weather Partly Cloudy, Scattered Showers LL Sir igau Of ficial Publication Of The Summr1 Session :Iaitt~ Editorial Hemispheres Are Dated . i VOL. LI. No. 8 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Ponton, Sandwell, Otero To Address) Mussolini Hit By Sforza; Dr. Hu Discusses Policy Former Italian Diplomat And Chinese Ambassador Address New Education Fellowship By WILLIAM BAKER Education Parley Mexico Education, Canada, Pan-American Relations Are Featured Subjects High School Band Will Give Concert The eighth international confer- ence of the New Education Fellow- ship 'moves into its fifth day today, with featured talks by Luis Sanchez Ponton, Mexican minister of Educa- tion,. B. K. Sandwell, Canadian edi- tor, and Gustavo Adolfo Otero, Min- ister of Education in Bolivia. Mr. Ponton will discuss "Mexican Education: Objectives and Prac- tices" in the general session at 11 a.m. in Rackham Auditorium. Red- vers Opie of the British Embassy will talk on "Education and Changes in England." Eugene Elliott, state su- perintendent of public instructioh, will be chairman at the session. The general session at 3 p.m., sponsored by the Health Section of the World Federation of Education Associations, will be devoted to the topic "The Application of the Psy- chology of Progressive Education to the Field of Health and the Contri- bution of Health Education to Pro- gressive Education." Turner To Be Chairman Claire E. Turner of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, will be chairman. Speakers will be Henry F. Vaughan of the University, Dr. Edward Liss of New York City, Cor- bin A. Brown of the Provincial De- partment of Education, Toronto, and Laurentine B. Collins, Detroit Public School. At 7:45 p.m. in Rackham Audi- torium B. K. Sandwell, editor of The Toronto Saturday Night, will address the conference on "Canada in a World of Nations," and Gustavo Adolfo Otero, Minister of Educa- tion in Bolivia, will discuss "Educa- tion for Inter-American Relations." A band concert will be given at 9 p.m. on the steps of the Rackham Building by the Detroit Western High School Band, directed by Homer LaGassey, and a Mexican Tipica Orchestra. Selections Listed The program opens with "All America," a march by J. S. Taylor; "Richard III overture," Edward Ger- man; "Amparita rocca," by Jaime Texidor; selection from Romberg's "Student Prince.". Other selections included on the program are Fillmore's "Men of Ohio"; first movement of Borodin's Second Symphony; "Tropical," a rhumba by Morton Gould; "Child Prodigy," by Morton Gould; a med- ley of American song hits by Gould; "Sequois," by LaGassey; "Stars and Stripes Forever," by Sousa"; and "The Star Spangled Banner." A luncheon will be held at 12:30 p.m. today in the League for all those interested in private schools. An exhibit of the work of Miguel Oyala, Guatemalan artist, is being shown in Alumni Memorial Hall in conjunction with the conference. The exhibit contains several land- scapes, and 18 black and white draw- ings done by the artist for the Span- ish edition of the religious manu- scripts of pre-Columbian South America. Ford Factory Trip To Be Wednesday Reservations for the third Univer- sity excursion, a trip to the Ford Mo- tor Company's River Rouge factory, must be made in Room 1213 Angell Hall before 5 p.m. Monday; the ex- cursion is to be Wednesday. The group will leave from the front of Angell Hall at 12:45 p.m. and re- turn late the same afternoon. Ex- penses for the trip will be $1.25 for bus fare to the factory and back. At the 1,000-acre plant, the party will have an opportunity to inspect the motor assembly lines, final as- sembly line, the open hearth furnaces and the rolling mill. The specialized activities will be explained, and the students will have a chance to see many phases of automotive processing and metal salvaging. Perspectives Scripts Civ.mm- .ar r fv&nci- Chinese Envoy To .Be Honored At Tea Today Dr. Hu Shih, ambassador from China to the United States, will be honored at a tea reception at 4 p.m. today in the Garden of the League under the sponsorship of .the Chi- nese Students Club. Guests who have been invited to the reception are President and Mrs. Ruthven, Mrs. Byrl Bacher, Dr. Margaret Bell, Dr. and Mrs. Edward W. Blakeman, Prof. and Mrs. Wil- liam W. Blume, Dean Joseph E. Bursley, Prof. and Mrs. George E. Carrothers, Prof. and Mrs. Walter Colby, Dean-Emeritus Mortimer E. Cooley. Mrs. Henry Douglas, Prof.-Emeri- tus Edwin C. Goddard, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gray, Prof. and Mrs. Robert Hall, Prof. and Mrs. Joseph R. Hay- den, Mrs. Waldo Johnston, Prof. and Mrs. Herbert A. Kenyon. Dean Alice Lloyd, Miss Ethel Mc- Cormick, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Morgan, Dr. and Mrs. Dean W. My- ers, Prof. and Mrs. Raleigh Nelson, Miss Jeannette Perry, Prof. and Mrs. James M. Plumer, Prof. and Mrs. Charles F. Remer, Mrs. Mabel Ross Rhead, Prof. Kenneth Rowe, Miss Sarah L. Rowe, Prof. and Mrs. W. Carl Rufus, Prof. and Mrs. John F. Shepard and Prof. and Mrs. Leroy Waterman. Three Months Recess Begun ByLegislature Van Wagoner Threatens To Challenge Legality In Supreme Court Base LANSING, July 9.-()-The Leg- islature brushed aside an eleventh hour plea by Governor Van Wagoner today and went into a three months' recess which binds his hands on many patronage affairs in the in- terval. The Governor submitted a special message in closing minutes of the session, bluntly telling the legislators he would have no part of any trades with them, and assailing the recess as a "political move, intended to be used against me personally in an at- Among the vetoes overridden by the House was a $500,000 appro- priation for a general service build- ing for the University. Indicting Mussolini as a traitor too his country and a dupe of the Hitler regime, Count Carlo Sforza, former Italian diplomat, yesterday told dele- gates to the New Education Fellow- ship Conference that a German con- quest of Russia would be fatal to Italy. Italy faces two alternatives, as long as Fascism remains in power, either a defeat at the hands of England or the status of a German province. Count Sforza, who once sat in the Italian Parliament with Mussolini, declared that Il Duce had chosen be- tween betraying his people or suffer- ing a personal eclipse, and chose the former. Calling Italy "one of the invaded countries," Count Sforza declared that a spirit of rebellion was rising in the crushed masses and the mili- tary forces of the people. Italians Realized Truth The Italian people themselves, he said, realized that Lybia, their oldest colony, was occupied by the Nazi forces, that their consular and diplo- matic forces throughout the world are mere agents of Hitler, that their essential industries are controlled by Reich industrialists, and that their police are subject entirely to the will of the German gestapo. Even Virginio Gayda, editor of Italy's official mouthpiece, knows that the Nazis believe they have arrived in the Mediterranean by right of con- quest and will never return of their own free will. A direct revolt against he Fascist regime is not to be expected in the near future, but evidence of a pas- sive strike is already to be seen. Itali- an ships are not harassing British shipping, the Count said, in quoting an Italian admiral, "because of their hatred for their German allies." Ridicules Prognosticators Ridiculing the American prognosti- cators of the Anne Morrow Lindbergh school, who maintain that totalitar- ianism is the "wave of the future," the Italian lecturer declared that the worst enemy of American democracy is "American complacency." "Those who, in their sincere or as- sumed complacency, believe, in this country, that a victorious toltalitari- anism would not undertake to impose itself on this continent do not real- ize that for the dictators it is a ques- tion of life and death to have all democracies destroyed." In the eyes of the Pangerman dic- tator, he added, the worst crime of democracy is merely the fact of exist- ing, of existing in an atmosphere of freedom. Mussolini, the Count charged, is merely a yellow newspaperman, who knows only the publicity part of his profession. He is the man who first discovered the basic maxim of To- talitarianism, that "a lie is a lie when it is timidly expressed; a lie remains sometimes a lie when it is repeated a hundred times; a lie always be- comes a truth when it is repeated .thousands of times." Declaring that the war being waged by Japan in China is merely a part of one big World War II, Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador to the United States, stated yesterday in a talk before delegates to the New Edu- cation Fellowship conference, that World War II really started back in 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Discussing American reaction to the world crisis, the Chinese scholar divided American foreign policy since 1933 into three parts. Before that America adopted a policy of cooper- ating with the League of Nations, although not a member of the League. Period Of Isolation The first phase lasted from 1933 to 1937, a period of isolation and neutrality, in which America re- mained aloof from the rest of the world. The second phase, a period of re- orientation, lasted through the early months of 1940. During this period America started on its policy of aid- ing China, with four steps. The first was the purchase of Chi- nese silver by the Japanese treasury. Three loans were extended to China during this period, two of them for $25,000,000. One Negative Step One step was a negative one, the non-invocation of the American neu- trality act, which upset the plans of the totalitarian aggressors, according to the Chinese ambassadors. The other thing that helped China was the presence of the American Navy in the Pacific. The third phase of American pol- icy, from 1940 until the present time, has been brought about by four ac- tions of the government, he ex- plained. The first was the loan of over a million dollars to China. War ma- terials were placed under embargo for the aggressor' nations, aid was sent to Great Britain and the Lend- Lease Bill was passed. Seven Nurses Thought Dead Dentz Seeks End Of War With Britain Syrian High Commissioner Asks For Armistice Plan Through U.S. Diplomat Virtually All Syria Is Taken By British (By The Associated Press) VICHY, July 9.-France asked Britain today for an end to the mel- ancholy, month-old Syrian war, in order to halt "grievous bloodshed in a combat daily more unequal." The French High Commissioner of Syria, Gen. Henri Dentz, submitted the request for an armistice through Cornelius Van H. Engert, United States Consul General at Beirut, a communique announced. Late dis- patches from the Syrian front said fighting still was going on, with Brit- ish troops attacking the inner de- fenses of Beirut itself. Terms Reported Received It was reported Britain's terms already had been received and tele- phoned from Vichy to Vice-Premier Admiral Jean Darlan, who is in Paris. "For more than a month troops of the Levant have engaged in a fierce struggle to affirm France's will to assure the defense of terri- tories entrusted to her protection," the communique said. "Despite all its efforts the govern- ment has found it impossible to send these (Levant) troops, in sufficient numbers, the reinforcements it had prepared to enable them to continue the struggle. Seek To End Bloodshed "Thus, desirous of not prolonging a particularly grievous bloodshed in a combat daily more unequal and of cutting short sufferings which the war inflicts upon the peoples ofSyria and Lebanon, considering the honor of their arms to be safe the govern- ment has decided to authorize Gen- eral Dentz to ask the immediate si- lencing of arms. "A step was taken to this effect yesterday at Beirut through the in- termediary of the United States Con- sul General." In London Prime Minister Church- ill announced receipt of the request in the British House of Commons, but said that pending conclusion of an armistice "military operations must, of course, continue without abatement." He disclosed 1,000 to 1,500 British and Empire troops had peen killedsor wounded in thescam- paign. French sources in London pre- dicted Syria and Lebanon would be placed under Free French occupa- tional rule, Free French, English Forces Control Syria CAIRO, July 9.-(MP)-Virtually all Syria was under the military control of British and Free French forces to- night as the French defenders re- quested an armistice. The British Middle East Command announced the strong Australian force which had been driving north- ward along the Mediterranean coast toward Beirut, the capital of Leban- on, had overrun Beirut's main de- fenses at Damour, nine miles to the south, and were operating north of this position. Beirut was declared to be undefend- able with Damour overcome. (Vichy reported that Damour had been oc- cupied.) Invited U.S. Aid Knox Hints Patrol Will Shoot; Added Aid Funds Needed occupation of Iceland by United States naval forces was at the in- vitation of Iceland's Prime Minis- ter Hermann Jonasson, it was dis- closed in Washington. German Tank Forces B egin Attacks Again Russians Hold Off Drives In Leningrad, Moscow And Ukraine Defensives (By The Associated Press) MOSCOW, Thursday, July 10.-Big German tank and mechanized forces are smashing anew at, the Russian lines in three main areas, the Red Army announced today, and the Rus- sian defenders are holding off offen- sive drives directed at Leningrad, Moscow and the Ukraine. The fighting was still raging as the Soviet information bureau issued its early morning communique. At sev- eral points the Russians were engaged in counter-attacks. Shortly before issuance of the com- munique, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs N. A. Losovski declared Ger- many had failed to crush the Soviet defenses despite a highly secret open- ing offensive of the war which employed 10,000 tanks, admittedly caught the Russians unawares and destroyed several hundred Russian planes. 'f 4 e President Plans To Ask Fifteen Billions More For Defense Program Churchill Criticizes Wheeler's Actions WASHINGTON, July 9.-VP)--Sec- retary Knox strongly indicated today that American naval vessels patrol- ling the Atlantic had been ordered to shoot if necessary to insure the safety of communications between the United States and all strategic outposts. The President meanwhile was planning a new request to Congress for defense and lease-lend funds, probably totaling close to $15,000,- 000,000 in appropriations and author- izations. Of this $7,000,000,000 was expected to go for help to the British and possibly to others battling the Axis, with the remainder earmarked for American defenses. Earlier the White House made known that a communication had been received from Winston Church- ill expressing concern over an an- nouncement last Thursday by Sena- tor Wheeler (Dem-Mont), an oppo- nent of the President's foreign pol- icy, that Iceland would be occupied. Churchill complained lives might have been jeopardized by the dis- closure. Wheeler Replies Wheeler tartly replied the United States was still a democracy. He told reporters he resented criticism from Churchill, or "others of the British ruling class," and ; declared he had every right to reveal informa- tion coming to him concerning these ''moves toward war.'' Then he flung out a challenge to President Roosevelt to come to Con- gress and ask a declaration of war if he wants one. "If Congress votes such a request down," he said; "then we all should be united for peace. It Congressshould, intaconstitutional way, declare war, then we should stand united to win the war." Although pressed with questions, Knox declined to speak directly on the question of the Atlantic patrol having been given orders to shoot. With apparent purpose, however, he left little doubt in the minds of his interviewers. All Necessary Steps Feared Lost At To Submarine Sea Due Action WASHINGTON, July 9.-WP-Sev- en American Red Cross nurses and one Red Cross worker were feared lost at sea tonight as the result of two ship sinkings attributed to sub- marines. The Red Cross reported six nurses were missing out of 10 who sailed June 5 from a Gulf port aboard a British boat. The vessel, which was not further identified, was torpedoed about two weeks ago, officials of the Red Cross said. The other four nurses aboard the, British ship were rescued four days ago and were reported to be in good condition. They had been drifting at sea ten days. The six reported missing were: Phyllis L. Evans, 24, Everett, Mass.; Dorothy C. Morse, 23, Boston;- Nan- cie M. Pett, 28, Detroit; Helen Jure- wicz, South Amboy, N. J.; Margaret I. Somerville, 28, Catskill, N. Y., and Dorothea L. Koehn, 36, of .Oshkosh, Wis. tempt to influence me to help a cer- tain Republican bloc to override cer- tain of my vetoes." The House restored to appropria- tion bills more than $2,000,000 ve- toed by the Governor, but the Sen- ate did not vote to override any of his vetoes. Each side must concur to override. Van Wagoner told newsmen he would challenge in the Supreme Court legality of the legislative ma- neuvering which changed today's final adjournment into the first of what Republicans said might be an indefinite string of 90-day recesses. "Our contention," Van Wagoner said, "is that the Legislature offi- cially adjourned at 12 o'clock noon. They had their chance to pass on vetoes and did not do so. I expect we will have to take a test case into the Supreme Court." Repertory Play Continues Run Miss Baird And Oxhandler Starred In Comedy Starring Norman Oxhandler and Claribel Baird, the Kaufman and Hart comedy, "George Washington Slept Here," will continue its run at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. The play, which is the second pro- i i 1 t' Pan-.American Relations Cited By Dr. Davila "Information and affection have been the two missing pillars in Pan- American relations for the past fifty years," Dr. Carlos Davila, former Chilian Ambassador to the United States declared last night in an ad- dress before The New Education Fel- lowship. Dr. Davila went on to say, how- ever, that following the "black fifty years," now past and forgotten, it must be admitted that the United States has shown a great deal of fairness and respect, for the countries of South America. Pointing out the fundamental dif- ferences between South American and North American original coloniz- ation, the Ambassador said that Latin America waspeopledsby Span- ish and Portuguese soldiers of for- tune, seeking gold for their rulers, and fame for themselves. The United States on the other hand, was colonized by people who came here for the right of freedom of religion. South America has been an epic of hate, North America, an epic of conscience. Peace With Totalitarian Europe .Wishful Thinking, Sforza Says BERLIN, July 9-With Reichsfueh-; rer Hitler's headquarters confining itself to a statement that "the fights continue successful on the entire eastern front," other German sources indicated tonight the German forces in the north were pressing toward Leningrad and Murmansk. German occupation of the strong- ly-fortified town of Salla near the Finnish-Russian Arctic frontier was announced by a military spokesman, and the news agecy DNB reported Viljandi and Parnu in Estonia also had been occupied, along with Ostrov on the Latvian-Russian border. Salla was taken in the drive from Finland against Murmansk, an im- portant railhead and ice-free Arctic port. The three Baltic towns fell in the northeastward push the Germans are making through this region to- ward Leningrad, big Russian port at the head of the Gulf of Finland. The Germans contended they were in hot pursuit of Russians after tak- ing the Baltic towns. At Ostrov the Russians were said to have attempt- ed to establish a new defense line. Noted Contralto Will Sing Here Enid Szantho To Present Concert With Poinar Noted Hungarian contralto, Enid Szantho, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will join with George Poinar, chairman of the violin de- partment at Baldwin Wallace Col- lege, to present the first of two con- certs at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the It started with a reference to a passage in Mr. Roosevelt's message to Congress announcing the occupa- tion of Iceland. In this Mr. Roosevelt said he had ordered the Navy to take all necessary steps to keep the ap- proaches between this country and strategic outposts "open and free of all hostile activity." "If the Navy has to shoot to do what the President says will it shoot?" a reporter asked. Knox referred to the passage con- taining the words "all necessary Steps" and said that seemed to cover the question. He said later the language "would indicate" the Presi- dent intended the Atlantic patrol to go farther than its previous orders merely to report any hostile craft sighted. Germany Attacks Iceland Move (By The Associated Press) BERLIN, July 9.-Germany through an authorized spokesman charged caustically today that United States troops might as well be in a British port as in Iceland from the military point of view, but gave no hint as to whether the American occupation would provoke actual armed retalia- tion. "Today it's Iceland," the spokes- man said. "Tomorrow Roosevelt may decide that the hemisphere extends to the English Channel or the Volga. From a military point of view, these troops might as well be in a British port. "Roosevelt for a long time has been approaching war and now has moved much closer to it. Americans have made the Western Hemisphere a sort of movable geographic conception." It was obvious Berlin was count- ing on the possibility the United States might occupy other places. German sources said the Iceland oc- cupation recalled to them with new significance President Roosevelt's By HARRY M. KELSEY " To believe that any democracies could live peacefully with a totali- tarian controlled Europe is the height of wishful thinking, Count Carlo 3forza, Carnegie visiting lecturer, told an audience of the Graduate Study Program in Public Policy in a World at War yesterday. The totalitarian powers, he said, cannot afford to let a democracy exist as an example to subjugated nations of the freedom that they might enjoy. Czechoslovakia, Count Sforza ex- plained, was the most orderly and most successful democracy on the continent, and that was why Hitler found it necessary to destroy her. Chamberlain, he asserted, was fooled into letting Hitler have what he wanted in Czechoslovakia at Munich "the Spanish Civil War, Count Sfor- za maintained, and one of the "most disgusting lies" of the Axis powers was to spread propaganda that Spain was in danger of becoming Com- munist. Spain, he pointed out, is a land composed largely of peasants who only ask a small piece of land to cultivate. At the time of the Civil WarCount Sforza noted, only 20 per cent of the land was owned by the peasants. The best way to keep a peasant from becoming a Bolshe- vik, he declared, is to give him a piece of land. This biased point of view of the English aristocracy caused by the red scare accounted for the English refusal to join the United States against Japan at the time of the