DISCUSSION.

This article presents a discussion on international relations and sociology as practiced by the Americans. The author dwelled on the exchange of students. In 1936 at Buenos Aires, accredited representatives of the American Republics gathered to discuss ways of bringing the peoples of various nations closer together. One of the outcomes of the meeting was the Convention of Inter-American Cultural Relations which provided for the annual exchange of two graduate students from each signatory nation. The Convention included conditions of application, selection, value of the fellowship, and other related details. Since the beginning of the program about 160 different students had come to the United States by September, 1947. That a larger number has not come is due to the fact that the fellowships may be renewed for a second year, and renewals have occurred in many instances where the student's academic record warranted and where the type of training he received required a longer period of time for its completion. Although all of the signatory States have sent students to the United States, not all of them have been financially able to receive the students.