Word: fairbanks
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United States industrial aid to China should attempt to raise that country's standard of living, not bolster the status of reactionaries and power politicians, John K. Fairbank '29, associate professor of History and former director of the U. S. Information Services in China, asserted yesterday in a broadcast over WEEI...
Appearing on the "One World" program, Fairbank said that a "doctrinaire type of thinking" tended to over-simplify the problem of revolution in China. Instead of handing out short-sighted aid, we must adept the long-term view of supporting a liberal movement that would remove the necessity for communism in China, he said...
...reactionary element of the Nationalist regime readers the government "for the people, but not by the people," and, as a matter of fact, "not always for the people, either," said Fairbank...
Such talks draws a barrage of jeers from those whose thoughts on the Chinese are eulled from the works of Sax Rohmer or the speeches of Patrick Hurley. But Professor Fairbank has no apparent regrets. "After my second year at Wisconsin," he says dryly, "I realized that I could stay on and become a Big Wheel, or go to Harvard, work hard, and get what I wanted. I'm glad I chose Harvard." He is also glad that he went to Oxford later, on that Rhodes Scholarship. "In the third year they let you travel, and I went to China...
Meanwhile Professor Fairbank writes magazine articles, then clamps on his battered hat and walks up to Boylston to drive all this home to students in the Far Eastern Area of Regional Studies. His wife is in China with the State Department and at times it must seem a lonely fight indeed...