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When Wanted: An Asian Policy appeared in the bookstores early this spring, reviewers welcomed it as a new, timely brief look at American strategy in Asia. The author himself did not claim that the work was, strictly speaking, "scholarly." Within the following two months, however, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, conclusively proved his scholarship with a detailed historical account of the wanderings of a ninth century Japanese monk, complete with a translation of the monk's diary. A two-volume work filled with 1,600 footnotes and maps of mountains and rivers that no longer exist, Ennin...
...Reischauer in his rcent book, Wanted: An Asian Policy, urged recognition as an important step in working out a satisfactory settlement of the Red Chinese problem...
John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, last night strongly supported a plea by Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, for diplomatic recognition of Communist China. "I follow the Reischauer view pretty closely," he said...
Recognition would increase the chances of a split between the Chinese and the Russians, Reischauer maintained, by easing the U.S. out of its role as "public enemy number one," and leaving the position open to the Russians. He said that such a split was the only hope for influencing Red China, since military and economic pressures were negligible...
...Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, thought that the Presidential request did acknowledge a Two China policy in which this country rejects an offensive attack by Chinese Nationalist troops on the China mainland...