Word: fairbank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressional investigations resemble "a cops and robbers game" in the words of John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, returned from being investigated himself yesterday...
...personal interview he described the methods used by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee which spent two days questioning him. Fairbank was defending himself at his own request, on previous charges made before the committee that he was a communist. The Senate group is currently probing the Institute of Pacific Relations, of which the Far East expert is a trustee...
Standard procedure of the investigating committee, according to Fairbank, is to extract from the IPR files letters of the accused which seem to suggest "ulterior motives...
Budenz one-time editor of the Daily Worker had testified earlier that he knew Fairbank to be a communist from "official reports...
...Fairbank objected to allowing Budenz to give this testimony publicly without cross examination. He contended Budenz should have been asked what kind of reports, to whom they were sent, and for whom they were intended...