Word: exchangees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While opposing student visits to China, he urged that the press be allowed to enter the communist country to improve "our communications" from it. Kennedy did say earlier in the evening that he would "certainly favor" the recent Russian proposal that Harvard and Columbia exchange students with Moscow University. He...
Five telephone calls to Washington yesterday failed to extract any information from the Soviet bureaucrats concerning the proposed plan for exchange of students between Moscow University and Harvard. The first call was made to the Soviet Embassy itself, in an attempt to contact Anatoli Gorshenev, second secretary of the delegation...
However, Dean Bundy commented in Detroit last night, "If the Soviet government is really interested in a responsible exchange among universities, we are glad to know it. And we hope it means the Soviet Embassy will now be able to answer its mail on this subject."
One immediate area of possible disagreement is that Zarubin mentioned only the exchange of students, while the University has been particularly interested in securing Russian scholars, especially ones who could lecture on recent archeological excavations in Central Asia.
The significance of Zarubin's statement yesterday was that this is the first time that both the U. S. and the Russians have been in agreement on the principle of exchange. Until late last winter, the State Department had not been disposed to encourage universities' attempts to secure visiting Russian...