Round-Table Conferences at the Institute of Politics, 1921. (New Haves:
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Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1913, established summer vacation courses under the title of the Institute of Politics, and to the courses were added in 1921 conferences of the members with the leading American authorities on foreign affairs and economics. This hook contains a summary account of the conferences, which must have been most stimulating for those who were present. At one meeting, it seems, Lord Bryce attended and discussed "self-deter- mination,' doubtless with his usual lucidity, though the speech is not given. The subjects treated were in the main the effects of the Peace Treaty, Reparations and International Law, and useful bibliographies are appended to some of the reports. If such conferences could be multiplied in America and Britain we might be more certain of preserving the peace of the world. The widespread ignorance of foreign affairs among the English-speaking peoples constitutes one of the gravest obstacles that peacemakers have to overcome.
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