I /~IET EDGAR SNOW in Dublin， New Hampshire， in ~965. He was<br > one of a group of fifty who had gathered there at the urging of<br > Grenville Clark to explore the possibilities of a workable form<br > of international understanding， not based on military action， that<br > wot~ld reduce the risks to mankind in the absence of such an<br > understanding.*<br > The participants， including Paul Dudley White， Norman<br > Cousins， Kingman Brewster， Gerard Piel， Harlow Shapley， James<br >P. Warburg， Erwin N. Griswold， John Jessup， and others， were<br >stimulating， but the man who brought real excitement to the<br >gathering was the expatriate American author， Edgar Snow.<br > Snow was neither a Communist nor a Communist sympa-<br >thizer. He was an extremely accurate reporter， who， by hard work<br >and luck， had achieved a reporter s ultimate dream and had<br >scooped the world with his original interviews with Mao and his<br >documentary book， Red Star over China， in ~939.<br > Parenthetically， anyone today wanting to understand the<br >People s Republic of China should begin by reading Snow s Red<br >Star. There is no other place to begin， in any language， including<br >Chinese.<br >