PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1952 K 9 Convention Impressions AS WE WALKED up Michigan Blvd. to- ward the Conrad Hilton Hotel, where convention headquarters for all the candi- dates were located, we noticed more and more badges pinned on more and more chests of delegates and convention follow- ers. Most of them were in varying shades of red, white and blue. An old gray haired man limped by, displaying an enormous Taft button. I turned to Hansen and said that you could tell, just by looking at the people, what candidate they were for. He said you couldn't. Just then a tall, Cali- fornia looking conventioner walked toward us. "An Eisenhower man," I said. He walk- ed by and we saw his Taft button. An Eisenhower car, equipped with a loud speaker was cruising up and down the street proclaiming "Thou Shalt Not Steal" and "McCormick may own Chi- cago but he doesn't own you." A fleet of busses rolled by with Eisenhower sup- porters leaning out the windows tooting horns and cheering. The crowd was thick in front of the Hil- ton. Almost everyone was wearing Ike but- tons. Hansen asked one reddish gentleman what all the excitement was about. He told us that Eisenhower was due in any minute. We entered the hotel and found our- selves in the midst of a sea of people, badges, leaflets and Stassenettes -- very lovely young ladies wandering about with "Stassen" in gold letters across their mid- sections. We stopped to catch our breath and by the time we moved on we had every imaginable type of button dangling from our clothes. A big chunky man was passing out the Ashland (Wisc.) Daily Press. The headline announced "FOR TAFT AND MacARTHUR: The unbeatable Ticket." Below that in large letters, "THE PRO-SOVIET INTERNA- TIONALISTS KNOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS THROUGH AND ARE NOW 'TRYING TO SEIZE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THROUGH EISENHOWER." Lang tucked the paper under his arm and we went on. Someone handed us a small leaf- let. There was a picture of Washington on the front. The second page boasted a sketch of MacArthur. The back page invited us to pray for Mac and our country. I encountered a middle aged lady wearing a Taft button and reading the Ashland Daily Press. I stopped to talk to her; she seemed .apologetic. "That's just John Chapple (Ashland's editor), don't pay any attention to him." FOURTEEN ELEVATORS were in opera- tion. They were set back about three hundred feet from the lobby and into that space were pressed about a hundred and fifty individuals, none of them saying much, just waiting. After a ten minute wait we got a car and went up. A large bulbous southerner, decorated with a discreet Mac- Arthur button was standing in front of us. He announced that he wouldn't settle for the vice-presidency - not by a long shot. Somebody asked him how many delegates Mac could produce. "Between thirty and forty." The official MacArthur toll at the time was four. We got off at Eisenhower headquarters. There was considerable excitement up there, as they prepared for the general's arrival. Most of the Ike boosters seemed worried--they didn't like what the cre- dentials committee had done to them. Lang and I left Hansen there and went down to Taft headquarters. The atmosphere was a good deal different. There was a quiet, good-natured confidence evident as the delegates lounged around sipping Pepsis. We noticed a button on the girl serving the drinks. It said Pepsi Cola. One delegate was saying that the Ike forces were making a lot of noise. "Let 'em yell," his friend answered. They all seemed to be pretty sure and at the time it looked like they might be right, that their boy was going to make it. We went back down to the lobby. An Eisenhower brass band was whooping it up with a run down of all the college marching songs. They went blaring outside. A few minutes later about twenty young people en- tered bearing Stassen placards. They were- n't yelling, just walking slowly around the lobby. Finally the leader turned around and said, "We might as well go outside." They went. * * * WE LEFT AND headed toward the Black- stone Theater around the corner where the Dixie Indignation meeting was being held. The Eisenhower band was outside playing Dixie and the boys with the Stassen posters were standing in front of them beat- ing time. We went upstairs to the second balcony and found two empty seats. The master of ceremonies was on the stage lead- ing a song to the tune of Jingle Bells. We picked up an Eisenhower song book and glanced through it. None of the verses were very original. Somebody was passing out buttons inscribed "For a fair convention." Pretty soon Joe Ingraham, the leader of the ten unseated Eisenhower Texas dele- gation, appeared on the stage and deliv- ered a fiery speech. Then the group be- gan singing a parody on Taft's campaign song, "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover." It began "Taft is a loser, a four time loser .. :" We left the meeting and headed for home. On the way we met the reddish gentleman we had seen waiting for Eisenhower. Now he was wearing a Taft button. As we walked down the street the con- ventio noises grew faint, until they could scarcely be heard. Some people in front of us were talking about the day's baseball scores. It was something of a shock. As we were about to get in the car we met a fellow whom we recognized as be- ig from Michigan. He was going near our destination so we gave him a lift. He told us he had been toathe Progressive Party convention, which was taking place on Chicago's south side. He was full of news-the Progressives had nominated one of the twelve New York lawyers who were currently in jail for contempt of court. The fellow seemed surprised that anyone had gone to the Republican con- vention. My Monday we were back in Ann Arbor. Listening to the radio, we heard the Eisen- hower sponsored Langlie motion sweep the convention. Right then it looked like the Taft boys were wrong. -Peg Nimz MATTER OF FACT By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP CHICAGO-Next to the bitterness between the two contending factions the most striking feature of this Republican conven- tion is the proof of the dangerous power of simple faith. You find this, specially, among the many worthy people who are here to yell their heads off for Sen. Robert A. Taft. Try the experiment of mentioning to these people Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the Yalta agreement. The name of the convention keynoter is an emotional stim- ulus that produces paroxysms of adula- tion; the mention of Yalta stimulates a contrasting violence. The suggestion of any connection between the two would probably cause apoplexy. But in fact there is a connection between Gen. MacArthur and what happened at Yalta. According to the Taft-approved version of history, the Chinese National government was "sold out" at Yalta for an empty Soviet promise to enter the war against Japan. President Roosevelt was persuaded to "sell out" Chiang Kai-shek, in turn, because his highest military advisers had warned him that the conquest of the Japanese Islands would cost two years' time and 500,000 casualties. The high price was paid to avoid a high cost. It has always been something of a question Just where this military opinion about the costliness of the final conquest of Japan actually originated. Even at the time, it was an utterly wrong opinion, as the event proved. Even at the time, in the Air Force es- pecially, a minority contended it would be better to pay the Soviets to stay out of the Japanese war instead of paying them to come in. The first suggestion that Gen. MacArthur might have had a good deal to do with forming this incorrect military opinion was given in the published "Diaries" of the late James V. Forrestal. In Forrestal's indisput- ably unbiased and authentic record, there is a long interview with Gen. MacArthur dated a little after the Yalta meeting. In this interview, the General is recorded as having most forcefully demanded the in- vasion of Manchuria by a Soviet Army of not less than 60 divisions. This force, he held, was needed to defeat the Japanese armies on the mainland of Asia. Experience already indicated that if a Soviet army got its grip on Manchuria or any other territory, it was not likely to let go. Yet MacArthur believed the measure was needful none the less. Pos- sibly at that time MacArthur attached little importance to the future of Man- churia. At any rate, Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer has also testified that even after the full, formal, final surrender of Japan, Gen. Mac- Arthur refused to lend him a few of his surplus American divisions to assist in oc- cupying Manchuria. Wedemeyer needed American divisions in Manchuria to prevent the Chinese Communists from gaining their all-important foothold there. But Gen. Mac- Arthur then thought the occupation of Japan should have first priority, and as Gen. Wedemeyer himself pointed out, the last chance in Manchuria was lost. Furthermore, it can now be stated that the Defense Department is sitting on pro- Yalta cables from Gen. MacArthur to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, putting forward pre- cisely the point of view implied by the above, already-published evidence. These cables are understood to prove, beyond dispute, that Gen. MacArthur's own headquarters were the main source of the view that al- most any sacrifice was justified to get the Soviet union into the Japanese war. There is even some reason to believe that the kind of sacrifice to be made was spelled out in some detail, prior to the Yalta meeting. * * * * UNDER THE circumstances of the time, of course, Gen. MacArthur's cables to the Joint Chiefs, his demand for 60 Russian divisions in Manchuria, his refusal to allow American divisions for Manchurian occupa- tion duty, were all entirely understandable. The Japanese had made a fight which ten- dered the prospect of an invasion of their home islands highly unattractive, to say the least. It was possible to argue that the Japanese armies on the Asiatic mainland would go on fighting after the homeland had surrendered. And many people expected the occupation of Japan to be very trouble- some, even after the surrender. In short, if Gen. MacArthur made mis- takes of judgment which in turn con- tributed to the Yalta decisions and their aftermath, they were not unnatural or sinister mistakes. None the less, this ancient history con- stitutes a sharp commentary on the thought processes of the sort of Republicans who regard Gen. MacArthur as something more than a great general and something bigger than a mortal man. In their view of Mac- Arthur, afid also in their view of Yalta, these Republicans have taken to mythlmaking. For them, history has become what they want it to be, and the dreary facts of life in this dreary world have ceased to be re- garded as facts because they are not pleas- ant. And that is why these people are dan- gerous-not because they are evil or un- @ o lieteiCO the6C litO . ,: African Crisis . . To the Editor: [N HIS comments on the article 'South African Crisis' Randolph Quirk did more not only to mani- fest a 'partisanship' far in excess of the one he attributed to the original article, but also portray- ed an abysmal ignorance of col- onialism in Africa. Though he did not refute the charge that Great Britain and other European pow- ers 'still have possessions in Af- rica' yet he carefully ignored this statement as one of his 'import- ant facts.' He deliberately singled out Great Britain for comment and that partially too; and blunt- ly refused to mention the Tuni- sian political 'explosion' which has. now become a jig-saw' puzzle of the worst type to the shrewdest foreign policy-makers of today. 'Tunisian question, one of a thous- and, invited world opinion and it got it. A check in his political di- ary will refresh his memory. He can dig up others with a mini- mum effort. Of about 200 million people in Africa about 30 million (2 million in the Union of South Africa) live in self governing states. The rest are being 'evangelized' and 'civil- ized' in one form or another. Quirk need not know how or with what success. He cited Great Britain, Gold Coast and Nigeria. Credence is given to the fact that the seat of power has shifted in the Gold Coast. Great Britain may get the credit if you like. But in Nigeria the official nomenclatures and terminologies have been revised instead of the constitution so that disinterested observers will admit that the seat of power still re- mains firmly entrenched where it has been after as before the pre- sent constitution. If one leaves off a straight-jacket thinking and make a critical and impartial analysis of the political scene in Africa or Nigeria for that matter more will be gained than the ef- fort put into it. One does not have to taste the bitter ingredi- ents of colonialism before he un- derstands its working. At best Great Britain is credit- ed with the developments in the Gold Coast and Nigeria. The in- telligent readers may like to know Mr. Quirks' answer to this ques- tion. What about the other 100 million Africans being 'civilized' by other European Powers, and of course, Great Britain? --U. Igwe Ukoha "Very Interesting And Educational" unknown (to the administration.) If the five placed on social pro- bation were in a similar position today, faced with the same con- sequences of their stubborn yet idealistic stand, they would un- doubtedly be just as unpoopera- tive with any investigatihg com- mittee and thereby gladly pro- tect the identity of their fourteen comrades in eating. We see a remarkable situation. Those students involved in the McPhaul dinner (whose numbers include several misguided kids) have succeeded in making mon- keys out of the very administra- tors who found it so expedient' to investigate them. There is much room for laughter considering all the resulting publicity. The fact stillremainsthat four- teen of these students have never even been questioned. --E. S. Sader Ban Opposition.. . To The Editor: THE FRONT PAGE feature story in Wednesday's Daily, "LS&A Faculty Opposes Lecture Ban," is incomplete. It lists Students for Democratic Action, Young Pro- gressives and Civil Liberties Com- mittee among those student groups which participated in the ad hoc "Vote Yes Committee," which co- ordinated political action against the Regents' ban. Actually, the Young Democrats and Young Re- publicans were also supporters of the "Vote Yes Committee." Participation of these latter groups is worth noting now, in order to make clear the political breadth and completeness of the opposition to the Regents' unfor- tunate Lecture Committee by-law. -Peter J. R. Hill Superliner THE superliner United States, this country's newest pride of the seas, was a pretty picture . . the longest thing afloat now- three feet longer than the Queen Mary..i7. Wherever she berths the world over, she will symbolize what can be accomplished under the treasured American system of Free Enterprise, especially when the government puts up nearly two- thirds of the money. -The Nation e MePhaul Dinner. . . To The Editor: LOOKING BACK at last Spring's MacPhaul dinner, there is one fact which to some is disturbing, to others encouraging and to still others very funny. It was reported that about thir- ty students attended the McPhaul dinner. The investigating com- mittee, even with its herculean efforts to discover whether any rules were broken, could only 10- cate sixteen of these students. Ap- proximately fourteen who attend- ed the dinner were never investi- gated and their identities are still unknown. Part of the reason for this is the administration's ser- vile sensitivity to unfavorable pub- licity of any kind. There were three ways of pos- sibly punishing the sixteen stu- dents known to have attended the dinner: expulsion, suspension and probation. The first two methods were out of the question. These students had not conducted them- selves in any immoral or disgrace- ful manner. Surely, there would be too much publicity if they were expelled or suspended. But they had to be punished. McPhaul is, after all, suspected of being a communist and an enemy of the Red, White and Blue. These students actually listened to him speak. Think of the unfavorable publicity for the University. Some- thing had to be done. The resulting action was the placing on social probation of five students who did not satisfactor- ily cooperate with the investiga- tion. By unsatisfactorily cooper- ating with the investigation, they were, of course, conducting them- selves in a manner "unbecoming a student." This goes without say- ing. Thus five students (four who had won high scholastic honors) had to restrict their activities. Mr. Smale had to resign from the Chess Club; Miss Cowan, from the Student Legislature and so down the line with the other three found guilty of conduct "unbe- coming a student. In the mean- time, the names of the fourteen other guests and hosts will remain 4 i } f O AILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN + MUSIC + LAST NIGHT the Stanley Quartet pre- miered a very exciting quintet for string quartet and double bass by Darius Milhaud. one of the most significant modern compos- ers. Milhaud's significance comes not from creating a new musical style, but from main- taining the French tradition established by his immediate predecessors DeBussy and Ravel. This is a tradition of subtle effects rich and colorful harmonies, and sharply individualized sections. It is free of the pedantic and intellectual; its music never sounds labored, but seems to have a con- stant free and easy flow. This quintet is such a work. The use of double bass is primarily rhythmic. It is not a steady driving rhythm, but a rhy- thm of bouyancy and syncopation which gives the work its easy and flowing mo- tion. Altogether the work is quite beautiful; is uses simple melodies and presents them straight-forwardly. But it is quite difficult to perform. A work of this type where broad harmonies are intermingled with startling or pungent effects and where the textue is complex, demands clarity in interpreta- tion or it becomes muddy and its flow is obscured. Also it uses the instruments, par- ticularly the string bass, in a virtuoso man- ner. The quartet did a fine job in cringing out the many nuances of the work. and was quite effective in maintaining balance. The string bass, always a difficult instrument to project soloistically, was remarkably clear and audible. The opening work, Haydn, opus 77, No. 1, was hampered by inpreciseness of attack on the part of the quartet as a whole. It was particularly true in the second and last movements where an ensemble rapport was hindered by devia- tions in timing by the players. The first movement lacked direction, particularly in the development section which was sound and fury but didn't seem to proceed to any definite end. The Minuetto was performed brilliantly however. It is a dy- namic movement, a perfect compliment to the intense drama of the second move- ment and the rhythmic drive of the last. The precision and direction lacked in the other movements were evidenced here. The Beethoven, opus 74, was a different matter; it was the Stanley's meat. Th2 work shows Beethoven's rethinking of the quartet form, giving it a new and perhaps more vital dramatic impetus. It is a work of lyricism, of intense rhythmic energy and of light rhy- thmic bounce. The performance clearly showed the beautifully wrought structure and timing of the work. The Stanley had the work completely under control, from the dynamic and driving climaxes to the soft and lovely pianissimos. --Donald Harris 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 "Harvey," one of the most popular and hilarious comedies to run on Broad- way will open at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre tonight at 8 P.M. Presented by the Department of Speech as the second summer production, "Harvey" will run through Saturday night with all per- formances at 8 P.M. Tickets for the play and other plays for the summer series are on sale at the Mendelssohn box office daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Lane Hall will open Wednesday and Thursday evenings for the Television Broadcast of the Republican Conven- tion. Any interested students and fac- ulty are invited to drop in. La Petite Causette: All students and summer residents who are interested in speaking French are invited to join this very informal group every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock in the Tap Room of the Michi- gan Union. A table will be reserved and a French-speaking member of the staff will be present, but there is no program other than free conversation in French. There will be an organizational meet- ing of the Modern Poetry Club Thurs- day, July 10, in the Michigan League, at 4 p.m. The meeting is open, and all those interested are invited to attend. The following student organizations have registered for the summer term: Betsy Barbour Dormitory Chinese Students' Club Christian Science Organization Graduate Outing Club Graduate Student Council International Students Association Joint Judiciary Council Michigan Gothic Gilm Society Michigan League Sailing Club Student Legislature Student Religious Association women's Judiciary Approved social events for the coming week-end: July 11, 1952: Graduate Student Coun- cil, Mixer, Rackham; Phi Delta Phi, Dance, 502 Madison. July 12, 1952: Phi Delta Phi Dance, 502 Madison; Stockwall Hall, Open Hse., Stockwell Hall. July 13, 1952: Betsy Barbour, Open Hse., Betsy Barbour; The Graduate Out- has several openings for young women who can qualify as clerks, typists, sten- ographers and secretaries. Specific in- formation about these jobs may be had at the Bureau of Appointments. The United States Civil Service Com- mission, Board of Examiners, for Scien- tific and Technical Personnel of the Potomac River Naval Command has an- nounced that they will accept applica- tions for the following positions: Engi- neer, Chemist, Electronic Scientist, Mathematician, Metallurgist, Physicist. All positions carry civil service ratings, Grades GS-5 through GS-15. The American Viscose Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has an- nounced new and various positions of an engineering and scientific nature. Anyone interested in details or locations of these jobs may come to the Bureau of Appointments, where a complete de- scription of each is on hand. Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich- igan, is looking for a man with good academic background to work in sta- tistics. Should have at least five years experience in business. New York State Civil ServiceCommis- sion, Alband, New York, has announced that examinations will be given on September 6, 1952, for the following vacancies: Physicians (unwritten) for Director of Clinical Laboratories, Senior Physician (unwritten), Physician (un- written), District Supervising Public Health Nurse, Assistant District Super- vising Public Health Nurse, Dentist, Dentist (T. B. Service), Associate Radio Physicist, Junior Physicist, Junior Sci- entist (Anatomy), Senior Photofluorog- rapher, Photofluorographer, Assistant valuation Engineer, Gas Tester, Junior Civil Engineer, Westchester County, Senior Draftsman, Junior Draftsman, Printing Shop Assistant Foreman, and others. Full announcement may be seen at the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Building. The County of Wayne, Michigan, Civil Service Commission, Detroit, have an- nounced a current examination for Library Aid, open only to Wayne County residents, last filing date is July 25, 1952. Information regarding duties, qualifications, type of examination and promotional opportunities may be found in the announcement available at the Bureau of Appointments. No library science degree is required and graduates in the fields of literature, languages, and the social sciences have an excel- lent opportunity, through this exami- nation, to obtain valuable sub-profes- sional experience in the Wayne County Library system. 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 further informationapplication blanks, details, etc., come to the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Speech Assembly. "Video Education- U.of M. TV Hour." Garnet R. Garri- son, Professor of Speech and Director of Television. 3:00 p.m., Lydia Mendels- sohn Theater. Symposium on Heat Transfer. "Fluid Mappers for Solving Problems in Heat Transfer." 4. D. Moore, Professor of Electrical Engineering, 3:00 p.m., 31'1 West Engineering Building. Modern Views of Man and Society, lecture. "Eorope's Revolution in Values: Roots of Totalitarianism, 1871-1952." Peter Viereck, Professor of Russian His- tory, Mount Holyoke College; Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry. 4:15 p.m., Rack- ham Lecture Hall. Symposium on Biological Regulation. "Environmental Control of Processes in Living Organisms." Frank H. Johnson, Associate Professor of Biology, Prince- ton University. 8:00 p.m., 1300 Chemistry Building. Academic Notices Preliminary Examinations in the De- partment of English Language and Lit- erature will be given on Friday, July 18, Monday, July 21, Friday, July 25, and Monday, July 28th from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. For the first examination students are asked to report to the English Office. Students who expect to take the Preliminary Examinations this summer should confer with Professor Karl Litzenberg immediately. Seminar in Aeronautical Engineering: Wednesday, July 9, and Friday, July 11 at 10:00 a.m. Gilles M. Corcos will speak on "The Stability of Poiseitle Flows." Biological Symposium: Technical Seminar by Professor Jack Myers on "Continuous and Automatic Dilution Cultures for Microorganisms." Wed., July 9, 4:15 p.m., 1300 Chem. Bldg. Teachers' Seminar in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater. Concerts Organ Recital: Robert Cato, Guest Organist, will be heard at 4:15 Wednes- day afternoon, July 9, in Hill Auditor- ium. Mr. Cato is Organist of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church in Detroit. He will play compositions by Bach, Mal- eingreau, Brahms, and Widor, and his program will be open to the public. Carillon Recital: Thursday, July 10, 7:15, by Percival Price, University Caril- lonneur. The program will include com- positions by Haydn, Tchaikowsky,' a group of modern carillon compositions of the Low Countries, two English songs, and "Invitation to the Dance" by Von Weber. Events Today Kaffeestunde: All students of Ger- man and others interested in spoken German are invited to attend an infor- mal group which will meet In the Mi- chigan Union Tap Room from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. A member of the department will be present to assist, but no *rmal programs are planned. University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw; Annual Summer Session Midweek Candlelight Vesper Service To- day at 9:00 p.m. "Pathways of Paul" Coming Events Beta Chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society is having a tea Mon- day, July 14, from 4:00 to 5:30, honor- ing visiting members who are on the University of Michigan and Michigan State Normal College campuses. It will be held at Starkweather Hall, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Delta Kappa Gamma mem- bers attending the University Summer School, the N.E.A. League C.,llege, or the Department of Elementary Princi- pals' Conference are cordially invited to attend. For reservations and transportation arrangements, call Miss Lavauche Rie- ger, 22045, by Thursday night. I Sixty-Second Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan 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 Reganall........Women's Editor Joyce Fickies..............Night Editor Harry Lunn............Night Editor Marge Shepherd...........Night Editor Virginia voss...........Night Editor Mike Wolff.............Night Editor BUSINESS STAFF -r CHICAGO-One of the most important developments of this Republican con- vention is the big kick the Democrats are among them, now figure they could win more easily against Eisenhower-due to Taft's opposition and the natural tendency I