Word: owen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Owen Lattimore arrived first with his wife, took a seat in the front row of the big, marble-walled caucus room in the Senate Office Building. He waved to friends, clasping his hands above his head like a boxer. Big Senator Joe McCarthy came in and sat down behind the committee table. By the time a rumpled man had taken his seat at the witness table, spectators filled every aisle, teetered and craned from the ledges around the walls...
...that had been infiltrated by Communists. "First there was Frederick Vanderbilt Field," said Budenz. "With him was associated Philip Jaffe, who was connected with Field surreptitiously in the publication of China Today . . . Mr. Jaffe and Mr. Field are to my knowledge Soviet espionage agents. In this cell was also Owen Lattimore...
Last week, the United Nations Security Council reminded the world of one of the greatest Pakistan-India problems by choosing Sir Owen Dixon, 63-year-old justice of Australia's High Court, as mediator in the Kashmir dispute. Kashmir, with a 77% Moslem population, was sold by the British in 1846 to a Hindu prince, has been under Hindu rule ever since...
When India was partitioned, both nations claimed Kashmir. Both sent in troops. After the fighting died down, both India and Pakistan agreed to a plebiscite, but they have not been able to agree on withdrawal of their troops. Sir Owen has four months to persuade the two countries to demilitarize Kashmir so that the plebiscite can be held...
Senator Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) told a Republican Open Forum audience in the Lamont Forum Room last night "it is not known whether or not Owen Lattimore is a Communist, but I would certainly throw him out of his State Department advisory post because he is a bad security risk...