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Second, Taiwan's U. N. seat will be precarious as long as Communist China's seat remains under debate. "If we are interested in having 13 million Taiwanese represented," James C. Thomson, assistant professor of History and one of the letter's signers, said, "the U. S. government should, instead of refusing to compromise and risking the ouster of Taiwan, enter into negotiations to prevent such a turn of events...
...list of signers includes virtually all the specialists in East Asian studies at the level of assistant professor and above, and some in related fields. Besides Reischauer and Thomson, the signatories were: John K. Fairbank '29, Ezra F. Vogel, Dwight H. Perkins, Albert M. Craig, Ernest R. May, Ben-jamin I. Schwartz '38, Jerome A. Cohen, Henry Rosovsky and Roy Hofheinz...
Nonetheless, there is also what Harvard Historian James Thomson Jr. calls "the effectiveness trap." Many officials decide to stay in office to combat presidential policies−only to wake up one day and discover that they have had no tangible effect whatsoever. In the Johnson Administration, for example, Under Secretary of State George Ball came to be accepted as the house dove, the devil's advocate who could be counted upon to present all the opposing arguments to the prevailing course on the war. While Ball presented his case forcefully, his counsel was more often than not discounted even...
...version also includes a sentence-stemming from an amendment by Arthur A. Maass, Thomson Professor of Government-designed to further separate the issues of Faculty and student culpability...
...version also adds a sentence to the old resolution-stemming from an amendment proposed by Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government-de signed to further separate the issues of Faculty and student culpability...