PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1953 __________________________________________ N The War in Retrospect THE SIGNING of an armistice agreement in Korea after more than three years of bloody fighting in which close to three million lives were lost by both sides, calls for an attempt at evaluation. When President Harry S. Truman took the step of sending U. S. troops to the aid of a country which was within a day or two of falling prey to its Communist neighbor, he boldly reversed the traditional American policy of waiting until aggression hit home before, taking action. He assertively rein- forced a policy of internationalism which has as a basic tenet that trouble anywhere is the concern of people everywhere. As a necessary adjunct to this action and the principle behind it, United Nations support was obtained so that the battle took on a new and more historically sig- nificant meaning. It was the first time an international body has ever'undertaken to forcibly combat aggression. The United Nation's action has saved that organiza- tion from deteriorating into one of merely social service. It has revivified that body and given affirmitive expression to the op- timistic principles of its charter. And the United States can well be proud that it took the leadership in helping the UN realize its goal. Aside from the drawn out, see-saw nature of the war, there are several aspects to it which are more than noteworthy. It was remarkable that both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations were able to steer the middle road between those who would withdraw completely and those who would extend the war. The temptation to swerve from the principles of a limited war must have been tremendous, what with the great cost in lives and material, the equivi- cation of some and outright opposition of others at home and in the UN and the heart- D R} ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL and RICHARD III, presented by the the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Stratford, Ontario CANADA'S STRATFORD is located about two hundred. miles east of Ann Arbor. The surface appearance of the community is that of 'an ordinary Canadian industrial town of around twenty thousand popula- tion. The main street, currently canopied with red, white, and blue pennants, is wide enough to avoid much traffic congestion in spite of the fact that the angle-parking at the curb cuts off some of the room. Commer- cial frontage is old, the vogue for "modern" stares having so far missed the small Ca- nadian cities. It is here on the periphery of this busy somnolence, under the big top, where the "Stratford Foundation" with the help of -director Tyrone Gutnrie, designer Tanya Moisiewitsch, Actors Alec Guinness, Irene Worth, and a company of experienced sup- porting performers is presenting, through August 15, two brilliant and dynamic pro- ductions: "All's Well that Ends Well" and "Richard III." Very likely, it is the theatri- cal event of the summer on this continent. In spite of what is done in future years at Stratford, this first festival will not be soon forgotten. Of course, there was no reason for sur- prise at the skill with which "All's Well" and "Richard" have been performed. Alec Guin- ness's talent "and versatility is recognized everywhere; Irene Worth has played here and in Britain with great success, director Tyrone Guthrie's experience administering the Old Vic made him eminently qualified for the undertaking at Stratford; and Tanya Moisiewitsch, his designer, has had as many as five productions running in London simul- taneously. The way these talents have been blended, however, is remarkable, and in places, al- most magical. A flawless timing and rhythm have gone into the two productions. The decor is brilliant, and so flexible has the stag- ing been accomplished that the theater craft alone achieved a kind of choreographic ideal. Of greatest value, the producers were blessed with what must be the Platonic ideal of an auditorium for the shows. It is a ter- raced, semi-circular arena, seating about 1400, with the platform stage at its hub. The actors, surrounded on three sides by the audience, are deployed during the perform- ances not only on platform level, but also on dozens of steps which descend to the floor of the arena and on staircases which ascend to a balcany overlooking the center of the stage. The set therefore, completely sym- metrical, functioned for both plays. Place was designated, in the Elizabethan manner, strictly by the dialogue of the char- acters and the style of the costuming, all of which was brilliantly colorful, yet perfectly blended, even in the mass displays of pag- eant and ceremony that filled both plays. Musical effects, including bell and cannon, were introduced to complete the full sensory impact of the productions. As for the more fundamental and tra- ditional powers of the plays, I think there can be no general charge that the pro- ducers sacrificed the subtler qualities of the verse and meaning through excessive pomp and circumstance. The diction and understanding of the actors never faltered. breakingly selfish action of a dictatorial marionette such as Syngman Rhee. The United State's feat in this struggle has tested not the strength, but the patience of this nation. And this country has given an account of itself in the international sphere which will go down in history as the monu- ment which marks its coming of age in world leadership. Of course, as commentators have point- ed out, the signing of a truce does not mean peace. There are long months of bitter debate ahead. But still some solu- tion of the problem is in sight. Although Russia has suffered a defeat only in pres- tige, she has been stalemated. It can val- idly be surmised that the truce is partially a result of the internal conflict within the Soviet Union and, more important, the unwillingness of the Chinese People's Re- public to sustain the heavy losses which might threaten its domestic stability. The policy to be followed in the future is certainly clear. We must be ready to par- take in any plan which will help further international peace, even if this means the recognition of Communist China. We must constantly be prepared to defend any peo- ple against aggression anywhere in the world.. This country has done a remarkable thing in the Korean war, and it must stick to the principles which led to the deed. This means consistant support of active coopera- tion and leadership in the United Nations. That organization must not be discarded as the vehicle of our broader policies, as some advocate. It means the same kind of pa- tience that was shown in the past three years. And it means that we must adhere to the most important corollary of inter- national cooperation: that the rights of other nations. are to be considered equal to our rights. -Jerry Helman AMA faint hearts among the producers in their initial foray. Still, there did seem to be greater atten- tion to line and character in the modern dress in "All's Well" than there was in "Rich- ard." This so-called "problem" comedy, in- deed, turns out to be a surprisingly affect- ing play in which, contrary to consensus opinion, the people involved seem to be ex- tremely forthright and appealing individ- uals, unsentimental yet humanly motivated withal. As produced at Stratford, in two acts, the play is a beautiful unit, each action com- pletely meaningful and delightfully accom- plished. Irene Worth was an inspired Hele- na. She clearly established the character's grand passion in the opening scenes, then went on to develop her as a complete woman rather than a mere scheming and lovesick girl. Alec Guinness underplayed as the French king, perfectly complementing He- lena's youth and passion. Donald Harron was a graceful Bertram, too unsophisticated to win any active animosity from the audi- ence, which was quite proper for his con- vincing repentance at the end. Douglas Campbell was a treble Parolles, providing much more than comic relief in a role well integrated into the plot. Certainly this play does not deserve its relative obscurity. With a production as flaw- less as this, it could even be granted that the courtier Lafeu is not just an old fool when he remarks in the final scene: "Me- thinks ny eyes smell onions." "Richard III," on the other hand, or- dinarily, and with good reason, regarded as one man's play. Without the wise disci- plining of the role of the protagonist, the drama falls into a series of meloramatic episodes which are exciting, but not par- ticularly coherent. In spite of this, Guin- ness apparently makes his decision not to take the play very seriously right from the moment he steps forward onto the balcony, tossing off "Now is the winter of our discontent" and throwing one leg over the balustrade somewhat in the manner of a court jester. From this point, he is "The Promoter" most of the way, achieving moments of de- lightful satire, but never caring to plumb the depths of the character's malevolence. The weakness of this interpretation is ap- parent in the last act when Richard is called upon for violent demonstrations of guilt feeling, most of which seem surprising in this rather apathetic, undistinguished villain. Even the physical deformity of the king is minized, leaving Richard a kind of blunt thorn in the blight of the Rose War. The roles of the other assorted politicians, soldiers, and wailing women are well han- dled, Irene Worth's brief bit as Margaret, last of the Lancasters, is effective as you might expect. The actors, including Guin- ness, have, however, surrendered the stage to the glories of pageant: the procession of cowled figures bearing huge crosses in Rich- ard's coronation, the progress of courtiers saluting the return of the ill-fated boy prince Edward V, the full-scale warfare of Bosworth Field as realistic a pitched battle as may have been produced on a stage. All of it, frankly melodramatic, dis- connectedly violent, is as colorful a canvas of fifteenth-century court intrigue.as any medium, including the movies, could con- vey. In spite of the fact that the play can be no tragedy under any interpreta- CURRENT MOVIES] At the Ypsi-Ann. COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA, with Shir- ley Booth and Burt Lancaster. U NDOUBTEDLY this is the finest film presentation of the season. Certainly it is one of the very few adult films recently attempted by Hollywood. Its financial and aesthetic success should awaken movieland to the future possibilities of the film as an art medium. The plot is a psychologically complex one, yet it is told with simplicity and taste. It con- cerns attempts of a frustrated, middle-aged couple to rise above the indiscretions and mistakes of the past. The wife lives in an il- lusory world of escape, clinging to every scrap of affection as a reaction to her sud- den rejection from a very sheltered home life. The husband is a reformed alcoholic whose life is a living frustration, stemming from his "forced" marriage, and his con- sequential inability to continue his medical studies. Skillfully interwoven with this main plot is the romance of a young college girl who is their roomer. Her life mirrors the older couple's youth at the same time providing a contrast for their present situation. This is a writing technique that eliminates the cumbersome and obvious flashback. The success of this film is a tribute to the -acting ability of Shirley Booth, who brings to life the character of Lola, the wife. With every tacial expression, move of her body, and intonation she subtly weaves a picture of a woman in escape from reality. Perhaps the most poigant of these scenes comes as Lola speaks on the phone to her mother, the symbol of unrequited love. This forms a background for Lola's tran- sition back to the present. She forgets about her lost dog Sheba, one of her escape mech- anisms, and faces the real problem of creat- ing a home for her husband. The ease and grace of this transition is remarkable. It characterizes Miss Booth's performance as outstanding and certainly worthy of the Academy Award which it won. Burt Lancaster, as Doc Delaney, Lola's husband, gives a restrained portrayal of a man fighting to overcome his past mis- takes while at the same time he is daily confronted by the source of his frustra- tion. The repressed nature of Lancaster's performance gives the climax an emo- tional significance usually missing from such high tension films. His acting is of the same high quality as Miss Booth's. Technically the film is excellent, though a bit stagey. The camera utilizes Miss Booth's expressions effectively. Direction and pacing are excellent. -Dick Wolf * * * * At the State ., , HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, with Danny Kaye, Jeanmaire and the songs of Frank Loesser. HIGHLIGIZTED by a few good Frank Loesser tunes and a relatively sedate Danny Kaye, this much touted musical pro- vides some relief from the humidity and papers which seem to be due about this time of the year. Followers of Kaye will be considerably dis- appointed that the Walter Mitty humor, or anything approaching it, is reined in throughout this sentimental film. But he does an honest and, depending on your mood, sometimes moving job. Jeanmaire, France's answer to Moira Shearer, turns out to be neither as beau- tiful nor as talented as Miss Shearer, but holds her own in both departments. De- spite a classic bit of pirouetting with Ro- land Petit, who choreographed the dances, she relies a good deal on sex-which in her case is quite understandable. Fortunately, the Moss Hart screenplay functions only to weave together a large number of songs and a few ballets and does not often get in the way. There is some question as to whether this tale of un- requited love is the best core for a host of happy melodies, but I suppose it was in- evitable. Nevertheless, it is quite clear that Goldwyn has hit the box office jackpot once again. There is enough shallow emotional impact and catchy scoring to justify the financial results. If you accept the fact that nothing particularly profound is intended, you will find this a delightful film. -Barnes Connable "Nobody Here But Just Us Economizers" 6 BA - MATT E R OFFACT By JOSEPH ALSO P A+ s v P s N - ON THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND WITH DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-About 10,000,000 more people will be included under Social Securiay by a special message which President Eisenhower will send to Congress early this week. It is aimed to carry out presidential pledges made during the election campaign and will place under Social Security a large list of people hitherto not enjoying old-age or unemployment benefits. They will include: Ministers of the gospel and lay church workers; state and local. government employees; self-employed, such as doctors and lawyers; medical internes; civil employees of the Coast Guard, and American citizens employed on foreign-flag vessels such as those of Panama and Liberia, provided the vessels are owned by Americans. President Eisenhower will send only a brief message to Con- gress, in which he will re-emphasize his belief in the basic prin- ciples of the Social-Security program but will say that it must be strengthened. Originally he had asked Congressman Dan Reed of New York, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, to introduce the new Social Securiay bill. But Reed was so burned up over his reversal of the continuation of the excess-profits tax that he refused. Eisen- hower then turned to one of the Republicans of the Ways and Means Committee, Robert Kean of New Jersey, who has consistently sup- ported him on tax measures. Eisenhower's message will sidestep any increase in the limit of $75 a month which oldsters are permitted to earn without losing their old-age benefits. There has been a lot of pressure on the White House to increase the $75 limit to $100 a month. The President, however, has told congressional advisers that he felt a request for an increase of this limit would create too much opposition on Capitol Hill. However, he indicated he would ask to boost the $75-a-month ceiling at the next session. The new Social-Security proposals will also help those drawing Social-Security benefits, by permitting anyone to drop the three worst years in computing his monthly wages. --NEW YORK CENTRAL RR- Without any fanfare, Robert R. Young, lone wolf of the railroad industry, has bought up 25 per cent of the New York Central Railroad and can now almost completely control that organization. Officially the Interstate Commerce Commission has ruled that Young cannot control the New York Central. But now that Young's Chesapeake & Ohio and his Allegheny Corporation have quietly ac- quired one-quarter of New York Central stock, the ICC will face a tough decision. If he is able to combine the New York Central with the Chesa- peake & Ohio, Young will have the largest railroad network in the United States. -THE NEW DUST BOWL- Most tragic part about the southwest drought is that the dam- age will be even greater next year unless some sort of a cover crop is grown before the windy season starts in March. Without such a crop, so much of the land will be blown away as to be virtually un- reclaimable. Department of Agriculture experts who have been making an intensive survey of the Southwest, have come back with two facts: one they can surmount; one they cannot explain. The unexplainable fact is that droughts seem to occur in cycles of about every nine years. They even seem to occur in the odd-numbered decades. Thus terrific droughts came in the 193w's, followed by above normal rains in the 1940's, and now another drought in the 1950's. The other fact is that man-made efforts to combat the dust bowl are successful. And if the lessons learned in the 1930's had not been ignored in the area southwest of the old dust bowl, there would be no trouble in Texas and New Mexico today. In fact, the area hard- est hit by the 1930 drought, parts of Oklahoma and western Kansas, having learned its lesson, is relatively better off. It was in the 1930's that dust from Kansas and Oklahoma settled as far east as Boston and New York. THE MEANING OF HATRED VIENNA-In a human and poli- tical sense, the Kremlin's at- tempt to impose Soviet-style Com- munism on Eastern Europe can be confidently counted among his- tory's most abysmal failures. This is the central meaning of the re- cent remarkable events in Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hun- gary and elsewhere. Yet it is also true that in an inhuman and tech- nological sense, the Kremlin's Eur- opean empire represents an extra- ordinary achievement. This seeming paradox is wholly confirmed by the great mass of information on the satellites avail- able in Berlin, in Munich, and here in Vienna. The experts do not have to guess what is happening with- in the Soviet empire. They know. With thousands of refugees streaming into West Berlin every week, they know what is happen- ing in Communist Germany down, to the village, and even the street level. The picture of what is hap- pening in the more distant satel- lites is only relatively more opaque. The picture is everywhere the same-total political failure and remarkable industrial achieve- ment. The failure can be very simply defined. The Soviet-im- posed satellite regimes are poli- tically absolutely artificial. Lack- ing any mass base of popular support whatsoever, they are kept afloat by force on a heav- ing sea of savage, universal hat- red. What is particularly signi- ficant about this phenomenon of mass hatred, is that it is concen- trated among those who were supposed to be the special darl- ings of the Communist regimes- the industrial workers. Take the case of Czechoslovakia. The Kremlin's plan for its Czech colony calls for an increase of 175 per cent of Czech heavy industrial, armaments, and chemical output. This means in turn a tremendous increase-in the number of indus- trial workers-the number of workers in the famous Skoda arm- aments plans, for example, has been quadrupled. Much of what is produced goes to the Soviet Union -about 90 per cent of the arma- ments, for example. At the same time production of consumer goods has been sharply reduced of neces- sity, while the forced collective farm system plus the drain of farm workers to the factories has also heavily reduced the already inade- quate Czech food supplies. * * * HERE CAN be only one result of this sort of thing. A worker cannot eat a machine gun, nor can he live on a drop forge. The Czech puppet rulers have tried every conceivable device to meet the industrialization goals, includ- ing the assignment to forced labor of more than 300,000 "kulaks, bourgeois, and unreliables." Yet under this system there is simply no way to avoid a steady fearful decline in the real standard of liv- ing of the workers. The recent currency "reform" in Czechosolvakia, which bore down most heavily on the pet- ted Stahkanovite workers nd the sleek party functionaries, was not simply an act of wan- ton economic cruelty. Unless the industrialization goals were, un- thinkably, to be abandoned, this economic whip had to be used on the backs of the workers. It is no accident that the worst riots and uprisings have been stag- ed by the supposedly phlegmatic Czechs and the orderly Germans ("if a German wants to blow up a railroad station," Lenin is sup- posed to have remarked contemp- tuously, "he first buys a ticket"). Czechoslovakia and Germany are the two satellites where industrial- ization was already most advanced, and where the industrial workers had the most vivid standard of comparison between past and pres- ent. Yet everywhere in the satel- lites, the workers are hagridden by hatred. THE PEASANTS, of course, share this hatred. There were gen- uine pitchfork rebellions in Ger- many in June, and in Hungary the peasants almost succeeded in breaking up the collective system. The workers resistance especially, moreover, has had a curious Marx- ist-revolutionary flavor, with the puppet regimes cast in the role of the evil "capitalist exploiters." This must surely have frightened the men in the Kremlin, for in their eyes, after all, the workers an peasants are the makers of revolution. What must have frightened the men in the Krem- lin at least as much, is the un- reliability of their hard-built local instruments of control. This was clearly demonstrated when Soviet troops and tanks had to be used to suppress the German workers' revolts. There are variations, of course, but the experts believe that the "people's armies" and "peo- ple's police" in other satellites also cannot be trusted by their Soviet masters to shoot down their own countrymen. The Soviet policy of forced in- dustrialization, in short, has fos- tered a ferocious hatred for the puppet regimes. This hatred is concentrated among the exploit- ed workers, but it is so general that even the direct beneficiar- ies of the Communist regimes can no longer be trusted. It is not wishful thinking to recog- nize the existence of this mass hatred, or to argue that is con- stitutes a profound weakness in the Soviet power system. Yet it is wishful thinking to suppose that the Soviet system is about to disintegrate, to the ac- companiment of shouts of encour- agement from Washington's psy- chological warriors. For reasons which will be examined in a fur- ther report, it is also wishful think- ing to overlook the fact that the Soviet policy of forced industriali- zation of the satellites has mark- edly increased the Soviet war po- teritial. (Copyright, 1953, N.Y. Her. Trib., Inc.) t 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 itris 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 preceeding publication (be- fore 11 a.m. on saturday). TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1953 VOL. LXIII, No. 25-S Veterans eligible for education and training allowance under Public Law 550 (Korea G. I. Bill), whether they have received Certificate for Education and Training, VA Form 7-1993, or not, must pick up DEAN'S MONTHLY CER- TIFICATION in appropriate school of- fice, get instructors' signatures for June and July and return that cer- tification to the Dean's office on or be- fore August 3. VA Form 7-1996a, MONTH- LY CERTIFICATION OF TRAINING, must be filled in and signed in the Office of Veterans' Affairs. 565 Admin- istration Building, between July 31 and August 6. August Graduates in Engineering: A representative of Babcock & Wilcox Company, Barberton, Ohio, Division, will interview August Mechanical, In- dustrial, Electrical, Civil Engineering graduates and others available for em- ployment, Wednesday, July 29, in Room 226 West Engineering Building. Please sign the interview schedule posted on the bulletin board at 225 West Engi- neering Building. TUESDAY, JULY 28, Lecture, auspices of the Department of Civil Engineering. "Recent Trendsein Soil Mechanics," William S. Housel, Professor of Civil Engineering. 4:00 p.m., 311 West Engineering Building. Graduate Symposium. Speech Training for Adults: G. E. Densmore, Chairman of the Department of Speech. 4:00 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham Building. Linguistic Forum. "Language as a part of Cutlure," Alf Sommerfelt, Professor of Linguistics, University of Oslo, 7:30 p.m. Rackham Amphitheater. Lecture. Social Psychological Research in India, by Dr. H. P. Maiti, Professor, of the University of Patna. Auditorium C, Angell Hall, 4.P., July 29. AcademicN'otices Seminar in Mathematical Statistics. will meet at 1:00 o'clock today in Room 3201 Angell Hall. Mr. Timon Walther will speak. MUSIC ROBERT ELLIS, Organist, at Hill Audi- torium THE AUDIENCE in Hill Auditorium Sun- day heard a program which included some very distinguished works but began and ended with two rather dreary ones: Brahms' Prelude and Fugue in G minor, which sounds like a student work and prob-_ ably is, and Reger's fussy and pompous Fan- tasy on "A Mighty Fortress." Even so excel- lent an organist as Mr. Ellis-was unable to do very much with these, but the rest of the program was most enjoyable. A chorale prelude and the Prelude and Fugue in D by Bach and the Fantasie in F minor by Mozart were superb, and two short works by Arne and Milhaud were --CRACKPOT IDEAS- In those years, politicians used to criticize the "crackpot ideas" of Henry Wallace and Rexford Guy Tugwell. But the fact is that the soil conservation program which they hammered home has saved the old dust bowl area today. It is now held down by a cover of grass. But while the farmers of K an- sas and Oklahoma have learned their lesson, the farmers of Texas and New Mexico have not. Encour- aged by the abundance of rain in the 1940's, they decided to go in for by the abundance of rain in the 1940's, they decided to go in for heavier grazing, plus more cotton and wheat. As a result, their land is literally blowing away. Agricultural experts say that 1934 was the worst drought year of all. But now it looks as if 1953 would be even drier. SixtyThird Year Edited and managed by students 01 the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Harand Britz.........Managng Dick Lewis ......,......sports Becky Conrad............Night Gayle Greene..............Night Pat Roelofs.......,...... Night Fran Sheldon..............Night Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Doctoral Examination for William K. Johnson, Pharmaceutical Chemistry; thesis: "Analogs of Epinephrine," today in Room 2525 Chemistry Building at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, F. Fr Blicke. Orientation Seminar in Matprematics will meet Wednesday, July 29, ath3 o'clock, Room 3001 Angell Hall. The program will be a continuation of the discussion of the Hausdorff Paradox. Refreshments will be served at 2:45. Doctoral Examination for ' Jacob Straus, Botany; thesis: "Studies on Maize Endosperm - Deprived Ti'ssue Grown in vitro, Culture Requirements, Morphology, and Cytology," Wednesday, July 29, 1139 Natural Science Bldg., at 9 a.m. Chairman, C. D. LaRue. Doctoral Examination for J. Richard Weaver, Chemistry; thesis: "The Deter- mination of Rate Constants for Reduc- tion Processes at a Streaming Mercury Electrode," Wednesday, July 29, 3003 ,4 Business Staff Bob Miller. ...,...Business Manager Dick Astrom......Circulation Manager Dick Nyberg...........Finance Manager Jessica Tanner.. Advertising Associate Bob Kovacs.......Advertising Associate A representative from the Walled Lake Public Schools will be in our of- fice at ten o'clock on Thursday, July 30. He will be interested in teachers of English, Chemistry, Geometry, Ju- nior High School Science and Mathe- matics, and a goodly number of ele- mentary teachers. Interested candidates rhm11i ,.,contact+the Bureau f Apit