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...dangerous confusion between past misjudgment and actual disloyalty marks the recent perjury indictment of Owen Lattimore, according to Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages...
...Reischauer decried the evaluation of actions in the 1930's in terms of current opinion. Recalling Japan's persecution of scholars in 1930, for popular statements made ten years earlier, he said, "This is almost as bad as interpreting the Middle Ages in terms of modern thought...
This type of frenzied misevaluation "discourages foreign service men from showing independent thought and from reporting trends abroad which might be very unpopular back home," Reischauer stated...
...November 21, McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government, will speak on "Europe, the Mediterranean and the Near East." William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, will dsicuss the "Power Theory of Politics as Applied to United States Policy" on November 24, and Edwin C. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern languages, will complete the current series the same day speaking on "East and South Asia in World Affairs...
...Reischauer suggested that Japanese trade with Red China is almost mandatory, since Japan cannot support itself for long without it. He also said that if the U.N. is to succeed as an international organization Red China will have to be included whenever the Korean War is brought...