AMES TALKS ON FINANCIAL ORGANIZATION FOR LEAGUE

Speaking before members of Winthrop House in the Senior Common Room last night, Sir Herbert Ames, for seven years financial director of the League of Nations, gave some interesting reminisences and incidents connected with the financial problem which the League faced at its inception during the winter of 1919-20.

Since there was no precedents to guide the new international organization, Sir Herbert, who came to his task from the Canadian Parliament, spent months organizing the budget and amounts which each of the 29 countries would be willing to pay toward the maintainance of the Secretariat which was then located in London.