Word: interest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albion, who was appointed Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs here last spring, says he likes that decision better every day. "The best thing about teaching history," he says, "is that you can gratify almost any interest...
Professor Albion's interest is the sea. He was born in Malden but managed to grow up on Maine's Casco Bay; by World War I his seafaring ancestry was showing its effect, and Albion joined the Naval Reserve. After what he calls a "delightful" series of training eruises, Albion began to feel that he would like a little combat action, so he jumped leagues and promoted himself a commission as an infantry licutenant...
...score many points for refusing them, but their reasoning shows important parallels with that of most other Americans and the State Department. These people, then, perceive the obvious economic fact that the $20,000,000 loan is financially feasible, and ignore the fact that it is motivated by political interest (witness the inescapably political timing of the project in the midst of Russian-Tito controversy...
...Russian attack hinges on the unknown factor of how the Soviets assess his threat to Eastern solidarity. Aid to Tito may well appear as another example of Western imperialism and alarm Eastern Europeans. Tito's regime is vigorously anti-democratic and the U. S. can have no intrinsic interest in maintaining...
...were selected to become members of the Order. Since they were not allowed to marry, they were much favored as lovers in the towns where they received their training; after they became members, they followed lives of chastity. But to the biographer of the future, sex is of little interest and the subject is otherwise scarcely mentioned...