Word: coffining
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...After talking it over with quite a few people, I finally decided that the whole China question would be the place to start." Coffin whipped up a draft of his ideas and sent it around to an impressive list of selected political thinkers in and out of the government...
...Coffin's reaction was to plan out a brand new, yet un-publicized movement tabbed "Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy...
...purposes of this organization," explains Coffin, "is not so much to push for a specific new policy as to clarify the fundamental differences of present policy. It is a program with a large educational content and a minimum of direct action. What we are seeking to do is reach the widest segment of the public as possible...
...Although Coffin hopes to form a broadly based movement of moderates (he is busily enlisting a long mast-head of distinguished sponsors), he feels that the organization must start from the campus...
...Coffin realizes that the program is an ambitious one, and that it could well fall flat on its face, but feels that "someone has to start the ball rolling if there's going to be any hope for the kind of coexistence with China we now have with the Soviet Union. Who knows, we might not have another chance...