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THE COLLEGE NEWS







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THE COLLEGE NEWS

(Founded in 1914)



Published weekly during the College Year (excepting during Thanks-
giving, Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks)
n the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne,
Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. ”



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appears in it may be reprinted either wholly or in part without written
permission of the Editor-in-Chief.



Editorial Board.
NANCY Evarts, ’43, Editor-in-Chief
ALICE ISEMAN, ’48, Copy SALLY JAcoB, ’43,
BARBARA HULL, ’44, News SALLY MATTESON, ’43
Mary BARBARA KAUFFMAN, ’43, News ANNE DENNY, 743

Editorial Staff
RuTH ALICE DAvIs, ’44 ~

ALICE WEIL, ’43
PaT JONES, ’43

MILDRED MCLESKEY, 743

JESSIE STONE, 744
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ANN COULSON, ’44

ELIZABETH WATKINS,
ELIZABETH BOUDREAU,

MARY VIRGINIA MORE, "45

' Sports
{ ~ JACQUIE BALLARD, ’43
Business Board
LouIsE Horwoop, ’44, Manager
CELIA Moskovirz, 43, Advertising
DIANA LUCAS, 44, Promotion

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Opportunity Knocks

Four months—June, July, August, September.
principal which every student must invest in some way or other
each summer. How can it pay the highest dividends? The stu-
dent needs help in finding channels for energy accumulated in
eight months of theoretical work. More than this, she needs
experience for future responsibilities, and she needs practical work
which will crystallize the training in her major field. Now, more
The war has increased demands

This is the

than ever, we have opportunities.
for student workers.

We believe that the Alliance, as-a-supplement-to-the Bureau
of Recommendations, is taking an important step in helping the
undergraduate to find a summer position, This added attention to
the needs and abilities of the individuals will provide the necessary

_contact with many students.

The research required for finding these jobs has been compre-
hensive. The advice to undecided students promises to be excel-
lent, and there is no reason why the project should not equal or
excel the success of the Connecticut College program. Employers
are eager for volunteers or for salaried, college trained employees.
The jobs are there. The bureau will help you find one. The rest
lies with you.



: Nominating Committees

Last year a nominating committee for the ‘Junior Class, com-
posed of representatives from each hall, was established. For the
elections of the past two years this committee has furnished pre-
liminary lists of nominees to be presented to ‘the class, which
cheoses the final candidates. It has FuIGUSG: a need and proved
entirely’ successful. ,

Before the committee was established, class nominati¢ns
wasted time and effort. Insufficient knowledge of the candidates,
numerous and hasty nominations /complicated the proceedings. It
was felt that such a haphazard, ‘method of filling important offices
was dangerous.

The system of nomination committees has dispensed with
these drawbacks, since the groups have proved thoroughly repre-
sentative of class opinion. By carefully considering each member |;
of the class, they choose qualified candidates, including those who
might be overlooked in the rush of a large meeting. Although the
classes -may add to the lists, they have seldom done so—a proof of
the success of the committees...

Elimination of the confusion in nominations has resulted from

the system. We urge its continuation.







Something Off My Chest —..

-MIKADO. IN MANTILLA



= with the Madrid and Mexico City. “ datelines, usnalty

sa found on the twenty-eighth- “page- -of_the newspapers and seldom
“flashed” on radio press rts, will one of these days crash. onto
the front pages as a significant\scoop. Even a Monday release by
Archibald—Macleish--dealing-wjth similar material was hardly
noticed by the press or radio cOmmentators. According to this




statement, the Japanese have transferred-their propaganda center
to Madrid and the Spanish Embassy in Washington is a hive of

Axis activity.
This news shouldn’t be startling. On March 2 the Associated

Press reported that the’ Spanish Falangist newspaper Arriba had





‘ ers.”

Vitriolic Article in Partisan Review Attacks

Dr. Frederick Schuman as Underhanded Red’



By Alice Iseman, ’43
“Frederick L. Schuman’s .
career as a Stalinist fellow trav-
eler is both interesting and typical.

For almost a decade he has played
tag with the ‘party-line’ and lin-
So says the Trotskyite Par-
risan Review of March-April, 1940,
in a vitriolic account entitled The
Strange Case of F. L. Schuman.
Mr. Schuman who spoke at Bryn
Mawr last week, is accused of con-
cealing his nefarious activities un-
der the cloak of liberalism. The
Partisan Review suggests that this
protestation of liberalism is merely
in line with the “Trojan Horse”
tactics’ adopted by the Seventh
Congress of the Communist Inter-
national in 1935. Even under oath,
the article asserts, “Schuman flatly
denied he had any ideas which
were in. any way radical’, and
adds, “He maintained that he had
never signed the Open Letter
which appealed for support of the
Communist candidates in 1932.”

As conclusive proof of his perjury,
it states “Theré were those who
had seen his signature to the let-

”

ter”’,
Almost outdoing itself, the agti-
cle concludes with this flourish.
“Intellectual integrity and _ scienti-
fic method, academic freedom and
democracy, are ideals which are
not well served by espousing one
or another varieties of Moscow,
Rome, or Berlin totalitarianism
Schuman has tried to use|
the apparatus of scholarship first
to persuade others that Stalinism
and liberalism were blood brothers
. but he would use the same
apparatus to exculpate Stalinism
from its sins of commission on the
grounds that politics didn’t involve
ethics . . so crass a formula-
tion of the debased doctrine: ends
justify means, presents. a sordid
spectacle. To this’ sordidness,
Schuman has made a major con-

tribution.”

Liberals, please take note.
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OPINION

Schweitzer Reviews Pacifist
Position in Society Geared
For War Action







To the Editor of the College News:

This letter is another after-
thought of Mr. Weiss’ talk on
Pacifism.

It seems to me that modern so-
ciety at war leaves only two con-
sistent solutions for someone who
thinks he is a pacifist.

The first one is to leave that so-
ciety and look for one in which he
can live a pacifistic way of life. (I
admit that this is a rather imprac-
tical suggestion now, when there
is practically no such society.) The
second is to oppose openly and to
accept prison or whatever the pun-
ishment might be for’ such an of-
fense. All other solutions are com-
promises and therefore inconsist-
ent.

a soldier.

That is, fundamentally
everyone in thata society is doing
the same thing: we all fight.

I admit there is a difference in
degree of the extent to which any
given individual partakes in the
physical fighting, the killing of an-
other human being from the enemy
side’ But this difference in degree

is not a difference in kind. A so-,

ciety at war can be compared to
the production of a machine by
division of labor. The worker who
makes a wheel or the worker who
puts the whole machine together,
are they not both involved as much
in the production of the machine?

So in a society at war: no mat-
ter what the individual -is* doing,
whether we are so-called “long-
range” or not, we all contribute,
however indirectly and less ob-
viously, to the final product which
is the war machine. We all are
killing our enemies. This even
holds for the so-called “enemy
alien.” Through the restrictions
which are imposed upon him he is,
if negatively, partaking in the war.







A society at war is completely
organized in terms of war and
everyone living in that society is

Translated into ethical] terms:
No one action, profession or job
has a final meaning; they all are





said that Spain had undertaken representation of Axis interests in
South America “only to carry on an international Christian mis-
sion.” On March 8 in the New York Times the AP reported
that the Spanish Foreign Ministry announced that “it had ear-
marked 2,244,000 pesetas for expenses of the newly created
Central Office of Production, which is charged with looking after
Axis diplomatic and consular interests in American countries.”

And Harold Callender, correspondent of the New York Times
in Mexico City, sends important news of Axis activity there.and
adds thése significant remarks. :

“Apart from Axis aliens, there are Spanish nationals and the
Facist Falange Espanola, which they finance’ reportedly to the
extent of 200,000 pesos a month. Some of these Spaniards are
rich and influential, and their influence extends into high social
circles.”

Callender reports that Mexican authorities consider this Span-

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travel freely to and from the United States. One is reported to
have ‘made -an extensive tour of American factoriesand to have
reported his findings to Franco, The Falange is also said to have
a military section.

Now technically Spanish Falangists are not members of the
Axis, and even more remote from such a stigma are their sympa-
thizers in the United States. This, obviously, enhan@es their value

|to the Axis and increases the danger ‘to the United States.

It has become sufficiently clear that not only alien enemies but
also their. American friends and other Axis agents must be dealt
with. Timidity, and. consideration for the feelings of such people
have no place in a democratic country at war. If -the machinery
is not available to deal with them, it should be created and used
immediately. .

Will the United States Government wake up before it is*too
late and thoroughly’ revamp its State Department, Femoving every
gentleman who has ever been an“apologist for Franco or “neutral”

toward the struggle in Spain, and_replace them by staunch _parti- |

sans of Spanish democracy who supported-the Loyalist cause to

the bitter sat

Jessie Stone, ’44.



Cent Even es |

Miss Robbins
Common Room, March 17.—Re-
viewing the-Russian situation, Miss
Robbins military
conditions of both the Russians and

ithe Germans, the probable strategy
ithat they will employ, the needs of
|Russia and the attitude of the
| Allied countries towards these
needs.

| The major question in everyone’s
hoe is whether the Russians can
defeat the Nazis. The rapidly ap-
secahitng thaw is, in general, fav-
/orable to the Gernians. The Rus-
sians, to date, have regained less
than a quarter of the land lost dur-
ing the summer campaign. This
insufficient gain will simplify the
‘situation for the Germans since
they are still in possession of the
terrain that is most difficult to
overrun. Furthermore, the Rus-
;Sians have lost one-half of their
iron and steel factories, while the
24 hour day of the German fac-
tories undoubtedly makes it possible
for them to replace many of their
losses in mechanized units. The lack
of reliable information received
from Russia makes it impossible to
tell whether the essential Panzer
Troops are being trained in
Siberia.

The picture, Miss Robbins said,
is black but the many gloomy
prophesies made last summer must
be remembered.

The Russians themselves appar-
ently feel that they cannot defeat
the Germans in Russia alone, al-
though their armies have improved
greatly since the Finnish campaign.

There is suspicion among many
in the United States and England
of co-operation with Russia. This
is partly caused by the fear in these





discussed __ the’



It is certain, however, that the
Marxist theory of world revolution
has been greatly modified and, un-
der Stalin, the Russians have been
following a realistic program aimed
towards the security of the
U.S.S.R.



parts which receive their meaning
through the whole, which is the
society at war. How could it be
otherwise? No one can say that
the soldier alone is the militarist,
that he alone acts unethical be-
cause he is doing the actual killing.
Then it would’be a privilege of the
girl in our ‘society to be ethical
because she does not shoot.

We all are responsible for the
war by the mere fact of living in
this society; and theréfore we -all
partake in it no matter what we do.

Thé pacifist failed at the moment
of the declaration of the war. His
mere non-opposing existence in this
society makes him a soldier as well
as everybody else.

It is inconsistent to stay in this
society and to call one’s self a
pacifist; it is self-deception to think
that doing “peaceful” work like
teaching in a society at war is
being a pacifist, and it is cowardice
to choose a “peaceful” job like
that of a teacher if one is better
qualified to be a soldier. It seems
essential to me that everyone re-
alizes that we are as much soldiers
as soldiers at the front. Discus-
sions whether war is right or wrong
seem superfluous from the moment
a war is declared. Everyone of us
declared it. It was our choice.
The only worthwhile thing to do
is to find that place in the society
in which the individual can be of
most: value to the whole. The

what he is doing, will be that of
war, but a war for peace. b



‘MARIANNE SCHWEITZER, ’42.
Basketball
Chris Waples, ’42, has

been chosen for the first in-
tercollegiate basketball team.
Margot Dethier, # is on

ollegiate

the second x
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