Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Developments were ominous but of doubtful significance: 1) Tewfic Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister, and head of the Turkish League Delegation, left Geneva suddenly by the Orient Express for Angora, after declaring that dealings between his Government and Britain in the near future will be through the regular diplomatic channels. 2) From Angora, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President-Dictator of Turkey, was quoted as follows: "Our army is ready and its morale is excellent. If we should have to fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that...
...Force, intimidation and oppression, which have hitherto been the weapons of the strong against the weak, are to give place to reason, cooperation and goodwill. Here America scores one of her greatest diplomatic triumphs: This is an adaptation of the Monroe Doctrine for the Orient. It is an American policy enunciated by Hay, formulated by Root and Hughes and promulgated by Kellogg...
...colleges of the Orient, scientific subjects are taught in English?not because English expresses the ideas better but because the textbooks have been written in English. Mechanics and engineering, being comparatively new, are in the languages of their discoverers. In India, China, Syria and Turkey, the teaching of science is in English, but it is not so in Japan...
...films are said to be the most valuable advertising for U. S. goods that exist, particularly in South America. Makers of clothing in this country are said to be profiting heavily by the demand for their goods created by U. S. motion pictures exhibiting in South America and the Orient...
...cynical blot on western competency that the fabrications of a wild romancer like Ossendowski pass as interpretations of the Orient, and it is a fault in occidental optimism that it seems to ignore the ancient East. In the East civilization arose earliest, has lasted with least change, and bids fair to endure with greatest permanency. The East is both civilized and barbarous, and out of its barbarity new hordes may rush upon the flimsy fabric of occidentalism. In pushing strident commercial claims, the possibility of reaction must be remembered; and greed for a few dollars today must not be allowed...