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HOPE COLLEGE ANCHOR EUROPEAN EDITION HOPE COLLEGE VIENNA SUMMER SCHOOL VIENNA, AUSTRIA, AUGUST, 1960 American Under Secretary Hope Students Received Discusses Foreign Policy by Parliament President U. S. — Austrian Relations Highlighting the warm welcome which students of the Hope College Vienna Summer School have enjoyed On July 15 the American Under Secretary of State, ever since their arrival in the Austrian capital three Douglas Dillon, visited Vienna. Through the generous- - weeks ago, was an audience with the President of the ity of the Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and Austrian National Assembly, Dr. Leopold Figl, on International Relations all students enrolled in Dr. Dud- July 28. The special meeting, arranged for the Hope, ley's course Europe in the Atomic Age received invi- tations to a meeting of the Society where Mr. Dillon group through the Institute of European Studies, took place in the imposing building of the Austrian Parlia- delivered a major address on American policy in Europe. ment. This is the fourth consecutive year that Vienna / Summer School participants have been received by a The American diplomat began by saying: „You must leading member of the Austrian government. know that we Americans have a very warm place in our hearts for the Austrian people. We admire the Dr. Figl, who was Prime Minister of his country vigor and industry which have marked the resurgence from 1945 to 1953, served as Foreign Minister from t0 an of Austria as a free and independent nation. We rejoice ^53 d became the second highest official at your renewed prosperity. We respect your special of Austria last year, addressed the students for forty- position of neutrality, ^nd we fully recognize that five minutes. He expressed his pleasure that they had Austria is well able to make her own interpretation of come to Vienna to learn the language and to know the neutrality without assistance from the outside. people and to appreciate their history, art, and music. „Like you, we value individual liberty and freedom „Austria, and for that matter Europe, exist today as of thought above all else. parts of the free world, only and exclusively because „Like you, we do not erect barbed-wire barriers on of the United States" Dr. Figl told the fifty eight students. our frontiers to keep our people imprisoned and isolated from their brothers in the rest of the world. „Through UNRRA aid and the brilliantly conceived „Like you, we seek instead to improve international Marshall Plan you gave us the courage to work and understanding by facilitating the free flow of men and struggle and sacrifice to rebuild our country. ideas across national boundaries. „In 1955, when the State Treaty was signed and „Like you, we do not seek to bend other peoples to Dr. FIGL greet each ot the Hope visiters in Person. Austria was once again a free country we knew that our will, nor do we attempt to subvert their institutions we had contributed significantly towards the achieve- and undermine their liberties. ment of the basic idea which undcrgirded the Marshall Plan: to maintain the freedom of nations, the freedom „Like you, we do not believe that international re- Closing Convocafion Stresses Five Years lations should be conducted by intemperate threats, of the individual, and to protect the world from be- or that negotiations between nations should be reduced Role of Hope College in Growing Contact coming engulfed by collectivism. to the level of street brawls. Between Austrian and American Students „We have tried to express our gratuide to the „Like you, we treasure hospitality as a quality too American people through our struggle for freedom and precious to be abused. ... justice. Because Austria stands at the border between „Like you, we seek a world made bright by justice The convocation of the Hope College Vienna Summer East and West, between slavery and freedom, we for all —; a world of expanding opportunities for every • School on Friday August 19, i960 will mark the com- believe that our obligation is not only to guard our human being to pursue his legitimate aspirations in pletion of the fifth summer during which young Ameri- own country but to maintain this bastion of freedom peace and freedom. cans have studied European Art, Music, Literature, for all of the Western world. History and German under the auspices of Hope „In our mutual pursuit of this goal, we have wit- College in Vienna. „For more than a thousand years Austria has ful- nessed over the last ten years a series of sweeping Special guests on this occasion will be Sectionschef filled this mission", the President concluded, „and we changes which have opened a whole new vista of Dr. Swoboda, representing the Austrian Minister of Austrians will always fight against slavery and sup- opportunities. At the same time, these changes present Education; Dr. Eleanor-Wyllis Allen, Exchange Officer pression because for us freedom is the most precious us with new problems which may he ignored only at thing in the world." our peril." of the United States Embassy in Vienna, Dr. Gerald Stourzh, Secretary-General of the Austrian Society for Dr. Fried thanked Dr. Figl on behalf of students Mr. Dillon then dealt in some detail with the pro- Foreign Policy and International Relations, and Mr. Ge- and faculty for his warm and inspiring welcome. Bar- blems of European economic cooperation and the orge Robert Cook of Grosse Point, Michigan, who bara Bloemers and Alan De Braal then presented American desire to see a closer working relationship participated in the first Hope College Program in Dr. Figl with) a copy of the college history. Anchor of between the six nation European Economic Community Vienna in 1956. and the newer seven nation European Pree Trade Asso- Hope, by Dr._Preston JSteggenga and a copy of the Since 1956 almost two hundred students have corn^ ciation. He pointed out that the attainment of political first issue of this year's Anchor published in Vienna, to Vienna as" members of the Hope program. At the which came off the press that day. cohesion and sound economic growth and stability in same time, a number of Austrians including Professor Western Europe is essential to the prosperity of th: Dr. Hugo Hantsch, Academic Director of the Institute Dr. Figl reciprocated the gesture by presenting ihi entire Free World. of European Studies and then dean of the faculty of two students with copies of a book dealing with the Speaking of the importance of Africa and Asia, the Philosophy of the University of Vienna, have oome Austrian Parliament which he autographed and in- American Under Secretary said: Concentration on to the United States to visit the college. scribed for them with the words: „Freedom is man's most precious possession." immediate trade problems must not cause us to neglect Other Austrian visitors to the college were Dr. Wil- the vast difficulties facing the newly-developing areas helm Schlag, Cultural Affairs Officer at the Austrian of the Free World '— where the struggle is often not Consulate General in New York; Mr. Paul Koutny, merely for better living conditions, but for survival director of the Institute of European Studies, and itself! Mr. Hugo Bogensberger, coordinator of summer pro- ' ' r* ' kV, • „The nations of the Free World standi ready to do grams at the Institute. their share in this and other tasks associated with Two students from Austria studied at Hope College meeting the greatest challenge of our time: the pressing under scholarship and two Hope students spent a se- need to help more than a billion human beings enter mester each in Vienna during the regular school years. the Twentieth Century". A considerable number of Hope faculty members In his conclusion Mr. Dillon urged an awareness have come to Austria for shorter or longer visits to that this challenge is too huge to be met by govern- the Hope Summer Campus and the next academic mental action alone. A truly effective response, he said, year will bring to Hope College as guest professor, must reflect the energy and dedication of all elements Rolf Italiaander, one of the members of the 1959 of our societies. Vienna Summer School faculty. „If we all exert ourselves to the full, the challenge The interest in a growing contact between Austrian can and will be met. I have confidence in the outcome and American students in Vienna is best expressed by because I have confidence in the vitality of our free the repeated participation ol the Hope group in the societies and of the basic values which, they share. briefings arranged for the Austrian Fulbright students „Our goal is a world in which peace will prevail — who are selected to study in the United States Tor^ a not the peace of the tomb or of the prison, but a peace year.