Debaters Will Meet British Team Monday

A 27-year spell of non-intercourse between British and University debaters will end next Monday when the Debate Council entertains a team from Cambridge University.

On the topic "Resolved, That dissolution of the British Empire would be in the interest of world peace," the debate will begin at 8:30 o'clock in Paine Hall.

Ian S. Lloyd and William Richmond, both graduate students, are currently representing Cambridge on a debating tour of the United States, with a total of 20 universities and colleges on their schedule. Speaking for the Debate Council will be William P. D. Bailey '46 and Edwin J. Jacob '47.

Professors to Judge

To act as judges, the Council has secured the services of three full professors--Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; David E. Owen, professor of History; and University Professor Roscoe Pound.

The long absence of British and College speakers on the same debating platform dates back to 1920 when the Crimson whipped a duo from Oxford University.

Lloyd, now in the midst of a study of the industrial history of the Rolls-Royce Company, graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. During the war he was a pilot in the South African Air Force. After the war, he entered Cambridge to begin his graduate study of economics.

Richmond in Royal Navy

Richmond served during the war in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, was present at the evacuation of Dunkirk, and saw action in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and in the Mediterranean Sea.

Demobilized in January, 1946, he returned to his studies at Cambridge. Active in politics, he is a member of the Cambridge Borough Council and is vice-President of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. Richmond is also President of the Union Society at Cambridge.