Bound for Williamstown

Incoming liners brought three distinguished men who are going to lecture at the third annual session of the Williamstown Institute of Politics (now begun): Sir Edward Grigg, M. P., former Secretary to the Prince of Wales on his American tour, accompanied by Lady Grigg; Philip Kerr, a former secretary to Lloyd George, ex-Premier; Count Harry Kessler, ex-German Minister, to Poland.

Sir Edward Grigg, who will lecture on " Typical Problems of the British Empire in Domestic and International Affairs," said that it was impossible for Britain to go on paying her debts while her debtors paid nothing. He said Lloyd George might come back to power, but no one could say when. On prohibition he expressed the opinion that Britain would not go dry in his time. The Prince of Wales would marry some day, no doubt, but it might not be for some time. Unemployment was increasing.

Mr. Kerr, who will have charge of the Round Table discussions on the British Empire at the Institute, was more optimistic on British affairs than Sir Edward Grigg. His theme was that all that is necessary is time. "After all," said he, "the United States took twelve years to get over the aftermath of the Civil War."

Count Kessler, who will lecture on " Germany and the European Tangle," said that the German middle classes had almost disappeared, "some sinking into the field of the proletariat, others entering the field of industrial exploitation and the great majority of the rest either dying of starvation or leaving the country." He is in favor of an international committee of experts to examine Germany's capability to pay reparations, as suggested by U. S Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes.