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Show Democratic Council Conducts Meeting A Democratic Advisory Council Coun-cil met last Saturday and Sunday at the Council offices. All day sessions were held on both days. Attending were Adlan E. Stevenson Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator Estes Ke-fauver, Ke-fauver, Gov. Averell Harriman, Gov. G. Mennen Williams, Mayor Raymond Tucker, former Sen. Herbert Lehmann, Chairman Paul M. Butler and members of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee. Most of Saturday was devoted to considering foreign and defense de-fense policies. The Council was briefed by Dean Acheson on the activities and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Foreign Policy of which he is chairman. Draft policy statements have been under consideration by the committee and by the Council for the past week. The Committee Commit-tee is expected to issue a major policy statement on Foreign and Defense Policy soon. Later the Council devoted itself it-self to the work and recommendations recommen-dations of the Advisory Committee Commit-tee on Economic Policy of which Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith of Harvard University of chairman. All sessions of the Council were closed to all persons excepting ex-cepting members of the Council, the officers of its Advisory Committees, Com-mittees, and members of the administrative ad-ministrative committee and the immediate staff of the Council. |