Syud Hossain

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DR. SYUD HOSSAIN



Distinguished World Affairs Interpreter, Traveler and Observer; an Editor on Three Continents; Lecturer in History of Civilization at the University of Southern California; Brilliant Author, Scholar, Speaker




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DR. SYUD HOSSAIN



Many of the Foremost Leaders of Public Opinion as Well as the Press throughout the U.S. Have Hailed Him as One of the Most Brilliant Lecturers on the American Platform Today.




DR. SYUD HOSSAIN,
 Professor of Oriental Civilization, and Special Lecturer on World Affairs at University of Southern California, has recently returned from a year's world tour which embraced Europe, the Near East, India and the Far East, during which he studied the international situation at first hand.




Dr. Hossain made special observation of the changes in the Near East consequent upon Italy's annexation of Ethiopia.  He visited Egypt, Palestine and Syria, meeting ministers and other notables.  In Palestine he had an interview with the Grand Mufti and other Arab leaders.  In Tel Aviv the Mayor gave a reception for him at which he met the important Jewish leaders.




In India he had interviews with Gandhi, Tagore, Nehru and other leaders.  In England he had a three hours' interview with H. G. Wells, besides meeting other significant personalities.  In Calcutta and in Rangoon, the Prime Ministers, respectively, of Bengal and Burmah presided at Dr. Hossain's public lectures.




Dr. Hossain also made a special study of the war situation in the Far East.  He went into the war zone in China, seeing the bombing of Canton and the wreckage of Shanghai.  He also visited the great British Naval base at Singapore, which must play a fateful part in shaping future history in the Orient.  And then on to Japan, where he observed the intensely fascinating psychology and drama of a great nation being made a pawn of destiny.




As his first name indicates, Dr. Syud Hossain is a lineal descendant of Mohammed, and comes of an aristocratic family whose Persian ancestors settled in India in the reign of the Emperor Jehangir, and for successive generations were among the premier nobility of the land.




In India Dr. Hossain was respectively associate editor and editor-in-chief of The Bombay Chronicle and The Independent of Allahabad, two of the foremost daily newspapers of the country.  In London he was editor of The Official Organ of the Indian National Congress.  In New York, for four years, he edited The New Orient magazine, described as one of the most distinguished reviews of the English language.




Dr. Hossain was one of three to represent India at the Paris Peace Conference in 1920 for the Near Eastern Peace settlement.  At the second Parliament of Religions that was held in connection with A Century of Progress in 1933 in Chicago he was one of the main speakers.  He also was a prominent speaker at the World Fellowship of Faiths in London in the summer of 1937.




Dr. Hossain's brilliant new book, 
Gandhi:  The Saint as Statesman
—is having a wide sale in U. S., England and India.  Arrangements are under way for translations into German and Hindustani.





Lecture Subjects:



Impressions of a World Tour.


Prospects for World Peace — Gains and Losses.


The War of Ideas in the World Today.


Democracy versus Dictatorships in Europe and the Orient.


The Deadlock in Palestine — What the Arab and Jewish Leaders Told Me.


What the World Thinks of the United States.


New Education for a New Day.


Who Are the World's Greatest Men Today?


The World Crisis in Religion — Have Jesus, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed Lost Out?


My Visit with Gandhi — and the India of Today.


The Poet as Prophet — My Interview with Tagore.


Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin:  The Psychology of Dictatorship.


The Pacific Triangle — Japan, China, Russia.





Highest Praise for Dr. Hossain



New York Evening Post


He has made himself known on three continents as one of the foremost publicists in the domain of political, economic and cultural relations between the East and the West.




San Francisco Call


He is one of the world's foremost lecturers.




Town Hall, Toledo, Mrs. Flora Hineline.




He gave us what everybody said was the best lecture of our season so far.




The Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco




His eloquence and flawless diction, his perfection of platform deportment, and above all his keen analysis of complicated international relations have made him a prime favorite with this club.




National Popular Government League, Washington, D. C.




Thrilled even the most hardened and critical of listeners.  A world democrat with a perfectly marvelous command of English.




Foreign Policy Association, New York, Jas. G. McDonald, Chairman




Of the hundreds of speakers who have addressed our conferences during the past five years, none were more brilliant or authoritative than Mr. Hossain.




Minnesota Education Asso., Daisy Brown, President.




His address, New Education for a New Day, before 10,000 teachers was brilliant and forceful.  Had he not come to our convention our loss would have been irreparable.




Institute of Politics, Williamstown, Mass., Dr. Harry A. Garfield, Pres.




The most balanced and brilliant presentation of the Indian case I have ever heard.




Vermont State Teachers Asso., Robert N. Millett




The best lecturer on our program.




Los Angeles Times


The most distinguished Indian visitor in America since Tagore.




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