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Princeton's Grecian Whig Hall was the scene Saturday afternoon of the final plenary session of the fourth annual H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs, as undergraduate leaders summed up before 125 delegates the round table discussions of the previous two days.
Delivering the plenary address, S. A. Woodd-Cahusac, Princeton '40, declined to draw up any definite program based on the conference's deliberations, but pointed out that the one common denominator of the discussions had been the question of the proper sphere and extent of governmental activity.
Advocates Union of Americas
Arthur R. Reis, Jr., Princeton '39, declared in summing up the discussions at the Latin-American table that closer cultural ties must be established with South America. As chairman of the International Trade Table, D. A. Schmechel, Yale '40, stressed the importance of the Hull trade agreement program coupled with economic sanctions against aggressors, as a move for world peace.
Favor Federal Relief
The federal government is the proper agency for the administration of relief, not state administrations, George Jacobs '40, head of the Social Security and Relief table, held.
General conclusions of the Pressure Groups table was that the only restrictions on the operation of minority lobbies should be the publicizing of their methods, not direct governmental intervention.
A. O. Whipple, Jr., Princeton '39, summed up the discussions at the table on transportation problems.
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