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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian proposal is still a question. At first the U.S. and British delegations passed the entire thing off as "pure propaganda," pointing to the first Russian proposal. Some groups from small nations, even outside of the Communist sphere, however, thought that such a resolution could do not harm, and might even lessen the international tension. After the Russian recognition of China's Communist government, the U. S. State Department concentrated its attacks on the impossibility of a Big Five pact under the new conditions...
What would be the practical results of recognition? While it might conceivably strengthen would do so even more, not only driving the Chinese closer to Russia, but also giving the Soviets good Propaganda material to use on the natives of southeast Asia. The Russians would be eager to claim that non-recognition is proof that the United States only recognizes governments of whose polities it approves...
...being an Oriental country, we luckily have no qualms about "losing face" over a political situation. Any face that we might have saved was lost with the State Department's unprecedented white paper on China. Our Chinese policy has been a ghastly flasco, partly through our mistaken and partly beyond our control. The Communists have us just where they want us, and recognition is the best...
...benches are the same as the ones on the benches in the original memorial. They read, "One of they founders him New England know, who staid they feeble sides when thou wast low" and "who spent his state, his strength, and years with care, what after comers in them might have share...
There seem to be quite a few points where the Fish letter is wrong. First of all, Fish seems annoyed by the "dismal failure of the 1949 season." It might be germane to point out that the "great" Harvard teams that he played on began their seasons with the following four opponents: 1907: Bowdoin, Maine, Bates, Williams; 1908: Bowdoin, Maine, Bates, Williams; 1909: Bates, Bowdoin, Williams, Maine. The fact that Fish's teams were playing patsies for a month day possibly have had something to do with the fine finishes they staged, or with the reputation of Percy Haughton...