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...John K. Fairbank, '29, professor of Hastory, told the CRIMSON last night that Freda Utley's new book, "The China Story," is "an intemperate interpretation" of our relations with China. His charge was in answer to a review which appeared in Time magazine branding him "a Communist apologist...
...Miss Utley is in the best McCarthy tradition," Fairbank went on. "Their approaches have a lot in common, beginning with wholesale character assassination...
From the historian's point of view the saving of Chiang Kai-Shek by American aid should have been started in the 1930's with land reform programs, Fairbank pointed out. We missed our chance then to help the Nationalist government, he asserted, just as we are in danger of missing our chance with India today...
Elliott supported MacArthur's proposed measures of bombing China and blockading Communist ports there. If the British won't come in with us on the latter point he continued, we should go ahead without them. We can't let England tie us down to an importent defense, he said. Fairbank opposed these moves, calling support of MacArthur's ideas "a persuasive invitation to suicide." An attack on Chinese bases, he asserted, would implement the treaty under which Russia aids China, and this would precipitate World War III. He attacked blocking Communist ports because the confusion would result in our firing...
...Fairbank countered that such a program would only deprive the U.S. of forces in Europe by alienating our allies. President Conant moderated the forum. He also spoke on Saturday night, urging the rearmament of Europe and the unity of Asia...