University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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but just a feasible method of liv- ing together. What to do with a plan, when we have it? This student and faculty association, must then strive to make the people of this nation accept the plan, and put it to work. The people must be made to want peace and not war. They must be made to realize what another war will mean. If the people earnestl y desire peace, they will want the solution to work and help to make it work. The people will then form a tremen- dous pressure group, which will force the political parties of the country to build platforms for peace. This action can take a long time to produce positive results, but then again it can also realize quick results which can forestall another war. Then we can work with a larger end in mind — world federalism. But until then we must as prospective leaders find the means for achieving peace. Student cichangc t«k«i place btlwccn colltgci and unlvtrjilicj on (hi» continent, with many American students in attendance at such schools as the University of Montreal, pictured above. Foreign students are alto flocking to American schools, and as a result foreign study is becoming more and more widespread. Page 14

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Someone must take the lead, le+ it be the students and faculty of our educational institutions. Let us associate ourselves with peace. We must begin to act, and to do that we must begin to think. We must think simply of a way to work toward peace not war. With the aid of our faculty, we must work out a plan. A plan that does not have to be THE plan, or a panacea for all our ills, American soldiers in England were able to attend English universities during the war, as was this Gl studying at Cambridge. However, many of the soldiers were given the opportunity to study at American schools set up by the Army, such as Shrivcnham and Biarritz. These instances and their success, show the value of foreign study, whether under American or foreign direction.

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Last April, in St. Paul, Minnesota, a Festival of Nations was held, and n -any foreign students going to the University partici- pated. Held in the St. Paul Auditorium, the students danced and sang for thousands of pleased American spectators. Such efforts as these to reach an understanding between nations, are comnnendable, but they are not enough, every individual must willingly work to establish the peace that is now so necessary for mankind. What has been written here is no solution of the problenn. However it is a declaration of the crisis, as we face it now. It is very simple; we are now thinking in terms of war. Who will drop the first bomb, and who will be the best prepared. Such talk may be termed defeatism, but talk of war is sure defeatism — defeat of mankind and all that he has built for himself. A war means destruction of all our plans, our hopes and our desires. An earnest effort for peace means perhaps the giving up of some of our plans but at the same time in ensures the fulfillment of that pursuit of happiness. Pase IS