LATTIMORE ON CHINA
DALLIN, DAVID J.
East and West Lottimore on China By David J. Dallin UNTIL RECENTLY nobody was aware that the United States, and particularly former President Herbert Hoover, were >esponsible for the conflict...
...He also accompanied Henry Wallace on his wartime trip through Siberia and China...
...BUT THIS IS NOT what I set out to proclaim...
...But run your car a mere hundred miles from New Jersey or Pennsylvania to Virginia —and you pass from one world to another...
...The most significant tiling about this line, unfortunately, is that it coincides with the actual trend of U. S. policy in China...
...The civil war in China is pictured by Mr...
...Syngman Rhee...
...Its location at the junction of two worlds gives Washington much of its meaning and function...
...Failure to appreciati the value of that which we lack is itself • deficiency...
...I am writing this column in order to say to all of my friends in New York, New England, the Mid-West and the Far-West, that there is another side to this matter of regional dissidence to which we ought to pay attention...
...The distinguishing marks were quietness of manner, ease and readiness in communication, ways of acting that betokened confidence in old and well-tried patterns of living...
...Lattimore in the style of a Soviet novel...
...For a while under President Roosevelt Mr...
...such facts do not exist...
...or for other southern leaders...
...Correspondent* will complain that what Southerners have to learn from us is basic, what we have to learn from them is merely ornamental...
...In Russia, Mr...
...I was wrong about the facts, but right about the ideals...
...The people and institutions on one side of' it are, by and large, the same as those on the other...
...You can travel 3,000 miles from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, without encountering any significant shift in opinions or patterns of life...
...On such matters the folks down yonder have a lot to catch up on...
...Lattimore says, Communism was a workers' movement which spread from the cities to the peat, antry...
...But the Soviet authorities in North Korea, he writes, have met all popular demands and created a real national army based on peasants and industrial workers...
...It is touching to learn that, unlike the brutal methods of America or Japan, the Soviet Union has applied "persuasion" to China, all of which involves, Mr...
...It was gay and sunny...
...While America is at the root of all evil, Russia stands out as a model of wisdom and a symbol of popular desires and interests...
...I AM SURE MANY READERS will agree that folks from Dixie have much to assimilate from more enlightened politicians and visitors who frequent Washington...
...It may be that we have as much to learn from the South as the South has to learn from us...
...OWEN LATTIMORE IS NO COMMUNIST, and in his book he even jibes Moscow politely...
...There, if anywhere, they will achieve harmony...
...Lattimore says, "a moral question...
...Lattimore tend to support a position of aloofness toward China's troubles and acquiesence in the state of affairs created by the virtual Russo-Chmese Communist alliance...
...I doubt that anyone can prove it...
...He talked about the green and gracious city which serves as our capital...
...The Mississippi is a noble ^ stream, but it doesn't separate anything from anything...
...I looked and listened—and I fancied that I could go through the room and divide the sheep from the goats...
...With regard to President Truman's civil rights program, the North is on the winning side...
...But as to the location of the capital, my vote is in favor of leaving it precisely where it is...
...The representatives of North and West were less uniform...
...Lattimore does not explain why, in a free election, the Koreans chose Rhee President and elected a parliament supporting Rhee's policies...
...In Korea "American policy made the fundamental error of allowing American-Russian prestige quarrels to take precedence over the issue of a united Korea...
...This pose of "independence" makes it all the more important to analyze Mr...
...The notion came to me the other morning as I was eating breakfast in my hotel diningroom...
...government "revealed an acute war scare in Washington...
...Lattimore happily informs us...
...There, North and South meet and mingle...
...The Bolsheviki," he goes on, "assembled tractor brigades and Befit them as expeditionary forces to plow collectivized land on behalf of the poor peasants when the rich peasants attempted to resist collectivization by limiting cultivation...
...and Korean workers consider the new North Korean government as their own...
...Instead, we find the following in Professor Owen Lattimore's nrt-w hook The Situation in J^aia: Last Spring the report of the Hoover Commission on reorganization of th* U.S...
...Was the opening of the huge Japanese arsenals in Manchuria to the Chinese Communists an act of "persuasion" on the part of the Soviet authorities...
...Was the war in Sinkiang waged by Soviet-armed tribes also on that moral plane...
...He proposed that the nation's political heart be moved to somewhere near its physical center—say, along the Mississippi—where the great architectural innovator and his followers might shake off the combined influence of Rome, Palladio and the 18th Century and build on the wide plains the functional palaces of the future...
...Lattimore served in China as an "advisor" to Chiang Kai-shek...
...The South is far more leavened with liberalism than ever before, but the conservatism of the old Confederacy is replacing original sin as the whipping boy of the universe...
...So far as building design is concerned, I would be delighted to have the Frank-Lloydians given every opportunity to show what they can do...
...Tito, feeling that the sacrifices were disproportionate, broke away...
...Many of them might well have been sent to school a few hundred miles nearer the equator...
...But "it is not too late" to grant this additional vote to the Soviet Union, Mr...
...Lattimore and his latest work...
...When the Japanese were crushed, "all over Manchuria local people picked up the surrendered Japanese arms, stacked by the Russians...
...Actually the tremendous pressure of the Soviet occupation eliminated from Manchuria every vestige of Chinese indepanejence and* created a puppet regime in Harbiru thfc |§fature is still alive, radiating from Mai*#^iarf*»nters where Soviet agendas are ill ttjr...
...The Home Front With Magnolias By William E. Bohn AWEEK AGO THURSDAY both Frank Lloyd Wright and I were in Washington...
...The conclusions drawn by Mr...
...All of us had the impression that it was the accumulation of differences between Belgrade and Mosc(fHv from 1946 on and Moscow's insistence on political and economic privileges, that drove the Yugoslav Communists to disobedience...
...Their personalities lacked softness...
...The argumentative architect made a speech which showed that he had been doing some bad thinking about a good topic...
...When the Russians learned of the war scare in America they reacted "by tightening up their own controls": the Comlnform became a general staff, in which the Russians gave the orders and the subordinate countries were expected to carry them out...
...The struggle at last summer's Democratic convention, and the Fall campaign of the Dixiecrats, have put the attitudes and ideal of the old rebel countrv on the spot...
...My brothers helped fight the Civil War...
...Actually the Mongols had to go through all phases of Soviettype "kolkhozes," extensive purges and NKVD cruelties...
...and concepts similar to his are digested and accepted in high government circles...
...Their movements could have been less jerky and angular...
...TO ROUND OUT THIS REPORT, and to complete our picture of this American expert and scholar, let me explain his view of farm collectivization in Russia...
...Right now a large section of Northern opinion is farther from understanding the South, compromising with the South, appreciating the charms and virtues of the South, than ever before...
...There, delegates from every region have a priceless opportunity to learn from each other...
...They "found it easier," he writes, to deal with the Communists than with the Central government...
...I suppose there were an equal number from North and South among the guests...
...No facts are given by Mr...
...Lattimore to substantiate his theory...
...The Korean people themselves, Mr...
...I need not explain that with regard to civil rights and racial equality I am a Northern down to the bone...
...Mongolia was for years sandwiched between the Soviet Union and a non-Communist China," and at the time "the Mongols were more afraid of China than of Russia...
...There was a cheerful flutter of activity and of talk...
...He said he disliked the domed and pillard buildings which house our Government...
...THE US MADE A MISTAKE, we are told, in voting against Mongolia as a member of the UN...
...Tone of voice and manner i of speech symbolize things which lie deep i» character and culture...
...In my youth I naively took for granted that that war had been won, that Negroes had been liberated, that racial equality had been achieved...
...These were the stigmata of the Southerners...
...Today, at Johns Hopkins University, he teaches American youth international rela-r tions...
...Their voices needed toning down...
...East and West Lottimore on China By David J. Dallin UNTIL RECENTLY nobody was aware that the United States, and particularly former President Herbert Hoover, were >esponsible for the conflict between Tito's Yugoslavia and Stalin's Russia...
...I suppose I shall be told that I am wasting emphasis on superficialities...
...Lattimore tells us, have little sympathy for their President...
...Mongolia has been no more than a province of Russia, and that is why no foreign envoy has been admitted to the capital of "sovereign Mongolia...
Vol. 32 • June 1949 • No. 24
