Schlesinger Declares Yalta Issue Confuses Problem of Formosa

Democrats must forget about the Yalta papers and show Americans the dilemma the Administration has created in Formosa if we are to avoid all-out war or a serious diplomatic defeat, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 professor of History, said last night.

"Dulles' release of the Yalta papers will be forgotten in a few months, and meanwhile the Administration has been able to obscure the much more serious Formosan issue," Schlesinger said. He spoke in Harkness Commons to students from 40 colleges at the opening meeting of a three day conference of the New England Intercollegiate Association of Young Democrats.

He criticized Democrats for allowing Eisenhower to obscure the differences between Democratic and Republican policies. "It's up to Democrats to provide a realistic foreign policy calling for withdrawal of Nationalist forces from Quemoy and Matsuw and cease fire negotiations," he said.

"We must point out Administration blunders before the Chinese Reds attack, which they will soon do," Schlesinger told the Young Democrats. "I'm disappointed in the way Democrats have endorsed Dulles' Foremosan policy," he said. on domestic economic issues, but Democrats passed it up, he said.

"Democrats have an obligation to the world to revive their traditional militant liberalism," he said, "and the same obligation to themselves if they hope to win the next election."