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...Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and former American Ambassador to Japan, voiced the majority opinion when he said. "We pay a price for our present China policy. People think we're silly all around the world...
...statement was signed by Jerome A. Cohen, professor of Law, John K. Fairbank, Director of the East Asian Research Center, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government, and James C. Thomson Jr., assistant professor of History. It appears in the New York Times today...
...Reischauer, contacted at his home yesterday, said that the point of the current debate in Washington was "whether to go ahead with escalation or put a ceiling on our involvment in Vietnam." "The statement," he added, "was intended to discourage such plans...
...implication--that those who are deeply dissatisfied with American policies in Asia are only a minority--is clearly untrue, at least in this part of the academic community; to prove it untrue was precisely the purpose of the Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam. We find it ironic that Professor Reischauer should be endorsing such statements in one place while attempting to disprove them in another. Besides, even if the contention were true, repeating it would not contribute much to the public dialogue: as even the eminently moderate New York Times (Dec. 27, 1967) felt constrained to point out in response...
...petition Reischauer argues that the Administration's conduct of the war has not been sufficiently directed toward the earliest possible attainment of a peaceful settlement. In the Tuxedo Park statement, he and his colleagues declare that the American record in Asia is "a remarkably good one, worthy of support"--one "of which we can be proud." If Reischauer is indeed proud of a policy that by his own admission has not done everything possible to end a war that is costing hundreds of lives every week, then his values are very different from our own and from those that would...