Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before his donation, Crane had developed a taste for the Asiatic. While studying at Stevens Institute in Hoboken, he caught malaria, and was sent to the East to recuperate. Upon returning, he declared "I will spend the rest of my life studying Asia." Spending the next few years as President of the Crane Plumbing Company in Chicago, he managed a few trips to Russia. Prior to the Revolution, Crane began a movement within the Orthodox Church to repeal all dogma and ritual added since the Romanoffs. Success was nearly at hand when the Bolsheviks stormed Leningrad. All Crane could...
...Geneva's threat has another dimension: Indo-China is essential to anti-Communist defenses in Asia, but IndoChina is technically France's war, and France, tired of almost eight years of fighting, is determined to negotiate some kind of a settlement...
What will they talk about? For four years, from Asia to Europe to America, Protestant and Orthodox leaders have been exchanging memoranda, sifting agenda and preparing to discuss six themes, for which the Assembly will divide itself into six commissions: 1) Our Oneness in Christ and Our Disunity as Churches, 2) The Mission of the Church to Those Outside Her Life, 3) The Responsible Society in a World Perspective, 4) Christians in the Struggle for World Community, 5) Racial and Ethnic Tensions, 6) The Laity: the Christian in His Vocation. The very fact that 161 Protestant and Orthodox communions...
...program joins similar research and teaching projects on East Asia and the Soviet Union in the University's Regional Study department. William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, becomes chairman July 1 of the governing committee for these programs, succeeding Robert L. Wolff '36, associate professor of History...
...Indo-China, the stranger has one question on his lips-why don't the French fight through to victory?-and stays to ask himself a quite different one: What keeps the French here at all? If Indo-China goes, the French have no significant strategic considerations left in Asia. The war costs them more than any economic advantages they can get from it. They are fatigued and frustrated by eight years without victory. Yet Frenchmen continue to plant crops, build houses and, though it may seem whimsical, to make plans...