Blue Chip Foreign Policy Opinion

Last week, when the Liberal Administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson took the audacious but necessary step of extending the war to the oil supply depots of Haiphong and Hanoi, an old and venerable firm of professional capitalists which publishes The Value Line Investment Survey issued their Vol. XXI No. 35, the usual discussion of stocks and bonds, but prefaced on this occasion by an extensive analysis of the Vietnamese war by—Professor Owen Lattimore.

If you are fourteen years old or less, you have probably never heard the name before. If you are 21, you may dimly remember that the Professor was controversial during your early grade school years. If you are middle-aged and, say, Chinese, you are not likely to forget the name of Owen Lattimore who, by common agreement, was the pivotal figure in the making of Far Eastern U.S. policy in the postwar years, and therefore of your current condition of servitude.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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Last week, when the Liberal Administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson took the audacious but necessary step of extending the war to the oil supply depots of Haiphong and Hanoi, an old and venerable firm of professional capitalists which publishes The Value Line Investment Survey issued their Vol. XXI No. 35, the usual discussion of stocks and bonds, but prefaced on this occasion by an extensive analysis of the Vietnamese war by—Professor Owen Lattimore.

If you are fourteen years old or less, you have probably never heard the name before. If you are 21, you may dimly remember that the Professor was controversial during your early grade school years. If you are middle-aged and, say, Chinese, you are not likely to forget the name of Owen Lattimore who, by common agreement, was the pivotal figure in the making of Far Eastern U.S. policy in the postwar years, and therefore of your current condition of servitude.