Word: owen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington legal circles learned that Joseph C. O'Mahoney, defeated in November for re-election as Democratic Senator from Wyoming, will be one of the defense lawyers in the perjury trial of Far Eastern Expert Owen Lattimore next March. The full defense team will include old New Dealers Thurman Arnold, Abe Fortas and Paul A. Porter...
...appointment is at once a compliment and a blow to Harvard," according to David E. Owen, professor of History. Owen added that "although the silver lining hunters may find sufficient consolation in knowing that German problems will be in able hands, this is the gravest kind of less from our parochial point of view...
...spies. On the other, and at this writing far ahead, are those who are seeking to solve the Far East problem by assigning blame for it. Their technique is to serve up a murky stew of half-truth and hindsight, then immerse a handful of Asia experts in it. Owen Lattimore is already up to his neck, and Service, Vincent, Clubb, etcetera have at least had their feet burned. What this will accomplish to relieve tension in the Far East is incomprehensible to us, but perhaps we are the innocents...
...case of Owen Lattimore, the Johns Hopkins professor who powerfully influenced U.S. thinking and U.S. policy on China, finally reached the courts last week. In the three years since Senator Joseph McCarthy called Lattimore a "top Russian agent," the professor has 1) written a book in his own defense, Ordeal by Slander, that won applause from liberals; 2) appeared before one group of Senate investigators (the Tydings committee) whose majority cleared him handsomely; and 3) argued before another Senate hearing (Internal Security subcommittee) which denounced him as a "conscious, articulate instrument of Soviet conspiracy" and urged that he be brought...
...Rockefeller Foundation's closets revealed some similar skeletons. It gave $1,885,359 to the I.P.R., $1,500 through a "misunderstanding" to Owen Lattimore to attend an I.P.R. conference in New Delhi, $15,684 from 1935 to 1939 to the French Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie for his work in physics, $8,250 to Composer Hanns Eisler, brother of Communist Gerhart Eisler, and $6,050 to Economist Oscar Lange, who later became a diplomatic representative of Communist Poland. In 1948, as a "calculated risk," it also gave the China Aid Council $7,500 to translate Western classics into Chinese...