Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KENNAN PLAN. With sweeping simplicity, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia George Kennan a year ago suggested that in return for complete withdrawal of Soviet forces from Eastern Europe, all U.S. troops should leave Continental Europe. Like Gaitskell, Kennan is willing to accept German neutrality as the price of German reunification...
...known to the Germans as agent "BOE 48" (the 48th agent of Karl Boemelburg, a Gestapo chief in Paris). It is Author Fuller's contention that Gilbert, as Air Movements Officer of S.O.E., passed pertinent documents to the Gestapo headquarters before sending them by courier to London. In return, Gilbert obtained a German promise never to shoot down or capture any aircraft landing at fields he controlled. Gilbert was later brought to London "under suspicion" but was cleared by a French court...
...Administration, Lattimore asserted, is not even considering the possibility, for instance, that the people of Taiwan will choose to return to China rather than remain independent. John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, commenting on the point raised by Lattimore, said the United States "would be smart to come out openly with a decision to accept the expression any time in the future of the people of Taiwan to join the mainland...
...prone to suppose that their job is not to train youngsters, but to intellectualize those already destined for the elite. No one would deny the importance of such efforts should they succeed, but if the superficial veneer of culture which most people acquire in college is the sole return on their investment, then millions of Americans are being short changed. Before accepting this improbable hypothesis we must scrutinize the possibility that the four year apprenticeship to the scholars (often called "liberal education") changes not only the veneer but the man within...
...worth of books and records offered by the Coop to the House with the highest per capita contribution was won by Kirkland, with an average gift of $3.33 per student. Lowell was a close second with a per capita return...