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Then came a more difficult question from white-haired scholarly looking Lawrence Fernsworth of the Christian Cen tury, who quoted from a set of objectives adopted by the World Council of Churches at its meeting in Evanston last summer. Among the objectives Ferns-worth ticked off were 1) "Reconciliation in a Christian spirit with potential enemy countries," 2) "An end to a suicidal competition in arms," and 3) "Elimination and prohibition of atomic and hydrogen bombs and other weapons of mass destruction...
...political questions was the best training for responsible citizenship without which democracy can never survive. I mentioned too that this fact was at the bottom of maintaining the peace, since world peace was as much a question of men as of systems. From those premises my argument proceeded. Lawrence Fernsworth, Nieman Fellow...
After he had finished talking, there was a rather vigorous cross discussion with the audience participating. Romylos Macridis, Teaching Fellowing in Government, immediately challenged him on the question of training future statesmen as he had recommended. Fernsworth countered with the shining example of the British Foreign Service, which, he said, used this system...
...Fernsworth's Speech Argued...
This statement precipitated a general attack upon the two major points of Fernsworth's speech. His remark about the danger of American bureaucracy drew forth even more vehement arguments than the aforementioned one on British governmental training. Dr. Salvemini took little part in this discussion...