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Corliss Lamont, son of Morgan Partner Thomas Lamont, has a long record as a Soviet apologist and a sponsor for Communist fronts, including a term as chairman of the National Council of Soviet-American Friendship. In its investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Senator Pat McCarran's subcommittee has made great play with Lamont's name as an Institute member...
Last week, in a letter to McCarran, Corliss Lamont, now a lecturer in philosophy at Columbia University, made some sharp points. Lamont protested that the subcommittee "has tried to give the totally false impression that I am a Far Eastern expert and have been a prime mover in the affairs of the Institute . . . But in fact I have never been particularly interested in the Far East and have for only a few years been a member of the Institute, and a very inactive one at that...
...McCarran's committee had other and solider evidence against some staff members of I.P.R. It had hurt its case by exaggerating Corliss Lamont's influence on the Institute...
Presumably, the denial of a permit to Professor Fairbank was based on derogatory testimony concerning him by two former Communists appearing before the McCarran Subcommittee. Mr. Fairbank has filed with the subcommittee a sworn affidavit categorically denying the allegations--which were, in part at least, mere hearsay; but he has had no opportunity to make a public answer before the subcommittee which permitted the charges to be made publicly. No form of trial is available to him since he has not been charged with any crime and since the allegations about him were made under the protection of congressional immunity...
...departed in any improper way from the scholarly work to which he is committed, his military permit could be withdrawn. But aparently someone in the Army's lower echelons decided to bar him arbitrarily in order to avoid any risk of future abuse from Senator McCarthy or Senator McCarran. He was protecting his own neck, and the Army's appropriations, not national security. The Fairbank case is far from unique; other citizens have suffered from the same kind of intimidation among Governmen officials. Yet this is a way of dealing with individuals much more in keeping with totalitarian ideas than...