Word: orientating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group that is small enough to assure him the opportunity of gaining a personal acquaintance with his fellows. The bulk of these will naturally be English and Scotch, but he will find among them students from the British colonies, and many others from the continent of Europe and the Orient...
...service. There should also be good and fast direct steamers from our Pacific Coast to Australia and to the west coast of South America. From our cast coast we should be able to go to both coasts of South America, through the Mediterranean and the Sucz Canal to the Orient, and to various ports in Europe. The United Fruit Company is able to give an excellent, if not rapid, service to the countries in which it operates, mostly Central America, by reason of the profitable nature of its business other than shipping...
...most unfortunate time for our attention to be called to the suffering in the Orient and the danger of an impending loss of fifteen million lives there through starvation...
...mandatories through the League of Nations under which Australia is given control of all former German possessions lying south of the equator adds to our responsibility in the greatest of the world's oceans. America's destiny, too, is largely wrapped up in the Pacific and in the Orient. She has her foothold in Hawali, Samoa and the Philippines. She can not lay down her white man's burden in this quarter of the globe without leaving chaos behind and without inviting the occupation of these lands by perhaps another power. These Pacific possessions are the outer defense...
...White Australia policy for Australia involves the purity of our race, the maintenance of our standard of living and the continuation of the influence of Western civilization upon the peoples of the Orient. It prevents at the same time the exploitation of helpless natives such as maintained in the old days...