Third Conference

THE THIRD INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE, held at Dartmouth College on May 23-26, had as its topic "The Unity of the Americas After the War." The fourday program of public lectures, seminars, classroom discussions, movies, and exhibitions was held under the joint auspices of the College and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, with Professor Jose M. Arce of the Dartmouth Spanish department as conference chairman.

Guest consultants for the program were Duncan Aikman, chief consultant for the press section of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; W. Latimer Gray, vice president and head of the foreign division of the First National Bank of Boston; and Professor Federico de Onis, director of the Hispanic Institute and head of the Department of Hispanic Languages at Columbia University.

Mr. Aikman, presenting the political aspects of the conference topic, gave the first public address on "Stakes in an InterAmerican Future." On the following evening Mr. Gray took up the economic side in his talk on "Economic Cooperation in the Americas Now and After the War." Professor de Onis dealt with cultural aspects of inter-American unity in a Spanish lecture, and was guest of honor at a seminar luncheon on "The Inter-American Field of Studies in the Postwar College."