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...Post-war developments have made this "position of strength" particularly valuable. The natural inclination of the departments to ignore the special problems of undergraduate education has been encouraged by the social demand for specialists as reflected in government research grants, foundation support, and even in the aspirations of the undergraduates themselves. More than eighty per cent of Harvard's students now go on to graduate study. As a result the Harvard community has become increasingly fragmented. The deans of the various graduate schools have assumed new importance and power, independent enclaves of specialized study have grown up within the university...
...years since President Lowell's administration Harvard had added little to its physical plant. Wartime and the immediate post-war years did not favor any major building at the University. Post-war inflation had taken a heavy toll. It cost three times as much to run Harvard in 1953, President Pusey's first year at the College, as it did when President Conant took office twenty years earlier...
...Shek's Kuomingtang blockade of the Communist controlled Shensi province and first met Mao Tse Tung and his band of revolutionaries, most people in the outside world doubted that these Chinese "soviets" even existed. Snow's prediction of a Kuomingtang-Comunist alliance was widely discounted; his warning of a post-war victory for the revolution was almost completely ignored. In fact, Russia as well as the West scoffed at this so-called Communist movement, which possessed a peasant rather than prolctarian base. Up through the 1949 debacle, the Soviet Union continued to support Chiang...
...many of us were not through being wrong. In the post-war era we underestimated the threat of World Communism. Many of us supported Henry Wallace, the intellectual, against the small-time politician, Harry Truman. But the politician, a self-educated ex-storekeeper, know better than we. He understood the threat of the Soviet Union, moved decisively to arm and strengthen Western Europe. Again, how fortunate for civilization that no one listened to us, as our ranks grow smaller...
...United States is condemned to something like a Gaullist Europe,...a continuation of the present organization of the Six with more consultation among the governments. America's choice is between this and disrupting the Six altogether." Hoffmann added that the latter course would contradict the basic aims of all post-war American foreign policy...