a first-class newspaper man, Arch Steele. Somewhat to the surprise of both the Studies Committee and many readers, Steele's book concluded that hostile feeling toward "Communist China" was by no means as strong or widespread as the political world had tended to assume, that a great many Americans were even ignorant that the regime in China was communist, and that in any case there was not much left of the extreme feelings aroused when the Communist regime took over in 1948-9 and again when Chinese troops intervened to devastating effect in the Korean War in late 1950.

Thus, the Steele book in itself made a significant contribution. It was followed by other volumes of analysis of China that brought it, so to speak, into the real and discussable worldto an extent that had not been the case in the 1950s.

The final volume of the series, published in 1967, was started by Blum, who unfortunately died, and brought to completion by a younger Sinologist, already distinguished, A. Doak Barnett. This volume ended on a very strong note, that it was terribly important for the United States to have regularized relations with China and that this should be sought and brought about just as soon as the turbulence in China and its potentially aggressive behavior seemed to calm down this being the acute period of the Cultural Revolution. While the effect of such writings is impossible to calibrate, it would be my impression that the Council's China series exerted a very important underlying influence in making China a