Fairbank Refutes Stassen's Report To Senate Group

The ten Communist-appeasing "points" which Harold Stassen accused Owen Lattimore of submitting before a round-table discussion on Far Eastern policy in 1949 were "to the best of my knowledge non-existent at the conference," John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, told a Coffee Hour audience yesterday.

"Nobody offered any ten points--in fact, nobody offered much of anything," Fairbank, a delegate to the 25-man policy, forming conference, remarked.

"As I remember," he said, "it was I who argued chiefly against Stassen."

It was Lattimore's ten-point proposal, including United States recognition of Communist China, which Stassen, said was substantially adopted by the State Department and approved of by Ambassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup. Jessup's nomination as delegate to the United Nations is due to come up before the Senate Foreign Relation committee today.

The speeches of the 1949 conference were purportedly off the record, but, said Fairbank, "Stassen apparently took it upon himself to set the country straight. A bit too much hindsight, perhaps, at this point."

Among Stassen's testimony was the fact that Senator Vandenberg informed him of Jessup's desire for an arms embargo of Nationalist China, an idea which President Truman later Vetoed.