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...this was disillusioning to the school's creator, Kansas-born Henry Earl Diffenderfer, 41, now Director of Education for the U.S. Civil Administration on Okinawa. Diffenderfer has toiled so hard to raise funds for the university that he is called Kojeki Ryu Dai Kagu Zeidan (begger for the University of the Ryukyus). Pressured by disenchanted donors (including a U.S. Marine outfit), Diffenderfer drafted an angry letter to University President Genshu Asato. The school's foundation is withholding all funds, said the letter, until "you can honestly assure us that anti-American and pro-Communist personnel of your student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: The Agitators | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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