Word: reischauers
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...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...
...petition, in support of which Professor Reischauer addressed a letter to his colleagues on the Faculty, declares that "the earliest possible achievement of a negotiated settlement should be a primary objective of American policy in Vietnam." The wording here is deliberately ambiguous. Our own position is that there is little to negotiate except immediate American withdrawal and perhaps reparations to the Vietnamese people. We never expected Professor Reischauer to espouse this particular interpretation, but we did believe that he was sincere in his plea for some kind of negotiated settlement. Thus we find it difficult to understand how he could...
...Committee's petition also urges de-escalation of the war. On this matter Professor Reischauer's in-consistency is somewhat less blatant, for the scholars' statement does include a suggestion that U.S. policy ought to "show a capacity for innovation of a de-escalatory nature." But Reischauer and friends are quick to reassure us that "such steps need not--indeed, should not--be massive." In fact, the only specific recommendation in the statement is that "an increasing emphasis must be placed upon 'seize and hold,' rather than 'search and destroy' operations." One wonders whether Professor Reischauer really believes that such...
...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...