No Wonder We Are Losing by Robert Morris

Author:Robert Morris [Morris, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Communism; Post-Communism & Socialism, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Fascism & Totalitarianism, Political Ideologies, Political Science, World, History, Russian & Former Soviet Union
ISBN: 9781787208643
Google: jS5BDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B077WHBJWP
Goodreads: 43308860
Publisher: Muriwai Books
Published: 2017-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

“(Private and confidential)

“Miss Anne Ford

Publicity Director, Little, Brown & Co.

Boston, Mass.

Dear Miss Ford:

“This is to acknowledge Epstein’s ‘The Unfinished Revolution in China’ which you so kindly sent me a few days ago. I have already read two-thirds of it and hope to complete it within a few days.

“I think it’s of the utmost importance that you devise some means of getting it read at an early date among others by Secretary of State George Marshall, Senators Vandenberg, Morse and Ives, John Foster Dulles and John Carter Vincent of the State Department. You will know better than I how to make certain they read it in the near future. A letter from me on the subject might lead a few of them to think that I was recommending it because I was an admirer of Epstein’s and for that reason they might slightly discount my recommendations.

“I have another suggestion to make. The book is so full of profound understanding and admiration of the Chinese people that I think it equally important to find new ways and means of getting a wide circulation in China. Have you thought of a Chinese edition? In the past there has been a tendency for Shanghai publishers to get out pirated editions in English. This would be all to the good if the printing was done accurately and the full text was reprinted. Sometimes, for mercenary reasons, they make substantial cuts.

“Would it be out of the question for you to consider at an early date printing a cheap paper-cover edition for maximum circulation in India, the Philippines, and China with the expectation that some orders would come in from Indochina, Siam, Burma, and the Netherlands East Indies?

“The book combines in one volume several books. It is a penetrating history of China during the war years. It is a sociological document of importance, and it is a military handbook that might have been of enormous value to the Maquis in France and even to the little handful of anti-Hitler Germans in Germany. It might become a military and political handbook for Viet Nam and in other Asiatic areas if the imperialist powers try to reassert their pre-Pearl Harbor domination.

“The book is not so much needed in the Communist areas in China as it is in the Kuomintang areas where its authoritative accounts would give new hope, as well as new methods, to the millions of Chinese who are dissatisfied with the right-wing Kuomintang domination. You have only to read the newspapers to discover what a large potential market for Epstein’s book there is amongst non-Communist professors and students in the Chinese universities. The history of the last few decades proves conclusively that the Chinese student movements are far more influential in China than in many other countries in starting new and creative political and social movements.

“More than at any other time in recent years, there is a large British public both in the United Kingdom, Canada, and also in Australia and New Zealand which would find the

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