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Article: Why are the liberals whitewashing? (Owen Lattimore in the liberal press) (column)
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- National Review
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- July 14, 1989
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IS FAIRLY RECENT American history going down the memory hole? In the New York Times last month, a writer referred to the late Paul Robeson as the "progressive" black singer-actor. Claude Pepper, Time magazine reports, was called "Red" Pepper in the late Forties, the direct result of McCarthyism, and was defeated for reelection to the Senate in 1950 because of his "liberal" policies. Now, Paul Robeson was a member of the Communist Party. Pravda, in 1947, listed Pepper among a half-dozen "sincere friends" of the Soviet Union.
And then Owen Lattimore dies. Time magazine in its little obituary says of him that he was charged in 1950 by Senator McCarthy with ...
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Article: Owen Lattimore
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...Owen Lattimore 1900-1989, American author and educator ... investigation cleared him of the charges. In 1952, Lattimore was indicted for perjury on seven counts by ... Spices and Empire (ed., with Eleanor Lattimore, 1968).
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