MacKay's Seminar Will Discuss Fall of France

Investigating the background of the fall of France, a seminar given by Donald C. MacKay, assistant professor of History will hold up the cliches of newspaper correspondents to the light and try and weed out from a maze of facts the answers to the fundamental questions involved in the collapse of a major power in 34 days.

Labelled History 147a the seminar is opened to twelve graduate students each of whom will prepare a paper on one particular phase of the problem.

Both the leaders of France during the thirties and the main movements within the country will be analyzed. Such men as Laval, Barthou and Gamelin, such movements as the Blum government and the internal disunity of the country, will be under discussion.

Two other major courses directly related to World War II now being given are Economics 18b on Economic Aspects of the War by Seymiur E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, and Government 25b conducted by Carl J. Friedrich on Public Opinion and Propaganda.