Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-12
FOREIGN LECTURERS
AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE
INSTITUTE POLITICS

Wlll1dmStOWn, Mass, June IL
Great Britain, France, Japan. Aus
tria and Brazil will be the countries
represented by public lecturers in the
second annual session of the Institute
of Politics to be held at Williams
College. July p to August 26. Presi-
dent Harry A. Garfield, announced
tonight. international relations"
will again be the general topic under
discussion as it was in 1921, but
special attention will be paid this
year 10 problems of the Pacific and
the Far East America and
Eastern Europe.
Lionel Curtis, an official of the
Irish Peace Conference and former
member Of the Transvaal Legislative
Council, has been chosen as the
British lecturer, following a recon-
mendation made by the Late Niscount
James Bryce. The other speakers,
each to give a series of six addresses,
will include Raymond Recouly, editor
of LIE Temps, Paris; DR.. Rikitdro
Fujisawa, of the Imperial University,
Toxic DR.. Josef Redlich of Vienna,
iurist and former Austrian minister
of finance, and DR.. Manoel De
Oliveira Lima, former Brazilian min
istcr to Belgium, Japan and Great
Britain.
The Institutes executive secretary,
Walter w. NcLaren, has received al
ready three times as many appli-
cations for membership as We're on
hand at this date one year ago. TO
accommodate the increased attend
ance. and also to broaden the range
of subjects considered, Is round ia
lie conferences have been organized.
Among those who will serve as
chairmen of the round tables are
Paul NJ. Warburg of New York;
President David p. Barrows of the
University of California; Dean John
H. Latane of the Johns Hopkins
University; DR.. Stanley *. Hornbeck
OF the State Department.; w. S. Gull
bcrtson, vice chairman of the tariff
committee; Oscar L. Crosby, former
assistant secretary of the treasury;
DIR. Adam Short of Ottawa, former
Canadian civil service commissioner;
Professor George II. Blakeslee OF
Clark University and DR.. A. L. L.
Dennis Of Washington, d. c.
international news and communi-
cations" will be the subject of a
conference led jointly by Arthur S.
Draper, London correspondent and
European manager of the New York
Tribune, and Walter S. Rogers of
Washington, d. G., one of the Ameri-
can delegates to the Washington con-
ference on electrical communications.
Officials of the diplomatic corps,
high officers of the army and navy,
authors, lawyers. and college and uni
vcrsity presidents and professors will
be represented in the membership
enrolment. The latter include NJ. l..
Burton, president of the University
of Michigan; Charles +. Thwing,
president emeritus of Western Re
serve; Frank l.. McVey of the Uni
versity of Kentucky, and r. G.. Ogilby
of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
Among the diplomatics attending
will be Dr. Redrich Stepanek,
Czecho- Slovak, minister to the Unit
cd States; Stephen Panaretoff, Bull
garian minister. and DR.. Felipe A.
Espil, counsellor Of the Argentine
embassy.
Bernard NJ. Baruch of New York
city is again providing the funds to
meet the expense of the institute. All
persons having special knowledge or
experience in the field of internation-
III relations are eligible for member
ship.