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Wilcox would like to expand the seminar program, and he explained that the dearth of seminars offered was "not a policy decision, but rather a question of how many qualified teachers are available." He pointed out that, as with all inter-departmental programs, the Freshman Seminar Program does not have the power of appointment...
...resolution caused something of a furor in both the U.S. and Latin America, but the fuss did not obscure its clear warning to Russia and China. Its object, said Alabama Democrat Armistead Selden, the resolution's sponsor and the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, was "to make it clear to Communists that they cannot count on the principle of nonintervention to shield their takeover of a hemisphere country." Added he: "It is a pretty good mandate about how the people of this country really feel...
...minute before 3 a.m. - the deadline - he interrupted a scorching, anti-Indian diatribe, plucked from the stack of papers before him a telegram from Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "In the interests of inter national peace ... I have issued the following order to the Pakistani armed forces: they will stop fighting as from 1205 hours West Pakistan time today...
...believe that there is anything particularly beautiful or especially moving about blatant human grief and I do not draw any comfort out of the inter-position of another's pain and fears beside my cash and safety...
...history of U.S. foreign aid is one of changing goals, phased in and then phased out as they succeeded gloriously or were abandoned in panic. Back in 1942, when Congress voted funds for the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, a technical-assistance operation for Latin America, it was only trying to combat pro-Nazi sentiment in Central and South America. Next, the U.S. chipped in to establish UNRRA, a desperate charity aimed at stopping hunger in a war-destroyed world. It filled a lot of bellies and the pockets of countless profiteers. In 1947, President Truman, still answering fire alarms...