Word: hoffmann
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...United States could pull out of Vietnam without precipitating a general collapse in Southeast Asia, Stanley H. Hoffmann, Professor of Government, said last night...
Speaking to the Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council, Hoffmann delighted a full house in Harvard Hall from the moment he announced his subject. "Is there an American foreign policy?" he asked, and promptly answered with a firm...
Vietnam was in Hoffmann's spotlight as the most "catastrophic" example of the absence of foreign policy...
Among other things, Hoffmann attacked the applications of the "dominotheory" to Southeast Asia . Communism is advancing in Southeast Asia by internal subversion, he said, and its success will depend entirely on the internal social, economic, and political situation--not on external events...
...United States remains in Vietnam, Hoffmann said, its central problem will be to persuade the political elites in South Vietnam to work harder for peace. The only alternatives to peace, he said, are continuing escalation or quagmire...