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There Is Nothing Obscure About The Objectives Of Educational Exchange. Its Purpose Is To Acquaint Americans With The World As It Is And To Acquaint Students And Scholars From Many Lands With America As It Is-not As We Wish It Were Or As We Might Wish Foreigners To See It, But Exactly As It Is-which By My Reckoning Is An "image" Of Which No American Need Be Ashamed.

I Think We Americans Tend To Put Too High A Price On Unanimity, As If There Were Something Dangerous And Illegitimate About Honest Differences Of Opinion Honestly Expressed By Honest Men.

With Respect To The Creation Of The Program, I Introduced The Bill In September 1945, Immediately After The End Of The War With Japan, In August Of That Year. A Number Of Considerations, Of Course, Entered Into My Decision To Introduce The Bill, Growing From My Own Experience As A Rhodes Scholar And The Experiences Our Government Had Had With The First Word War Debts, [herbert] Hoover's Efforts In Establishing The Belgian-american Education Foundation After World War I, [and] The Boxer Rebellion Indemnity.

Educational Exchange Can Turn Nations Into People, Contributing As No Other Form Of Communication Can To The Humanizing Of International Relations. Man's Capacity For Decent Behavior Seems To Vary Directly With His Perception Of Others As Individual Humans With Human Motives And Feelings, Whereas His Capacity For Barbarism Seems Related To His Perception Of An Adversary In Abstract Terms, As The Embodiment, That Is, Of Some Evil Design Or Ideology.

The Program Further Aims To Make The Benefits Of American Culture And Technology Available To The World And To Enrich American Life By Exposing It To The Science And Art Of Many Societies.