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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, JULY 12,
Daily Calendar of Events
Saturday, July 12-
8:30 p.m. "George Washington Slept Here," by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
(Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.)
9:00 p.m. Social Evening. (Michigan League Ballroom). Come with or without
partners.
Washington Merry- Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
WASHINGTON-For approximately one year,
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau
>f Investigation, has not been particularly happy.
ALMOST EVERY WEEK there issues from
Capitol Hill a Dies Committee blast about
spies and saboteurs in the United States. The
blasts made headlines. Also they caused all sorts
of people and editorial writers to query: "What
is J. Edgar Hoover doing about these foreign
spies? Why is he leaving everything to the pa-
triotic Mr. Dies?"
In reply Mr. Hoover said absolutely nothing.
And there was very good reason. For during
that year he had under surveillance the greatest
spy ring ever shadowed in the United States.
And one word leaking out that they were being
shadowed would have sent every suspect running
for cover, upset the evidence FBI agents were
collecting during months of ceaseless vigil.
FOR INSTANCE, J. Edgar Hoover's men knew,
more than a year ago, that a Nazi spy ring
was plotting to blow up the British liner Queen
Mary, then docked in New York. They knew it
because at that time they were permitted to tap
telephone wires, and they listened in on the plot.
Right in the middle of the plot, the Supreme
Court ruled that telephone wires could not be
tapped, and from that time on the FBI had to
shadow the spies instead of listen in on them.
To have arrested the saboteurs at that time
would have meant that the other spies, suspected
but not yet in the net, would have fled the
country. So Hoover said nothing and waited.
ALSO he had the Queen Mary carefully guard-
ed. She sailed undamaged. It was more
than a year ago, also, that Hoover learned that
a Nazi agent inside the Sperry gyroscope plant
was trying to lay hands on the blueprints of the
secret U.S. bomb-sight. In fact, four prints were
almost within his reach when the FBI found out
about it. For more than a year, since then,
those plans have been kept tantalizingly just
out of reach while Hoover waited for more spies
to walk into his net.
FBI Efficiency
ALL THIS TIME Congressman Dies was issu-
ing blasts about spies, though arresting none
of them, and a lot of people were asking: "Why
doesn't Hoover do something?" Finally, Hoover
was ready; and just two weeks ago the biggest
spy ring in American history was rounded up
in New York.
The machinery by which these spies were
arrested and confessions secured from many of
them is the best illustration of the quiet effi-
Tokyo Makes Up Its Mind
AFTER LABORING ostentatiously for a week,
the Japanese governmental mountain has
finally brought forth a political mouse.
In a laconic statement, the Cabinet announces
it has reached a decision on its new policies.
In a parallel pronouncement, Foreign Minister
Matsuoka says Japan "will watch the develop-
ment of the (Russo-German) situation with the
greatest care."
Berlin promptly and enthusiastically describes
these declarations as examples of statesmanlike
"lucidity and clarity." But if anything is clear
about Tokyo's statements, it is their purpose to
camouflage the indecision in Japanese official
counsels. As in every other major crisis of the
past decade, the Japanese policy-makers have
again been divided into two irreconcilable camps.
THE ADVOCATES of the "Southward Ho"
course, headed by that peerless firebrand,
Admiral Suyetsagu, insist that all energy be
saved for the long-planned thrust into the South
Seas. The opposing clique, dominated by the
pro-Axis elements within the army, demands an
immediate attack on Siberia and Outer Mon-
golia.
The outcome of this dispute will not be de-
cided over conference tables in Tokyo. It will
be determined solely by Russia's fortunes of
war. If Hitler's juggernaut breaks through the
"Stalin wall," the pro-Axis faction will auto-
matically take the upper hand in Japan, and
give the signal for an attack on Siberia. If the
Russians hold out against Hitler, Tokyo doubt-
less will seek to drive a hard economic bargain
with Moscow as a reward for its good behavior
-and in all likelihood will renew preparations
for action in the South Seas.
BUT whatever Tokyo's decision-whether it is
to strike north, west or south-there is little
hope for an improvement in Japanese-American
relations. Japan has staked her future on the
use of the sword, and wherever her sword falls
today it cuts at vital American lifelines and
interests. Japan entrenched in the Soviet mari-
time provinces and Kamchatka is a peril to
Alaska. Japan with footholds in Thailand, Sing-
apore and the Dutch East Indies means a rubber.
tin, tungsten and quinine famine in the United
States-apart from the broader political and
strategic considerations.
ciency of the FBI. It all happened on a Sunday.
The arrests were made simultaneously in about
twenty different parts of New York and the
vicinity. Each suspect was brought to a different
room at FBI headquarters and was interrogated
by a different FBI agent. The rooms were so
separated that no prisoner knew that his col-
leagues were in the adjoining rooms and might
be spilling the goods on him.
CROSS-EXAMINATION continued quietly all
afternoon, interrupted by time-out for a
sandwich, a cup of coffee or a smoke (FBI men
have instructions to kill their prisoners with
kindness). In the end, the evidence placed be-
fore the prisoners was so overwhelming that most
of the key arrests decided to plead guilty.
Exit FBI Politics
J. Edgar Hoover has been in charge of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation for about twenty
years. It was Harlan F. Stone, now Chief Jus-
tice, then Attorney General under Coolidge, who
put him in charge. Prior to that Hoover had
been merely a hard-working clerk who burned
the midnight oil studying law and worked his
way up to chief assistantinside the FBI.
Hoover's predecessor was the famous William
J. Burns, who, under President Harding had
made a shambles of the FBI. Politicians and
ex-convicts of the Gaston B. Means type were
hired as investigators. And if a Senator did not
want a certain matter investigated, it was
dropped.
HOOVER SAW, from watching Burns, that
there could be no politics inside the FBI.
He has been rigid on that point ever since. He
is a glad-hander, and will talk the arm off a
congressman, but a lot of kind words is all the
congressman gets. Hoover will drop no investi-
gation because of political pressure. Nor will he
investigate a congressman, senator or newspa-
perman unless he has written orders from the
Attorney General himself.
It was the sorry example of William J. Burns
under Harding that made Hoover resolve that
every one of his agents must be a college gradu-
ate. That rule is followed even today, when the
FBI has expanded ten times its step back in the
Coolidge days. A college degree, sometimes even
a law degree, is just as essential to an FBI job
as West Point and Annapolis are to commissions
in the Army and Navy.
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
More From Mr. ,Sass ...
To the Editor:
I don't know that it's worth prolonging my
little controversy with Mr. Kelsey, but the tone
of his letter certainly calls for an answer.
I asked him to state the source of the accusa-
tion that he repeated against In Fact and the
best he can do is to hide behind a vague state-
ment-". .. it is the record of a rather general
opinion that does notrseem to have reached Mr.
Sass' ears."
I asked for specific references to pro-Nazi
statements in In Fact and Mr. Kelsey counters
with the accusation that Mr. Seldes is following
Community Party lines.
About the only thing that is definite in Mr.
Kelsey's letter is that he belongs to the "I'm Not
a Red-baiter, But" school of thought.
-Samuel Sass
More On Mr. Sass ...
To the Editor:
Mr. Kelsey's answer to Mr. Sass was very ap-
propriately printed above a letter entitled "The
Whirling Dervish." The YCL isn't doing all the
whirling these days. Mr. Sass asked Mr. Kelsey
to defend his statement that In Fact was "often
in the past accused of pro-Nazi tendencies.''
That certainly wouldn't be hard to do. An air-
tight answer would have been, "I accused it
25 times yesterday, 37 times the day before, and
goodness knows how many times last week."
But instead, when confronted with evidence that
Mr. Seldes was not pro-Nazi, he said that what
he meant was that some people thought In Fact
was communist. So we're right back where we
started.
MUST also accuse Mr. Sass of careless reading
of the original editorial if he did not notice
that the pro-Nazi accusation was not a state-
ment to be proven ordefended, but merely a part
of the atmosphere created to give credence to
Mr. Kelsey's "Hess Theory" and discredit Mr.
Seldes. The first paragraph of the editorial was
particularly interesting as a good example of
propaganda writing. It was as full of vague,
meaningless emotion-rousers as anything we get
from Germany. Russia. or American Radin Ad-
STUPID tu
By Terence
A FAN LETTER from one of Ter-
ence's many fans (his mother)
inquires why Terence never lends his
facile pen and great wit to current
affairs. Well, it's quite simple:
After three years I believe I can
today regard the struggle for Ger-
man equality as over. We have no
more territorial demands to make
in Europe.
-Adolf Shicklegruber, 193
Bolshevism is banished from
Central Europe and we expect now
a long era of peace and success-
ful construction.
- A letter from a German stu-
dent at the University of
Munich reprinted in The
Michigan Daily, Oct. 29, 1938
It seems distinctly possible that
the sweep of Fascism has been
checked.
- Heywood Broun, March 5, 1939
Fascism admits that, in case of
war, not the least of its difficulties
would be created by its own people;
that an external war will almost
mean civil war as well.
- Thomas Mann in The Com-
ing Victory For Democracy,
1939
German and Italian strength
would be quickly sapped by the
enormous cost of the offensive ...
considering his (Hitler's) economic
situation, the weakness of his al-
lies, and the multitude of his ene-
mies, one might well say that to
wage war successfully is the one
thing Hitler cannot do.
- Willson Woodside in Harper's,
August, 1939
WATCH ON NOW? Those guys or
motof them knew a blot more
about it thantI do, and did they make
fools of themselves! So Terence re-
mains much like the immortal
arch ie:
no trick nor kick of fate
can raise from me a yell
serene I sit and wait
for the world to go to hell
* * *
It's a little old by now, but mayb
you haven't heard it, and even if you
have, I still think it's the best joke
I ever heard. And strangely enough,
it came from Gargoyle a couple of
years ago.
IT WAS on board a ship, in the
salon one evening, when the ship's
entertainment was going ' on. There
was a parrot in the salon, too, and
he watched cynically as parrots will
as a magician went through a few
routine card tricks.
Then with a flourish of trumpets
the magician stepped to the front of
the stage. "My frieigds," he said, "I
am now going to perform a trick
that has never been done before. It
is absolutely impossible." He rolled
up his sleeves, said a few magic
words, and ..-.
Just at that moment the ships
boiler blew up.
A FEW MINUTES LATER the par-
rot came to on a' piece of drift-
wood out in the middle of the ocean.
He looked around him and not a
thing was in sight, just waves.
"Damn clever," he muttered.
JELL, the big affair is over today,
and there are a lot of people
who will heave a huge sigh of relief.
The big affair is, of course, the
New Education Fellowship Confer-
ence, which has occupied Ann Arbor
for the last seven days.
It's all been a sort of disappoint-
ment to me. Maybe because I saw
the tentative programs issued months
ago in which there were glowing
promises of speeches of Henry Wal-
lace, Thomas Mann, John Dewey and
many other world-renowned persons.
But it didn't turn out that way.
Sort of an example of advertising a
product falsely, though probably in
most cases it was unavoidable.
But there was more than that. No
one here in town seemed to really
know who was boss at the thing.
Nothing came off on time, and every-
thing lastedfor hours longer than
it was scheduled to.
T HE CONFERENCE was good
enough, I suppose, but certainly
not what it was billed to be. If The
Harvard of the Midwest ever does
get another such affair, here's one
voice hoping that it will be run much
better . . . there's certainly been
room for improvement in this one.
Tactical Lesson
For General Marshall ...
The Germans admit the Russians
have fought bravely, but what really
is holding up the "Blitzkrieg" has
just been revealed by a Nazi war
reported. The mosquitoes have anni-
hilated the "Panzer" columns in the
region of the Pinsk marshes.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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By Lichty
"Gentlemen, this formula is the greatest scientific advance since the
dawn of civilization . . . one quart will blow up the whole worldI"
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
r
All Notices for the Daily Official Bul-
letin are to be sent to the Office of the
Summer Sessionebefore 3:30 p.m. of the
day preceding its publication except on
Saturday, when the notices should be
submitted before 11:30 a.m.
Lectures on French Painting: Pro-
fessor Harold E. Wethey, Chairman
of the Department, of Fine Arts, will
give a series of three illustrated lec-
tures on French Painting. In the
first lecture Professor Wethey will
talk on "French Tradition in the
XVIIIth Century, in the second on
"Post-Impressionism" and in the
third on "The School of Paris" (XXth
Century).,
These lectures, which will be given
in English and are open to all stu-
dents and Faculty members interest-
ed, are to take place in Room D,
Alumni Memorial Hall on Monday,
July 14, Monday, July 28 and on Mon-
day, August 11, respectively, at 4:10
p.m.
The lectures are sponsored by the
Department of Romance Languages.
Charles E. Koella
College of Literature, Science, and
the Arts: Schools of Music and Edu-
cation: Students who received marks
of I or X at the close of their last
semester or summer session of attend-
ance will receive a grade of E in the
course unless this work is made up
by July 30th. Students wishing an
extension of time beyond this date
in order to makeup the work should
file a petition addressed to the ap-
propriate official in their school with
Room 4, U.H. where it will be trans-
mitted. The petition must carry the
written approval of the instructor
concerned.
Tickets for the Summer Sessiion
Series of the Art Cinema League
which will be presented at the Main
Auditorium of the Horace Rackham
School are now on sale at the Michi-
gan League, the Michigan Union and
Wahr's book store. Students are
urged to purchase their ticket as
soon as possible since the sale is pro-
ceeding rapidly. The series will pre-
sent four films for a dollar and in-
cludes "Peg of Old Drury," Sunday,
July 13; "The Baker's Wife," Sunday,
July 20; "The Cobbler Captain of
Koepenick," Sunday, August 3 and
"Crime and Punishment" (French
Version), Sunday, August 10. Indi-
vidual tickets will not be sold.
Concert, High School Clinic Band:
The University of Michigan 1941
High School Clinic Band of 145 pieces
will present a concert at 4:15 pm.,
Sunday, July 13, at Hill Auditorium.
The program will feature solos and
ensembles in addition to the numbers
presented by the entire band. Wil-
liam D. Revelli, Conductor of the
Band, will be assisted by two- guest
conductors, Mr. Cleo Fox of Kalama-
zoo, and Mr. Dale C. Harris of Pon-
tiac. Although this performance will
be complimentary to the general pub-
lic, small children will not be admit-
ted for obvious reasons.
Lecture Recital: The first of a series
of six programs to be given this sum-
mer will be presented by Joseph
Brinkman and William Beller, Pian-
ists at 4:15 p.m., Monday, July 15,
in Rackham Assembly Hall. It will
be composed entirely of compositions
by Johann Sebastian Bach, including
his Italian Concerto; Prelude and
Fugue in A minor; B flat Partita; and
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue. This
program will be open to the general
public.
The students of The Smith League
House, located at 1102 E. Ann Street
invite the Students of the Summer
Session, their friends, and visiting
members of The New Education Fel-
lowship Conference to a reception on
Friday, July the eleventh from 9:00
to 10:30 p.m. followed by dancing
until 1:00 a.m.
Graduate Outing Club will meet
Sunday, July 13, at 2:30 p.m. sharp,
in the rear of the Rackham Building.
A trip to Big Portage Lake in Water-
loo Park is planned, including swim-
ming, hiking, and softball, followed
by a weenie roast. Those having cars
are urged to kindly bring them; an
allowance- is given for transportation
furnished. All graduate , students,
faculty, and alumni are welcome. .
Mail is being held in Roam 1, Uni-
versity Hall, for the following per-
sons: Aldiner, Fikret; Burch, Charles;
Deno, Dr. Richard A.; Dwan, Ed-
ward; Engerrand, Mr. J. J.; Glasser,
Louise; Gregory, Mr. H. C.; Hetting-
er, Esther; Hildner, E. G., Jr.; Mac-
Comachie (or MacCohnachie); Robb,
Miss I.; Stockwell, Dr. H. R.; Wing,
Dr.- Leonard.
First Methodist Church. Student
Class with Professor Kenneth Hance
at 9:45 a.m. in the Wesley Founda-
tion Assembly Room. The subject
for discussion will be "The Church
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