Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-05

1.-THE rehabilitation Of the economic
structure Of Europe quite evidently
viii require q much longer time and
greater effort than had been fore
seen.
Not Producing Goods.
/ He said "the modern system Of
the division of labor upon which thu
exchange of products is based Is In
danger of breaking down" because
Town and city industries are moi
producing enough goods to exchange
with food-producing farmers, who
in turn withdraw their fields from
cultivation and use them for graz
ing. 5s
Meanwhile, people in the elite.
are short of food and fuel. So thu
governments are forced to use
their foreign money and credits
to procure these necessities abroad.
The truth of the matter" Gen
Marshall continued, lis thai
Europe's requirements for the next
three or four years on foreign fooe
and other essential products-prin-
cipally from America-are so much
greater than her present ability te
pay that she must have substantial.
additional help, or face economic
social and political deterioration oil
a very grave character.
The remedy lies in breaking the
vicious circle and restoring the con-
fidence Of the European people in
the economic future of their own
countries and of Europe as a
whole"
Gen. Bradley Speaks.
Gen. Bradley told the Alumni
Association it may cost the Govern
ment $4,000, o00, 900 to educate vet
Grams.
The cost for the 20 months since
the war ended is nearly $500, 0o0,-
600, he said and of 2 300, 900 students
now in colleges 100000 are vet
Grams getting their education at
Government expense.
Gen. Bradley called the CT bill
which provides free tuition, supsist-
ence payments and other educa-
tional benefits, daring new char
ter in human rights"
He said American thus have
acknowledged their Governments
obligations to recompense veterans
for opportunities lost while in ma
tional service.
Need Not Fear Defiections,
eff in this postwar struggle be-
tween democracy and the COMPETE
tive system of rival states, we offer
youth fair chance to make its
way in the Nation we need not fear
reflections to either the left or the
right.
1.-THE most dangerous enemies of
democracy are not underground
plotters, but unemployment, hunger,
bad housing-the deadly cycles of
boom and bust. We shall merit
loyalty to democracy on the part
of our young veterans only as long
as we prove the superiority of
democracy through its achieve
ments," he declared.
DR.. James B. Conant, Harvard
president, described Gen. Marshall
as IAN American to whom freedom
owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a
soldier and statesman whose ability
and character brook only one COM
parison in the history Of this Ma
ton"
Gen. Bradley, commander of the
I'd Corps in Tunisia and Sicily and
the 18th Army Group in France
and Germany, was cited as "a mas
ter Of the art of war who now
serves those whom he once led; a
courageous administration, the Ma
ton Is doubly in his debt"
Other Awards.
Other awards went to T. S. Eliot,
Missouri-born English poet; j. Rob-
ert Oppenheimer, former director of
the Santa .Fe IN. Mex laboratory
that perfected the atomic bomb !;
William A. Dwiggins, typographical
designer, and William Holding
Carter, jr., Pulitzer prize winning
editorial writer and publisher of the
Delta Democrat Times, Greenville,
Miss.
Still other honorary degrees were
awarded to former Senator James
w. Wadsworth of New York, Ernest
Cadman Colwell. president of the
University of Chicago; Ivor A. Rich
ards, Harvard professor and COIN
ventor OF basic English; George
Henry Chase, former dean of Har-
ward University; Frank Learoyd
Boyden, principal of Deerf1eld
(Mass) Academy, and William
Francis Gibbs, vice president of the
naval architects firm of Gibbs g.
Cox, Inc.
Made Doctors of Laws.
Mr.. Wadsworth, Mr.. Chase and
Mr.. Boyden were designated doctors
of laws, along with Gen. Marshall
and Gen. Bradley. Mr.. Oppenheimer
and Mr.. Gibbs were made doctors of
science, Mr.. Colwell a doctor of
divinity, Mr.. Eliot and Mr.. Richards
doctors of letters and Mr.. Carter
and Mr.. Dwiggins masters of arts.
DR.. Conant cited Mr.. Open
heimer as a brilliant director of
the scientists and engineers who
made a bomb from nuclear fuels:
the expert behind the plan for the
international control of atomic
energy"
Mr.. Eliot was cited in these words:
Once again the English-speaking
peoples shall hail a religious and
learned poet whose words the world
will not willingly let die
Shrine of Sacred Heart