Fairbank

would take over and run Asia with American personnel or with puppets, whether they wanted a new colonialism or whether they expected "Western libertarian democracy to appear miraculously over-night."

"Our best chance of getting stability in the Far East," Fairbank said, "lies in securing a situation in which revolutionary China is checked from being-warlike abroad or toward us while left to work out her own destiny internally."

Although agreeing that China may continue to have an aggressive totalitarian government, Fairbank concludes "this unhappy prospect does not lead to the conclusion that all-out war with China now would serve our interests.