Word: sundaram
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Speaking before a near-capacity crowd, Owen Lattimore, professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, and M. S. Sundaram, cultural counsellor of the Indian Embassy in Washington, found themselves in virtually complete agreement on the question of U.S.-Asian relations...
...Sundaram, speaking on "The Place of American in Asian Thought," declared the phrase "the awakening East" a misnomer. "Asia is fully awake," he said, "the future depends very much more on the awakening of America to the new world order than on the awakening of Asia...
Asians would still like to look upon America as the defender of freedom, Sundaram said. "India particularly has taken so much in the way of ideology from America that it is unlikely to abandon America unless America in turn abandons this ideology." The stress in U.S.-Asian relations is the feeling of many Asians that this ideology of freedom is in large part being abandoned in this country, Sundaram added...
...Sundaram said Asians' disillusionment with America was created largely by recent infringements of civil liberties in this country. He cited many embarrassing questions asked him by Asians which showed widespread belief that Americans are in great danger of "losing large parts of our long-cherished freedom...
...Sundaram also urged the West to seek more earnestly a "reconciliation between the Communists and democracies which Asians sincerely believe is possible...