Word: orients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening session of the round-table conference on the "League of Nations and the Post-War World" will be Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith College and lecturer at the Summer School, Kohn's talk, the final one of the sessions, will be on the subject "Russia, the Orient, and the League...
...supplies from the Allies. If this is not feasible, there is a crying need for the Allies to open another front to take the pressure off China. The changing international situation makes Japan's task of offering peace to China easier. Today, with her wide hold on the Orient, Japan can afford to be less afraid of China. Japan might consider offering to withdraw her troops from all territories south of the Great Wall. The advantages to her would be inestimable and the dangers have been minimized in the last seven months...
...something of a freak. It is not surprising, therefore, that in his graduate days Edwin Reischauer should have found himself at the head of a one-man class in Chinese. It is still less surprising, that, with the present demand for men versed in the outlandish tongues of the Orient, the freak of yesterday should suddenly be transformed into the expert of almost unique utility today. He who once imbibed the cup of knowledge in solitary splendor now dispenses its to some sixty would-be Intelligence men, interpreters, and Far Eastern experts...
...Sorbonne, he has been a professional fighter, a logger, an oil driller, an extra in the Ballet Russe, a stevedore in Alaska, a publicity man for a symphony orchestra -and he sailed in the fo'c'sle to South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Orient...
...objections proved valid, it would then be too late for India. But there can be no paper solution to the India problem. Mohandas Gandhi has renewed his demands for Indian independence at a time when the United Nations' cause can scarcely afford to ignore one of the"Orient's greatest leaders...