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A Fulbrighter in Baghdad

SEP 01, 1953
Louis R. Weber

“To bring about better understanding between the United States and other countries through an exchange of professors, research scholars, teachers and students,” I read on the wall of the modest suite of offices of the Fulbright Foundation in Iraq. My spine tingled as I read these words, for nearby was my name with “College of Arts and Sciences” as my assignment. With this, the first year of the complete Fulbright Program in Iraq, this statement presented a challenge as well as an important responsibility.

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Louis R. Weber, Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College, Ft. Collins.

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