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...Internal political stability is our major need" for the containment of Chinese Communist expansion, John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, declared yesterday before the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs. "At the moment," he said, "I'm afraid we are not breaking even...
Also, John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies; Marshall Fixman, instructor in Chemistry; Clarke T. Gray, Leonard Wood Memorial Research Associate in Biochemistry; Lowell P. Hager, assistant professor of Chemistry; and Raimundo Lida, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures...
Over in Asia, another History Department "cloak and dagger boy" was at work. John K. Fairbank, now Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, battled the Hump, inflation, poverty, and disease as he attempted--rather unsuccessfully, he thinks--to gather information on the Japanese and to distribute microfilmed American publications to Chinese universities...
Chunking was his home for a good part of the war--Chunking, cut off from the world except by air, with its population combatting the difficulties of the Chinese war resistance and sweating out bomb raids in the crowded caves through 1942. Fairbank himself was beset with jaundice and dysentery, but says he was not in much danger of losing his life. "We ate better than the poor people," he reports, although stringy water buffalo meat and goat's milk doesn't sound too appetizing today. The group he was with lived
...community for eighty-two years, as daughter of a Harvard alumnus, Radcliffe undergraduate, wife of a medical school professor, mother of five talented children (three daughters graduated from Radcliffe, one son from Harvard and Medical School), mother-in-law of Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth Fairbank, grandmother of two Harvard freshmen, great-grandmother-to-be of a potential Harvard or Radcliffe student...