H. W. MORGENTHAU TO SPEAK AT UNION

On Thursday, March 31, Henry W. Morgenthau, late American Ambassador to Turkey, will speak at the Union on the Near Eastern Question.

Mr. Morgenthau was appointed in 1913 to represent the United States at Constantinople, and from 1914 to 1916 was in charge of the interests in Turkey of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Switzerland and Montenegro. In 1919 he served as a member of the mission, appointed by President Wilson in June of that year, for investigating conditions in Poland. Mr. Morgenthau was an incorporator of the American National Red Cross, is Vice-Chairman of the Near East Relief Commission and a director of the Institute of International Education. His book, "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story", which first appeared in installments in last year's "World's Work", has been published in England under the title of "Secrets of the Bosphorus", and has also been translated into French and other languages.

In his address, Mr. Morgenthau will take up the disposition of the countries in the Balkans and of Turkey in Asia Minor. He will also describe the situation arising from Turkey's misgovernment and cruelty in the treatment of her subject peoples.

It was to aid these people, suffering from abuses of which the Armenian massacres form but one example, that the Near East Relief was founded and, in 1919, chartered by an act of Congress. It is at present carrying on its philanthropic work on a gigantic scale, feeding many hundred thousands of people, who have long been suffering from famine, and taking care of more orphan children than any other organization in the world. Among the members of its National Committee, besides Mr. Morgenthau, are President Eliot, William H. Traft, Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, Myron P. Herrick, Oscar Strauss, and other men of national prominence.