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Died. William Olaf Stapledon, 64 Egypt-born British philosopher (A Modern Theory of Ethics) and fiction writer (such early-Wellsian fantasies as Last and First Men, Odd John, Sinus); of a coronary occlusion; in Cheshire, England. A longtime one-worlder, Stapledon achieved a measure of distinction in March 1949 as the only British delegate at the Communist-backed Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace* in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria...
Will Clayton, he claimed, had cleaned up $5 million through cotton sales abroad by his brokerage firm, at the same time that he was actively urging U.S. loans to foreign buyers. Said he: "Mr. Clayton is a well-known one-worlder in do-gooder circles, and I must admit that he does believe in one world-one world for Will Clayton and family...