Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hanfstaengl at that time held the post of Chancellor Hitler's foreign press agent. In June, 1985, he had offered Harvard $1000 for a traveling fellowship in Germany, to be held by a Harvard student for a year and a half, six months of which time should be spent at Munich...
This is merely a question of decency and courtesy in which no students need any instruction. To most people the Veterans of Foreign Wars or the American Legion have a vital meaning. If some students disagree, they should be polite enough to keep it in the family. Again, there are certain emotions and fetiches--memory for the dead, patriotism--which the ordinary American holds sacred. This ground should be inviolate, and no one should lightly trespass...
...speaking for Britain alone but for France and, more important, for the U. S. Throughout the war the Japanese have been considerably more respectful to the U. S., which is a big nation with a big fleet more free to prowl the Pacific than those of other foreign powers...
...Settlement. Chief Japanese demands were for more voting power for the Japanese residents of the International Settlement so that more Japanese could be elected to the Municipal Council. Other demands were for administrative and court "reforms." Just before going on leave, U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew handed Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita the U. S. reply. It was a strong rejection of all Japanese demands. The U. S. even suggested that the Japanese, who have governed a small section of the Settlement as their own since the war and who have two seats of the 14 on the Settlement...
...foreign languages a nation chooses to study are, like its songs, one measure of its emotional condition. Last week Dr. Theodore Huebener, director of foreign languages in New York City's public schools, threw light on the present U. S. attitude toward foreigners in a report on the languages studied by the city's high-school youth. Overwhelming favorite (107,000 students): French. Second (41,400): Spanish. Well down on the list (16,500) but gaining fast: Italian. Most spectacular trend: a five-year drop (since Hitler) of 35% in the number studying German...