Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Rusk's face was grim, his voice grittily intense. Concluding a Boston University speech on U.S. Asia policy last week, head-libbed: "I would hope that our citizens would try to think about these questions in terms of-nottea-table conversations-but think of it in terms of what you would do if you were the President of the United States. And perhaps out of it would come a little sense of what I mean when I say that those who make these decisions need your prayers and not your imprecations...
...Crafty Trick." In any case, Administration spokesmen continued their patient efforts to clarify and explain U.S. policy. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who of late has acted as chief exponent of Administration aims in Asia, tried diligently to answer the dissenters on NBC-TV's Meet the Press. To criticism of U.S. bombing raids, he said: "We did not send our bombers against North Viet Nam until full regiments of the North Vietnamese forces were in the South, until it was recognized in every chancellery and every embassy around the world that the North Vietnamese had committed...
Strategy of Survival. Meanwhile, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as it continued hearings on Asia policies, a group of distinguished scholars firmly and-atypically of academics -unanimously supported the Administration's Viet Nam policy. Most agreed with Harvard Sinologist Morton H. Halperin-who at 27 is also an adviser on China to the Defense and State departments-that U.S. military power in Viet Nam has convinced Red China's leaders that they face a "long-drawn-out war." Indeed, said Halperin, Peking has now "urged on the Viet Cong the need to adopt a strategy of survival...
...French are gone from Southeast Asia, but there's a lingering trace of Talleyrand in Vu Van Thai, South Vietnam's ambassador to the U.S. Just as Talleyrand spent the Terror safely secluded in the United States, so did Thai work as a U.N. staff member in Togo, during the seven coups and dozen reshuffles since the fall of Diem. Thai's return suggests that he has mastered Talleyrand's chameleon-like ability to shift positions and survive...
...bibliography begins with ancient Greece and covers Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and America, through the modern period. The sections vary from 120 to 200 titles, giving the major works in French and German where equivalent coverage is unavailable in English. For upperclassmen in history this book is a must; history sophomores choosing a field of specialization with inadequate means of discerning between the alternatives it is also a valuable buy; but all students in the social sciences or humanities who need a concise reading list for background in any historical period will also find that this bibliography has much...