Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions' 30th Annual Meeting

At first, we were always asked, are you a part of the government? No. Or you sent over to the State Department? No. Are you on a religious pilgrimage? No. I haven't you any extra-grind? No. We've simply come over to visit you and learn to know you. Because it's our firm conviction that no country will ever go to war against another country whose women know and understand that love each other. And for that reason, we have gone overseas and learned to know these people so that letters are going back and forth, understanding as ours, and that thing of understanding is the most important of anything in the world. You know when I think of the different groups that we visited, when I think of that little pestilox in Delhi, down the trolleons with the land, where the 200 war orphans, not of whom can remember their talents, they were either bombed, or or died in battle, living in little cottages with foster mother and father because they need love so. Speaking their own language, having their own food, celebrating their own holidays, but all live in the play, yard, and in their recreation,

they speak each other's languages. They're true internationalists, which will poof a loom. I'll never forget what the long looking at the out to those children, 200,000, romping around as they did playing with those balloons, the happiest sight that I've ever seen. Who knows about it in future lives? A little child from pestilox in Delhi will lead us to peace. I too am thinking about a group of 500 in a world fellowship movement palace, all of whom had escaped from a satellite country, some of them had some of the Danube in order to get over to palace to go to the University of Palace. There they were with only the suits on which they wore, no money, they didn't know where the next penny was coming from, never would hear from home until the iron curtain rolled up some, but all wanted to go to the University of Palace, and some way they would go and jobs would be found for them. Through Europe, we visited all the universities. I would like to tell you about each and every one. Through the Near East, we also went to Cairo,

where we saw that very wonderful American University and American College for Women. And then in the South America, we visited the colleges, the old old Tali San Marcus, and was I delighted when I got down to Bogota, and there, Mr. Wainett, our very fine American ambassador, said tomorrow's going to be a great day in the life of Columbia. It is greatest when the officials came together here in the palace and signed a mutual defense pact between the 21 American Republic. And we also were, what's so wonderful? What's going to happen? Eight men from the Lansing, Michigan, from the Lansing Grand College of Michigan, went down to Columbia to teach those people how to get along. To teach them to help themselves was a big point, as you know, in the beginning of the point for our program. And this Mr. Wainett, a wonderful ambassador, once that very thing to happen, from all the Lansing Grand Colleges of America, to send down experts who will teach a few, and those few will teach more,

and to finally it pervades the whole country. There's so backward, not horse and buggy days, oh no. But way back to the oxygen days, never a tractor, never any cotton toward planting, never any rotation of crops. I would remind of what I would say college is doing down in Guatemala, and then experimental center of ours. The more that we can do there to help those people help themselves, the sooner we will have an international understanding. I too want to go to that very wonderful new International Pushing University at Tokyo, and there you realize it's international, intercultural, interracial, and it's my hope that it's going to be more regional universities throughout the country, who will have those three things prevalent, in order that our young people will be building bridges of understanding and groups of young people in every country will know about us. Well, the one thing that was so very prevalent in all of this visiting overseas was that we had so the wrong idea of each other, is that anything that we in this world

seems to be its communication, and there I think is a challenge where our universities and colleges that we have better communication in this world of ours, if the community is able to ask us, one woman came up with a whisper to me, did you know Al Capone? Another woman came up and said, will you tell us about your gangsters and kidnappers, intelligent women? I cannot understand where they're getting so much the wrong idea of America. And the truth is that we're not doing a good enough job with a voice of America, and especially with our movies, because they're great movie people. Why don't we send over authentic films, of what it means to live in a freedom-loving country, and not have this distorted idea of us and our living? And might I say that all of these of them were just as different as theirs and ours, and isn't it the cutest thing in this mass media, which is in America today, because magazine, radio, and aeroplane with its fast transportation and soon television all over the world, that we today know less

about what's going on in some of the countries of Europe, such as Russia and China and Eastern Europe than we knew 30 years ago. Am I worse than that? They know less about us. We think that we know about them, we're supposed to, but we don't look truly nor do they know truly about us. It's all distorted. You know, we have to do something about their communications between nations to bring about that understanding that will give us this international peace. If we don't, it brings about fears between all of our people. We never know what's going to happen tomorrow, and it gives us a very dangerous feeling of not being sure of ourselves, and that it permits either the evil governments to get together and to bring us closer to World War III. And it prevents peacefully disposed governments, from making just and lasting statements because they're not sure themselves. The United Nations has a dreadful time because of lack of understanding.

In the New York home of the United Nations, that was a flushing and late effect, when I used to go out now, thank goodness they had the very fine translations that come over simultaneously with a person speaking, the translations are never accurate. If Toronto didn't work, the basic language isn't working, it means we have to become better linguists and we have to let them know what we're thinking. Two, I think it's very bad for the United Nations because they can't equate people, living on their censorship, with decisions affecting their well-being. You can play stuff that could work to them. There's nothing more important today than the free flow of information and increasing the value and the quality of news and to make it available. The jamming of the broadcast over there is a dreadful thing. Our broadcast over, we often believe to the women of the eastern zone, belonging to Russia, and I did get a good many loafers and found their back, much more surprised. It seems to me, all the time,

because we're doing this very fine thing to give hope and cheer to those people who know for the barrel under the heel of a dictator. You know, unless we had better communications the light will go out in one country after another because we don't know about each other and we'll set in for another dark age. My job, too, was working with young people. 80,000 young people were in the generation of women first, and not too long ago, I went down to the boat with a young woman who was holding a little baby boy watching her husband say, I'm not far from here.