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...held where discussion is carried on under leaders in the mornings. There are, besides, regular lectures later in the day. Among the speakers this year are Boris A. Bakhmetev, who was Russian Ambassador to Washington under the Kerensky regime; Count Harry Kessler, former German Ambassador to Poland; Sir Edward Grigg, from England; Canon Ernest Dinmet, from Paris; Viscount Bir-former Lord Chancellor of England; General Tasker H. Bliss; Dr. Estanislas Severo Zeballos, former Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs...
Incoming liners brought three distinguished men who are going to lecture at the third annual session of the Williamstown Institute of Politics (now begun): Sir Edward Grigg, M. P., former Secretary to the Prince of Wales on his American tour, accompanied by Lady Grigg; Philip Kerr, a former secretary to Lloyd George, ex-Premier; Count Harry Kessler, ex-German Minister, to Poland...
...Edward Grigg, who will lecture on " Typical Problems of the British Empire in Domestic and International Affairs," said that it was impossible for Britain to go on paying her debts while her debtors paid nothing. He said Lloyd George might come back to power, but no one could say when. On prohibition he expressed the opinion that Britain would not go dry in his time. The Prince of Wales would marry some day, no doubt, but it might not be for some time. Unemployment was increasing...
...Kerr, who will have charge of the Round Table discussions on the British Empire at the Institute, was more optimistic on British affairs than Sir Edward Grigg. His theme was that all that is necessary is time. "After all," said he, "the United States took twelve years to get over the aftermath of the Civil...
...which will open at Williams College (Mass.) on July 27, will be addressed, for the first time, by a German. Count Harry Kreisler, Germany's first Minister to Poland and leader of the "Nie-Wieder-Krieg" demonstrations in Berlin, is the German representative. Viscount Birkenhead and Sir Edward Grigg, formerly political secretary to Lloyd George, will attend from Great Britain, and Canon Ernest Dimnet, professor in the College Stanislas at Paris, from France. Sir Paul Vinogradov, the eminent professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, formerly a resident of Moscow, will deliver a course of public lectures, and Dr. Estinislav Zebellos...