Steven I. Levine,
China 1l;1,7t3/e in Diplomatic History (Fall 1979),
Scholarly Resources, Inc., 104 Greenhill
Ave., Wilmington, Del. 19805.
Many historians have described as "naive," or worse, the unsuccessful efforts of General George C. Marshall to bring China's rival Nationalists and Communists into a coalition government after World War 11. How-ever, says Levine, an American University historian, the famed Mar- shall mission was not a total fiasco.
When he sent Marshall to Chungking...