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Article: China Expert Owen Lattimore, Victim of McCarthyism, Dies
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- The Washington Post
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- June 2, 1989
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Owen Lattimore, 88, who was accused by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy
(R-Wis.) of being the "top Soviet agent in the United States" and
then exonerated in one of the most celebrated and controversial cases
of the early Cold War era, died May 31 at a hospital in Providence,
R.I. He had been in declining health since suffering a stroke last
year.
Mr. Lattimore, one of the leading China scholars in the West,
was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International
Relations at Johns Hopkins University when McCarthy made his
accusation against him in 1950, at a time when intense anti-communist
sentiments were rampant in the United States. During the next five
years Mr. Lattimore's name became ...