Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 9

Twenty years ago the dateline above was also TIME'S dateline, for TIME was then being published in Cleveland. Today, tomorrow, and Saturday, TIME returns to this nation's sixth city--as co-sponsor of the 21st annual Institute of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.

As you know, from our special section on the Institute in last week's issue, the Council represents a long-established program for keeping Clevelanders informed on world affairs. As such, it is an extraordinary civic achievement. Its activity in helping the citizens of Cleveland make sense of world news parallels so closely TIME'S own effort to bring world news to its readers that TIME gladly accepted an invitation to participate in this year's forum.

TIME and the Council have other common associations. Each of us, for instance, owes a debt to Cleveland's late Newton D. Baker, World War I Secretary of War and famed Wilsonian. Mr. Baker was the Council's mentor and prime mover, and nobody gave more encouragement to TIME'S fledgling editors 20 years ago. Having him for an enthusiastic weekly reader bolstered the editors' belief that their new venture was a worth while one.

Clevelanders themselves were no less helpful when two-year-old TIME moved here (for business reasons) in 1925. It was a good move for TIME. During the interval of our stay here and our return to New York City in 1927, TIME "caught on" nationally, gained the initial momentum which now permits us to help build Cleveland's international forum.

TIME is confident that the Cleveland Council's 21st Institute will be a rewarding experience. Twenty-three U.S. and foreign leaders are on hand to discuss the forum's two questions: What does the rest of the world expect of the U.S.? and What is the U.S. going to do-about it? Their discourse will be available to TIME'S 188,000 readers in Ohio over their local radio, and to all of TIME'S readers in next week's issue. The National Broadcasting Co. has built eight special programs* around the forum, will broadcast them on a national hookup; the U.S. State Department is broadcasting pertinent portions of the forum overseas. For these three days, certainly, Cleveland promises to be the rostrum of the world's international affairs.

Cordially,

* The broadcast schedule, in Eastern Standard Time, over NBC's network: Thursday, 11:30-12 p.m.; Friday, 10:45-11 p.m.; 11:30-12 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30-1 p.m.; 2:15-2:30 p.m.; 2:45-3 p.m.; 7:00-7:30 p.m. Additional programs are planned. See your local newspapers for stations carrying these programs.

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