The Great Debate is over, five College professors agreed this week. Yet their own theories on future foreign policy--on "where do we go from here?" indicate that the debate still persists.

A majority of the professors supported large sections of current American policy, but opinions varied widely. The most extreme views were held by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, who called for "the immediate cessation of the Korean War by the withdrawal of our troops, complete disarmament, and a clause written into the constitution of every country outlawing war."

Sorokin admitted that his plan for peace might not be practicable. "If not," he continued, "all the easy palliatives of Hoover and Taft lead to full-scale destruction. It is better to prepare for full war than subscribe to these."

U. S. Just as Aggressive

"What we need," said Sorokin, "is a new creative foreign policy. America has a real chance in human history to construct this kind of a policy. There is still a chance." The U. S. would be making a start, he feels, by sharing atomic resources as well as food.

Behind those proposals in Sorokin's feeling that "our government is no less aggressive than the Soviet government. We are already 75 percent totalitarian." It is not the Russian or American people, he contended, but the rulers who are behind all the trouble.

"They are cynical and hypocritical, and in periods of disintegration, like our own, they become more brutal than over."

War would not be so bad, Sorokin said, "if Truman and his Politburo fought Stalin and his Politburo." Sorokin favors starting the draft at 60 and working downwards. "It is the old, conscienceless, reasonless fellows who are cynically sacrificing our youth. The 18-year-olds are the last people I would pick."

Back to Caves

If there were a third World War, he believes that "it would take about half of the human population. People would be going back to caves, not as youths, but as old men with all the life drained from them."

The other four professors questioned did not differ nearly so much as Sorokin with current policy. They indicated that most faculty members would endorse the broad outlines of America's present foreign program. But immediate concern was expressed by Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government, who said that the coming year will be the most vulnerable time for the United States.

"After that we will have fortified Europe--not with four, but more likely 24 divisions."

The die has already been cast, Cherington commented; only a hard core of isolationists remain. Indeed, he believes, that America's chief strength lies in having accepted the role of leader in the Western world.

Pacifism Not Inherent

"We have committed ourselves to the defense of Western Europe," Cherington said, "and we must provide leadership and example to activate the people of Europe." This commitment, he feels, was assured by Eisenhower's report, for "pacifism is not an inherent part of the American system of values."