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same class at college. Dick was running the reunion. I said, “If there is one thing I hate, it's a college reunion. If I have to travel that day, it'll be in the opposite direction.” Dick wrote me a twenty page letter about what a selfish son of a bitch I was because I wouldn't do what he wanted. He didn't care about the reunion but he was running it, and he wanted it to be a big success.

One other thing. I think you got Edgar Snow out of the Smith and Haas deal. Did you ever meet him?

Oh, we got to be very good friends.

Would you like to discuss him at all?

Edgar Snow wrote Red Star Over China, and of course he knew Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai and all their lieutenants when they were just Communists, taking the Long March, running away from Chiang Kai-shek. Red Star Over China told the story of that march.

I blush to think of how enthusiastic we were about all of these fellows, now our bitter enemies. I keep wondering if we didn't handle the whole thing very badly. Certainly during the War our championship of Chiang Kai-shek proved misguided. I think that after the War, we just threw China away. And the China lobby, I think, is responsible for a lot of our woes today. That includes Mr. Harry Luce. Time