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Gunnar Myrdal, noted European economist, professor of Economics at the University of Stockholm, and adviser to the Swedish government on economic matters, has been named the Godkin Lecturer here for the current year. He will deliver a series of lectures next May on "The System of Public Finance and the Business Fluctuations...
Instructive but comparatively tame were the 18th and 19th-Century paintings which Director Plimpton and Stockholm's National Museum Curator Sixten Strömbom had included. Discreetly confined to historical art, the show stopped with such established fin de siècle cosmopolitans as Anders Zorn. Ernst Josephson, contained no work by such up-&-coming young Swedish painters as Ewald Dahlskog and Leander Engstr...
...Oxford's doughty Yorkshire Chancellor, Lord Halifax, last week filed 800 grave churchmen from every part of the globe. They had come for a World Conference on Church. & State, first big international and interdenominational meeting of the churches since the Stock, holm Conference of 1925. As at Stockholm, there were no Roman Catholic delegates, and their absence was duly lamented in a welcoming speech by His Grace, the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Then the Archbishop's onetime dean, the Bishop of Chichester, told the gathering that Bishop August Marahrens had decided not to come with his German delegation...
...Conference was convoked by the Universal Christian Council for Life & Work, a co-operative committee established at the Stockholm Conference to further Christian unity which has been functioning quietly in Geneva ever since. Of its four sections, English, Eastern, European and American, by all odds the biggest and most active in calling the Conference was the last, headed by vigorous, 71-year-old Professor Emeritus William Adams Brown of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, who is also the Council's active president...
...many a delegate thought that the Church Militant would have to be revived by philosophy. Reviewing the work of the Stockholm Conference, Professor A. Runestam of Sweden's University of Upsala mourned "a new quality, man's own devaluation of himself and his willingness to submit himself to some new authority. We need a new dynamic supernational Christianity." Theologian Emil Brunner of the University of Zurich pontificated: "That which is distinctively Christian cannot be expressed in systems and programs. . . . The Christian Church has no right to try to lay down a social program...