Evening star., 1941-01-12
G.W.'s Pan.American
Conference 10 Open
Tomorrow Night
New World Security
Topic Of Sessions;
Marshall to Speak

Conference, under the sponsorship
Of George Washington University,
will be held tomorrow and Tuesday
in the auditorium of the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
Held under the direction of the
inter- American center of the univer-
sity, New World Security: Military,
Cultural and Economic Defense of
the Western Hemisphere" is the
subject to be considered in this
years meetings. The program will
include addresses by leaders in
Government, diplomacy, education,
the press, the Army and interna-
tional trade.
Gen. George c. Marshall, Army
Chief of Staff, will address the meet
ing Tuesday on The Armed Defense
of the New World
Panel discussions will follow the
formal addresses each evening. Ihe
conference is open to the public
and invitations may be obtained by
communicating with the director
of the Inter American Center,
George Howland Cox.
DR.. Marvin to Preside.
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president
of the university, will open the
conference and preside as chairman
of the meeting tomorrow nlght'
Three addresses are scheduled at
that time. They are: New Trends
on the Pan-American Front" by
John 7, B. MCCULLOUGH OF the
Foreign Policy Association and ed
itor of the Pan-American News;
Canada and the Pan-American
Movement" by Harry Warner
Frantz, news writer of United Press
and author of many articles on
inter-American problems OF the
Western Hemisphere; Latin Amer
lean and Japan'S New Order, oy
William Crane Johnstone, professor
of political science and dean of the
Junior college of the university.
Leading the panel discussion Mon
day will be Kendric Nichols Mar
shall. president of Chevy Chase
Junior College; William Cabell Van
Week, dean of the universlty's law
school; Russell Singer, general
manager, American Automobile AS
sociation, and Frederick MOTIFS
Feiker, dean of the uniVersltys
school of engineering.
O'Brien to Head Session.
Robert Lincoln O'Brien, former
chairman of the United States
Tariff Commission, will head the
sessions on the second evening.
Speakers and their subjects follow:
Robert Granville Caldwell, former
Minister to Portugal and Bolivia
and chairman of the cultural re-
lations program OF the National
Defense Council, THE Significance OF
Pan-Americanism Today; George
Elliott Quisenberry, vice president
aand director of the Business Pub
fishers International Corp, New
Commercial Geography of Latin
America" and Gen. Marshaus
speech on armed defense.
Howard Sanderson LIE Roy. Wash
ington attorney; Robert Whitney
Bolwell, professor of American
literature; Alan Thomas Deibert,
associate professor of romance
languages, and Henry Grattan
DOYLE. dean of Columbian College |
of the university, will serve on the
panel discussion Tuesday.
Medical Lecture Tuesday.
For more than 10 years the uni
versity has been giving special
attention to the development
of inter American relationships
through its American center.
Last year it was one of the institu-
tions invited to participate in Sec
retary of State Hull's conference
on inter-American relations in the
field of education, which was held
in Washington. Institutions chosen
were those carrying on some special
program of interest to students
from the other American republics.
The next lecture in the Smith
Reed Russell series at the unlver-
sity for this year will be held Tues
day at IL am. in the school OF
medicine. Guest speaker for the
occasion viii be DR.. Henrik Dam OF
Copenhagen, whose subject will be
~Vitamin K, fa) It's General Signi-
ficance in Biochemistry; (b) Its
Role IN Human Pathology and Its
Application In Therapeutics"