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Prof. Harlow Shapley (astronomy) calls for creation of a Department of Peace and Human Welfare, headed by a Secretary of Cabinet rank. "Congress should back this department with a budget approaching 10 per cent of what we are currently spending on the various machineries of war. The department would of course include a number of bureaus that already exist, but its large new adventure might be in the field of the international development of the world's human and material resources to the end of decreasing the miseries and irritations that lead to the wars that threaten our civilization...
...bill follows a long line of proposals which has attempted to outlaw or restrict Communist activities in this state. Last year, McCarthy and Superior Court Clerk Thomas Dorgan, in supporting their bill requiring college presidents to dismiss Communists from their teaching staffs, accused Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, of being unable to teach because of his alleged Communist associations...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, deplored America's foreign aid program at the Boston Community Church last night. He pointed out that the United Nations spends a "grotesquely small" sum on foreign aid, while using $50 billion a year for "police activity...
...United Nations are fighting to stop an impending World War," Shapley said. "However, we in this country aren't offering any hope to the under-privileged people in other parts of the world ... and for some of them, our enemy's philosophy has the brighter future...
...census of the cosmos was taken at the College Observatory, of which Shapley is director...