New Asia Group To Form Tonight

A meeting will be held tonight to form a Harvard branch of a national organization which intends to push for a basic change in American Far Eastern foreign policy.

The organization, which has already set up a national office at Yale and calls itself Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy, will focus its efforts on three aspects of U.S. Asian policy. It will work towards a cease-fire in Vietnam, United States recognition of Communist China, and the admission of mainland China into the U.N.

Al Lowenstein, a New York lawyer and civil rights organizer and one of the initiators of the movement, will help set up the proposed Harvard branch. At tonight's meeting he will explain the nature of the group and list its activities.

10 p.m. Meeting

"This meeting is for those who already are sympathetic to the goals of the organization," Lowenstein said. "It will be an explanation and orientation meeting rather than a debate."

The first action the organization plans to take is to organize programs on the China question. These symposia may take place simultaneously on as many as 50 campuses across the United States on United Nations Day, October 24.