Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant's lecture, called "The Child, the Parent, and the State," was largely based on a study he has made of United States high schools since 1957. The results of the first phase of this study were published recently in his book, The American High School Today...
Reischauer contended that American pressure on Red China "drives her into the arms of the Soviets." Claiming that Chinese interests often conflict with those of the Soviets, he argued that these conflicts would be brought into the open if China had a seat...
Chamberlain further asserted that recognition of Red China would "pull the rug out from under" Nationalist China and other American allies in the Far East, especially since the U.S. has had a set policy for so long...
...retort, Reischauer said that "the balloon which we would deflate in our allies' minds is one that we have blown up with our own hot air." Claiming that our policy with regard to China is "arrant nonsense and complete unrealism," he suggested that a slow change in American policy would give our allies time to adjust...
...would be hard to deny that Youth Festivals have served, and probably will continue to serve, as Communist front organizations. The official American reaction has been that participation should therefore be avoided and that, when possible, participators should be penalized. This year a number of international student groups have refused to participate--as have Austrian student organizations--and the American government may well be in good company...