Shapley Conference Asks Strong UN; Schlesinger Calls Parley Propaganda

The Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace yesterday adopted a resolution emphasizing need for a strengthened United Nations and then officially concluded its three-day sessions with a "United for World Peace" rally at Madison Square Gardon last night.

The resolution, adopted by about 2000 delegates contains three main points: (1)a demand to implement the United Nations as the best hope for peace. (2)an expression of cooperation with other peace movements throughout the world, and (3) plans for continuation of work started at the weekend meeting.

Conference chairman Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, said that much of the criticism found in the peace resolution is aimed at the United States. But he added that this country is in a pre-eminent world position and "must be a world leader in morality."

Allen M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School and a member of the conference's "action" committee, said his group would meet today to form specific recommendations for carrying out yesterday's resolutions.

Shapley Speech

Shapley himself delivered one of Saturday's five keynote addresses at Carnegle Hall. Criticizing both the United States and Russia. Shapley suggested that "the two greatest nations are so obsessed with pointing out and screaming about each other's shortcomings that they are unaware of, or deliberately overlooking, their own."

He levelled a specific attack on the United States for its "superior race hypothesis," manifest, he said, in "color-of-skin discrimination."

Shapley, Matthieesen at Panels

Later in the day at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Shapley criticized American foreign policy before a panel discussion on "Building and Planning." As moderator of the panel, he declared that the United Nations and not the United States should be carrying out President Truman's "bold now plan" of building up undeveloped areas.

American direction in this policy can only be interpreted as a move to "mobilize the population of underprivileged regions in anticipation of a struggle with the Soviet bloc," he said.

F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, delivered one of the main talks at the panel on "Writing and Publishing." He cited Thoreau and Emerson as subjects of persecution when they attempted to speak out "for peace and liberty" and said that present-day writers should emulate them.