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...both Europe and in the Philippines that American soldiers abroad have misunderstood on every possible occasion the people they have known so slightly. The education of students abroad, with its advantage of personal contacts, would have a twofold value: the broadening of the individual student's viewpoint, and his ability. . . to erase a few of (his countrymen's) misconceptions concerning foreigners...
...Navy captains (with 20 years of service) or Foreign Service officers of equivalent rank and with 15 years of service. Said Harry Hill, commandant of the new school: "We'll take the cream of the crop from the existing war colleges. . . . We want them to get the future viewpoint not only in methods, weapons and strategy, but in the broad political applications. We're not going to be war planners. We are going to try for an understanding of war and how to maintain the peace...
...Government has a duty to get its viewpoint before the world, is it enough merely to send abroad the texts of state papers, speeches by and against the Administration? Particularly in the world's twilight areas (i.e., the Balkans), where private news agencies would lose money operating-should the State Department send full news broadcasts...
From the world viewpoint, America had the atom and did not want to share it. From the U.S. viewpoint, it had the atom-but there was no telling when some other country might get it. From either viewpoint, foolproof international control of the atomic bomb seemed a long way off, and Moscow had been only a tentative step forward...
...professor of Philosophy, took a sharply divergent view of the state of the world. Granted that "it is entirely possible that we shall have a war wiping out three fourths of humanity," and despite the fact that "This is a crucial period for man," Williams presented a decidedly optimistic viewpoint...