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...most Americans, Peking's motives are about as scrutable as they were in Marco Polo's day-and about as predictable. Last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose chairman, J. William Fulbright, acknowledged that he needs educating on Red China, called in two distinguished academic Sinologists for help in reading the dragon's mind...
...educational, all right. The experts, in 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...
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...
Reluctance to Deprive. Fulbright did vote for the $4.8 billion money bill, which passed the Senate by 93 votes to 2 (Morse and Gruening). "None of us," Fulbright explained, "wants to deprive the armies in the field of anything they need." But he said that his dispute with the Administration was not over. "We are holding it in abeyance for a better day," he said, "when the matter of our involvement in Viet Nam as a matter of national policy can be discussed as freely as possible and without being entwined into our flag, which flies over the Capitol. Nobody...
Last week a New York Times editorial praised the "first serious public debate by responsible men on the Viet Nam issue-as initiated in the Fulbright hearings and carried forward by Senator Kennedy." Sulzberger wrote: "The Great Debate on Viet Nam policy has been featured by misinformation, passion, political opportunism, vanity, and hints of a smarmy dislike for President Johnson. What has emerged so far is a deep-seated doubt about ourselves and deep-seated ignorance of the world we inhabit. Elegant platitudes founded on myth are offered to the President as substitutes for policy...