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FIFTY YEARS IN CHINA (346 pp.)-John Leighton Stuart-Random House...
...when China was still the great country of the open door, Leighton Stuart had long personified the U.S. tradition of humanitarian service in China. From boyhood as a missionary's son under the Manchus down to wartime imprisonment by the Japanese, he had shared the tumultuous experiences of the nation's modern awakening. As founder and president of Peking's Yenching University, the greatest of China's Christian colleges, he had won the affection and trust of a generation of rising Chinese leaders...
Despite this humble assumption of fault, almost Chinese in its politeness, Leighton Stuart cannot refrain from criticizing his superiors. When the State Department published its white paper-which justified the Acheson line on China and blamed the Nationalists for everything-Ambassador Stuart recalls being "astonished and alarmed . . . shocked ... perplexed and filled with apprehension." The white paper, concludes Stuart, was "an accurate display of the materials on which the U.S. Government relied [for] its decisions . . . What had been omitted were materials . . . which had not been relied upon." The implication is strong that his own advice was not relied upon...
Back in University Hall is the office of Miss Eva F. Wooks, secretary to Dean Leighton, and a 39-year employee of the University. Among her other duties, Miss Weekn keeps all the records of the Administrative Board, and consequently is, in Leighton's words, "the current historian of Harvard College...
...Administrative Board does not make all its decisions on the basis of precedent, Leighton emphasizes. But when a disciplinary case comes up that has been handled before, he explains, the Board is interested to know what the previous ruling was, and it is at such times that Miss Weeks' complete Administrative file, in addition to her long experience, becomes especially, valuable to the University...