Word: das
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...battle. Manteuffel, 72, now lives in quiet retirement near Munich. He told Cate how he and other officers under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander in Chief West, protested that Hitler had set an impossible timetable by ordering a two-day rush to the Meuse, 50 miles distant. "Das ist unwiderruflich [This is irrevocable]," said General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations at supreme headquarters, slamming his fist on a conference table. Manteuffel, a dedicated bridge player, suggested that Hitler was trying for a grosser Schlag, a grand slam. Why not, he proposed to Jodl, settle instead for a more attainable...
...First, as instruments of American imperialism they have surely been remarkably incompetent. Stanley Hoffmann's attack on an ambitious and obtrusive and thus, presumptively, imperialist foreign policy has. I sense, been the most widely influential work by anyone associated with the Center in recent years. The history of the DAS is even more striking. Pakistan was the original theatre of its efforts. It remains its show-case achievement. During the period when DAS was most effectively at work in Pakistan that country was moving ever closer into association with China. It was the only important non-Communist country in Asia...
...DAS (Development Advisory Service) provides its advisory services only on invitation from a host country and under contract between Harvard and that country. About one-half of the expert advisors come from countries other than the United States. Currently the DAS has contracts with Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Liberia, Malaysia, and Pakistan...
...issues of government involvement are raised in heightened form by the Center's Development Advisory Service, whose primary mission is advice and secondary function is research. The DAS goes to considerable lengths to avoid both the substance and the appearance of U.S. government influence by refusing U.S. government support for its advisory groups and recruiting half its advisors abroad. Whatever the limitations to its advice, they do not stem from particular dogmas nor from solicitude for U.S. interests. In fact, the services of the Harvard Advisory Service are in demand from a variety of governments largely because it is known...
Hyland's comments on the Fellows' program at the Center are as creative and as self-indulgent as his remarks on the DAS. Over the years, the Fellows of the Center have spanned every shade of ideology: Nkrumah Socialism, Pentagon militarism, AID pacifism, Indian neutralism, Swedish formalism, and Yugoslav pragmatism. The ingredients missing from the mix so far have been representatives from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, and China. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. At various times, Schelling, Inkeles, Kissinger, Brown, and I have made overtures in one or another of those countries, sometimes...