Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a proposal more out of keeping with U. S. temper than last week. Hurry up calls from Washington sent Ambassadors Joseph P. Kennedy (London) and William Bullitt (Paris) hustling back to the White House from vacations in Florida. Ambassadors rarely appear before Congressional committees, and then only before foreign affairs committees. But Messrs. Kennedy & Bullitt were promptly closeted in "secret" session with a joint meeting of the House & Senate Military Affairs Committees...
...part, Herr Hitler ordered Nazi broadcasts aimed at Polish Ukrainians toned down, temporarily at least. On his part, Foreign Minister Beck was reported to have agreed to: 1) formal annexation by Germany of Danzig, already completely Nazified but still nominally under League of Nations supervision; 2) special status for the Germans in Memel, still part of Lithuania, but actually ruled by local Nazis directed from Berlin...
State laws, however, are contradictory and confused, no help but a hindrance to teachers. Some stress teachings scarcely to be distinguished from those of foreign dictatorships: obedience to authority, a narrow, nationalistic patriotism...
...foreign representation has mounted in recent years. This year there are 258 foreign students, as compared with 249 last year from 44 foreign countries and U.S. possessions, 221 the year before, and 207 the year before that...
Students from 46 foreign countries and U.S. possessions, and from every state in the Union are among the 8,583 enrolled at Harvard University this year, according to a geographical listing made public at the university today...