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THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1953
PAG6 TWO
Dark Abyss
At nt) time ince World War II was it so
oiilrnt that American foreign policy ha fail
ed, than it is at picum.
Amcika has plunged Iroin the pre-eminent
KMcr ot the world, to that power which ev
en cotintiv o! ilu- wotld is itching to take a
m iie at.
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When Dean AcIicmhi left the department -ol
Mate six yean ao. this was not the case.
I he I'nited .States was the supreme world
power, and the wotld tespected the United
States lor living Uj, to ts trcaty obligations
fu stamliiiR linn in the face of tlneats, and
loi upholding the cause of fieedom.
In an cvc-ntlul week. Lebanon. Algeria.
WucucU. and Pern have proud the failings
of the Imcign tIiv or John Foster Dulles.
It in.iv be said that the upiiings in South
America ate communist inspired, but there
needs to be a basic dissatisfaction with the
I'nited Stairs before one Rets mass action.
I his was exidentlv the er.se in the twoouth
American countries.
I he coup d'etat on the part of the Alger
ians will cause lepeicussiom in Fiance which
will thieaten the entire western alliance sys
tem. 1 he Lebanese involution serves to show
how tenuous is the allied influence on the
tommies ol the Middle Fast in the face of
t uiipant nationalism.
It is evicknt that each of these situations
has possibilities for the communists to capi
talize on, and with the present state of Amer
ican foreign policy, the communists arc go
ing to win by defauft.
If the raited iStates had backed an anti
colonial olic from the stait. the govern
ment would hac been consistent with its
constitution and unequivocal with regard to
the Algcii.m c risis. Then, the question would
be answeted In France as to whether thev
wanted to see the people of Algeria determ
ine tlieii own late or whether they wanted
contiol. A compiomisc .commonwealth sta
tus mirlit haw resulted, or'fuitlier. the Un
ited States pushing for the right solution.,
would haw seen to it that Algeria won her
independence.
It is ccccdin;l doubtlul that France,
with all her passion for individual freedom,
would haw giavit'uted wiy far toward the
C'ommnnist bloe. t
I he l iihue l the- I'nited States' Middle
I ast policv grows mote evident daily. Instead
ol living to benefit the underprivileged
tlicie. without placing the stiing of forced
siipp.ut lor United States policies. The Un
ited States can capitalize on the nationalistic
leelings ol the Middle I astern nations rather
than letting Russia do the benefitting. To
w hole-heat ledlv endorse sdl-dctci initiation,
and to give the countries the meam" for pio
tection ol their identitv. without .strings at
tached. Finallv. the neglect ol the nations ol this
hemispheie must be ci ideally reexamined in
the light of lacts showing that the Latin 'Am
ericau countiics have economies that aie in
extticably bound up in the fluc tuation of the
United States' economy.
What has been clone in the past six wars
has failed the United States miserably. What
can be- done in the luture by bleeding the
mist of the allies ol the United Sta-tcs. by ful
filling America's commitments under its sev
eial tieaties. and by living. up to the letter
and spiiit ol'the Constitution ol the United
States is gieat.
A peaceful world, a strong United Nations,
and a United States which possesses that rar
est of qualities-integrity can be the result
of some wise action at this time. If the ac tion
is not taken the lesult will be war or worse
the subjugation of individual minds to to
talitaiian domination.
EDITOR:
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Today, the state Democratic convention
meets in Raleigh.
The meeting can be a back slapping, hand
shaking demonstration of unity or it can be
something by Jar greater.
It can be one ol the occasions that Dem
oeiats throughout the state have a voice in
the selection of candidates.
The convention can place a candidate in
the scat vacated In Sen. Kerr Scott. It will
no doubt cause a little disunity, bv putting
the )ower in the hand of the majority the
lank and file, but it will also demonstrate
that even filling a vacancy can be handled
in a deimxiatta manner.
It is hoped that the convention will rise to
the challenge.
Ad Libs
Whit Whitfield
Same of you no doubt read the vituperous attack on Tar Heel col
umnists in a letter by Clyde Smith in Tuesday's paper. In the event
that you were not so fortunate wc would like to quote some of the
more revealing portions:
"As an avid reader of "Fogo." "Pea-
.'. v, - s nuts," and a DOZEN other comic strips, I
esent the direct and indirect slurs on them
and .their readqrs by some of your editorial
columnists. ...
"In defense of comic strips and their
readers, I submit that to the intelligent
reader they offer an excellent commentary
on social, economic, and political condi
tions today. Some, while primarily for en-
"Sv, 1 tcrtainment. offer a public service as well.
in interpreting a particular profession and its subject matter. "Judge
Parker" (law) and "Rex Morgan" (medicine), are examples. . . .
"Not all comic strips arc worth the time it takes to read them, bat
I believe there are a number which the busiest student could read
with profit to his education, maybe even Messrs. (short for mcsseri)
Wolfe, Winston, and Whitfield."
Whew!
The first question which comes to mind is, what did we do to
deserve to be included in this rogue's gallery? We couldn't have break
fast without "Peanuts," but our daily 'jjiet doesn't consist of 13 other
strips as does Clyde's. Are we to be-crucified for this? If so. then
drop by the Tar Heel office and pick up one of Neil Bass' old crosses.
He left quite a few. '
Wc think that Clyde will be happy to know that as a result of his
astute observations on the merits of comic strips that the law and
medical schools are seriously considering the inclusion of "Judge
Parker" and "Itcx Morgan" into their respective curricula, and that
several economics profs are likewise considering "Little Orphan An-
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nie. . .
Clyde, you will be even happier to know that what you say about
deriving an education from the comics is quite true. We have a younger
brother in the sixth grade who divides his time equally between
comics, television, and baseball, and that child knows everything there
is to know. He definitely will, have no need for college, and why
should anyone for that matter, what with comics as cheap as they
are, and not half so boring as college courses.
Our proverbial hat is off to you, sir, for bringing this to the atten
tion of our campus community.
But, Clyde, your astute observations have left' the college admin
istrator with something of a problem. As soon as the exodus to the
oomic book stands begins, college enrollment will fall off. and then
what will the administration have to make speeches about?
We wonder if the guy who came to English class with the shaving
soap all over his earlobe and uppper neck realized it was there, or
if he was merely trving to impress the girls with his personal hygien?
measures, or if he had just posed for a Gillette ad? . . . Who is the
nicest guy in the world? He's the one who tells you that the professor
grades his term papers with a ruler after you have made yours as
concise and meaningful as possible AND turned it in. In case you're
wondering what the "ruler method" is: All papers over 1 inch in
thickness get an "A." over inch, a "B", etc. Don't laugh. It may
happen to you. We understand that there are some profs who like
this method. But then you can always pad them with laundry paper.
Letters: Episcopals Split
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Anything Goes
Lditor:
Mr. C. G. .Martin should follow
the advice he gives to John Dalton
and read the Bonk of Common
Prayer himself. The title page
therein clearly states "The Book
of Common Prayer and Adminis
tration of the Sacraments and
Others Kites and Ceremonies of
the Church according to the use
of the , Prostestant Episcopal
Church in the United States of
America." It is quite obvious'lhat
"Protestant Episcopal Church" is
the peculiarly American name for
the branch of the Holy Catholic
Church in this land. Plea.se note
that the wording is "Protestant
Episcopal" and not "Episcopal
Protestant." In other words. Angli
can bishops are Catholic bishops
protesting against the unCatholic
poition of the Roman Church.
They do not and never have pro
tested against the Catholic Faith.
I refer Mr. Martin to the follow
ing pates of the Prayer Book: 15.
1G. 13. 37. 39. 47. 280, 290. 291, 294,
516. and 329.
I note that Mr. Dalton has
quoted a Presiding Bishop of the
Episcopal Church in his letter.
But I see Mr. Martin has no use
to bark him up! In closing may
I quote Hh Grace trie present
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
known by all to be of evangelical
persuasion-" We Anglicans t have
no faith of our own. We have
only the Catholic Faith of the
Catholic Church enshrined in the
Catholic Creeds. And this Faith
we hold without addition or dimi
nution." Bob Pace
Peter B. Young
Like the weather, everybody
talks about American liberalism
but nobody does anything about it.
The standard cliche right now is
to bemoan tho way that the
Democrats go back to the halcyon
days of the New Deal for their
recession remedies, while the Re
publicans (always ten years be
hind) try to revive the glory that
was Hoobert Heever's.
Syndicated pundit, Walter Lipp
man, recently noted a new trend.
It seems that such diverse char
acters as John Kennedy, Lyndon
Johnson and Richard Nixon frre
suddenly reaching into university
faculties for an infusion of fresh
ideas. In point of fact, Lippmann
is wrong. Adlai Stevenson revived
the old New Deal "brain trust"
concept in his campaigns of 1952
and 1956, both of which relied
heavily on university talent.
In any event, while this "new"
trend of Lippman's has not yet
trickled down from the Ivy League
echelons to Chapel Hill, it might
be pertinent to note that we, like
Harvard, have our share of men
who are making a real effort to
think in fresh terms, and who are
not content to serve up the warmed-over
remains of either the New
Deal 0r Republican Normalcy.
Such a man on our campus is
Morton W. Keller, a tough and
intense young instructor on the
social science and history facul
ties. Last week. Keller addressed
a campus organization known as
The Meeting. The topic of his
talk was. "The American Liberal
Since 1952: Where did he go
out: what has he done nothing."
Terming liberal success .since
1932 as the result of a pact with
the Devil of Pragmatism." Keller
called for a return of thinking, to
the underlying theory rather than
simply the continued emphasis on
the mechanical techniques of win
ning an election. Don't do
THINK!", was the, unique advice
with which he concluded his pres
entation. Keller see the source of A
merican liberalism's difficulties
in the past-war red hunt, an epi
sode in our history in which li
b e r a 1 s enthusiastically j o ined.
Liberals desired to prove to
their new-found conservat ive
friends that when it came to
chasing commies the liberals were
"right' up there with the best of
them;" This was a serious mis
take because the real objective
ofHhis hunt was not the impotent
handful of American Communists;
the real objective was the Ameri
can liberal movement. Therefore,
when liberals joined the holy
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destroy themselves.
"Communism never has been
the issue," says Keller. "The is
sue has been ,is, and will be what
Communism feeds on." By violat
ing the great baseball maxim to
always keep your eye on the ball,
liberals have squeezed themselves
into a box of their own making.
And as the Cold War changes
in character, liberals wake from
their big binge to find that they
are ideologically bankrupt. Thus
the return the theory, which Keller
advocates, even at the cost of
losing a few more elections.
During the question period which
followed Keller's talk, the young
instructor defined the typical
pragmatic liberal as "a politician
who happens to be a humanitar
ian." Today's great need is obvi
ously for the "humanitarian who
happens to be a politician."
The only point at which this
observer will take issue with Kel
ler is on his contention that "A
merica of the .l950's is the New
Deal dream come true, only the
dream turned out to be a night
mare." What Keller has reference
to here is the kind of prosperity
which has put two television sets
in every pot,. This is all well and
good, and it . certainly does have
its nightmarish aspects. But what
Keller misses is the millions of
Americans who don't have ' two
television set in every pot, who
don't have even one television
set, who don't have a decent
minimum of food, housing, and
'medical care. While I yield to no
man in my admiration and love
for Franklin D. Roosevelt, I do
try to keep at least some persec
tive on what the New D,eal
achieved, and just as important,
what it did NOT achieve.
As the kind of problem with
which liberals should concern
themselves, Keller posed this
timely, question: "Does the 'mixed
economy' really work?" Some of
his auditors had already decided,
long ago, that the trouble with the
"mixed economy" is that it's
-awfully mixed (up). Or, in the
words of Bishop G. Bromley
Oxnam: "Better creeping social
ism, than stumbling capitalism."
Keller himself, while no social
ist, would be in favor of chang
ing the mixture of the "mixed
economy." What has come to be
- known in the hallowed halls of
Saunders as "The Keller Plan
, for Detroit" involves a massive
infusion of governmental funds
and special incentives to encour
age the hard-pressed auto mag
nates to convert some of their ex
cess plant capacity to the manu
facture of low-cost public housing.
As Keller said, one day, when the
.realization struck him that this
plan , has strong socialistic ele
ments: "My God, it's socialism!
Well, too ,-bad if .can't be helped."
Mothers Of America
Joseph P. Lyford
On the day my old Harvard history prof, Sam
Morison, took off his mortarboaM and tramped oil
to Oxford to give a lecture in his 'admiral's hat, th.
age of the military pundit was Officially upon us.
Dr. Sam, who had won his stars writing Navy his
tories during World War II, never went back to th-j
title of professor once the shooting was over. And,
on arriving in England, he made a statement to
the press about military strategy, and foreign pol
icy. It was a long haul, indeed, from the days when
Dr. Sam lectured on such matters as the Maypole
at Merry Mount, and the flight ol Ann Hutchinson
to Rhode Island.
Admiral Sam is no more aware of my distress
over his evolution than he was of me as a student
But I regard him as a bit of a symbol. In these days
of five-star college presidents, of Generals of the
Army in charge of Remington Rand, and of Ad
mirals telling us how to run the school, Dr. Sa.i:
had read the handwriting on the wall. To be an
authority on anything, nothing helped more than
to have a gold stripe on the sleeve or a silvery con
stellation on the shoulder. Faced with a choice of
two titles, both merited but one deserved more than
the other' Dr. Sam took the one less earned bat
more impressive. And I can't say I blame him.
Who'd take the word of a history professor over
the word of an Admiral on anything?
But let's proceed from Dr. Sam. Styles are
changing. Beginning with a decline in the radiance
from the White House, the' tide of Generals and
Admirals seems to be receding along with the econ
omy. We haven't had a General in the Cabinet for
years, and Princeton even appointed a philosophy
professor its new president. Maybe this is a Good
Thing. I am not sure. It all depends on what the
next style in peerless leaders is going to be. Public
Relations, Executives? policemen? I'll wait and sc:
before I clap my hands at the passing of the mili
tary man from grace.
If I w. .ted to be an unimpeachable authority.
I'd be a Policeman. By this I don't mean the ordi
nary hardworking patrolman, wearing a heavy blue
uniform on hot days and pounding the beat for Law
and Order. Such Policemen are never considered
authorities; they are called Cops. They are also
badly paid and footsore. No, I am speaking about
Policemen who specialize in big problems like sav
ing the nation from juvenile delinquency, bootleg
ging, and subversion. More particularly I am speak
ing about specialists on the highest levels: top
echelon Policemen. You can look about you for a
long while and never find an authority like on spe
cial law-enforcement official whom we all knon'
and revere. He has been paid by the government a
long while to catch criminals of various types, and
catch them he does. But the apprehension of inter
state malefactors Is not his only function. As I
said, he is also an authority on almost everything
you" will find in the Encyclopedia Britanniea. He
has one amazing capacity. All he has to do to be
come an authority on a subject is to express an
opinion on the subject.
For instance, the Big Policeman has a solution
for juvenile delinquency. He tells parents they
should make their children go to Sunday School.
The day after the speech, the papers carry his sug
gestion in detail. Compare this with the pitiful show
ing of all the books and speeches by people like
teachers, psychiatrists, judges and social workers.
Who listens to them? Other teachers, psychiatrists,
judges and social workers.
t)r lake the Big Policeman on such aggravates
matters as constitutional law or civil liberties. Sim
ply by commenting he penetrates the mists of de
bate. He is reported fully and precisely. His picture
runs in the adjoining column. Editorials reiterate
his points.
I've always told myself I was going to write a
big, fat, successful book some day and sell it to the
movies. This has been a self-deception, because I
am nobody and easily discouraged. To do an author
itative book you have to be powerful and you have
to be sure. Like the Big Policeman. He wrote a
book about how to save America from communism.
It is a handy compendium of history, Marx, Engels.
Stalin, Lenin, the revolution, intrigue, how to spot
a disloyal American and the importance of snoop
ing on your neighbors in the interests of national
defense. It has sold 100,000 copies because it is
broad and because it is sure. All . the reviewers
liked it. Only one critic got into trouble. Like Dr.
Oppenheimer, he didn't enthuse, so George Sokol
sky did a column on him.
The best part of being the Big Policeman is his
built-in security. General-presidents, Admiral-educators,
five-star Secretaries . of State and artillery
captain music critics get investigated, Congressmea
blast them, sometimes; very often they get retired,
either by promotion boards or by the electorate.
But the Big Policeman goes on forever. Nobody in
vestigates him. People buy his books by the ton.
He knows all the secrets about everybody. He can
scare hell out of any Senators, and often does. He
has the biggest fingerprint collection in the world,
but his, own hand is invisible. He is the only Ameri
can who never got pushed ground by somebody.
The moral of this story is intended for the Moth
ers of America, to whom. the Big Policeman has
spoken many times as a counselor and friend: Don't
be disappointed if your little boy says he wants t
be a policeman when he grows , up. Encourage him.
Set the little devil at it. Buy him a tin badge to
morrow. What if he doesn't want to be President?
Who wants to be President?' Look what happened
to Hoover. Herbert, that is. From The Nation. ,'
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