Who Are They?

New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 247, 17 March 1944, Page 16

Who Are They?

% E have not been able to secure biographical details about all the men whose opinions are quoted on this page, but here is something about some of them: ANTON DE HAAS, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Foreign Trade at Harvard University, is prominent in the sphere of economics in America, and is the author of several books on his subject. HANS KOHN, Professor of Histo at Smith College, 1934-41, is now editor of College Studies in History, author of a large number of books on history, and is a contributor to many encyclopaedias and journals. LEWIS MUMFORD is described by Current Biography as ‘"‘a social philosopher and architectural authority, who first sounded his summons to action in 1938 when in A Call to Arms he advocated a policy of militancy by the United States to safeguard it against the "imminent onslaught of Fascism." He followed this in 1939 with a demand that ‘"‘Men must act," denouncing those whose policies of appeasement ‘‘we must regard with extreme scepticism, not to say hostility." He proposed that America engage in a policy of non-inter-course with the Fascist States while beginning to build up its own defences. In 1940 he published Faith for Living, a cail to "imperative action," HARRY ‘W. FLANNERY, is a journalist and radio broadcaster. Joining the Columbia Broadcasting Service, he was sent by the CBS to Berlin in October, 1940. PERRY DUNLAP SMITH, A.M., LL.D., Litt.D., Ed.D., is Superintendent of Schools, State Commissioner of Education and Professor of Education at the University of Maine since 1940; is also President of the American Association of School Administrators, and consultant to the President’s Advisory Committee on Education. CLARENCE COOK LITTLE, A.B., S.M., Sc.D., LL.D., Litt.D., is a biologist who has specialised in research in genetics, cancer and pathology. He is recognised as an authority on these subjects, and has also written many articles on education and social problems.