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Show Senator Promotes Peace Corps to Aid Other Nations Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. of New Jersey is one of the prime movers in a proposal to recruit a civilian "Peace Corps" of young Americans dedicated to working for peace. The corps would, in effect, be a Foreign Legion of young people peo-ple armed with ideas and ideals, rather than guns to be people-to-people ambassadors in the under-developed nations of the words, according to Columnist Clinton Davidson. Sen. Williams has made numerous nu-merous speeches in support of a Peace Corps to be composed of young men and women of outstanding out-standing qualities who will work directly with the people in under-developed nations for three years. The proposed Corps, on which President Kennedy has commented com-mented favorably, would be recruited re-cruited from among Qualified volunteers, principally young college and university graduates. Those accepted would receive six months training in the language, lan-guage, special skills, needs and customs of the countries in which they are to live an work with the people. The proposal, Sen. Williams said, is "gaining momentum like a snowball." Women students at Mount Holyoke College, where he spoke, were enthusiastic and eager to enlist. Volunteer units also have been formed at Princeton Prince-ton and Rutgers universities. "Supreme Court Justice Wil- liam O. Douglas once said that America should export tens of thousands of volunteer workers for peace men and women with an almost missionary zeal to be of service," Sen. Williams said. "The spirit of which he speaks is already very much in evidence at our universities; it needs only intelligent direction and a well considered program to be put to effective work," he said. The Peace Corps idea focuses attention on a phrase of the cold war too long neglected by the Free World. Communist infiltrations, infil-trations, especially among student stu-dent groups have poisoned the minds of many people against the United States. "We know in our hearts that America is deeply concerned about the fate of all free nations. na-tions. But we have persuaded people in those nations that we are really working for grassroots progress in their nations. The Peace Corps proposal is an encouraging sign that the U. S. is at last beginning to recognize recog-nize that dollars alone cannot buy friendship abroad; that it must be founded on mutual respect re-spect and understanding. |