NAWSA SUBJECT FILE Mistral, Gabriela Chilean Author Wins Nobel Prize for Literature The Swedish Academy of Literature has announced the award of the Nobel prize for literature for 1945 to Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, teacher and diplomat and the first Latin-American author to receive the award. Gabriela Mistral, whose real name is Lucila Godoy, has been Chilean consul in Petropolis, a summer resort of Rio de Janeiro, for the past five years. She is one of the best-known Spanish-language poets. She has also been active in Chilean education since 1911, and at one time she taught at Middlebury College and at Barnard College in the United States. She first became known as a writer in 1908 and since then she has written many books of poems which have been published in South America, and in Europe. In 1922 one of these, "Desolacion," was published by the Instituto de las Españas en los Estados Unidos of Columbia University. She is also the author of a biography of the Swedish author, Selma Lagerlof. Consulado General De Chile 17 Battery Place New York, N.Y. October 25th, 1930 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, Upham's Corner, Boston, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell: In attention to your note of October 3rd, I take pleasure in informing you that Miss Gabriela Mistral's address in New York is Barnard College, Broadway & 116th Street, New York City. Trusting that this information will be of assistance to you, I remain Yours very truly, Helen C. Leahy. Secretary. Chilean Consulate New Jersey College for Women New Brunswick, N.J. October 28, 1930. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, Upham's Corner, Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: It is always a pleasure to hear from you. In answer to your good letter of the 27th I am pleased to say that I had already thought of asking Gabriela Mistral to come to the Women's College of Rutgers University to deliver a lecture. When I saw her about two weeks ago I told her that such was our intention. I also had occasion to mention to her your splendid translations of some of her poems. Let me thank you again for the autographed copy that you sent me of Spanish-American poetry. It has since become one of my favorite books; I have it at the side-table by my easy chair and every so often I open it to enjoy your translations and the originals. With kindest personal regards, Very sincerely yours, J. Moreno-Lacalle J. Moruro Lacalle Copy Muy querida amiga mia: Desde que llegúe he preguntado por usted, y puede certificarselo al señor Inman. Cuando decidí venir siempre pensé en que era posible que tuviese la guia de usted y el buen cariño de usted para ayudarme en esta empresa tan ardua de la vida en pais de raza, y sobre todo, de habla, extraña. Muy tarde he venido a tener comunicación con usted: perdí su direccion-todas las direcciones yo las pierdo-y no tenía manera de comunicarme con usted. Mi amiga, si el invierno no es tan malo para mí como yo lo temo me iré a comienzos de febrero a Vassar College, por un semestra. Luego cuando usted venga aquí, yo estaré tal vez allá, a dos horas de su N. York. Si el invierno me trata mal, me tengo que ir a fines de Enero. Recibî hace dias una invitación para ir a dar una conferencia en Wellesley, cerca de Boston. Como no puedo ir sola, porque no hablo ingles y porque no sé tampoco andar sola, sería cosa de que no me alcancen para mis gastos de 2 personas los exiguos 75 dolares que me dan por la conferencia, y de que no pueda hacer el viaje. Me han fijado la primera quincena de Nov., y la respuesta debe ser rapida. Yo me dirijo a usted en la confianza que tenemos, para preguntarle si no sería posible que otra Universidad u otro colegio o institución que encuentre en el camino me de otra conferencia con remuneracion semejante. En este caso yo podría ir. Consulte usted a sus amigos, por mi, y consulte si puede a una vieja amiga mia de alli, la señorita Alica Blackwell Stone, de Boston, 3 Monaddnock St., Sphans, Corney Station. Si tiene algo preciso, comuniquemelo por carta rapida o por telegrama, para preparar la tal conferencia y no dejarlas mal a untedes, mis amigas Aquí estoy, entre amigos comunes, Iman, Ortz, otros, muy finos, muy fraternales, muy nobles para mi. Todavia me lleva las classes la hora que yo miro en el reloj que usted me regaló, y que hace recuperar la noción del tiempo, que siempre pierdo ..... Vea usted como la tengo, sin que usted lo sepa, dentro de mi vida. Mucho deseo verla, oirla, y hablar, dias y noches, con usted de esas gentes que siguen importandome tanto: profetas, reyes y sacerdotes.... Hoy mismo voy a hablar temerariamente del Antiguo Testamento - nada menos que de eso, dira usted -por allí, y le escribo may fatigada, de haber escrito quince paginas a máquina. Ya estoy vieja y me canso aun de lo agradable. Un abrazo de su vieja amiga que mucho la quiere, y mil per-dones. Suya, Gabriela 25 de Oct. BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE. RI. DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES 3 November, 1930 My dear Miss Fuller: I thank you for writing to me about Senorita Mistral. I have talked with Professor Fichter about the possibility of our inviting her to come here. We feel that the number of people who would profit by a lecture entirely in Spanish is quite limited at present, and for that reason I doubt if the University should undertake to invite her. Very sincerely yours, Horatio Smith Miss Harriet P. Fuller 101 Medway Street Providence, R.I. G. Mistral About Gabriela Mistral Page 3 GABRIELA MISTRAL--See Latin America. E. ALLISON PEERS, M.A., Universities of London and Cambridge. Professor of Spanish, University of Liverpool since 1920. Visiting professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, University of New Mexico and University of California, 1929-30. Author of numerous books on Spain and various literary and religious subjects. Available during March and part of April for short courses of lectures on subjects connected with General and Comparative Literature, Spanish Literature, Mysticism and Devotional Literature, and certain phases of Church History. LEONIE VILLARD, Docteur ès Lettres. Professor of English and American literature, University of Lyon. Available October 15th to February 15th. Subjects: French Literature of Today, Its Realizations, Tendencies and Aims; The French Novel of Today; The Modern Spirit in French Poetry; The French Woman of Today (education, activities, aims); Social Life in France since 1918, Its Changes and Its Present Aspects.* Mathematics WILHELM BLASCHKE, Ph.D., University of Vienna. Professor of Higher Mathematics, University of Hamburg, since 1919. Author of "Kreis und Kugel" and numerous contributions to mathematical journals. Will give series of lectures at John Hopkins University in March and April. Available January and February for other engagements under auspices of American Mathematical Society and Institute of International Education. Subject: Topological Questions of Differential Geometry; Selected Topic of Differential Geometry. Philosophy L. LEVY-BRUHL, of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology University of Paris. Previous exchange professor at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University. Will represent l'Institut de France at the dedication of the new building of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in November. Available October 22nd to November 20th. Subjects: Primitive Mentality; The Present State of Philosophy in France; The Philosophy of Emile Meyerson. J.Y. SIMPSON, Professor of Natural History, New College, Edinburgh. In 1919, member of the British Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. 1921, President of the Latvian-Lithuanian Frontier Court of Arbitration. Delivered Terry Lectures at Yale University, 1929. Author of the "The Saburov Memoirs." Available March 15th through summer; particularly on Pacific Coast. Subjects: Philosophy of Nature and Evolution and its Relation to Religious Thought; also political subject, Facing the Facts in Britain. HANS ZBINDEN, Ph.D. Exponent of the Philosophy of Rudolph Maria Holzapfel. Formerly one of the editors of "Erwachen." Available November to April. Author of "Pan-Ideal." Subjects: The Types of Artistic Creation; Art and Science; Artistic Education of Children and Adults; Great Masters and the Spirit of Their Art; Internationalism and Education; The Pioneer of a New Civilization (R. M. Holzapfel).* Physics ARTHUR HAAS, Ph.D. Professor of Physics, University of Vienna. Available February through April 15th, 1931. Subjects: Modern Physics and Our Views on the Universe; Light corpuscles, Material Waves and the Laws of Physics; J. Willard Gibbs and Modern Atomic Theory; The Relations between Wave Mechanics and the Theory of Relativity. Political Science T.P. Conwell-Evans, Ph.D., University of London. At one time secretary to the Balkan Committee, London and now secretary to the Rt. Hon. Noel Buxton, former Cabinet Minister, lately elevated to the peerage, Member of Royal Institute of International Affairs. Has Traveled extensively in Central Europe and Balkans, and collaborated with Noel Buxton in writing "Oppressed Peoples." Author of "The League Council in Action," a study of the methods of the League of Nations in preventing war. During past summer, conducted seminar at the Geneva School of International Studies , Available January through March, for lectures in international relations. HANS KOHN, of Jerusalem. Doctor Juris, University of Prague. Lecturer on Political Science, Workmen's Seminary, Jerusalem. Associate of Dr. J.L. Magnes, Chancellor, Hebrew University. Author of "A History of Nationalism in the East." Available March, April and May. Subjects: The Political and Social Transformation of the Middle East: Orient and Occident; The Changing Phases of Imperialism; The Problem of Nationalism in the East; Constructive and Disruptive Forces in British Imperial Policy; Pacifism in the Modern World; The Jewish People and the Awakening of the East.* PIERRE DE LANUX, Director of the Paris Information Office of the League of Nations. Organizer of the French "Comité d'Action pour la Société des Nations." On staff of André Tardieu during the Paris Peace Conference. Lecturing under auspices of the League of Nations Association, Inc. Available November to April. Subjects: The Modern Art of Statesmanship; The Outlook for Disarmament; Our International Ethics; The United States of Europe. EUGEN OBERHUMMER, Ph.D. Professor of Geography, University of Vienna. Available spring and summer, 1931. Subjects: Austria-Hungary and the New Austria; The German Nation and the Deutsche Reich; Linguistics and Geography; National and Economic Problems in Central Europe.* GEORGE RADIN, graduate Columbia University Law School. Now practicing international law with headquarters in Belgrade and New York. Available November to March Subject: The Dictatorship of Jugo-Slavia.* RENNIE SMITH, B.Sc. Member of Parliament. Directing Secretary, National Council for Prevention of War. Available October 1st to 31st. Subjects: Ramsay MacDonald; The British House of Commons; American Commerce and Freedom of the Seas; Can a Labor Government Solve Britain's Economic Problems?; A New Generation of British Women; What's Wrong with the League of Nations?* J. Y. SIMPSON—See Philosophy. SIR GEORGE YOUNG, M.V.O. Member of Advisory Committee on Foreign Affairs (Labor Party). For a period of over twenty years served as diplomatist at Washington, Constantinople, Athens, Madrid, Belgrade, Lisbon. For a number of years Professor of Portuguese Literature, London University. Delivered Lowell Lectures at Boston and led round table at Williamstown Institute, 1929. Will be visiting professor at Clark University during first term of present academic year. Winner of Yale Review award, 1929. Author of numerous books. Available in East first term; throughout country during second term. Subjects: Labor Party Personalities and Policies; Asiatic Nationalism and Jewish Zionism; India; Freedom and Command of the Seas; Diplomacy Old and New. * Lecturer announced in previous number of the News BULLETIN. Due to lack of space it is impossible to reprint all details. We shall be glad to furnish them upon request. It is understood that all lecturers have sufficient knowledge of English to meet audiences and classes in our colleges, unless otherwise stated. 2 SECTIONS p.2 SECTION 2 NEWS BULLETIN of the INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION 2 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. October, 1930 Published Monthly October to May By Institute of International Education, Inc. Vol. VI. No. 1 Annual Subscription, 25 cents STEPHEN P. DUGGAN, Ph.D., LL.D., Director GORDON L. BERRY, Assistant Director MARY L. WAITE, Executive Secretary Foreign Lecturers Available ACADEMIC YEAR 1930-1931 Africa HENRI LABOURET, Professor of African Ethnology at l'Ecole Coloniale, of Paris. In charge of courses at l'Institut d'Ethnologie of the Sorbonne. Available during spring. Subjects: Contemporary Colonial Policy in Africa: Native Culture in Tropical Africa.* Art SIR MARTIN CONWAY, M.P. Formerly professor of history of art, Cambridge University. D. Litt., Universities of Durham and Manchester. Vice-President of the Royal Geographical Society, vice-president of the Society of Antiquaries. Author of numerous books on the history of art, and philosophy of politics. Available January and February. Subjects: The Van Eychs and other early Flemish Artists; Giorgione--How to Prove the Authorship of a Picture; (both lectures illustrated); The Life of an Ordinary Member of Parliament; Art Treasures of Russia. AUGUSTE DESCLOS--See Education. KALIDAS NAG--See India. J. A. F. ORBAAN, Ph.D. Member of Dutch Historical Institute in Rome and Royal Roman Society for History. Available during fall. Subjects: Town Planning in Rome; The Arts in Rome; Literature in Rome; Scientists, Museums and Libraries in Rome; Archaeology of Pagan and Christian Rome. (Illustrated.) The Cultural and Political Outlook of Holland.* JOSEPH PIJOAN, of Spain. During past year adjunct professor of Hispanic Civilization and lecturer on History of Art, Pomona College. Will be visiting professor, University of Chicago, during spring term. Available en route New York to Chicago, February 15th to April 1st; middle-west, after April 1st. Subjects: The Meaning of El Greco Art for the Modern Generation; The Correlation of Modern Thought and Contemporary Art; The Latest Developments of the School of Paris for Painting. Biology MME. N. ZAVADSKY, of l'Institut du Radium de l'Université de Paris. Delegate to the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Los Angeles, December 1-3, 1930. Available October 15th to December 15th, on way to California and in California. Subjects: Important Facts about Radiology; A Strain of Mice with Mutable Tail; Biological Bases of a New Conception of Life; The Heredity of Cancer. (First three lectures illustrated.) Chinese Culture J. J. L. DUYVENDAK, Professor of Chinese Culture, University of Leyden. On Staff of the Netherlands Legation in Peking 1912-18. Revisited China, 1925-26. Visiting professor, Columbia University, 1929; University of California, summer session, 1930. Delivered series of lectures at Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, the Sorbonne, last spring. Author of "A Literary Renaissance in China," "The Book of Lord Shang," and other works. Will be visiting professor, Columbia University, and available for other engagements in East, February through May. Subjects: Phases of Chinese Philosophy; The Chinese Renaissance; Chinese Influence on Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries; Glimpses of Modern China; Symbolism in Popular Chinese Art; Holland's Place in the Modern World. Classics R. S. CONWAY, D.Litt. Professor of Latin, University of Manchester. Will be Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer of the Archaeological Institute of America, and available October 30th to February 20th for other engagements. Subjects: Personality of Cicero; Philosophy of Vergil; Architecture of the Aeneid; Ancient Empires and the Modern World.* Economics M. J. BONN, Professor of Political Economy, Handelshochschule, Berlin, since 1920. German delegate to Versailles Peace Conference. Advisor to the German Government on Reparations in 1919-21. Lectured in summer session of Stanford University. Available until October 25th. Subjects: Mediaeval Theory in Modern Business Life; Pan-Europe; Germany and the Colonial Problem; Economics and Politics in Modern Germany; The Crisis of European Democracy; Reparations and International Loans; Economic Tendencies Affecting the Peace of the World. PAGE 2 HJALMAR SCHACHT, Ph.D., President of the Reichsbank 1923 until present year. Active participant in deliberations of the Dawes Committee and in launching the Reparations Loan, 1924. German representative in negotiations for the Young plan. Available October 1st to November 26th. Subjects: The Policy of the German Reichsbank; The Influence of the State on Industrial Life; The Pan-European Idea; The Economic Side of the Reparations Problems. Education CARL H. BECKER, Minister of Education of Germany during past ten years. Previously professor of Oriental Culture at the Kolonialinstitut, Hamburg, and professor of Oriental Philology at Bonn. Available October 1st to November 15th. Subjects: National History and International Understanding; The Cultural Crisis in the World Today; The Spirit of the German University of Today; The Europeanizing of the Mohammedan East; Christianity and Islam Past and Present; Hellenism and Islam. AUGUSTE V. DESCLOS, Associate Director, Office National des Universites et Ecoles Francaises. Available October 15th to December 15th. Subjects: The French System of Education; The International Spirit in French Education; University Life in Paris, Past and Present; The Cite Universitaire of Paris; Paris as an Art Center; Some French Painters of Today; A Great French Artist, Claude Monet; French Painting in the Last Twenty-five Years (last five lectures illustrated).* JOHN MURRAY, Educated Aberdeen University and Oxford University. Principal of the University College of the South West of England, Exeter, since 1926. Ministry of Munitions, 1915-18. Member of Parliament, 1918-23. Available November 10th to December 1st for lectures in the field of education. HANS ZBINDEN--See Philosophy. Forestry J. M. RASEK, Engineer of Forestry Science, University of Prague. Caleb Dorr Research Fellow, University of Minnesota, during past year. Member International Committee for Applied Zoology. Scientific Worker in the Masaryk Academy, Prague. Author of several books in his field. Available October 1st to December 15th. Subjects: Newest Methods in Nun-moth Control in Europe; Polyhedral Diseases of Insects Causes by Filterable Viruses; Importance of Forests and National Forest Policy in Europe and America; History of the Development of Forestry in Europe; Czechoslovakia; The Life and Influence of T. G. Masaryk. India JAGADISH C. CHATTERJI, B.A., Cambridge University. Director of the International School of Vedic and Allied Research, New York. Formerly Director of Oriental Research in the Government of Kashmir, India. Author of "La Philosophie Esoterique de l'Inde," "Hindu Realism," and other philosophical works. Has lectured extensively in Europe and America. Participated in International Congress of Orientalists at Oxford, 1928. Available October 1st to February 1st. Subjects: Hindu Philosophy and Modern Religious Problems; Ethics in Brahmanic and Buddhist Thought and Life and Modern Ethical Problems; Types of Religion--Aryan, Chinese, and Semitic; Modern Occidental Influence on the Life and Thought of India; Modern Movements for Religious and Social Reform in India. KALIDAS NAG, D.Litt. Lecturer, University of Calcutta. Honorary Secretary to the Greater India Society, Calcutta. Available October 15th to January 1st. Subjects: The Universities of India; India and the Far East; Greater India or Studies in Asiatic Nationalism; Makers of Modern India; Art and Archaeology of India, Indian Culture and Modern Indian Renaissance (last two illustrated).* C. F. STRICKLAND, Oxford University. Recently completed twenty-three years in Indian Civil Service. 1905-15, Magistrate, Judge, Revenue Officer; 1915-20 and 1922-27, Registrar of Co-operative Societies and Joint-Stock Companies, Punjab. Commissioner of Northern India Salt Revenue under the Government of India. Expert on rural India, economics, etc. 1929, deputed by British Colonial Office to Malaya as advisor to Malayan Government on system of rural economy and co-operation. Available November 1st through January, under auspices of The Foreign Policy Association. Italy FRANCO BRUNO AVERARDI, Ph.D., Litt.D. Formerly member of disarmament section in secretariat of the League of Nations. Assistant professor of German Literature, University of Florence. Available throughout the year. Subjects: The League of Nations; Contemporary Literature in Italy; The Modern European and American Drama; Italian Painters of Today; Famous Women of the Italian Renaissance.* COUNT DI SAN MARTINO, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy. President of the Art Group of the Italian Senate. Formerly President of the Royal Academy of St. Cecelia. Founder and President of the National Union of Italian Concert Societies. Has held numerous missions for the Government, including that of delegate to the Conference of Paris. Available March 15th to April 15th. Subjects: The Fascista Organization of the Fine Arts; Concerts and Modern Music in Italy. Latin America GABRIELA MISTRAL, Advisor on Latin American affairs to the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation and the Institute of Educational Cinematography of Rome (League of Nations). Inspector General and Director of various academics of Chile, 1912-25. Visiting professor and lecturer in Mexico, 1922-24. Representative of the University of Chile and of Ecuador at the Congress of University Women, Madrid, 1928. Visiting professor Middlebury College, summer session of 1930. Visiting professor, Barnard College, and available for other engagements in vicinity during fall term. Subjects: Estado social de la America Espanola; Literature femenina de la America Espanola; Caracter hispano-americano y relaciones de este con la America del Norte; Literatura infantil: virtudes y defectos de ella; Ruben Dario; Jose Marti. Lectures in Spanish only. HANS SANDELMANN of Geneva and Argentina, will be the official representative of the Interparliamentary Union on a tour to all Latin American countries during the winter. Available in United States upon his return in February or March to lecture from Florida to New England and as far west as Chicago, on Latin American affairs. Literature F. B. AVERARDI--See Italy. AAGE BRUSENDORFF, Ph.D. Professor of English language and literature, University of Copenhagen, succeeding Professor Otto Jespersen. Author of "The Chaucer Tradition." Visiting professor in Scandinavian Literature, University of Minnesota and available throughout year for other engagements in middle west. Will be visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley, during summer session of 1931. J. J. L. DUYVENDAK--See Chinese Culture. [*New York Times May 12th 1949.*] [*White??rk*] WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE GAINS IN AMERICAS In Effect in Thirteen Latin Nations, With Some Giving Equal Rights to Office Buenos Aires, (AP) - Latin America is gradually opening the voting booths to women, in a movement that began about a score of years ago. The evolution has been slow. Men were jealous of their "prerogative" of making and administering laws. There were social prejudices. Suffrage today in Latin America ranges from simple voting privileges to holding top government and judicial posts. There never has been a woman president, but it is possible in seven republics - Cuba, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama and Uruguay. Thirteen Latin American countries have extended suffrage to women. In a few countries women already have their own political groups. In others their auxiliaries make up strong wings of existing parties. Maria Eva Duarte de [Peron, wife of President Juan D. [Peron] of Argentina, is influential in the nation's Government. She occupies an office in the Labor Department and concerns herself with workers' problems and affairs of state. Her influence in the Government is undeniable. Chile Has Poet Consul In Chile, Gabriela Mistral - known in private life as Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga - won the Nobel Prize for poetry in 1945. In recognition, Chile named her consul at Los Angeles, Calif. Chile is among the most recent countries to give women the right to vote, but it may be in 1952 before they can cast ballots for a President or Congressmen. Chile's sixteen recognized parties have women's auxiliaries and there is one small women's party (Partido Feminista). Argentina in 1948 adopted a law giving women the right to vote in general elections. Several provinces, however, were a step ahead of the Federal Government, allowing women to vote and hold some public offices. Women have voted for fifteen years in Brazil. Officials estimate about 30 per cent of the 5,870,667 votes cast in the last elections belonged to women. Men are required by law to vote. Women may if they wish. Women's right to vote was established in Ecuador's constitution of 1928. President Galo Plaza asked and got strong support from women voters at the polls in 1948. Peruvian Women Have Local Vote In Peru women have been voting in municipal elections since 1933 but they have not won the right to cast a ballot for president. Venezuelan women got the right to vote through a decree issued by the revolutionary junta after it took power in 1945. That right was first exercised in a national election in 1947. Columbia's women have won their first step toward suffrage. University courses have been opened to them. Cuba has given her women full and equal privileges in voting and in holding public office. Cuba's Cabinet has one woman member, [Senorita] Mariblanca Sabas, a pioneer in fighting for equal rights. The first Cuban woman to hold Cabinet rank was Dr. Maria Gomez Carbonell during the administration of President Fulgencia Batista. Almost all Mexican and Central American women have political equality with men in sight, but in general practice they still are in the political backseat. Panama alone has gone the full way in granting and enforcing equal rights. Women's suffrage was included in the 1946 Constitution. CALLS WOMEN PEACE HOPE Chilean Poet Says Their Voting May Avert Social Revolution LOS ANGELES, March 22 (AP) - Babriela Mistral, Chilean poet and Noble Prize winner, said today that she believed the influence of women in elections ultimately would change world society and might avert "a great social revolution." "But the work of women will not be evident immediately," she said. "This will be a slow influence and, I hope, toward peace. "I don't believe women are pacifist by nature, but they are going to be a great force in politics because of the kitchen problem. They are interest in food and how to get it." The 56-year-old former school teacher came here to assume the post of honorary Chilean consul. She said that by action of the Chilean Senate twenty-five years ago she was privileged to go to any country and remain as long as she wished. [*N.Y. Times 1946*] Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.