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John Robinson Beal, Marshall in China, Toronto, Doubleday and Co., 1970, pp. xxii 385, index, $ 7.95

John Robinson Beal, Marshall in China, Toronto, Doubleday and Co., 1970, pp. xxii 385, index, $ 7.95 243 BOOK REVIEWS John Robinson Beal, Marshall in China, Toronto, Doubleday and Co., 1970, pp. xxii 385, index, $ 7.95. John R. Beal's Marshall in China is mistitled. Beal in China would be more ac- curate. Of course we know who Marshall was. But who is Beal? In the salad days of the empire, the government had not yet established mechanisms where- by an official American spokesman could be relied upon to put the best face on the behavior of whatever errant anti-Communists we happened to be sup- porting.' What to do then when, against its own interests, the KMT seemed bent on giving itself a bad name in the U.S.? Why, get the Chinese to hire a John Beal. Beal was a Time editor when a Marshall staff aide approached him with the proposition that he come to China to "keep the Chinese out of trouble with the United States." A series of repressive acts had resulted in a bad press and Marshall feared a serious loss of public support for Chiang might endanger his conciliatory mission. As T.V. Soong put it to Beal: "We all - the Gissimo, you, and I - have the same aims, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

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© 1972 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0021-9096
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1568-5217
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10.1163/156852172X00490
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243 BOOK REVIEWS John Robinson Beal, Marshall in China, Toronto, Doubleday and Co., 1970, pp. xxii 385, index, $ 7.95. John R. Beal's Marshall in China is mistitled. Beal in China would be more ac- curate. Of course we know who Marshall was. But who is Beal? In the salad days of the empire, the government had not yet established mechanisms where- by an official American spokesman could be relied upon to put the best face on the behavior of whatever errant anti-Communists we happened to be sup- porting.' What to do then when, against its own interests, the KMT seemed bent on giving itself a bad name in the U.S.? Why, get the Chinese to hire a John Beal. Beal was a Time editor when a Marshall staff aide approached him with the proposition that he come to China to "keep the Chinese out of trouble with the United States." A series of repressive acts had resulted in a bad press and Marshall feared a serious loss of public support for Chiang might endanger his conciliatory mission. As T.V. Soong put it to Beal: "We all - the Gissimo, you, and I - have the same aims,

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1972

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