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...Herrymon Maurer is a concerned man, and for Quakers the word concern has a special meaning. Quakers commonly share their concerns with the Meeting to the end that something be done. Herrymon Maurer, 39, a onetime teacher in West China and onetime FORTUNE editor, is a Quaker from Sewickley, Pa., and he voices a passionate concern in his sixth book, What Can I Know? (Harper...
COLLISION OF EAST AND WEST (352 pp.) -Herrymon Maurer-Regnery...
...other Americans looking back on a decade of U.S. frustrations and failures in Asia, the author of this book has been asking himself what went wrong. His answer: not just the blunders of a little clique in the State Department, though they proved to be tragic enough. Herrymon Maurer, for five years (1942-47) a FORTUNE editor and Asia specialist for that magazine, puts the big blame on the well-meaning, wrongheaded arrogance of the West in general. His Collision of East and West is a pithy, provocative account of how to lose friends and alienate whole peoples...
...Japan, there were variations of misunderstanding. The Japanese were "polite, industrious little people" until Pearl Harbor, brutal savages until V-J day, have been enthusiasts for democracy since. Warns Maurer: beneath surface "democratization" lurk the fixed feudal habits of centuries. A good Quaker by faith, and no Cassandra, Herrymon Maurer believes the West can retrieve its errors if it recognizes that "other persons . . . must be treated as ends in themselves, not as means to some other...
...moral conflict would have been clear: a conflict between a saint and worldly men. The conflict between Nehru and the West is not a conflict between saintliness and worldliness, but between two forms of worldliness-Nehru's neutralism masquerading as otherworldliness. As one writer on India, Herrymon Maurer, has put it: "[Nehru's] middle ground is the dangerous ground: it provides neither enough faith nor enough force...
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