Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Careful study of the mistakes which caused the failure of United States foreign policy in China is necessary for the development of a southeast Asia policy, John K. Fairbank, associate professor of History, told a meeting of the Cambridge Chapter of the ADA at the Faculty Club Wednesday night...
Once the United States is aware of its errors in China it can apply an opposite policy to southeast Asia to keep that area from Communist domination, he explained. One of this country's chief mistakes, Fairbank said, has been emphasis on granting military assistance to governments we favor or making use of our own military prowess. What the United States must concentrate on in Asia is agricultural assistance and selling the intellectual elements of our culture...
Charles Wolf, the other speaker at the meeting, declared that the United States should back all liberal, moderate governments in southeast Asia with more than just lip service. It should do so by giving such governments active support in the UN, by exchanging students, and by sending economic aid, Economic aid should not come on a Marshall Plan basis, however, Wolf was quick to point out, but should be sent through private investments. By doing so the United States could bring about what Wolf called multilateral world trade. This term means that once Indonesia received help...
Wolf compared the present nationalist movement in southeast Asia to similar expressions of nationalism in the European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century. What is remarkable about the Asian movement, Wolf said, is that it has all been telescoped into the last 30 years. At the turn of the century nationalist sentiment hadn't even begun to brew there...
John K. Fairbank '29, assistant professor of History, will speak on the topic "Where Do We Go from Here in Asia?" He is the author of the prize-winning book, "The United States and China...