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...Yale; Viktor E. Frankl, professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Vienna; Sidney Hook, professor of Philosophy at New York University; Michael Jaffe, fellow of King's College, University of Cambrige; John F. Kermode, John Edward Taylor Professor of English at the University of Manchester, Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo; and Horace Armistead, professor of Design at Boston University...
...letter to the New York Times, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages; J. K. Galbraith '99, professor of Economics; John K. Fairbanks '29, professor of History; and Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, charged the Subcommittee with "damaging procedures" in the Tsuru case that have had "serious" repercussions in Japan...
...Tsuru, who returned to Harvard this year as a visiting lecturer, was subpoenaed before the Eastland Subcommittee and questioned for two days about his activities as a student in this country. Tsuru freely admits that he "acted, spoke, and wrote like a communist in this period" but his beliefs have changed...
...letter points out the the incident has been looked upon by the Japanese public "as an act of unimaginable rudeness to a foreign guest." The professors go on to say that Tsuru has been criticized in the Japanese press both for having answered the subcommittees' questions and for supposedly giving secret testimony, a charge the letter calls "groundless...
Reischauer said last night that Tsuru "had been terribly hurt" by the experience and that "he thought that he had been embarrassing the people that had invited him to this country." Reischauer added that this incident has given the Communists an excellent opportunity to "stir up a furor...