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my recollection. Certainly, the World was. In fact, most American papers were highly anti- British at that time and extremely sympathetic to the Boers

You were class valedictorian, Mr. Oakes. Do you recall, was any part of your valedictory address concerned with international affairs at all?

No, but I've still got that and I could dig it out and look at it. I found it a few years ago; my wife insisted on putting it--I was going to throw it away or not pay attention to it-- away somewhere where I know that I can put my hands on it. And to tell you the truth, I don't remember that anything of that sort was in the address and I don't believe anything was. It was of course in the spring of 1934, which you might think might have had some international aspects to it because Hitler was starting in Germany at that time, but I don't believe I discussed it in that particular connection. Of course, I was very interested in international affairs at college. I was president of a little club we had called the International Relations Club, and I was always very, very interested in anything dealing with international affairs and international relations. We used to get important speakers to talk to us. We were only a very small group. We got some very good people, I remember, who talked to us, one of whom was Einstein, which I never will forget. Of course, he happened to live in Princeton, too, so it wasn't difficult to get him.

Do you recall any of the content of his speech?

No, I'm sorry, I can't, no. After all that's 27 years ago and I can't.