NAVAL MESSAGE
                       (NAVY DEPARTMENT)
 
 
 
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AN ARBITRATOR, I THEN EXPLAINED TO THE THE CHANCELLOR THAT THE
 
PRESIDENT HAD CHOSEN A TYPICALLY UNITED STATES OFFICE
 
TO ILLUSTRATE THE POSITION AND FUNCTIONS WHICH HE HAD IN
 
MIND, THE DESIGNATION MODERATOR IS EMPLOYED IN CONJUNCTION
 
WITH AN OLD ESTABLISHED AMERICAN INSTITUTION THE TOWN
 
MEETING AND APPEARS ALSO IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
 
PRESBYTERIAN AND SOME OF THE OTHER PROTESTANT CHURCHES.
 
AT THIS POINT I PRESENTED A WRITTEN DEFINITION OF THE 
 
DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE POSITION AND FUNCTIONS OF A
 
MODERATOR WHICH HAD BEEN TRANSLATED INTO GERMAN FOR THE
 
CHANCELLOR.
 
        THE CHANCELLOR WAS EXTREMELY INTERESTED IN THIS DEF-
 
INITION AND READ IT MOST CAREFULLY. THE FOLLOWING IS THE 
 
EXACT READING OF THE DEFINITION OF A MODERATOR WHICH I
 
PRESENTED TO THE CHANCELLOR: