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...Harvard alumni and exactly one alumna crowded into the balhroom of the Copley-Plaza, and overflowed into the other dining rooms Tuesday evening to hear Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson strike at some of the problems confronting peaceful world organization. Sharing the platform with President Conant, Acheson highlighted the banquet which climaxed the three day "Victory Meeting" of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
Giving jocular recognition to the one female graduate of the University who was accidentally invited to the banquet, Acheson began his address, "Lady and Gentlemen." He quickly passed to a more serious vein in an analysis of two basic dangers threatening the country. One he labelled the psychology of controversy, perfected by Hitler, which achieves unity by hatred. "And no controversy is safer than one with the foreigner," he explained." His defenders at once become suspect. So a field which is difficult enough, where more than anywhere widespread agreement is essential, becomes a peculiar prey to controversy...
...banquet press conference, the Undersecretary refused to comment on the possibilities of his succeeding Stettinius as American delegate to the United Nations. He expressed little concern with the current troubles with the Soviet Union but viewed our relations with that country as a task of long term but not insoluble difficulty. Disparaging the proposal to sever relations or use economic sanctions against Franco as one which would not accomplish what we wished to achieve, he termed Spain "a very difficult problem...
Last week a Manhattan gallery put on a show by six veterans, in which the standout painting was Levine's Welcome Home -a satiric study of a beribboned and be-napkined general at a banquet. Explained Levine: "Some officers lived in a world of their own creation. This general has come home and he's still in that sort of a world. I'm not talking about men like Bradley and Eisenhower. I've never seen them but I have great respect .for them. It's just the big slob who is vice president...
...directs the State Department when Byrnes goes visiting London, Moscow, or Paris, Assistant Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson '19, will address the Associated Harvard Clubs on June 4 at the Copley-Plaza. The occasion will be a banquet highlighting the three day meeting of the clubs, the first held in the Boston area in ten years...