IE MICHIGAN IDAILY - 7 NEA -t-A DST2, 1950 !I [OMAS L. STOKES: UNESCO & Korean Crisis DRAMA WASHINGTON-While the United Nations has moved with commendable boldness and promptness from the very start of the Korean crisis, there is one function which thus far it has failed to perform adequately to meet its first challenge by aggression. This-and a highly important one-is in the field of education and enlightenment on what might be called its moral position. That is essential to its political function, in the execution of which it has rallied the support of 56 of its 59 members in sup- port of its Korean action, and to its en- forcement function, which it has carried out by establishing an emergency inter- national police force under General Doug- las MacArthur. This emphasis on its legal and moral posi- tion is especially needed because of the pro- paganda barrage by the Russians against the UN action, which is increasing in distortion and intensity. The, truth must get out to the people of the world who are being reached by the Russian attacks. The UN has an agency for just this pur- pose in UNESCO-United Nations Educa- bional, Scientific and Cultural Organization -whose purpose, as set forth in its consti- tution, is the "unrestricted pursuit of ob- jective truth and the free exchange of ideas and knowledge." IT IS TIMELY, therefore, that the U.S. Na- tional commission for UNESCO, embrac- .ng our representatives to this UN agency, iow has come forward with a request for ari immediate emergency session of UNESCO's executive board to carry out its ordained ole, among other ways by: "Devising and utilizing all available means for the dissemination of the facts concerning the causes of the present sit- uation in Korea, and other actions which may threaten the peace in other areas of the world." In its request, which was transmitted to TNESCO headquarters in Paris, through Lu- her H. Evans, Librarian of Congress and vice chairman of UNESCO's executive board, ;he U.S. National Commission thus clearly Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: NANCY BYLAN recognizes that similar aggression may occur elsewhere from the pattern indicated in Ko- rea. This compels UNESCO to take cogniz- ance of a general situation that threatens the peace of the world. It bases its call for action on UNESCO's primary obligation "to promote peace and, security" and "to further universal res- pect for justice and the rule of law." Of the North Korean aggression and its meaning it says: "Never before had such an act taken place against so complete a background of interna- tional collaboration and organization as that represented by the United Nations. Never be- fore were the issues involved in a breach of the peace conditioned 'so fully by the funda- mental consideration that even defensive military action must have as an underlying objective 'the building up of the defenses of peace in the minds of men'." WHAT IS REQUIRED thus, is a simple ex- planation - repeatedly stressed - of the UN's role to preserve peace by checkingag- gression as proclaimed in its charter solemn- ly subscribed to by 59 nations. At the out- set, the U.S. Commission recommends that the UNESCO executive board adopt "a strong staement of support for the action of the United Nations." It would seem imperative that it move fast because of indications that Russia now, apparently, plans to capitalize its return to the UN Security Council, to use that agency as a forum to continue its attacks on UN procedure in Korea, and otherwise to harass and obstruct the UN's mission. Russia's return to the UN, after an abstention since last January, was de- noted in notifications by Jacob A. Malik, Russia's Security Council representative, that he would assume the presidency of the Council for the month of August. This comes to him under the rotation system, but his acceptance had not been expected. UNESCO has many avenues through which to tell the story of the UN's function in cases of aggression, such as that in Korea, including the UN radio facilities which it could well use far more than for the brief. program it now presents, as well as publica- tions of all sorts that circulate widely through national commissions in member states. The request for the executive board emergency session also suggested that re- gional conferences be called on education and information about the aggressive threat exemplified in Korea. (Copyright 1950, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ON THE WashingtonMerry- Go-Round WITH DREW PEARSON THE ALCHEMIST, by Ben Jonson, and KING LEAR, by William Shakespeare. Presented by the Oxford University Play- ers. THE OXFORD PLAYERS' final appearance in LEAR last Friday night quite plainly left their audience about as impressed as Ann Arbor audiences ever get, and with, reason. They are an organization equipped with an unflagging competence rarely enough met with amongst either professional or amateur groups, and with an enthusiasm, versatility and imagination which made both their ALCHEMIST and their LEAR brilliant. There were a number of discernible rea- sons for the sustained excellence of the two performances in question. Direction is on of them. Alan Cooke and David Wil- liams, who directed the two plays, are ap- parently both pretty much guided by a single idea: a kind of confidence in the play and in the dramatist which causes them to go at it from the beginning with- out the usual furbelows often found clut- tering up modern "versions" of older plays. There is, in short, a willingness to take things literally; to move the perform- ers around to fit the play rather than to move the play around to fit the perform- ers. If you were present at the recent lo- cal attempt at the same B. Jonson's 'Vol- pone," you probably understand what I'm getting at here. The inevitable result of this laissez-faire point of view is, of course, a rather lengthy presentation, little cut and not at all revis- ed; a production which comes out pretty much as you had read it, and done in this particular case with an unstudied and un- sophisticated boldness which was a joy to be- hold. Then there are the Players themselves, not one of whom is anything less than gifted, and one or two of whom appeared to me to be already equipped for the Big Time. I re- fer specifically to Jack May, who was Sif Epicure Mammon on Thursday and on Fri- day the Earl of Kent, and to John Schles- inger, who appeared as Subtle in the Al- chemist and as Oswald in Lear. May's man- per is reminiscent of the late George Arliss he performs with a polish and urbanity pa- tently come by through hard wcrk, much ex perience, and a clear idea of what he }s about. Schlesinger's most valuable asset is a volatility, a bounce, particularly apparent in The Alchemist, which carries him a long waY out to his audience. Only slightly less impressive were the per- formances of Jocelyn Page as Doll of the Alchemist and Goneril in Lear; Ronald Eyre as first Drugger and then The Fool; and Peter Parker as Lovewit and Lear." The sets the Players are using on their American tour are entirely functional: they provide a door"where a door is called for, without much attempt at a particularly doorlike door. This has to do, of course, with purposes of simplicity and portability. It became quite evident, Thusrday and Fr- day, that in spite of the fact that they have neither a School of Drama nor a University Theatre,athe Oxford Players seem to be bet- ter than most American undergraduate groups, our own included. This observation has resulted in a certain amount of con- jecture about why our own Play Production organization, with whatever advantages, doesn't do as well by, say, King Lear, as they do. Such controversy usually is about as use- ful as pouringsandintoagopherhole,butit P. ful as pouring sand into a gopher hole, but it does occur to me that there are a few com- parative points to be made. It is worth noting, for example, that the average age of the Oxford Players is some- where well along in the twenties. While this doesn't mean anything by itself, it ought to be pointed out that most of the Players' have already spent several years in radio, film, and on the stage. Apparently much of their experience is behind them before they begin the academic stage of their careers; obviously not the case with Michigan's group, which is designed to accept totally in- experienced people at the ages of seventeen and eighteen. Some attention ought to be paid, also, to the element of selectivity. American under- graduate groups must accept whoever ap- plies, talented or not, and hope that a few capable actors and directors may be made of the lot. The Players, on the other hand_, represent the cream of a number of unoffi4 cial groups. The fact that their cream seems to be of a better quality than our own is the sticker. While all this is not to be construed as an apologia for American play production groups in general and our own in particu lar, it seems to me that these are obser- vations which ought to be made before comparisons begin, and that the problem isn't the rather non-profitable one of why aren't we better, but whether or not our system pays off as well as it ought. In any case, it is obvious that the Oxford system, with poverty on its side, does pay off, and, in this case, to our advantage. -W. J. Hampton token payment, but continue to draw regu- lar salaries from their own companies. Some of these men performed skilled and patriotic jobs for their country dur- ing World War II. But many, suffering "I Don't Need You To Protect Me, Junior" r s f .. .port r1w WINSKkT .v T-14 Y°A c y DAILY OFFICIA L BULLETIN { WASHINGTON.-It has now developed that the Washigton police tapped the wires of a U. S. Senator while they were working for private individuals on govern- ment time. The Senator in question is the late Josiah Bailey of North Carolina, and his wires were tapped in the basement of the apartment house in which he lived on Q Street, by the same police lieutenant, Joseph Shimon, who tapped the wires of Howard Hughes. Lt. Shimon sat, with a pad of paper, in the basement of Senator Bailey's apart- ment house every evening for about two weeks while the Pan American Airways controversy over the "chosen instrument" was hot, and scribbled notes on the Sena- tor's conversation. He had run a wire from the apartment-house switchboard down to the little room in the basement. Sometimes, when Bailey was not in a talkative mood and wasn't using his phone, the police lieutenant had his girl friend come and visit him in the apartment-house basement. Who paid Lt. Shimon for this private- eye job is not known. It was not part of his regular police work, and Maj. Robert Bar- rett, chief of police, has emphatically op- posed wire-tapping. He also transferred Shi- mon to an obscure precinct when he caught him wire-tapping, but, thanks to interven- tion from higher-ups, Shimon is, now back at one of the most important precincts in the city. PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS BATTLE SOME LIGHT on who paid Shimon to tap the wires of Senator Bailey may be shed by recalling the fact that Shimon also tapped Howard Hughes' wires at the height of the controversy between Pan American Airways and Hughes' Trans World Airlines. At that time, Senator Brewster of Maine, great friend of Pan American, was chairman of the Senate committee investigating Hughes. Furthermore, the police officers who helped Shimon tap Hughes' wire have mentioned Pan American Airways in one of their sup- plemental reports to the Justice Department. It is also disclosed that Lt. Shimon in- structed the three policemen working with him especially to listen for any conversa- tion regardingTrans World Airlines and aviation. In other words, the District of Colum- SPYING ON BAILEY SENATOR BAILEY'S tapped wire fits right into this picture. The late Senator from North Carlina was chairman of the Inter- state and Domestic Commerce Committee which passed on aviation policy. Brewster was a member of this committee, and had pushed the "chosen instrument" bill, a poli- cy devised and urged on Congress by Pan American. This bill would have eliminated compe- tition between U. S. airlines overseas; would have picked one "chosen" line in- stead to handle all U. S. air traffic abroad. It was when this bill was under considera- tion that Senator Bailey's wires were tap- ped by the District of Columbia police. Bailey was opposed to Brewster's and Pan American's plar of a "chosen instrument." Instead, he stuck to the old principle of free competition. Senator Brewster, who was trying to change his mind, once flew to Raleigh, N. C., in a special Pan American plane to argue with chairman Bailey, but he refused to budge. Partly because of Bailey's opposition, Brewster's "chosen instrument" bill was defeated. But during the debate, it now de- velops that Senator Bailey was subjected to police-state eavesdropping by the po- lice of a city which is supposed to be the opposite of Moscow. And the police lieutenant who tapped Bai- ley's telephone now continues to hold one of the most important jobs on the police force, while the Jusice Department has let the wire-tapping report gather dust for nine months. Meanwhile, Senator Neely of West Vir- ginia, Democratic chairman of the District of Columbia Committee, shies away from a probe of police wire-tapping. Note - Pan American Airways now ap- pears headed toward the attainment of its "chosen instrument" goal, despite its defeat by Congress. Thanks to maneuver- ing by Secretary of Defense Johnson and White House Secretary Matt Connelly, President Truman has just reversed the Civil Aeronautics Board and ruled that Pan American can swallow up American Overseas Airlines. Truman also gave Pan Am the choice routes to Paris and Rome - a long step toward eliminating competi- tion and giving Pan Am the monopoly it has long coveted. Every agency of the government opposed the Pan American overseas merger. h ut.Tru- Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Office of the Summer Session, Room 3510 Admin- istration Building, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Saturdays). WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1950 VOL. LX, No. 25-S Notices Approved Student Sponsored Social Events for the Coming Wee-end: August 5, 1950; Nelson International House, Michigan Christian Fellowship, Zeta Beta Tau. A representative of the Owens Illinois Glass Company of Toledo, Ohio will be at the Bureau of Ap- pointments on Thursday, August 3 to interview August graduates for the sales training program in their glass container division. Men selected will be given one year's training in all departments of the company. For further infor- mation and appointments for in- terviews call Ext. 37' The City .of Detroit Civil Ser- vice Commission announces ex- aminations for Student Technical Assistant (Electrical or Mechan- ical Engineers) with the closing date August 8; andtJunior Mech- anical Engineer with the closing date August 14. For further information call at the Bureau of Appointments,3528 Administration Building. Notice: The Office of the Sum- mer Session is holding an Air Mail letter for Miss Julia Allen from the Young Women's Christian As- . sociation of the United States of America. National Board. Will you please call for it at 3510 Ad- ministration Building. It will be held until Friday, August 4 be- fore being returned to sender. Lectures Chemistry Lecture Series: Chemistry Building, Room 1300. Wednesday, August 2 at 4:00 p.m. Professor John C. Slater, Head, Department of Physics, Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. Topic: "Ferroelectricity." Guidance Workshop: Floyd Cromwell, State Supervisor of High Schools, State Department of Education, Baltimore, Mary- land will be the guest lecturer and consultant at the Guidance Work- shop, Room 267, Business Ad. Bldg., Tuesday through Friday of this week. His topic will be "Or- ganization and Administration of Guidance." Linguistic Institute. Wednesday, August 2. "Derivatives ,of ME iu in the North Central States." Al- bert H. Marckwardt, Professor of English, 1:00 p.m. Michigan Union. Concerts Student Recital: David Larson, student of piano with Mischa Mel- ler, will be heard at 8:30 p.m. Wed- nesday in the Rackham Assembly Hall, in a program given in par- tial fulfillment of the require- ments for the Master of Music de- gree. Open to the public, the re- cital will include works by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Kabalevsky, and Chopin. Student Recital: Kenneth Lang, student of violin with Gilbert Ross, will present a program at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Rackham Assembly Hall, in partial fulfill- ment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. It will include compositions by Tartini, Bach, Bruch, and Ross Lee Fin- ney, member of the School of Mu- sic faculty. The general public is invited. Student Recital: Andrew Lisko, Violinist, will present a program at 8:30 Thursday evening, August 3, in the Rackham Assembly Hall, in partial fulfillment of the re- quirements for the Master of Mu- sic degree. A pupil of Gilbert Ross, Mr. Lisko will play compositions by Locatelli, Ross Lee Finney, and Brahms. The recital will be open to the public. Student Recital: Jean Deal, pia- nist, will present a program in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music degree requirements at 4:15 Thursday afternoon, August 3, in the Rackham Assembly Hall. A pupil of Joseph Brinkman, Miss Deal will play works by Bach, Mo- zart, Chopin, Gail Kubik, and De- bussy. The general public is in- vited. Carillon Recital: Percival Price, University Carillonneur, will be heard in a program of carillon musci at 7:15 Thursday evening, August 3. It will include two songs by Foster, Preludes 1, 4, & 7 by Professor Price: five Polish airs, and instrumental compositions by J. S. Bach, Haydn, Weber, and Tschaikowsky. Exhibitions General Library, main lobby cases. "Trochiledae, Family of Humming Birds," by John Gould, supplement, 1887. (July 27-August 18). Museum of Archaeology. From Xtettep4 TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of gen- eral interestaand will publish all let- ters which are signed by the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or libelous letters, and letters which for any reasonsare not in good taste will be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. 'Peace' Petition ... To the Editor- NOW THAT the obvious facts have come to light, and since I, like many others, desirous of having my name retracted from the Stockholm Peace Petition, I publicly request that my name be stricken from the petition which I recently signed, and suggest to The Daily that it solicit the names of other misled citizens who wish the retraction of their signatures, as a Copenhagen newspaper has recently done. -William L. Mayo Outlawing Communists 4 . By J. M. ROBERTS, Jr. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst PRAVDA, official mouthpiece of the Communist Party's top brass in Moscow, is generally proud of the way the American Commu- nists have conducted themselves recently, For the "firmness under fire" of American Communists in opposing the UN-U.S. Korean policy, however, the Party organ has nothing but praise. The paper reiterates a statement by Wil- liam Z. Foster, national chairman, that this group in America, des- pite its small size, is destined to play a decisive role in history. The means of handling any group, which operates on the border- line between legitimate political protest and actual treason, is diffi- cult. Some pretty deep pinpricks still seem preferable to tinkering with American safeguards for civil rights. The country still shies away from outlawry. * * * * ONE WITNESS, however, whose experience entitles him to be heard, advocates outlawry. He is Lieut. Gen. James Van Fleet, retiring director of the U. S. military and advisory planning group in Greece. After two years in which he played a major role in the victory of the Greek government over international Communist guerrilla infiltra- tion which once held two-thirds of the country, Van Fleet says: "As a matter of fact, civil liberties exist in too great a measure for the good of Greece. Authough the Communist Party is out- lawed as it should be here, Communist collaborators, masquerad- ing under different labels, are still in the government." Well, that seems to raise both the question and at least a part of thi answer. Outlawry doesn't work, and to make it work you have to play the totalitarian game. It is necessary to kill mosquitos when they attack directly. But real mosquito control depends on wiping out their swampy breeding places. No more economic swamps, no more Communism. Tombs and Towns of Ancient Egypt, " tiseums Building. Rotunda ex- hibit; "The Coal Flora of Michi- gan." Exhibition halls, "Microsco- pc Life." 1i4w Library. Legal cartoons (basement, July 24-August 18). Michigan Historical Collections. 160 Rackham Building. "Tourists in Michigan-Yesterday and To- day." Museum of Art. Oriental ceram- ics (June 26-August 15). Modern graphic. art. (July 2-August 15). Clements Library. Michigan rar- ities. (August 1-18). Events Today University of Michigan Soaring Club: The first flights were made last Saturday, and more are plan- ned for the coming week-end. So that a schedule of flights can be prepared, a short meeting is be- ing held on August 2, 1950 in room 1042 ast Engineering at 7:30 p.m. Anyone interested in joining is welcome to attend. Michigan Christian Fellowship: Bible Study, "Upper Room," Lane Hall, 7:30 p.m. Tog+.c: II Thessa- lonians, chapter one and verses 1 to 12 of chapter two. Geometry Seminar: Wednesday, Aug. 2, 3 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. Miss Ingersoll will discuss Gam- bier's: "Perpendicular Circles and a Paradox Relative to Complex NiMbers." Craft Group meets at Lane Hall, 7:30 p.m. Materials are available at cost. University Community Center, Willow Village, 8 p.m. Wives' Club Refreshment Committee Meeting. Sooiedad Hispanica: Mr. Medar- do Quitierrez will discuss, with the aid of unusual recordings, "The Music of Spain"; East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg., at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The public is cor- dially invited. Graduate History Club: Dr. Chester G. Starr, visiting professor in the history department from the University of Illinois will draw a parallel between the Modern Cri- sis and the GrecoRtoman Crisis of the Second Century B.C., at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Interna- tional Center. Botanical Seminar: at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Rm. 1139 Natural Sci- ence Bldg. Prof. R. J. Lowry will speak on "Some Practical Consid- erations in the Use of Radio-Ac- tive Materials in Botanical Stu- dies." All interested are invited to attend. Opening Tonight: "Hansel an Gretel," world famous opera, pre- sented by the Department o Speech in conjunction with the School of Music, at Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theatre at 8 p.m. Based upon the Grimm fairy tale of "Babes in the Woods," the opera is set to some of the most beauti- ful music in opera literature. Per- formances will be given tonight through Saturday at 8 p.m. There will be no matinee. Tickets are on sale at the Mendelssohn box office from 10 a.m. through 8 p.m. Coming Events French Club: Soiree Amicale at the French House, 1027 E. Un[- versity, on Thursday, August 3, at 8 p.m. Songs, games, dances, re- freshments. Seminar in Applied Mathema- tics will meet Thursday, August 3, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 247 West Engineering Building. Professor S. Chandrasekhar of Yerkes Ob- servatory, Univ. of Chicago, Wil- liams Bay, Wisc. will speak on "A class of non-linear integral equa- tions." Classical Studies Coffee Hour. Students in the Departnent of; Classical Studies and others who are interested are invited to at- tend on August 3 at 4:00 pam. in: the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. There will be an informal talk by Professor C.v A. Forbes. Graduate Student Council meet- ing Thursday August 3, West Lec- ture room, Rackham Building, 7:30 p.m. U. of M. Sailing Club: Meeting Thursday, 7:30, Rm. 311, West Engine. Prepare for Barton Pond: TeamRace this Sunday. Deutsches Haus 1101 Church Street will hold Open House, Thursday, August 3 from 7:30 to 10 p.m. There will be games, sing- ing, and refreshments will be serv- ed. Everyone is cordially invited. CEOg Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the., authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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