Class of 1945 Issues Statement Requesting Peace, Not Victory'

Several hundred classmates and wives of the Class of 1945, here for their 25th reunion, approved an antiwar statement yesterday.

The statement was unofficially proposed by Hugh D. Calkins '45, Fellow of Harvard College, at a panel discussion on "What's a University For?" yesterday morning in Lowell Lecture Hall.

When a member of the audience asked that the statement be voted upon, an informal show of hands was taken and the statement passed with only a few dissenters. Many people had already left the hall, though, some apparently in disapproval of the statement. The statement says:

If in 1970 it becomes necessary for the first time in its history for this country to make a choice between peace and victory, the Class of 1945 would hope the country will choose for peace.

Classmates and their wives spent the rest of the day at cocktails and lunch, cocktails and dinner, a Boston Pops concert at Symphony Hall, and cocktails.