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Show PROGRAM During the last few years, especially since the Suez crisis of 1956, the position of the United States in the Near East appears to have worsened. As a contribution to positive and comprehensive thinking this meeting proposes to identify, then analyze and appraise those areas where American strength is substantial, where it is present though unclear, and where it is nascent but unrealized. Wednesday, April 16, ig$8 Woodrow Wilson Hall 12:45 P.M. Buffet Luncheon 2 :OOP.M. Opening Remarks Harrison Garrett Chairman, Advisory Council Department of Oriental Studies Partner, Robert Garrett & Sons The United States Position Among the Arabs Philip K. Hitti Paton Professor of Semitic Literature, Emeritus Commentary: ' Harold W . Glidden Department of State Harold B. Minor American Friends of the Middle East Turkey as United States Ally in NATO and in the Baghdad Pact Lewis V. Thomas Professor of Oriental Studies [2] |
