Word: wittfogel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional diplomatic corps. He was serving as acting permanent delegate to the United Nations in New York when his name cropped up in a hearing before the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, then headed by Nevada Democrat Pat McCarran. Testifying on Communist infiltration in the U.S., German-born Karl Wittfogel, onetime professor of Chinese history at Columbia University and a professed ex-Communist, said that in 1938 he and Norman, then a student in the Japanese department at Columbia, had attended a Communist study group on Cape Cod. Wittfogel. now a contributor to the New Leader, testified that...
Norman's tense trials in this job were just easing when the charge of Communism fell anew on him. In Washington the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee called in John K. Emmerson, deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Beirut, questioned him about Norman and the 1951 Wittfogel charges. Emmerson, who had worked with Norman in Tokyo and the Middle East, told the committee he had no reason to think that Norman had ever been a Communist. When Committee Counsel Robert Morris released the testimony, there was a new flurry of news stories...
...Presidential Aspirant Harold Stassen, Ex-Diplomat Eugene Dooman, Professors William McGovern, Kenneth Colegrove and Karl Wittfogel variously testified that Lattimore, Far East specialist and Director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins, followed a line favorable to the Communists, and that his ideas had powerful backing in the State Department...
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