Word: fairbank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fairbank, who was in San Francisco ready to embark, immediately wired Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada) asking for a chance to testify before his Internal Security Committee "to answer libelous ex-Communist accusations...
...back to Cambridge where he is due on September 24, Fairbank is expected to teach his regular courses this year. He has asked the University to postpone his leave for a year, and his classes were scheduled to be given by substitutes...
Denial of Fairbank's permit may have resulted from testimony this summer during the McCarran Committee's investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations of which Fairbank is a trustee. Former Communist courier Elizabeth Bentley said on August 14 that Fairbank had once delivered a letter from China to a woman in an espionage ring. Ex-Daily Worker Managing Editor Louis Budenz testified on August 23 that Fairbank had been referred to as a Communist in party reports...
...telegram to Washington, Fairbank said: "I believe this opportunity (to testify) is due to me in simple justice as a private citizen for whom no loyalty board proceeding is available...
...earlier time, Fairbank sent a letter to Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R.-Mass.) to ask if there was any way he could be given a "thorough" F.B.I. investigation...