Word: offcials
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...Corps teachers in Malawi may be working in classrooms in large numbers, but African officials there and elsewhere are not about to turn over the task of charting national policy to young American volunteers. Malawi, in fact, is one of the few countries where volunteer activities have drawn an offcial reprimand: President Hastings Banda complained in a speech that volunteers were trying too hard to live like the people, when as teachers their job was to take a more professional, more aloof attitude. Instead, here were Americans living in huts, dressing sloppily, sleeping with local girls, and, worst...
...French journalists, whose deliberately provocative and skillfully insinuated ideas are apt to upset any Conference, got the statesmen at Geneva into a lather by "announcing" the "un-offcial suggestion"' from "high sources" that Japan be entrusted by the League with a mandate over Manchuria. Such journalistic ideas sometimes become facts. But the French press-playboys were so delighted with their furore that they next announced: "Japan is going to be given a mandate over all China...