SYUD HOSSAIN comes to this country as an orator with an international reputation, and a foremost authority on the political and economic relations between the East and the West.

He has addressed the most distinguished audiences in three Continents, winning signal tributes as a man of compelling eloquence, wide knowledge, cosmopolitan sympathies and rare charm of personality.

As an active and powerful journalist, and an accredited Moslem spokesman in London and Paris, he brings first-hand knowledge to his interpretation of the burning topics of the day. His lectures will break ground which is new to American audiences, and those who hear him will feel that their outlook has broadened by his brilliant exposition of the part which the New Orient is playing in the inauguration of the new world order.

As his first name indicates, Syud Hossain is a direct descendant of the Prophet of Islam, and he comes of an aristocratic family whose Persian ancestors settled in India in the time of the Moghul Empire, during the reign of Jehangir (17th Century) and for successive generations were among the premier nobility of the land. His father held one of the high offices under the British Crown, and was invested, among other honors, with the decoration of the Imperial Service Order.

Following a short career in the British Service, Mr. Hossain took up journalism, and for several years was a writer in the English Press, his contributions appearing in the "New Statesman," "Contemporary Review," "Pall Mall Gazette," the "Asiatic Quarterly," the "New Age," "Foreign Affairs," and other leading journals.

Returning to India to take up the chief assistant Editorship of the "Bombay Chronicle," the leading nationalist organ, Mr. Hossain, by reason of his brilliant oratorical gifts and grasp of politics, quickly became one of the recognized leaders of the National Movement and, as a Mohammedan spokesman, played a prominent part in the achievement of Hindu-Moslem solidarity. He then started *The Independent* of Allahabad, which, before he gave up the editorship, became the largest and most influential daily newspaper in Northern India.

In 1920 he was one of three special delegates elected, with the consent of the Viceroy of India, by the people of India, to present the Indian case at the Near Eastern Peace Settlement, and for nearly two years subsequently he remained in Europe to follow the developments of the Near East Situation.

While in Paris he lectured under the patronage of the French Minister of Public Instruction at the Amphitheatre de l'Institut Oceanographique, before an audience of noted savants, presided over by Professor Larnaude, Dean of the Faculty of Law in the University of Paris, and France's famous authority on International Law. In England, besides innumerable public addresses, he spoke on the Near Eastern situation before a group of Members of Parliament.

# SUBJECTS

## EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY IN THE EAST

European diplomatic intrigue has been rampant in Asia for the last 150 years directed to the economic and political exploitation of that vast continent. Asia, awake and resurgent, is for the first time challenging and resisting that policy. Syud Hossain lifts the curtain on a fascinating if little known scene full of cross purposes and undercurrents, with a comprehensive mastery of facts.

## THE MOSLEM WORLD AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION

There are over 250,000,000 Mohammedans in the world, and the Moslem world today is in a ferment from Morocco to China. The orientation, now in process, of this tremendous factor in its political, cultural and international aspects has a direct bearing on the future of world-peace. Syud Hossain, who knows Moslem doctrine, society and institutions at first hand, can discuss the reactions of the Moslem world to Western Civilization and explain the phenomenon of Mohammedan unrest with rare authority.

## GANDHI AND THE PRESENT SITUATION IN INDIA

The unfolding of the political situation in India is being watched with world-wide interest. Gandhi, one of the most potent spiritual forces of the time, is the symbol and embodiment of this national movement involving the destiny of one-fifth of the human race. Syud Hossain knows Gandhi intimately as a personal friend and political associate, and is the foremost authority in America today on all phases of the Indian question.

## PRESS COMMENTS AND OPINIONS

"On the platform he is full of fire and magnetism . . . a thorough cosmopolite and an authority on Oriental politics."—Washington (D. C.) Times.

"No account could do justice to the brilliant style and rapid wit of the young Moslem orator, who proved to be one of the finest speakers ever presented to a Montclair audience."—Montclair (N. J.) Times.

"One of the world's foremost lecturers."—San Francisco Call and Post.

"Mr. Syud Hossain is an exceedingly brilliant orator."—Carrie Chapman Catt.

". . . Thrilled even the most hardened and critical of listeners. . . . A world democrat with a perfectly marvelous command of English."—Official Bulletin, National Popular Government League, Washington, D. C.

" . . . held his audience enthralled, not only by his subject, but by the eloquence of his oratory, his magnetic personality."—Lansing (Mich.) Capital News.

"Of the hundreds of speakers who have addressed our luncheon-conferences during the last four years, none was more brilliant or authoritative than Mr. Hossain."—James G. McDonald, Chairman, Foreign Policy Association, N. Y.

"My friend Hossain . . . his is a very strong argument indeed."—H. G. Wells ("Washington and the Riddle of Peace.")

"Men of education in the hall declared it was the finest lecture they had ever heard."—Mrs. M. W. Hagar, Sec. Eliz beth H. Whittier Club, Amesbury, Mass.

"A master of English and diction."—San Francisco Chronicle.

"The skill and beauty with which he uses the English language is proof of his thorough understanding and knowledge of Western Civilization."—Mary B. Wells, Chairman, Plainfield (N. J.) Public Forum.

"Mr. Hossain was a great success."—Andrew Thomas Smith, President, Westchester (Pa.) State Normal School.

"The teachers of Chicago were delighted with Mr. Syud Hossain's talk on the Near East situation."—Margaret Hailey, Chicago Teachers' Federation.

"The debate is being very widely discussed everywhere. It was one of the most vivid and thrilling evenings we have had. Everybody raves over the uncanny cleverness and brilliance of Mr. Hossain."—The Rev. Dr. Edgar Swan Weirs, Montclair, N. J.

"He is a miracle."—The Rev. William Norman Guthrie, St. Marks, New York City.

"One of the most adroit reasoners and resourceful thinkers who has been in Westchester in a long time. . . . He gave the people a vast amount of information."—Westchester (Pa.) Daily News.

"Talked with brilliant and melodious oratory . . . left a deep impression on his audience."—Evansville (Ind.) Journal.

"Mr. Hossain is an eloquent and effective speaker."—Robert Erskine Ely, Director, League for Political Education, New York.

"Syud Hossain undoubtedly speaks as one with authority."—New York Evening Mail.

"Syud Hossain was the speaker at the forty-fifth luncheon discussion of the Foreign Policy Association yesterday at the Hotel Astor. . . . without any question the most significant and stirring discussion of the year."—Brooklyn Eagle.

"Syud Hossain has shown the world that he is not only a son of the leisurely East but an A-I journalist according to the most approved Western methods."—New York Evening Telegram.

"Sensitive, delicate features carved of smooth ivory, eyes that weld the burning mysticism of the East with the calculating, practical judgment of the man of the world and journalist, a linguist, a man whose thought cuts with the clarity of vitriol, a patriot, easy of manner, polished, cosmopolitan, handsome—Hossain."—San Francisco Call and Post.

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STUYVESANT 4358

The NEW ORIENT

TWELVE FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK CITY

October 18th

1924

Mrs. Julia Ellsworth Ford
Queen Anne's Mansions
St. James's Park
London, S. W., England.

My dear Julia,

I owe you many apologies for my long silence. Both your kind and welcome letters reached me duly, and I should have written you before now as I had been intending to do if it were not that the pressure of routine work caused me to put off doing so from day to day. I can never write to my friends unless I can give my mind to them, and this is a case in point: So do please accept my sincere apologies.

The labor involved in getting the new number of THE NEW ORIENT ready for the press practically single-handed has been extremely heavy, and I had neither the time nor the energy for much else during the past weeks. As you can imagine, the standard set by the first number is a difficult one to sustain, but sustained it must be, and I am glad to think that the labors in that behalf have not been in vain. I feel sure you will like the new number, which is now on the press and should be out very shortly. Besides a personal message from Gandhi, there will be an extremely able article especially written for us by Bertrand Russell among many other equally interesting contributions.

I was much interested in the program of your visit to Ireland and I feel sure it must have proved thoroughly enjoyable. I

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wish I could have been there with you to meet A. E. Yeats
and the rest of those splendid people.

One cannot but deplore that poor Ramsay MacDonald
has been pushed out; but I suppose it was inevitable, and one
can only hope that ultimately it will enable the Labour Party
to return to Parliament with increased influence. In prestige,
of course, they have already gained enormously. Judging from
the cables to the New York press, it does not look as though
MacDonald can come back to power after the election. Which, of
course, would be a great pity from the point of view of an early
restoration of real international peace and harmony. However,
MacDonald and his government have abundantly justified their
existence and will no doubt be heard of again to some purpose.

Thanks to you, I have been receiving "Foreign Affairs"
regularly, and it is an inspiration to see how that superb human-
itarian, E. D. Morel, never waries in welldoing. May he be long
spared to carry on the crusade against the forces of darkness!

I wonder if you have yet met Mr. Horniman. I should
be deeply disappointed if he misses you a second time, but appar-
ently it is not easy for him to leave Southsea and come up to
London. Among other things, I understand he is the sole companion
and caretaker of his mother, who is a frail old lady of nearly
ninety years.