Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supply for U.S. A-bombs. With Africa would go excellent bases for South America-bound Soviet bomber fleets. With Asia would go a treasure house of materials and millions of potential soldiers. In a matter of time, it would mean the loss, too, of Japan, factory for the Orient...
Says Baker: "This active market for American publications in Shanghai points up the fact that in the Orient, the war of ideas and words is a real war. Certainly the Chinese Communists recognize this. In many Southeast Asian countries the Red Star and Mao Tse-tung's face are among the most familiar sights; bookstores overflow with Communist propaganda produced locally or imported from Russia, China and Vietminh. In areas where literacy rates are generally very low the Communists have accepted the great truth that the spoken word, the whispering campaign and the picture cartoon are far more potent...
...Wellesley alumnae started the Institute in honor of Madame Chiang Kai Shek, and alumna, to provide information about the Orient...
This is the fifth in a series of stories attempting to orient the University of the present international situation. The first four covered left-wing clubs, faculty views on the Far East, the new anti-Communist law, and the views of six professors on the Korean...
House on a Hill. Horace Underwood I, a Presbyterian, had gone out to Korea first in 1885 and there married a medical missionary. By 1915, when the Underwoods first opened the gates of Chosen college, Korea had become one of the most Christianized nations of the Orient. In time the new college grew to be the second largest university in Korea. Under the Japanese occupation (1910-45), Chosen and a few other Christian schools like it were the only educational institutions in Korea which kept native Koreans as teachers. It became identified with Korean nationalism...