Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Administration of the Center is carried on by the Committee on East Asian Studies, headed by Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages. Like the center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Russian Research Center, it is under the overall supervision of the Regional Studies Committee...
Programs leading to the degrees of B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in East Asian Studies are being direced by the Center. Because the Center has no departmental status, however, undergraduates who want a degree in Asian Studies must concentrate in Far Eastern Languages or in an appropriate field of History...
Eight Far Eastern public officials are participating in a new University fellowship program to assist "new states" in planning their economic development...
Turkey's current strategic role in the Western alliance developed out of Russia's most recent challenge to her territorial sovereignty. Following World War II, Turkey appealed to the U.S. for aid in resisting Russian demands on her two key eastern provinces of Kars and Andahan. Since the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, more than a billion dollars in loans, grants, and surplus military equipment has been turned over to Turkey...
...same meeting, Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, spoke of the growing confidence the Russians have in the material production of their state, which he found on his trip to Russian Central Asia. He contrasted this with their growing uncertainty in discussing political and religious matters. "I met no atheists," he said, "only agnostics...