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Local College Professors To Speak on Disarmament

In Ames Courtroom Today

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The Special Senate Subcommittee on Disarmament will hold the first in a series of hearings on the various aspects of disarmament, tomorrow in the Ames Courtroom at the Law School. The series is designed to discover the opinions of well informed specialists, as well as interested citizens, on this subject.

The committee, headed by Senator Humphrey (D. Minn.), will hear David F. Cavers, Associate Dean of the Law School, Lincoln Gordon '34, William Ziegler, Professor of International Economic Relations, Professor Walter Rostow of MIT, and Professor Max T. Millikan of MIT.

Starting at 10 a.m., the committee will listen to witnesses from the general public who wish to express their views on disarmament. A second session will open at 2 p.m., at which time the Senators will hear the above specialists speak on specific topics concerning important aspects of disarmament.

Cavers will discuss the procedures and legal questions involved, and Lincoln will consider the problems of actual negotiations. The two M.I.T. professors will speak on the foreign implications of disarmament. Millikan, director of M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, will describe the possible effects of disarmament on U.S. relations with other countries, and Rostow will put forward the Soviet policies on disarmament.

Other speakers will be W. Barton Leach, Director of the Defense Studies Program, Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, and Professor Duncan MacDonald of Boston University.

Members of the Subcommittee besides Humphrey are Senators Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), John Sparkman (D-Ala.), John O. Pastore (D,R.I.), Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), Alben W. Barkley (D-Ky), Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.), Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-Iowa), Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.), William F. Knowland (R-Calif.), and John W. Bricker (R-Ohio).

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