Owen Lattimore
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Sep 27, 2026
John BatchelorHOST
Was she a member of the ADA? Was that her weakness? I can't remember why it is that McCarthy chose Dorothy Kenyon, but he finally came to a point He would name somebody and it would blow up or he would say, I have a number and it would not come to anything.
John BatchelorHOST
Owen Lattimore, was that the man he settled on? Was the master spy in Russia? That's right.
John BatchelorHOST
That's
Nick BunkerGUEST
right.
Nick BunkerGUEST
Owen Lattimore was the man McCarthy picked out as being the person he portrayed as being the master Soviet agent who would infiltrate the State Department and who would decisively influence America's thinking about such issues as Taiwan.
Nick BunkerGUEST
Now, Lattimore was a very interesting character.
Nick BunkerGUEST
He was an academic.
Emily MatsonGUEST
The Russo-Japanese War is fought almost entirely in Russia.
Emily MatsonGUEST
So this ethnographer, he worked for the U.S. State Department for a while, Owen Lattimore, describes Manchuria as this cradle of conflict.
Emily MatsonGUEST
When he's writing in about 1930, based on his extensive fieldwork there, And so it is this historically contested border region that I think this is important for us to understand when we talk about the debate, because today it's become an incredibly important part of Chinese territorial integrity and identity.
Emily MatsonGUEST
It wasn't considered a super important region to, say, Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalists, for instance.
Emily MatsonGUEST
The Russo-Japanese War is fought almost entirely in Russia.
Emily MatsonGUEST
So this ethnographer, he worked for the U.S. State Department for a while, Owen Lattimore, describes Manchuria as this cradle of conflict when he's writing in about 1930 based on his extensive field work
speaker_10NARRATOR
there.
Emily MatsonGUEST
And so it is this historically contested border region that I think this is important for us to understand when we talk about the debate, because today it's become an incredibly important part of Chinese territorial integrity and identity.
speaker_6NARRATOR
So
Emily MatsonGUEST
this ethnographer, he worked for the U.S. State Department for a while, Owen Lattimore, describes Manchuria as this cradle of conflict.
Emily MatsonGUEST
When he's writing in about 1930, based on
speaker_6NARRATOR
his extensive fieldwork there,
Emily MatsonGUEST
The Russo-Japanese War is fought almost entirely in Russia.
Emily MatsonGUEST
So this ethnographer, he worked for the U.S. State Department for a while, Owen Lattimore, describes Manchuria as this cradle of conflict when he's writing in about 1930 based on his extensive field work there.
Emily MatsonGUEST
And so it is this historically contested border region that I think this is important for us to understand when we talk about the debate, because today it's become an incredibly important part of Chinese territorial integrity and identity.
Emily MatsonGUEST
It wasn't considered a super important region to, say, Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalists, for instance.
speaker_6NARRATOR
So
Emily MatsonGUEST
this ethnographer, he worked for the U.S. State Department for a while, Owen Lattimore, describes Manchuria as this cradle of conflict when he's writing in about 1930 based on his extensive field work there.
Emily MatsonGUEST
And so it is this historically contested border region that I think this is important for us to understand when we talk about the debate, because today it's become an incredibly important part of Chinese territorial integrity and identity.
Emily MatsonGUEST
It wasn't considered a super important region to, say, Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalists, for instance.
Emily MattsonGUEST
The Russo-Japanese War is fought almost entirely in Russia.
Emily MattsonGUEST
So this ethnographer, he worked for the U.S. State Department for a while, Owen Lattimore, describes Manchuria as this cradle of conflict when he's writing in about 1930 based on his extensive field work there.
Emily MattsonGUEST
And so it is this historically contested border region that I think this is important for us to understand when we talk about the debate, because today it's become an incredibly important part of Chinese territorial integrity and identity.
Emily MattsonGUEST
It wasn't considered a super important region to, say, Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalists, for instance.