Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only by the most courageous and spectacular fortitude, Fairbank continued, have the universities been able to keep from disintegrating. Their books and buildings have been taken from them, and now in Kunming their preservation depends on aid from foreign nations. "It is our chance now to take up the cause of international scholarship and stand against the wanton imperialism of an aggressor nation...
...Westerners are convinced that aid through the sale of special supplies to England and France can only entangle us where we should not be. Whatever trade we have with these European countries, they feel, must rest on an attitude strictly impartial in action, if not in thought. This does not mean that supplies should be cut off from these two countries, but that they should get them at our convenience, after our interests had first been considered, if our interests allowed such sales at all. We are not to inconvenience ourselves just to sell to democracies. Thus the policy...
...late. The reason is that if England and France are forced into the position of becoming second rate powers, this country will never again be able to feel as secure from external danger as it now is. Consequently, the President believes the United States must give all aid it can to England and France, though this may entail a change of policy and some discommodity...
China, they add, will win IF: 1) the Central Government arms the whole peasantry, whose Communist leanings it mistrusts; 2) the Kuomintang-Communist pact holds; 3) Russia continues to send substantial aid to the Chinese; 4) the U. S. puts an embargo on iron, oil and planes to Japan; 5) England and France do not make a deal to dismember China, as a means of blocking both Japanese imperialism and a possible victory for the Chinese Communists; 6) China does not become another Czecho-Slovakia or Loyalist Spain...
...balance this present emphasis on victorious teams, the idea of a new trophy which would be presented to the house with the largest percentage participation in the athletic program has been suggested. This type of trophy would greatly aid in the success of the House Athletic Program in that it would favor the house which had the most rather than the best men on the field. Thus it would be in keeping with the original conception of house athletics which, far from producing athletes of varsity calibre, was to give each undergraduate an opportunity to compete in organized athletics...