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...HANS J. MORGENTHAU Chicago...
...When Morgenthau argued that the U.S. attempt to contain Communism was "eminently successful in Europe against the Soviet Union," but "is bound to fail in Asia against China," Brzezinski said caustically: "I would like to suggest, respectfully, that Professor Morgenthau is wrong." Were the U.S. to pull out of Asia, Brzezinski added, "the Chinese will have been proven right, and this would be a highly destabilizing condition for world peace...
Later, when Morgenthau began to cite foreign magazine articles (from France's L'Express and Britain's Economist) and figures on South Vietnamese desertion rates, Bundy, his voice edged with sarcasm, cut him short. "I'll simply have to break in, if I may, Mr. Sevareid, and say that I think Professor Morgenthau is wrong on his facts as to the desertion rates, wrong in his summary of the Express articles, wrong in his view of what the Economist says, and, I'm sorry to say, giving vent to his congenital pessimism." As an example...
...Morgenthau smiled weakly. "I might have been dead wrong on Laos, but that doesn't prove that I'm dead wrong on Viet Nam," he said...
...Morgenthau, admitting that his position "must come as a surprise to some listeners here," did not call for an immediate U.S. pullout. Instead he suggested that the U.S. try to hold a few coastal enclaves to show the Viet Cong that they cannot win a complete military victory. "I think our aim must be to get out of Viet Nam," he said, "but to get out of it with honor...