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November 14, 1950	Letter, Isa Yusuf Alptekin to Owen Lattimore Isa Yusuf Alptekin recounts his experiences in Xinjiang in the 1940s and his flight to India and beyond after the Chinese Communist revolution. He also asks Lattimore for assistance in having exiled students from Xinjiang go to the United States for further education.
April 6, 1950	Letter, Muhammad Amin Bughra, Isa Yusuf Alptekin, and Colonel Adam Sabri to Owen Lattimore 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 Lennox C. Fogg, Jr. Lattimore forwards a letter from three exiled leaders from Xinjiang, and hints at Senator Joseph McCarthy's attacks on his character.
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.
June 19, 1950	Letter, Owen Lattimore to Colonel Adam Sabri Owen Lattimore reports to several of Xinjiang's exiled leaders that he is seeking support on their behalf.

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