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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...
Testifying before the Un-American Activities Committee, Budenz said last August that Fairbank had been referred to as a Communist in the party reports. Miss Bentley charged he had smuggled a letter from China to a spy ring here...
...Fairbank procured the leave of absence in order to do research in a Japanese university for one year under a Guggenheim fellowship. He and his family were ready to sail from California when the Army banned the trip on August 17. On request from Fairbank, it is now reviewing the case. The professor said he had no idea of when they would reach a decision...
Immediately after his permit to enter Japan was denied, Fairbank voluntarily filed non-Communist affidavits with General Marshall, Secretary of State Acheson, and Senator McCarran (D.-Nev), who is in charge of the Senate Sub-Committee on Subversive Activities...
...Fairbank wrote to Senator Saltonstall (R-Mass.) asking for a full F.B.I. investigation of his status...