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The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.

Edwin O. Reischauer

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Edwin O. Reischauer

Edwin O. Reischauer

Born: October 15, 1910
Died: September 1, 1990 (aged 79)
Bio: Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was an American educator and professor at Harvard University. He was a leading scholar of the history and culture of Japan and East Asia. An article Reischauer wrote in 1960 analyzing current tensions between the U.S.
Known for:
  1. The Japanese today (1977)
  2. Japan, tradition & transformation (1978)
  3. East Asia : the Great Tradition (1960)
  4. Translations from early Japanese literature (1951)
  5. The United States and Japan (1950)

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