PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, AUGUST 2,19-31 s THE MICHIGAN DAILY 4 THURSDAY, AUt~UST 2, 1951 ditor; dote INTERPRETING THE NEWS: "Twist My Arm" By DAVE THOMAS THE wisdom of an alliance with Franco Spain at this time is yet to be proven. Conservation circles, with a brave stiffen- ing of the collective upper lip declared the move to be a courageous facing up to the realities of the situation. And it is undoubt- edly true that if the deal goes through, the U. S. stands to gain air and naval bases which apparently must be considered very valuable. What appears to have gone unconsidered in the Administration's surprisingly-sud- den capitulation to military necessity, is the effect which the action had on both those whom we presently count as our friends and those whom we would have as our friends in the future. It has been suggested that the protests issued by London and Paris against the Uni- ted States' unilateral action in opening ne- gotiations with Franco for strategic bases in return for U. S. military and economic aid, were designed for home consumption only and that both governments privately ac- knowledged the basic wisdom of our ap- proach. These suggestions have been made largely by Americans who find it easier than Euro- peans to ignore the fact that Franco rep- resents a political philosophy and a way of life which caused unparalleled bloodshed and suffering in Europe only a few years ago. Europeans are likely to find it more difficult to forget and forgive Franco's sup- port of the Axis during World War II- support which included sending a division to fight against the Russians, who at that time, it must be recalled, were our allies. Also the memory of the bitter Spanish civil war which rang up the curtain on a decade of slaughter in Europe is still fresh in the minds of many powerful socialists in both France and England. This, coupled with Franco's continuing denial of practically all civil liberties to the Spanish people, Is bound to make our decision an unpopular one in Western Eu- rope. As far as Eastern Europe is concerned, no move could have been more unfortunate. Just how the Voice of America is going to get around this one is impossible to say, but the chances are that whatever they at- tempt, it won't be very successful. The Rus- sians Communists can be expected to make propaganda hay of this unsavory alliance as long as Franco's darkness shines in Spain, a phenomena which, because of American support, will probably continue for some time to come. Talk about the recent Spanish cabinet shuffle being a move toward a more "lib- eral" domestic rule appears to be little more than wishful thinking and Franco's recent arrogant note to the British and French Governments protesting their op- position to the American negotiations will Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: SID KLAUS DRAMA THE STREETS OF NEW YORK, present- ed by the Department of Speech at Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. HARDLY A DRY EYE was left in the house as the curtain descended (twice) on the last act of the speech department's fourth offering of the summer season. There were cheers for the hero, hisses for the vil- lain, and best of all, a warm-all-over feeling toward poor people everywhere as virtue triumphed once again. Actually, it all didn't mean very much, but as a stereotype of the terrible thing the American theater had become in the gas- light era, the play was generally amusing and on the shoulders of a few good per- formances was carried forward to victory. All the old stops are pulled: the Mach- iavellian banker, the kindly street hawker of sweet potatoes, even the heroine who would die to give her struggling brother one less mouth to feed. Too often, how- ever, the characters were so unpleasantly pleasant and the plot so gleefully involved that the cast did well to keep the aud- iences from rushing to the exits in sheer self-defense. Playing with the grand gesture and the sidelong soliloquy was a gift completely mastered by only a few of the players. Of these, Clarence Stephenson as the doleful heir of a much-lamented sea captain, was undoubtedly the most expert. With a real gift for burlesque, he gave his role perfect tone and fine imagination. Just behind him were his brother, Jim certainly not act to strengthen the Atlan- tic Pact. CLEARLY what has happened is that the United States has once again pursued the "safe" course, the path of military ex- pediency. Before the negotiations Franco's regime was reportedly in danger of col- lapse. We wanted military concessions in Spain and were unwilling to risk the un- certainty involved in the prospect of a new government. So we took what appeared to be the easy way out: Reinforce Franco's posi- tion, and hope that he will play ball with us in return. Through assurances of American economic and military aid, Franco has gained new domestic strength. What the U. S. has gain- ed seems to be a few bases, an ill-equipped army whose reported size and fighting po- tential fluctuates as vaguely as that of Chaing Kai Shek's Formosan garrison, and an idealogical black eye the world over. That this latest idealogical blunder was committed in the face of the complete de- feat of a similar policy of support for a domestically-discredited government in Chi- na, is astounding and should suggest to some the Inadequacies of the military mind. It was the military who favored the Spanish alliance and who played the biggest part in its inauguration. , They seem blinded by short range military considerations to the long-range political disadvantages which the sanctioning of a corrupt undemocratic re- gime may involve. If the alliance causes a split in Atlantic Pact unity, or a world-wide prapaganda de- feat-both of which it bids fair to do-then it will prove a very unwise move indeed. Morrison's Feat -By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.-- Associated Press News Analyst BRITISH AND AMERICAN diplomats are highly pleased over the feat of British Foreign Secretary Morrison in penetrating the Iron Curtain with a message to the Rus- sian people. There seems to be no worry because the British statement cocked the trigger by which Pravda could shoot another wad of propaganda and get blanket publication throughout the free world. This very un- concern about publication of Russian pro- paganda is, of course, a part of the weight of fact which makes it fall flat in Britain and America. Insofar as people who love neither Britain nor Russia are concerned, the whole incident is probably a draw. It is natural to assume that Morrison got a mixed reaction in Moscow. People there who already have perceived for themselves the truth about the Kremlin's protestations regarding liberty and demo- cracy, people who may be nursing small fires of revolutionary intent, would na- turally welcome the Morrison statement. But many Russians, even those who cri- ticize their own government or would like to doso if they were not afraid, will resent the same criticism coming from outside. Morrison's talk about civil liberties prob- ably won't mean much to the Russian. Peo- ple who have never seen anything but bad government are likely to believe that all governments are bad. Even if they believe their own government is a liar, they will just as quickly and by the same token, be- lieve that the British government is a liar. Morrison got across one beautiful piece of salesmanship. He told the Russians just what time to listen for British broadcasts. It must have irked the Russians consider- ably to publish that. r t r r e 1 1 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round, wiith DREW PEARSON MATTER OTE rFACT By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-There is, for the first time, solid evidence of serious trouble between the Soviet Union and Communist China. The most recent sign of trouble oc- curred when the eighteen slogans approved by the Chinese Politburo for the Chinese Army Day on Aug. 1 omitted all mention of Joseph Stalin. This ommission is universally interpreted by the experts as an open snub by the Chi- nese Communists to the Soviet dictator and thus to the Soviet Union. Its significance is pointed up by the fact that Marshall Tito had his first warning of the impending storm when his name was omitted from slogans in the Moscow May Day celebra- tions. But even before this matter of the slogans, there was extraordinarily signifi- cant evidence of possible discord between the Russian and Chinese Communists. This took the form of seven long ar- ticles by leading Chinese Communist par- ty functionaries, published in July on the occasion of the party's Thirtieth anni- versary, and forwarded very recently to the State Department by the American Consulate General In Hong Kong. These documents point directly to a number of conclusions, of which the most important may be summed up as follows: Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader, considers Communist China an ally of the Soviet Union, but an independent and co- equal ally. Moreover, far from contenting himself with the role of a mere satellite leader, Mao Tse-tung considers himself the equal, and in an ideological sense the su- perior, of Joseph Stalin. The possibilities of trouble with the Soviet Union in this in- dependent stand of the Chinese Communist leader are very obvious. * * * HERE ARE SOME, but by no means all, of the items of evidence which lead to this conclusion: First, of these seven official articles, four make no mention of Stalin's name whatso- ever. This in itself is enough to prove that Mao Tse-tung's China is no wholly-controll- ed satellite on the Eastern European pat- tern. Second, the deification of Mao Tse-tung has been substituted in China for the deifi- cation of Joseph Stalin. In an article by the Vice-Chairman of the Political Depart- ment, in which Stalin's name is never used, Mao's name is used forty-seven times, al- ways with the same breathless adulation that surrounds Stalin's name in the Soviet Union or the European satellites. The usual Communist exhortations appear at the end of a number of these articles, but with a significant change. The punch line is not "Long Live the Glorious Stalin!" but "Long Live Comrade Mao Tse-tung, organizer and leader of the Chinese peoples' revolution!" Third, all credit for the Chinese revolution is given to Mao and the Chinese Communist party-throughout the thousands of words of text, there is just one formal and wholly parenthetical bow to the contribution of the Stalinist regime. For example, Chu Teh, army commander-in-chief and one of the original Big Three of Chinese Communism, writes a history of the victorious Chinese crops up. The Communist party of China," writes Politburo member P'eng Chen, "is also most thoroughly and resolutely pa- triotic." Finally, and most significant of all, Mao Tse-tung is pictured as a new high priest of "Marxist-Leninist science," a higher priest, by implication, than Joseph Stalin Marxist-Leninism has taken the form of himself. Mao's great new contrilution to "Mao Tse-tung's theory of the Chinese re- volution." This is described as "a new development of Marxism-Leninism . . . of universal significance to the world Communist movement .. . a new contribution to the treasury of Marxism-Leninism." This theory is both political and military-but, significantly, more military than political. Endless tribute is paid to "the magnificent art of war of Chairman Mao," while the Chinese Communists are rather patroniz- ingly instructed, in a single sentence, "also with an open mind to study the advanced military science of the Soviet Union." Real Soviet satellites are not encouraged to study anything about the Soviet Union "with an open mind." All this can be misinterpreted. It does not mean-necessarily-an authentic Titoist China is in prospect, nor even that a Titoist China, acting on "Mao Tse-tung's theory of revolution" should give grounds for com- placency about the future of Asia. But it does mean that Communist China's rulers have served clear notice on the Kremlin that Communist China will not be reduced to the submissive status of a European satellite without a fierce struggle. For reasons which will be examined in a subsequent report in this space, this is a development of very, very great historical importance. (Copyright, 1951, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) WASHINGTON-It looks as if a showdown is nearing in the Korean truce talks. Gen. Ridgway has cabled Washington for instructions as to whether he should set a cut-off date on further discussions. He reports that the Communists are unwilling to budge regarding an armistice line 10 kilometers wide on each side of the 38th Parallel, therefore he has asked whether he should continue talking or serve notice that after a certain date full-scale fighting will be resumed. So far the Pentagon has not answered his query. The question is now under the most serious study by the State Department, the Defense Department, and the White House. Gen. Ridgway has reported that the Communist delegates have put the greatest possible stress on the 38th Parallel and continue to make long speeches regarding its importance. These refusals of the United Nations to compromise from our stand along the present fighting line appears to make no impression whatsoever on Chinese- North Korean delegates. The issue will probably be decided within the next 24 hours. --RUSSIAN THREAT- GEN. OMAR BRADLEY, who doesn't get riled easily, was pretty sore when he heard how one of his own Army spokesmen had blurted out to a press conference the name of an airborne division which had been transferred from Korea to Japan. The incident took place in a press conference at which the Army was explaining how Chinese Communists had built up their strength in North Korea while we had weakened ours. What happened was that Gen. Ridgway had cabled Washington for permission to transfer the airborne division in question to northern Japan because of the fact that the Russians had two airborne divi- sions poised on the island of Sakhalin, threatening northern Japan. While the two Russian divisions have only enough airplanes between them to move one division at a time, Ridgway wanted to be on guard against a surprise airborne attack on Japan in case the truce talks broke down, and the Communists launched an all-out offensive. Washington accordingly gave permission to transfer the Am- erican airborne division back to Japan. Such a troop movement is highly secret. But the Pentagon briefing officer, anxious to prove that the Chinese have used the truce talks to build up their strength, blurted out the movement of this particular divi- sion to a roomful of newsmen to which foreign correspondents are admitted. When Gen. Bradley heard of this, he tried to call Army Chief of+ Staff, Gen. Joe Collins, but couldn't reach him. So he summoned as- sistant Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. C. L. Bolte and ordered a full in- vestigation of who pulled the boner. NOTE-Bradley was also irked at the Army spokesman's state- ment that the UN deliberately halted its offensive, though we could have continued on to the Yalu River. This was why the Defense De- partment later officially disavowed the Army spokesman. -FLEECING UNCLE SAM--, THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY is now fleecing the taxpayers outF of "billions of dollars" by charging the armed services "four to five times the manufacturer's price" for spare parts. This is the conclusion of investigators for a House "watchdog"2 committee, headed by Congressman Porter Hardy, Jr., of Virginia. "The inflated profits and unnecessary costs will amount to sever- al billions of dollars during the stepped up purchasing program in the present emergency," the investigators charge in a confidential re- port on the spare-parts scandal. "Due in part to the splitting of the profits, these amounts will not be substantially recovered by either taxation or renegotiation." The report describes a "gentleman's agreement or informal t understanding" inside the automotive industry "to bid on Govern-i ment business with the price to the distributor as a minimum."F "From there out there appears to be no limit," declares the report.r As a result, the Government is forced to pay "four to five times" the actual cost, and the profits are split between all the middlemen- the manufacturer, assembler, distributors, retailer and repairman- who each receive "substantially the complete value of the part."t "Where the part is expensive, the price may be shaved down toa three or four times its original value; and where the value of the partt is relatively small, ten or even more times its value may be charged,"t the report explains.t The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Universit3 of Michigan for whch the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi blity. Publication in It is construc- tive notice to all members of the Uni- versity. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3510 Administration Bldg. at 3 p.m. on the day preceding publication. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1951 VOL. LXI, No. 26-S Notices Candidates for the Masters Degree a the end of Summer Session are invite to be the guests of the University a the annual Masters' Breakfast, Sunday August 5, at 9:00 a.m. In the Michiga Union ballroom. Tickets may be se cured at Room 3510 Administratlo: Building up to Friday, August 3 at 4:0 p.m. Veterans' Requisitions Friday, Augus 10, 1951, has been established as th final date for the procurement of book supplies and equipment using vetera requisitions. No requisitions will b honored by the vendors subsequent t this date. PERSONNEL INTERVIEWS: The Oscar Mayer Company, Madison Wisconsin, is in need of men for thei Supervisory Training Program in adcti tion to Chemical and Mechanical Engi neers, Chemistry majors and Food Tech nologists and related fields. This com pany is one of the ten leading mea packing firms and has plants in Madli son, Pairie du Chien, Wisconsin; Day enport, Iowa; Chicago, Illinois; Phila delphia; and Los Angeles. They will In terview at the Bureau of Appointment If enough men are interested. Please cal immediately at the Bureau of Appoint ments, 3528 Administration Building ii interested. Personnel Interviews: Thursday, August 2- Mr. Smiley, Personnel Director of LA SALLE & KOCH COMPANY in Toled will interview men and women who are interested in department store trainin programs. Mr. Smiley will be interview- ing for his own store and others in the R. H. Macy Corporation, New York and elsewhere. Thursday, August 2- LEHIGH PORTLAND CEMENT COM- PANY, Cleveland, Ohio, will be inter viewing men interested in sales or sales administration, Literary College, Bus- iness Administration students as well a technical men are eligible. Their train- ing program will begin approximately September 1 and will continue for 6 to 8 months in Allentown, Pennsylvania, then candidate will be placed in either outside sales or sales administration in one of their district offices. For further information and appoint- ments for interviews please call at the Bureau of Appointments 3528 Adminis- tration Building. Personnel Requests: The ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY, San Francisco, has openings for sales engineers in their Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle branch offices. They prefer Electrical Engineers, but will consider Chemistry majors, Me- chanical or Civil Engineers, or Business Administration graduates who have had 212 or 3 years engineering or have me- chanical aptitude. The ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, has openings in their Ballis- tic Research Laboratories for men and women in the fields of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics. We have had a call from a local re- search laboratory for a man who has had at least two years of engineering to be a detail checker. For further information please call at the Bureau of Appointments 3528 Ad- ministration Building. , Student sponsored social events: Aug- ust 1, Graduate Outing Club; August 5, Graduate Outing Club, Intercooperative Council. Personnel Interviews: Tuesday, August 7 Oscar Mayer & Company, Madison, Wisconsin, will be interviewing men in- terested in the following positions: Trainee for Personnel to work in the Training Department; Mechanical En- gineering or other engineering training including drafting; majors in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Food Technology, and related fields for Product Control and Product Research; and men for Pre- Supervisory Training Program. For ap- pointments for interviews please call at the Bureau of Appointments 3528 Ad- ministration Building. The Fresh Air Camp Clinic will be Friday night, July 27, 8:00 at the camp on Patterson Lake. Dr. Rabinovitch, Asst. Prof. of Psychiatry; in Charge of Children's Service, Neuropsychiatric In- stitute, will be the speaker. Personnel Interviews: A representative of the General Elec- tric Company will be interviewing men interested in their Business Training Program. For further information please contact the Bureau of Appoint- ments 3528 Administration Building, Personnel Interviews: Wednesday, August 8- Granite City Steel Company, Granite City, Illinois, wil be interviewing Civil and Architectural Engineers for posi- tions as structural engineer, assistant project engineer, and assistant architec- tural engineer. The assistant architec- tural engineer should have an interest in advertising, as his work will be con- cerned with standards and publica- tions. Thursday, August 9 Maryland Casualty Insurance Com- pany, Detroit office, will be interviewing men interested in'their training pro- gram. This is not a sales program, but the men will receive training in all of the departments. These positions will be in Detroit, primarily. For appointments for interviews please call at the Bureau of Appointments 3528 Administration Building, Personnel Requests: We have had a call from a company n the Ann Arbor area for a draftsman to work ful time this summer and part time during the school year. Timken Detroit Axle Company is look- ing for Mechanical Engineers for their Supervisory Training Program. If enough men are interested, they will come to the Bureau for interviews. For further information please contact the Bureau of Appointments 328' dmiic Josselson, Linguistics; thesis: "Stress Patterns of Russian Noun Declension," SFriday. August 3, West Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 10:00 a.m. Chairman, C. C. Fries. Events Today French Club: A social meeting to- night at 8:00 in the Michigan League. French songs, games, dancing. All stu- dents on the campus are cordially in- vited. A special welcome to the pro- fessors from France who attend the English Institute. t d Duplicate Bridge Tournament, League t 7:30. n Coming Events n 0 Next Week: The Department of Speech in conjunction with the School of Mu- sic, presents Oscar Straus' comic oper- a etta, The Chocolate Soldier, Thursday through Saturday, August 9, 10, 11, and Monday, August 13, at 8 p.m. in the Ly- Sdia Mendessohn Theatre. Box office e open daily from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m., and o until 8 p.m. on days of performances. Events this Week: Michigan League, Thursday, Duplicate Bridge Tourna- , ment. Women's League 7:30. Friday, r Beach Ball, Informal dance, League Ballroom, 9:00-12:00. Free. Attention Sailing Club. There will be no meeting this week but there will be eliminations Saturday for the regatta at Put-In-Bay to be held August 11, 12 and 13. Lectures Today Biophysics Symposium, 1300 Chemistry Building. "Veruses: Structure, Repro- duction, and Origin" (continued), S. E. Luria, University of Illinois, 4:00 p.m.; "Structure of Proteins" (continued), V. L. Oncley, Harvard University, 7:30 p.m. Linguistic Program. "Formation, Dis- integration, and General Laws of Lang- uage," Roman Jakobson, Harvard Uni- diana University. 3:30 p.m., Rackham versity. 7:30 p.m., Rackham Amphithe- United 'States In - the World Crisis. "Re-thinking Our Asiatic Policy." Ed- win O. Reischauer, Professor of Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University. 8:15 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. Coring Lectures Friday, August 3-- Biophysics Symposium. 1300 Chemis- try Building. "Ionization and Thermal Effects on Viruses and Enzymes" (con- tinued). E. C. Pollard, Yale University, 4:00 p.m. Concerts Student Recital, Postponed: Robert Dumm, pianist, will play a recital at 8:30 Monday evening, August 6, in the Rack- ham Assembly Hall, instead of Thursday, August 2. Student Recital: William Wilkins, or- ganist, will be heard at 4:15 Thursday afternoon, August 2, in Hill Auditorium. A pupil of Robert Noehren, Mr. Wilkins will play a program of compositions by Buxtehude, Bach, Alain, and Widor, as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree. The general public is invited. Carillon Recital: Percival Price, Uni- versity Carillonneur, will present an- other in his current series of summer recitals at 7:15 Thursday evening, Aug- ust 2. It will include Romance, from Mozart's Eine kleine ?Ygtmusik, Selec- tions from Pieces de Clavecin by Cou- perin, Andante cantabile for carillon by Denyn; four spirituals, and Caller Her- rin by Gow. Brotherhood Brotherhood, to me, doesn't mean showing off your tolerance. I think that's sappy, and it's in- Sincere. Nobody is fooled for very long Brotherhood to me means behaving by the simple rules of decency to every decent person, regardlee of how he parts his hair, the colo of his skin, or the re- ligious faith he holds Brother- hood means appraising the other fellow for what he's worth in- side-as an associate in business-- 01 as a social friend. Maybe the Elsie Dinsmores and the Little Lord Funtleroys of this world can honestly say they love people in the mass. I can't. I've got to love them as people--as individuals. --Eric A. Johnston t- t { 4 I I .MUSIC TOBE FAIR to anyone involved in the musical process a reviewer must have and use the opportunity to learn the music he is to criticize-as I was asked to do this review just before the concert (an unhappy circumstance for which the Daily is not to be completely blamed) this was not possible. This review consists, then, of my impres- sions. The music of the first half, the first half of Monteverdi's monumental opera Orfeo and Beethoven's Pastoral Sym- phony, was completely compelling. In the Monteverdi work one still feels the excitement of the discovery of new har- monic tensions and richnesses of sonority which this composer brought to music in the 17th century. The Pastoral is an- other of those works of Beethoven with a wonderful warm and singing quality. The orchestra did project the musical content, though its very brief summer ex- istence makes evenness and uniform strength impossible. Wayne Dunlap does not con- sistently supply the enthusiasm and fresh i -MILITARY ALSO TO BLAME- THE BLAME IS placed not only upon the automotive industry, but also on the military procurement officers. "This system of overpricing," the report charges, "apparently is not unknown to the highest supervisory echelon of the military spending agencies." The report also blasts "the unnecessary continuance of actual or theoretical middlemen" as "war profiteering of the rankest sort." "There can be little question that the needs of the sovereign for defense are paramount, and that where some citizens are call- ed on to die, the others may be called on to accept only reasonable profits," the report states. One typical example, described by the investigators, is the case of a windshield assembly. The Troy Sunshade Company, the manufactur- erer, sold the windshield to the Army for $28.64. This apparently was too cheap to suit the Federal Motor Truck Company, which designed the windshield and owned the dies. So Federal Truck either withdrew its dies or pressured Troy so it discontinued bidding. Federal then got a monopoly of the Govern- ment business, and thereafter sold the same windshield to the Gov- 9 C t r Sixty-First Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications Editorial Staff Dave Thomas ........ Managing Editor George Flint ... ..... Sports Editor Jo Ketelhut .........Women's Editor Business Staff Milt Goetz .., ...Business Manager Eva Stern.......Advertising Manager Harvey Gordon......Finance Manager (