/ TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1952 I __________________________________ U ___________________________________________________ U *A A, DORIS FLEESON: Al Set For A Glorious 4th Stevenson Draft MATTER OFFACT By JOSEPH and'STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-For the first time, all the pressures upon Gov. Adlai Steven- son of Illinois coincide. Those who want him to run and those who don't say that' he must announce a final decision before the Republicans nominate their candidate. Stevenson is still the first choice of a, majority of his party. He can be nomi- nated on the second ballot and perhaps the first if he will make a plain declara- tion of his availability. Democrats have been heartened in the Stevenson matter by direct assurances that, contrary to a virulent whispering campaign, Cardinal Spellman has not expressed oppo- sition to al Stevenson nomination and has no intention of doing so. The whispers, of course, were based on the governor's di- vorce. Such whispers, widely circulated, can do great harm to a Democrat. A vital source of their strength is the Catholics of the big cities and industrial areas in the pivotal states. Governor Stevenson and his former wife are both Protestants anid neither has re- married. Their divorce was onthe grounds of incompatibility. Mrs. Stevenson has lately said she favored election of a Re- publican president, a decidedly unchival- rous gesture at this point which has ere- ated considerable sympathy for her former husband. The Taft forces are blamed for the ru- mors by Democrats. .They insist that the Senator is afraid of the Governor of Illi- nois but feels that President Truman or any of the other Democrats can be beaten by a vigorous campaign. Vulnerable as they think Taft is, much as they hope to profit from a bitter schism among Republicans as a result of the Taft- Eisenhower credentials struggle, most Dem- ocrats are unhappy when they contemplate a ticket against him which is minus Set- Most of them, no matter what the Presi- dent says, would accept a civil-rights compromise in order to put a Stevenson- Russell ticket in the field. If the Senator from Georgia does not want to be vice- president they are prepared to promise him Secretary of Defense or any other position of comparable distinction. In shuffling and reshuffling their cards to find fitting opposition to a Taft-MacAr- thur slate, Democrats seek first of all a good campaigner. Senator Taft says many things, now, that seem ludicrous in the light of his voting record, especially on for- eign policy, but he says them with such vigor, such finality, that the average unin- formed voter could easily swallow them. That the newspapers call attention to such inconsistencies is that "conspiracy" of which the Senator complains. Right or wrong, there is personal force in Taft. It must be met with personal force. His opponentmust also be able to stake out elemental premises and argue plainly from them. If he lets Taft choose the ground, he is lost. Democrats concede the same need of a good campaigner against General Eisen- hower if the Taft steamroller fails. They can capitalize upon his ignorance of do- mestic affairs only with an informed voice not too closely identified with the mistakes made by the administration. Their basic trouble is that their candi- dates other than Stevenson are either too young or too old. In the shadow of the mighty oak which was Roosevelt few trees grew. Stevenson, in the prime of life, asso- ciated with the great principles on which five elections were won but not with their errors as shown in Washington, fills the bill. Nobody else does. (Copyright, 1952, by the Bell Syndicate) rig, 1!Y Nfgp Ppf K'j " BOOKS A FEW MONTHS ago the Harcourt-Brace facts, he had a gift for relegating things to people published the first American their proper places, without unduly over- edition of George Orwell's Homage to Cata- emphasizing trivia because they were es- lonia. In 1938, when it first appeared, the pecially vivid or close in time. Aesthetic dis- English public received the book with such tance is another way of saying the same reserve that it never went into a second thing, except that the term has been so printing, and has been unavailable for some abused that it is often associated with the years. ethereal isolation of the ivory tower. Or- well had too much good sense, and was too "Homage to Catalonia" is a plain ac- eager a participator in the real world to be count of Orwell's rather brief service in slaeredpwica ter. the Spanish Loyalist militia. (He would Thermatter of the Communist Betrayal doubtless have stayed longer but that a takes up only a small but highly interesting stray bullet damaged his neck.) All wars are similar in that they are attended portion of the book. He has even arranged his narrative so that the apolitical reader ne sore or anoher, and Orwel a s notho may avoid those segments by indicating one ortor noterand rwel hs nth" the nature of the chapter at the end of the ing to add to this aspect. He makes little preceding one of it except to register its presence in his preceding one. characteristically unpretentious manner. But let me advise against skipping. Ev. erything previously published on the Bar- There is no shortage of distinguished celona incident has been violently pro- chroniclers of the Spanish Civil War, and or anti-Communist. Orwell's is the first again it must be admitted that Orwell's tale trustworthy account of the street "riots," contributes no new facts. There are more the siege of the Telephone Exchange, and passionate accounts of Spanish Heroism, subsequent events. Fascist Atrocity, and the Communist Be- Orwell at first supported the Communist trayal-more passionate, but none more tell- line, as did many anothft innocent who ing. could not conceive that the Soviet had any The one significant difference between other aim but to help the cause of revolu- this book and the others is the peculiarly tion. Since very few observers had reason Orwellian outlook. More than any other lit- to suspect Communist motives, the contin- erary figure in recent times, Orwell has ued optimism of Loyalist supporters in Spain, concentrated first on being human, and and elsewhere, is largely justified. after that, a writer. Thus he sees what is As luck would have it, Orwell was nearly and records what is, without the affecta- a victim of the factionalist strife himself. tions, without the stylistic curlicues that Through chance, he enlisted in a unit spon- crowd vital matter off the printed page and sored by one of the anarchist splinters, and vitiate the effectiveness of what is written. was consequently placed on the Communist blacklist. His escape is told with no attempt I doubt whether anyone can leave Or- at self-dramatization, any more than his well without conviction that his pre- entry into the war. We are never told why sentation s omehow righter, his conclu- he felt impelled to enlist as a common sol- sions sounder than most. Certainly this dier, except that henfelt that the Loyalist feeling has its basis largely in Orwell's cause was the right cause. Undoubtedly it honest style; his words say what he means, directly and concisely, and they was. What all this boils down to is that Hom- couldn't mask a motive, even if he want -age to Catalonia is an excellently written ed them to. report on one of the most interesting and His other chief quality is possession of a significant events of our time. remarkably clear perspective. Given certain -Siegfried Feller DRXXAMA WASHINGTON-Secretary of State Dean Acheson's little noticed mission to Eur- ope has a simple, central object. This is to persuade our frightened, ill-defended and divided European Allies to accept the risk of general war, rather than to abondon Ber- lin to renewed Soviet pressure. There have been all sorts of signs in re- cent weeks that a new Soviet aggressive move may be in the offing, and on bal- ance a second Berlin blockade, ostensibly initiated by the East German puppet gov- ernment, has seemed the most likely move. Shortly before Acheson left for Europe, he took the leading part in forcing through the National Security Council, a crucial policy decision on the American response to such a move against Berlin. Acheson took the position that Berlin could under no circumstances be abandoned to the Soviets, and the Council agreed. The Council also agreed that another airlift. undertaken with no end in sight, would be a defensive and inadequate response, especially since the Soviets can now wreck an airlift simply by jamming the radar at the Berlin airfields. This left just one way to hold, Berlin-by breaking any blockade by the direct use of military force. This does not mean, however, that if a blockade is imposed on a Monday, an armed convoy need necessarily be ordered to break it on a Tuesday. Sufficient stockpiles of food and other necessities have been built up in the Western sectors of Berlin so that there is more room for maneuver than there was when the first blockade was imposed in 1948. Western Berlin now has sufficient stocks to carry the city, without an airlift, for about six months. Therefore a military showdown need not come immediately after a blockade is imposed. THUS ACCORDING to present intentions, the first step by this country-and if Acheson's mission succeeds, by this country's Allies-would be to order full mobilization. In brief, the Western Allies would publicly prepare to fight a war, if necessary, rather than abandon Berlin. Full mobilization by the West during the time provided by the West Berlin stockpiles would, of course, telegraph the punch to Moscow. But telegraphing the punch is thought to be actually desirable, simply because this would give the men in the Kremlin time to think again, and the policy-makers still believe that the Soviets wish to avoid a full scale war. This breathing spell would also provide time for final negotiations with the Rus- sians. But these negotiations would be far different from those undertaken in 1948 by Gen. Bedell Smith, then Ambassador to the Soviet Union. For this time the Western spokesman would be armed with the warn- ing that unless the blockade were lifted, military force would be used to break it. Then, if these last attempts to negotiate failed, Western troops would be ordered to open the land corridor between Berlin and the West. * * * THIS, IN BROAD outline, is the American position in Berlin, and it is Acheson's task to persuade our Allies to agree to this position. Obviously, this is an immensely dif- ficult task, calling for all Acheson's per- suasive abilities. To break a Berlin block- ade by armed force clearly involves the gravest possible risk of war, and our Allies, especially the French, simply are not pre- pared to fight a war. Nor, to put it bluntly, is this country. Indeed, there is in some quarters in the Pentagon strong opposition to the Ache- son-sponsored Security Council decision on Berlin. Even if the Western Allies, like the Pen- tagon, should reluctantly agree in prin- ciple to the American position on Berlin, it requires no very vivid imagination to see how hard it would be to make this agree- ment stick in the face of an actual block- ade. During the brief breathing spell grant- ed by the Berlin stockpiles, tremendous pres- sures would certainly build up in Europe, and even in this country, to abandon Ber- lin rather than to risk a general war. It is on precisely these pressures, of course, that the Soviet rulers will count if they take the momentous decision to blockade Berlin again. No informed offi- cial doubts that free Western Berlin is like a cancer in the Soviet system, and that the Soviets will go to almost any lengths to excise the cancer, if they believe it can be done short of world war. Yet no informed official in this country- or in Britain or France for that matter- doubts that abandonment of Berlin by the West would be an intolerable disaster, amounting virtually to outright defeat in the cold war. And those who have been right in the past believe that if our nerves hold steady, we can still avoid this disaster, with- out general war, if the Kremlin does strike at Berlin again. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff - --2n r nne 4 f s -v._-0 41,. _,a aw _._I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3510 Administration Building before 3 p.m the day preceding publication (11 a.m. on Saturday).' Notices Graduate Students expecting to re- ceive the Master's degree in August, 1952, must file a diploma application with the Recorder of the Graduate School by Monday, July 7. A student will notbe recommended for a degree unless he has filed formal application in the Office of the Graduate School. Applications are invited for the ED- WARD A. DEEDS SENIOR FELLOWSHIP IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUNDEE, SCOTLAND, within the University of St. Andrews, for research in Physical Science, viz. Engineering, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematical Phy- sics, or any cognate subject. The Fel- lowship is of the value of 900 Pounds per annum and will be tenable for three years. The Fellow will have the status of a University Lecturer and may be required as part of his duties, to do a limited amount of advanced teaching in the Department in which he proposes to work. Applications should be requested from Patrick Cumming, Secretary, Uni- versity College, Dundee, Scotland. The deadline for receipt of applications is September 1, 1952. Registration of Student Organizations: Student organizations planning to be activeduring the summer session must register in the Office of Student Af- fairs not later than July 3. Forms for registration are available n the Office of Student Affairs, 1020 Administration Building. director will come to Ann Arbor for in- terviewing purposes. Please call the Bu- reau of Appointments, extension 371, if an interview appointment is desired. The Massachusetts Memorial Hospi- tal, Boston, Massachusetts, has announ- ced vacancies in the following posi- tions: General Nursing Supervisor, Hos- pital Aides, Clerks, Stenographers, Se- cretaries, and Physiotherapists. The A. Bentley & Sons Company, General Contractors, Toledo, Ohio, want a mechanical engineer with one or two years experience or will consider a new graduate for working with this well- established general contracting firm. For additional information, applica- tion blanks and details, come to. the Bureau of Appointments or call ex- tension 371. La Petite Causette: All students and summer residents who are interested in speaking French are invited to join this very informal group every Tues- day and Thursday afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock in the Tap Room of the Michigan Union. A table will be re- served and a French Speaking member of the staff will be present, but there is no program other than free conver- sation in French. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for William George Barker, Botany; thesis: "An in virto Study of the Proliferative Ca- pacity in the Woody Stele of Tilia am- ericana L.," Saturday, July 5, 1139 Na- tural Science Building, at 9 a.m. Chair- man, C. D. LaRue. Seminar in Mathematical Statistics: Thursday, July 3, at 4 p.m. in Room 3201 A.H. The general topic for the summer will be "Sequential Analysis." Professor Craig will be the first speak- er. Orientation Seminar: First meeting will be held on Thursday, July 3, at 3 C ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round with DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON - IKE NOTES - There's been less gloom around Eisenhower headquarters. His managers, once in the doldrums, now look happier, think Ike has made inroads on Taft delegates. A total of 75 is the number they think he has wooed and won during charm-exuding talks-. . . The General himself is still suffering from a split personality. Sometimes he veers to one policy, sometimes to another. Perhaps this is because he knows that to win the nomina- tion he has to be conservative enough to please the Republicans; yet to get elected he has to be liberal enough to please Democrats .. . Ike claims he doesn't want to know what his staff is doing. (Sometimes things would be a lot better off if he did know.) He even said he didn't know what the good news was that Sen- ator Lodge brought him the other day, though a lot of other people knew it was the support of Michigan's potent Arthur Summerfield, which may swing the large Michigan delegation .. Mamie Eisenhower, completely new to politics and expected to be difficult, has been just the opposite. She's cooperated with photo- graphers, newsmen . . . Ike also has done everything his managers have asked, continues in excellent spirits. IKE AND PRESS - If Eisenhower is nominated it won't be through any fault of his staff. They have pulled in opposite direc- tions, differed on policies, missed important cues . . . One major boner caused Arthur Vandenberg, Jr., son of the late great senator, to turn in his resignation. However, it was withdrawn, and, in the end, the boner turned out OK ... This was the private Ike luncheon held by Washington trained seals-Charles Lucey of Scripps-Howard, Bert Andrews of the New York Herald Tribune, Scotty Reston of New York Times, Fred Collins of Providence Journal, et al. . . No wire ser- vices, no networks, no news magazines were invited. Naturally they hit the ceiling .. . Harry Luce, Time-Life publisher, hearing about the off-the- record lunch, remarked to Palmer Hoyt of the Denver Post: "I'll call up my man, Ed Darby, and find out what happened." But his man, Darby, had been barred. Naturally, Luce, a strong Ike-man, wasn't happy . . . The ensuing storm from those who were snubbed gave the luncheon more headlines than if Ike had made a speech. His speech would have cost money for radio and TV time. Jealousy be- tween newsmen cost nothing. FRANTIC CONGRESS - During the hot-weather hot-temper wind-up of Congress, Senator Humphrey of Minnesota got into a backstage tiff with majority leader McFarland of Arizona, told him his leadership "stunk," that he was letting McCarran of Nevada run the Senate .. . Most lobbyists took a licking when the Senate and House conferees locked themselves up to iron out the controls bill, Senator Maybank of South Carolina took the lead in plugging loopholes the lobbyists had driven in the House bill... One lobbyist, Al Payne of the real estate crowd, kept constant vigil outside the conference door buttonholing legislators as they came out. In the end, several rent control loopholes remained in the bill. COMBAT BONUS - The extra pay for GI's in front-line trenches proposed by this columnist two years ago, passed the Senate OK, but got stymied in the House by Carl Vinson of Georgia and Dewey Short of Missouri It calls for a combat bonus in Korea similar to that paid in World War II, also similar to that paid today to submarine crews and airmen for extra risk ,. . Byrd of Virginia also helped stop the bonus, but Senators Monroney of Oklahoma, Long of'Lou- isiana and Moody of Michigan are making a last desperate effort to pass it ... Despite opposition by southern coal operators, Chairman Graham Barden of North Carolina has been pushing the mine-safety bill. The members of his Labor Committee who opposed are four Republicans --Gwinn, N.Y.; Wint Smith, Kans.; Morton, Ky.; Werdel, Calif. Also three Democrats-Wood, Ga.; Lucas, Texas; Tackett, Ark. DEMOCRATIC DOINGS - Cleveland's Demo boss, Ray Miller, wisecracks that Ohio's Governor Lausche "wants so much to be like Abraham Lincoln that he won't be satisfied until he's assassinated." ... Republicans claim the Dems should get a new campaign slogan: "honesty is no substitute for experience." . . . Demo Chairman Frank McKinney is trying to eradicate the Mason-Dixon line inside the Democratic party. He is being extra considerate of visiting Dixiecrats, has assured key Southern senators they will be consulted before draft- ing the Chicago platform .. McKinney's wooing of Mississippi Dixiecrat J. P. Coleman, however, didn't sit well at the White House. Coleman was recog- nized by McKinney as new Mississippi committeeman even though he's a nonloyalist, potential bolter ... Strom Thurmond, Dixiecrat candidate for President in '48 this year will be a delegate at Chicago ... Speaker Sam Rayburn and Vice President Barkley have been working quietly to head off any Dixiecrat bolts. The Mississippi dele- gation appears the most mutinous ... GOOD NEWS FOR STALIN - The Senate-House appropriations cuts will knock 700 planes out of next year's budget. That's 50 per cent more than the Communists have shot down in the Korean war, The man responsible for the severe air force slash is-Assist- ant Secretary of Defense W. J. McNeil. The Senate Appropria- tions Committee sent him a list of questions to find out how serious the cuts would be. Mc- Neil got the answers from the air force, which warned that the cuts would be a dangerous security gamble. But, insteadof .j++ 4. t. sending the Air Force answersC iI a ia1 back to the senate, McNeil sent his own answers-in order to appease the economy bloc . . . A I c p.m., in Room 3001 A.H. Mr. Hoffman Recreational Swimming--Won Stu- will speak on "Quarternions as Mat- dents: There will be recreational swim- rices." ming at the Union Pool every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 8:15. Closing hour for women students at-s tending the Faculty Concert Tuesday, Student Recital: Mary Jo Pfotenhau- July 1, at Rackham Auditorium will be er, Mezzo-soprano, will appear in re- no later than 11:00 p.m. cital at 8:30 Thursday evening, July 3, in the Rackham Assembly Hall. A pu- U. of M. Sailing Club. Meeting, 7:30, p1 of Harold Haugh, Miss Pfotenhauer Thurs., Room 3R Union. Plans for will sing works by Sarri, Caldara, Cac- Fourth of July weekend at the lake. cini, Scarlatti, Donizetti,TSchumann, Everybody welcome. and Vaughan Williams. The program will be open ,to the public. All students, both seniors and grad- crate students, who wish to register with Carillon Recital: Percival Price, Uni- the Bureau of Appointments may ob- versity Carillonneur, will be heard at tain registration material any day at 7:15 Thursdty evening, July 3, in a the Bureau, 3528 Administration Build- program of works for the carillon. The ing, Monday through Friday (except program will open with four selections July Fourth) from 9 to 12, and 2 to 4. from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, fol- Registration material for both Teach- lowed by compositions from Mozart's er Placement is available to anyone "Magic Flute." Five folk songs will even though the summer session may follow, and in the closing work, Rhap- be his first term at the University. sody No. 3 for Two Carillonneurs, com- posed by Professor Price, he will be Personnel Interviews joined by Paul Jenkins, a School of The Canada Life Assurance Company, Music student. Jackson (Michigan) branch, will have a ____ representative on campus next Tuesday, Student Recital: Alexander Popp, pi- July 8, to talk to men who are inter- anist, will be heard at 8:30 Monday eves ticunlacareer in fieinsurance work, par- ning, July 7, in the Rackham Assembly Hall, presenting a program in partial Personnel Requests fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree. A pupil of N. J. Fox & Company, Shelby, Michi- Joseph Brinkman, Mr. Popp will play gan, would like applications from young Bach's Partita No. 6 in E minor, and men with an accounting background. Brahms Sonata in F minor, Op. 5. The Need is for a person with accounting geea ulc0sivtd background who will eventually becom eneral public is invited office manager. * e . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu- Exhiltlons tion, Woods Hole, Massachusetts is in Museum of Art. Sixth annual exhibi- urgent and immediate need of a ma-tinMchgnWerClrSity thematician. This institution is a pri- tion, Michigan Water Color Society. vately endowed scientific research lab- General Library, main lobby cases. oratory and its facilities are utilized by Books which have influenced the mo- the U.S. Navy and other Government dern mind,* agencies. Museum of Arehaeology. Ancient The Western Geophysical Company Egypt and Rome of the Empire. of America, Los Angeles, California, is Museums Building. Rotunda exhibit. receiving applications for Geophycists, Some museum techniques. physicists, Electrical Engineers, Me- Michigan Historical Collections, 160 chanical Engineers, Civil Engineers, and Rackham Building. The changing Cam- LS&A graduates with basic curriculum pus. in mathematics and physics. This work Clements Library. American books is with the exploration phase of the oil which have influenced the modern mind industry and engineers and others (through September 1). would be assigned to various parts of Law Library. Atomic energy (through the country, particularly in the Western July 5). and Midwestern parts of the United Architecture Building. Student work States and there are also job possibili- (June 11-July 7). ties overseas with this company. 'The Parker Appliance Company, Cleve -EventsTo a land, Ohio, is extremely interested in Today receiving applications fromngraduates SRA Luncheon Discussion Group, and non-graduates in the engineering Lane Hall, 12:15 p.m. Subject: "Paci- aend allied fields. Besides the central fism as a Technique in Tension Situa- plant in Cleveland the company also t Al e invied n owns and operates subsidiary plants in __Altesn e Berea, Kentucky, Los Angeles, Califor- Carillon Recital. Professor Percival nia, and Eaton, Ohio. Company's pro- Price, University Carillonneur. 7:15- duction is equalized between govern- 8Pr m. ment and industrial contracts with a800pm strong back log of orders, future out- PLAY, presented by the Department look is excellent and liberal employee of Speech. Twelfth Night, by William benefits are offered young men com- .... . - - TWELFTH NIGHT, presented by the Department of Speech at Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theater. IN SPITE OF THE humidity, which was considerable, the tried and true veterans of the Speech Department did well by Shakespeare last night, thus launching a promising-looking summer series. For some reason, tropical weather seems to bring out the best at Lydia Mendelssohn. The vehicle, "Twelfth Night" is prob- ably Shakespeare's finest comedy. While it lacks the drama of "As You Like It' and the invention of some of the minor comedies, it achieves a greater unity and a more delicate wit than most of the other plays. Its characters are broad, yet not without their subtleties. Its mood of good performances carried the produc- tion admirably. Richard Burgwin, as Sir Toby Belch does probably the best job in his long service with the Speech Department. Although he is costumed too grotesquely, Burgwin's in- terpretation of the bibulous rogue is con- sistently appropriate and not complicated by the occasional excesses into which he has often fallen. As usual, his understanding of the language is expert. Dolores Rashid is a good Viola, effectively reaching some of the nicer nuances of the character. Her voice was the best in the production, but it crept away from her once or twice into an overtness that seemed too smug, even for Viola. Nafe Katter plays another part he was made for-Malvolio. His discovery of the The Air Force has warned that, if the steel strike continues,.jet- engine production will come to a standstill in 30 days and the last jet engine then in production will be delivered to the Air Force in 60 days . . . The House has cut civil-defense funds from $600,000,- 000 down to a measly $37,000,000 -a reduction of over 90 per cent. This means that our civilian se- curity program against atom war- fare, including the training of 3,000,000 civil-defense volunteers, will be virtually put out of busi- ness. STEEL STRIKE - Smart John L. 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