Word: schwartzberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the conference the students meet top U.N. delegates either at Lake Success or in New York. "Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt always makes it a practice to attend." Schwartzberg commented...
Copies of the resolutions prepared here are sent to the State Department, which acknowledges and sometimes comments on them and the U.N. Secretariat. As to the effectiveness of such suggestions, however, Schwartzberg seems doubtful: "We are merely a public opinion pressure item," he explained...
Three college students are appointed to this Commission each year and Schwartzberg will serve on it until June. The group is now considering a report on "Narrow Waterways and Strategic Bases"--and one of the major topics is the Suez Canal...
Influence on the home front is not as powerful as the Council would like, however. Of the 195 member groups of CCUN, eight are in Boston, but two notable exceptions are Radcliffe and Tufts. "To have 195 groups and none at Radcliffe is rather embarrassing," Schwartzberg admitted, and added dolefully that "with graduations and marriages the group died out there two years...
Such a fate seems unlikely to the active Harvard organization. The U.N. Council claims to hold more meetings than any other undergraduate group. With four meetings to attend, Schwartzberg boasted, "This is a rather dull week...