One ok tde nadlest and inost responsidle tasds das deen entrusted to tde puddsder. It is in dis povver to made dis Nation ae^uaintsd ivitd tde >vorlr ok its posts and tdinders, an«! consec>uentl^ de eontridntes eon- sideradl)' to tde development ok tde cultursl dks ok dis tiine, ülav tde International puddsder»' Lonzress dslp to sinootd tde vvav leadinA to tde knlkilinent ok tdis Areat tssd in tde servios ok tde peoples and ok psaoe. Di'. Ooekbels ^inonA tde manv international meetinAS ok tde tiine tders is dardlv a mors welcome and important ans tdan tde International puddsders' LonAress, >vdiod is snre ok international s^mpatd^, sinee it nnites tde representa- tives ok tde inost important puddsders ok tde vvorlcl kor tde sade ok krand ancl dicndlv eo-opsration, anci kor tde inntual exokan^e ok sxperieness, ancl (liseussions ok pradlems. 8ued a eonArsss is tde praetieal rneans ok sinootdinA tde «a^ kor inntnal response kroin people to people, kroin intelleet to intellsot, kroin ekkieieno^ to eldcicncv, ancl kroin prokessional prids to pride. Urs puddsder's vord ancl i>etivitv dslonA vvitdout doudt to tde nadle tasds ok manlv povvsr and null; suod a taslr mnst neeesssril^ de clevotecl to tde kirrn estaddsdment ok peace, and at tde sarne tiine to mutual estssni. It is indeeä one ok tde dravest and inost neoessar^ aims ok mandind, and presents dotd a enltural servies to its ovvn individual people, and s knrtdsr true and mutual approacd dstvveen tde peoples ok tde vividred oountries. Idsre is praotivall/ no distor/ ok mandind vvitdout tde printed ward, no peaes is more seeure tdan tdat >vdied tde printed >vord, tde dood — ^our prote^e, pudlisders ok tde vvorld! — prepsrss. I doudt not tdat von will dslp vitd tde necessarv lnaverv and diserimination, tde tvvo ^reat (piadties ok a genuine puddsder, to lesd tdis Lonzress to a vantdv and denekieial conelusion, — in Ooetde's eoiniti)' vvdied vensrates tde Areat Aenius ok Willi»in 8dadsspeare, ok tde anoient Dante and Petrarca, ok kamons modern Itslians, tde tdeatres ok wdiod also perkorm tde ivords ok drencd classies, and ^vdiod das so ineresssd tde numder ok diseiples ok nordic vvritsrs, in »dort, in a eountrv tdat is open to tde poetie and seientikic vvords ok vvriters ok all cividrsd nations. Dann8 ^oIl8t ^rt develops and or^taldres vritdin ans people, dut inkluences otders st tde same time, d de alleAorieal sio- nikieation ok a ward ok art ean attraet and unite tde sonls ok dikkersnt peoples. I'ds puddsder ok art plavs s dominant röls in tde exodanZe ok suod oultural productions; dis puddcation permeate tde various nations, and tdus duild spiritual drid^es krom one people to tde older, and vice versa, l dis is tde art-puddsder's sdsre in i^dolk Ditler's >vord ok pesos. 9