Diplomacy

In Los Angeles opened a new university, the Los Angeles University of International Relations. It will give courses teaching "a knowledge of languages, history, political economy, international law, and the cultural achievements of nations, in addition to ability and training in diplomatic procedure and commercial practice." Chancellor: Dr. Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, native of Sandwich, Ill., psychologist.

Also, looking toward the deeper study of diplomacy, Myron Charles Taylor* gave $1,500,000 to his alma mater, the Cornell Law School, to build a Myron Taylor Hall for law students & faculty. Wrote he, in making the gift: "It is well to stress the importance of the study of languages . . . particularly French, which is the diplomatic language of the world, and, if possible, Italian and Spanish. . . . It is to be hoped that ultimately such a centre or college of law will be developed and will embody within its courses in international law one of diplomacy, that it may permit its students to equip themselves especially for our government's foreign service."

At Johns Hopkins a school of international relations which will commemorate by name the late Ambassador Walter Hines Page has been planned since 1925. A board of trustees headed by Owen D. Young is now raising $1,000,000 to launch the school.

* Mr. Taylor is the brilliant and scholarship-loving lawyer who, after triumphing in the textile and other businesses; became last January one of the triumvirate chosen to succeed the late Judge Gary as rulers of U. S. Steel (see p. 26). The other two: John Pierpont Morgan, James Augustine Farrell.