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"I Have An Even Better Idea"
Ire's Role at Geneva
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IT IS DIFFICULT for Americans to fully
appreciate the tremendous effect of President
Eisenhower's warm sincerity,, and non-aggres-
sion reassurances, on the war-weary peoples
of Europe. Europeans are tired of the drains
of war, continuously frightened by the nuclear
monster, and confused over Russian propaganda
branding the United States as warmongers
and creators of tensions. Eisenhower assured
them the latter was not true. And, judging
by the warm reception to the President's
appeals, the believe him.
The President meant what he said just as
profoundly as he expressed it. He personally
felt a responsibility to do all he could, by
personal contacts with old friends who respect
him as both a soldier and a statesman, to
honestly explore any genuine prospect for
peace. The personal burden and responsibility
Detroit's Air
DETROIT'S ostrich-like approach to the air-
port problem a few years ago has now come
home to." roost in the current squabble over
the use of local airports as bases for jet
squadrons to defend the area.
Soon after the Second World War, far-sighted
Detroiters realized that the airports in the
area were inadequate or would soon become
so. However, because of disagreement as to
the best site /for a new airport, nothing was
done. Instead, Detroit took the easy way out,
and decided that Willow Run, 20 miles out in
the country would be the main commercial
field for the city of Detroit.
At the same time, Air Force Reserve squad-
rons were set up to aid the regular Air Force
units based at Selfridge in the defense of
Detroit, if it should become necessary. Since
jets require long runways to get into the air,
they were based at Willow Run.
he felt was exemplified by his immediate family
accompanying him to Geneva.
It is doubtful if President Eisenhower changed
any long-range objectives of the Kremlin, but
if nothing else was accomplished at Geneva,
the impression he made on the peoples of the
world greatly increased his world-wide prestige
and will draw attention to future comments by
him on international affairs. And if one is
optimistic, he can even hope that some of Ike's
glowing sincerity will be given a moment's
meditation by Russian leaders, if they have not
forgotten how to do so..
Americans ought to be proud of the President,
not only because he won the spotlight at Gen-
eva, but because he expressed what most
American's feel in a way all can understand.
--Howard Walker
port Problem
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Ike,..Superb' at Geneva,
Will Run - Pearson
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With the increase of commercial traffic in
the past few years and the training missions
that the jets ar'e flying, Willow Run has
become overcrowded. It has been suggested
that the jets be shifted to Wayne Major
Airport. The runways are shorter there, and
thus the danger of accidents is proportionately
increased. But residents of the area around
Wayne Major are very much up in arms
about the situation.
Undoubtedly, some make-shift compromise
will be worked out but this has still not
solved the basic problem - an evern expanding
need for runway space.
The time when some sort of a decision must
be made and carried out in regards to new
airports arrived a long time ago. Detroiters
should recognize the problem must be solved
and solved soon.
-Ken Johnson
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DRAMA REVIEW
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MUSIC REVIE W
N A PROGRAM which included works by
Mozart, Finney, and Brahms, the Stanley
Quartet last night presented work which was
in the main highly commendable. The first
part of the concert in particular showed some
fine ensemble work, and throughout the con-
cert was characterized by sincerity and integ-
rity on the part of the players.
The Mozart Quartet in D minor, K. 421, which
opened the program, exploited the resources of
the Stanley Quartet to the utmost and the men
responded in kind. Clarity and moments of
pleasing lyricism characterized the first move-
ment and virtuoso sections for the first violin,
especially in the first two movements, balanced
nicely gainst the accompanying strings. The
third movement, vascillating between a rather
forceful and perhaps too heavy song section and
a folk-song-like trio, was handled with con-
siderable facility by the players. The finale,
which was a series of variations on a Siciliano
theme, had a peculiar dance-like quality which
combined with harmonic effects in a fore-
shadowing of Romanticism. This was presented
with depth and fullness; there was revealed
admirably blend and continuity near the end,
when the melodic line was tossed from one
instrument to the other.
Ross Lee Finney's Quartet in A minor again
placed considerable demands on the players,
and again they proved themselves more than
capable of responding fully to changing musical
moods. The first movement is labeled "Fast
and with a driving energy," and "driving" is
a good term for the strength exhibited here.
The full range of the instruments, in particular
the first violin, was required in the second
movement, with the lines swinging from the
lower registers of the instruments to some'
almost wierd harmonics. Great delicacy and
some virtuosic pizzicato work, were ;evealed.
in the third movement; the last, with its very
close, almost romantic dissonance, brought the
work to a rather abrupt close.
The Brahms B-flat Quartet, which consti-
tuted the second half of the program, unfortu-
nately did not at first quite meet the expecta-
tions which had been built up during the
first two works. Partly the fault of writing
which is not as closely knit as one would
perhaps desire, the first movement left the
listener with a feeling of dissatisfaction at a
similar lack of closeness in the playing. The
second movement brought the group closer
together, however, and the third movement,
complete with muted strings and a soloistic
line for the viola, presented Brahms lyricism
and the Stanley Quartet with admirable
warmth.
--Joan Wightman
New Books at the Library
Greenwood, Amy - Rolling North. New York,
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1955.
Jones, Katherine - Heroines of Dixie. In-
dianapolis, & New York, Bobbs-Merrill Co.,
1955.
Mackenzie, Gertrude - My Love Affair with
the State of Maine. New York, Simon & Schu-
ster, 1955.
Mauriac, Francois - Frontenac Mystery.
London, Eyre, 1949.
Mauriac, Francois - God and Mammon.
London, Sheed & Ward, 1946.
Monaghan, Jay - Civil War on the Western
Border, 1854-1865. Boston, Little, Brown, 1955.
Moore, Marianne - Predilections. New York,
Viking Press, 1955.
Wilder, Robert - The Wine of Youth. New
York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955.
JANE, presented by The Saline
Mill Theatre.
THIS "bubbling high comedy"
by S. N. Behrman, adapted
from a Somerset Maugham story,
is inclined toward surface rather
than substance. It is a play of
repartee, and the elements of
plot and complication seem little
more than a handy device upon
which to hang the lines. It suc-
ceeds in being a better show than
Saline's last production, "You
Touched Me!" if only because it
aims lower and has a greater
chance of hitting its mark.
As with most things that effer-
vesce, the quality and quantity of
the bubbles is of utmost impor-
tance, and Mr. Behrman produces
a lot o fgood bubbles. If first-
night nervousness tends to punc-
ture them before they reach the
surface, we can rely on the ex-
tended run of the show - three
weeks - to relieve enough 'pres-
sure so that "Jane" will fairly
foam over before it closes.
The action of the play involves
a former husband and wife of
great sophistication whose daugh-
ter intends to marry a penniless
but pretentious poet. The Jane of
the affair is the sister-in-law of
Mrs. Tower. She arrives in Lon-
don from Liverpool, a "dowdy,
drab, dull" widow with an un-
bounding admiration for Jane
Austen and with a tendency to
emulate the Austen match-mak-
ers. The play is concluded with a
general re-grouping of marital
forces, as must certainly have
been expected.
It is amazing to see the same
actors who struggled through
'You Touched Me!" return in
"Jane" wit has sure a grasp of
character as this cast possesses.
The roles here are obviously shal-
lower, and have more singleness
of purpose, so that a simple read-
ing would almost succeed in
achieving the effect. The Saline
group is generally quite experi-
enced, and the necessary polish
is added to carry Mr. Behrman's
wit from the page to the theater,
THE TITLE ROLE is played by
Robin Hall, who is essentially
the "straight man" of the play.
Her conversational charm, as one
of the characters remarks, is based
upon her ability to tell the truth,
and to be as blunt about it as
Lverpool common sense will al-
low. Miss Hall is graceful and re-
laxed-could almost, indeed, be a
lovely Jane Austen heroine-and
does one of the most accomplish-
ed jobs of acting in the produc-
tion. It is unfortunate that her
part requires her to participate in
many of the expository chats, but
Miss Hall manages to be quite
brilliant even when Jane is quite
dull.
Howard Malpas is cast as Wil-
liam Tower, the ex-spouse of
Jane's sister-in-law, and a suc-
cessful and popular novelist and
playwright (according to rumor, a
self-portrait of Maugham). Mr.
Malpas, more than any of the
others, achieves the sophistication
which the play requires. Mr. Mal-
pas fairly scintillates through his
part, deliverin geac hof the nov-
elist's bon mots with precisely the
intonation and poise demanded.
His occasional lapses of memory
are certainly due to the pressure
of opening night, and do not in
any way disturb the technical
brilliance of his performance.
Millicent Tower, his former
wife, is portrayed by Nancy Born.
Millie is aging, vain, and brittle-
tongued, and appears in the best
comis situations because of these
qualities. Her lines are not as
sharp as Tower's, but she does not
suffer for lack of ridiculous mo-
ments. Miss Born is again a pol-
ished performer, and threatens at
times to turn her secondary part
into a female lead role. One miss-
es her too much when she is off-
stage.
THE MOST SURPRISING act-
ing is done by William Tay-
lor, as a wealthy newspaper pub-
lisher, and Earl Matthews, as a
young architect who marries Jane
for her fortune. Mr. Taylor's role
is that of a man past his prime
who continues to sow his not-so-
wild oats in an attempt to retain
his youth. He blusters and brags
until Jane drives him into a phil-
anderer's bankruptcy, and he is
transforme dinto a "morose buffa-
10." Mr. Matthews is a rather eb-
ullient gigolo who is overwhelmed
by the fun that can be had in
proper society, and whose ego
swells up fearfully when his so-
cial contracts turn out to be busi-
ness prospects as well.
Gillian Connable and Dale
Schlafer appear as the daughter
and her poetic beau, an dboth per-
form excellently iQ. their small
roles. Mrs. Connable has the
stronger personality and is gen-
erally more steady than Mr. Schla-
fer, but he projects exactly the
right proportions of idealism and
worldliness to give credence to his
interpretation.
The direction, by Ted Heusel, is
fast-paced and eminently suited
to this sort of comedy. Only in the
second act, in which sincere Jane
must expound her new philosophy,
does the play threaten to slow
down dangerously.
--Tom Arp
By DREW PEARSON
PARIS.-Regardless of what the
Big Four Conference at Gene-
va did for the peace of the world
though I, for one, am convinced
it helped-there's no question it
did a lot to advance the likelihood
that President Eisenhower will
run for a second term.
At Geneva, Ike was doing what
he likes to do most, what he did
as commander of the Allied forces
during World War II. He was get-
ting away from the political head-
aches he so detests, away from
the Dixon-Yates controversy and
the $60,000 Harold Talbot, took
from his engineering firm while
pushing defense contracts, away
frQm the question of a 90-cent or
a $1 minimum wage. When Presi-
dent Eisenhower has to grappie
with these problems he sometimes
throws up his hands in despair
and disgust.
But handling America's vital
foreign policy which shapes the
peace of the world is what Eisen-
hower envisaged when he agreed
in 1952 to run for President. This
is what he did at Geneva last
week and he did it superbly.
Therefore, Ike advisers feel he's
now In a mood as never before to
run in 1956. The platform would
be "peace in our time" with a
coalition-ticket Democrat as vice-
president, In fact, a close group
of friends have already been given
the green light to start raising
campaign funds, dependent on
only one thing-the recurrent
high blood pressure which has
given Eisenhower trouble in re-
cent years but which stays low
when he has taken enough time
off.This is something he must
watch with great care and is the
reaso nfor his long week ends and
frequent vacations, but his friends
believe that, barring a last-minute
medical check and too much do-
mestic unpleasantness. he's now in
a mood to make the race.
No "Yalta" by Ike
PRESIDENTIAL political advis-
ers who feared Ike would Ault
a "Yalta" at Geneva now have
nothing to fear on that score.
Eisenhower ran the conference
largely by himself and, while it's
true that Dulles held one secret
press conference to straighten out
a presidential bobble, the confer-
ence would have gone better if
Dulles had kept more in the back-
ground.
It was Ike's sole decision to
propose the reciprocal inspection
of United States and Russian
Military establishments by air.
Military advisers at the Pentagon
had opposed this ever since Har-
old Stassen concocted the idea
last March. Their opposition was
one reason why Stassen and Nel-
son Rockefeller were left in Paris
and only brought to- 'Geneva at
the last minute. Eisenhower felt
the timing was right to propose
the inspection plan at Geneva,
overrode the military, and sprang
it on the Russians.
Hagerty Deletes
SECRETARY Dulles' secret press
conference, held late at night,
to reverse his chief came after
President Eisenhower had acqui-
esced to the general idea of Pre-
mier Nikolai's security plan which
horrified.Dulles. This leaked out
thanks to Sir George Young, the
somewhat-naive British press of-
firer who gave an accurate sum-
mary of what happened in the Big
Four Conference which Dulles
didn't want reported.-
What happened was that, after
Premier Bulganin presented his
security plan, Ike rose and, want-
ing to keep harmony, rambled
along most amiably-pretty much
as he does in bis press conferences
when trying to please all aides.
Only after these conferences
Press Secretary Hagerty cuts out
for television and radio any state-
ments by Ice that might be em-
barrassing or contradictory. Hag-
erty also cut out Ike's remarKs on
Bulganin's proposal.
So here is what Sir George
quoted Ike as saying about the
Bulganin proposal of putting Eur-
opean security ahead of German
unification: "This is unusually in-
teresting and merits careful study.
I've talked with every member of
the Soviet delegation and am pro-
foundly convinced that they desire
peace, as I do. The problem is how
to build a bridge and this can
hardly be solved in the time al-
lotted this conference. Also, since
this concerns others, they should;
be invited to join in the pact pro-
posed by Premier Bulganin.
"Bulganin has spoken of this
need. This conference can hardly
consider all these problems we
must work out on how to build a
bridge and the time has come to
ask if we could suggest a confer-
ence to be called to consider Ger-
man unification and collective
security in more detail. Our con-
ference must not end without the
delegates having shown that they
are honestly working for peace."
Disservice To Ike
about this, he replied it wasn't in
his own notes. Careful checking
of other delegations showed un-
questionably that Ike had said it.
That night, Dulles held a press
conference to deny that the Presi-
dent of the United States had cor-
rectly portrayed the views of the
United States.
The real fact was that Dulles,
onetime lawyer for Wall Street
bankers loaning tremendous
amounts to Germany before the
days of Hitler, was hipped on the
German question throughout the
Geneva conference. Since the Big
Four was called to discuss general
peace policies, not details, Dulles
actually did a disservice to his
chief by so much concentration
on the German problem.
U.S. Weapons Lag
BEORE Ike left Washington for
the conference here, he re-
ceived various memos from the
Pentagon showing how the U.S. is
falling behind Russia in certain
types of weapons. Among other
things, Sen. Henry Jackson of
Washington sent a letter to Sec-
retary of Defense Wilson asking
certain embarrassing questions
about Soviet strength in jet
bombers and intercontinental
atomic bombers. The questions
were so hot that Wilson refused to
answer them.
However, President Eisenhower
has been given the answers, which
I can reveal to be as follows:
1. As nearly as our intelligent
can estimate, Russia is ahead of u
in developing a Moscow-to-New
York ballistics missile and a short-
er-range continental missile.
The United States is ahead,
however, in developing atomic
warheads for these deadly wea-
pons, which travel at such terrific
speeds that they can't be stopped.
2. Despite Wilson's promise to
speed up B-52 production by 35
per cent, Russia will have more
long-range jet bombers than the
U.S. by 1958. Yet the shocking
truth is that Wilson either can't
or won't implement his promise
for a 35 per cent production in-
crease here.
Thoughrthe Air Force will get
about 30 giant B-52s this year, this
is no more than the original sched-
ule called for. Meanwhile, little
has been done to speed up the pro-
duction lines in Seattle and Wichi-
ta, where our only two B-52 plants
are located.
3. The Soviets are already far
ahead of the U.S. in numbers of
advanced ghters in operational
service. The new Russian super-
sonic ghter and all-weather inter-
ceptor recently unveiled over Mos-
cow are also better planes than
any American fighters now in
squadron service.
(Copyright, 1955, Bell Syndicate, Inc.4
LETTERS
To the Edior
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To The Editor:
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
CURRENT MOVIES
At Rackham Auditorium
N 1947, when this movie was produced, Ital-
ian moviemakers were astounding, or shock-
ing, or delighting movie audiences all over the
world with the products of their "New Real-
ism." The six episodes which compose Paisan
show some of the best features of this move-
ment, and some of its worst.
The Daily Staff
Managing Editors ........................Cal Samra
Jim Dygert
NIGHT EDITORS
Mary Lee Dingier, Marge Piercy, Ernest Theodossin
Dave Rorabacher..........................Sports Editor
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At their worst, these episodes are sloppy
and incoherent; either they have no dra-
matic point at all, or else a shallow and sen-
timental conflict is plastered onto some war-
torn scenery and the whole mess is served up
cold. This is about all one can make of the
sordid and sentimental episode about the
prostitute and the American tank-driver.
There's a good deal, more to be delighted
about in the episode about the monks of a
small monastery who entertain three Ameri-
can chaplains. The monks are altogether serene
and child-like, almost enchanted. Howevei,
the whole thing is rather spoiled by the gross-
ness of the American chaplain who comments
on how touched he is by all this serenity-he
seems more like a banker rhapsodizing on the
solidity of GM stock.
But the directness and force of the last
enisnde mnre than omnpensate for the near-
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Academic Notices
Doctoral Examination for Albert Wey-
man Patrick, Business Administration;
thesis: "The Theory and Technique of
Cost Accounting in the Hosiery Indus-
try," Wed., July 27, 8th floor Conference
Rooom, School of Business Administra-
tion, at 9:00 a.m. Chairman, H. F.
Taggart.
Doctoral Examination for Frank Bur-
ton Womer, Education; thesis: "The
Evaluation of Item Selection Tech-
niques Appropriate to a New Response
Method for Multiple-Choice Type Test
Items," Wed., July 27, 7611 Haven Hall,
at 10:00 a.m. Chairman, C. H. Coombs.
Sociology Lunch for staff and stu-
dents in the Sociology Department.
Wed., July 27, 12:00 m.-1:00 p.m.,
Sociology Lounge, 5th floor, Haven Hall.
Bring own food.
Doctoral Examination for Thelma
Williams Batten, Sociology; thesis:
"Functional Organization in Metropoli-
tan Areas," Thurs., July 28, 5607 Haven
Hall, at 1:15 p.m. Chairman A. H.
Hawley.
Concerts
Events Today
The Happy Time, Samuel Taylor's
Comedy, will be presented by the De-
partment of Speech tonight at 8:00
p.m. in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
Tickets are available at the theatre
box office from 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
$1.50-$1.10-75c.
La Sociedad Hispanica, Department of
Romance Languages will present two
speakers at its weekly meeting on
Wed., July 27 at 7:30 p.m., East Con-
ference Room, Rackham. Dr. Carlos
Eduardo Nasjleti of Argentina will give
an illustrated lecture on, "Sintesis his-
torica del arte argentino," and Senorita
Marlene Esteves of Buenos Aires will
speak on, "Buenos Aires - Ayer, Hoy,
y Manana." Period for questions and:
discussion, followed by Spanish music
and songs. Open to the public.
Raven I. McDavid, Jr., Assistant Pro-
fessor of English at Western Reserve
University, will speak on "Grammatical
Differences in the North Central States"
Wed., July 27, 12:15 in the Michigan
League.
Coming Events.
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I would like to say. in reply to
Mr. McIntyre's somewhat scurri-
lous letter concerning the recent
Daily article on my debut here,
that everything written in the
article happens to be completely
true, save, of course, for one small
point: it was at Aix-les-Bains (and
not Bruges) that I first played in
a carillon. Beyond this one small
correction I consider the entire
article as having been written in
impeccable taste and good humor.
Both of these qualities are, un-
happily, a bit on the rare side in
social reportage; and, in this case,
I think the whole thing was car-
ried off with the kind of grace
that, it seems to me, is not un-
reminiscent of Turgenyev at his
piquant best.
:-Marie Winn
(Miss Radcliffe, 1958)
Semantics .*
THE EDITORIAL, "A Question
of Semantics," in Saturdays
Daily by Jim Dygert makes some
statements which seem to me
seem rather inconsistent. After
making an attempt to distinguish
between "ilberal-conservatives"
and "left-wingers," Mr. Dygert
goes on to discuss academic free-
dom. The Daily, Mr. Dygert says,
is concerned "with the maintaining
of academic freedom at the Uni-
versity for the University's own
welfare and the advancement of its
principles and aims '- the gaining
and dissemination of knowledge,
the search for that which is true
or reasonable, and the freedom of
every individual to search for
himself." This freedom of indi-
viduals then must naturally in-
clude both his "left-wingers" and
"liberal-conservatives" and the
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