Extension of US exchange scheme

President Eisenhower's proposal to extend exchange programmes to countries behind the Iron Curtain will have the Support of Senator J. W. Fulbright, the originator and chief champion in Congress of the United States Educational Exchange programme.

Senator Fulbright said that in general he approved the President's suggestion, and that with what he called proper safeguards, he thought the plan could prove helpful in promoting better understanding.

"There are really only two approaches to this problem," he said. "Either we have to regard it us hopeless, and accept the view that war is inevitable, or we must try to find some basis for improved relationships between our own country and the communist countries.

"On that basis, and considering that any exchanges between peoples have a tendency to promote better understandings, I think the broadening of the exchange programme as proposed by the President might do so good, and I shall support it." (USIS)

Approximately eighty Australian travel and exchange students will be visiting Wellington and requiring billets and entertainment during the summer, the VUC Travel and Exchange Officer (Miss G. Jackson) told a recent Executive meeting. Members present expressed surprise at the large number expected; the increase is due to the running of an extra return air trip between Australia and New Zealand this summer.

Mr. H. R. Carver has been appointed Orientation Week Controller for 1957.