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...Japan, debts are neither readily forgotten nor easily repaid. The Japanese acknowledge the enormous debt they owe America for the benevolence of the post-World War II occupation and for the nurturing and protection the U.S. has provided Japan ever since. As Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa put it in a speech two weeks ago, "It is no exaggeration to say that Japan could not have achieved its postwar prosperity had it not been for the good-hearted support of the U.S." Older Japanese in particular feel the need to repay that debt, especially now that...
...used Commencement's principal address to discuss the most pressing issues of the day. Some have made weighty proclamations, like Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, who announced the decline of Western culture. Former U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall disclosed a plan, later named after him, which was to shape the post-World...
...Weizsacker came to Cambridge and, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the disclosure of the Marshall plan, praised American post-World War II foreign policy in Europe. He called for a new version of the plan to help developing nations, and also called for a world in which political freedom would be respected...
Harvard Commencement speakers have in the past used the address to discuss issues from world peace to education to personal experience. In 1947, then-Secretary of State George C. Marshall unveiled a proposal for post-World War II reconstruction that would later be known as the Marshall Plan...
This Bushian Interventionist Manifesto goes beyond even Woodrow Wilson's post-World War I call for collective security through a strong League of nations -- it sanctions United State intervention anywhere international law is breached...