New Assignment

One piece of news of special interest to Dartmouth came out of Washington last month. President Dickey, it was announced, has been named by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to be a member of a small and distinguished panel of consultants to assist the Department of State an the U.S. representatives on the United Nations Disarmament Commission in formulating U.S. policy and proposals with regard to disarmament and atomic energy control.

The other members of the panel are Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Dr. Vannevar Bush, Joseph E. Johnson, and Allen W. Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency. McGeorge Bundy, biographer of Henry L. Stimson, has been chosen by the four-man panel to serve as secretary and field executive. "It is hard to imagine a bigger job, or to name a more imposing committee, wrote the Alsops in their New York Herald Tribune column of May 21.

As part of the panel's activity, it is expected that important issues confronting the United States Government, particularly with respect to the long-range implications of disarmament and atomic energy control, will come before the The research and planning resources of the Department of State and other government agencies will be available to the panel when needed.

The United Nations Disarmament Commission, under the Security Council, was established by the General Assembly last January. Warren R. Austin is the U. S. representative on the Commission and Benjamin V. Cohen is the deputy representative and active participant for this country. The advisory panel on which President Dickey is serving is designed to assist these U. S. representatives as well as the Department of State.

The work of the panel will involve periodic meetings during the summer, but will not take President Dickey away from Hanover for any extended period of time. In connection with this assignment, he has recently reduced the number of outside duties he is carrying in addition to his full load of college work.