POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: If I Could Visualize . . .

Last month, after publicly acknowledging the disaster of U.S. policy in China, Secretary of State Dean Acheson asked Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup to sit down and think up a new U.S. policy for Asia. By last week, Jessup and his two associates (Colgate University President Everett Case and Rockefeller Foundation's ex-President Raymond Fosdick) had the beginnings of a plan cautiously in mind. Some of it was sound, some highly dangerous to the U.S. position in the world. The committee's thinking tended toward this pattern:

ΒΆ Nothing can be done to help the Nationalist...

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