Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost unbelievably different. Already the people might look almost defiantly into the mild skies where the foreign bombers had been expected. Glorious had been Japan's victories. Instead of being attacked from the air, Japan was driving the rich, vain, intolerable British and Americans from the Orient. The New Asia was coming to pass...
...only 23 years later, it and its affiliate, the Maryknoll Sisters, number over 1,300 priests, brothers, sisters and candidates, are also training 350 natives in the Orient as priests and nuns...
...missionary districts in South China, Korea, Manchukuo and Japan, Maryknollers are working, converting 7,500 adults a year. Maryknoll is still the largest U.S. Catholic missionary group, but others have followed its lead; there are now 2,500 American Catholic missionaries stationed overseas, a majority of them in the Orient...
News of Maryknollers in the Orient has shrunk to a trickle since Dec. 7. But cables received early this month reported that...
...that the U.S. is cut off from the Orient, no missionaries can be sent there from Maryknoll this year. Instead, the Vatican has assigned the society a new missionary field among the pagan Indians in the forests of northern Bolivia, east of the Andes. Three missionaries will leave Maryknoll for the upper Amazon region on Easter Day; 17 more will follow after the June ordinations...