STUDENTS OVERSEAS
[N spite of all the diplomatic platitudes, international understanding) at the highest level is a pretty wobbly affair. What really matters is that ordinaty people of differing cultures should ceme to understand and like one another. One of the best ways of bringing this about is for young people to be given the chance to study in other countries. As future leaders of thought their influence will be out of all proportion to their numbers. The United States has taken a lead in fostering
the exchange of students, under the Department of State’s Foreign Student Programme. Every year, some 1600 foreign students arrive in the United States, mainly under the Fulbright scheme or the Smith-Mundt Act, which makes dollars available for student maintenance. Recently, Marita T. Houlihan (right), one of the senior officials concerned with the scheme, visited New Zealand, and an interview with her is to be broadcast from YA and YZ stations at 9.15 p.m. on Thursday, October 4. Pacific Affairs From two YC stations next week (4YC, October 3; 1YC, October 7), listeners will hear an American Fulbright student, Bernie Gordon, discussing New: Zealand’s outlook on Pacific Affairs. Mr. Gordon, who was in this country last year to study Pacific aspects of our foreign policy, recalls that when the American fleet visited Auckland almost 50 years ago, C. Allan Marris forecast in a piece of verse that some time in’ the future New Zealand
would be endangered by a ‘ people "flushed with the hate of race," and that in the struggle we would be joined by America, whose fighting men "beside our own South Sons, one day shall foil the Eastern world." Though this was written when fear of the Japanese and the "Yellow Peril" was common in Australia and the United States, there is no evidence that New Zealand was deeply interested in foreign affairs at the time, says Mr. Gordon, who goes on to describe how our attitude has changed till in all recent Pacific development "New Zealand has been moving side by side with Australia, in most of it with Britain, and in much of it with the United States."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 25
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358STUDENTS OVERSEAS New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 25
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