Panel Tonight to Feature Talks on Soviet Relations

In an attempt to answer the question "What should America's policy toward Russia be?" the second Law School Forum of the season will be presented tonight in New lecture Hall at 8 o'clock.

Scheduled as speakers are John Somerville, Hunter College professor of philosophy; John Fischer, editor of Harpers; and Michael Karpovitch, professor of History at Harvard.

Somerville, who speaks the Russian language and has twice visited the Soviet union, instructed and taught at Columbia Universtiy the first courses in the United States devoted to examination of Russian thought since the revolution. Fischer, a former Rhodes scholar, spent several months this year as one of a team sent by the united States to check on distribution of UNRRA supplies in Russia.

A former member of the Kerrensky government, Karpovitch has been at Harvard since 1926.

To persons asking the best questions during the discussion period which will follow formal presentation of the subject by the speakers, four books will be awarded.

They are: "The Peoples of the Soviet Union," by Corliss Lamont: "Where Are WE Heading?" by Sumner Welles; "Soviet Philosophy," by John Somerville; and "These Are the Russians," by Richard E. Lauterbach.

Tonight's Law School Forum will be broadcast over Station WHDH, beginning at 9:35 o'clock. Seven other Forum programs are scheduled for broadcast during the season by this station.