Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caltech, a regent of Loyola University of Los Angeles, helped form the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, took up gardening, golf. First role in national affairs came when Democrat Harry Truman appointed Republican McCone to the Air Policy Commission, where he helped Thomas K. Finletter write the farseeing 1948 report on the need for U.S. airpower, Survival in the Air Age. He was appointed Air Force Under Secretary under Finletter in 1950, for 16 months campaigned tirelessly for a bigger Air Force slice of the defense budget...
...ethnic connection with Indonesia, 2) Indonesia has not yet proved able to govern what it has, and 3) the Dutch have a "sacred trust" to prepare the bushy-haired Papuans for self-government. By last week many a thoughtful Dutchman was disturbed by the publication of a report of a nine-man Dutch parliamentary commission that visited New Guinea last year...
Censors & Cannibals. The zoo-page report noted that considerable physical progress had been made in Netherlands New Guinea, particularly in the field of public health. But it also painted an unattractive picture of arbitrary, old-fashioned colonial rule: "In the prison at Doom . . . Indonesian infiltrators were housed six or eight to a small cell." In all Netherlands New Guinea, added the report, no private newspapers are published, and such news as is distributed by the government is carefully censored...
Unanswered Call. According to the parliamentary visitors, the Papuans are not being prepared to take their place in the 20th century world. So far, said the report, the Netherlands government has had "no success" in setting up an educational system adapted to Papuan needs. "Where education is available at the village schools, the highest level attained is scarcely that of the third grade in Dutch elementary schools . . . About 5,000 children attend these village schools, and 5% of them are given the opportunity of enjoying further education . . . There is not yet a single Papuan with a high school diploma...
...sense of the report," summed up Amsterdam's Roman Catholic daily De Tijd, "comes down to this . . . The great design which was proclaimed like a trumpet call throughout The Netherlands-to make the Papuans ripe for independent activity in all fields-remains a slogan...