At Williamstown

At Williamstown, Mass., a group of men gather yearly. They carry dignity in their countenances, destiny in their briefcases. They are the members of the Institute of Politics. When they talk, huge words thunder in the index ; nations rise up or crumble down ; tall Troy is burned again. Williamstown, sentinelled with maple trees, smiles at the Berkshires.

Last week, Dr. Harry A. Garfield, Chairman of the Institute and President of Williams College, issued a program and an announcement. The program named the topics that will be discussed and the notable men who will be present at the Institute's fourth annual session, to begin Aug. 1; the announcement named one notable man who will not be present, Dr. Eduard Benes, CzechoSlovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, once heralded as the headliner of the session. Word had come : "The recent political developments in Europe have rendered Dr. Benes' presence absolutely essential in Europe." Dr. Benes promised to come in 1925.

Subjects for the Round Table discussions consist of a varying rearrangement of the adjectives economic, financial, political, social ; and the nouns aspect, factor, problem, relationship, in conjunction with the names of the greater European Powers.

Some of those who will be there: Sir Valentine Chirol, expert in Eastern affairs; Sir Arthur C. Salter, Finance Chief of the League of Nations; Louis Aubert, onetime Editor of the Revue de Paris; Moritz J. Bonn, Berlin economic expert ; Yusuke Tsurumi, member of the Seiyukai party of Japan ; R. H. Tawney, economic adviser of the British Labor Party; Sir Paul Vinogradoff, of the Chair in Jurisprudence at Oxford ; Paul D. Cravath, lawyer ; Rear Admiral Josseph Strauss; John Spargo, U. S. Socialist.