World peace was also on the minds of the participants at Mademoiselle magazine's third annual college forum at the Hotel Commodore. Cord Meyer Jr., a former aide to Harold Stassen at the 1945 San Francisco UN conference, criticized the veto provision in the UN charter, Bruce Bliven, editor of the The New Republic, said that the sole purpose of the UN was to stop war. He felt that the dilemma was that moving too fast would result in failure and international anarchy while moving too slowly could bring about another war. The student speakers outlined the political activities at the campuses of Wellesley, Sarah Lawrence, Smith,Vassar, Wheaton, Bennington and Barnard.
Meyer, who had recently been discharged from the Marines and had lost an eye in the War, was a strong supporter of world government. He became a top CIA officer despite FBI objections to his politics. He was later mistakenly believed by some to have been Deep Throat and was implicated by some conspiracy theorists of being involved in the Kennedy assassination. His ex-wife, a socialite whom he married in 1945, was murdered soon after the death of JFK, with whom she was said to have had an affair.