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...China is always claiming it is going to crack down on the country's rampant intellectual property abuse. In fact, the government declared this past March 15 anti-piracy day, and there are still big billboards downtown urging everyone to fight against IPR theft. Not surprisingly, Chinese officials threw a rhetorical fit Monday when first hearing the news of the U.S. intention, on behalf of the American music and film industries, to bring a case to the WTO. "Many countries are facing the same challenges in their anti-piracy campaigns," said Chen Zhaokuan, deputy director of China's Copyright Society...
Graduating from Radcliffe in 1933, Tuchman went to work at the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), a liberal organization which included members from all the countries rimming the Pacific. After a one-year stint in New York, Tuchman transferred to the organization's Tokyo branch, where she helped prepare an economic handbook of the Pacific. "The Japanese militarist/fascist movement was getting very hot and IPR wanted to encourage the liberal Japanese who were still holding on," the historian recalls. The situation looked bleak, however, and in 1935. Tuchman came home--via the trans-Siberian rail-road...
...perfectly obvious, to anyone who is not a Communist that any institution that does not wish to be investigated has something to hide. Only the Commics and their Pink pals yelped when the IPR, Voice of America, and other Truman-Acheson-Hiss organizations went under scrutiny. We do not know which Senators are afraid to bare their past affiliations, marital relations, income, hobbies and food habits to a loyalty and security check, but 67 of the 70 solons present opposed Morse. That is a hefty percentage. After all, Congressman Velde has said that even in colleges, only the disloyal oppose...
When asked about former IPR members like Frederic V. Field '27, Greene said during the '20's and '30's many American young people cherished the vain hope that by promoting friendly contacts, antagonisms between the U.S. and Russia could be softened...
Greene explained to Senators that the IPR was merely a private research organization, attempting to keep peace in the Pacific area by the spread of competent, disinterested information. Quizzed as to whether the IPR harbors subversives, Greene replied. "As one of the founders of the Institute, I would be shocked and humiliated by any evidence that it had thus betrayed its fundamental ideals...