Specialist on Far East Will Meet Church Club Tonight

Wilburn T. Thomas, expert on Asia, will comment on new developments in the Far East at 7:30 p.m. tonight before a meeting of the Appleton Club in the basement of Memorial Church.

Currently serving as Reconstruction Secretary in Asia for the World Student Christian Federation, Thomas also is active in the Far Eastern division of the World Student Relief Program. Part of his talk will concern needs and problems of Students in Asia.

Since the first of the year. Thomas' duties have taken him to Ceylon, India, Siam, China, Korea, French Indo-china, Japan and the Philippines. He rode the last scheduled flight out of Shanghat hours before the city fell to the Chinese Reds last spring.

In 1946 he was chairman of a World Student Relief survey commission which visited the four zones of Germany and worked agreements with the occupying powers for the distribution of relief supplies Since the war Thomas had also visited student Centers in Czechoslovakia and Poland.