Abstract

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The article presents information about various social and political developments around the world. The Announcement that the U.S. newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt has indorsed the action of the Department of State reaffirming the Stimson doctrine is strategically timed. It comes at a moment when Japan is engaged in a new aggressive campaign in China and just prior to the meeting at Geneva of the Committee of Nineteen. In his double role of public mentor and president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler has appointed seventeen distinguished persons in and out of academic life to undertake at once an investigation of the economic crisis with particular reference to methods of production and international exchange.