CONFER ON WORLD RELATIONS

Plans for the holding of a conference at Cornell University from June 15 to 30 for the intensive study of international relations and the training of students who hope to become leaders in the development of world organization have been completed by the World Peace Foundation. While the fundamental idea of the conference is that international conflicts are due to the absence of an enlightened public opinion as to the futility of war and the advantages of world organization, all points of view will be welcomed and complete freedom of discussion will prevail.

The discussion and teaching of all aspects of the international problem will be in charge of men who are recognized experts in their particular fields in this country. The conference has been particularly fortunate in obtaining the services of Mr. Norman Angell, who is coming to America for this special purpose, and of M. G. Lowes Dickinson, of Cambridge University, England. Cornell University has offered its hospitality and the use of its dormitories, and the Cornell Cosmopolitan Club is co-operating in the local arrangements for reception and out-of-door recreation. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Church Peace Union will also take part and contribute to the success of the Conference.

The detailed program will consist of short discourses followed by discussion from nine to ten-thirty in the morning in the fundamentals of International Law and the theory of International Trade. These lectures will be followed by a two-hour conference on the terms of settlement making for a more lasting peace. The afternoons will be devoted to out-of-door sports, particularly favorable opportunities being afforded for tennis, canoeing, sailing, and short walking trips to such nearby places of interest as Tanghannock Falls and the George Junior Republic. In the evenings there will be lectures and small group discussions on such definite problems as Pan-American relations, the Hague conferences, American-Japanese relations, the neutralization of the seas, and other topics on the means of enforcing international obligations. Special conferences will be held on effective methods of creating and educating public opinion.

The number of students who can be accommodated will be limited and preference will be given to those who have already some preparation in the field of international relations or who have had experience in speaking or writing on the subject. The cost of board and room will be $15 for the entire session of fifteen days, with an initiation fee of $5 to cover general expenses. Applications should be made to Dr. George W. Nasmyth, 40 Mt. Vernon street, Boston. Information on trains and local arrangements can be secured from H. Blanco Morales, Chairman of the Committee on Reception and Hospitality, Cornell Cosmopolitan Club, Ithaca, New York.