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In the years between 1928 and 1945 Owen Lattimore wrote eight books about Asia and China. In Lattimore's first book ''Desert Road to Turkestan'' (1928) Lattimore wrote, "I should be inclined to say that a very strong case can be made out for the Soviet position."<ref>''Desert Road to Turkestan'' by Owen Lattimore (Boston, 1928), pg. 247.</ref> In a later book, ''Manchuria, Cradle of Conflict'' (1935), Lattimore writes, "Russia appears to be the only nation of the modern world that is 'young' enough to have 'men of destiny' It creates its [[Lenin]] and its [[Stalin]]. . . . Russia, more than China and more than any nation of the West, is launched upon a career of growth"<ref>''Manchuria, Cradle of Conflict'' by Owen Lattimore (Rev. 1935), pg. 293.</ref> China, which was to become the victim of this communist "growth," is characterized by such adjectives as "[[aggressive]]," and "[[expansionist]]."

In the years between 1928 and 1945 Owen Lattimore wrote eight books about Asia and China. In Lattimore's first book ''Desert Road to Turkestan'' (1928) Lattimore wrote, "I should be inclined to say that a very strong case can be made out for the Soviet position."<ref>''Desert Road to Turkestan'' by Owen Lattimore (Boston, 1928), pg. 247.</ref> In a later book, ''Manchuria, Cradle of Conflict'' (1935), Lattimore writes, "Russia appears to be the only nation of the modern world that is 'young' enough to have 'men of destiny' It creates its [[Lenin]] and its [[Stalin]]. . . . Russia, more than China and more than any nation of the West, is launched upon a career of growth"<ref>''Manchuria, Cradle of Conflict'' by Owen Lattimore (Rev. 1935), pg. 293.</ref> China, which was to become the victim of this communist "growth," is characterized by such adjectives as "[[aggressive]]," and "[[expansionist]]."

In 1934, in ''The Mongols of Manchuria'', Lattimore again puts forward the idea that [[Sinkiang]], [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]] might be made into a separate empire under Soviet influence, and he claims the people of Manchuria are not Chinese at all, but Mongolian. In 1935, in his ''Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict'', Lattimore points out that the [[Soviet Union]], China and [[Japan]] all have ambitions in Manchuria, but that the Soviet Union has more right there than China or Japan. It was in this book that he pictured China as an aggressor in Manchuria. Through these books runs a strain of admiration for the Soviet Union. In 1942, Lattimore wrote a Foreign Policy Report (September 1, 1942) called ''Asia in a New World Order'' after the [[Pearl Harbor attack]]. Japan had taken Manchuria. Lattimore alters his picture of Manchuria.  He abandons his old line that Manchuria is not Chinese but Mongolian and asserts it is "95 per cent Chinese" and points out that it is a mistake, merely because the country is called Manchuria, to think that the people are not Chinese.  

In 1934, in ''The Mongols of Manchuria'', Lattimore again puts forward the idea that [[Sinkiang]], [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]] might be made into a separate empire under Soviet influence, and he claims the people of Manchuria are not Chinese at all, but Mongolian. In 1935, in his ''Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict'', Lattimore points out that the [[Soviet Union]], China and [[Japan]] all have ambitions in Manchuria, but that the Soviet Union has more right there than China or Japan. It was in this book that he pictured China as an aggressor in Manchuria. In 1942, Lattimore wrote a Foreign Policy Report (September 1, 1942) called ''Asia in a New World Order'' after the [[Pearl Harbor attack]]. Japan had taken Manchuria. Lattimore alters his picture of Manchuria.  He abandons his old line that Manchuria is not Chinese but Mongolian and asserts it is "95 per cent Chinese" and points out that it is a mistake, merely because the country is called Manchuria, to think that the people are not Chinese.

 

In all these books Lattimore emphasizes that Americans are reluctant to admit that the Soviet Union has any valid claim to be called a [[democracy]], "even when democratic procedures are as plainly stated as they are in the [[Stalin Constitution]]."<ref>''Asia in a New World Order'', by Owen Lattimore, Foreign Policy Report, September 1, 1942.</ref> Lattimore places the three principals of [[Sun Yat-sen]], Soviet [[collectivism]] and the [[New Deal]] as all akin to one another.  In the September 1938 issue of ''Pacific Affairs'',  Lattimore described the [[Great Purge|Moscow purge trials]] as "a triumph for Democracy,"<ref>Subcommittee on S. Res. 231, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 81st Cong., 2d sess., [http://ia341005.us.archive.org/2/items/statedepartmente195002unit/statedepartmente195002unit_bw.pdf State Department Employee Loyalty Investigation: Hearings, Part II, Appendix] (Washington: U.S. GPO, 1950), p. 1532 (PDF p. 36)</ref> concluding that this orgy of mass murder "sounds like democracy to me."<ref>Paul Hollander, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=rhkswwoTg7MC Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society]'', 4th Ed. (Transaction Publishers, 1998), ISBN 1560009543, p. 165</ref>

In all these books Lattimore emphasizes that Americans are reluctant to admit that the Soviet Union has any valid claim to be called a [[democracy]], "even when democratic procedures are as plainly stated as they are in the [[Stalin Constitution]]."<ref>''Asia in a New World Order'', by Owen Lattimore, Foreign Policy Report, September 1, 1942.</ref> Lattimore places the three principals of [[Sun Yat-sen]], Soviet [[collectivism]] and the [[New Deal]] as all akin to one another.  In the September 1938 issue of ''Pacific Affairs'',  Lattimore described the [[Great Purge|Moscow purge trials]] as "a triumph for Democracy,"<ref>Subcommittee on S. Res. 231, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 81st Cong., 2d sess., [http://ia341005.us.archive.org/2/items/statedepartmente195002unit/statedepartmente195002unit_bw.pdf State Department Employee Loyalty Investigation: Hearings, Part II, Appendix] (Washington: U.S. GPO, 1950), p. 1532 (PDF p. 36)</ref> concluding that this orgy of mass murder "sounds like democracy to me."<ref>Paul Hollander, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=rhkswwoTg7MC Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society]'', 4th Ed. (Transaction Publishers, 1998), ISBN 1560009543, p. 165</ref>