Word: croan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sino-Soviet split is not necessarily in the best interests of the United States Melvin Croan '53, assistant professor of Government and research fellow in the Russian Research Center, said last night...
...Croan, along with three other Harvard professors interviewed by the CRIMSON last night, stressed the difficulty of assessing the impact of the split on the international Communist movement...
Recent events intensifying the conflict between the Communist giants may lead to the adoption of more radical Communist policies all over the world, Croan said. If the Soviet Union had control of a monolithic Communist bloc, it might be able to keep policies of national Communist parties relatively moderate...
...Vietnam war has intensified the split and given the Chinese a freer hand in pursuing her own ideological aims. In 1964 and last summer, the Soviets announced that the Chinese could not depend on Soviet military support. These pronouncements, Croan believes, might be read in Washington as an invitation to the U.S. to risk war with China without fear of Soviet intervention...
Among the signatories were Abram Bergson, Director of the Russian Research Center; Melvin Croan '53, assistant professor of Government; Merle E. Fainsod, Carl H. Pforsheimer, University Professor; Richard E. Pipes, professor of History; and Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government...