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Hardest hit of the departments is History, which will be missing men such as William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, and John K. Fairbank, instructor in History, and Far-Eastern expert. Langer has been appointed chief of the Department of Special Information. Other men from Harvard aiding Langer and Fairbank in analyzing and assimilating the news of the world for the personal use of the President and Congress are Donald C. McKay, who was an assistant professor of History last year, and Edward Y. Hartshorne, instructor in Sociology...
...enclose a check for one dollar to pay for this statement, --that the slick defeatism of Lawrence Dennis is based squarely on his belief that a Nazi type fascism in America is not worth opposing--is, in fact, desirable. The rest of the argument easily follows from that. J.K. Fairbank '29 Faculty Instructor in History
...course this position does not mention economic opportunities in Southeast Asia which must by all means be given Japan whenever really peaceful negotiations begin,--sometime in the future). J. K. Fairbank '29, Faculty Instructor and Tutor in the Department of History...
...situation now stands, both Dr. Fairbank and Roosevelt consider that Japan is a major naval power, and holds control of the Eastern seas. Nipponese preponderance on the water is a serious threat to Singapore, and unless the British can fortify it in a hurry, it is quite possible that she may lose...
Another important aspect of the Eastern struggle for power seems to be China, where Japan is by no means a winner. Dr. Fairbank stated that one of the best things that the United States could do to prevent a Japanese aggression would be to send all we can to China in the way of military supplies, and Roosevelt backed him up by his own observations on China...