I /~IET EDGAR SNOW in Dublin， New Hampshire， in ~965. He was
one of a group of fifty who had gathered there at the urging of
Grenville Clark to explore the possibilities of a workable form
of international understanding， not based on military action， that
wot~ld reduce the risks to mankind in the absence of such an
understanding.*
The participants， including Paul Dudley White， Norman
Cousins， Kingman Brewster， Gerard Piel， Harlow Shapley， James
P. Warburg， Erwin N. Griswold， John Jessup， and others， were
stimulating， but the man who brought real excitement to the
gathering was the expatriate American author， Edgar Snow.
Snow was neither a Communist nor a Communist sympa-
thizer. He was an extremely accurate reporter， who， by hard work
and luck， had achieved a reporter s ultimate dream and had
scooped the world with his original interviews with Mao and his
documentary book， Red Star over China， in ~939.
Parenthetically， anyone today wanting to understand the
People s Republic of China should begin by reading Snow s Red
Star. There is no other place to begin， in any language， including
Chinese.
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