Often blamed by right wingers for giving Stalin a green light to launch the Korean War by excluding South Korea and Taiwan from America's defense perimeter...
It's fun to read contemporary accounts like this. A lot of them are surprisingly astute. Things that were clear and obvious sometimes become obfuscated by later politics and only become clear and obvious decades later. The account of the KMT collapse was history rhyming as Mark Twain put it. It also gives one a real taste for the age. I remember, in the late 1970s, talking to some Sri Lankan students at Harvard and, though only in my 20s, felt jaded and cynical in the face of their hope and optimism, but what are we without hope?
It's fun to read contemporary accounts like this. A lot of them are surprisingly astute. Things that were clear and obvious sometimes become obfuscated by later politics and only become clear and obvious decades later. The account of the KMT collapse was history rhyming as Mark Twain put it. It also gives one a real taste for the age. I remember, in the late 1970s, talking to some Sri Lankan students at Harvard and, though only in my 20s, felt jaded and cynical in the face of their hope and optimism, but what are we without hope?