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324 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. viii (1959)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0324 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD

The papers in this volume, with the exception of the article by Dr. Denna F.
Fleming, are the addresses presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy,
April 10-11, 1959, at the Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia.
The attendance at this series of sessions was the largest, and the interest dis-
played the greatest, of any within the experience of your president. There were
delegates from 18 embassies; 11 United Nations missions; 132 universities and
colleges; 143 civic, cultural, and scientific organizations; and a number of cities
and states. The list of registrants included 359 delegates, 410 members of the
Academy without specific additional affiliation, and 124 guests. Registered dele-
gates have increased in number from 235 in 1955 to the 359 cited for 1959.
In keeping with Academy practice, many of the delegates and members spoke
extemporaneously from the floor. Some of the questions and answers in these
exchanges are appended to the pertinent article in this volume. One of these state-
ments was made by Minister Hsu of the Embassy of the Republic of China (the
government headed by President Chiang Kai-shek). In making arrangements for
the presentation of his statement, I explained to him that I believed that a large
majority of the members and delegates at the meeting approved of the policy to-
ward China followed by the United States State Department and that our audience
would be interested in a sober, scholarly expression of the opposed position. Con-
sequently, we accorded Mr. Snow, the author of the article on Recognition of the
People's Republic of China, the time usually allotted to our platform speakers,
whereas Mr. Hsu's statement was much briefer.
United States Undersecretary of State C. Douglas Dillon accepted an invitation
to appear on our platform, but was called away to a SEATO conference. He was
to have read a paper on Implications of Russia's Economic Expansion.
After examining the table of contents, the reader will immediately wonder why,
in a volume entitled Resolving the Russian-American Deadlock, there is no article
from the pen of a prominent diplomatic spokesman for the Soviet Union. A note
from the final printed program explains this lack:
The Soviet Embassy had agreed that Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov (or,
in his absence from the Embassy, Counselor Mikhail N. Smirnovsky) would
make an official Soviet statement within the general theme of these meetings.
A communication from the Embassy, received April 4th, state that the emergent
nature of their duties would prevent either Soviet spokesman from appearing on
our program.
Arrangements perhaps could have been made for another speaker for the sixth
session, but since none would be available to represent the Soviet Union, and
since the theme of the evening meetings called for the parallel presentation of
American and Soviet views, your Academy officers reluctantly decided to sus-
pend the sixth session.
JAMES C. CHARLESWORTH

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