Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singapore] is as strongly fortified as Gibraltar. . . . It will play a great role when the inevitable clash between the East and the West finally takes place. In anticipation of that event, it maintains a set of barrooms, the splendor of which is famous all over the Orient...
...news of other missionaries in the Orient...
...files of Maryknoll Seminary are filled with such instances of heroism. No religious institution in America has so many of its alumni in the Japanese war zone. More than 450 nuns and priests from Maryknoll are in the Orient. Save for a few sick or on furlough, they have stuck at their posts through the years of mounting tension. Once assigned to a field, Roman Catholic missionaries generally stay there for the rest of their lives...
Four days before Pearl Harbor, Hearst wrote in his column In the News: "The war in the Orient is between Japan and China. . . . Our sympathies are with China but our interests are not with China. . . . Certainly it is not Japan which is precipitating war with the United States...
Pointing directly at the preparation of undergraduates for war work in Washington and in the quartermaster corps of the armed services, the Economics Department has developed broad plans to orient its program to the nation's wartime needs. Although in the blueprint stage now, concrete advancements will be made this summer and next fall...