Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pose had a certain drama about it. But the noisy dispute over a site where American and North Vietnamese negotiators could meet for preliminary talks recalled what the late John Foster Dulles said in 1954 about negotiating with Asian Communists: "Progress is always slow and seldom spectacular...
...inactivity, the organizers called a meeting for the next morning to discuss what they considered to be the most important result of the Caucus--the formation of a committee to keep this new voice alive. Representatives from about 25 institutions met to form a Cambridge-based Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, chaired by Professor John R. Watt, who teaches Chinese history at MIT. The Committee will publish a news-letter, draw up a statement commenting on the Tuxedo Park Statement (a "moderate" position paper by 14 prominent scholars), disseminate information to Congress, and generally "start publicizing the growing concern over...
...preferential votes on the four resolutions, the Caucus again voiced strong opposition to the war. The most popular one called on Asian scholars to: "disassociate ourselves from a policy which amounts to little more than the annihilation of the Vietnamese people"; to demand that the U.S. "unilaterally withdraw its military forces from Vietnam under the umbrella of negotiations"; and to "support those who refuse induction into the United States armed forces...
Others besides Sachs spoke heatedly on both sides of the discussion. Dartmouth professor Jonathan Mirsky, endorsing the resolution calling for immediate withdrawal said: "We must screw up our courage as Asian scholars to face ourselves. In the '50's older colleagues suffered. Now it's youth. We cannot fail them. They are showing us the way back...
...MEETING of the new Committee, Professor Watt said of the Philadelphia Caucus: 'This is the first time that Asian scholars have gotten together to express their political views in a meeting instead of in private. We should have had such a meeting four years ago. We've had one now." The other activists agree with him. One of them said: "In the past it's been the Milton Sachses and those who signed the Tuxedo Statement who have spoken for Asian scholars. We're changing all that. We're showing that we can get 'wrought...