14-00000 . Binoe you apparently gathered the contributore together '. It-has been published in China in a Chinese translation - lished in English aa fafias-I know. I do not know the. - wali be good enough to give, them this opportunity. .— : -however, that my letter will enlighten you. and your: - Friends and enabie: ‘you to appreciate the difficulties China Forum‘at ‘the. present time.. Should such ecour, the ' Fesultant. publication would be of a Gonsiderably different: ‘the facta given: in my letter to the C. P.. I think | people ~ COFY: ME:S8 : . . Enclosura Ne. 1 —_ Cosme. enn es Ken EM | . fo Der toh No. 3317 JY) woo jit t Ih 3B 1 fa Yong Yi Ping Hutung: aan Pete China. Mr. P. A. Bleson -136 Claremont Avenue - . Mount Vernon, Ne Yo Dear Mr. Bisson: ; I have eéen the correspondence exchanged. between 2 ‘Mr.. Olaae- and” youreelf regarding. the contributions you —— ., Collected for the China Forum. A draft for the sum ia . gull will be sent to you this week. . I do not Enow in the name of whom or what Hias Smedley apéake of the China Forum. Sinée she was not in China at the tine the Forum Suspended, nor hag she corresponded | with me..on the subject, I consider 1% necessary to place ‘before you and the other contributors an- account of the circumstances in which the Forum celsed. publication. in a meeting to hear what Misa: ‘Smedley: had to. gay, I . would appreciate it deeply 4f you would gather them once -mors to hear my account. The enclosed is a copy of a letter aent by me last May to the Chinese Communist Party. and copies have been gent. abroad but has not been pub- names of the people who were good enough to contributes - to the Forum but their intereat in the matter warrants placing before them the atory. of what happened to the magazine. I trust; out of aimple fairness to ae,. you oy greatly ‘regret any ‘dnoodnvenieacé” or enbarracsmeat to which you have been put in this matter. I do hope, which have arisen... I know of ‘no. “project to revive the character from the one’ I edited, as will be. obvious from: who are interested an eupporting the revolutionary BOVEe= mens here - should know these facts. “once again, I appreciate all the trouble you have gone to in this matter. Did you ever, incidentally, receive the artiole "Fasclam in China® and the newsletter which I mailed to July 13 last? . Youre sincerely, enol. “" . (Harold R. Isaacs) (Copied by RD) ae | Se | h: et H)r AVF on te yan ~ 346 2OD~ Nabe b a LD pt OS Ve 7 as/9 aie Mires eel pu Evert es aed utes Gece WER nen cea tbae
14-0000 COPY : s C.C.P, songerme- ~ Wes She china Popup 8 To the. } central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party: The two-year period of my extra-organtzational Golo laboration with the Chinese Communist Party has come to. an -end_ and the Chita Forum whieh I founded and edited dur- ing that: time. has ‘been forced to suspend ‘publication.. in the. interest, ‘of “our. whole movement ag well as in sy per= gonal interest, I coneider 1¢ necessary to record here © ‘and publien the history of thé China Forum and. the olr cumstances of ite suspension. You refused. mé the oppor tunity. to lay ‘the matter before the membership of the party even when I offered to do.so in your own organs and. not. through the coluans of the Forum. ¥hen, wrongly, [ permitted the Forum to go down in silence, you turned around and in your organs and near organs in China and - abroad you proceeded with the usual slandere of “botrayer* and *counter~revolutionery®. In so doing you didn't have the courage or the eisple honesty to state that you pre~ gented the China Forum with an ultimatum and forced its sugpenesion because in reply its editor raised. questions which are being placed before the whole movement today _ by the International Left Oppogition. Nor did you state * that’ you. deliterately Soashed the Forum for this reason despite my repeated and extendéd offers to continue publi- cation ae before on.a straight enti-Kuomintang, anti-~- lmpetialist bagis, leaving these various problems to be thrashed out first privately among ourselves. In other words, you deliberately forced. suspension of the China Forua daspite the fact, on your own admission, that its loss pasa serious Dlo® ta the revolutionary movement in - ~ China, that it meant the disappeararice of an organ which ' Yor two. years you had considered | an extremely valuable —- instrumen$ in the hands of the movement. Here, ag in the —— broader issues which léd to our différences,. your biind adherence to false policies was once more demonstrative of your Feadiness to place your factional intereésta above the interests of. the .Shinese Revolution. : In golng back over the history of ths roxin, T think -thé Vicious character of. your action becomes even more ‘evident ghen I start with the fact that from beginning to end I functioned mot as a member of the party but aa a- willing sympathiger- who Waa prepared to throw all his energies into a job he saw he could do — edit and publish an organ in Chins which could help mobilize the forces of this country for struggle against the Kuomintang and the imperialists by exposing the regime of terror and erivation which they have.in common imposed upon the masees of the Chinese people. Parmit me to redall at tion for timy or labor. You gave the Forum financial aid but I never received a dollar from you that wae not put into the paper. I refused your offers of compensa~ tion and earned my living elsewhere. Your only. claim on ‘thie polnt that { never accepted any personal oe BS was my full-hearted od loyalty to She Commun. 8% ideal and . ce re Ve : ey
14-00000 @2= our Common dedication to the struggle aysinet a regime of hate and misery and oppression. In the end you fore. folted. this claim by ceasing any longer to be in ay ayo honest or-effective leaders of this atruggle. Although you helped the ‘Yorum finanotally, the part you played in building it up from the day it started in January, 1952, to the day of its last appearance in Janue. ary 1934, was insignificant. My repeated requests for cooperation in mattera of circulation and material for. publication: went Largely unsatisfied throughout that tise. -. You never supplied me with the reports Iso frequently and. urgently sought, particularly on trade unione, atrike " ‘atrugglee, the Red Armies, the Red dietriocts, etc. Every= ' thing the Forum.did and became was the fruit of the work of a tiny group of devoted collaborators (the most im- ‘ portant of whom had no connection with you whatever) and myself who had to depend almost entirely om “our orm re=- sources for everything ‘we did and published. at every erisis in the Forum's existence, when it was banned by the French authorities in Shanghai at the very outset; when it waa bounded and persecuted by the American and Chinese authorities in the suamar of 1932, when through Brttien police pressure it was thrown out of every avail- able printing ship in the olty; when the psaeudo-Fascist Blue Shirts again and again. threatened the printing plant whieh I built up partially through personally contracted - loans -—= it was invariably through my own initiative, with ‘the help of the little Forum staff, that we pulled our- aelves up by the bootstraps every time and carried. on to a point in January this year where the Forum waa flourieb- ing and growing daily in circulation, prestige, and in- - fluenoe despite the many formidable obetaclea in ite way. The formation of the China Forum Readers Association, . ea . which in the brief ‘space ‘of threes months spread to eleven ee 2 . cities in five provinces, developing into @ mighty poten Fe a _... . ¢hal-weapon for the revolutionary sovement, was the prod- ~ uct of spontaneous aotion on the part of the - Forum's | Feadare, later sponsored and led by the paper itdalf. All these were the Forum's own achievements, not youra. | By your arbitrary and criminal action you shattered thes in tne full stride of their grosth. Because to my bitter disappointment. I had not nor could I secure the resources _. to carry on myself - owing largely to the difficult urces. | . thona of work and the ispossibility of getting revenue £Pom thé paper iteelf - all that nad been achieved and ~ was to be achieved was ground into the dust. II. From almost the very begianing of my adtive work - which [ date from the timo I began reporting events in China in a Communist way - a number of questiona presented themselves to-me in increasingly forcible form, These — a ' arose originally from my discovery of the gross distor= i tions and exaggerations which I found to be characteristic } of Communist propaganda in China and abroad. 1 define . propaganda ag the skilful, clear, accurate and wholly trushful reporting of the facts linked to an incisive, purposive
14-00000 . deprecate not a whit -3 purposive interpretation and a plan of action for deale ing with the facts in a revolutionary way. - I learned cee tem “bie Pio4 tuu sade aad work of Lenin and his Bolshevik — . “comrades who taught ue-that the truth comes from the. masses themselvea and that only dieneter can result frou. telling them lies. I have.never learned to the contrary that. it waa my revolutionary duty to work in any other way although I eoon found that the present day Communi at Party press makes & practice of distinguishing between. os OS ae propaganda and truth. Examples of exaggeration and distortion most strike ing to me were naturally those which applied to China, . "because here I could check allegations with knowm facts. I firet wrote these down to the ignorance or incoavacity ‘of ‘individuale. f felt. that Communist editors abroad would publish accurate facts about China if they could get. them. Accordingly with a friend I tried to set up. - an independent mail news service and sent weekly bulletins to papers all over the world Giving brief, sharp, factual’. accounts of what wae going on: This waa in the fall of. . “193k after my return from the area of the great Central China floods of that summer. I scarcely understood then . why this service failed to secure any reaponse from tha Communist. preed abroad. after about three months I had to suspend it for lack of support. It simply didn't get published except in a few organs which were not official ] Communist Party papers, including the New York Militant.// “It wasn't long before I began to perceive, with a _ deeper atudy of international eventa and the history of the Chinese Revolution, that a Consistent thread. ran: through the distortions and exaggerations which I, found not only in brief casual. reporta of.current events but in the solemn pronunciasentoes made by delegates before | De, plenums of the E.C.0.1. £ discovered that these departures Oe tale from the truth vere mado necessary by the official premise es eee ee that ever since the catastrophe of 1927 .a mighty, upesurg- lng revolutionary movement has been marching forward in . China to the ‘very brink of eeileure of power under the ‘ leadership of the Chinese Communist. Party. 1 discovered that these exaggerations were necessary becaueé the pren- isa-vas false and along with it all the basic tenets of the policies being pursued by the Communiat International — and the Communist Party in China. I cannot begin here to give a summary of some of these distortions (which I : . verbally cited to you by the dozen) ranging from particu- , lar incidents (the wilfully false picture given of the , cotton mill atrike in. Shanghai in January, 1922, even to the point cf transposing it to February to heighten the - impression given of the workera' role in the Shanghai war) to bigh flown generalisations like the statement recently made before the Plenum of the §.C.C.I. that the C.G.F. has won over the majority of the Chinese working Class and — the peasantry. _ In denying the factual truth of this premise, whence flows the whole policy of the Communist Party in China, I: the magnificent allitaney and courage of Chinese workero, striking again and again and fighting ae ee - againet
14-00000 abe ‘ against terrific odde in defense of thelr very lives; nor the neroio struggles waged by peasants all over the country; nor the fight of the Red Armies againet the ‘Kuomintang, : =e morely respect the cold, indisputable fect | that these. struggles are defensive, not offonsive, that they are tsolated, desperate and unorganised. with very few exceptions = a few emall strikes here and there and the larger exoeption of the Hed Army = they are without organiged revolutionary leadership. Moreover the develop= ment of thia leadership, the task of the C.P.; 16 proceéd= ing ata tragically Tetarded pace owing to the. false - policies. and inept tactica of the party. In denying. the presence ‘of a mighty: revolutionary upsurge (1.6., a Vast, organised arch toward the seizure of power) I respect facta made ‘etill Clearer perhaps when compared to the facts and figures of the monster mass BOVE mente of the 1925-27. period. Tha! tragio errore of the Communist leaderahip in- 1927 were: ‘primarily reaponsible | for the decapitation of that great movement and besause no lessons have been drawn from those eventa to this. Very. day, these errors, monstrously acoumulated, aré atill re- sponsible for the tragedies of today. But for the purpose ' of our Comparison heré, let ue for example take the single fact that in 1936 in Greater Shanghai there were 257 | strikes. In 1933 there were 82. Let us remember that on the eve of the. workers! seisure of power in: Shanghat in Maroh, 1927, there were more than 800,000 ‘workers, handicraftemen and petty traders out on ‘the streets fight=: ing with arms in hande for demanda of a farereaohing | pos , litical character. A olose cheok for the a in the latter half of 1933 ehowed me that Yeas than one- thirtieth of that number were: , engaged in strikes and other disputes during any given month and that almost invariably -. the demands were defénsive- demands against wage outs and - locKouts. Moreover, the lack of cohesive leadership @ often in departments of the same. factory or in one or more of-a group of factories = or even sometines lack of evan tha, moa t elementary organization: + hag in almoat every. case led to deadening failure and relatively. easy. betrayal “by the yellow ‘labor leaders® and "mediators? of the *Xuomintang. . _In 1935" the shooting of thirteen atudente . by Britieso police in ¢ ‘hanghai was the touch-off for a general strike which paralyzed the oity and whioh was seconded by vast sympathy strikes which broke Like a series of tidal waves over the entire country. In Janu- ary, 1933, when ‘the Japanese imperialists used tha Shanghai - International Settlement as a base for operations which ‘ cost the lives of tens of thousands of Chinese, not a single strike interrupted the normal course of the pub- lic or other atrvices in that séttlement. In the factories there were no strikes but a large scale lockout to which the overwhelming majority of Shanghai's workers submitted without proteat. The dogged, persistent etrugsle osrried on by emall ‘seotions of the rank and file workera in tsolated instances in recent years is tribute to the magnificent fibre of : Chinese
14-00000 ~Se. Chinese worker.” "te is not evidence that a revolutionary’ aeigure of power is on the order of the day. It ia evi- dence, along with the heroto sacrifices of thousands who have lost lives and liberty in Chinese revolutionary etruggle during .the last seven years of Kuomintang re~ notion, that.1¢ fsa vossible to fight the monstroua white terror which Chinese Communists freouently cite aa ao reason for the ineaufficiency of their work. Yet. it te ~ largely because this terror has not been fought effectively that the Kuomintang regime, desvite the faot that 1¢ is rotting and crumbling, can still keep the lid down on the. _botling, simmering hatred of the people it rules. Unless _' the martyrdom of thousands of China's finest workers, — ' peasants and revolutionary intellectuals is to be in vain, we must turn: resolutely away from the folly of Calling to insurrection when what is needed is painstaking education, organization and the sponsorship of day-to-day struggles “of the masses for. democratic denands, the. slow building up of a varty and masse organizations and a movenent which “Will be able to command. the forces capable of. oarrying out an insurrection. In the case of the widespread but isolated and ine dividual cases of peasant uprisings, and thie ineludes | the Red Armies in Kiangei, theee struggles await the _ leadership of a strong working class movement before they can have a sucosssful issue. The Red armies in their re~ stricted and surrounded areas and with their meagre re~- sources Have. fought heroleally against the Kuomintang attacks upon them. But until the Kuomintang ie shaken from its bulwarks in the imperialist controlled working . olass. centres, their prospect of revolutionary triumph remains necessarily dim. No revolutionery purpose is served by taking refuge in the fiction that these armies have proletarien leadership because individual workers, — eundoubtedly leaders of superior quality and courage,. have ; been torn from their fadtories and their fellow-workera ~~ and sent dowh to gocuvy key positions in the Red Army districts and in the.Red armies themselves. Indeed "ente common practice of extracting the most conscious and pro~ gressive working class elements. from their working olass environzent and sending them down to the Red districts ie ' @ good index to the oriminal transposition of emphaasia which has helped paralyze the working class movement in the oities. If the White Terror doesn't carry off the workers! leaders as they arise, the ¢.P..does and has done go in Imndreds of cases. This helps in no small part to explain why it has also been impossible to mobilize as genuine mass anti~Japanese movement in the fact of mili- | tary aggression and why the Fhite Terror of the Kuomin- | tang ha8 succeeded, by filling mass graves and innumer-= able prisons with the martyred dead and living, in down~ ing the anti-imperialiet movement or efforts toward the “organization of such a movement and paving the way for the ever increasing enoroachments of the imperialiste. fhe oarty hao not yet grioned and directed the deep and ‘bitter and often inarticulate hatred of the masses of the péovle for their oppressors and this inoludes large s¢o~- who could be won by ‘tions of the lower vetty bourseoiste ; successful mace pressure from below. This 19 begause the Party
‘"fenge.: “even permitted to. give Ruegg his honourable and rightful: eymosthizers the warld over. Nor into the wholé set: of. - ~Bo Party hao failed to translate the realities of everyday events into its program and sacvica.. at - I cannot here go into the many-faceted problens Sasa issues which flow from these facta with regard to the volioies and tactics of the Chinese revolutionary | Nor extending to:the international scene need I go into the terrific. effects of the Gernan catastrophe nor the ‘storm of questions which has been directed at the Cc ts -leadershiv whose responsibility in the disaster has be- come nakedly clear to ‘unnusbered Comnauniete and Comauniet¢- taplications which arise from the policies of the 0; > with nartioular reference to the late develonments in Soviet foreign policy, the Litvinov-Roosevelt agreement, the forthooming mooted entrance of the U.S.3.R. into the League of Nations and.in a eaaller but equally oharaster- fatio way, the forthooming association of the U.3.3.R. with: the institute of Paoifto Relations which hopes to hold ite next talkfest in Vosocw. These orcblema,-with.. their many sveoific links to the Chinese questions, were ~ the basic questioné over which I soon. began to take issue Til. ; But preoteoly because’ at all costes I desired to oarry on the Forum's oven struggle against the common enemy ~ ‘againat the Kuomintang and the imperialists - I sedulously ‘avoided bringing these issues into the colusins of the paper, .dnoreasingly against my better judgment. ' Dackward in this respect. This expressed itself in many of the. current issues with whioh we had to deal. long ask you_to- -réoall. ‘the whole uobil), fight whick the. ee Forum waged on behalf of. Paul. and Gertrud Ruegg in the spring and summer of 1932 during, which tine I repeatedly. ‘warned against the emvhasis which was being placed on. the ®légal® agvects of the case and -the *negotiations® with the Kuomintang to the detriment of mass vréssure and the - Sapitaligzation of the case for political nurvoses. You futile negotiations remained the wajor pillare of the de~ Until in the very end I finally rebelled, f vasn't title — secretary of the Pan Pacific Trade Union Secre- tariat. Yet, although I felt the struggle for the Rueggs was being seriously handicavved “by the tactics being pure gued, I carried on the fight with all the energy at ay command end you will recall that it was I who oreated the looal defense somuittee. and was ohiefly resavonsible for : the widespread presse propaganda and the considerable sympathy which we aroused. Yet the etrictly non-political attitude which Ruegg wae forced to assume at the trial ‘(in contrast to the highly rolitiosl at.itude of his prosecutors) was in my opinion one of the major reasons . for — with the offtotal views of the Party and the International. . I leaned over far 7 ‘paid lip service to the need for mase.vreséure <- partici - larly hére in China-= but in fact the *Jegalities® and
14-00000 bourgeois satellites of the Fukien militariete. +88 much to satiefy myaelf on this very point as to per- - form a mission for you that [ went down to Fooohow and ' Fegime. Yor the fate to which he. and hia wife were condemned. __ Task you to recall the whole neriod of the organisa: tion end activities of the China-Lesgue for Civil Righta, | from Decenbér, 1932, to June, 1933, in which I took an notive pert. I.gave full vlay to this hybrid League and‘ its work without. once publishing the basio criticians |! which I often: volced’to you and which in the end were | wholly confirmed by what Nanprened after the Kuomintang _aurdered Yang:Chien in Juné that. year, "1 ask you to recall. the views I set forth in august and Séntember,. 1933, on the subject of the "antieWar Con= grees® which at your specific request I did not. publish, instead, to my regret, I published the foul rot of Mar- | ley & Co., without freely giving play to the true facta about that farcionl junket which had convinced me that | the volicies which gnve it birth do not. one Single whit -advance the international etruggle againat imperialioat | war. ; ; On one occasion = and this at least I can take don . fort in‘~ I passively resisted when you requested me to write and publish a slanderous attaok on Ghen-Tu-hoiu when he was condemned to. 13 years jmorisonment by the Kuomintang. ‘Your request was sneoific. I was not to, deal with the issues which had brought Chen Tuehsiu from being the leader of the C.P. in 1937 to being leader of the Chinese Onvosition in 1933. I was only ¢o String tou ‘gether a vile series of labela in an effort to explain — “why the Kuomintang even imprisoned the leader of. the _ Left Onvosition. As you know, that attack waa never written or published. . | . Again in December, 1933, upon my return from Fuktéh, . you specifically demanded that I set aaide the results o ' my oWn versonal invéstigationa in Foochow in erder to write on your behalf (but over ay signature!) an utterly baseless and Slanderous attack on the Left Opnosition. - You will recall that you charged at that time that. the "Trotekyiste*® were prominently identified with the new governzent set uo in Fukien by Chen: Hing-sbu and Taaf | . Pang-keai.. You lumped the Left Opvosition with the Third Party and the so-called Sociol Democrats among the petty % was Spent-two weeks thera and learned through direct contact with dosens of people prominently concerned that the Lef¢ Onoosition were stoutly snd clearly onvosed to the Foochow i_haven't place bare.to discuss the relations of the C.P. to the short-lived Fukien Government or the char-~ _ noter of the "negotiations" which were going on down there... - The. imoortant thing here iv that on my return you démanded that I write @landera which flew in the face of everything I myself hed learned.. It ie interesting, aod a Bidelight on. your methods in factional strife as you conceive at, that your representative in Foochow sent back a report, through me, ironically enough, that one of the sost prom inent of the youthful peeudo-radicals in Foochow, tu Ohi~yuen
14-00000 deen desire to set forth the actual facts about the Oppo= cgition's attitude towards the Fukien regime. But once more., amid ‘ : out of my article. " - avoiding these issues. avoid all the imolications of that disaster? How sould ‘to retain some basis aside the conviction ‘py the stinging lash of catastrophic, events in China, © i en the entire International today, you denied ay right to ne \ Chi~yuen. to be exact, was A leading "Trotexyiat®. It se haovenvd ther t uot net aaa dat several lengthy interviews with Yu and by the time I left Poochow I understood his: position and his versonality exceedingly well. He Wag ag’ much a Trotskyist. ae Met Lan-fang is! Yet you sotually demanded that I ignore my own knowledge of the man and in my artiole on Fukien set him down as a "frotskyist*. I. wae faced on the one hand by your demands that I write — falsehoods to suit your policies and on ‘the other by ay “to preserve the shreds of our relationshin, I drove _ dle course and did neither, leaving the whole question. ss, Despite the facta that these ieasues weighed more and more heavily upon me, despite the feaot. that events in China and abroad were pressing themselves zore and more imperatively on the-ooncerns of every sincere revolution- ary, I still tried \to.keep the Forum balanced on its ribbon-like path, concentrating on the anti~Kuomintang, anti-imoerialiat struggle, and in 80 doing fulfilling at least a partial function as_a revolutionasy organ. 4 deeply felt, however, that I was betraying wy readera by How could I write of Germany and I write of America's reoognition of the U.3.5.R. and still Sadi to aay that. the Communist International had virtually been murdered at Washington? How oould I warn against the | dangere of imvertaliat. ntervention in the U.5.5.R. and | still not point out. that Soviet foreign solicy was in ‘fact daily heightening the danger of guch intervention? .. Yet I.somehow did so and sought In whatever Bay possible ‘for our continued oollaboration. @e We lt ott ee cigs ec Nevertheless, abruotly in January of this year you - forced ‘an ultimatum upon me and subsequently forced the break in ‘our relationship because I could aot and vould | not, a% your demand, devote the China Forus to polictes whioh I could not and do not believe compatible with the interests of the Chinese Revolution and the international prolétarian revolution: I sould not, at your demend, set to which I had literally been driven Germany and the world over. Partioularly ay deep inter- est in Chinese events during the last three years made it ’ mocasible for me, finally, to give active support to policies and tactios whose disastrous effects were peing a thousandfold confirmed for me by. the tragic events of every awiftly-vaseing day-. I could not ignore questions which strike at the roots of our work and the whole strua- _ ture of our hopes for a revolutionary future. Deapite the fact that these questions are rocking raise
14-00000 - become 'a stereo _.. Peading in Inprecorr. You even declared: . ganda purposes a.certal ‘exaggerations!*® A new slant on modern-day -.you turn them eo far offer Quo ? raise them in print. You deaanded more. You demanded that I attack anybody who did 80 - primarily the people . you oall “counter-revolutionary Trotekyists® - the only pecpie who are’ facing these problems today in a fearless, revolutionary way. fou demanded that the China Forum type for the volicies and vulgar. faction- al Slenders which I could neither then nor now be party — to. In reply to .sy questions on China you Simply quoted | back tome the lies and half-lies I've been so used to “For propa- _ n amount of exaggeration ie neceé= “but we know the. ; wn not on these sera i. tadtios! oe Facts, you said, are curious thinge. They have to be — turned around and around and around and examined. closely until their true nature becomes apvarent. The trouble ie and so quickly that they turn into something like a dizzily turning top of. fancy = oF. at vest wieh ~ fulfilling nisrepresentations. Se sary...? and went'on amazingly to Say: true. facta and we base our. policies on, thea, fo my questions on Germany you. quoted Heckert, Piatniteky, and the 2.C.C.I.'s famour resolution deolar- ing that the collapse of the German party and the slaughter of the German workers were based on the past, present and future correct policies of the 0.P.9.! You declared I had “no right. to offer eritioal comment on the dangerously opnortunistic foreign and domestia policies of the U.S.9.R., most notably on the entry of the U.3.3.R. on a straight “nationalist basia into the disgusting corridors of tre pertalist intrigue. To’ the contrary, I was to lovingly fawningly fondle and hail the volioies which have meant disaster in China, Geraany and elsewhere and are rapidly leading: the U.3.3.R. into the vacuum of nationalist iso~ lation from the world wide nroletarian movement. This I _. was to do, to begin with, by publishing Stalin's face’ on ; . the front page and columns of the oustomary, panegyrice ~ 0 erie ee to his infallibility.. Above all and before all, was to . “take uv oudgels. againat “counter-revolutionary Trotekyism®. That was to ba. the main point of my reformation - to raise | “no questions myself and ‘slander anybody else who did 60. la reply to your demand that I submit to an editorial board in-order that these editorial policies should be. | ' effeotively nut into practice, 1 offered (1) to continue ' publication etriotly as before, meanwhile arguing out my. differences. with you.'in discussione on the side; (2) to ae throw the columne of the Forum onen to a general discus- , -sion of all basic revolutionary question, with free play -to unorthodox as well as orthodox views. - If your views ‘ y were correct, I argued, it would be a distinot advantege + , to you to have such an gpcortunity to display their tril-~ lianoe alongside the puny efforta of your critios; (3) to oublish.orthodox news. and views but to reserve for myself . “the right to coment and oriticise. These repeated offers. you repeatedly refused. You ed to disousa these questions with me verbally if in
14-00000 of the error of my ways. . Signature on a promisso -10= the seanghile I throw the Forus oven to your: editorial board. vy other pronogala were unthinkable! Give tha Forus's readers a chance to hear Sounter-revolutionary® _ Wiewroints? Never that! I could only display ay revo- lutiodary purity by acceding to your demands, We would talk things over until Spring, then if all went well (1.6., if I: showed a° satisfactory adaotability to your view. voint) I couldpack up for an educational trip to the Soviet Union where I would certainly become convinced In other words you wanted my Fy note with the amount left blank for you to fill in. You put this in the. form of af ultimatum and you told me that 4f I. did anything but “accent I would forthwith enter the camp of the “oounter- ‘Fevolution®. - ~..,-t-had to refuse these terms, I had to refuse to lend ayself to a slanderous and baselesa strugele agains¢ - the International Left Opvosition. I had to refuse to lend space to the nauseatingly fawning praise of Stalin and unoritical reception of Stalinist policies which - Gharscterise the Comnuniat Party press the world over. I had to refuse to take shelter in the Gold and draughty eapty spaces which stretch behind the impressive facade and early tradition of the Communist International. - I would Like to go to the Soviet Union for a vist someday = -but I had to refuse your offer on your terms. I had to refuse, in ohort, to bécome a hack prostitute in the name. of the Revolution. In the end; too, I had to refuse to turn over to you ‘the printing plant { had built uv with so much pain and Struggle because I considered it not your property but he ‘proverty of the working class movement. Because I ‘Gould not carry on the Forum myself, for lack of finan- Glial resources and because of heavy debts contracted, I --: @isposed of the plant and turned every farthing of the proceeds over to where I now consider the true interests of our movement lie. It was with ea deen and abiding -bite terness that I had considered comrades, when for two years ~ 4% bed fought off all its many enemies on the outside. - _ Yet with 1% came the realisation that ¥e have to build anew over the ruins you have wrought. The revolue - ‘tion ‘and the building of our future moves forward and | ‘when we trample down the defenses of our enemies we shall ‘ erush underfoot everything and everybody that stands in. our way. Ho syoophantic, blind. allegiance to a name, an eupty facade, a torn and shredded prestige can lead ue forward. Only unswerving fidelity to our goal and active " struggle towards this end with the weavona of a correct and tested political line will lift ua from defeat to ul- ‘timate victory. To this struggle I shall continue to dedicate all my energies. 7 Harold R. Iaaaoa, Pelving, China Yay 36, 1934, (Covied by RD) emer ree
KOREA’ OPPOS: The Korean Senet ee the North -and ate hastile t the American Ucaps sent thera Truman s {interventionist order, the [ New York Post's Fae East expert, : . .  . [Blarold &, kaacs, admitted yester- cose ‘ ' : day, - ene - Isancs’ article Rave the le ‘to the Post's owa ciitorial fing uf - Iman attack on Korea os an act lo defend: “deimoctacy.” z i, ‘sance declared that ‘tha’ U, S. has “much more reauin: te coun 24.0 general Korean hostility than _ that “Suuth Korein cwilitas have “been “infiutely harder hit By the ; thee “Borth, -| The South Korean government! was an “uopopule one in the elec-} -tiow held only four weeks. oyo,”: i Iseacs said, regime of Presi-. . : dent Syngmaa Rhee: was decisively + . . | tepudiated.” . _ ‘ _; Tsaacy ‘declared that the ‘Ruerilla . : Srderable measure of Popular sup. } port,” and he acknowledad the : “intensa desire of all Koreans for “reunification of their disuscinbenw] ‘ , Country,” ‘To top this story, bristling with’ : *Xpasura of the imperialit nature, , a8 the Truman’ attack on Kores, byt dicated pl pi SOURCE: DALLY WORKER . FileNo, 9/09 Soeect/ POST WRITER ADMITS ALL > - eee S INVASION = people aro ‘united, honest headline: *S. Koreans Doat bebind the Liberation Annies from] Know Why Help Has Come”. — ; (in tate editions the Post in- its own awaraiss of the : : houiness of this headline by drop. - . - ing it. The new ons cunpliined: “Weak $. Korean Regine Hane pers Gls at Front.”} in "ithe Americans Ente ulation on their side, this is by no-means the case now-in Korea,” He conclides:."Evon if the war. remains localized, even @ victory, - wun in due course will be & fean- one, sad such. & victory will , .on hersic support.” Ha. admitted not be easily woo.” Wie rencan, vction so fe? than by’ | fellow-Kuseans from the: i and with evidence of the Korean] * poople's awareness of their real ensiny, the Past concocted the dis. *° wee sae tener “Ar . tea bee hel ba Hh ATS as”. A SITIES D But Isaacs made clear that “if China during the Japanese was - i fad a fniemily nee ese aw)
Cel othe. GaSe cMPAESS CPonSTA. Co alaces £9, ites UCBINIGN, - together bith Harold Isaacs of the CHYNA FORUN, E616 notiog - -t6, the United States Consulate General of thetr intended ‘@erriage, which actually tcok place co the Téth September. . ; ‘ “ta his, macriage upplication, TSAACS par ticularly requested , attentioa is edlled to the name. sting nentiened: in the. atove December 2, lyse. Ro. 1486, sacei es “Ss MEU GRAN 2 UY, ith reference te R.A. ‘memorandum Ro. 1505 of Deco:iber 4. 1831 5. regarding’ Marold JSaaCs anc his echheotion vith : wihatre. NCVLENS, 2 has just deen learned that one Viola- “BINS CN arrived in Shanghai oa August <@, 19352, -by the. ‘$hat ac publicity be given to tha rorthecalag eerencny. I¢ arpears that Maeo ROMINUCN tc a follezer of the suffregette, Lucy STCNk, oo, some fiftercn cr trenty years a0, advccated ancng smericen women the retentien of the maiden nane after - narrfase. according to officials of the United. states Consvlate General, Viclu-'ChINLCN, theroefore, Fall not be kncan as Vrs. Ts FAACS Ia connection aith Viola: SQOTN: “ON & activitios in china, ina letter, ‘dated szechuen, July 24, 1931, Harold Isaacs wrote to Vicla ECB INS CN ag folloss: : oy "You. are in the auin, ¥ilola. J'a coaing back to dive in and selm alongside. ‘tha$ ¢o vou'think? It is all extremely fortuitous from our standpoint Lo thes I shculd have sean the lisht at last. Your ' @ork vith toc and the future in it ta far more. . | Ampoftant than snything you could co out here or re anywhere elaa for that Satter... g°Ll get! back = — . HO astter a poesible delay .-.no- matter how = there. --. 2-22 -.s Bill ‘ve & job to be done ane by cur gods i'm going OT ; to cet into Abe”. os i | extract... : . 7 : . & VRE cory OF TRE Srg820 ORain ar - ba? - - HAY ATT ce Fe BSLIG fp ROM fa VE
14-00000 "setae hempesm cymes ny ne Ht -° #hia effiee by the police of the International set No. Fas OS A S22 ACD 8 Ph ‘ _ AREAICAN ConSULSE 9 ERVICES Anerican Consulate. General, ; Shanchad, ¢h Ana, Neoaaber’ 40, i831, _ Subjects Harold HK. Isaaco. THE HORORASLE TLS SECEPARY LP SPATE, ' RASHIPATON, t have ‘the honor to report that an Axerican . ofticen named Harold Re. -Yeo008 haa deen raported te Slenent asa corsunist suspect. Tho faote Feearting _ ir. Teaaca aro briofly as follows: "Mee Haro} a Re Teaags. galled at tate office ‘in Desenber, e390, and (atated thet he would be for a fsv months tn ‘Shanghad j at that tino-he oxhidited pass- “port Ho. 177026, temted by the Department of ‘State ca March 17, 1950. ‘Re stated that he ‘expootad $0" leave  Shanehat in Ame, 10315 tlat his hone. was in Fou Yor . - City and: ‘that hie loeal audress wag in are. of ‘the fs ATF 0) Te NARs LEE Anericaa Kunress Company. Apeording to Poliee reports Iensea arrived in Shanrhas free Vaniia ag a firet-class passoncer on the a: 3. PEs NERC JEFPERSCH om Doocaber 17, 3936. He wae employed by the ARAYGUAT fryer MVG POOP AND MEGCURY and later hy the en or A PROS? bus apparently lost both pqeitiong. ae gr 29 BIA, sa Sh® Pe heh ta ep as eerie... RI eG,
14-00000 poaitisns. He has resided rith a Aritiah subiest naned | ; -  €. Frank Glues nt 124 "olhaivet Road and meda a trip with - al  Glasa to Sreobuen during June, 1931. Tho poliee file” | }  @eataina a aooy of a letior written by hin to a Mies Viola. Robinson, eure of the Amorioon Consulate, Prosden, eb ee Germany, antea Suly 24, 1931, at Chonctu, Szeshven. bo ae ‘This lotcar, it as stated, was roturned unoponed to. | ae -~ Shanghai tren Gresden, avdrceaed to Harold Re. Teaaes | . 4a oare of the Anorioan Eoprese Company, chenthal, and a | "wag opened by the Post office Consor at the roquest of. oe tho Conmi dstoner of Posts, The. letter is very long and _ shows that Ieases, although previously holding eom- muniatic views, only decided definitely to turn "hea" | during July of this year. Ho states that he was in- fluenced tn thio deolston by oertaih conversations with | 0, Franc Clesa, above referrod 6, euring thetr trip to . Sgoohuen. os In connsetion thorewith At ‘pay be of intorsat to state shat aozording to 8 police report datoa Os tober. (17, 1931, information regarding this letter was given = ae by the Shanghai -Munteipal : Folica to an officer of the ic@al Britiah Consulate Csneral, who dpparonth 7 cabled - information PAE aniing it to London. ‘She police report : atates that. a reply waa suibsecuently reeeiva: the gies of shioh fa aa follows: . *¥iola Hobdnaon arrived in the United States abous the middle of Sentenver, The whela Pacliy sre coxcuntiete in touch sith Ioakeo’ Fa:ily.” Tho polfiee atate thus Harold P, igacas in Rovenbey, j 193, oatabiish vel a news arengy under the nene of the 9 ON DR as wary EMI Cag BF ss
14-00000 mS . "yar Basters SPo83 Sorrastondenoo, * cuble aidresa ne | Yeuprecop, P.O, Box 1026,- On Gotebar 6th Tanaea and Gs Frank Glass noved fren 1é5 “olnniwel Road to Nouse . Foe 6, Passaa Ko. 177, Avenue Dubail. The police atate Se y that this addreas wag fornerly ‘known as Thum ber 25 Avenue © - _ ‘Dubatl end is the boarding house at ‘whieh Agnes Snedloy Sp a resided fron Kay, 1929, to May 1030, The police roport | that Agnes Smedley frequently visits Ieanes an@ Class at thie address. — am my monthly political rayor$ Cox Tovenber, on page. 1548 was atated that the bodioa of nunerous monbers | of the family of &@ dertoin Kou hag beon murdered, allegedly. “by comuniste in yotaliation for Kouta turning traitor: to ee " the Gommnist. cause. In conriestion with thie ma ttor ne . Tsaaegs addressed an open letter to the verious newspapers a of & Shanghal, under date of November £4, 1931, in wnieh - - : i : he seored then vor oranding those alleged murders as. - , - an "horrible" and "dastarily,” vhilo at the so2e tino they : - ata not raise thei editorial voices against the wholes _ sale muiniers oon tted by Chiang mateshek, th 6 “Garr ioon ; Comender ‘of Shangl.ad and other Chinese. militarista, - | a re : Hone of the popers saw fit to publish this letter tus T= Ee ay have reseived a copy thereof, ani copies ere oielosed. oo ; on 1 have also Pooeivad a photostetia scopy of the last pace - gonta is tes the signature of M¥e Tenses. ! ; - , nompoetfulty youra, E’win Se Gupninchea, Anerioun Cong:l General, ‘Enelowure:
0 Copy to Lorition. - - L/- Copy of open letter from Narold : a..§ 60008, dated November 24, 1931. Brae pegt7
“re DODO % Rrelomure Nd. 1 to desprtah Mow? tof "avin S, Cunninchan, Arnertioan Cerisul General at shor ey, China, date: Reoenber 1é, ivSL, en tho subiest: "Harold hh. Tauncg.” . + t - ~ a _ ee es ee Cr ees Fapren ese - i, RT MIYBNE oe ypresaey 2 Ow Let eRe eg g FP? gy2e SP 3 er : eet Pe DE OME CTE MT gt sce OF SOROS Your publication of tho *chaatly’ (Shanshed Tines}, “horrible? (China Fress) , “Sdaatumily" (“vening Pest ‘and: North China Nedly ere) miners -allesedly sommitted dy Chinese Cormunists in the Freno Cenesssion brings foreibly te nind cértein ether amecta cf the Chinese ” ‘soene whoas chastiiness »nd burbarity find Chole way _ into your columns only at rare intervals = and tien. only in brief sool nsracrazhe, : { There enn be no ates to “justify” these alloced murmiorg, AP the tule be true. Vea sll hate the ugs oP a traitor, : dub wo cannet all cendane-a syste: of Vendotta Wiieh ezagte ao the srice st detimynl tha innogent lives. of a traitor!'s fomiiy. That, howevar, invelves the... ~ suestion of difiering social euators ts wides no abstract moral a solute oun pocably be aorlied. ; “BetFayal has its vriee under any social nora, Whether we turn. the cirty vor. of venrceence over to the . ‘inoffeble neroics of the Lord or exploy the less aAnathotie | but sore offeetive instrumants of the Ecliows, elestrio | chair, lethal chamber, the culldotine or the .ore refined weapons of social ogtraviany whether we consider the: traitor hingsol’ rasponsidle foy his actions - or exaos retribugien fren Nia bleod reliatiengs ss well. Jehovah, - too, visits the oing of the father upon hia Shildren, | yea, even unto bhe thins and fourth coneratiorat) Bus you reporters, whose typosr! tera quivered with. the horror of these allesdéd deolie of murder in Fronehtown sn otili without a quale e-ndone and éven .epreas sutiafacticn at miag mirdere a theusand tinos mre revolting, a thousand times nore -barberoug = but less oo in your Journalistioslly judieiousa eyes only besause of figially perpetrated. . You city eiitors @- 66 Sho moment sending your nen out ¢o run-dom the lest threoded folos to this partiouler | story - why don'$ you send then. out to Lunchua forme fine sunny morning? Shy don't you rive them an oppertunity to witness the torture ant serdar of young nen ané women whose only erire is a realistie anoreesation ef the social and eeonenic fneters ef wor:.in the world and a cenand for thoir read justnent? So , You @ iters, who wield your ed!itorial nowera go self-richteously, why don't jou o-nelstently o-amino and logically expose a -ovariucent that maintatinge iteel? largely by desperately slauchtering the flower of its protasting youth ond ihe bach bone of tte peasant on 403 who attcaint protest accinst dts Vennlity and eorruption? cnly
14-00000 - honostly if you dere! history, 18 helping herself to a gicd” so-Galled “military” porind of the cuonintang in 19f8 (mly when it la convenient for yur foreion interesta,’ however,” Go you find Lt-politte to treet out some of your faverite blasts acainst the honkiog yesine, attaexa whieh are almost alwys Uriallctely offect by the Raveont ing - @ilocies and blotant lies thet folie, Considered from your ow point of view, Megora. « Editors, the mrisrera of tieas Fronehtown people should» de brairht to Juetion and rade to pay for thetr orizes, - mabeelnilarly from your own point of view, to whist bar of _ guetice should Chiang Sai. Shes be brought, before what. ‘tribunais ean we arraign the carriacn cormandors of. Shanchei, Nenking, Hankow, the warlords of Shantung, Szechuen, Fwangtung and Kanehuria fox the livea they have teen in the pernetual wars they heve waced on tha neoola of China? « On any principles of abstract justiee, is the nase minder of thousnnda by the muchine cun, the honber, the rifle, the sword, thé ax@ any rere Just than the furtive atranculation of nine hopoless relatives of a velt-branded yellow 6ur? This perpetual warfare has: heen wazed. on the protext of suppressing “banditry." If thia be so, we are confronted with tha startling fot, vouehel for and advertised by - the governmant boasting the resornitdcn of all foreten powers, that vast portions-of. the Chinass populetion are Oriminaols On t'is promise, Chiane rat Shex & Cos backed by the echorts of tha suong senace swoon down of ‘whole revi:gea, mavsucre thousands, taxe heavy tolla from the meagre Life earnings of neagonte ond workers, And with all their cuns. and plenes and hundreds of housands cf. soldiers, they sbill fil to eradicate the ; “bandite.” oo the ard the bandits, the robbers, the murcerers? . Answer this question, Kessra, Ceitors - ond enewer 1¢ Japan, in violatisn of no-oalled. principles of Justice, but in fall accora vith the lea:ons of allies of Continental ‘ola, allegedly part of the Nanking Cavernnent'g dotein, Laokli.g the courdée, -the enllity, the inolination to turn its uns on the invader, the iuomintang oites in solenn. | Oandlave at banking and dissussca further neasures-wileh, we gy 1t heves, whl] pormit the extermination of now porticns of China's vast "eriminal™ populaticn to procmoss moro effestively. | Let us take come of tho Poets snorndieally renorted br your own and the Chineaa sreas during Key -Degenber, 1930, You reported 4,749 executiona. -From other, more. meticulous e urcesa are derived stutisties whieh show that ro lesa thon $6516 were exceuted durine the Last four ronths of 183C alone! This fl ure sounde flobular, deosn't 1¢7 Yet “or avery dinit there is somennere in Ching a rotting corosa. ‘ Daring bhe perlo@ fellowing the close of the to
‘Rovember 24, 1931. 3 to the opening or the T! ind Plenary sesaien ‘of the Party in 108% approximately 450 iS workers, poasanta,. and students sot deat: at the ands oP c} hina? 8 *povolubic mary” armies, Gne Shanghal dni ly (chinese) inte the noxt year ® itorializec as Sollcews:- @s31 Chinats- problans® ‘sould be satists notorily asitloea i? the food wor: of the oas$. few aintha enn be cortimed. . Fron Aurust to Get tober (1630) alone 140,006 Cormunists were killed and £59069. people starved to death in the . " famine regions.” : -And 1f the dimensions of those ficures aro not aetly enough to move y:u, shall we cngaro in a nit of elieitoun destripticn of the tertures a ALied by these righteous gaviora of Ghina? Shall wo spask of the * busning v8 in oll, the dDugying alive (aa were five young men and women at Tunchua-on-Pebs 7 last} tne stranmlation , the ungspeakeble mutilation of husan bodies bafore ceath? - These aren't wild nightmares. You Bhsvo ell: seon and -shudderod at the ghoterrephs which Gan etill be bought her@ and there in Shanchsd depicting Sheae proceases in . all their eriglinesa, — And at thoae, Kesara, itors, as zeit reiea “your etitorial henés ir saintly. horrert Po you splosh your eolumne with the adjectives “dastardly, horriblo,. chastly?® Herely, That.wald offend your Nanking. frienia. If you do not main tsin ailenee that besveaks . sontentnon$, ys oragenly applaud, Tor this ve oan quote you chapter ané verse Pron your own @ ‘itorials. There: ara NO creons, “no mudlientions here that  éare leok these feats bolaly: in the face... Your - masthends all carry boasts of your tapartidiity. Here” ia at least one opsortunity to tnvest: then sith cone quality of vorial: diitude. Sincerely, .. (Siemed) Harold R. Iesacs (oo Be? Agenue Dubai, Copied by LB Corpared with FY mH
14-00000 . a : aa tem, -EX COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES FILES 4 \ a SOURCE: _ Dat, | _ ; ‘DATE: __ PAPERINDANER | Threat to Turn Isaacs - Over to Nanking ary me ~ re : gHaNanAt, Aug. 9.—ThEe Wall j : , : (Gtrees government, ‘suippdrting its ., s “Nanking butcher agents, has threat. . a - ; ot : ened to turn ayer Harold R. Tsancs, boat oe {American editor of the "China! Fer-] . . oo wn,” te.the Nanking hangmen.| 4 oe . . oo - As editor of the ‘Chins Forum," . , isuaca has committed the érime® ne : agatrent Imperialism of supporting - {thé Chinéso Revolution and ruthless- ly exposing the mass murder of rove: olutlonary Chinese workers and pease: ants by the Nanking regime and the; . . . United Btates and other imperialist: mo, none . ee brigands, He has exposed tho shames! 4 . a : : : : ‘Ytul sell-out of tho Chinese oinases. , : . uO by the Nanking traltore to the Jap ; anest, American and other impertal-; : sta. ad oom wee = Bo» @ eet oy o : * ‘The United States government has 4 : : - |warned Isaacs that 1) will. withdraw - Se : : Do . mo the protection of oextra-territorisl . TO, . soe : ae .. ‘ -|rights  unleas" th 6 “China Porur*- af. foe . .pehanges ita editorial and news pole! , . : - }ictes, Under the extra- ‘territoriality _Jtraaties imposed upon China by the Jimportalists, American and’ other cite” geng of the imparilaist powers may : . _]mot be tried in. the Chinése courts, : oO Because Isaacs fe an Atnertean. title a - : ° zen the Nanking government haa nob ‘| been able to wreack its vengeance, on” btm for his exposure of thetr bloody: _ bterrer and’ betrayal of: the Chinese dmassen Tho Wall Street Governs. ment, which protects ita business. 4 agents (4 looting Ohins now proposes ‘Jte throw Isaacs to its Nanking lsck-' eys for trial in the Chinese courts Dass) charges carrying Ife imprisan< | ment or the death penalty. fe ', “yeoncede to the demands ‘of the United’ i. -}@tstes government that hé change _ , . uo my OG . the poticles of tha “Ching Forum." . a Ha ta closely associated in the anti+: ae , impevislst, antt- Kuothintang fight ‘ ; : . wits Modem: Suh Yat-sen, whe ts. . : ehiarmsn of the committee Wading . the fighe to save Poul ani Gertrude Reeggs from a death sentence in the: Chinese courte. * : | American workers and intetiectusts and thei? organizaitons should at eames zend vigorocs pretest to the rGtate Department at Washington, Ao fa attempe toetroad isaac ‘to death in the Nanking Courts ' | | arene ete ennebeteeeipe ete nak eee ‘Gas Teenie. of tha Tilted Rintag / -« ti fiy abr Pook give ae é vi c yal d > = LANG ’ ‘ io - | : by . wacdic fide é-
14-00000 Y, : lennon . VES -  Cpeaeeg oT . _ ‘ a toe . : . . \e direct to Paria for three or four days befere prococding. to . ‘London. His vieit to Paria is, therefore, atrictly unofficial. FRANCE ~ aA correspondent askod if the French Government had askod the ‘State Dopartuent - for an agrsavat for & new Anbasaddor. in Wasbingten, Me / Gorsinino-Martin. ir. Rogars replied in the CHINA A correspondent ‘gaked if Representative La Guardia of New York had aaked the Stato Department to intervene in tho casa of an Amorican namod Harold Isaacs whe is now oditing a ; | newspaper in china, which, according to press despatches, t . ce is & Commaist organ. The correspondent continued by saying that according to storios the American diplomatic officers in China warned “Mr. Isaacs that he would be. Likely to logo his oxtratorritorial statue because of hisactivitiea. Furs - thernara, his father, who is in Yew York, wants the Depart — ment of State to get Ur. Harold Isaacs back and have hin de Po ported. . In reply, Urs Rogers said that he knev nothing of ‘ any comaunication from lr. La guardia on the subject. In ten gard to the story, it ie not true that this Government has "threatened to deprive ur Isaace of ‘This extraterritorial rights: in Shanghad. o BOLIVIA-PARAGUAY. “OA correspondent asked if the State Departcent. had received any } roporta to the effect that the Bolivieas had captured ‘+90 Paraguayan forts, In reply, &r. Rogers said that he “undor~ stood that Asaistant Secrotary Waite talked with the corrospon- dente last night concorning the situation and that ir. Whito might posaibly bo able to seo the corrasponcents again today. y /\ Atl og Te 42~ B86 eC cle SAVE:
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t ' i : i ' f i fF ' (LOT, IX jet aces 7 ™ | PESOCESENG ACTON _ CLAS ACR TRS | gAcneEy oot cag DISPATCH “BECRET. Je? aoe MOERTO aaa QRAL IES BER ee “ACE. Representative] S8CT TSOLOG/WUSPARROW/Opera Dr. Iarold R. ISAACS, Professor of cof Political Scionce at _ H.I.f. ACTION REQUIRED - “REFERENCES . i. Om 12 July 1967, WUSPARROH/i renewed his ol2 friendship with - . Subject at the MIT Faculty Club. Subject 4s now-a- senior research associate | at MIT's Center ‘for International Studies and ‘has recently beea sened a Professor. ; ' an mo 2, For the past few years Subject has been working on an. interuational ; |. gtudy series involving minority racial groups. His reports have been ‘published iu the New Yorker magazine and as books, The New World of § fmericana and India's Untouchables, Subject plana to publish ia August Te bf a book on t cen Jews in Israel and is working of amother on the Philippines. ; . . . 3. WUSPARROW/1 first net Subject in 196 after he had- just completed a long and friendly interview with Ho Chi Minh as Far East correspondent for Newsweek, At that time, Subject felt that the United States was making a mistake in not accepting Ho as the leader of a united Vietnan, Yeeling that Ho was independent encugh of China to moke him at vorst a sart of Tito. . . be Subject presently ‘ds despairing of United States foreigs relations in: that our people ‘fran Washington, or elsewhere, seldom seem to establish | “-a deep rapport with Asian or African nationals, Gubject feels-that such. _ relations as do exiet never reach more than an ineffective superficial 5. ‘Subject first vent to the Far East about. 1930 when he wes a crew ‘member of the Matson Line's Malolo and disembarked at. Honolulu to work for the Honolulu Advertiser. (WUSPARROW/2.went to work for the some paper two. years later.) Subject went next to the Philippines where be worked on a - Manila daily. While in Manila he was offered the editorship of the Bangkok , Royal teil, to fill in for: St. Clair MCELHAY, now of the Rew Es _Yorser. i marry - mo C SCxg. ) Lebed Jot b= 3603 Pl tp) ZY Y( CROSS REFERERCE FO g f / GSPaTCe Syege, aR nuMSeR . UTEA - 543 CLASSE Ce Tos SECRET | |
14-00000 CUABBIPIC ATION dasPATCH FMBCR 4nd Sate CONTINUATION OF \ DISPATCH SECRET _ _UFBA = 543 6. Subject’ min’ was set/on China and in late 1931 he wout to Shanghai and joined The China Press, working alongside Tiliman DURDIN, how of the New York Tikes, Subject lost his Job with The China Press after a flare-up. with Hollington TONG, parteovner of the paper. Subject then joined the Newsweek. foreign ‘staff. Subject wes in and out of Bangkok after World War IT and WUSPARROW/1 became’ friendly with hin. According to WUSPARROW/1, many people regard Subject's Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution as a significant vark=and-a recent write? oa China, . Dennis. BLOODWORTH, holds a good view of Subject's Scratches on the Mind... _T. Subject: now-seens permanently settled with MIT, haviig bought a bane at 96 Farlow Road, Newton, Subject hosts there at pooleside “seminars” on Saturday afternoons, with MIT faculty friends and journalist friends such as Bob SHAPLEN coming by. Subject invited WUSPARRGY/1 to | participate as well. 8, However, as WUSPARROW/1 ascertained, Subject has little contact “with foreign students save for an occasional adult foreign graduate _ Student. We.bope, considering Subject's background, that he will fFrove — with WUSPARROW/1's guidance to be a profitable unwitting spotter. and " assessor of foreign graduate students. LOUIS K. ROLLOFIER + a cere reper : 2 eee emt ema s e a ee eee ee ee we ee eetec ne oe re ‘ rrr rene acc reece cee mca ot a ce eaten pone etme fom cen — ; 2 GEES at ” i _ Pars? gc ge . ! . + 0, Fe wate i PTT. CSanance. aes 3 e &. 2395 NOL UM EAIGE Topo ; : pe tye li, . ci eee ee ee be BA ss , “ . | aver aa 4 a heen een - Peemiene oOn ck eee asain belt Led YIN Re Shoeh PAL Coren, ara ne: DTT) ba as nT % ik:
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" EDUCATION “Special : . ~ ADDRESSES: ---.. China, Burma, [adta, 1944, to 1945, war corres. Nowsweek RSSSRN TO: Tadnor =~ 10/14/65 gay : _ ¢ ~ FILS 9151-14623 - , PC BUDKD: 12/1]a_ eo a2. GG Azyy 3 = fa C6¢ Mange TSAACS, A EAROLD ROBERT _ ee gate: ep 10°13°G) BORN: Sept. 13, 1910, Ny “ ns apt, 14, 1932 VY Ades Aug. 1965 to progent, t, 96 Far Farlow Rd., Newton, Mass. Jiily, 1953 to Aug., 1965 _ Bags. : Fob., 1944 to July;.1953, 333 Central Pk. Wost, NYC, RY Sept., 1941 to Feb., 1944, 4938 Newport Ava., rrtondship Bta., Md. 1940 to Sopt., 1941, 72 Pk. Torrace Keat, yc, HY 1837 to 1940, 40 Monroe St., BYC, RY ; marrigd _Shangh HS: saurrivd_Yiola Bobinge: onsen igSoe June 20, 1910, NYC, NY a4, Géorge Washington 8. S., NYC, 1923 to 1926 EMPLOYAENT ; , 1953, Mass. Inst. of Tochnology; Camb, Mase., acadomie,. research 1943 to 1950, Hewsweek, WDC, CBI, Pacific, SE Asia, YC, reporter, . war COrres. assoa. editor : | .1943, Lookhoed Aircraft Corp., WoC, radio writor, -1940 to 1943, Columbia Broadcasting Co., MYC, WNC, writer 1934 to’ 1835, self employed, Pohing, China,’ writer _ 4932. te 1934, Havas Nows Agency, Shaagtiai,- China, news aditor 1931 to 1932, China Press, Shanghai, China, city oditor -.' 1930 ‘to 1931], Shai Svening Post, Shanghai, China, reporter ; 1930,. Honolulu Advertisor, Eonolulu, . reporter a ‘POREIGN "TRAVEL: . : ‘China, 1930 to 1935, Travel, work, writing PI, India, Indonesia, 1949 to 1849, Hussecok acaignsant Pudllippinos, . 1830 to 1850, cover Baguo coafercnce é . Europa Bainly UK, 1957 to 1957, travel, viatt aniveraity -Czech., Yerael, ary: 19€0 to 1960, academics. research | Prose: _ Malaya, PI., otc. (1963 to i9e4, ; - RELATIVES: a - a Father, £. Robart Issacs, deconsod. nnd Doe ] \\ f, » Mother, Sophie Porlis, decvasud —_ : . : Wife, Vilola Robinson fsaacs, dob 1316, same oO ; PERENK: 0 FILE it 201.2476 REPERENGR: . (br eihs 201) Sergent Sarivey,. Peace Cores... $C, keown 17 yre. ; . , . ~ 7 woe . . . NAT He ot iaeouanees Frctarcled is beth pr ble Sourg i xe aerdun 196% = “Zz O5C/- Bit CY 3SR- ts Caktec » Le o pees MSPHACS Ma. tet Kabarl, 1 ONCY (55 “4 Nov jong “a
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