Joseph Alsop

A letter from an alumnus

“For three long and bitter years,” writes JOSEPH ALSOP, the Washington commentator, “in the White House, in Harry Hopkins‘s office, in Chungking on the staff of China‘s Foreign Minister, Dr. T. V. Soong, and in Kunming on the staff of General Chennault, I fought the Stilwell policy because I thought it would cost us China. I still think I was right. But I never felt the shadow of a reasonable doubt about the American loyally of the men on the other side. ” Mr. Alsop now proceeds to examine the charges Louis Budenz has made.

Faced with the running of this country after sixteen years, will our American conservatives call up fresh resourcefulness or drift into fateful reaction?