Evening star., 1947-09-14

more than 5000 young people
Mediterranean are learning not only
contributions of his organization
alone.
During the war" DR.. Dennis
said, "the laboratories supplied all
vaccines used by the Lebanese and
Syrian governments, and the Free
French forces in the Middle East
Animal vaccines were produced fol
the British. During 1912 and 1e43
the laboratories manufactured great
quantities of typhus vaccine that
were used by Lebanon, Syria ano
Iraq."
The university staff also provided
the British Army with teaching IA
cilities and materials for the train
ing of personnel for malaria con-
troll, for medical officers of the Leb-
anese and Syrian governments anc
collaborated with the Australian
Army Medical Corps in meeting
their military health problems. The
School Of Medicine also operated
a military unit of SO beds for French
wounded, provided hospital and
professional care for members OF
the British military and diplomatic
corps and assisted in numerous
other wartime health problems
created by the presence of thous-
ands of troops in climate and con-
ditions strange to them. The depart
ment of biochemistry supplied in
sulin, liver extract, synthetic vita
min K and other biological products
which could no be imported.
The hospital laboratory staff, in
cidentally, was composed entirely
of Arabs and Arpenians during the
war, all working under direction OF
the single American. DR.. Dennis
Today. more than 1000 graduates
of the medical school of the univer-
sity are practicing medicine in near
ly every major population center
of the Arab East.
Aided the Allies
Farther in the background of the
wartime activities but no less i'm
portant to the operations of the
Allied powers was the tremendous
assistance in intelligence and Dip
lomatic effort rendered by the
American-educated and pro-Allied
students and graduates Of all of
these Middle East institutions. This
same preference for our way of life,
developed in such large degree by
the educational contact, provides
one of our strongest frontiers"
today. Nearly half a hundred repre-
sentatives of the Middle East gov
ernment now serving in various top
level capacities within the United
Nations framework are graduates
Of the American schools. The polit-
ical and diplomatic scene in the
Middle East capitals is literally
supplied with American-educated
statesmen and the end result is an
investment in good will which could
never be purchased by any amount
of dollars or Of gold.
Rivaling the prominence Of the
Beirut institutions and even more
strategically located at the intel
lectual center Of the worlds 250,-
900 900 Moslems is the American
University at Cairo.
Incorporated in the District of
Columbia and operating independ-
emily of the Near East College AS
ISOLATION, the Cairo institution
opened it's doors in 1920 with seven
faculty members and ITO students.
Today it has more than 500 students
from about 80 nationalities enrolled
in three principal sections: The col
iege of arts and sciences, the school
of oriental studies and the school of
education.
Most impressive, perhaps Is the
division Of extension, where as
many as 10000 Middle Fasteners
have participated in single year
in the lecture and forum series
This division really speaks to Mr..
Middle East Public as it demon
strates by word and picture the
ways of the West in respect to hy-
giene, forms of government, organ
ization Of society and all else that
has to do with an Improvement Of
living.
Plays Significant Role
In the light Of present American
frontier building" of an unusual
nature in two of the Mediterranean
countries-Greece and Turkey-the
functioning of the Near East College
Association again plays significant
role.
At Istanbul, Turkey, is the first
of the groups Institutions, Robert
College, on the European shore of
the Bosphorus. Located on the
heights above the strategic water
way, the relatively modern buildings
Of the college offer contrast to the
great sprawling fortress Of Rumeli
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