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Americans need not fear the rearmament of Germany," U.S. High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus, told a Chicago audience Thursday night...
...History gives us ample warning. The new Germany seems determined to make the army the servants of a democratic state not the tool of a reckless dictation," Conant said in a speech before the General Assembly of the States, a meeting of state governors...
...Conant urged the governors to give "understanding and support" to the West German Republic. The armament program "would not be without risk," he admitted, however...
Such a plan, however, seems to place financial book-balancing above Harvard's quest for a high calibre student body. In discussing the importance of quality personnel over economic solvency, President Conant once noted that a university could be bankrupt even if the annual auditor's report showed a dollar surplus. Solvency and Harvard's continuing success, he said, depend almost entirely upon its ability to attract the best available men to both the student body and faculty. That drive for undergraduate quality, begun with the National Scholarships in 1936, now faces a $10 roadblock. The administration...
...undergraduate, Gardiner was an outstanding athlete and president of his class. Among his classmates were former President Conant and Senator Leverett Saltonstall...