Volume 19, Number 8 · November 16, 1972
A Shameful Tale
By John Gittings
Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another
by John Paton Davies Jr.
Norton, 448 pp., $10.00
On the contents page of the latest issue of Foreign Affairs[1] the new shape of American diplomacy is writ large and in italics. In this prestigious house organ of the international affairs establishment—and by coincidence it happens to be its fiftieth anniversary issue—the subject of China comes close to the top of the list, preceded only by the journal's editor and by Sir Isaiah Berlin. America-watchers in Peking will doubtless note with interest that the names of John K. Fairbank and Barbara Tuchman take precedence on this page over those of Indira Gandhi and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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