News and Notes

• Date: 01 December 1952
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295200500468
• Published date: 01 December 1952
• Subject Matter: Articles

NEWS AND NOTES
The annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association to
be held on the campus of the University of Southern California will begin
Sunday evening, March 29, 1953. The final meeting will be Tuesday
morning, March 31, 1953.
The annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Associa-
tion will be held on the campus of the University of Washington. The
tentative dates are April 3 and 4, 1953.
The Boise Junior College, the College of Idaho, and the Northwest
Nazarene College acted as host institutions to the Northwest International
Relations Clubs Conference held at Boise, October 31 and November 1,
1952. Among the speakers were Mr. L. P. Gainsborough, President of
the American Academy of Asian Studies at San Francisco, who gave
an address entitled &dquo;Indian-Pakistan, The New Leaders of Asia,&dquo; and M.
Louis de Guiringaud, French Consul-General at San Francisco, who pre-
sented a paper entitled &dquo;Toward Europe’s Unification.&dquo;
An Institute on Government, sponsored annually by the California
State Employees Association, was held in Sacramento October 3 and 4.
Headline speakers were Drew Pearson and Martin Agronsky. Governor
Earl Warren delivered the welcoming address. Approximately 2,000 public
employees attended the Institute. Professor Earl Segrest of Sacramento
State College was program chairman, and numerous other Sacramento
State College faculty members participated in the Institute.
The Western Governmental Research Association held its annual con-
ference in Sacramento on October 23 and 24. There was a registered at-
tendance of approximately 200 members. As a substitute for its own
monthly meeting, the Sacramento Chapter of the American Society for
Public Administration met with WGRA at a banquet on the evening of
October 23.
Professor William H. Vatcher, Jr., after spending four months as
a member of General Harrison’s staff in Munsan, Korea, will be on a
research tour in the Middle East and Europe before...