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WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 19--Crane Brinton '19 gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a lesson in his specialty--revolution--here today, focusing on the revolution in Vietnam...
...Brinton, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, told the Senators that Americans are generally sympathetic toward revolution unless the revolution is a communist...
...whole story would have been different," Brinton replied...
...Brinton also said that a communist takeover in Vietnam would mean that the country would become an independent Red state, like Yugoslavia, free from international communist domination...
...Brinton is the first of five experts in revolution to testify before Fulbright's committee. Two others are also professors at Harvard. James C. Thomson Jr., assistant professor of History, will speak on Chinese revolutions. And Louis Hartz '40, professor of government, will speak on American attitudes toward revolution...