Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fairbank cited Moscow's heated denunciation of him for proposals made in his books on China. He quoted "Russian Communists" as saying that "Fairbank wants to wrench the peoples of Asia away from the democratic, anti-imperialist camp...
...This is, of course, quite true," the professor went on. "I do want to wrench the peoples of Asia away from the Soviet camp...
...general analysis of the mistakes of America in world policy, he claimed that the United States had failed to realize the power of poverty and the revolutionary desire for liberty in many former British, French, and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia. He criticized the State Department for failing to take advantage of its "dramatic" opportunities...
Maryland's Herbert R. O'Conor asked: "What steps were taken by you to prevent Communists from having a voice in the Institute of Pacific Relations?" Lattimore answered: "I was not responsible for employment." Pressed further, the professor, long cited as an American authority on Soviet Asia, said he was really an innocent on ideologies: "I was not an expert on Communism . . ." Had any mistakes been made in U.S. China policy? Sidestepped Lattimore: "I make a distinction between mistakes and lack of success...
...effect, Churchill was deliberately forfeiting what credit he had won in the U.S. for a readiness to be bolder in Asia than the Socialists had been. The fact is, Churchill said, "there is no change in our policy. Nothing could be more foolish than for the armies of the U.S. or the U.N. to become engulfed in the vast areas of China," he continued, and "few adventures could be less successful or fruitful than for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to plunge on to the mainland." As a closing shot, he said: "The prospects of a truce being reached and respected...