Sir Norman Angell, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933, will speak at the Lowell House Symposium on European reconstruction in the Junior Common Room at 8 o'clock tonight, with Heniz Pol and Patrick Welch '23 filling out the three-man panel.
In the United States on an unofficial lecture tour, Angell is an expert on war economics. He has written many books, the most famous of which is "The Great Illusion," and worked on the League of Nation's International School in Geneva with Gilbert Murray. A pacifist in the last war, he is actively supporting the present war effort.
Pol is a German refugee who edited a liberal newsmpaper in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. After the Nazis came into power he was arrested, but escaped first to Prague, then to Paris, and finally to this country. He wrote "Suicide of a Democracy," a book about the fall of France, and has contributed to "Nation" magazine.
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