Long Road Home
Black, Charles L Jr.
Golden Rule Abroad Ideas, People and Peace, by Chester Bowles. Harper. 151 pp. $2.50 hard cover; $.95 paper back. Reviewed by Henry S. Reuss With a comprehensive firsthand knowledge, a humane...
...is a native Texan, has practiced law in New York, and now teaches at Yale Law School...
...Having posed the problem, Bowles presents in the last third of his book what he calls "a creative American response"—extending the American revolution of greater opportunity, democracy, and justice around the non-Communist world...
...If the Indian democratic way fails, China's way of totalitarian compulsion will have won...
...DAVID A. SHANNON teaches history at the University of Wisconsin...
...Stalin failed in Malaya, Burma, the Philippines and elsewhere because he relied on doctrinaire appeals to the city masses, and on military violence, rather than on the peasant...
...Military alliances and military hardware should be de-emphasized...
...HENRY S. REUSS, a Democratic Congressman from Wisconsin, traveled through the Far East last year and is one of the most articulate spokesmen in the House for a more creative approach in U.S...
...The challenge, as our 1951-53 Ambassador to India sees it, lies in Lenin's vision of victory for the Soviets through a revolutionary alliance with the underdeveloped peoples that would cut off the West from its raw materials...
...They lavishly promise, and frequently deliver, economic aid without political or military strings...
...Only in China and Indo-China, where Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh disregarded Moscow and based their revolutions on the peasant, has Communism gained power...
...PAUL WILEY is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin...
...Increasingly they recognize the peasant's primacy...
...he wrote a history of the Socialist Party in America...
...JUSTICE WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS of the U.S...
...foreign policy...
...Now, according to Bowles, Stalin's heirs have gotten rid of his dogma and are out to win...
...The peasants and the young intellectuals particularly may not sit still long enough for government-by-consent to work...
...Point Four people-to-people assistance should be upgraded...
...we should break out of the deadening circle in which backward-looking allies trap us by emphasizing aid for programs of land reform, civil service training, village development in health, food, and education...
...Chester Bowles has done well at the second assignment...
...All of this calls for a foreign policy conceived at home with the wisdom and magnanimity of a Thomas Jefferson, and carried out abroad with the simplicity and dignity of a Benjamin Franklin...
...Our foreign assistance legislation has as its stated goals the containment of Communism, the development of military strength, the furthering of free economic enterprise—all worthy goals, to be sure...
...They train bumper crops of applied scientists, complete with skill in the native languages...
...But shouldn't there be added the one goal that really interests the individual—his welfare and his increasing participation in democratic life...
...The keystone of such a foreign policy would be foreign aid, but of a new sort...
...Every sounding I have made of American public opinion makes me think Bowles is THE REVIEWERS HARRISON E. SALISBURY, a New York Times correspondent formerly stationed in Moscow, wrote "American in Russia...
...right: Americans are not ashamed of practicing the Golden Rule, and would respond to leadership that unashamedly practices it...
...A lot of us hope he will have a chance at the first...
...Meanwhile, the Revolution of Rising Expectations increases the strains on countries like India which try the democratic road to progress...
...we should concentrate help toward industrialization for countries such as India which have a sustained plan and a timetable...
...CHARLES L. BLACK, JR...
...Reviewed by Henry S. Reuss With a comprehensive firsthand knowledge, a humane outlook, and a style of writing that is a pleasure to read, Chester Bowles offers his views on what the United States can do to make the uncommitted peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America want to keep their freedom...
...Says Bowles, "We should seek to establish our identification with the welfare of peasants, workers, bazaar-keepers, and students...
...Supreme Court wrote "Russian Journey...
...We should make it clear that we are acting not out of fear of Communism but because we know that free and prosperous nations can be created and defended only by free people...
Vol. 22 • May 1958 • No. 5
