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Speaker at an evening session of the round-table conference on the "League of Nations and the Post-War World" will be Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith College and lecturer at the Summer School, Kohn's talk, the final one of the sessions, will be on the subject "Russia, the Orient, and the League...
...next four years Kohn was shipped up and down the whole continent of Asia, where he got a taste of Russian prison camps from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. His Russian captors gave him surprising liberties, which included catching malaria and typhoid fever with only the help of a broken down Czech dentist to pull him through. For two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was imprisoned in the Siberian cities of Novosibersk and two other unpronounceable locations. Kohn, who just before the war had completed law school in Prague, acquired his first teaching experience in these cities...
...Kohn's travels sent him zigzagging across Europe as he had covered the map of Asia. Leaving Vladivostok in 1920, he returned for a few months to his home in Prague, a free man for the first time in five years. Then he went to Paris and finally London, where for four years he had access to the historical wealth of the British Museum. In 1925 he traveled to Palestine, where he continued first hand his study of the history and politics of the Near and Middle East. From Palestine he came in 1931 to the United States and since...
Perhaps more famous as a writer than a teacher, Professor Kohn has just completed "World Order in Historical Perspective," and with the help of a Guggenheim fellowship is in the process of writing a monumental four-volume "History of Nationalism." He teaches Government 18 (The Struggle for World Empire) and gives weekly lectures in current events at the Harvard Summer School...
Like all men who know what they are talking about, Kohn says emphatically that at present we are losing the war, but he feels that what we need is neither optimism nor pessimism but a grim determination. From one who has spent the greater part of his life studying the history and workings of nationalism comes the somewhat surprising statement that militarism and aggression are not at all inherent in the German people. Kohn feels that our greatest mistake in 1918 was the failure of the Allies to destroy forever the prestige of the German militarists. If this time every...