Great Issues Speakers

THE Great Issues course, taking up the general subject "International Issues" with the start of the second semester, announced a schedule of 14 lectures for the period until spring vacation. Eight visiting lecturers, President Dickey, and five Dartmouth professors were listed among the speakers.

Adolf A. Berle Jr., at one time Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, opened the course's second semester with a lecture on "The International Out- look Today." The following week, Ernest J. Simmons, Professor of Russian Literature at the Russian Institute, Columbia University, spoke on "The Soviet Regime and Russian Culture." On February 25, Vera Micheles Dean, author and member of the Foreign Policy Association, who has lectured before in the Great Issues course, talked on "Conflicting Trends in Western Europe."

Bringing international issues nearer home, James P. Warburg, banker and author, former Deputy Director of the Overs eas Branch of OWI. will present "A Critical Examination of United States Foreign Policy" on March 3. Parker T. Hart, Foreign Service Officer who recently served as Consul General at Dhahran, will discuss "Problems of the Near East" on March 6. His talk will be followed by that of James Reston, national correspondent of TheNew York Times, who comes to Hanover on March 10 to give "A Report from Washington."

Difficulties of policy making will be reviewed by Dean Rusk, former Assistant Secretary of State, now president-elect of the Rockefeller Foundation, under the title, "Problems in the Formulation of American Foreign Policy." Barbara Ward, writer and former foreign editor of TheEconomist, London, will have as her March 24 topic "Containment and South East Asia."

President Dickey will conclude the series with "A Review of the International Problem," on March 27. Faculty lecturers in the course and their titles are: John C. Adams, Professor of History, "Is Peace With Russia Possible?"; H. Gordon Skilling, Professor of Government, "Eastern Europe Today"; John G. Gazley, Professor of History, "Developments in the United Nations"; John W. Masland Jr., Professor of Government, "Japan's Prospects"; and Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, "China and the Real Issues in the Far East."

College Lectures

The March 24 Great Issues lecture by Barbara Ward, and another on March 26 on the same subject of "Containment and South East Asia," will both be open to the public in Webster Hall. An informal discussion with the senior class will take place on the second day of her three-day visit to Dartmouth.

Coming speakers in the public lecture series include Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont, whose April 15 topic is "A Third Encirclement of Soviet Power"; Aaron Copland, composer, who will discuss "The Challenge of Contemporary Music" on April 29; and Zechariah Chafee, Langdell Professor of Law at Harvard, whose May 6 topic is "The Most Important Human Right in the Constitution."

Public lectures during the past month were given by W. H. Auden, noted poet, who spoke on "The Hero in Modern Poetry" on February 26; and by Jerry More '52 of Denver, who gave an illustrated talk on his ascent of Mt. McKinley last summer.