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Speaking before 199 seniors and 70 graduate students at Radcliffe Commencement exercise yesterday morning, Vera Michels Dean, editor of the Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Association, urged women to take an active part in politics and social reform and said not to be "afraid to have convictions of your own."

She state dthat extremist movements, whether they be communism or fascism, are the symptoms, not the real source of the world's ills.

Whatever party wins the coming presidential election, she continued, "the revolution we have carried out during the past 20 years--a revolution often un-admitted will not be reversed." She also predicted that labor will soon take a more active part in the affairs of the country.

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