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...Army Department early this month denied John K. Fairbank '29 professor of History, a military perm to enter Japan, but the decision is nov under review. Fairbank had received a year's leave of absence from the University to teach in a Japanese university...
...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...
...forums will begin with one on County and Local Government which Morris B. Lambie, professor of Government, will moderate. John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, and Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, will lead a discussion on Far Eastern problems. The series will wind up with a talk on the status of the American press today at which Niemans who are editors, will speak...
According to Fairbank Miss Utley's indiscriminate attack on State Department personnel and reputable journalists and professors presents a "devil-theory of history." It assumes that American policy and American aid could decide the outcome of a civil war in a distant subcontinent. This exaggerates our power and is dangerously over-confident. The result is a somewhat hysterical concentration on finding scapegoats for an American failure in China...