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Monday Luncheon Meeting, Biltmore Hotel, March 12, 1951 12 o’Clock Noon John Sherman Cooper Special Consultant to Secretary of State Acheson Former Republican Senator from Kentucky O will discuss \ "HAVE EUROPEANS THE WILL TO RESIST?" HERBERT F. STURDY, Chairman Luncheon $2.00 including tax; no gratuities. At its meeting of March 19, Town Hall will have the privilege of presenting to its members the Honorable John Sherman Cooper, Consultant to the Secretary of State, who will discuss the topic "Have Europeans the Will to Resist?” The importance of this topic needs no. emphasis. Mr. Cooper was one of the two Republican advisers to the Secretary of State appointed in April of last year, the other being the Hon. John Foster Dulles. Educated at Center College, at Yale and at the Harvard Law School, Mr. Cooper was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in 1928. He has been in public life since the age of twenty-six, when he was elected to the lower house of the Kentucky Legislature. He served as county judge of Pulaski County from 1930 to 1938 and as circuit judge of the 28th Judicial District of Kentucky in 1946. At a special election in November, 1946, Mr. Cooper was elected to the U. S. Senate to fill the unexpired term of Albert B. Chandler, resigned; he was the third Repub­lican to have been elected to the Senate from Kentucky. In 1942, Mr. Cooper enlisted as a private in the United States Army. He received his commission as Second Lieutenant in 1943 and was with General Patton’s Third U. S. Army in the liberation of France and the invasion of Germany. After the war, he was in charge of the reorganization of the German judicial system in Bavaria. Mr. Cooper served as Delegate to the Fourth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1949 and, after his appointment as Consultant to the Secretary of State, accompanied Mr. Acheson to meet­ings of the North Atlantic Council in London in May of 1950. He has acted also as adviser to meetings of the Deputies of the Foreign Ministers. Recently, he has spent consider­able time on official missions in the capitals of Western Europe. Draft of 18-Year-Olds, Stationing of Troops In Europe Urged As Necessary To Our Defense By Tracy S. Voorhees. The defense of the United States in the face of the present danger requires our stationing a hard core of American troops in Western Europe. As our military leaders agree, air power and sea power, without ground forces, cannot do the job. The neces­sary manpower can only be obtained by extending the draft to 18-year-olds. These (Continued on Inside Page) VOL. 13, NO. 11 MON., MAR. 12, 1951 Michigan 1245