ABSTRACT
Upon our return from Japan, I was swept into a very busy life. I had my regular courses to teach and, as one recently returned from an interesting year of study in Asia, I found myself in some demand as a speaker. In September 1955 I went to Los Angeles and to Seattle to give talks; and I was asked to give a talk at a regular meeting of our church. In October and November, I spoke to the Americans for Democratic Action, the Japan Society, and an assembly at Wheaton College (arranged by Paul Cressey). In December I gave a talk at Harvard on China’s drive to influence Asia. Strange to say, I declined an invitation from Columbia’s history department to give a talk at the departmental dinner. That was a silly mistake, for I might have become better known within the department.
