The question of appointing a Director of the Minorities Section of the League of Nations in place of Eric Colban, who was recently appointed head of the disarmament section, has raised considerable anxiety among the representatives of the minority nationalities.
Dr. Wilfan, president of the National Minorities Congress, and Dr. Ammende, the secretary-general, have addressed a note to the secretary-general of the League of Nations pointing out that the reports which are circulating to the effect that the new director will be a citizen of a country which itself has minorities, has caused anxiety among the minorities. In order that the Minorities Section should be able to carry out the high mission which has been entrusted to it, the note says, it should be in a position to preserve an impartial attitude and be above suspicion, and in order that the minorities should have complete confidence in it, it is essential that the head of the Section should be a man belonging to a country which has no minorities problems of its own.
An appropriation of $15,000 for “establishing a research fund for studying the economic and industrial effects and possibites of commercail aviation” is included in the list of annual appropriations of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aviation, approved at the June meeting of the trustees of the fund, it was announced. The research is to be conducted at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, and is to last for three years.
Another outstanding appropriation was one for $290,000 to the University of Washington for the construction of an aeronauties building. The appropriation was granted in recognition of the work already accomplished at the university in establishing an aeronautical engineering course.
The Massachusets Institute of Technology received $34,000 to organize a three-year course in meteorology in view of the need for such instruction to keep pace with the development of commercial aviation. These gifts, added to previous appropriations, brought the total grants made by the fund to educational institutions, about $1,200,000.
The celebration of Independence Day on July 4 will take place in all affliated societies of the Jewish Welfare Board, it was anounced by the headquarters in New York.
About 300 YMHAs, YWHAs, and Jewish Community Centers are making preparations to observe the holiday. The Welfare Board has issued material for use in this celebration.
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