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Owen Lattimore 1900-1989, American author and educator, b. Washington, D.C. He was educated (1915-19) at St. Bees School, Cumberland, England, and did graduate research (1928-29) at Harvard. From 1920 to 1926 he was engaged in business and newspaper work in China. Afterward he traveled and did research for various organizations in China, Manchuria, Mongolia, and Chinese Turkistan, writing such books as Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict (1932) and The Mongols of Manchuria (1934). He was (1938-50) director of the Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins. In 1950 he was accused by Senator Joseph McCarthy of being the Soviet Union's top espionage agent in the United States, but subsequent investigation cleared him of the charges. In 1952, Lattimore was indicted for perjury on seven counts by a federal grand jury on the charge that he had lied when he told a Senate internal security subcommittee earlier in 1952 that he had not promoted Communism and Communist interests; by 1955 all charges against him had been dismissed. He was lecturer in history at Johns Hopkins until 1963. From 1963-70 he was professor of Chinese studies at Leeds Univ., England. Among his other books are America and Asia (1943), The Situation in Asia (1949), Pivot of Asia (1950), Ordeal by Slander (1950), Studies in Asian Frontier History (1962), and Silks, Spices and Empire (ed., with Eleanor Lattimore, 1968).

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Lattimore, Owen (1900–1989), brother of Richmond Lattimore, was a member of the Johns Hopkins faculty (1938–63) and of the University of Leeds in England (1963–70) but is also known for his government service. His writings on his travels, on geography and history, and on current events include The Desert Road to Turkestan (1929), Manchuria, Cradle of Conflict (1932), Inner Asian Frontiers of China (1940), Solution in Asia (1945), The Situation in Asia (1949), Nationalism and Revolution in Mongolia (1955), Nomads and Commissars (1962), and History and Revolution in China (1974). Ordeal by Slander (1950) describes the attack on him during the era of McCarthyism for his political views and his policy advice on China.

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Institute for Pacific Relations

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Institute for Pacific Relations. Founded in 1925 by Stanford University president Ray Lyman Wilbur, the businessman Frank Atherton, and Merle Davis, who, like many others, was formerly linked to the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), the Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR) sought to advance understanding of Asia through conferences with Asian leaders, annual meetings, research, and publications. By 1939, eleven national IPR councils had been established in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and France. From the start, the American council exerted the greatest influence because of its size (nearly fourteen hundred members by 1939) and fund‐raising abilities. In the 1930s, under Edward C. Carter, secretary of the American council and later secretary‐general of IPR itself, IPR became the premier organization for the study of Asia. It published Pacific Affairs and Eastern Survey; gave scholarly research grants; and provided reliable information to scholars, the government, and the public at a time when such information was scarce. The respected Asian scholar Owen Lattimore, who edited Pacific Affairs from 1933 to 1941, brought to the post a wealth of experience; insatiable curiosity; and impressive language proficiency in Chinese, Mongolian, and Russian.

Despite its nonpartisan beginnings, IPR became embroiled in controversy in the 1940s, when some members resigned over what they considered its left‐leaning slant. Principal among the disgruntled was the textile importer Alfred Kohlberg, who charged Lattimore and others with turning the organization into a front for communist propaganda. Senator Joseph McCarthy picked up these charges in the early 1950s, particularly targeting Lattimore, who had moved to Johns Hopkins University. IPR never recovered; its membership declined, and it ended in 1960. In its heyday, however, IPR stood high among international nongovernmental organizations seeking to expand knowledge of Asia and to bring scholarly expertise to bear on the shaping of international relations.
See also Anticommunism; Cold War; Foreign Relations: U.S. Relations with Asia; YMCA and YWCA.

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John N. Thomas , The Institute of Pacific Relations: Asian Scholars and American Politics, 1974.
Robert P. Newman , Owen Lattimore and the “Loss” of China, 1992.

T. Christopher Jespersen

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