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Closed Doors. When it came time for Old Capitol Hill Hand William Rogers to testify, there was hardly a Senator in the Foreign Relations Committee who did not know him. As a courtesy to the incoming Secretary of State, Chairman William Fulbright held the meeting behind closed doors. Rogers discussed efforts with Moscow to settle the Middle East crisis and the incoming Administration's initiative in unsnarling the Paris talks (see THE WORLD...
John Paton Davies Jr. was born in China, the son of U.S. missionary parents. He joined the Foreign Service in 1931, served largely in the Orient and advised General Joseph ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell in Chungking during World War II. There, he criticized Chiang Kai-shek for battling Mao Tse-tung's Communists more ardently than their common enemy, the invading Japanese armies. That stand cost Davies his job. In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy named him as part of a group that "did so much toward delivering our Chinese friends into Communist hands...
...Bitterness. Since 1956, Davies has partly supported himself, his wife and seven children on $4,000 a year in retirement pay. In 1964, he published Foreign and Other Affairs, a collection of short essays. In it, he described himself somewhat ruefully as "an unfrocked diplomat...
...Davies sees it, both he and Dulles were victims of the times. "Getting rid of me was his modus operandi with Congress," he says. "It made it easier for him to work with them. The Congress is not so naive now. It has learned to live with dissension on foreign affairs." He adds: "The State Department is catching up with the times in personnel matters as well as policy." For Davies, clearance 14 years late is better than never...
Almost three and a half centuries later, many Americans view the U.S. as something far less than a shining "Citty upon a Hill." To baffled foreign eyes, the nation that once roused hopes around the world now appears inexplicably torn by tension and dissension, its vast treasure squandered with a profligate's hand, its fabulous beauty pockmarked by hideous urban scars. Has the American Dream become the American damnation, a formula for selfishness rather than equality and excellence? British Historian Sir Denis Brogan flatly states: "This is not going to be the American century. Very few people are enamored...