IRC Conducts UNRRA Forum Round Table Discussion
International Relations Club held a four o'clock UNRRA forum in the Conference Room last Tuesday. Ellen Haight highlighted UNRRA’s wartime challenges and achievements including food shipments, care for displaced persons, health work, and industrial rehabilitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Relations Club
UNRRA
Ellen Haight
IRC
Middle East
Miss Haight
UNIRA
Europe
Asia
Lucille Frackman
China
Pauline Frassati
Simone Dreyfus
France
Ruth Stevenson
Netherlands
Charlotte Brandis
Germany
Poland
Hertha Haberlander
Eva Maze
Italy
Leader pleads for free India in world peace push
Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Nehru's sister, urged the American people to help free India. She argued Britain cannot govern India, education is underfunded, and only a free India can bring global peace. She cited illiteracy, religious voting restrictions, and nonaggression as key issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Nehru
Pandit
Britain
England
Correction on Auschwitz drawings exhibition details
A reader corrects misstatements about Mrs. Teleki’s time at Auschwitz and clarifies the works’ provenance. The drawings, created partly in Auschwitz and partly in Lippstadt, are valuable survivor records now shown in New York with support from the International Committee and Barnard Students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lippstadt
Teleki
Department of Fine Arts
International Committee
Barnard
Julius S. Held
Vasse Addresses French Club on Elections and Assembly
M. Lionel Vasse, France’s Consul General, spoke to the French Club in the College Parlor last Friday about the recent French elections and the Constituent Assembly. He outlined his career from Paris 1929 to his post as Consul General Adjoint in New York City since March 1945 and noted that eight metropolitan colleges have authorized delegates to attend the council meetings.
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M. Lionel Vasse
France
Constituent Assembly
M. Vasse
General de Gaulle
Paris
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mexico City
Los Angeles
Bogota
Colombia
Marshal Petain
Algiers
Mexico
Chicago
New York City
Studet Councils
Barnard and Columbia Glee Clubs Offer Fall Concert
The Barnard College Glee Club and Columbia College Glee Club shared a fall concert at McMillin Theater directed by Igor Buketoff. About sixty Barnard and forty Columbia students performed mixed choral works, with joint numbers featuring Bach, Thomson, Holst, Schuman, and Brockway, plus Barnard solos including Sullivan and Kodaly pieces.
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Barnard College Glee Club
Columbia College Glee Club
McMillin Theater
Igor Buketoff
Barnard
Columbia
Bach
Randall Thomson
Man
Gustav Holst
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Holst
William Schuman
The
Julliard School of Music
Barnard Glee Club
Brockway
Onpheus
Sullivan
Henry Purcell
Zoltan Kodaly
National Patriotic Service Award Presented to Dean Gildersleeve
The National Patriotic Service Award was given on November 28 to Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard by the National Patriotic Service Committee of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Mrs. Ethelbert Low praised her clear mind and justice, noting the president’s recognition of her as the only woman delegate to the San Francisco Conference. Gildersleeve said representing the country stirred her patriotism and hopeful service by American women in peace and war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Patriotic Service Committee
National Society of Colonial Dames of America
Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Barnard
Ethelbert Low
Miss Gildersleeve
United States
San Francisco
Crisis Meeting On Atomic Bomb Policy Draws Notables
Henry A Wallace headlines a mass meeting on Atom Bomb for War or Peace with Dr Julian Huxley, Dr Harold Urey, Senator Tobey, R. J. Thomas, Evans Carlson, Helen Keller, Danny Kaye and others. Dr Harlow Shapley chairs as international cooperation and scientific freedom are urged. Tickets from Hotel Astor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Julian Huxley
England
Harold C. Urey
Institute of Nuclear Physics
The
University of Chicago
Charles W. Tobey
N. H
R. J. Thomas
United Auto Workers
Evans Carlson
Carlson
Raiders
Helen Keller
Danny Kaye
Frederic March
Mr. Davidson
Harlow Shapley
Harvard College Observatory
UNO
Association of Manhattan Project
Union of Biological Scientists
Irving Kaplan
Association
Harold Urey
Tobey
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Cynthia Kosmas
Greece
Miss Kosmas
CURC
Vasse
National Working Committee of
Scientists
Norman Corwin
Astor
Robert Chambers
Huxley
Arts, Science and Professions Committee
Hotel Astor
Intercollegiate Council On Atomic Energy
Intercollegiate Council
Samuel Federman
Columbia School of Engineering
Coca-Cola Bottling Company OF New York, Inc
Coca-Cola Company
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