Miscellany

“Welcome to Freedom Village”

Helen Mears

MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about the failure of the West to gain the “minds and hearts” of Asia. The major reason for this failure, however, is ignored: the extreme divergence of U. S. practice from U. S. ideology.

Consider the Korean prisoner-of-war episode. For two and a half years of war, negotiations for a truce were delayed ostensibly because the Western powers insisted on...