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Historical scholarship on the American foreign policy Establishment has passed through three stages. This Establishment consisted of a highly influential group of men who sought to replace traditional US isolationism with an internationalist foreign policy focused on containing Soviet expansionism after World War II. The initially laudatory view of the Establishment taken by historians in the 1960s gave way to both left- and right-wing condemnation in the 1970s. A more balanced assessment has marked Establishment historiography in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Issues concerning the life of foreign policy expert Hamilton Fish Armstrong are examined. Topics include his birth in New York, NY, in 1893; his belonging to a privileged, intellectual class; his education at Princeton Univ; his work with the Council on Foreign Relations and the journal "Foreign Affairs"; his relationship with Pres Franklin D. Roosevelt; his opinions on the Vietnam War; and his death in 1973.
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The influx of foreign students sponsored by missionaries into the United States caused the YMCA and YWCA organizations to form the Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students to combat racism by assimilating foreign students into US Christian culture. This attempts made the students more nationalistic and politically astute and eventually made missionary work more ecumenical.
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