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Mexican Agrarian Reform and the United States
Fifty years of agrarian reform has brought many changes to Mexico, but it has by no means solved all her problems. The land was divided and given to the peon. This attack on the latifundia, the large land holding, was ...
The Chinese Eastern Railway: Storm Center in Asia
In attempting to gain a true perspective of Russo-Chinese relations I have examined certain historical aspects of Russia's penetration into China in both the Tsarist and Soviet periods and China's subsequent reactions in ...
The Amerasia Affair and John Stewart Service: Weighing the Evidence of History
Amerasia was a small, left-wing monthly magazine, now defunct, dedicated to the discussion of Asian political and cultural affairs. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, it was openly critical of the Chinese Nationalist ...
Great Britain and the Bagdad Railroad (1888-1914)
In a study such as this, it is quite easy to over-estimate the importance of the Bagdad Railroad. Here the major events of the pre-war era have been mentioned only in the light of the railroad project. Yet when the subject ...
Negotiating with the Enemy: Kennedy and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Many scholars have examined the test ban. Several books were written shortly after its adoption, but they lack much of the documentary evidence that is now available. In 1981 Glenn Seaborg published one of the best accounts. ...
The United States Foreign Relations with Vichy Government, 1940-1942
To attempt to find clear cut distinctions within the Vichy policy of the United States is almost impossible. There are contradictions and "double-edged swords" lurking behind almost every development. The policy was not ...