Evening star., 1942-06-21
Fiye-Week Institute
On World Problems
Opens al A. U. July 13
Three Bosic Courses
Will Be Presented in
Program for Teachers

Program for Teachers
Washington will be the scene of
study for teachers from all parts
of the country when the Institute
on World Problems opens July 13 at
american University for a five
weeks course under the direction Of
the World Federation Of Education
Associations.
The institute will offer an in
tegrated. international and re-
search program dealing with war
time and postwar problems. The
three basic courses will be con-
Quoted by experts in their respective
fields.
Backgrounds of the War" will
be given by DR.. Charles E. Martin,
professor of political science in the
University of Washington. This
course will present a survey of
political, social. economic and psy-
Geological factors of the present
conflict. DR.. Martin plans to sup
plement his lectures with talks
from specialists in the fields he
will .discuss in his classes.
Mrs. Morgan to Teach.
The second basic course, Critical
Evaluation of the Machinery and
Means for International Co-opera-
ton" will be given by Mrs. Laura
Puffer Morgan, for many years
member of the Governing Board of
the Geneva Research Center, who
has been, since her return to this
country two years ago from Geneva,
actively engaged in the work OF the
Institute on World Organization.
Mrs. Morgan's course will analyze
the machinery established since the
Hague Tribunal for effecting in
ternational cooperation. The
League of Nations, the World Court,
the International Labor Office and
other governmental international
Offices, as well as private agencies
engaged in the field of international
relations, will be studied. Particu-
lar attention will be given to an
analysis of the problems which
caused the League of Nations fall
ure to prevent the present conflict.
The third basic course, Post
War Problems" will be given by
DR.. Jan Hostile, former legal adviser
to the Belgian Foreign Offlce and
former secretary general OF the In
ternational Rhineland Commission.
DR.. Hostile will discuss immediate
problems of health and feeding and
moral rebuilding, as well as prob
lens of long-range planning for
economic and social reconstruction.
Experts in the fields discussed will
be called upon by DR.. Hostile to
supplement his talks.
Authorities to Lecture.
These basic study courses, which
will be given as regular university
courses at the graduate level, will
be supplemented by a series OF lee
lures. in the afternoon and evening,
by distinguished authorities of world
repute. Included in the list are DR..
George A. Finch, secretary of the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace; DR.. Henri Bonnet, di-
rector of the Institute on Intellec-
tual Cooperation of the League OF
Nations; DR.. Arthur Sweetser. di-
rector in the secretariat, the League
of Nations; DR.. Solon J. Buck, the
archivist of the United States: Hugo
Fernandez Artucio, author Of The
Nazi Underground in South Amer
ica"; Chairman Thomas of the Sem
ate Education and Labor Commit
tee; DR.. HUI Shih, the Chinese Am
bassador; DR.. A. Loudon, the Am
bassador to the Netherlands; DR..
Constantin Fotitch, the Minister to
Yugoslavia; DR.. Jan Cienchanowski,
the Polish Minister; DR.. Adrian
Recinos. the Minister Of Guatemala;
j. 1. Elizalde, Resident Commits
sioner of the Philippine Islands; Sir
Girja Shankar Bajpai, agent gen.
eral of India and Minister Pleni-
potentiary to the United States;
Noel Frederick Hall, the Minister OF
the British Embassy; DR.. Louis
Quintanilla, Minister of the Mexi-
can Embassy; DR.. Sigmund Skaard,
formerly of the University of Trond-
helm: DR.. Otakar Odlozilik, former
professor of history, Charles Uni
versity. Prague: DR.. Enrique de Lo-
zada. former member of the Bolivian
Diplomatic Corps, special adviser to
the Office of Co-ordinator OF Inter-
American Affairs; DR.. Concha Ro-
nero James, chief of Division OF
Intellectual Cooperation Of the
Pan-American Union; DR.. Ernesto
Galarza. chief of the Division Of
Social Information Of the Pan
American Union Richard F. Pattee.
Division of Cultural Relations OF the
State Department; Miss Mary Win
slow. United States member of In
ter-American Commission OF Wom-
en-; Miss M. Craig McGeachy, At
tache of the British Embassy: Dr.
Adolph Drucker, formerly head OF
foreign trade promotion in the Min
istry of Commerce of Austria; DR..
Leon Steinig, member of the secre-
tariat of the League of Nations.
A special program has been ar
ranged for commemoration of Bas-
tile Day, July IA. A service of prayer
will be offered "for the fall of the
Bastille which today engulfs the
spiritual and physical life of the
French people" Other special fea-
tures are special conference for
Institute members at the Pan-Amer-
jcan Union with DR.. Leo Rowe. di-
rector, and with DR.. John Stude-
baker, Commissioner of Education
DR.. Paul Douglass, president of
the American University, and DR..
Paul Monroe, president of the World