Talk:Institute of Pacific Relations

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This article gets the totality of its information from Joe McCarthy and the McCarthy wanna-bees of the 1950s SISS committee, and doesn't cite any sources. Needs some major work. KarlBunker 00:29, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

...which I've just done. Further work and improvement is welcome, of course. KarlBunker 18:22, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

The article contains a lot of valuable information, but did not first give an idea of the full range of IPR activities. I did some rearranging and cut some of the detail in order to make the article more proportional. Some of the detail could well go into the individual articles on the personalities involved. I also cut the section on the China Hands, as in fact they did not play much of a role in the IPR. cwh 06:34, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Your mass removal of accurate, verifiable information published by reliable sources violates WP:EP and WP:NPOV. I have reverted these deletions. Feel free to add additional information, but do not remove information without discussing here. Please indicate what information "seems" second- or third-hand, and why. I'm sure we can reason our way to a consensus. Mark LaRochelle 20:40, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion Plans

I've added a section of references and plan to expand the article over the next couple of months. I plan sections on the founding; IPR's role in the US/ China/ Japan conflict in the 1920s and 30s from Akami's book; major themes at the conferences; publications and sponsorship of scholarship; cooperation in college and university education; and legacy for Area Studies and Asian Studies.

I wonder if the material after the second paragraph in the present article should be established as a separate article, perhaps something along the lines of "Institute of Pacific Relations and Communist Influence." Otherwise, I'd be willing to condense the present material to highlight the major points and make it proportional decade to decade. ch (talk) 22:37, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I'd favor condensing the present material, making the article more "proportional decade to decade", rather than spinning off a new article on communist influences and McCarthyite accusations. At the same time, however, it's my impression that much of the present-day notability of the IPR is connected to its involvement with the communism/anti-communism of the fifties. So it would be appropriate for that period and that issue to get some extra coverage. I look forward to seeing your expansion. RedSpruce (talk) 23:16, 24 May 2008 (UTC)