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...Laurence E. Bunker '26 said last night that E. Herbert Norman was "a man known to have close associations with men in Communist circles," and that "one doesn't commit suicide under those circumstances unless something is about to catch up with...
Speaking on foreign policy to a public meeting of the Harvard Young Republican Club, Bunker made the statement to illustrate how the exposure of such former associations can put strong pressure on high officials. He asserted that no sane person would commit suicide unless such pressure was very heavy...
Marching into New Delhi's presidential mansion last week to present his credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador to India, scholarly-looking Ellsworth Bunker was momentarily jolted by a loud, off-key blast from a brace of turbaned trumpeters. Next morning when he opened his paper the ambassador was greeted with yet another sour note: a slashing attack on the U.S. and Britain by India's Prime Minister Nehru...
...your March 9th news article dealing with the nomination of Col. Laurence E. Bunker '26 for a position on the Board of Overseers, I believe I detect a slight bias. It appears to me that you have chosen to emphasize a few seemingly unsavory elements in Bunker's record and have tried your best to neglect mentioning the many achievements which are to his credit. You seem to dwell upon the connection of Col. Bunker with "so-called right-wing causes" and, particularly, with the suggestion that his nomination is an expression of alumni dissatisfaction with the appointment...
This record, which of itself must be of greater relevance to the Board's election than those things with which you were concerned, includes Bunker's graduation from Harvard Magna Cum Laude; his election to Phi Beta Kappa; his attending Trinity College, Cambridge, on a Rhodes Scholarship; and the many military honors bestowed upon him both before and after his service as Aide-de-Camp to General MacArthur, including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. These things, plus the fact that he has attained great success and recognition as a lawyer, as a businessman, as a military...