Law Forum Stymied In Quest of Speaker To Debate McCarthy

The Law School Forum said last night that it had run into a "blank wall" in its efforts to get a speaker in place of former President Truman to debate the issues of Communism with Senator McCarthy.

With McCarthy already having accepted an invitation to speak, the Forum said that the proposed forum will probably not be cancelled. It is trying to find someone "as able and expert" a representative of one side as McCarthy is of the other.

Last week, Herschel Shanks 1L, coordinator of this forum, sent invitations to McCarthy and Truman to debate the issues of Communism. McCarthy accepted, but Truman declined.

Although McCarthy may back out now that Truman has declined, Shanks is confident that if McCarthy agrees to the "importance of the issues," he will appear.

The date for the proposed forum on Communism was set by Shanks for March 5.