Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-23
INSTITUTE TO MEET
AGAIN NEXT YEAR
Far Eastern Affairs Sessions
Held Here Come to
Close.

The Institute of Far Eastern Affairs
of the Graduate School of American
University, which closed last night al
the Interior Department auditorium
after two days of meetings, will be held
again next year under the same
auspices, it was announced today by
Chester D. Pugsley, philanthropist-
banker, of Peekskill, N Y
This institute is only one OF many
which Mr. Pugsley has founded and
maintained by annual grant throughout
the United States, and which. he eX-
planned today, will be extended beyon
this country to IL other nations OF the
world.
Mr.. Pugsley is known in Washington
as the donor of the National Press Club
award for best work by a Washington
correspondent of any newspaper or
press association during the year.
Pounds Many Institutes.
He is the founder of many institutes
in colleges and universities throughout
the United States, including the 1nsti-
tute of European Affairs at the College
of William and Mary, Williamsburg,
Va. the Institute on Institutes at the
University of Virginia, Institute OF
Policy at Ealrham college, Conference
on National Issues at Princeton Uni
versity and several others,
At the closing session last night DR..
Arthur N Holcombe, professor of gov
eminent of Harvard University, was the
principal speaker, discussing the future
of the Washington Conference treaty.
The future of these treaties, DR.. Hol-
combe declared, depends in the last
ANALYSIS upon the efficacy of the proc
A;ol, iloa 1c for the n
tenance of the friendship policy toward
China. The procedure provided by the
nine-power treaty itself, that OF full
and frank communication between the
Washington Conference powers broke
down some time ago, and no one sup
poses that this method of protecting
China against coercion by Japan c.
be successfully revived. TIE faocesses
available under the Kellogg pact seem
as likely to strain the relations between
the United States and Japan to the
danger point as to bring about recon
citation between Japan and China. The
processes available under the covenant
of the League of Nations are much more
promising
Open Forum Discussion.
Following Dr. Holcombe's address
there was an open forum discussion,
with questions and answers and with
comment by members of the audience,
which reviewed the problems Of the
whole institute and raised some new is
sues. This was participated in by rep
resentatives of many colleges and uni
versities and other students of interna-
tional affairs. DR.. Ellery G. StoWeIl OF
American University, chairman OF the
Institutes Executive Committee, pre-
sided.
At the luncheon meeting yesterday
afternoon at the College of Liberal Arts,
on the campus, DR. William C. Dennis,
president of Earlham College, who was
former legal adviser to the Chinese gov
eminent and formerly with the State
Department, discussed the subject
Trial by Battle in the Orient"
Taking up the Sino-Japanese dispute,
DR.. Dennis said
To-day the nations have a choice be-
tween law and force, and under the
Kellogg pact they have duty TO re-
rounce force and to seek the solution OF
all their disputes through peaceful
means and the machinery OF peace Is
constantly improving. The dispute be-
tween China and Japan now unfolding
before us in the Orient is the first real
trial of the modern machinery of peace,
the covenant of the League and the
Kellogg pact Here we have question
which engages the interest, the aspira-
tons and the sentiments OF two great
people"
DR.. Dennis said he believed the League
had done about all it could do under
article II, and he did not believe that
the League would have done any better
in this particular had the United States
been a member.
The other speaker at the afternoon
session was Dr. Stanwood Cobb, prin-
cipal of the Chevy Chase Country Day
School. DR.. Lucius c. Clark, chancellor
of American University. presided.