MacLeish Sees Arts As Vigorous Weapon Opposing Communism

One of America's most powerful weapons against Communism is the vitality of our literature, according to Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory.

Speaking in Cincinnati on Friday at the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, MacLeish said that "American literature in general is far more important than government outlets in touching public opinion abroad."

At their meeting on Saturday the alumni elected H. S. Payson Rowe '22 of Boston, vice-president and treasurer of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, as president of the Associated Clubs, to succeed Jackson M. Bruce '25 of Milwaukee.

J. Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29 of St. Louis was re-elected secretary.