Inter-American Conference

DARTMOUTH'S SECOND CONFERENCE on Inter-American Relations, this year on the general subject of "The Defense of the Americas," will be held at the College on November 18 to 22. Last year's successful plan will be expanded with emphasis on more popular appeal in the program, particularly in view of existing public interest in the topic of this year's conference.

President Hopkins has appointed a Dartmouth faculty committee to direct the conference, with Prof. Jose M. Arce of the Spanish department as chairman. Other members are Dean E. Gordon Bill; Prof. Albert S. Carlson of the Economics department, who lectured in the Hanover Holiday series last June on the economic possibilities of South America; and Prof. H. Wentworth Eldredge '3l of the Sociology department, who made a survey tour of South America this past summer.

The tentative program for the conference calls for five main addresses, one on each day of the meetings, to serve as the core around which seminars and discussi0n sessions will be held. An official of the Government, probably from the Department of State, will officially open the conference on the night of November 18. The key speaker on the second day, a nationally known figure, will cover the wider aspects of the subject of American defense from this country's viewpoint. The principal speaker on the third day, devoted to the Latin American standpoint, will be Ernesto Montenegro, the Chilean journalist and author, who has taught in various American universities and who has lectured widely in this country. The fourth day will be devoted to the Canadian aspects of the general conference topic, with a distinguished consultant present to present that side of the question. Economic phases of American hemisphere defense will be discussed at a seminar luncheon on the fifth and final day of the conference, with a person of wide Latin American financial and commercial experience present as guest speaker.

A concert of Hispanic American music will be presented on the final night by Joaquin Nin-Culmell, celebrated Cuban artist, who is Visiting Professor of Music at Williams College this year and who last summer taught at the Middlebury Summer School.

In conjunction with the Conference on Inter-American Relations, Professor Arce's committee plans to arrange special displays in the Library, the Museum and the Art Galleries, and to present motion pictures dealing with Latin American subjects.