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...John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, will leave Stanford, California, for Japan tomorrow, one year after he planned on leaving...
...State Department notified the far east expert he could visit Japan early in August. The Department of the Army, which had charge of visas to that country while it was occupied by U. S. troops, had denied Fairbank permission to enter for a year's study last August. The professor was in California waiting to sail when the denial came through...
...Army said it denied Fairbank a passport because of "security reasons." Fairbank thought the "reasons" were his connection with the Institute of Pacific Relations, then under investigation by a Senate sub-committee...
...Fairbank appealed to the Army Board of Review, which promised to "take the matter under consideration" and notify the professor of its decision...
While he is gone, Edwin O. Reishauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages will head the China department of the International and Regional Studies program. Fairbank's wife and daughter will accompany him to Japan...