Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alas, I am too far removed from America this year to avail myself of the unequalled educational information and entertainment afforded by this program. To the many penalties attached to living in the Far East, I add the unavailability of the "March of TIME...
...week was regarded in Europe as a triumph for Russia: recognition at last. For President Roosevelt it was two or three triumphs: 1) Never before had the Soviets agreed to discuss differences with a sovereign power before their own sovereignty was recognized. 2 ) Upon excited Europe and the Far East (though Japan loudly professed to see in it nothing admonitory) the drawing together of Russia and the U. S. must have a quieting effect. 3) The quieting effect upon U. S.-domestic excitements was instant and undisputed. For William Bullitt, now special assistant to the Secretary of State...
...savings banks and to 3,000,000 leprous individuals scattered throughout the world, the annual meeting of the American Mission to Lepers last week in the cozy Church House of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church was a momentous occurrence. At that meeting Dr. Victor George Heiser, Far East director of the Rockefeller Foundation and president of the International Leprosy Association, dramatically announced that leprosy is apparently being cured. In the process the lepers are dyed blue by injection into their veins of a dye called trypan-blue...
...establishment of a strong political force against Japanese aggression in the Far East is the significant consideration in the negotiations now being carried on at Washington for the recognition of Soviet Russia. The importance of establishing favorable trade relations between the two countries has been exaggerated, and political rather than economic forces are likely to dictate the policy of the United States on the other side of the globe in the future...
...Recognition of Russia, although it does not seem to be a factor considered by the administration, will make a tremendous difference in the balance of power in the east. It will so strengthen the Soviet's position in Manchukuo that she can refuse to sell her railroad rights except at a figure many millions higher than Japan has offered for them...