Word: fairbank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professors John K. Fairbank '29, Rupert Emerson '21, and Edwin O. Reischauer will discuss 'Anti-Communism and Public Policy" next Wednesday in their first appearance since they were called "pro-Communist" before the McCarran Committee...
Referring specifically to the charges made against professors Fairbank, Reischauer, and Emerson he said, "In Washington this sort of thing can be embarrassing. There are all sorts of people who will be loath to take people who have any taint at all, no matter how ridiculous...
Another is the Army's refusal to grant Professor John K. Fairbank, long opposed to Far Eastern democracy's grayer hope, Chiang, permission to spend a year in Japan teaching. Waiting until Fairbank had reached San Francisco, the Pentagon denied him the permit necessary for entrance into Japan without even suggesting the reasons for its action...
This was probably the result of testimony before Senator McCarran's committee investigating the Institute of Pacific Relations. There, former Communists Bentley and Budenz put together a few pieces of paper (a letter from China Fairbank allegedly delivered to an espionage ring worker, a reference to Fairbank in a party report) to give Fairbank a bona-fide party card...
...case of Fairbank's permit is under review, but the damage has already been done: Fairbank has had to return to Cambridge for the year. Although he has requested the McCarran Committee and the FBI to investigate him thoroughly, he still has not had a chance to clear himself. What is worse, he still does not know what the charges are against...