Word: orientator
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...Pakistan Plan for Peace in the Orient...
...BRIGHT winter sun shone down on the sparkling blue waters of Hong Kong's incomparable harbor. Commuters on the tidy little ferries that link Victoria Island with the mainland saw spread before them on the waterfront most of the great commercial names of the Orient-Jardine, Matheson & Co., Butterfield & Swire, the East Asiatic Co. Dominating the closely packed warehouses and office buildings rose the massive square tower and the bronze lions of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp...
Only a few Hong Kong residents, undeceived by the appearance of normality admitted their concern. Said one Briton, looking down from his Peak apartment at one of loveliest views in the Orient: We all know that some day we shall lose this fair, imperial place. And sometimes I think it would be better to throw it in their bloody teeth now, rather than to give it up inch by inch. But I know we'll never...
...American International Corp. retained him for a big job in China: negotiation of a $130 million loan for railway and canal construction. The trip to the Orient became part of Austin's broadening horizon of travel; at other times, on bar-association or diplomatic business, he has also been to Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Near East and the Philippines...
...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...