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Without American interven
tion In Cambodia, a University
Instructor would never have
helped write an outspoken anti
war handbook, "The Indochina
Story."
"It became apparent that no
single book covered the situa
tion," John Dower, a history
Instructor specializing in
modern Japan, said.
As a result, the Committee of
Concerned Asian Scholars
(CCAS) of which Dower Is a
member, began lecturing and
printing fact sheets. From this
work came the idea for the
book.
"People needed a source,
with facts, and it wasn't
there," he said. "Both pro- and
anti-war groups showed a
desire for a book explaining
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U.S. involvement in In
dochina." "Publishers for Peace," asked
for a "solid, scholarly anti-war
book," Dower said. Bantam
Books agreed to rush the book
into print before the Nov. 3
election. A first printing of
100,000 was released Oct 1,
after two months of writing.
Dower said the government
has not listened to criticisms in
"The Indochina Story" which
would require a re-evaluatlon
of social processes and past
government policies.
The United States would have
to stop propping up
governments in Asia simply
because they are anti-Communist,
Dower explained. It
also would require an ad
mission of grave errors that
have made U.S. foreign policy
invlable for the past 25 years,
he added.
More than 33 Asian scholars
helped to write "The Indochina
Story." Dower said the book Is
a comprehensive and carefully
documented handbook on
American Involvement In In
dochina. "I feel the war In Indochina
has deep roots, and Is not the
result of step-by-step
mistakes," Dower said. These
roots Include racism, a
stereotyped, shallow un
derstanding of 'Communism' In
Asia and a misunderstanding of
the Chinese revolution' he
added.
The failure to acknowledge
the consequences of the war, he
said, is "a blot on United States
history a very, very black
chapter. It has not been simply
a series of mistakes that's
what is so tragic."
Some Asian scholars at
tending a 1968 meeting of the
Association of Asian Studies in
Philadelphia formed the CCAS.
The group aims, Dower said, to
speak out against the Indochina
War, to re-examine American
Involvement In Asia and to
evaluate Asian studies.
Later this year, a hardcover
edition of "The Indochina
Story" will be published by
Pantheon Books, a division of
Random House.
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