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...remarkable agreement, were of scant comfort to the committee's clamorous antiwar faction. On Viet Nam, their testimony in all but accent virtually echoed Lyndon Johnson. The conflict is not a civil war, as Fulbright and many other liberals like to think, said Harvard Historian John K. Fairbank, but rather the current arena for what may be a longterm, historical struggle between the U.S. and China. He reasoned that the Communists must be stopped in their attempt to take over South Viet Nam, which he regards as their testing ground for other potential "wars of liberation" in under-developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Reading the Dragon's Mind | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Optimism & Caution. Neither Fairbank nor Columbia Political Scientist A. Doak Barnett would accept the Fulbright line that the war in Viet Nam would lead to full-scale hostilities with China, with the proviso-which the Administration has repeatedly endorsed-that the U.S. does not intend to destroy what the Chinese consider a buffer regime in North Viet Nam. Both, however, cautioned against bombing Hanoi or Haiphong. Indeed, Administration experts whose policies embody the same reservations advanced by Fairbank and Barnett, expressed mystification last week at Fulbright's recent assertion that "certain China experts in our Government think the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Reading the Dragon's Mind | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...Peking-like any psychotic patient-would resist therapy with every obnoxious means at its disposal. Nonetheless, said Barnett, "initiatives on our part are clearly required if we are to work, however slowly, toward the long-term goal of a more stable, less explosive situation in Asia." The Communists, added Fairbank succinctly, should be brought into the U.N. "even if they said they were going to dynamite the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Reading the Dragon's Mind | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...Thefollowing are excerpts from Professor Fairbank's March 10 statement to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations...

Author: By John K. Fairbank, | Title: Fairbank's Senate Testimony on China: U.S. Should Be Firm in Vietnam While Widening Peking Contact | 3/16/1966 | See Source »

Documentary History of Chinese Communism, Conrad Brandt, Benjamin Schwartz and John Fairbank, editors. Atheneum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Titles in Paperback | 2/9/1966 | See Source »

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