Word: orientating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unexpected Good Samaritan for keeping the polls free (they gave him an admiringly inscribed copy of Peace of Mind). To the Western world, too often handicapped in its outer reaches by propped-up Bao Dais and Syngman Rhees, he has brought a glimmer of hope for democracy in the Orient...
...sympathetic onlooker. For the infant republic of the Philippines is the great-and unfinished-U.S. experiment in transplanting democracy. In its tropical laboratory, among the dying roots of colonialism and the lushly growing thickets of Communism, the U.S. brand of freedom is being tested in the Orient...
...people exploited for 3½ centuries by the Spanish was taught to read,* given good medical treatment, practice in self-government, and the highest standard of living in the Orient. The Americans also planted the imported seeds of civil liberties and free speech...
Your Oct. 15 statement that the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco was "the first graduate school in the U.S. devoted solely to the study of the Orient" is very far from the fact. The Asia Institute's School of Asian Studies, opened nearly 15 years ago, is devoted solely to Asian subjects. It is a degree-granting institution for graduate study, has three times as many on its teaching staff, offers four times as many courses, and has back of it 21 years of internationally recognized achievement...
...have been patching up their industrial weakness in this area by constructing a network of tank factories, airplane and locomotive plants, shipyards, steel mills and oil refineries. The threat hung heavily on U.S. military planners, who assume that not Korea, but Japan-with the greatest industrial plant in the Orient-is Russia's real goal in the Far East...