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Even if the Soviet Union weren't a Communist
dictatorship, the current crisis between
Russia and the West would be incWtable,
says English historian Herbert Butterfield
in the April issue of the "Review of
Politics."
According to Profccsor Butterfield, the
potential conflict is based on old problems
that don't have much to do with differences
in ideology. The most important issue
he says, is "whether Russia should dominate
those countries of central and eastern
Europe which run from Poland, through
Czechoslovakia and Hungary to what we
now call Yugoslavia and the Balkans."
Instead of international conferences as a
means of solving world problems, Butterfield
proposes a return to "the older methods of
diplomacy, which still recognize the persistent
fact in all human relations—the inentable
conflict of human wills." Our only
hope for peace, he maintains, lies in an objective
"historian's view" of international
disagreements.
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Dr. Mario Einaudi, son of the first
full-term president of the new Italian
Republic, delivered a series of eight lectures
in April on "Christian Democracy
in Western Europe."
Dr. Einaudi, son of Italian president
Luigi Einaudi, is professor of government
at Cornell. He was brought to Notre
Dame by the University's Committee
on International Relations.
In his lectures Dr. Einaudi traced the
development of Christian democratic
parties and discussed concrete governmental
programs in France and Italy.
Five groups of midshipmen from Notre
Dame's NROTC unit will go to sea shortly
after summer vacation begins. Thirtyone
sophomores and 16 seniors will cruise on
the U.S.S. Missouri and two divisions of
destroyers. Twentynseven other seniors wiB
join various ships of the Atlantic Fleet to
receive training as junior officers.
Others in the program will take aviation
training at Pensacola, Fla.; amphibious
training at Little Creek, Va.; and Marine
training at Quantico, Va. The Notre Dame
midshipmen will be among 6000 reserve officer
candidates from 32 colleges participating
in the training program this summer.
Two Notre Dame musical organizations
began their annual Easter Concert
Tours on Easter Sunday in widely separated
parts of the country.
The Glee Club opened a week-long
Eastern tour with an appearance on the
"Toast of the Town" television program
over the CBS network. The Ed Sullivan
program paid special tribute to Notre
Dame.
Almost simultaneously the Concert
Band presented the first of 16 concerts
during a ten-day tour of the middle west
Notre Dame's 40-voice Glee Club, under the direction of Professor Daniel Pedtke, appeared
on Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town" program, Easter Sunday on CBS-TV. The group
sang several songs, including "Ave Maria" and a spirited arrangement of Notre Dame
Tunes. Special guests at the show were Mrs. Bonnie Rockne and her daughter, Jean.
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By ROBERT T. STOCK, '50
and Rocky Mountain areas. Its first appearance
was in Sterling, 111.
The Glee Club, under the direction of
Professor Daniel Pedtke, sang in To^\•n
Hall, New York; North Arlington, N.
J.; Buffalo, N. Y.; and Toledo, Ohio.
Director H. Lee Hope led the Band in
Effingham, 111.; Kansas City, Mo.; Mc-
Pherson, Kans.; North Platte, Neb.;
Cheyenne, Wyo.; Colorado Springs, Colo.,
and Topska, Kans.
Dr. Stephen D. Kertcsz, former Hungarian
minister to Italy, will join the Univergty's
faculty next September, it has been
annoimced by the Rev. Howard Kenna,
vice-president in charge of academic
affairs.
Dr. Kcrtesz, in voluntary exile from
Commimist-dominated Hugary, has been
named an associate profcnsor of political science.
He will teach one course on the development
and structure of the UN and another
entitled "American and Soviet Politics
in Eastern Europe."
Dr. Gerhart B. Ladner, associate professor
of history at Notre Dame, has
been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
to help him in preparing a book on
Christian reform during the Middle
Ages.
Dr. Ladner began preparation of his
new work while on his present leave of
absence at the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton. The book will trace
and integrate the effects of reform in
Christian society from St. Augustine to
about 1500.
Another Notre Dame faculty member has
been named a member of the Institute of
Advanced Study, according to an announcement
by Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, director
of the Institute. He is Father Azstrik L.
Gabriel, O.Praem., a member of the Mediaeval
Institute faculty at the University.
Membership in the Institute at Princeton
is bestowed annually upon a select group of
scholars in the sciences and humanities to
enable them to continue higher research in
specialized fields. Father Gabriel, on leave of
absence from Notre Dame, will join men
like Dr. Albert Einstein and Dr. Oppenheimer,
atomic energy expert.
Father Gabriel's project will be preparation
of representations of the different aspects
of mediaeval academic life as they
have been illustrated by miniatures of the
twelfth to fifteenth centuries. He will also
prepare a literary interpretation of these
miniatures through the use of contemporary
scholastic texts and vernacular literature.
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