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Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. The problems of government in war-time will occupy a major part of the program of the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. The meeting will give public officials— among them several hundred former professors and instructors in political science and members of the Association—an opportunity to discuss with their college and university colleagues the urgent problems of policy and administration in our war-time government and the various plans that are being considered for the post-war world. The meeting will be held in Chicago, December 28-30, in conjunction with the meeting of the American Society for Public Administration on December 27-28. Several joint sessions of the two societies will be held on December 28. As in former annual meetings, the programs of both societies will include both governmental officials and teachers and researchers in the fields of public opinion, public policy, law, international relations, and administration. A number of members of the Association have inquired whether the annual meeting should not be cancelled in view of transportation difficulties. This question has been discussed by the President of the Association, the Secretary-Treasurer, the Chairman of the Program Committee, and the Editor of the REVIEW, who have sought the advice of leading public officials and officers of comparable associations. While the Office of Defense Transportation is discouraging large conventions held for social or entertainment purposes, no opposition whatever has been expressed to meetings which bring together those concerned with public affairs for the discussion of governmental policy and administration. On the contrary, meetings which afford opportunity for students of government and public officials to confer are looked upon as essential conferences and useful in the furtherance of the war effort. The officers of the Association are assured that they will be informed if the situation should change so radically that the Association's meeting would impair the war effort. In such a case, the meeting would be cancelled immediately and all members of the Association would be notified at once in writing. On December 28, the birthday of Woodrow Wilson, who was president of the American Political Science Association in 1910, two general sessions of special interest will be held. Arrangements have been made for a luncheon session, to be held jointly with the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the American Society for Public Administration, at which a nationally known speaker will appear. The presidential addresses of the American