Volume 20, Number 1 · February 8, 1973
Walt's Faults
By Anthony Lewis
The Diffusion of Power: An Essay in Recent History
by W.W. Rostow
Macmillan, 739 pp., $12.50
Toward the end of this very long book Professor Rostow repeats from an earlier work, The United States in the World Arena (1960), what he calls 'the critical questions for the future.' One of these questions is: 'Will the United States mobilize the strength, will and imagination to bring about the emergence of the new nations in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America as congenial open societies…?' Looking at the world picture in 1972, he concludes that he cannot give 'a flat affirmative' but that 'progress has been made.' It would be interesting to have Rostow's list of the 'congenial open societies' that the United States has caused to emerge lately in, say, Asia. Park's South Korea? Marcos's Philippines? Thieu's South Vietnam? Or one, any one, anywhere?
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