Foreign Student Group Will Spend Three Days Here

Six Middle and Far Eastern student leaders--all socialists--will arrive here Monday on the last stop of a six weeks tour of the United States.

They will live with undergraduates in the Houses for three days, absorbing impressions of student life and visiting classes and various extra-curricular organizations, including the Student Council meeting Monday night, the CRIMSON, and various House Committee meetings.

Peter Jones 1L, a member of the National Student Association, described the visitors as potential leaders in their countries. "When they graduate," he said, "They will immediately become judges. Within a few years many of them will be sitting in their cabinets of state."

Because the populations of most of the Near Eastern countries are largely illiterate, students are often direct consultants to the government, even during their college years. They have greater political importance than most of the adult population of these countries, Jones said.

Interested in Student Government

Undergraduates who will house the students will attempt to "build up friendship and understanding" between the visitors and this country.

The students are particularly interested in student government here Jones continued, Unused to democratic process with its complex committee work, discussions, and meetings, the visitors have been used to getting things done in "more violent fashion."

One of them led a movement last year to obtain a student union for his university. He and a group of his fellow students entered and took possession of an unused government building one night. The following morning the student went to the city mayor, told him what they had done, and warned him that the city officials must not interfere. He won his point.

Two of the visitors are from Pakistan, two from Egypt, and one each from Iran and Indonesia. They will return home this week at the conclusion of their stay here.