Huang More Optimistic About His Chances for Going Back to China

Wei-yuan Huang, Research Fellow in Chemistry at the University, may yet return to China.

At a Harvard Liberal Union meeting last night, Huang said he was becoming "more optimistic" about his chances of returning to China to rejoin his wife.

Huang and 4,000 other scientifically trained Chinese nationals must stay in the U.S. because of a Presidential order and a clause in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.

But Huang pointed to signs of increasing governmental leniency towards the current policy. "About three weeks ago," he stated, "four out of 26 of us who signed a petition requesting permission to leave the country were allowed to go. It seems that they are lessening the restrictions."

At the same time Humphrey J. Fisher '55, Secretary of the Liberal Union, said that there were "possibilities of arranging a meeting over Christmas vacation between Senators Wayne Morse, Herbert Lehman, Hubert Humphrey and Huang to consider his problem."

While uncertain of the result of such a meeting, Huang stated his willingness to try anything that might lead to a family reunion. "Family ties are much stronger with Chinese than with Americans," he stated. "Since it is impossible to have all my relatives come over here," he continued, "I would greatly prefer to return to China."