Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herter Defends Foreign Aid Program...
WASHINGTON, March 16--Any slash in President Eisenhower's $3,930,000,000 foreign aid program would show "we are weakening in our determination" to oppose mounting Communist pressures, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter said today...
...were not for this program," Herter told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, "we would be seeing large portions of the world in Communist hands as of this moment...
Their myopia is especially strong when they envision Harvard as a completely cosmopolitan college. This contention rests upon the dual claims of unreserved acceptance of large numbers of foreign students, and eager susceptibility to international influences ranging from Austin-Healy's to Zen Buddhism. Both these claims are more attractive than true. Foreign students are accepted on the same basis as all others, more often despite than because of their foreign origins and customs. The college community is liberal enough not to be suspicious of outsiders, but it is not particularly interested in them either. The typical foreign student...
...quickly as possible. This is particularly true of the younger tutors, returning from Oxford and Cambridge, whose educational advances are overshadowed in the minds of students by the atrocious mannerisms they have picked up. There is no general eagerness to share these different educational experiences, no strong curiosity concerning foreign ideas...