Word: reischauers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signature on this document was hardly surprising, as his position on the war is well known; we were surprised only to find that he has now been elevated to the rank of "Asian scholar"--at least in the eyes of the New York Times. The case of Professor Reischauer, however, troubles us more deeply. It is true that the statement warns that not all its signers accept all its provisions. Still, Professor Reischauer has lent his considerable prestige to a position that seems to us radically inconsistent with the views that he was endorsing only a few weeks...
...dissenters' caricatured criticisms were debasing discussion of the war, and that noisy campus demonstrations were convincing the nation and world of unanimous dissent by U.S. intellectuals. Scalapino conveyed his feelings to 13 colleagues, including Columbia's A. Doak Barnett, Harvard's Oscar Handlin and Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Under the sponsorship of the Freedom House Public Affairs Institute, a non-partisan educational organization, they got together for three days in October at Tuxedo, N.Y., and began debating and putting down their thoughts...
...committee's statement is being mailed to 3,600 of the nation's academicians for endorsement. "The ac ademic community and the students in particular have gone pretty far out on one side of this," said Reischauer. "But we've got to have a sensible Asian policy. We're saying that America does have a role in Asia, and let's not blow our tops and do something foolish...
...they have started using news cars equipped with darkrooms and radio transmission units that can flash pictures from the scene of a story to the home office. With its sense of group responsibility, the Japanese press displays a humility lacking in other nations' newsmen. When U.S. Ambassador Edwin Reischauer scolded the press for biased coverage of Viet Nam, they did not take umbrage at this interference...
...YORK, Dec. 19-Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor, of American History, are among 14 Asia scholars who have signed a moderate Vietnam statement under the auspices of the Freedom House Public Affairs Institute...