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Left to right: Lady De- ..Soysa, India; Mrs. vun Beekhoff, President A.C.W.W.; Mrs. Belle, wife of the Premier of the slate of Victoria. Austra- lia; Mrs. D. M. McGrigor, re t i r i l1 9 Treasurer of A.C.W.W. This International World Professor Zelman Cowan. Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne deâ€" livered a comprehensive address entitled "This International World” dealing with problems related to United Nations. the British (‘om- monwealth, Britain’s relation to the Common Market. aid to developing countries including the Colombo plan which was first suggested by Australia, nuclear war and disarmament. In this address, Prof. Cowan quoted from a magazine article by Barbara Ward. Lad} Jackson: “In the world of the sixties we in the West shall form a small wealthy elite in the vast poverty stricken society of mankind. A so- ciety shot through with revolutionary prospects and desires. Confronted with this fact we have only two choices. We can follow the fatal road of other wealthy elites and close our hearts until the unfolding of a wider destiny engulfs us all. Or we can use our wealth to redeem the promise of our free society and extend its working to our fellownten who everywhere labor and look for change and growth with minds divided betWeen penury and hope. The sixties will compel the taking of this decision. On it in great measure our future in freedom depends." Professor Cowan's address closed with this appeal: "I believe the problems of the dcâ€" veloping countries are the problems which are most urgent and the problems about which We can do most. “And we cannot do it with pious platitudes. but only by drawing in our own belts. making a real commitment which must to some ex- tent affect us. We are not being asked for charity. We are being asked in the most pro- found sense for an appreciation of our own self-interest and that. I think, is the point which Barbara Ward so eIOqLiently made, We live in a world of paradoxes, a world of uni- versal association, and yet a world riven by differences; a world with all sorts of technical FALL 1962 amenities and advantages which can bring us so quickly together; a world full of technical devices which can destroy us all. We live in a world which is symbolized in a sense h),- the Berlin war. And we ask ourselves as indi- vidualsâ€"what can we do? "I think none of us. no single one. can give the answers to all the great problems that divide us: but we must not give up. We must not retire into our own comfortable shells and say ‘we are incft‘ectivc,‘ l think the lesson that we draw from the sort of world in which we live is that we most be committed to it: we must be committed to its prohlcms_mu- nicipal, \lutcwisc. national and international. if we take the view that it is not for us as little individuals to do things become we are impotent. then i think we are going to allow ourselves to drift into irreparable danger and doom. And so I say it is for us to be inter- ested. to raise otir voiccs. to he committed to do what we can. where we can. to bring pressures to hear when: we can bring pro.» sures to bear to see that the right is done. and I am sure that a group like this. com- mitted to the ideals to uhich you are cone mitlcd. will be responsive to this suggestion,“ Varied Activities and Interests What interests did the women rcprcscnl‘.’ What were some of the activities reported from the member countries? Mn. Aroti Dutt. vicc president for Asia. comes from India and her territory ranges lront Lebanon to the Philippines. She is a graduate of (‘alcutta University. daughter of an lndian Member of Parliament and daugh- lcr~inrlaw ol' the woman who founded the country women‘s organinition in Calcutta. This group runs a teachers’ training college and a central training institute as well as wom- cn's schools in the villages. The village schools teach child care. nutrition and handicrafts. Mrs. Bessie van Hecrden. leader of the South Airicun delegation is a farmer's wife 11