International Education and the Hope For A Better World
-19- I do not have much sympathy with this attitude on the part of small countries. Aside from the fact that it is not very brave, it is not really very accurate either. In recent years those small countries which have followed their own course, or have actually defied the great powers, have had an...
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ftunivarkansasdc:oai:digitalcollections.uark.edu:Fulbright/126 2023-05-15T16:47:23+02:00 International Education and the Hope For A Better World Fulbright, J. William February 22, 1967 pdf http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Fulbright/id/126 unknown University of Arkansas Libraries J. William Fulbright Papers (MS F956 144, Series 72, Box 28, File 4) http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Fulbright/id/126 Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright. International Relations Education International Cooperation Fulbright Exchange Program 1967 ftunivarkansasdc 2022-09-06T16:21:03Z -19- I do not have much sympathy with this attitude on the part of small countries. Aside from the fact that it is not very brave, it is not really very accurate either. In recent years those small countries which have followed their own course, or have actually defied the great powers, have had an impressive record of getting away with it; I am thinking, for example, of Mexico, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Cuba, Cambodia, and Iceland. It is not, however, by defying the big countries -- although that can have its uses -- but by bringing to bear the benign and objective influence of which those who are free of great pretensions are capable that a small country like Iceland can play a constructive role in world affairs. It can do so in a number of ways. It can help to breathe vitality into such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank Other/Unknown Material Iceland University of Arkansas: Digital Collections |
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-19- I do not have much sympathy with this attitude on the part of small countries. Aside from the fact that it is not very brave, it is not really very accurate either. In recent years those small countries which have followed their own course, or have actually defied the great powers, have had an impressive record of getting away with it; I am thinking, for example, of Mexico, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Cuba, Cambodia, and Iceland. It is not, however, by defying the big countries -- although that can have its uses -- but by bringing to bear the benign and objective influence of which those who are free of great pretensions are capable that a small country like Iceland can play a constructive role in world affairs. It can do so in a number of ways. It can help to breathe vitality into such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank |
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