Whittlesey To Speak Today

The close connection of geography and tactics will be the subject of a Forum Lecture, "The Earth and Political Strategy," which will be given by Derwent S. Whittlesey, associate professor of Geography, who will speak this evening in New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock.

The lecture, fifth and last in a series sponsored jointly by the Harvard Summer School and the American Association of Scientific Workers, describes how weather, vegetation, water supply, raw materials, and other items of natural environment affect tactics, and how the planning of strategy is closely linked with climatic conditions.

In his talk, Whittlesey will point out the effect which topography has played in history and how nearly it caused the defeat of the Allied forces and brought a German victory, the threat of which, even yet, has not completely passed.