Exiled in India, Bugrha, Alptekin, and Sabri ask Lattimore for financial and material support. They also praise Dean Acheson's January 1950 Press Club Speech.
June 19, 1950
Letter, Owen Lattimore to Dr. W. Norman Brown
Owen Lattimore forwards a letter from three exiled leaders from Xinjiang, and asks for support to bring a Uyghur-language specialist to the US.
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Folder 14 "Sinkiang Refugees 1950-1951", Box 5, Subseries 3 (Correspondence), Series 4 (Owen Lattimore), Subgroup 2 (Administrative Records, 1924-1955), Record Group 08.010, Records of Walter Hines Page School of International Relations 1923/1955, Ferdinand Hamburger Archives, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Obtained by Charles Kraus.
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