It was"rècalled that the reorganize tion of-the Council of People's Commissers was announced last week.
Marshal Voroshilov's "dismissal" from the Defence Commissariat- - and his appointment as the deputy of the Foreign Commissar, M. Viacheslav Molotov, was described as a further move in that process. In the course of this shake-up, members of the principal commissariat were grouped without being completely merged.
Of the remaining individual commissariats, each was placed under the charge of a committee of the Council of People's Commissars and each head of such a committee became a vice-chairman of the council. Five such committees were announced last week, omitting the defence committee, which has now been assigned to Marshal Voroshilov—United Press. few York, May 8.
Following the general trend in American universities to pand facilities for Far Eastern studies, Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler has, announced a broad programme for the Columbia Department of Chinese and Japanese. He also announced the appointment of Sir George Sansom, Commercial Counsellor at the British Embassy professor of Japanese. in Japan since 1940 and was visiting Sir George has held consular posts
professor in Japanese at Columbia in 1935-36. He has been British Commercial Counselor at Tokyo since 1925 and during the last has served in the Admiralty and the Intelligence Directorate of the War Office.
Projects in the programme to expand the Columbia department include development of a n system for cataloguing Chinese and Japanese' books, the indexing of all existing translations of Chinese mater preparation of a text for use by ad. vanced' students of the Chinese lan guage, translation of records of Japan ese travellers in China from 800 to 1,500 aD, and the writing of a history of Eastern Asia. 1 Professor L. Carrington Goodrich, head of the department, declared that the ne} em would make Columbia's collection of 95,000 Chinese and 27,000 Japanese books more accessible to scholars than they are at present. The project of cataloguing is being sponsored by the: American Council of Learned Societies' and seven years to complete. tension of the system to other libraries" added Professor Goodrich, "will serve to attract more students to the study of Eastern Asia."—Havas.
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