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Natural Place. Obviously the Japanese no longer dream of empire or of the tyrannical "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" that led them to war. But Japan wants gradually to free itself of its dependence on the U.S. and take a role in the free world's fight for peace. Thanks to Ikeda, it is already quietly giving $600 million a year in aid to underdeveloped nations, and this summer pledged more if necessary. It would like a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. Its government has been considering offering Japanese troops as a permanent U.N. security force...
...statement which the AFSC made available for Combined Charities solicitors, the organization claimed that it "does not operate in politics although, like every other human institution, it operates in the political sphere...
...campaign wheezed to a close, men in Washington began to speculate earlier than usual about the composition of the new Johnson Cabinet. Some soundings taken among leading Washington reporters and among bureaucrats in the Executive Branch indicate that the President will make few changes in the foreign and defense sphere but will definitely shake up the domestic posts...
...chance. Drafting plans for a Japanese copy, he dispatched officials to likely recipients in Southeast Asia and Africa. The Africans were interested enough, but when Ikeda's emissaries got closer to home, they ran head-on into memories of Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
Learning one step at a time, at their own pace, they become more self-reliant and confident. A three-year-old lies on a rubber mat, arranging a washbasin and cups; a five-year-old, blindfolded with a blue eyeshade, feels a sphere, a cube, a cylinder, following out some blueprint in his mind. Ordinary progressive schools have similar equipment, since U.S. toy manufacturers have stolen many of Maria Montessori's original designs and ideas. But where progressive schools use the tools as one of many activities in which the teacher plays a major role, Montessori schools...