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The Y. M. C. A.'s foreign affairs, built up by kinetic Dr. Mott, will be Secretary Harmon's chief concern. Recent news of these have not been cheery. Last fortnight the Bucharest club, haven of Badminton players, was to be closed (TIME, Jan. 18). More alarming was a report in The Christian Century last week of the annual Student Christmas Rally in Tokyo. Established in 1925 with Dr. Mott as speaker, it had been regarded as the keystone of the Japanese Student Christian Movement. To the first rally came over 3,000. Last Christmas, to hear Dr. Yoshimune Abe, president of the National Y. M. C. A. Council, dean of Aoyama Theological School, came 150.