Evening star., 1932-02-20
EVENTUAL CONFLICT
WITH S0V|ETS SEEN
DR.. Walsh Opens Lectures
Comparing U. S. System
With Russia.

! With approximately 1000 men and
women regularly enrolled in a special
public course, DR.. Edmund A. Walsh,
S. j., regent Of the School of Foreign
Service of Georgetown University, last
night delivered the first of series Of
10 lectures constituting a comparative
study Of the American and Soviet sys-
TENS of government which he pre-
dicted eventually must clash in final
titanic conflict"
The president Of Georgetown Uni
versity, Dr. W. Coleman Nevils. S. j.,
who made the Introductory remarks, in
formed those who will attend the course
each week in CASTOR Hall. that it Of
! ficially opened GeorgetoYns own
George Washington Bicentennial pro-
gram. Owing to the widespread inter-
est in the Russian question, he said.
the university officials had arranged
with DR.. Walsh to devote his Russian
course this year to contrasting the
character and policies of George Wash
ington. founder of the American Gov
ernment, with those of Nicolai Lenin,
| founder Of the Soviet State.
Prominent Persons Enrolled.
/ Many prominent men and women
! who are close students of Russian af-
! fairs, have enrolled in the course which
will be held on Friday nights at $50
O'Clock In his first lecture. DR.. Walsh
took as his general theme The Age of
! Washington" and will follow with THE
Age of Lenin''
The collected works of Lenin require
80 volumes. DR.. Walsh said, in point
ing out that they supply the basis
and the framework of the Soviet state.
Similarly. ne said, the writings of
George Washington and his associates
embody the essential American ira
dition.
"Washington's writings alone. ex-
elusive OF his diaries, will require rs
volumes in the complete edition now
being prepared by the Bicentennial
Commission" he said "A careful com
parison of the two l,ilosophies Of
government is particularlr valuable at
this time. If the Soviet state is the
heightened shadow of one l,lan. then
assuredly the American Nation was the
laborious creation of a great will sus-
tanned by great vision. In the opin-
ion of many thoughtful men. including
Lenln himself. these two systems even
tuallv must clash in one final titanic
conflict
Pays Washington Tribute.
Paying tribute to the character Of
the first President. DR.. Walsh said that
The Age of Washington means every
age wherein a high purpose, nobly con-
ceived and to be nobly executed, awaits
its village Hampden'
"Washington's native resolution and
force of character" he added, was the
greatest single event that transformed
the Declaration of Independence from
rhetoric into political actuality that
has served as the corner stone of our
domestic liberties and has profoundly
influenced the development of demo-
cratic forms elsewhere"
In various forms Georgetown Uni
versity is arranging to take cognizarice
Of the Bicentennial celebration this
year. In addition to the present course
of lectures. the graduate departments
OF the university have inaugurated
special studies for research into Amer
ican history and particularly into the
Constitution. The university on April
6. President Nevils announced, will hold
special George washington program,
a part OF which will be an exhibit Of
the university's Washington and Co.
lonial collections Of historical data.