David Nelson Rowe

American Policy Toward China

BEFORE attempting to discuss our policy toward China, it is necessary to give some initial attention to that country itself, for the situation of modern China is in one sense both the cause and the end product of the policies of foreign countries toward her. This situation may be generally described as one of political and military weakness, a weakness that began to make itself apparent a century ago, and has developed to the present stage with numerous fluctuations in trend.

OWI'S FAR EASTERN OUTPOSTS: SOME PROPOSALS

THE GLOBAL nature of this war has necessitated the carrying of Americas message to the far corners of the earth. This has raised administrative as well as technical problems of great complexity. Dr. Rowe has been in a position to appraise at first hand the workings of our informational outpost agencies in China and offers a number of proposals for the consideration of OWI executives. At present the author is lecturer on Far Eastern Affairs at Princeton University. He is also consultant to the Experimental Division for the Study of War Time Communications, Library of Congress. From November I94I to May I942 he was in Chungking as special assistant to the director, Section of Research and Analysis, Office of the Coordinator of Information.

LINEBARGER, PAUL M. A. The China of Chiang K'ai-shek: A Political Study. Pp. xi, 449. Boston: World Peace Founda tion, 1941. Paperbound:

nese politics can be correctly predicted from his personal relationships. His father was adviser to Sun Yat-sen, and Dr. Linebarger himself as a child knew the man whom he now compares not to &dquo;Alexander, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, or Hitler, but to Confucius, Gautama Buddha or Mohammed.&dquo; As can be expected, he is strongly orthodox, supporting generally the virtues, the rights, and the policies of the Kuomintang and the Nationalist Government which it dominates. His enthusiasm for them leads him to believe that America might well long since have looked to China as &dquo;the decisive, fresh political experiment of