Foreign dispatches in yesterday mornings papers gave a new twist to the plans now under way for the debate with the Oxford team in Symphony Hall on October 8. Although later developments may bring the Ruhr question down from the shelf again, it is considered doubtful whether this topic can now be regarded as anything more than history.

The debaters declare, however, that they are not in the least dismayed by having their subject snatched away. They point out that the Ruhr affair was only one aspect of the far greater problem of reparations. In the latter field they expect to find much food for argument.