During this period, the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London also appointed him as its first Professor of the History of the Far East, serving in that post for two years from 1951 to 1953.
W tym okresie, School of Oriental and African Studies mianowała go swoim pierwszym profesorem historii Dalekiego Wschodu, zachował to stanowisko przez dwa lata do 1953 roku.