DEBATER FROM AMERICA

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21236, 7 August 1934, Page 17

DEBATER FROM AMERICA

v PROGRAMME FOR VISIT TO CHRISTCHURCH Washington University will be represented singly by Mr Robert K. Burnt in a debate against Canterbury College on Friday evening. The other member of the Washington team, Mr Lyle M. Spence, has remained in Australia, on account of illness. Mr Burn; has already debated in Auckland and Wellington, with considerable success, making two speeches in each debate; but it is probable that in Christchurch , he will be seconded by a Canterbury College speaker. The subject for the debate will be "That the policy of economic nationalism should be abandoned." Mr Burns will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow and there will be an official welcome in the college tearooms at 11 a.m. , , On Monday, August 13, a lecture evening will be held in the College Hall, when the visiting debater and . Professor J. Shelley will speak oa "The Approaching Pacific Era." AMERICAN STUDENT WINS DEBATE AT WELLINGTON U'EBSS ASSOCIATION TELECIIMU.) WELLINGTON, August «. The political salvation of the world was held in the balance for a few ! brief minutes this evening at Victoria I University College, when Mr Robert ! Burns, of the University of Washing- . ton, met two Wellington students, Mr I A. T. S McGhie, and Mr I. D. Camp- | bell, in a debate on the relative merits; j of dictatorship and democracy. The | debate was followed with close attenj tion by a large audience, interjections • being frequent, and occasionally j witty, and at the close the judges' verI diet was in favour of the visiting j American.