France Debates Taxation

professor Chinard, with this issue, replaces the late Professor Othon G. Guerlac as Current History Associate contributing them on the monthly survey of events in France and Belgium. Born and educated in France, he began his career in this country in 1908, as an instructor in French at th e College of the City of NewYork; subsequently he taught at Brown University and the University of California. Joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in 1919, he has been since 1925 a member of th e Walter Hines P age School of International Relations as Professor of French and Comparative Literature. He is the author of a number of works on French and American literature and history, the most important being his Jefferson, the Apostle of Amer icanism (1928), and other books resulting from his extensive studies of Thomas Jefferson .