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Kenneth E. Shewmaker
ofthehistory
Theauthoris a member in Dartmouth
department
College.
'For a descriptionof the Clark Papers, see Ruth N. Wight,"The Papers of Grenville
Clark," Dartmouth College LibraryBulletin,IX (Nov. 1968), 57-61. In order to secure
access to the Clark Papers, certain parts of which are open only on a restrictedbasis,
one may write to Mr. Edward C. Lathem, Librarian of the College, Baker Library,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
2'On Clark's life and activities,see Robert H. Reno, "GrenvilleClark, 1882-1967,"
ibid.,55-57; and Norman Cousins and J. GarryClifford,eds., Memoirsofa Man: Gren-
ville Clark (New York, 1975), 3-29.
597
May 10, 1963), he was the only United States citizen capable of
surmounting the travel barrier in those frozen years from 1949 to
1971 and perhaps the only foreignerwho enjoyed a close personal
relationship with Mao Tse-tung. When Clark tried to facilitatehis
request for permissionto visitPeking by mentioningto the Chinese
ambassador to SwitzerlandthatSnow had been invitedtwicein recent
years, that diplomat simplyanswered that Snow "was the exception"
(Clark to Snow, Nov. 28, 1964).