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China will be Thursday morning's topic. Professors John K. Fairbank and Rupert Emerson will join with Edwin O Reischauer, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, in a symposium on the Chinese situation. Harold J. Berman and Alex Inkeles of the Russian Research Center will talk about the U.S.S.R. at the afternoon session...
...Fairbank is the author of the recent book. "The U. S. and China," a volume in the Foreign Policy series
Once the United States is aware of its errors in China it can apply an opposite policy to southeast Asia to keep that area from Communist domination, he explained. One of this country's chief mistakes, Fairbank said, has been emphasis on granting military assistance to governments we favor or making use of our own military prowess. What the United States must concentrate on in Asia is agricultural assistance and selling the intellectual elements of our culture...
...Fairbank does not see a swift end of the Chinese civil war if the Communists continue their present use of the "cell system." This method, necessarily time consuming, involves infiltration of certain sections by Chinese Communists who work to prepare the population of these areas to receive Communist troops, rather than to help Nationalist troops fight them. "By this means of warfare," Fairbank noted, "it will take another year for the Communists to get to Canton...
...Fairbank agreed with the analogy and pointed out that China is one generation ahead of the general nationalist movement in Asia and is already engaged in problems of economic reform. Though China is out of our hands we can still aid in working economic reform on democratic lines in southeast Asia, he pointed...