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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Student Council committee has produced another report demonstrating complete inability to deal with the central issues of its chosen problem. The Parietal Hours committee has written a study which may overwhelm students and impress council members, but which has no hope of convincing the Faculty...
This inability to focus on critical issues has been characteristic of Council reports of the past half year. Since the HSA report, which was crippled by a biased committee, the Council received a report on NSA and two on NDEA. The NSA study devoted itself to the problem of how a representative student organization could be achieved, without ever really discussing the central issue of whether such an organization is desirable...
...Taiwan" does not present devastatingly new policy or argument. What is unusual is that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should raise the issue of recognition without jeopardizing the political future of any "recognition" advocates. Senator Fulbright, who seemed to be praising with faint damns, called the private agency's report "thought-provoking," adding, "I do not believe that the United States should recognize Communist China at the present time...
While almost anyone would agree with Senator Fulbright that to recognize Red China now would be folly, one wonders why the Conlon report was undertaken now (or why "independent research" had to be undertaken at all), when the proposed exchanges and negotiation could have been put into motion more easily and more practically at an earlier time...
...wonders if the Conlon Associates report, regardless of its considerable merit, may not be used as a politician Rocinante on which foreign policy makers can charge the windmills of "public opinion." While Franklin Roosevelt advanced an unpopular foreign policy through major speeches (witness his "Quarantine the Aggressors" speech of 1937), future foreign policy-makers may hide behind the testimony of "experts," to give authority to innovation. It is encouraging to see that someone is interested in Red China recognition, but at the same time it is saddening to see that the arguments must be presented in such an oblique manner...