The Author

JOHN CLINTON ADAMS, Professor of History, predicted from his knowledge of Russia and the Balkans, the grim equivalent of a "cold war" long before that phrase came into general use.

An authority on the complicated power trends generated in years past by Russia and her neighbors, he can also expertly assess the present—by means impossible for the average citizen. He listens daily to Russian broadcasts and is a regular reader of Serbian newspapers.

In his course on "Russia and the Near East" Professor Adams deals with the economic, strategic and internal political aspects of Russian policy in this area and with the rise of nationalism in the Balkans. He has been teaching at Dartmouth since 1941, when he came from Princeton where he taught modern European history. The following year he left for war service in the MIS in Washington, returning to Hanover in 1946. He is the author of Flight inWinter, a book describing the valiant fight the Serbs put up against winter and human adversaries, and also of "Serbia in the World War," a chapter in the book Yugoslavia, edited by Robert T. Kerner.

Alumni will have a chance to hear Professor Adams on Russia and the Balkans when he lectures in the Hanover Holiday series in June.