National Affairs: Fool Statements

With the deep tan and the glazed eye of a man just back from Shangrila, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas last week flew into San Francisco after a summer of hiking through the Himalayas and plumped for U.S. recognition of Communist China. Recognition would be a "real political victory" for the West, said Douglas. It would help split Communist China, and Communist Russia and would take advantage of the struggle between the Chinese drive for nationalism and Russia's drive to solidify the Far East—"the greatest source of friction between any two nations...

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