Evening star., 1941-06-22
Virginia U. Institute
OF Public Affairs 10
Open Tomorrow
LindIey and Tuewell
Included in List Of
Invited Speakers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, June
21.-More than 100 men and women
from North and South America,
Europe and Asia will speak at the
18th annual Institute of Public At
fairs opening Monday night at the
University Of Virginia.
Theme of the sessions. to last un-
til July 4. is The United States,
the War and the Future"
Hardy c. billiard, director OF the
institute, has invited Ernest K.
Lindlev. political writer, and Rex
ford Guy TugWell. former Under
secretary of Agriculture. now chair
man of city planning for the New
York Planning Commission, to lead
discussions of national affairs which
will focus attention on the neces-
sity for the preservation of democ-
racy within the United States.
Obligations of the United States
as a world power will be the CEN
tral theme for the discussions OF
foreign affairs. which will be led
bv Brooks ENEMY. authority on raw
materials, and Col Herman Beuke-
ma. head of the department OF eco
Hohlics. soternmert and history in
the United States Military Acad-
emy at West Point.
Rabbi Morris S. LaZaron of the
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation
conducted a vesper service tonight
in the McIntire amphitheater as a
preliminary to the institute ses-
sions.
Discussions Start Tuesday.
Discussions will begin Tuesday
morning and will continue morning
and afternoon throughout the whole
of the II DAYS the institute will be
in session. Two or three speakers
will deliver prepared addresses and
will then join in discussions with
selected authorities who will form
panel. Before each session IS over
the members of the institute in the
audience will be allowed a question
period.
DR.. John Lloyd Newcomb, presi-
dent of the university; Prof. Dlllard
and Gov. Price will welcome visitors
~ the opening session. Maj. George
Fielding Eliot. military analyst, will
sneak on Americas Interest in Sea
Power"
Problems arising out of conditions
within the United States will iorm
the basis for discussion Tuesday
morning and afternoon. On Wednes-
day the emphasis will shit 10
trends within Great Britain and On
the continent, with special stress
being laid on questions involving
Russia and Turkey. What IS going
on in countries of the Scandinavian
and Mediterranean areas will be
taken up Wednesday morning.
Trends within the United States
will be given special consideration
during the last half of next week.
International Problems.
International problems will be
spotlighted during the second week.
Pan-American problems, cultural.
economic and strategic, will be
considered Monday, June 30, when
the discussions will be sponsored by
the Rotarians of Virginia.
North American problems will be
analyzed the next morning, then
three sessions will be given over to
problems of the Orient: Japan,
China, Russia. the Dutch East
Indies and the South Pacific, from
the point of view of United States
foreign policy.
Psychological factors will be up
for attention on July 3, when morale
and sabotage in conquered nations
will be studied during the morning.
aspects of American
defense will be taken up that after
noon in a program arranged in CO.
operation with the Mental Hygiene
Society of Virginia.
A look ahead into the future will
be taken during the morning of the
Fourth of July, and this considera-
ton of postwar problems will be
treated from a special point of view
on the final afternoon, when the
program will be given over to
group of college students sent to the
institute from leading colleges and
universities of the East and South,