William McGovern Papers, 1916-1967.
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McGovern, William Montgomery, 1897-1964
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Far Eastern and Latin American specialist; professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1929-1964. McGovern led a colorful life; he received the degree of soro, or doctor of divinity, from a Buddhist monastery in Kyoto, Japan, studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Berlin, and received his D.Phil. from Christ Church College, Oxford. His appointments as lecturer examiner in Oriental Studies at the University of London were interrupted by expeditions to Tibet in 1922-23and throu...