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15TH FOREIGN AFFAIRS SCHOOL TO COMMENCE TUESDAY AT RADCLIFFE

ATTENDANCE WILL BE OPEN TO ALL INTERESTED

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Crucial situations in Spain, China and elsewhere in a war troubled world will be discussed during the three-day program of the fifteenth Foreign Affairs School which will open next Tuesday, January 19, at 2:30 o'clock in Agassiz House, Radcliffe College. The program is sponsored by the Massachusetts League of Women Vters, acting in cooperation with its Cambridge branch and Radcliffe College.

An annual event since the first conference in 1922, the Foreign Affairs School ranks among the more important conferences on international affairs which have continued to attract and instruct a wide following. In providing authoritative information about social, economic, and political conflict over the entire world, the League has succeeded in obtaining as speakers men and women of international repute in their chosen fields.

The program will begin with a discussion of the Political Consequences of Economic Policies. Under this heading John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard and a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank, New York, will speak on "The International Consequences of Stabilization Agreements," while Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the U. S. Tariff Commission, will talk on "The International Consequences of Reciprocal Trade Treaties."

A round table discussion of Economic and Social Consequences of Political Philosophies will be held Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Under the leadership of William Y. Elliott, Professor of Government at Harvard, the following spokesmen, each representing a political philosophy, will participate: Fascism, Judge Felix Forte; Communism, George Blake, New England Secretary of Organization, Communist Party; Nationalism, Miss Sarah Wambaugh, widely experienced in international adjustments and policies; Professor Elliott will speak for Democracy.

European Day

Wednesday will be European Day with the following topics and speakers: At 10:30 Donald C. McKay, Instructor is History at Harvard, speaks on the subject "Struggle for Influence in the Mediterranean: England, France, Italy and Spain." "Social Strife in Spain" will follow at 11:30, the lecturer being Dr. Frank Edward Manuel, recently returned from Spain, where he made a study of labor adn other social problems.

At 2:30 o'clock Josef Hano, Czechoslovakian Consul, New York, speaks on "The Struggle for Influence in the Danubian Basin: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Jugoslavia and Rumania." This will be followed at 3:30 by an address on the "Political and Economic Scene in France," by Professor Robert Valour of Lyons, France, now lecturing at Columbia University. Sir Arthur Willert, head of the publicity department of the British Foreign Office, 1920-1935, speaks Wednesday evening at 8:15 on "England and the European Crisis."

Thursday's program devoted to the Americas, Russia and the Far East, has as its theme recent events tending toward peace and toward war. Chief among the pacific events, "The Results of the Buenos Aires Conference" will be presented by Clarence H. Baring '07, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics at Harvard.

The program will close Thursday afternoon with an address given by Anna Louise Strong of Russia, who will speak on "The Far East--Is War Inevitable?" Miss Strong has crossed many frontiers during the past months and the discussion will concern "The People's Front."

Attendance at the School is not restricted to League members, but is open to all interested persons up to the capacity of Agassiz House Theatre. Applications should be made to the Massachusetts League of Women Voters, 31 Mt. Vernon Street, up to the morning of January 19. Mrs. John H. Williams, 42 Brattle Street, Cambridge, is chairman of the ticket committee.

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