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Many years later, his wife, Fairfax-Cholmeley, would become known to a generation of
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before it was published. He was deeply influenced by the progressivism of Snow and became involved with the democratic movement in China, becoming an editor for Snow's magazine,
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who were trying to arrest him. The misinformation even found its way into a short item printed in
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control. His father had been imprisoned by the authorities of
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