Word: global
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Global Round Table
...University level, President Conant also suggested that "several large universities" cooperate in training specialists on all major areas of the globe. Under his plan, the nation's major universities would be encouraged to specialize on major global areas, and to announce their course offerings jointly. "If this were done, the limited scholarly resources of the nation would be used to best advantage...
...note that ran through many of the speeches was clearly struck by Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary: "The knowledge and skills of modern civilization have outrun the moral and spiritual resources for their direction and control." Speaking of world Protestantism, Van Dusen said: "Inevitably, global war put the World Christian Movement to its severest test. What possibility was there of maintaining a world program of expansion amidst world-severing conflict? . . . What reality could be preserved by a universal spiritual fellowship, by a World Community...
...because Soviet officials ignored several Invitations to send a representative. The Communist Party in Cleveland circulated a pamphlet calling the Institute part of a "Hitlerite dream of world conquest." The Chicago Tribune was also annoyed, although it seemed to have the opposite objection: "One Worlders Stress U.S. as a Global Santa," said the Tribune; it also called the participants "lickspittle members." * U.S.-educated Jan Masaryk spoke the word peace in several tongues: paix (French), paz (Spanish), pace (Italian), bćke (Hungarian), vrede (Dutch), baris (Turkish), mir (Czech) and ping (Chinese). † A misquotation from Lincoln's Second Inaugural...
Representatives of the University, other Eastern colleges, the United Nations and the State Department will address the group on problems concerning the role of the individual and the United States in establishing global peace...