Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fast then maintained that South Korea, not the Communist government of the north, actually precipitated the outbreak of the war referring constantly to newspaper clippings, he attributed the subsequent U.N. decision to intervene in Korea to an American fear that Japan might fall within the Communist sphere of influence. The resulting war boom precluded the possibility of Japanese trade with Red China, Fast insisted...
...unfairness by the Jenner Committee. At its Monday meeting the Council overwhelmingly refused even to send a representative to the organizational meeting of the CUSC. The overzealous direction this meeting subsequently took in no way excuses the original inaction. If the Council will not take the lead in the sphere of Academic Freedom, it is only natural to expect less temperate and less representative students to speak for Harvard. It is time to realize that Academic Freedom is not simply an issue for left-of-center political groups, but a principle of vital concern to all students regardless of political...
...against extending this war ... to any greater sphere of land mass of Asia, like Manchuria ..." The U.S. should "confine our fighting to Korea, if possible, but with a victory, military victory...
Nevertheless, someone must head the Secretariat. And selection is a major problem since only a wax dummy could never politically offend either side. Obviously, Russia will no more endorse a national from the Western sphere of influence than the West will approve any citizen of a satellite country. This climinates Canada's Pearson, the Philippines' Romulo, and Poland's Skrzeszewski. The Kremlin has scored in Asia by announcing its lack of opposition to either Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit or Sir Benegal...
Commencing with the issuing of tickets to all-night parkers on the streets adjoining the houses, the University Police Department has lately broadened its sphere of activity to include streets in the Yard area in what would appear to be a campaign to enforce upon students a scrupulous regard for Cambridge parking regulations. It is a curious fact, however, that the professed philosophy, as explained by the Police to this student, behind this action is not an increased reverence for law but rather a benign desire to protect the students themselves from the towing charges of the Cambridge Police...