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Every coin has two sides. It may be all right for President Eisen-' hower to declare in 1956 that the U. N. is the proper medium for corrective world action and that any steps must be first taken through the U. N. But to the British, Suez is vitally important. Well can they remember an area vitally important to us . . . Korea! When former President Truman started his “police action’'’ in Korea he did so without first obtaining authority from the United Nations, and Britain stood with us. Suhsquently, Truman’s police action was approved by the U. N.\ and made a United Nation’s cause, but it did not start that way. It started exactly as Britain and France started their Suez action. Now Britain feels we did not back her in a time of peril as she did us. This is the basis for their bitter denunciation of our failure to go along with their Near East policy. The lesson is clear: before old established practices are disregarded for new, it must be remembered that the new practices set precedent. If the. precedent is unsound, it can return to haunt its instigators, The German war criminal trials returned to haunt us when the Chinese used the same formula on Koreans and others. Now Mr., Truman’s brash method of starting the Korean action is returning to haunt us.
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
We found quite (interesting the philosophy of Crime and Punishment among the Seminole Indians, as set forth in Louis Capron’s article, “Florida’s Wild Indians, the Seminole,” appearing in the December. issue of National Geographic. Reports Mr. Capron, “The Seminone theory of crime, as exemplified .on Court day, presumes that obedience to the law is the price one pays for the privilege of belonging to a society, and a man who violates the law is acting against his own good and therefore must be out of his mind. Lest he ihfest others, he is outlawed and prohibited to take part in tribal ritual. He can again take his place as a member of the group only if he voluntarily puts himself into the hands of the medicine man for rehabilitation.”' The medicine man. in Seminole society, is the chief guardian of tribal morality.
B. C. B. Jr.
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