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Unsigned report on the reforms to the 1917 Constitution regarding oil matters and arguing that they threaten the American interests. Secret memorandum by James R. Sheffield, American Ambassador in Mexico, in which he informs of a military conspiracy against Gen. Plutarco Elías Calles and the establishment of a dictatorship comprised of Generals Eugenio Martínez, Juan Andrew Almazán, Marcelo Caraveo, Jesús Agustín Castro, Eulalio Gutiérrez, and José Alvarez. / Informe sin firmar en el que se comentan las reformas a la Constitución de 1917 en materia petrolera, aseverando que atentan contra los intereses norteamericanos. Memorándum secreto de James R. Sheffield, Embajador de Estados Unidos en México, en el que informa de un complot militar en contra del Gral. PEC por el cual se instaurará una dictadura militar compuesta por los generales Eugenio Martínez, Juan Andrew Almazán, Marcelo Caraveo, Jesús Agustín Castro, Eulalio Gutiérrez y José Alvarez.

On January 17, 2004, our friend and colleague, Jim Townsend, died
peacefully in the midst of his family after a long illness. For many
years a leading figure among China scholars, Jim received his Ph.D.
from U.C. Berkeley in 1965. He was a member of the political science
department at Berkeley between 1963 and 1968 when he moved to the
University of Washington. He remained at the University of
Washington until he retired prematurely in 1992 after a diagnosis of
prostate cancer. Defying the odds, he continued to live a happy and
productive life for more than a decade after his retirement, a
decade during which he saw his beloved wife Sandy Perry through her
own losing battle with breast cancer.

Abstract. The James R. Mallory lecture in Canadian Studies is given
each November at McGill University. David Smith presented the 2003 lecture a few months after the death of James Mallory at age 87. Smith argues that Mallory's influence on Canadian political science is great because the range of his publications is enormous. Be it, for instance, about
federalism, the institutions of Parliament, bureaucracy, and the courts—there is scarcely a topic in the syllabus of a traditional Canadian politics course on which he did not write. Mallory injected a legal sensibility to his study of politics: he was one of the first
scholars to raise the alarm at the growth of concentrated executive power and at Parliament's inadequate resources to scrutinize its use. Nonetheless, Smith maintains that Mallory would not welcome the emergence of Officers of Parliament as a fourth branch of government. In his
explication and interpretation of the constitution, Mallory became, Smith suggests, Canada's Walter Bagehot.Résumé. La conférence annuelle James R. Mallory en études canadiennes a lieu chaque année au mois de
novembre à l'Université McGill de Montréal.
L'an dernier, le professeur David Smith y a présenté sa
recherche sur James Mallory, quelques mois seulement après le
décès de celui-ci à l'âge de 87 ans. Smith
avance que la science politique canadienne a été grandement
influencée par Mallory, du fait de l'étendue de ses
publications sur des sujets aussi divers que le fédéralisme,
les institutions parlementaires, la bureaucratie et les cours de justice.
Il n'y a guère de sujets dans un plan de cours traditionnel
sur la politique canadienne que Mallory n'ait pas traités.
Mallory a injecté une sensibilité juridique dans ses
études politiques; il a été l'un des premiers
universitaires à sonner l'alarme sur l'augmentation de la
concentration du pouvoir exécutif et sur l'insuffisance des
ressources parlementaires pour scruter son utilisation. Cependant, Smith
est d'avis que Mallory ne serait pas en faveur de
l'émergence des commis du Parlement comme quatrième
organe du gouvernement. Par son explication et son interprétation
de la Constitution, Mallory est devenu, selon Smith, la version canadienne
de Walter Bagehot.

James R. Townsend, emeritus professor of political science and East Asian studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, passed away peacefully on January 17, 2004 after a decade-long battle with cancer. He was 71.Professor Townsend was a member of the first post-Second World War generation of China scholars. He studied in the late 1950s and early 1960s at one of the Centers for Chinese Studies that had been established by the Ford Foundation to supplement traditional discipline training. Townsend completed his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley, as did other prominent scholars such as Fred Wakeman (history), Chalmers Johnson (political science), Paul Ivory (economics), and Woody Watson (anthropology). He commenced his teaching career in the Berkeley department of political science, only to be recruited away by the University of Washington in 1968. Washington remained his home base thereafter.Jim Townsend's place in the development of contemporary Chinese studies was multifaceted, due to his intellectual ability, his deep personal commitment to expanded knowledge and interest in China and, equally important, his unique personality. He was a teacher, a researcher and an advocate of knowledge for knowledge's sake.