Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-02
Affairs Institute
Begins Sessions
Tomorrow
World Problems to Be
On Varied Program
At Charlottesville
N the Associated Press.

~ the ASSOCIATED freSS.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, July l..
Forces that are making for peace
and for war all over the world,
problems of national defense, raw
materials and international finance
are among the topics to be consid-
cred during the first week of the
Institute of Public Affairs opening
Monday at the University of Vir-
ginia.
During the second week of the
thirteenth annual institute, consid-
Grafton will be given to domestic
problems and to internal affairs both
in the United States and in other
lands.
New Problems of Government:
National and International" is the
subject selected for the 1899 insti-
tute by the acting director, Prof.
Hardy c. billiard, and by members
Of his advisory council.
: Addresses Scheduled.
Addresses will be delivered each
morning in Cabell Hall and at
night out of doors in the McIntire
Amphitheater.
Afternoon round table discussions
will present opportunities to air
issues and problems from varying
points OF view. Prof. billiard has
sought to secure authorities as
spokesman on both sides on contro-
versial issues.
The Moral and Spiritual Respon-
eibility of the Individual in De-
mocracy' is to be the subject of a
vesper service address tomorrow
night in the amphitheater by the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, Bishop
of Savannah and Atlanta, which
will set a religious keynote to the
discussions to come later.
The American foreign policy and
the world crisis is to be taken up by
William T. Stone, vice president and
Washington representative of the
Foreign Policy Association, in the
opening talk Monday morning.
Louis Fischer, author of books or
Spain and Russia, and Nika Tucci,
news commentator for a radio sta
ton In Rome, will discuss European
conditions; Ernest Lindley, WASH
1ngton magazine and newspaper
writer, and Bruce c. Hopper, Har-
ward University professor and author,
will lead the Monday afternoon
round tables.
. Delegates to Be Welcomed.
DR.. John Lloyd Newcomb. presi-
dent OF the university; Mr.. billiard
and Col. William M Kemper, execu-
tive assistant to Gov. Price. will
welcome the institute participants
Monday night.
On the Fourth of July, national
defense, both of military and naval
viewpoints and raw materials in the
economic balance of power will be
considered in all sessions.
Col. Louis A. johnson. Assistant
Secretary Of War and former ma
tional commander of the American
Legion, Will be among the Tuesday
speakers.
Wednesday night Earl Browder
general secretary of the United
states Communist party, talks about
the United States and the Soviet
Union in world affairs, and Dr.
FREDERICK E. Auhagen, lecturer of
the American Fellowship Forum. has
as his subject America and Ger
many-Contrasts and Conflicts"
A high light of Thursdays program
Will be debate on America S foreign
policy by Senator Lewis Schwellen-
bach. Democrat, of Washington, and
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr.
Inc Rotary clubs of Virginia will
sponsor during the second week a
discussion group on The Position of
the Individual in Rival Political Svs-
TENS DR.. Robert E. McElroy. pro-
lessor of American history in oxford
UNIVERSITY will he tho leoder