Outside Pressures on China, 1945-1950

Much of the novel developmental thinking being done about basic economic, political, and strategic processes in the United States is at present classified. One point has, however, shown up very plainly from the work of agencies such as the Rand Corporation and the Operations Research Office. That is, how many unknown factors there still remain within the field of international relations. Perhaps in no other area does the factor of the unknown show up more frequently against the context of American diplomacy than in the conduct of United States relations with China. Recent contentions between various American leaders and groups on the subject of China have left most of our thinking people partisan and irrational. It seems to this writer that the issues between Truman and MacArthur, between Owen Lattimore and Senator McCarthy, between Freda Utley and John K. Fairbank, between The Washington Post and Alfred Kohlberg (to name but four of the many levels at which the China debate has been carried on), are in most instances not relevant to matters of fact, but to problems of faith and interpretation

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