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...Information Bulletin, published by the Student Council's International Activities Committee, is being air-freighted to distribution points throughout Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. The dozen Harvard men who will read the Bulletin are staffers, headed by Carl M. Sapers, '53, International Activities Chairman, and Ralph H. Kennan '54, Bulletin Editor...
These two projects--the Bulletin and the library--constitute two main phases of the International Student Information Service. Main emphasis of the program is on Southeast Asia and the Middle East where, according to Kennan, "student groups in these newly independent countries are faced with problems of economic development, shaky political independence, and unsettled living conditions." Students' unions in these areas also suffer from their isolation from other student groups...
Material sent to the Bulletin office atop PBH is translated when necessary, processed by rewrite editors, headed by Kennan, and turned over to ISIS area experts--students who have traveled in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe--who check it for accuracy and suitability in their respective areas...
...need clear-headed thinkers at a time like this. Mr. Kennan has summed up our problem so well, he should be back on his job with the State Department and having his full say now. EDWARD S. GARUF Minneapolis Sir: Thanks to George F. Kennan, I can now put aside my worn-out copy of Machiavelli's II Principe and read in modern English . . . the warning against the "perils of idealism" that the clever Florentine secretary so strongly impressed on "the prince...
...past, the "rational and restricted purposes" that Mr. Kennan recommends as the proper basis for our foreign policy might indeed have served us well. But for the 1950s, this limited "practicality" would be another example of too little and too late...