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Fletcher School BroadensInfluence Upon DiplomacyMEDFORD — With the United Slates regarded increasingly as a training center in the field of diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts College has been broadening its graduate training of foreign students in the last few years. Dean Robert B. Stewart reports that this lop-bracket American institute of its kind Ji now able to arrange for international student exchanges on an unprecedented plane.This September, two diplomatic officials of the Foreign Office of Japan will come to the school for a year of advanced study under American Military Government sponsorship.One of the men, Kazuo Chiba, is the son of Japan's prewar ambassador to Portugal The other, Wa-taru Miyakawa, is the son of a Japanese foreign officer who served in the Japanese embassy in Moscow.During the past year, Pakistan sent seven of its most promising diplomatic service recruits to the Fletcher School for training in developing the world-wide diplomacy of their country.The Norwegian government has sent two young diplomatic officers to the school in recent^ years. One of them, Per Vennemoe, is now a member of the Norwegian embassy 1 m Moscbw. The .other, Bue Brun, has leturned to the Norwegian Foreign Office in Oslo after two years* study at the school.Officer From ThailandScheduled to enter Fletcher this fall is a Thailand foreign service officer who has had four yean of active experience.These overseas representatives studying at Fletcher live in a homelike dormitory with American students, and the resulting discussions and friendships have already forged strong ties among the younger foreign service officers of the United States and other foreign countries who have studied together at Fletcher.Foreign students at Fletcher this year will come to know two American foreign service officers who have been assigned to the school for a year of advanced study In international economic relations.They are Robert J. Dorr, with five years of experience in Latin America, and Donald L. Woolf, a foreign service staff officer with eight years’ experience in Latin America, Africa, and New Zealand, as well as the State Department in Washington.A* a matter of policy, Fletcher makes a point of having 20 per cent of Its approxifnate]j%100 students women. Dean Stewart feels international affairs are a promising field for women. The school will have lls first woman student from Japan this fall when Miss Yoko Matsuoka, a Tokyo journalist, comes to the Medford campus.Dean Stewart see* special significance in the increased interest of foreign government* in sending their young diplomatic officer* to the United State* for training.♦This should help put to rest the traditional belief in thl* country that American diplomat* always lose their shirts in negotiations with foreign diplomats, he state*.The fact that foreign countries are turning to us to help train their d.plomats certainly reflects the tremrtidous changes that have1 taken place in world affairs and 1n America's new position of leadership and responsibilityAmerican student* planning careers in international affair* at Fletcher have been outspoken In their agreement that living and studying with the visiting foreign student* did much to enrich their understanding of international relations.And, In return, the foreign students have come to know Americans not merely through their diplomatic history, but through their baseball teams, their hobbies, and through coming into cross-section found at the Fletcher School. * NIn future years, Dean Stewart points out, these young men who are -now friend* and fellow student* will meet across ths diplomatic tabis a* spokesmen for their nation*. When that time corns*, ws can be sure that their negotiation* with on* another will bs conducted with friendliness and understanding.
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The Berkshire Evening Eagle
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, US
Thu, Jul 20, 1950
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