Word: australian
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...bicentennial of the American nation provides a fitting occasion for the endowment of a chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University...
...ideals inspiring your founding fathers had a direct impact on the development of democratic government in Australia. Your great Revolution was one of those powerful forces which 75 years later helped the Australian colonies to become self governing and to manage their own affairs within a highly democratic political framework...
...Government of Australia, as a token of its goodwill to the Government and people of the Bicentennial celebration of the American Revolution of 1776, conveys to Harvard University a gift of $US1 million to establish The Australian Studies Endowment Fund...
Harvard University, in receiving the gift of the Australian Government, acknowledges that the purpose of the Australian Studies Endowment Fund is to establish a Chair in Australian Studies and maintain such teaching, research and publication as will help promote awareness and understanding of Australia in the United States of America...
Whitlam, speaking at the Australian-American Ball in Sydney, Australia last year, commended "this proposal to the great companies and corporation--which operate in the two countries. Some of them, I trust, will see the chair as a focal point for further research endowments in their own names in disciplines of special interest to them...