Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assistant professor of History here, Thomson spent seven years in Washington--as an assistant to Chester Bowles and later as an East Asian expert in the State Department and the White House--trying to wield what influence he could in the formulation of American policies in Asia...
THOMSON takes a very critical stand about United States policy towards Asia. He says we have "over-militarized all our Asian commitments," of which Vietnam is only the most costly and most obvious example...
...said, he got interested in "how good and how bad we are in forming gradualist alternatives to underdeveloped countries." An expanded version of his thesis topic will be coming out in book form next year. Thomson is presently working on a study on "how we made policy toward East Asia in 1930's juxtaposed with how we make policy...
...want to juxtapose whatever elements of continuity or discontinuity caused us to do good things and bad things toward Asia," Thomson said, "and see if I can't come up with some useful suggestions for the future...
Bich spoke at a reading of Vietnamese poetry sponsored by the Advocate and the Asia Society, a New York-based organization that works within the United States to teach the humanities and politics of Asia...