Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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He noted that the projection of the United States as the "champion of democracy" during the era of Woodrow Wilson, was the highest development of "the luster of the U.S. image."
The U.S. became, after this high point, the picture of the "bloated creditor" because of its isolation and was debt policies, he added. Despite the United States large contributions to World War II and the United Nations, he said, this degradation has now reached the point where it is "quite...
Langer stated that in the face of this international vilification by such parties as Russia, Castro, and Nassar, the fundamental effort for the United States should be to bring mutual understanding and to learn to criticize its own actions.
He warned that this self-criticism however, should not take the form of self-deprecation, as much of it has in the past.
The evening's third speaker, Robert R. Bowie, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, said that despite the necessity for maintaining a negative policy of a military deterrent toward Russia and a positive policy of a search for a world order toward the new nations, there is still a cause...