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From Russia: An invitation for spokesmen of the Soviet Union to participate in the Institute was extended twelve weeks ago through Andrei Gromyko, its delegate on the United Nations Security Council. The invitation has been repeated in cables to Moscow. At press time of this issue, no acknowledgment had been received.
From the U.S.: James B. (for Barren) Carey, Secretary-Treasurer of the Congress for Industrial Organizations. Slim, 35-year-old Jim Carey is one of U.S. labor's ablest men, a scrappy advocate of labor's responsibility (in all countries) in shaping policies for peace. He was labor's representative on several wartime Government boards and is one of its most experienced men in its international fields. He represented the C.I.O. at the London and Paris conferences which set up the World Federation of Trade Unions, was a consultant at the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Late in 1945 he headed a C.I.O. delegation which visited Moscow and Leningrad. In C.I.O. councils (he has been a top officer for eight years) he is a straight-talking battler against Communist influence in unions, preaches that Communist Party activities in this country are "a major barrier to true American-Russian understanding."
THE U. S.
The Institute's closing session will be given over to authoritative discussion of U.S. responsibilities. In the past year these responsibilities have been exercised in a largely negative way, i.e., necessary resistance to Russian expansion. But in the long run, U.S. leadership must be positive and must extend in full vigor from the field of diplomacy into economic organization, education, morals and wherever American ideals may find expression. This does not mean that the U.S. will attempt to dictate or interfere with the policies of other countries. It does assume, however, that the world looks to the U.S. for more than material aid and military protection. The Institute's sponsors hope that their guests from abroad will spell out in concrete terms how the U.S. may assist in building a better world, and that the U.S. spokesmen will suggest practical, contemporary methods of realizing U.S. democratic principles in U.S. foreign relations.
From Education: In the fields of education and cultural activities, women play a major part. The Institute's speaker on this theme is Mildred Helen McAfee (Mrs. Douglas Hor-ton), the "Captain Mac" who organized, trained and bossed 86,000 WAVES, is now again the president of Wellesley College. She believes that colleges (in which she has spent almost all of her adult life) are the place to start to right wrongs in the postwar world.