The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-11


 jects as orange growing, public health, rural school lunches, his torical research, labor legislation, student exchange, and stuff like that. For instance:
 Jules Basdevant, assistant dele gate to France, law professor of Paris, has been putting in some time at the Hoover War Memorial Library, Stanford University. Form collections of documents on wars revolutions and peace, one in Paris and the other in Berlin. The Ger man collection in Berlin is believed to have been completely destroyed and the French collection was bad ly damaged. pr. Basdevant is mak- ing preliminary arrangements to have the Hoover Library documents microflmed so as to bring the Paris collection up to date.
 French technical adviser Jean Chatenet is visiting Stanford to do research for future reorganization of the French Ministry of Labor. Rene Hoffherr. another French ad- wiser, met U. s. economists on the Stanford faculty and will return there to lecture.
 Ali Akbar SiasSi Minister of State for Iran and chancellor of the Uni- versity of Teheran, is interested in U. s. higher education. Presidents Donald B. Tressider of Stanford and Herman Wells of Indiana have in- vited him to visit their campuses.
 Mrs. Isabel P de Vival, Uruguay an senator and educator, is visiting San Francisco schools and will go to the University of California eX- tension center in Berkeley.
 Egyptian delegates. interested in improving the citrus fruit crops of their country, are visiting California orange groves.
 All these and other similar eXam- pies fit into the big pattern of im- proving international working rela- tionships for peace times. Several representative of the U. s. Depart ment of State, Division of Cultural Cooperation, have been assigned to the San Francisco Conference to help delegates meet the people who can do them some good. Once eS- tablished, these contacts are con- tinued through the years and lead to international understanding - which is merely another name for peace - through personal relation ships.
 If this sounds a bit thin, it does mt add up that way at all Fact is that dozens of the foreign delegates and their advisers were educated in the United States. Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador was a football star at Stanford. Jorge Fidel of Honduras studied law at Loyola. Many of the Middle Eastern delegates attended the American universities in Athens and Beirut, Syria, and Roberts Col lege, Istanbul. Five of the 10 dele gates from China went to U. s. uni versailles.
 One of the principal amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals made by China. and accepted by the other big powers. calls for specific provisions to promote educational and other forms of cultural cooper ation. What you have just been reading about is this same brand of cultural cooperation in a great big way.
 Many of the U. s. experts at San Francisco hold degrees from foreign universities. Their first-hand know ledge of foreign countries and lang uage helps them wage peace now Conversely, when students from foreign countries attend U. S. schools and then go back home to assume positions of leadership in their governments, they are among the first to be considered as dele gates to conferences like this one. That's how all this cultural relations business pays off it's contribution to peace