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BEYOND VIETNAM; THE UNITED STATES AND ASIA by Edwin O. Reischauer. 242 pages. Knopf...
...Harvard Orientalist and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer writes in a perceptive analysis of the war, a settlement of any sort may be out of reach "until one side or the other recognizes that it faces eventual defeat." In a Look magazine excerpt from his forthcoming book, Beyond Viet Nam, Reischauer reasons that with negotiations apparently out of the question for the time being, the U.S. has three choices, "all of them unsatisfactory...
...major escalation of the war, which he dismisses as "absolute folly," since it "would give little promise of ending the war, while exposing us to absolutely unacceptable dangers." A second is withdrawal, which he finds "not much more attractive." For, argues Reischauer, "however our withdrawal might be papered over, it would be recognized everywhere as a defeat for us, and we would have to face the consequences"; the most important consequence "would be the psychological and political impact of our defeat." The nations of South and Southeast Asia, he writes, "would feel much less secure if the U.S. were forced...
...third and only tolerable solution, concludes Reischauer, "is to force the other side gradually to reduce the scale of fighting and eventually to accept some sort of reasonable settlement...
...time when President James Conant considered it so inert and expensive that he wanted to abolish it. Now it turns out massive works of scholarship, such as the Adams family papers, which may run to 100 volumes (13 have been completed), as well as topical titles like Edwin Reischauer's The United States and Japan. Its bestseller (100,000 copies since 1944) is the Harvard Dictionary of Music; yet it will keep in print any book that sells at least 125 copies a year, something no commercial firm can afford to do. "The object of the university press," says...