PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1953 No Tax Reduction EVERYBODY seems to agree that the tax on excess corporation profits is a bad tax. Yet Republican congressmen who were against tax extensions in any form six months ago and were fighting hard for a mid-year reduction . in personal income taxes took another loox at the national bud- get and made an about face last week, voting overwhelmingly for the President's requested ectension of the excess profits tax. Despite crucial reductions in Air Force expenditures, and in many other depart- J mets including a low budget for the new- fly created Department of Health, Educa- tion and Welfare, this move seemed neces- sary.. As late as last September the then Secre- tary of the Commerce Sawyer said that he felt the tax should not be renewed and Sin- clair Weeks, immediately after the an- nouncement of his appointment as commerce secretary said that he would like to see the tax eliminated or if this seemed impossible reduced. Yet recently the Eisenhower Adminis- tration found itself plugging hard for an extension of the tax until December and opposing any attempt made for an earlier expiration date. It is- becoming clear to Republicans that the party in power does not create tax neces- sities, nor the world situation out of which they grow. As long as we continue to follow our present foreign policies, and the new ad- ministration, fortunately, does not seem to be making too many drastic changes in this field, the tax situation, like many other prob- lems which have been blamed on Truman ad- ministration policy will continue' to exist in the same degree as they have in the past. Unless Eisenhower and his advisors real- ize this and cease to dream u sucli phan- tasies as "more defense for less money" they will continue their floundering course for another three years and the Democrats may have some real blunders to blame them for in 1956. -Phyllis Lipsky At the Michigan.. .. ARENA, with Gig Young A~fWTER A BALLOON explodes in your face and you barely avoid a head-on collision with a trailer truck, you are brought to the stark awareness that you are watching a three-dimension movie. Despite this spec- tacular, publicity aimed introduction, Arena settles down to an integrated, informative, and entertaining film. The 3-D effect does- n't dominate, but adds to the general ef- fectiveness of this movie about the rodeo and lives of the people who experience the excitement, the glory, and the tragedy of this rugged sport. The story itself Is woven intimately around the events of the rodeo. Gig Young without the usual cliches of- the American western, portrays convincingly the role of a fearless brone-buster. Polly + MUSIC + DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Lydia Courte, pianist; Robert Courte, Violist LAST NIGHT'S recital of viola-piano mu- sic was as charming and as .pleasant as we have had in a long time. Magnifi- cently placed, after two very serious and profound faculty recitals, Raab-Dexter and Stanley Quartet, and after a plethora of nineteenth century music heard last spring, its tone of straight-forward melody let free to sing without any extra discourse not only provided excellent summer fare but further- more just the right change for our musical appetites. The participants, Lydia and Robert Courte, are a team of excellent musician- ship, always well aware of what each other is doing. Robert Courte has a very lovely tone, fine technique, and his intonation, which on occasion has been known to be faulty, was last night at its best. Lydia Courte is a pianist who also has fine tech- nique. The clarity with, which she phrased was delightful to behold. Sne always had a proper percussive approach to compliment the viola's innate intensity, and yet could be lyric when answering the viola's plaintive gestures, like in the Haydn Divertimento in D major. Perhaps the only point to question in- terpretively was last movements, namely those in the Haydn, the Sonatas by George Wilson and Homer Keller, and the Diver- timento in C major of Mozart. The-rapid tempi, difficult for a viola to articulate by nature, seemed to deprive the instrument of its beautiful tone. Nevertheless the. music demanded these tempi. It was an- other case of sacrificing the instrument for the sake of the music, which inci- dentally this reviewer approves of, though others rightfully may not. The Wilson Sonata was the only work on the program which could be called intense. Without going again into this composer's Bergan succeeds in giving an adequate interpretation of shapely sophisticated patron of sportsmen. Robert Horton, has- been bronco-rider, and his wife, Jean Hagen, succeed finally in establishing a reconciliation of Gig Young and his wife, Barbara Lawrence. The 3D is handled with technical re- straint, and the story is portrayed with artistic simplicity. On top of this you have the added attraction of witnessing the col- orful action of an, apparently, unrehearsed rodeo. This writer believes that Arena is an encouraging preview of what we may expect from future 3-D movies. Short subjects accompanying this movie include a 3-D cartoon and a colorful and interesting short on Tahiti, paradise of the south Pacific. You'll save 15 cents if you bring your own 3D glasses along. -Bill Whitney relation to twelve tone music, this work is however one of Wilson's best efforts in that medium. The melodic lines have a graceful' contour, always interesting in variation, and the harmonic rhythm kept the work moving facilely. On rehearing Homer Keller's Sonata, I was struck by its aftinity to Darius Mil- haud. Though it is a different personality from Milhaud, it does have constant root movement, a perpetual busyness, a delight in the very simple and "catchy" theme, and freedom from strong dynamic changes. It was also an enjoyable piece of music. Both the Wilson and Keller, by the way, were given performances of which the composers could be proud. --Donald Harris I ) 9 top,'etui9 y th e # By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Press News Analyst COMMUNIST GUARDS at the Iron Cur- tain have now been turned into a bar- rier between the people of East Germany and the food they need. Soviet Russia, whose bureaucracy usually moves so bumblingly in even the simplest of matters, took only a few hours to de- cide that she. had rather risk the wrath of the subject people than to admit publicly that any area under Communist control needed help from the capitalist world. Russia now claims she has aided East Germany with food supplies and that she will send more if necessary. No testimony of that has come from any German source. General knowledge of the bumbling Rus- sian system raises the question of wheth- er she could even if she would. All she can do is cry that the food problem was created by "Texas shirters" leading the Berlin riots. Russia looks from this distance like her slip is showing again; that her weaknesses are so widespread that she must try to save face at all costs, even to the point of re- fusing such a humanitarian gesture. By the same token, her rapid and frantic reaction to the food offer is sufficient to indicate that the U.S. has struck one of the most telling blows since the Berlin blockade forced Russia badly out of position in 1948. It is an example of initiative in the cold war. It was a situation made to order. The East Germans were crying for food. The U.S. had plenty of it-enough in Europe to start the ball rolling, warehouses full of surplus at home. To offer aid was a tradi- tional American reaction, regardless of the cold war. To put Russia in the position of either admitting that communism didn't work or of denying food to the hungry was a natural. There has been one fault in the American operation. It was too slow. It suggests that Washington is not set to jump at such op- portunities as they develop. Washington needs to get its guns cocked. a a .d--''Y ; =-- '' - ._ :. "3 s, sy .S i S k I E'" 1 tto~J ML&4gKO' + Wf fE RsfMw.J Vn2WFr ON THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-BOUND WITH DREW PEARSON MATTER OF FACT: Eisenhower Showdown with McCarthy Imminent as Investigation of Bundy Nears W ASHINGTON-Moscow aftermaths-Big Three foreign ministers meeting in Washington have done more talking about probable results of Beria's exit from the Kremlin than anything else . . . One certain result is: "A Big Four conference is out the window." Churchill was its chief backer and now Churchill may shortly retire as Prime Minister . . . Entirely aside from this, the Big Three foreign ministers don't want to give the stamp of approval to Malenkov by meeting with him at this time. Such a meeting would build him up in Russian eyes, make him more powerful in the Kremlin . . . Our hope is for more division in the Kremlin, not build-ups . . . Malenkov obviously wanted the meeting with Ike and Churchill in the worst way. His ambassador to Sweden urged the Swedish foreign office to promote the meeting this summer-in Stockholm. Ambassador Malik in London also called on Churchill to urge a meeting this summer . .. Other Moscow aftermaths: more trouble is expected in the Kremlin. However, no real collapse of Russia is likely... Some of Beria's friends are bound to flee the Iron Curtain; should give us a better chance to find out the real truth . . . Two big alternatives worry allied diplomats: 1. Will the Russians be so busy disagreeing that tension with the West will ease up?; or 2. Will Mal- enkov be so jittery that he'll precipitate, war? None of the experts knows the answer. RUSSIANBLOOD-Over Stalin's bier. Marshal Beria de- clared: "Our enemies think our loss will bring disorder in our ranks. They will be disappointed."... Beria obviously knew better because he was almost liquidated before Stalin died. He and Pre- mier Malenkov have had a running feud for years. So have some of the other Kremlin leaders .... Malenkov is half Russian, half Tartar. Beria is a Georgian. He comes from the same Soviet Republic as Stalin. Nikolai Bulganin is the only pure Russian among the top leaders of the Kremlin ... Malenkov came to the Kremlin in 1925 as Stalin's private secretary. He was recom- mended to old Joe by Molotov and Kaganovich, now deputy pre- mier and only Jewish member of the top command. However, Malenkov didn't hesitate to turn against his sponsors when they put their relatives on the Soviet payroll. He raised cain because Molotov's wife, Polina, held a government job, and because Kaganovich's two brothers and a woman relative also fed at the Soviet trough. When Malenkov made a public speech denouncing them, the relatives were fired and Molotov made a public confession accusing himself of evil in not preventing his wife from holding high office . . . On another occasion, Premier Malenkov almost came to blows with Marshal Zhukov (Eisenhower's friend in Berlin). The row took place in Stalin's villa at Sochi on the Black Sea. Stalin personally separated them . . . After this Zhukov was banished from Berlin and given an obscure command in Odessa. Zhukov's friendship with Eisenhower was played up in the western press as the reason for this semi-exile, but it was probably Malenkov's jealousy. RIVAL ARMIES-In Russia the secret police has long been al- most as powerful as the army. This was true under the Czar and is even more true under the Communists. The secret police, until last week headed by Beria, has its own tank divisions, modern weapons. The Red army doesn't like the MVD, not merely because of compe- tition but because the secret police has the power to arrest generals, officers, enlisted men, sometimes executes them without trial . . . In the hot and bitter rivalry between Beria and Malenkov, it was ob- vious that the man who controlled the Red army would win . . .The Red army has now backed Malenkov . . . At first, after Stalin died, it looked as if Beria might win out. For on March 21, two weeks after Stalin's death, Malenkov lost control of the Communist party . . Shortly thereafter Beria fired top Communist officials in the key countries of the Baltic, the Ukraine, and the Caucaus. About a year before, he had been forced to purge some of his own friends in Georgia, men he had known in his youth and whom he had appointed to office. The purge was forced on him by Malenkov and Stalin .. . But after Stalin's death he got revenge and kicked Malenkov's friends out of their jobs in these key areas. But from Malenkov's mother, who was a Tartar, the Premier inherited ruthlessness and cunning. From his father, who was Russian, he inherited forbearance and calculation. It is now ob- vious that Malenkov waited, probably buttered up Marshall Bul- ganin, who controls the Red army, Marhal Zhukov, with whom he once rowed, and using his long experience as a chess player, played them off against Beria, whom he hated. EAST GERMAN TRIGGER-No one will know definitely for a long time what finally tipped the scales against Beria. But probably it was the East German riots plus the bog-down of Russian atomic energy. Beria was in charge of the A-bomb program, was responsible for policing East Germany, Czechoslovakia, the satellites . . . When the uranium mines got flooded and Czech-German workers staged riots and strikes, it played into Malenkov's hands, undoubtedly gave him the excuse he had been waiting for ... Malenkov also had the use of the top branch of the secret police,the Shmersh. This is the super-duper outfit which spies even on members of the Politburo and supersede's Beria's own secret police . . . For some weeks prior to Stalin's death, Malenkov was fabricating Shmersh evidence in order to liquidate Beria, while Beria was fabricating secret police evidence in order to liquidate Malenkov . .. Prior to January, 1953, Stalin had protected his fellow Georgian, Beria, from Malenkov. But two months before he died, he switched over to Malenkov's side. This was during the sordid, bloody, much confused haggle over the Soviet doctors who The Daily Official Bulletin is a official publication of the Universityi 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 preceeding publication (be- fore 11 a.m. on Saturday). TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1953 VOL. LXIII, No. 99 Notices President and Mrs. Harlan Hatcher cordially invite members of the sum- mer faculty to an informal reception honoring the visiting faculty on Fri- day, the seventeenth of July, from eight until ten o'clock, in the Michigan League.' President and Mrs. Hatcher invite all summer session students to an in- formal reception at the Michigan League Building on July 16 from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. A representative from the San Diego Public Schools will be in our office on Wednesday, July 15, at 3:00 p.m. and will be glad to meet candidates inter- ested in elementary positions for the coming year. Requests have been received from To- ledo, Ohio, for teachers of high school English, mathematics, music, and a male librarian. Interested candidates should contact either the Bureau of Appointments, Ext. 489, of Superin- tendent Bowsher. A request from a Michigan Junior College for a man to teach Genera; En- gineering has been received. Interested candidates should contact the Bureau of Appointments, 31511 Ext. 489. Lectures TUESDAY, JULY 14 Summer Education Conference. Morn- ing, Schorling Auditorium: "What Must the Secondary School Do to Be Saved?" Earl C. Kelley, Professor of Secondary Education, Wayne University, 10:00 a.m.; Panel discussion, 11:00 a.m. Afternoon. Special conferences, 2:00 p.m.: Guidance conference, "Testing for Guidance Purposes," Harold Seashore, Director of Test Division, Psychological Corporation, Kellogg Auditorium; spe- cial education conference, 130 Business Administration, "Emotional Problems of Handicapped Children," Sara Dubo, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Ar- chitecture Auditorium; industrial con- ference, coloquoum, West Conference Room, Rackham Building; secondary education conference, "Our Experiences as Ford Fellows," Anna Yambrick, Flint Public Schools, Letah Stewart, Owosso Public Schools, 1022 University High School. Ze ttem4 TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communica- tions from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the wri- ter and in good taste. Letters ex- ceeding 300 words in length, defama- tory or libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. .x Beria Purge .. . To the Editor: THE RECENT purge of Lavrenty Beria should come as no sur- prise. The Soviet Union is not, strictly speaking, a police state, but a party state. The system is, in reality, a vast, unopposed, and in- credibly cruel Tammany Hall. While the police watch over all phases of Russian life, the Party, through its undercover cells, in its turn infiltrates the, police. It is no accident that every Soviet police chief to date has been purg- ed. Stalin's immense power was derived from his position as Party boss. Control of the Communist Power and its patronage made him unquestioned dictator of the USSR years before he bothered to be- come premier. Their police can keep things in check, but cannot lead, be- cause you cannot push on the reins. The function of the Par- ty, on the other hand, is to make up a policy that will not gener- ate significant opposition, and to hand out jobs. Its infiltra- tion extends its patronage even into the ranks of the police. Beria's sin consisted in trying to build up his own personal ma- chine within the MVD, for his own purposes. The uprisings were an excuse to eliminate him. The man who gets control of the Communist Party will control Russia. Molotov is but a prestige figure. He may remain an im- portant government administra- tor, but will be removed whenever the party leader thinks him dan- gerous. Malenkov is not a party boss, and will step into the region of mist and snow which is not Si- beria whenever it is desired, un- less he can get control of the Par- ty. It is unlikely that Beria con- nived at killing Malenkov through having MVD troopers fire on Mal- enkov's armored car. That is too square-headed for anything but a Symposium on Astrophysics. 1400 Chemistry Building. "General Ideas about Turbulence and Statistical Hy- drodynamics." G. K. Batchelor, Univers- ity of Cambridge, England, 2:00 p.m.; "Protonchain and Carbon Cycle," E. E. Salpeter, Cornell University, 3:30 p.m.: "The Internal Structure of Red Dwarf Stars," Donald Osterbrock, Princeton University Observatory, 7:30 p.m. Lecture, auspices of the College of Architecture and Design. "The Child as Inventor," Robert Iglehart Department of Art Education, New York Universi- ty, 4:15 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater., Radiation Biology Symposium. "Con- tributions of Radiation Experiments to an Understanding of Bacteriophage," A. H. Doermann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 4:15 p.m., 1300 Chemistry Building. Linguistic Forum, "Some Observa- tions on Old English Spelling," Sher- man M. Kuhn, Associate Professor of English and Associate Editor of the Middle English Dictionary. 7:30 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater, Department of Speech, Graduate Sym- posium-Television, 4:00 p.m., East Con- ference Room, Rackham Building, Speaker, Edward Stasheff, Associate Professor of Speech, University of Mich- igan. Sociedad Hispanica. A lecture in Spanish on the subject "Andanzas folk- loricas por Espana"il be given by Pro-, fessor Aurelo M. Espinosa, Jr., of Stan- ford University, visiting Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, on Wednesday, at 8 p.m., July 15, in the East Conference Room of the Rack- ham Building. This lecture is open to the public. Academic Notices Seminar in Mathematical Statistics will meet today at 1:00 p.m. In Room 3201 Angell Hall. Professor C. C. Craig will speak. Concerts Faculty Concerts. John Kollen, plan. ist, will appear in the third faculty concert at 8:30 this evening in the Rackham Lecture Hall. His program will include Mozart's Sonata in C major, K. 330, Brahms' Sonata in F minor, Op. 5, and Beethoven's Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 31, No. 3. The general pub. lic will be admitted without charge. Student Recital. Fred Purser, Pianist, will present a recital in partial fulfill. ment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music at 8:30 p.m. wed- nesday evening, July 15 in the Rack ham Assembly Hall. It will Include works by Bach, Beethoven, Hindemith and Brahms. Mr. Purser is a student of Mr. Brinkman. Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial Hall. Popular Art in America (June 30 -August,7); California Water Color So- ciety (July 1-August 1). 9 a.m. to S p.m. on weekdays; 2 to 5 p.m. on Sun- days. The public is invited. General Library. Best sellers of the twentieth century. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Gill- man Collection of Antiques of Palestine. Museums Building, rotunda exhibit, Steps in the preparation of ethnolo- gical dioramas. Michigan Historical Collections. Mi- chigan, year-round vacation land. .Clements Library. The good, the bad, the popular. Law Library. Elizabeth II and her em- pire. Architecture Building. Michigan Chil- dren's Art Exhibition. Events Today Speech Luncheon. Student - faculty luncheon, 12:15 p.m. Michigan League dining room. Socledad Hispanica. Every Tuesday and Thursday, under the auspices of the Sociedad Hispanica, a group of stu- dents and faculty members interested in speaking and hearing the Spanish language meets from. 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the wing of the North Room, Tap Room, Michigan Union. All those interested in practicing the spoken language are cordially invited. Square Dance at Lane Hall. 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. Everyone welcome. Coming Events Popular Arts in America will present four versions of Katherine Brush's Night Club in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre at 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 15. Professor Claribei Baird will read a cut version of the short story. Play Production will stage the one act play version. The Radio Department will. present it as a radio drama. The Tele- vision Department will demonstrate the techniques necessary in the tele- vision version. Seats are reserved, but no admission will be charged. Two re- served seats per person can be obtained at the Lydia Mendelssohn box office, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Sixt'vThird Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications, Editorial Staff Harland Britz........,Managing Editor Dick Lewis . ,........ Sports Editor Becky Conrad............ Night Editor Gayle Greene............Night Editor Pat Roelofs . ..,. ... Night Editor Fran Sheldon............Night Editor Business Staff Bob Miller........Business Manager Dick Astrom ... Circulation Manager Dick Nyberg........Finance Manager Jessica Tanner.. Advertising Associate Bob Kovacs.......Advertising Associate 0 ,I 1 By JOSEPH ALSOP WASHINGTON - The fall of Lavrenti Beria may shake the world; but Ameri- can domestic politics are rather more likely to be shaken by a quite different event. PresidIent Eisenhower has at last opened hostilities against Senator Joseph R. Mc- Carthy. The decisive engagement will be the case of William Bundy, the able official of the Central Intelligence Agency who is Mc- Carthy's newest target. The President shows every sign of the firmest purpose to oppose McCarhy on Bundy, even refusing to permit Bundy to respond to McCarthy's subpoena. If Eisenhower does not surrender in this Bundy case, McCarthy will have a hard choice. He will have to choose between accepting public defeat, or unmasking his real purposes by publicly attacking the President himself. This can be, and may well be, the final turning point. The real opening of hostilities, how- ever, was the President's incisive state- ment denouncing the slander of the Pro- testant clergy by McCarthy's pet investi- gator, J. B. Matthews. The real interest of this statement lies in a vital back- ground fact. The White House actively sought the opportunity, indeed created the opportunity, to strike this hard blow at the Wisconsin Senator. It is an old story, now, how Matthews charged that 7,000 Protestant clergymen were secret agents of Moscow, and how the members of McCarthy's committee therefore protested Matthews' appointment as head of the committee staff. But how the White House seized upon the Matthews issue is not an old story. It is understood that Vice-President Rich- ard Nixon also gave his approval. Rather cleverly, the White House then took steps to stimulate a telegram de- nouncing Matthews from three leaders of the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths, Monsignor John A. O'Brien, the Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath. This was to give the President a reason to speak. Before the planned answer to the invited tele- gram could be published, the Vice-Presi- dent hurriedly warned that Matthews was about to be dropped by McCarthy. The only White House reaction was to give the press the President's fine statement without further delay. In short, the in- tention to strike at McCarthy was abund- antly clear. Meanwhile, the desire to create a diver- sion drove Senator McCarthy to his attack on Bundy. Bundy, who comes of a dis- tinguished Massachusetts Republican fam- ily, is Dean Acheson's son-in-law. As an acquaintance of Alger Hiss, he gave $400 to the Hiss defense fund, so that the wrong doer might be fairly tried. The only crimes charged against Bundy are his marriage to one of the most beautiful women in Washington, and his adherence to the American tradition that every man has a right to a fair trial. To answer to these crimes, Bundy was subpoenaed by Mc- Carthy. intelligence job. He said that he would have to resign if the President could not protect the CIA from such investigators as Mc- Carthy. Eisenhower then promised to sup- port Dulles to the limit. McCarthy was warned that the Presi-, dent had taken this position. Hence his attempt to subpoena Bundy was-and is --a frank, and open challenge to the President. The matter was taken up in the National Security Council on Thurs- day. The decision was unanimously taken to order Bundy not to respond to the subpoena, under the doctrine of the sep- arate powers of the Legislative and Execu- tive branches. McCarthy began his public attack on Bundy before Vice-President Nixon could inform him of the Security Council's deci- sion-which might have made him draw back. He has since tried, without result, to blackguard and bully Allen Dulles into sub- mission. There is no question that the Ad- ministration will yield on the Bundy sub- poena. But the faint hearts in the White House are as usual urging "compromise"-- in this case, the transfer of Bundy to a less sensitive job, which McCarthy would of course claim as a complete victory. Yet it is hard to believe that the President will again appease the Wisconsin Senator. Even in the case of Paul H. Nitze, whose Defense Department appointment McCarthy was allowed to veto, the President's approval of the, veto seems to have been secured with- out a full explanation of the facts. At any rate, the President himself has now moved to offer Nitze another high appointment, also in the CIA. In short, the real Eisenhower, the man of courage and high principle, who does not appease and will not yield to blackmail, at ( * * * THE SIGNIFICANCE of the Bundy case again lies in the background.. Some time ago, McCarthy arrogantly presented Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intel- ligence Agency, with a list of ten alleged "security risks," whom he "ordered" Dulles to dismiss from the CIA. Six of these men, I