SOLUTION OF TENSIONS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29454, 4 March 1961, Page 12

SOLUTION OF TENSIONS

University Aid Sought

“Three hundred thousand scientists are engaged in research into atomic energy. If we could increase the interest of scientists and university people in human relations problems, we might be sure of avoiding a third world war,” Dr. Everett Clinchy. administrative president of the Council on World Tensions, said in Christchurch last night He is on a tour of the Pacific to enlist the interest of universities in the objects of his council, the executive chairman of which is Mr Lester Pearson, former Canadian chief delegate to the United Nations and its onetime president. Today Dr Clinchy will meet the vice-chancellor-elect of the University of Canterbury <Dr L. L. Pownall). and this evening he will address the Christchurch Junior Chamber.

“The council is trying to enlist universities in all continents to study current encounters and conflicts which are evident in both hemispheres,” Dr Clinchv said “We must not regard tensions as necessarily bad. When they are managed in time, so that convulsions are avoided, tensions can be a stimulation to growth and progress.” Asked to give an example of this, he said that the tensions between the Western. Communist, and uncommitted peoples would prove eventually to be advantageous, because the challenge each made to the others would evoke certain useful responses “Communism is going to force us tn pay attention to problems such as poverty illiteracy disease, and racial discrimination to a degree that we would not have done otherwise.’ Dr Clinchy said

He had accepted the invita tion to address the Christchurch Junior Chamber be cause the junior chambers were among the wide range o< civic -eligious. educational, and other organisations which had shown interest in recommendations made bv Interna tional conferences organised by his council. Dr Clinchy works from New York but the council also has offices in Geneva and Bombay