Post-War Council Plans Forum and Meetings in Fall

With a summer of concrets accomplishment behind it, the Council on Post-War Problems is looking forward this fall to the most active period in its short existence.

Founded in October, 1941 to take, up the slack in undergraduate thinking which inevitably took root as the United States approached closer to World War II, the Council had as its aim to provoke serious thought and discussion about post-war problems and interest in international cooperation.

Forums, Meetings Planned

This is still the central tenet of the group. Through bi-weekly public forums, with audience participation, large public meetings, its own speaker's bureal, and a connection with the International Student Service magazine Threshold, the Council will seek this fall to pose the problems to as many people as it possibly can.

For the more serious students of the issue, about three study groups will be set up this fall, more intense than those which operated last summer. Prominent members of the Faculty--such men as Professor Payson Wild and Professor Sidney B. Fay worked with the committees in the past--aid these groups with their opinions, and independent research is carried on by sub-committee members.

Answers Critique

Most frequent criticism of the Council and its program is the complaint that America should devote all of its attention to winning the war. The Council's answer is contained in a flyer distributed throughout the college in the last few days.

"For students the discussion of such problems, while not detracting in any way from the war effort, gives an added impetus to that effort, gives an added impetus to that effort through presenting positive aims for which to fight. Certainly to those who have the privilege of studying in these times, there belongs the responsibility for seeking an understanding of the causes of this war. Nor is discussion alone sufficient, for to wait until the war is won to make the public aware of the necessity of international co-operation would be as disastrous as the experience of the last war."