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...Another ticklish problem was the San Francisco agenda. Would the conference merely be asked to swallow Dumbarton Oaks whole, without any change? Moscow's War and the Working Class, which often reflects official opinion, thought so. Yet among the U.S. delegation were at least two-Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Commander Harold Stassen-determined to amend Dumbarton Oaks. Ed Stettinius finally made the Administration line clear: to defend and preserve the basic character of Dumbarton Oaks, but to put proffered amendments before the entire conference...
...political or economic machinations-not Yalta nor Dumbarton Oaks nor any other agreement-can give us lasting peace so long as the corpse of the capitalist economy continues to exist." Thus declared Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, speaking last night together with Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, and Abbott P. Usher '04, professor of Economics, on the topic "Is the planned economy 'the Road to Serfdom'?" at the first forum of the newly-organized Harvard Political Science Forum...
...religious forces were using up-to-date techniques to win public support. The Federal Council of Churches, the Synagogue Council of America and other groups endorsed Dumbarton Oaks Week (April 16-22) and called for nationwide Days of Prayer on Sunday, April 22 and the opening day of the conference (April 25). To keep delegates reminded of their watchfulness, the churches will light the huge (103 ft.) cross atop San Francisco's Mt. Davidson every night for at least the first week of the conference, will keep prominent churchmen in the galleries as conference observers, will fill the exhibit...
...dent on San Francisco, it will be because they have studied the problems of peace with unaccustomed realism. Last week John Foster Dulles, spokesman for the Protestant crusaders, summed up their view: "This time it is of the utmost importance that we be realistic. We must see the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for what they are-a good start. . . . San Francisco must be looked to not as a stopping point but as a starting point...
...Examples: nine amendments to Dumbarton Oaks, recommended by the Protestants (TIME, Jan. 29), which would fit world security plans to Christian ideals; the "Pattern for Peace" signed by 146 top-ranking Protestants, Catholics and Jews, calling for a moral world order backed by "adequate sanctions" to keep the peace...