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Having served with the University of the Ryukyus project on Okinawa, I am sure that some of the student demonstrations [Sept. 3] reflect more of a confused and growing spirit of nationalism than rabid anti-Americanism. Indeed, the Okinawans have been blessed by a most generous handout at all levels, and, now being so much in our debt, struggle to become independent in thought and action...
...Japan; Nelson, husky, aggressive and the most public-minded, was adviser to Roosevelt on Latin America, until recently Eisenhower's Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and foreign-policy adviser; Laurance is a businessman like his grandfather; Winthrop, after quitting Yale, winning the Bronze Star off Okinawa, and earning tabloid headlines with marriage and divorce from Bobo, has settled down to run a model farm in Arkansas; David, the scholar of the family, has a Ph.D. in economics and a vice-presidency in the Chase Manhattan Bank. J.D.R. Jr.'s one daughter, Abby, is now Mrs. Jean...
Though the U.S. has often boasted that it had no territorial ambitions in World War II, it has in fact kept Okinawa and the Southern Ryukyus and intends to, "so long as conditions of threat and tension exist in the Far East." The U.S. has invested more than half a billion dollars in making Okinawa its military "nerve center" in the Western Pacific, and has told Japan that it has only "residual sovereignty" over the islands...
Trouble in the Teahouse. The new American conquerors, benevolent and paternalistic in the manner celebrated in The Teahouse of the August Moon, set up Okinawa's first university. The U.S. Government lavished funds on it and encouraged healthy contributions from private U.S. groups. Michigan State College supplied teachers and equipment. The university was soon flourishing, with 1,760 students and 125 faculty members. It flourished with trouble too. Students, probably encouraged by Japanese-educated faculty members, began to agitate for the return of the islands to Japan. Some students supported the Communist-front Okinawa People's Party, sent...
...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...