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Hiss j joins barbs a? U.S. policy From Page One ing, as “a living reminder of courage in the face of oppression and repres- | “sion,” Hiss‘ apparently decided to let things go at that. He didn’t say much and when called on relied more heavi- . ly on wit than meméirs. Such as: “Tt did not ‘come. ‘here either to praise.or bury Nixon’ 2 ; ’ He, in more pertinent moments, . Said he had told students that “nothing - good” could: happen. to this country un- _ til the war is over, and that there “is an affinity-between Mr. Douglas (Boyd " Douglas, the FBI informer in the Har- risburg 7 trial) and Chambers,” Hinton was a different cup of tea. _ An author and an ‘old China. hand, he said America had long tried to put the "screws to the Chinese Revolution, but Nixon, after “making a career of an anti-China policy,” found it could not “be done. . With craggy features and-a shock of’ gray hair and a shirt opened at the collar, he conveyed something of a .Shirtsleeves disposition. “The American people,” he said, “were interested in the Chinese revo- lution in 1954, but their government didi’t want them to become interested in it.’’ He said that Nixon’ $ visit to China indicated that-he (Nixon) had scuttled his China policy and “it’s a victory for! the Chinese.” “America has changed its policy now,” he said. “The Chinese have al- ways -been willing to sit down and talk.” Miss Ce Anh Tu took out after the: U.S. “Vietnamization policy.” A re-! searcher in a group delving into “‘the: military-industrial complex in the! ° U.S., “she said “Vietnamization is in-| - direct "intervention. The American . people object to direct intervention, but not to indirect intervention.” ‘ Owen Lattimore, Orientalist and former State Department figure, didn’t show. He is in London on busi- ness. a: In a word: It was like ‘watching an old, late, late show. Yes, it stirred memories, - oak 103677