Moravec to Head 'Save Marshall Plan' Project

Vincent P. Moravec '50, 1947 Varsity football captain, will carry the ball for European recovery as student chairman of the "Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan" which emerged from a meeting of 47 organization heads and Faculty members last night in the Adams House Upper Common Room.

Working directly under Moravec and a Faculty co-chairman yet to be named, an executive committee of ten was empowered by the meeting to seek official public support of a "broadly representative" faculty and student group roster. Fundamentally the committee holds that the Marshall's Plan's original purpose of "reconstruction rather than mere short-range relief" has been endangered and must be realized through an active public opinion.

"I think this is everyone's business," Moravec declared last night. "We've got to convince Congress that the overwhelming majority of us in Cambridge know what is happening to the Marshall Plan and care about it enough to make a squawk."

He explained that by next Wednesday the Executive Committee will have drafted the movement's explicit final statement of principles and would announce this together with sponsors and plan-of-action.

Meanwhile Moravec claimed that letters were being sent to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The meeting favored generally the use of United Nations facilities when possible, the avoidance of "internal meddling" in economies and politics abroad, in addition to the concept of a positive reconstruction program.

Members of the Executive Committee elected last night are: William L. Rusher 2L, president of the Young Republican Club; Frederic D. Houghteling '50, president of the Liberal Union; Raquel Heller '48 of the Radcliffe League for Democracy; Douglass Cater 1PA; Stanley G. Karson '48, AVC chapter chairman; Robert E. Lane, Teaching Fellow in Government; Ruppert Emerson, professor of Government; Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy; and Payson S. Wild, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Secretary of the group will be Daniel Yarkelwitz 2G. Vice-chairman is Arthur White 2L.