'AGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JUNES 28, 1852 AGE TWO SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1$2 I _____________________________________________________________________________ I Owen Latt rnore O WEN LATTIMORE, professor of Politi- cal Science at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity has been made to pay an extremely high price for holding unpopular opinions. A few years ago he was charged by Senator McCarthy with being the top Soviet agent in the United States. The fact that this fantastic charge could not be proved did not prevent a general battering of Lattimore's reputation. His maltreatment at the hands of congressional committees placed a tre- mendous physical and economic burden on the man. No one inside Congress, the State Department or elsewhere has yet proved that Lattimore ever deliberately committed any act or wrote anything with the intent of jeopardizing the well-being of the United States. Now another absurd insult has been hurled at Owen Lattimore. This time it was by the Passport Division of the State Department. The Passport Divisiop has long been held in high contempt by Wash- ington liberals. Senator Morse recently said it was often guilty of 'tyrannical and arbitrary decisions' reflecting the preju- dices of its director, Mrs. Ruth Shipley The Passport Division issued an order to customs officials to prevent Lattimore from leaving the country. The edict was purpose- less. Lattimore hadn't applied for a pass- port. What happened was that a Justice Department source, acting on a false tip, reported that Lattimore contemplated pay- ing a visit to Moscow. This report was de- nied by responsible officials and its origina- tor now faces possible prosecution for fraud. That Lattimore might often have been wrong in his interpretation of the Chinese situation is undeniable. But many other loyal Americans held similar views. That at times he might have been quite naive in relation to Communist motives is also possible. But it has not yet been made a crime to be mistaken. It is high time for Congress, the State Department and the newspapers to stop placing vicious labels on all those whose political or intellectual approach is different from their's. Such frequent expressions of intolerance and fear endanger American principles at, home and American prestige abroad., -Dave Kornbluh MATTE0R OF FACT By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-As the Republican Con- vention comes closer and closer, one point becomes clearer and clearer. Sheer fear of Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower drove Sen. Robert A. Taft's strategists to choose the least favorable battlefield for their finish fight at Chicago. Everyone is still counting noses for the first ballot, the second ballot, and so on. kut in fact the real Taft-Eisenhower test will come before either candidate is even placed in nomination, when the Re- publican Convention passes on the ques- tion of the stolen Southern delegates. If the Taft forces can seat their delegates from Texas and Louisiana, three quarters of the bandwagon hoppers will hop to Taft. And if the Taft steamroller breaks down on this crucial question, everyone will know the steamroller is only a one- hoss shay after all. The question of the Southern delegates is thus the battlefield chosen by Sen. Taft's own managers. By now, moreover, ample evidence has accumulated to prove that the Taft people do not think very well of their own choice. ** * ITEM: The Taft leader in important Dallas county, Joe C. Thompson, jr., (a "real Republican" who registered to vote in the 1950 Texas Democratic Primary) made a bold try for a deal on a local basis. He of- fered the Texan Eisenhower leader, Jack Porter, nineteen of the thirty-eight Texas delegates, with the priviso that Taft's hench- man, Henry Zweifel, must not be unseated as national committeeman. Item: On at least two occasions, simi- lar approaches were made to Herbert Brownell, who handles the national dele- gate count for the Eisenhower camp. The second time around, a representative of Sen. Taft offered to sweeten the deal for Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writer only. This must be noted in all reprints, NIGHT EDITOR: HARRY LUNNJ DORIS FLEESON: Party Platforms WASHINGTON-The party-platform bat- tles are on in earnest, with General Ei- senhower and President Truman seizing the initiative. In both parties compromise with honor will be difficult and the impending con- vention strife may well affect both the choice of nominees and the election re- turns. General Eisenhower has struck hard and swiftly at the burgeoning notion that his foreign policy views could be reconciled with Senator Taft's through some alchemy of lawyer's language. The General is not con- tentious by nature. His firmness with re- spect to an acceptable foreign-policy plank is the more significant. President Truman is outflanking the Democratic compromisers on civil rights with almost monotonous regularity. That these include his National Chairman, Frank McKinney; the convention keynoter, Gover- nor Dever, and the platform chairman, House majority leader McCormack bothers him not a bit. Repeatedly in public statements he stamps his own uncompromising stand on the party. For the first time he delivered the "'commencement address at Howard University here, using the occasion to commit the party again and to wreck a little mayhem on Senator Kefauver, a civil rights middle-roader, in the District primary a few days later. Just in case the right people didn't hear him the first time, he has put members of his staff to work on a platform draft. He has gone over it at least once and remodeled it; by the time the gavel falls at Chicago it will be ready according to his specifications. Rep. McCormack has said that he hopes for a brief platform. He is also credited with having persuaded Governor Dever to look kindly upon a civil-rights compromise. If this is true, it no doubt deflects both the congressman's present position as leader of the House democrats and his aspirations to win the speaker's high place at their hands at some future date. The House southern bloc of 100-plus is a po- tent force. Senators Hill and Sparkman of Alabama are also pleading the compromise cause. Their services to the administration on all issues but states' rights ones get them a hearing denied to most southerners. Senator Sparkman puts a special fervor into this cause; he aspires to the vice presidency and hopes to win friends and influence delegates by his services to party harmony. A rough check of the platform-drafting committee indicates that the Truman civil rights forces are outnumbered. In the full National Committee, which must approve the draft, they claim a majority. The Na- tional Committee, it is argued, will not want a 1948-style floor fight they know they must lose in the end. Then, too, there is the threat of the Presi- dent's intervention. Sometimes the threat of that intervention becomes so tangible it induces Democrats to think they may find themselves working for his re-election. Senator Taft's immediate attack upon General Eisenhower's foreign policy speech leaves little doubt that he has heard all about the Eisenhower view of Taft as an isolationist, even though the, General mentioned no names. Typically the Sena- for is picking up his musket, identifying the targets and blazing away. It could not have been a very happy 24 hours for John Foster Dulles, who must draft the G.O.P. plank. It still could be that the American people would like to see a real fight for principle no matter who loses. (Copyright, 1952, by the Bell Syndicate) Brownell, by seating the pro-Eisenhower delegates from Georgia as well as giving half of Texas to Eisenhower. Item: The supposedly impartial National Republican Chairman, Guy Gabrielson, was also sent to feel out Sen. Harry Cabot Lodge on Sen. Taft's behalf. This scene must have been rather comic, since Gabrielson ap- proached the problem circuitously, and end- ed by urging some kind of arrangement, be- cause we don't want to wash our dirty linen in public. "Whose dirty linen?" Sen. Lodge is re- ported to have inquired crisply. "We haven't got any dirty linen, and if the Taft people want their dirty linen washed in public, why that's their choice." After these various feelers had been re- jected, Sen. Taft said angrily, "Lodge would rather have the issue than the delegates," which in a sense is perfectly true. THE REASON for this can be seen on the face of the figures. If the main test is coming on the Southern delegations, con- tested Southern delegates have got to par- ticipate in this main test in order to be of any use to Sen. Taft. One cannot calculate today just how many of the contested Southern delegates will participate in the main test vote. There is the question of Georgia, for ex- ample, where national committeeman Harry Sommers has a promise from Taft's Southern pro-consul, Brasila Carroll Reece, that the pro-Eisenhower delegation will be recognized. There is also the ques- tion of just what the test vote will be-- whether on a rule, or on a specific dele- gation, in which cases the delegates from this one state may be ruled off the floor. At a guess, however Sen. Taft's net gain from using his steamroller to seat his minority Southern delegations should not pass forty to forty-five votes on the test roll call. But against this gain of forty to forty- five votes in the big test, the Taft people now have to offset certain intangible but vitally important losses. In New York and Maryland, for one thing, Governors Thomas E. Dewey and Theodore R. McKeldin can tell their people, "Go for Taft if you must when the nominations are made, but stay with us on this Texas-Louisiana steal." Such an appeal will be very hard for even ar- dent Taft enthusiasts to resist. By the same token, Gov. Earl Warren of California should find it far easier to vote his big delegation solidly against Taft on the Texas-Louisiana issue, than to carry the whole delegation into the Eisen- hower camp. And in the Taft states, the rather numerous pro-Taft delegates who have been impressed and attracted by Gen. Eisenhower will find it easy to say, "I'm still for the Senator for the nomi- nation, but I just can't help feeling his people have sold him a sour apple on this Texas thing." For these reasons, the Eisenhower people think they will gain many more votes than they will lose, by having the main test on the Southern delegates. And of course, if the nomination none the less goes to Sen. Taft by straight steamroller-power, its value will be greatly impaired. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) [CINEMA Architecture A uditorium THE MIKADO by Gilbert and Sullivan: the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. TPHIS PICTURE is an attempt to transpose in toto, overture and all, an excellent stage production of one of the most famous G & S operas to film. The only faults which the film itself has can be traced to this initial purpose: to move the whole works from a stage to the screen with as little re- vision as possible of theatric technique. On the positive side, therefore, it is perhaps more appropriate to discuss it as a stage production rather than as a film. If there can be such a thing as a de- finite version of The Mikado, it might be expected to come from the D'Oyly Carte Company, which has been presenting Gil- bert and Sullivan operas somewhat longer than anybody else. The present production is done up very lavishly, with gorgeous costumes and sets, full choruses and or- chestra, and a general air of Technicolored sufficiency. Each of the leads (most of whom must remain unknown to me be- cause of the brevity of the credits) was excellent in his stylized way. Some of the dialogue, of course, just isn't funny, and the same could be said for the behavior of most of the comics at one time or another, but it is all genuine Gilbert and Sullivan. Operatic films generally have trouble with sound, but I found this to be quite well handled here. Nearly all the words could be distinguished iw'the patter songs, something which I hardly expected, and the orchestral accompaniment is full, clear and well-bal- anced. Few complaints, in short, can be found with the production, up to the point of its being placed on celluloid. But precious little ingenuity is employed in filming. Occasionally, I got the impres- &frY T r urf t rh i * *,,_ H+ nfl +I:anIcinn -- The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication init is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3510 AdministrationNBuilding before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (11 a.m. on Saturday). Notices The Walder Corporation (Industrial Engineers), Detroit, Michigan would like to talk to some students who are now working on, or have, obtained Master's Degrees in either Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, who might be interested, and available, to spend some of their extra hours in library research work for their concern. The San Diego City Schools, San Di- ego, California, is receiving applications for the opening in its system for a civil orarchitectural engineer. Appli- cation blanks are available at the Bu- reau of Appointments. Personnel Requests Station W-A-N-D, Canton, Ohio, would be interested in receiving appli- cations from single men students for radio announcer and news reporter po- sitions now open. Prefer men frm area of Canton and Massillon, Ohio. A medical research laboratory In Ann Arbor is currently looking for a bio- chemist for its laboratory (man or wo- man). The S. H. Leggitt Company, Marshall, Michigan, wants to hear from men in- terested in a sales career. Firm does a large volume of business with Plumbing and Hardware, Public Utilities, B. P. Gas, Trailer and the Soft Water In- dustries, with a Branch Office in San Marcos, Texas. TheW estinghouse Electric Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, is requesting applica- tions from interested Electrical Engi- neers. Prefer men under 30 years of age, with definite interest in sales for a career in creative Sales Engineering in the Lighting Equipment field. La Sociedad Hispanica will inau- gurate its summer session series of in- formal lectures Tuesday, July 1, in the East Conference Room of the Rack- ham Building. These talks will be given every Tues- day evening at 8 p.m. and will afford the students an opportunity to converse in Spanish on a topic of Hispanic life of general interest. All students of Spanish and their friends are cordially invited. Cercle Francais: The Cercle Francais of the Summer Session meets every' Wednesday evening at 8:00 o'clock in the Henderson Room of the Michigan League. The meetings offer a varied program of songs, games, and short talks in French on topics of general In- terest, as well as the opportunity for informal conversation and recreation. All students, faculty members, and summer residents who are interested in France and things French are cordi- ally invited to participate Inany or all of the activities of the Cerce. Lectures Atomic Energy: Industrial and Legal Problems. 100 Hutchins Hall. Morning cession: "Effects of Radiation," John C. Bucher, Deputy Director, Division of Biology and Medicine, Atomic Energy Commission. "Compensation for Injury to Life or Property," Orris S. Hiestand, Jr., Assistant Counsel at Oak Ridge, Atomic Energy Commission. 9:30 p.m. Luncheon: "The University of Michigan Phoenix Program," Ralph A. Sawyer, Dean Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, and Director, Michi- gan Memorial-Phoenix Project. "The Joint Committee-Something New in Government," Henry M. Jackson, Unit- ed States Representative from the State of Washington, 12:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Afternoon session: Panel. "Round-up of Problems and Solutions." Concerts Recital Postponed: The organ recial by Elizabeth Thomas,previously an- nounced for Sunday afternoon, June 29, in Hill Auditorium, has been post- poned. The new date will be announced later. Student Recital: Robert Thompson, pianist, will be heard at 8:30 Monday evening, June 30, in the Architecture Auditorium, playing a program of works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Pro- kofieff, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Mu- sic degree. Mr. Thompson is a pupil of Helen Titus, and his program will be open to the public. cl Room, Rackham Building, at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, Ronald Freedman. Exhibitions Museum of Art. Sixth annual exhibi- tion, Michigan Water Color Society. General Library, main lobby cases. Books which have influenced the mod- ern world. Museum of Archaeology. Ancient Egypt and Rome of the Empire. Museums Building. Rotunda exhibit. Some fungi of Michigan (through June 28). Michigan Historical Collections, 160 Rackham Building, The changing Cam pus. Clements Library. American books which have influenced the modern mind (through September 1). Law Library. Atomic energy (through July 5). Architecture Building. Student work (June 11-July 7). Events Today Intercultural Outing, leaves Lane Hall Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Picnic, swim- ming, softball, informal discussion at Silver Lake, Return Saturday, 8:00 p.m. Motion Picture, auspices of Student Legislature Cinema Guild, "The Mik- ado," by Gilbert and Sullivan, 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Architecture Auditorium. Reception for Foreign Students, aus- pices of the International Center. 8:00 p.m. Rackham Assembly Hall, Coming Events Kaffeestunde, All students of Ger- man and others interested in spoken German are invited to attend an in- formal group which will meet in the Michigan Union Tap Room Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:00 to 5:00. A member of the department will be pres- ent to assist, but no formal programs are planned. Education Lecture. Lee R. Dice, July 1 Faculty Concert. Emil Raab and Ben- ning Dexter, July 1. Modern Views of Man and Society lecture. Nicholas Nyaradi, July 2. Play,presented by the Department of Speech. Twelfth Night, July 2-5. Holiday. Independence Day, July 4. Tuesday, July 1. Square Dancing, Square and Folk Dance Instruction, no admission fee, Lane Hall, 7:15-10:00 p=m. LEGTTERS To the Editor Phoenix Problem *** To the Editor: HERE IS a problem for the vis- iting lawyers. Supposehour PhoenixhProject, studying the power of the atom, makes one harmful discovery. If we do not promptly release it to the defense forces of the nation, we are disloyal and not worthy of the name American. If we publish one harmful discovery made by the expenditure of Phoenix funds, then the University of Michigan stands accused of having raised five and a half millions of dollars under false pretences. Can they solve it? Probably yes. Will they? -Norman Anning Education To be a student at a university means to have lived in a small but very democratic community. This is the very best school for the free development of all a person is worth, in mind and character, un- der constant comparison of his qualities with those of all the other students, Well-trained, and imbued with this practical experience of de- mocracy, the alumni thus enter society. It is up to them to spread the vitality of this experience wherever they go. "You Want To Ride It Or Have It Stuffed? 44 c1 r \ 11 [DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN1 ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round with DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-President Truman has been giving a series of high- ly off-the-record but significant dinner parties for men only. Some of the top bigwigs of the Democratic party attend, though there have also been one or two normally considered Republicans. One recent dinner included Dwight Palmer, head of the Gen- eral Cable Co. in St. Louis; Roy Fruehauf, manufacturer of Frue- hauf trailers; Robert Smallwood, head of Lipton's Tea; and Owen Cheatham of Georgia-Pacific Plywood. FrankMcKinney, Democratic national chairman, attends all the dinners. Guests assemble around seven and drink until 7:30 when the President joins them and is introduced to the Democratic "vestry- men" by McKinney. At one of the latest dinners they sat down to a substantial roast beef menu, during which the President, in excel- lent humor, more than kept up his end of the conversation. His ideas of the political race were particularly interesting. Several of the guests told him he ought to run again, that he was the only Democrat who could win. To this Truman replied that the Democrats could win no matter whom the Republicans nominated. "I don't want to be another Benjamin Harrison," the President continued. "You know what happened to him. He was re-elected at the age of 68 and they carried him out feet first. "I don't plan to be carried out that way," he continued, ..nd went on to say that he had ten or fifteen more years of his life to live and he planned to enjoy them. Truman also talked about the problems of being President, and the constant strain under which he has to work. "Why only the other day we were almost at war," he observed, by way of proving his point. At about 9 p.m., shortly after the dinner, a cable was brought in on a silver tray. Truman read, it and smiled. "Things look better," he said. "The cable's from Acheson." "That Communist!" exclaimed a guest, presumably trying to be facetious. Truman, however, took the wisecrack seriously. "Yes," he said, "that Communist who's over in Europe right now persuading the French and Germans to fight the Russians." BRITISH AND YALU INSIDE STORY behind the bombing of the hydoelectric works along the Yalu is that the British gave permission for the attack a long time ago-so long ago they had forgotten about it. Back in September, the British were demanding assurances that we would not bomb across the Yalu. As part of our agreement not to bomb Manchurian bases, we drew up a list of targets that we wanted complete freedom to bomb. All these targets were in Korea, and definitely on the list were the hydroelectric plants on the Korean side of the Yalu. However, this list did not constitute permission for our Far Eastern commander to go ahead and bomb the plants, as far as Washington was concerned. It only gave us a free hand to do so, as far as the British were concerned. The final decision to bomb was based on a second look at Rus- sian intentions. These intentions probably should remain secret at this time. However, based on this new intelligence evaluationGen. Mark Clark sent Washington a list of targets that he wanted per- mission to bomb. This list was submitted about four weeks ago, and the hydroelectric plants were on the list. At that time the Joint Chiefs approved of the bombing. Just a few days before the actual strike, Clark submitted the proposed targets again, and the Joint Chiefs again gave okay. That was the byplay that preceded the dramatic mission, Thus Clark had permission not only from Washington but from London. THE SENATOR FROM SPAIN W HITE-MANED PAT McCARRAN, the so-called "Senator from Spain," who also happens to represent Nevada, shook hands on a backstage deal to enrich Spain by an extra $25,000,000 the other day, then after he got what he wanted, he pulled a neat double cross. The deal was made behind the scenes with Foreign Re- lations Chairman Tom Connally, Texas Democrat, who was fighting to save foreign military aid from sweeping cuts. Mc- Carran agreed to vote against the cuts if Connally would approve $25,000,000 more aid for Spain. The Nevadan kept his bargain on the first roll calls. He voted against a billion-dollar cut, then against a $500,000,000 cut and a $400,000,000 cut. Finally his Spanish amendment was called up. "I am offering an amendment which provides that Spain shall be allocated an additional $25,000,000 of the funds available under title one," explained McCarran. Ordinarily, the Senate will approve any amendment that is acceptable to the committee concerned. So Connally, true to his bargain, announced: "I will agree to carry the amendment to conference." There was no further discussion, and the amendment passed by a routine voice vote. But with the $25,000,000 for Spain safely passed, McCarran reneged on his promise to Chairman Connally. On the very next vote, he did an about-switch and voted for a $580,000,000 cut in foreign military aid. Hot under the collar, Connally marched up to him and whispered loud enough for the gallery to hear: "I thought when you were bought, you stayed bought." *, * * .4 'r INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Iranian Stalemate By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Press News Analyst BSERVERS ARE watching closely for O signs of an early break in the long oil deadlock between Britain and Iran. The Iranians didn't put on too good a show at the recently finished hearings be- fore the World Court at the Hague. First they said they would have nothing to do with the Court. Then they went before it and argued against its jurisdiction. Then, on various points of the issue, their argu- ments seemed to recognize jurisdiction. But both external and internal pressure on Iran weighs more heavily in the balance than anything the Court may say. Premier Mossadegh, the man who really necessarily mean a successor more favorable to Britain. Many observers have been wondering why the Shah hasn't intervened before now, al- though recognizing his difficulties in the face of the widespread popularity of na- tionalization. Russia has pursued, in the main, what diplomats refer to as a "correct" course in the Iranian crisis. Her fifth column has been at work stirring up the Iranian radicals. But the knowledge that any sort of intervention in Iran would bring her face to face with the Western powers in a very dangerous spot has restrained her from anything overt. However, Russia recently sent Iran a veil- ed threat of intervention by claiming that Amn __ m o __nnc .,tcs a vinckfnn f n U.S. OF BRAZIL BRAZIL, long the best friend of the U.S.A. in Latin America, appeared to be cooling off not long ago. But now with the advent of new Ambassador Walter Mor- eira-Salles and the visit of Secre- tary of State Acheson to Rio, the old bonds are being cemented again. Ever since the S p a n i s h American war, Brazil has always put her navy and sometimes her army at the command of the United States. One of the great bonds between the two countries has been the American nation- al drink-coffee-which comes largely from Brazil. But Sen- ator Gillette's crusade against Brazilian coffee growers, , plus agitation by the Communist party in Brazil, tarnished the lustre of this alliance. Now, however, alert young Am- bassador Moreira, as envoy to Washington, together with the se- lection of a friendly new Minister of War, Gen. Ciro do Espirito San- to Cardoso, is expected to change the picture. (Copyright 1952, By The Bell Syndicate) IT IS NOT ONLY what we have inh-rfrl rn , ur atpr ta ul 4P A Sixty-Second "ir Edited and managed b1 students ot the University of Michigami under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. EDITORIAL STAFF Leonard Greenbaum...Managing Editor Ivan Kaye and Bob Margolin ...Co-Sports Editors Nan Reganali........ 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