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Eleanor Roosevelt to Speak February 8 on World Rights

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Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will give an address entitled "The World Struggle for Human Rights" on Wednesday, February 8 at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The talk sponsored by the United Nations Council of Harvard, will be open to the public.

Mrs. Roosevelt has done work in the United Nations for the Covenant of Human Rights and is at present Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights. She has been a United States delegate at all meetings of the General Assembly since San Francisco.

She is the most recent of a number of noted speakers the United Nations Council has brought to Harvard during the past years. They have included Jan Masaryk, Stanislaw Mikolajezyk, and Lord inverchapel.

In the past term the Council has held political laboratories on Argentina with Walter Boveraggi, president of the Argentina Labor Party, and on Kashmir with Sardar Ibraham, President of Kashmir.

Mrs. Roosevelt is expected to include a discussion of American civil liberties in her talk.

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