World Federalists Select Members of Executive Board

World Federalists held their first organizational meeting of the year last night in Lowell Junior Common Room and elected permanent officers. Preceding the business meeting, a four-man student panel discussed the implications of the Montreux Declaration of the world movement for world government.

John C. Pittenger '51 was elected president, Stephen Minot '51 became vicepresident, and Philip Winsor '50 was named secretary-treasurer. Thirty-five students attended the meeting and formed themselves into a nucleus official membership.

Problems discussed by the panel revolved around the question of the amount of power which should be delegated to a world government. The Montreux Declaration, framed by an international conference last summer called for a world government of very broad powers. Panel speaker David Baumman '51, stated that only a fairly limited world government proposal would be likely to be accepted by the United States.