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Lattimore Will Speak To UN Group Tonight

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Despte objections from the American Legion, Owen Lattimore will address a United Nations Council Forum tonight on the subject of "The Place of Asia in American Thought" at 8 p.m. in the New Lecture Hal.

On the same program, M. S. Sundaram, cultural attache to the Indian Embassy in Washington, will speak on "The Place of America in Asiatic Thought."

Previously, William M. Curtis, Jr. '24, chairman of the anti-Subversive Committee of the Massachusetts department of the Legion, protested that the Council showed "poor judgment as well as taste" in inviting Latimore to speak.

Lattimore has been under indictment for perjury before the State Internal Security Committee since December, 1952.

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