COMITE FRANCE-AMERIQUE PRIZE-SPEAKING HELD

Last night in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Raymond Emile Pannier '24 of Springfield won the prize offered by the Comite France Amerique for the year 1922, with his address "La France et la restauration economique de la Russie", Ralph Edward Greene ocC. of Palouse, Washington, and John Murray Begg '24 of Stockbridge were awarded honorable mention for their addresses, "La France et Pesprit europeen" and "La necessite d'une alliance france-polonaise".

Recounting the history of the economic relations between France and the Russians since the war, and developing the thesis that France could not assist in the economic restoration of Russia until the latter country changed her present political and social fabric, Pannier closed with the statement that when the time was ripe France would lead the way in opening Russia to the world. In his address Greene pictured France as the savior of civilization and discussed her present position in the spirit of Europe, while Begg delivered a well-considered speech on the necessities--military, economic, and social--for close relation between France and Poland.