News and Notes

• Published date: 01 December 1950
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295000300435
• Date: 01 December 1950
• Subject Matter: Articles

NEWS AND NOTES
The Institute of World Affairs held the 1950 meeting on December
10-13, 1950 at Riverside, California, celebrating the 25th year of its exist-
ence. The main scheme was &dquo;World Leadership in Mid-Century.&dquo; Round
table topics were:
Major Problems of United States Foreign Policy (Dr. H. Paul Castle-
berry, State College of Washington, chairman); Bipartisan Foreign Policy-
Myth or Reality? (Dr. Franz B. Schick, University of Utah, chairman);
Are the United States Government and Foreign Service Effective Instru-
ments of American Leadership? (Dr. Ross N. Berkes, University of
Southern California, chairman); America’s Economic Foreign Policy (Dr.
Howard Ellis, University of California, chairman); Should Europe or Asia
be Emphasized? (Dr. Ralph H. Lutz, Stanford University, chairman); The
Latin-American Sphere: Its Attitude toward the United States (Dr. Josef
L. Kunz, University of California, chairman); American Leadership as
Viewed by the English-speaking World (Dr. Hugh McD. Clokie, Uni-
versity of Manitoba, chairman); Orientation to Democracy: How Can
Democracy Most Effectively be Carried to the Outside World under
United States Leadership? (Dr. Wilbert L. Hindman, University of South-
ern California, chairman); The United Nations-Basis for World Govern-
ment or Instrument of Power? (Miss Elsie Jensen, American Association
for the United Nations, chairman); The Organization of American States
and the United Nations (Dr. Russell H. Fitzgibbon, University of Cali-
fornia, Los Angeles, chairman); The Future of the United Nations (Dr.
John A. Vieg, Pomona College, chairman).
Among the speakers of the main sessions may be mentioned:
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, chairman, executive council, California Insti-
tute of Technology-The Two Supreme Elements in Human Progress;
Chancellor Albert C. Jacobs, University of Denver-The Role of American
Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century; President Arthur G. Coons,
Occidental College-Conflict and Crisis in World A f f airs; Dr. Hugh A.
Bone, University of Washington-The...