Foreign Relations Club Reveals Plans For Peace Conference Here Next Spring

After consulting with University Hall, George McT. Kahin '40, president of the recently formed Harvard Foreign Relations Club, announced yesterday that his organization was making extensive plans for a peace conference next spring and that several internationally famous authorities would be invited.

In the words of Kahin, the conference next spring "will be devoted to arriving at the basis for a permanent European and Far Eastern peace." Over 15 prominent eastern colleges will participate, each one sending a delegation representing a world power.

Authorities Invited

Prominent guests who will be invited include: Hu Shih, ambassador from China to the United States; Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith; Professor Frederick L. Schuman from Williams; Max Lerner; and Clarence K. Streit. The club hopes to get also the attendance of a number of foreign diplomats from Washington and a selected group of the University's faculty.

"Whereas other conferences on European peace have pursued purely idealistic lines," Kahin declared, "this one will have a real and practical basis."

On the first day a general symposium will be held, with active discussion and speeches by the various authorities. The other two days will be devoted to round table meetings, each college delegation will have a chance to give the point of view of the country it represents.

50 Undergraduate Members

Although organized just this fall, the Club is already a strongly knit group. Sixty-five students, over 50 of whom are undergraduates, form the membership Within the last two months Professors Brinton, Karpovich, and Fay have spoken, and plans are being formulated for a similar series of lectures next spring.

Last year Kahin was chairman of the Student Union's Foreign Affairs Committee. As he and a number of friends felt the need of more "independence of action", thy broke away from the Union in September and formed this entirely independent association.

Aid from Carnegie Foundation

Backed by the Carnegie Foundation for Peace, which sends them 20 new books a year, the Club has established headquarters on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House and is building an international relations library there.

Besides its gift of books, the Carnegie Foundation also publishes fortnightly an eight-page compendium of international relations, supposed by many scholars to be one of the most unbiased and accurate summaries of its kind in the country.