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OBJECTIVITY AND LIBERAL SCHOLARSHIP
inflation." Commenting on this, Robert Smith notes that "the latter standard included
increased tax revenues, reduction of budget deficit, elimination of 'distorting subsidies
to public activities,' and the adoption of 'state incentives to private sector
investment and growth.'" (New Politics, Vol. 6 [Spring 1967], pp. 49-57. For some
remarks on the other side of our assistance program, military aid, see the articles of
James Perras in this and the preceding issue.)
17 "To Intervene or Not to Intervene," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 45 (April 1967). pp.
425-36.
18 New York Times, December 20, 1967. The Times refers to what is printed as
"excerpts," but it is not materially different from the full document. I understand that
it has since been signed by many other scholars.
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19 See the reviews by Coral Bell and B. R. O'G. Anderson in the China Quarterly, No.
28 (October-December 1966), pp. 140-143. It should be noted that opposition to
social change, and supporr for the counterrevolutionary violence that is used to suppress
it, are the longstanding features of American cultural history. Thus according to
American historian Louis Hartz, "there is no doubt that the appearance of even a
mild socialism in 1848, of ledru Rollin and the national workshops, was enough to
produce general American dismay. There was no outcry in America against the suppression
of the June revolt of the workers in Paris, as there was none over the suppression
of the Communards in 1871. Here was violence, and plenty of it, but it was
being used for order and law, as one editorial writer PUt it [in the New York journal
o/ Commerce] ," (The Na ntre o/ Revolution, Testimony before rhe SenJ.te Committee
on Foreign Relations, February 26, 1968 [Washington, Government Printing Office,
1968]).
20 "The Public and the Polity," Ithiel de Sola Pool, ed., Contemporary Political Science:
Toward Empirical Theory (New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967), p. 26.
21 Clairmonte, op. cit. , p. 325.
22 Recent confirmatory evidence is given by George M. Kahin, in a memorandum of
April 13, 1967, in the Congressional Record. He cites the marine Corps estimate that
in this province, the principal area of marine strength, 18 out of 549 hamlets had
been "secured."
23 Albert Shaw, editor of the American Review of Reviews, commenting, in 1893, on
American's failure to acquire colonies. Cited in Ernest R. May, Imperial Democracy
(New York, Harcourt, Btace & World, Inc., 1961), p. 23.
24 Quoted by Roben Guillain in Le Monde, May 25, 1966; reprinted, in English [rans­
!ation, as Vietnam, the Dirty war (London, Housmans, 1966).
25 According to Jonathan Randal (New York Times, June II, 1967), "only one officer
above the rank of lieutenant colonel did not serve in the French army agains[ the
Vietminh in the French Indochina war."
26 Douglas Pike, Viet Cong, (Cambridge, mass., The M.I.T. Press, 1966), pp. 361-62.