Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president of the Teachers Association, presiding, the conference will feature addresses by Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History; Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages; and Payson S. Wild, Jr. '30, associate professor of Government. They will discuss contemporary war conditions in Germany, Russia, and East Asia...
Herbert Agar, Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, in testimony before the Senate Sub-Committee on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill, said, "Our most numerous allies in this war the colored peoples...if we lose those allies--if we lost Asia--we are likely to lose the war. The only way to keep Asia on our side is to show that we believe in the American ideal that all men are created equal...
...Englishmen as Edmund Burke, who in 1788, speaking of the great Indian empire builder, Warren Hastings, said: "Was there ever heard, or could it be conceived, that a man would dare to mention the practices of all the villains, all the mad usurpers, all the thieves and robbers in Asia, that he should gather them all up, and form the whole mass of abuses into one code and call it the duty of a British Governor...
...gratitude that exist between the Crown Colony and the mother country, the Sanskrit scholar continued. But Indian admiration for Japan, born at the Japanese victory in the Russo-Japurably since the occupation of Manchuanese War of 1905, had dwindled measria in 1931 and the general Nipponese aggrandizement of Eastern Asia, he added...
...Most significant session was on Asia, Stanford's Wilbur presiding. Looking past the Golden Gate toward the once-"mysterious" East, the nation's educators decided that it is "an alarmingly neglected area in American schools and colleges...