign p red with a "few well-chosen X, on the other hand, is applauded after all, only part of the whole "neutralism," which is spreading Y Ed , because it goes beyond as the "brave defender of democ- picture. It is the cornice-political like-wildfire all over Asia, forcing is right or wrong, only p itstitutions within the country are Washington to s .ift with the times. events can tell. But, right no its foundation, Various other factors converge to sucd tapee a dt produce what is popularly called succeeded to a phenomenal de F YOU look at India bottom "neutralism." judging from the fact that Washington and the Kremlin upwards rather than upside . The first is a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. wooing New Delhi through d down, the following facts will Hyde" view of the West and the matic and economic blandishm emerge: U.S. The West, led by the U.S. Judged from the viewpoint of 1. It has a democratic constitu- presents a double face to the vast cess and the spirit of pionee tion, which guarantees private and populous Afro-Asian world - individualism, two major elem property rights and freedom of ex- with the Western countries' demo- in the American value-system pression. cratic -"internal policies and un- dia's foreign.policy has score 2. It has a democratically elect- democratic, colonial and racial at- Sed legislature, the last general elec- titude in external areas. To an Lions in 1951-52, with over 164 Asian intellectual, the West is x~>r million electorate: the largest dm- looked upon much like the Robert ocratic elections ever held in his- L. Stevenson hero, who was a WEAR IT TO YOUR tory. suave, decent gentleman in day- HEARTS CONTENT time, but turned a murderer at AND WASH. IT 3.The executive, legislature night.,N AHI and the judiciary are separate en- f AT LEISURE I aiin the dicaryesepBrte en- The hesitant and cool acceptance ".Far a Af an's wortd tities in the excellent British tradi.. of the West as the flag-bearer of tion, guaranteeing political liber- s ties to a degree enjoyed by few democracy" changes the whole °ry independent countries in Asia "to- picture of cold war from a sharp of casual living day black-and-white pattern to a { { ay hodge-podge policy of gray shad- , 4. Communists enjoy liberty ings; The ideological overtones of LEISURE COAT s the same way as other political the global struggle acquire more parties do, so long as they work than two dimensions n the Inin e Cotton Cord der the constitutional frame- mind, with various factors, like . work. The present Indian Admin- colonialism, apartheid in South Af- istration's attitude towards com- rica, color bar in this country con- tnists will remind an American fusing the otherwise clear picture. of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice of democratic knights in shiny -Holmes' famous dictum, "clear and armor fighting the dark heathens $19 present danger." According to this of communism. dictum, the communist party was banned in 1949-50 in some states, p The Cotton when they adopted the violent i reatmidemocraican i overthrow of the government as "dictorial" force in terms of a their immediate aim. The ban was g:orial prn win th ion : Dacron Cord Suit lifted when they gave up the policy geographical pattern, with iron prior to general elections In po- iccurtain" as the dividing line; the 191-typical Indian attitude is to view t 3950 52,the struggle as cutting across neat . { India is, thus, as close to the geographical lines. An Indian / 4 U.Inda itai usand anc ae, looks at the coldwar as if he is . from the viewpoint of domestic viewing a Picasso cubistic paint- F political functioning. In internal ing; an American, on the other. political structure, Nehru is not, hand, tends to view international The Silk and VOOl therefore, a communist. It is only affairs as if he is confronted with in the field of international rela- a representational painting drawn tions-the "cornice" of the whole by a local artist.:,r Suit at $70 to $8 structure-that he appears " soft Lokng another angle, the towards communists, difference can be explained as a difference in emphasis. The United........ . AN AVERAGE Indian and an States, at least until the recent< average American discussing shift in Kremlin poliies. ha:'. 'Vienna'Shaped With Hands, Not Heart able sition ntries ation rs in n be bility oared ndia's other policy suture w, it t has gree, both n are iplo- aents, suc- ering vents , In- dl By ROY AKERS ALFRED SLOTE is currently one of the most promising products of the University's creative writ- ing classes. His first novel "Den- ham Proper" was a sensitive, well- Wrought work of fiction, exhibiting both- compassion and deep human insight. "Lazarus in Vienna," his second book, is skillfully fashion- ed, too, but it seems-much more than the first one-to have been shaped mostly with the hands rather than the heart. This Is, in many ways, a very exciting book. It is written in crisp, clean words, the words are nicely moulded and the dialogue Is interesting. The theme is the search for a ghost; the plot is one of suspense and Vienna is, as us- ual, a colorful old-world city. And the underling atmosphere-Evil -is one that has been popular with the public since Adam. The most disturbing thing about this book is its characters, and therein lies the tragedy. For char- acters, unfortunately, are the building pegs of a novel. Mr. Slote's characters are not nice enough to be likeable, and they are much too evil to be tragic. Still, as a study in human de- pravity, this is a book worth read- ing. It will, at least, give to the uninitiated a glimpse of the thin- ness of the civilized veneer that coats the twentieth-century man, and it will show the reader that the biggest loss the caveman suf- fered in evolving toward the pres- ent day was, quite simply, his hair. Baldness has replaced the fur coat, but chromed-steel has yet to make a shining knight of the bar- barian. THE STORY involves a furtive, illicit love affair between an1 American army officer, Lt. Rich-1 ard Whitney, and a local and veryI beautiful Viennese girl, Brigitte von Kunstler. The time is in the immediate post-war period of the occupation army. The plot is compounded by Dr. Schleicher, an unscrupulous pro- fessor of psychiatry, together with the ghost of his late, but most bril- liant student, Peter Menaeleus. Suspense, and it is masterful sus- pense, runs throughout the novel because of the fact that Brigitte is Dr. Schleicher's daughter, and is only further heightened because she is also the widow of Peter Menaeleus. Local color is derived from such characters as Max Kosta, Erik von Kunstler and an adolescent by the name of Kuno, Max is the owner of a restaurant with a private gambling room in the rear. He had once helped Jews buy 'passports to Dachau. Erik, an invalid war hero, and the present husband of Brigitte is the eternal Nazi inter- ested only in re-establishing the old order, THIS, THEN, is the line up in a book that, for sheer tension, approaches a whoodunit mystery. The mystery is just who caused the extermination of Peter Menae- leus during the Nazi regime. Lt. Whitney and Capt. Bagroff, a Rus- sian army doctor, unravel the mys- tery to their mutual satisfaction. But it is the culprit himself who reveals his guilt to the one person it could hurt the most, "Lazarus in Vienna" opens with a lecture by Dr. Schlbicher on the subject of love: "Can I tell you how to listen? To what to listen?-Can I make you understand that listening is born in the heart and that in the heart is born the successful or un- successful resolution of any case?" the doctor asks. "No, for nine- tenths of you my speeches here each Saturday will be so many words. You Will listen but be- cause my control tower is in order you will only need to listen with your head. No love is required. And love, gentlemen"-concludes the good doctor-"is the basis o psychoanalytical medicine." It is a tragedy, of course, that Dr. Schleicher didn't practice what he preached, And the reader leaves this book feeling that it is a fur- ther pity the author obviously didn't attend the doctor's lecture. Compassion in a writer is a fine thing, but compassion is a much finer thing when blended with love. All of which brings us back to the two principal and finest char- acters of the book. Lt. Whitney and Brigitte were, in their own way, in love. Here, too, the auth- or overlooked something that every schoolboy knows: to love happily and with abandon under the ap- ple tree is a gift of the very naively young at heart. And even if the Newest flight of fashion... NIRRIflI. Inspired by our own Southwest, exotic little poplin shells, perch white satin rubber soles, will you over parched summer ea Cushiony inside! Burnished. Indian braid "collar" burn cactus-country colors. lI and N widths. r .M ;w" MM IA (4 p4o ALFRED SLOTHE .. . 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