Word: east
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team, Harvard is not expected to do much, for among the 16 schools converging on Ithaca today will be the class of the East. The highest rated teams are defending champion Lehigh, Penn State, Franklin and Marshall, and Syracuse. Navy, Cornell, and Princeton are ranked just behind the four leaders...
...rated the second best freshman quintet in the East. Holy Cross is first...
Before the war, the Netherlands East Indies supplied one-fifth of Holland's national wealth. Although the Dutch had ruled benevolently and were generally respected by the natives, the victory of Japanese troops in 1942 had a profound effect on the nationalist movement. Full of promises, the conquerors set up a puppet government of nationalist leaders. Collaborators soon found the promises worthless, but in 1945 they did not regret their move. The Japanese surrender caught British and Dutch troops unprepared. To keep order in the Islands, the Allies were forced to recognize existing Republican sovereignty in Java and Sumatra...
...long-tolerant UN found this excuse unsatisfactory. Faced with a deteriorating situation in the Far East, the United States refused to condone further resistance to Indonesian nationalism. Moreover, the Republican government had proved itself a going concern. In September, it successfully suppressed a serious communist uprising, but Dutch intransigence has since swelled communist ranks...
Friendly contact between the East and West, virtually non-existent in diplomacy, is maintained in the Seminar, which has several students from Czechoslovakia and plans to invite Polish students for the 1949 session...