From a niece of Owen Lattimore, victim of McCarthyism, ("...Baltimore Evening Sun: "M'CARTHY CITES LATTIMORE, THREE OTHERS AS 'PRO-RED.'") who wrote on Mongolia. (Marxist Perspectives, the short lived journal of Eugene Genovese et. al. in the late 70's, published a piece by Lattimore on Mongolia.)
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did not mention [Owen's] best-known work, "The Inner Asian Frontiers of
China," which is still considered to be a definitive text on that subject.
Few foreigners have known Mongolia as he did. The notion of his being a
"Russian spy" was particularly ludicrous because it was the Mongols he
always championed, against both the Russians and the Chinese. If it had not
been for family ties he would have liked to have ended his days in a Mongol
yurt. Marguerite Frost (MA'54)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
-- Michael Pugliese