
Innocents Betrayed
John D. Rockefeller III’s 1958 swing through Asia had momentous consequences for the cultures of the world. For the scion of the Rockefeller family came back from a close encounter with Asian poverty convinced that population control, not economic development, was the cure. And he returned ready to put his millions to work towards that end. The peasant societies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America would never be the same.


