Lord Harlech, the former Sir David Ormsby-Gore, answered "Must the West Decline" for Weber State supporters October 7, 1969, in the Fine Arts Center. Lord Harlech's rise to political power in England is often paralleled with John F. Kennedy's political endeavors. As British Ambassador to the United States, Lord Harlech was instrumental in advising President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crises. In his role to help outwit Krushchev he urged Kennedy to release aerial photographs of the Soviet missile sites in Cuba to eliminate skepticism abroad. It was he who convinced Kennedy to order the Navy not to intercept the Soviet ships until they reached Cuban waters. After the crises, it was Kennedy who stated "Let us not forget the foreigner" when he spoke of Lord Harlech's contribu-tions. Y. G. Srimati, musician and artist from India came from Madras, from a versatile family of actors, scientists and painters. They say she started singing and dancing at the age of three. Then she took up music and learned to play several instruments, particularly the ancient vina and the sitar- - both stringed, and faintly like guitars. Srimati received a scholarship at the Art Students League in New York in 1964. This has been renewed in successive years. She continues to have exhibitions of her paintings, and has performed as a musician at several colleges in the east. She is a great devotee of the late Mahatma Ghandi, and respects the ideals of service for which he was famous. She wears khadi, the beautiful village woven cloth, and has little time for the sophistication of the West.