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SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: ADELAIDE WILEY Political Oddities-Court Endorsement' Furor POLITICS is a funny critter - and this fact sufficiently vague so that it won't antagonize becomes all the more evident every four various component groups within the party. years when political parties convene to pick a The real issue in the issue over the Demo- presidential candidate. cratic Party's civil rights plank is not one * Political problems within the Democratic of endorsing the Supreme Court's decision, Party this year, as at its last convetnion, pre- but of implementing it. Stevenson, having cho- scribe strange necessary characteristics for sen a moderate stand on the issue calculated to both the party platform and the presidential please compromise-seeking Southerners and candidate. reformist Northerners alike, seemed to be the Although one would think the Supreme candidate most likely to get the nomination. Court's decision on the racial segregation issue pretty well indicated what future national pol- BUT when he urged party endorsement of icy would be on that subject, Adlai Stevenson's the Court, innuendo-conscious Southerners recent statement urging inclusion of "un- feared that he meant to push implementation equivocal" endorsement of the decision in the of the decision actively. In accepting modera- platform raised cries of "doublecross" from tion, Southerners believed they could success- Southern delegates. fully stall desegregation by extending all lim- its of gradualism into the far future. Stevenson's comment that it should hardly Returning to political maneuverings again, be necessary to officially endorse the Supreme R Court and the Constitution in the party plat- Harriman's camp interpreted the uproar over form particularly accentuates the oddities of Stevenson's statement as a determinant of a politics. Endorsement of the decisions is not swing to support Harriman for the nomina- necessary. Furthermore, whether the platform tion. Stevenson had made a fatal faux pas. endorses them expressly, implicitly or not at But yesterday Harriman also came out in all, will make little difference as to how the support of endorsing the Court's segregation Supreme Court handles further segregation decisions in the platform. If Stevenson's state- cases. ment was a blunder, where does this leave But party platforms ,reflections of political Harriman? And if this was supposed to hurt aims and maneuverings, must be cautiously . Stevenson's chances, does this put Harriman worded making it appear that the party is out of the running, too, in favor of a less verbal standing for something while leaving room candidate? Incidents like this must keep the for the party to save face should it not be able forecasters up nights at the medicine cabint. to come across later. Another aspect of plat- Yes, politics is a funny thing. form writing is that the platform should be -MARY ANN THOMAS TV Watchers Have Little Say PEOPLE EVERYWHERE across the land are THE STRANGE CASE of Nixon and the Belly getting their TV sets fixed up in anticipa- Ache is also significant. Whatever his other tion of, the upcoming 'political conventions faults may be, Stassen has won the support which will provide them with late afternoon of many would-be liberal Republicans for his awad evening amusement.e It is somewhat unfortunate that the vast efforts to dislodge Poor Richard from his seat numbers of TV watchers will have very little on the Presidential Exchange. to say about the outcome of these conventions. Yet, with the convention hall still undeco- But in a true democracy, as we all know, candi- rated, and the spontaneous demonstrations not dates are carefully chosen by inmates of tradi- raendthyponneosemonratio s tionally smoke-filled rooms, shortly before tea. even fully planned, most Republican leaders The truth of the above statement may be refuse to seriously consider the proposal of an- verified by some casual observations of the other name for the nomination. political scene. It might be sad that both parties will attempt Note, for instance, the curious withdrawal of to nominate the strongest possible candidates, Kefauver from the race after a lengthy and i.e. those with'the most popular appeal. How- energetic campaign. The democratic floor show ever, it seems that some more direct method producers have been known to look upon Ke- of public choice of candidates could have been fauver with something less than disdain; appar- devised. Most of th public never gets within ently the Senator finally realized that he had coughing distance of the all-important smoke- best put his raccoon cap back in the closet filled rooms. again. -DAVID KESSEL INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Nasser Charge Correct "AWAY ALL BOATS." at the State, is unashamedly a war movie, but should be avoided only by the overly squeamish. Universal-International, home of the horse opera, has taken the fine novel and given it a straight-forward, no-nonsense treatment. In this case it is just what the doctor ordered. It is perhaps this straight forward treatment which moves "Away All Boats" out of the typical war picture class and on to better things. Ali,, A A ops'rizht, 156. Th Pulte Publishing o. frorbnSlost.cLuisP lrt-Di (Herblock Is o Vacation) DONOVAN BOOK: 'Inside Story' Candid Picture EISENHOWER, THE INSIDE STORY by Robert Donovan, 407 pp, Harper WHILE the needs of security, space and at least some politi- cal prudence dictate that much of the "inside story" is missing, White House correspondent Donovan has written a remarkable book-as candid a picture of an administra- tion in action as is ever likely to appear during one's tenure. He quotes liberally from paraphrase minutes of Cabinet meetings and legislative conferences, providing a good deal of insight into high- level decision-making, an area heretofore considered top-secret. In fact, one is almost embas- rassed at eavesdropping on re- marks never intended for public consunption and the source of many a current Washington red face. For example: Vice President Nixon had just completed a 26,000-mile campaign through 31 states to elect a Re- publican Congress which would "support Ike" and to defeat cer- tain "left-wing" Democrats who were almost all elected. Immediately after the elections put the Democrats in control of both houses, Nixon informedthe Cabinet of his belief "that in mat- ters of foreign policy the admin- istration would get on better than it had under the Republican Con- gress." Defense Secretary Wilson had long protested that slashes in the defense budget were not made with any spending ceiling in mind but only with national security as a guide. At a Cabinet meeting in 1955 the President suggested that a three per cent cut in all ex- penditures would mean a balanced budget could at last be achieved. Wilson was ready for him. He glibly volunteered "that he was already trying to cut expenses by *Imagineable, someone at the Cab- five per cent to avoid exceeding inet meetings inevitably expresses his current budget and that the a no-matter-how-much-good-we- superimposition of the President's do - nobody - really - appreciates - request would bring his economy us attitude. On page after page if goal to eight per cent." someone isn't citing the need "to , , , *put on a campaign to spread un- DONOVAN OFFERS the reader derstanding" (p. 292), he's la- a number of such peeks at an ad- menting the "almost complete lack ministration caught (often un- of information on the part of the flatteringly) off guard, gives un- people" (p. 59) or pointing out biased and revealing accounts of that "much more could and should what he considers Administration be done to acquaint the people mistakes, e.g. Dixon-Yates, and with what the Administration was frequently quotes Democratic erit- doing" (p. 317). icisms. But he has not written It is even suggested (p. 146) that an historically balanced or ob- the President is worried as to the jective account. Donovan is an possible effect on public relations unashamed admirer of the Presi- of criticisms that the Administra-' dent and his Administration, quite tion is too public relations con- naturally writes from its view- scious. point, and often devotes pages to The part each participant plays explaining the rationale behind in domestic policy discussions is a policy. He neglects discussion of greatly clarified (the subject of some of the Republican's weakest another article) making "The In- points, eig. tidelands oil and alien- side Story" a key to understand- ation of neutrals. ing this year's campaign person- And his reporter's eye, if not alities. his sense of ironic humor, some- * * * times fails him completely, as A FURTHER recommendation when he unflinchingly answers of the book should not be ignored criticisms of the security program -what promises to be its historical by citing this as an example of uniqueness. Administration efforts to "work What this administration chooses the flaws out of the program:" to do with the "politically hot" under the Eisenhower program records of its deliberations is "In May, 1956," (after three years largely its own business, and the "the Atomic Energy Commission most telling criticisms of giving liberalized its procedures to per- Donovan access to those records mit security boards to use 'com- will come from within its ranks, mon sense' in judging a person's But now that the precedent has left-wing associations." been set, any future President * * * who cares a whit about candor of WHAT MAKES the book invalu- discussion-an indispensable in- able election-year reading is not gredient of wise policy-must of Donovan's estimate of things but necessity guarantee to the mem- the patterns that emerge from the bers of his Cabinet at their very inside peek into the deliberation first meeting that nothing like the of the "team." Donovan book will be allowed to For example, this reader was be published during their political intrigued by the fact that, de- lifetimes. spite the most sympathetic press -Peter Eckstein Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Julie Adams and Lex Barker share the starring credits in this story of the U.S.S. Belinda, APA 22. The Belinda is an attack tralsport participating in the amphibious landings in the Pacific campaign of World War II. The movie is also the story of the scientific needling that Jeff Chandler, the captain of the Bel- inda, gives his officers and men to turn them into an effective beachead team. ,* * * CHANDLER does a fine job of needling and a fine job with his role. Hollywood should keep their eyes open for more roles like this for Chandler who will never be fit company for drawing room dra- mas. Somehow or another, when Chandler gets a chance to spill a little make-up department blood he improves 100 per cent. Since this is a picture of war and the men who fight the war, the role of Julie Adams is properly a short one. Unlike many of the current cycle r f battle pictures, "Away All Boats" doesn't try to make the combat and sea action an interlude in the hard hard battle of the home front. Miss Adams handles her part very well but the starring credits could have much better gone to some of the men on the ship who spent much more time on the screen . (George Nader does well as the boat commander and then execu- tive officer of the Belinda. His is the only role which brings forth any more than run of the mill dra- matics ability and he more than supplies it. WHEN THEY were casting this movie whoever picked Lex Barker coming from a desk job in Wash- for the toothpaste-smile officer coming from a desk job in Wash- ington certainly knew his way around the Arlington cocktail league, and knew what the role called for. This is one casting that deserves much more credit than it usually gets. * * * STILL is it the straight forward treatment of the book which makes the picture what it is. Dod- son's novel didn't make any great noise when it came out, perhaps because it didn't contain enough four letter words for the book re- viewer's tastes. Still the story is a skillful blend of combat and the comic relief of the Belinda's mail problems and garbage grinder which made the novel stick in this reviewers mind and makes the movie a good show. TWO THINGS rate censure in this production, faults which are not limited to this movie alone but may be seen in almost every picture produced. First, we wish that the music directors would get over their col- lective illusion that there must be sound at all time while the screen is lighted and leave the march music which comes flooding up while the characters ar talking to organ plays in silent movie houses and the newsreels. Secondly, we hope that someday every movie will end with a full listing of the actors and the roles that they played. This is especi- ally necessary in a movie with a large cast like "Away All Boats" where the small but important parts are listed in a group. Once again Universal-Interna- tional is to be credited with being honest and telling a good story on the screen. -Ken Johnson DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial respon- bility. Notices should besn.i TYPEWRITTEN from the Room '3553 Administration Building before V p.m. the day preceding publication. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1956 VOL. LXVI, NO. 345 General Notices To all students having Library books: 1. Students having In their posses. sion books borrowed from the General Library or its branches are notified that such books are due Mon., Aug. 13. 2. Students having special need for certain books between Aug. 13 and Aig. 17 may retain such books for that period by renewing them at the charg- ing Desk. 3. The names of all students who have not cleared their records at the Library by Fri., Aug. 17 will be sent to the Cashier's Office and their credits and grades will be withheld unti such time as said records are cleared in com- pliance with the regulations of the Regents. University faculty members may se- cure complimentary tickets to Teach- ers' Day at the Michigan State Fair on Sat,, Sept. 8. Tickets are also available for teachers and prospective teahrs.P Calli Miss McLellan, School of Edu- cation, Extension 2973. Manuscripts for the Summer Hop. wood Awards must be In the Hopwood Room, 1006 Angell Hall, by 4:30 p m on Friday. Lectures Music for Living Series: Final dem. onstration-lecture, "Choral Training Technics," by Donald Plott of David- son College (N.C), conductor of te Summer Session Choir, 7:00 p.m., Mo. Aug. 13, Aud. A, Angell Hall. Open to the public. Play Puccini's opera, LA BHEME, will be presented by the Department of Speech and the School of Music at 8 p.m. Fri., Sat., and Mon. in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre, with a matinee at 2:30 p.m. Sat. Concerts Recital of Contemporary Music by Robert Courts, violist, and Robert Noehren, organlt, 4:15 p. Sun, Augl. 12, in Hill Auditorium. Compositions by Paul Hindemith, John Duke, Ernst Krenek, and Leo Sowerby; open to the general public without charge. Student Recital Thomas Jack eami, tenor, at 8:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 12, in Aud. A, Angell Hall, in partial fl- filiment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Works by Handel, Respighi and Schumann, and will be open to the public. Hamil is a pupil. of Harold Haugh...:', Student Recital: Malcolm Brown, stu- dent of piano with Benning Dexter, at 8:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 13, in the Rack-. ham Assembly Hall. in partial fulfill- Sment of the requirements for thede- gree of Master of Music. Compositions by Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Bartok and Chopin; open to the public. n A Student- Recital by Eleanor Anne Becker bassoonist, in lieu of a thesis for the degree of Master of Music in Music Education, 8:30 p. Tues., Aug. 14, in the Rackham Assembly Hall. Miss Becker is a pupil of Lewis Coop- er, and her recital will be open to the public, Academic Notices Attention August Graduates: College of Literature. Science, and the Arts, School of Education, School of Music, School of Public Health, School of Business Administration: Attention August Graduates: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, School of Education, School of Music, School of Public Health, School of Business- Administration: Students are advised not to request grades of I or X in August. When such grades are absolutely Imperative, the work must be made up in time to al- low your instructor to report the make- up grade not later than 11 a.m., Aug. 23. Grades received after that time may defer the student's graduation until a later date. Recommendations for Dlepartmental Honors: Teaching departments wishing to recommend tentative August grad- uates from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the School of Education for departmental honors (or high honrors in the College of L.s. & A.) should recommend suchstu- dents in a letter delivered to the Of. fice of Registration and Records, Room 1513 Administration. Building, before Aug. 23. Mathematics Colloquium: Tues: Aug. 14 at 4:10 p.m., in Room 3010 A. H. Prof. Fritz Herzog, of Michigan State University will speak on "Metric Pro- perties of Polynomials." Classical Studies Tea: The Depart- ment of Classical Studies will give an informal tea for its students on Tues., Aug. 14, in the East Conference Room of the Rackham Building, at 4 p.m. Anyone interested in the Classics is invited. Doctoral Bxarminatlon for Albert Cor- nelius Giebler, Musicology; thesis: "The Masses of Johann Caspar Kerll", Sat., Aug. 11, East Council ROom, Rackham iv at -n a -m C..-- mm H ,T k t 3 ' "t :4 t By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst EGYPT'S CHARGE that Anthony Eden is trying to undermine President Nasser in the eyes of the Egyptian people is absolutely correct. Whether this is the proper time for it, on the eve of an international conference about Suez, is one question. But there is no question that the allies will go after Nasser in every possible way once they have decided just ex- actly what form of international canal control they plan to impose. In the event that Nasser remains adamant, as expected, his overthrow by both political and economic means will become the chief hope of avoiding the use of force. Embargo, boycott and direct political inter- vention, playing on the nerves of Egypt's busi- ness community-disruption of her currency by freezing her out of the silver bloc-will be the weapons. THE ALLIES are able, of cod'se, to blockade the canal and so deprive Nasser of the very benefits he sought through nationalization of the operating company, but they will hardly dare to do so. They are making a big play on the interna- tional characteristics of the canal as laid down by the treaty of 1888. They cannot rely upon part of that treaty's commitments while ignor- ing another, which provides that the canal is not subject to blockade. As for the current canal situation, the anxiety first aroused when Secretary Dulles called for a Sunday meeting with congressional leaders has now been somewhat allayed. At first, when Editorial Staff LEE MARKS. Managing Editor Night Editors Richard Halloran, Donna Hanson, Mary Ann Thomas. Adelaide Wiley the very eve of the Democratic convention, a some leaders were asked to leave Chicago on new and unpublicized crisis was suggested. Now it appears the President and the Secre- tary of State merely want to be sure of Ameri- can unity behind their. plans for an interna- tional control authority over the canal while it is being debated in London. THERE IS as yet no indication how 'far the United States is willing to back Anglo- French political and economic measures after the conference. Her freeze of Egyptian money following the Anglo-French lead suggests a policy which is closely parallel, but by no means extending to the contemplation of the use of force, as plan- ned by the others as a last resort. The United States is not yet considering last resorts. New Books at the Library Manuel, Frank-The New World of Henri Saint-Simon; Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1956. Marshall, Bruce - Girl in May; Boston, Houghton, Miflin, 1956. Monaghan, Jay-The Man Who Elected Lin- coln; Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1956. Mumford, Lewis - The Transformations of Man; N. Y., Harper, 1956. Olson, Sigurd F.-The Singing Wilderness; N. Y., Knopf, 1956. Sanford, Christine-The Lion of Judah Hath Prevailed; N. Y., Macmillan, 1956. Savage, Henty, Jr.-River of the Carolinas: The Santee; N. Y., Rinehart, 1956. Seroff, Victor I.-Debussy, Musical of France N. Y., Putnam, 1956. Walden, Amelia-The Bradford Story; N. Y., Appleton-Cen-Crofts, 1956. Walter, Richard-Canary Island Adventure: a young family quest for the simple life; N. Y., Dutton, 1956. Waters, Edward N.-Victor Herbert, N. Y., Macmillan, 1956. Wodehouse, P. G.-America, I Like You; 1iT T C. - ..T.... . ..-A .1 :S TODAY AND TOMORROW: Suez Canal Dispute Being Waged on Two Planes By WALTER LIPPMANN THE SUEZ dispute is on two planes which, though they are related, need to be carefully distin- guished in our minds. On one plane, the circumstances of the seizure of the: Suez Canal Company are a spectacular test of prestige, precipitated by President Nasser in order to demonstrate that his power in the Middle East is greater than that of the West- ern nations. On the other plane, by taking over the administration of the ca- nal, he is in a position to discrim- inate among the users of the ca- nal, and to exert upon them polit- ical pressure. On the first plane, that of pres- tige, the dispute is a showdown which, carried to its conclusion, would mean either the fao f Nac.- ternational character of the canal. The decision agreed to by the Western powers has been to move on the second plane-that, as the London "Economist" puts it, "the immediate Western interest is not to teach Col. Nasser a lesson (he must learn his own leson) but to keep the ships passing through the canal." * * * THIS IS A wise decision, even from the point of view of the showdown on prestige. For if by patient, resourceful and disinter- ested diplomacy the treaty of 1888 can be modernized and reaffirmed, with general international support, there will be the old Wilsonian phrase "peace without victory" in the canal zone. There is, in fact, no other course tries, involving reprisals on the pipe lines and the oil fields. There is every reason to sup- pose that the seizure of the canal company was carefully planned and prepared well in advance, and we must suppose that Nasser and the leaders in the Arab states have other moves prepared as their answer to Western intervention. It is not to our interest to pro- voke there moves since, as is self- evident Nasser would have the moral support of such a large part of the world. * * * THE BRITISH decision to evac- uate its armed forces from Egyp- tian territory - a decision for which we have some responsi- bility - marked the end of an epoch in the Middle East. It means that national inter- -- .-1- Aff Aln a-m ill_ a eL diplomacy to induce Egypt and its friends. The dependence of Western Europe on the canal is undesir- ably big, and the dependence of Great Britian is even worse. Near- ly half of the oil consumed in Western Europe last year came through Suez; for Great Britian it was 75 per cent. Whatever the guarantees that can be worked out by diplomacy, it will remain the stark fact that Nasser has physical control of the canal, that Western Europe can be critically hurt if the canal is closed. * * * FOR THAT reason, it is imper- ative that Western powers con- cert measures to reduce their de- pendence on Suez, to break the monopoly which Egypt possesses over their vital communications. ..,_ 14 .. __ a mo . L. 4.._ f 1 $