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...years at Cambridge, England followed and then Thomson came to Harvard to work for his doctorate under Professor Fairbank. Before completing his thesis, however, he went to Washington to work for Chester Bowles in 1958, for whom he had previously worked during Bowles' congressional campaign. Thomson's thesis--on U.S.-China relations in the 1930's--was finished "on nights and weekends" in Washington...
From that work, Thomson said, he got interested in "how good and how bad we are in forming gradualist alternatives to underdeveloped countries." An expanded version of his thesis topic will be coming out in book form next year. Thomson is presently working on a study on "how we made policy toward East Asia in 1930's juxtaposed with how we make policy...
...want to juxtapose whatever elements of continuity or discontinuity caused us to do good things and bad things toward Asia," Thomson said, "and see if I can't come up with some useful suggestions for the future...
...fascinated," Thomson explained, "by our idea of exporting benevolence. Before World War II, our relations were on a personal, small foundation scale. But after the war, these private groups still existed but have become very much submerged by the state. We have secularized our benevolence and put it under a strong central government with the flag totally engaged...
...Thomson thinks that the best road for the future might be a playing-down of our "overseas monolithic commitment." He said that we should do in foreign affairs "what we are trying to do in domestic affairs--creating a series of small Peace-Corps-type operations...