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...summer of 1951, Governor Thomas E. Dewey put aside his chores at Albany and flew off on a rugged (41,000 miles, 17 countries), educative tour of the Far Pacific. His book about the trip, Journey to the Far Pacific, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, is published this week...
...politician, it is a unique effort, a lively narrative that is also diligently informative and discerning. As a student of foreign policy, Dewey has enriched his understanding with some impressive firsthand knowledge of a fateful region; he has become one of the best-briefed Republicans on world affairs...
With regional and global background always in mind, Dewey outlines the particular situation of each country visited. He faithfully records his talks with and impressions of Emperors, Presidents, Prime Ministers, U.S. ambassadors, and military commanders. But he has, at the same time, a surprising eye for telling quirks of Oriental life, for street scenes and countryside panoramas, for the odd, chatty stuff that might find a place in an intelligent tourist's letters home...
...Dewey might have learned this (though not so forcefully) at home. But only in Tokyo could he have found out about the Japanese attitude toward electric meters...
...Dewey's comment: "The American engineers . . . had learned Lesson Number One in foreign affairs: that it is difficult and unwise to try to make the rest of the world over in our image...