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...look" of the situation gave Thomson some difficult moments earlier this month. "I decided not to sign the CRIMSON advertisement," Thomson said, referring to a two-page Faculty Statement in support of draft resisters, "because of the March 31 speech. It struck me that it was inappropriate at a time when the government is on a 'peace' track to offer encouragement for those who are attempting to resist that government. I found that a very difficult decision to make...
...THOMSON brings an interesting background to the study of American-East Asian relations. The son of American missionaries in China, he spent most of his formative years in China...
When the Civil War spread to Nanking, Thomson and an American friend covered four or five thousand miles traveling around China "by every conveyance known...
...That year," Thomson said, "got me refocused on East Asian matters. I came back with a desire to get rooted in U.S.-East Asian relations, and to begin to work on the China problem...
...Thomson's four years at Yale were mostly spent at the Yale Daily News, which he edited as a senior. "The chairman controlled editorial policy," Thomson said with a smile, "so although most of our members were conservative Republicans, we came out eloquently for Adlai Stevenson...