Shapley Lauds Peace Purpose of NY Parley

Harlow Shapley Paine Professor of Astronomy and chairman of the forthcoming Cultural and Scientific Conference for world Peace, praised the aims of this forum in a statement issued last Wednesday.

"We are happy to learn that the great American tradition of opening doors to the free exchange of cultural and scientific thought continues," he stated. Shapley added that the persons who will are seeking "to contribute to the establishment of a spirit of peace in a time . . . of great armaments and war."