Evening star., 1950-03-20

AMBASSADOR P
As he tes
of conscious or ignorant support
of Communism at a member of the
United States Senate-or at ar
official of the United States Gov
ernment-is irresponsible. I have
no evidence that Senator Nc
Carthy was motivated by a desire
to assist the international Com
munist movement even though his
words and actions have had that
effect. I therefore reject this first
possibility concerning the reasons
for the insinuations made against
me-
| A second possibility might be
that such an attempt to discredit
the position of the United States
in it's relations with the other
free countries of the world was
inspired by sheer partisanship. 1t
is hard to believe that any one
holding the position of member
of either House of Congress of the
United States would so subordi-
nate the interests of his country
to sheer partisan advantage. am
sure no one of our major parties
would do so. I shall therefore pass
on to a third possibility.
The third possibility might be
that the person bringing these
charges had made a careful in
vestigation and was convinced
they were true and so serious
that they ought to be made pub
lie before the individual con-
cerned had been asked for his
side of the story.
Was Sponsor of Dinner.
Are these charges and insinua-
tions true? Senator Mccarthy
asserts that I was a sponsor" of
the American-Russian Institute.
It is true that my name appears
on list of the sponsors of din
Iner given by the American
Russian Institute, but not as a
sponsor of the organization itself
The dinner in question was one
given on May 7. 1916. on the oc-
casion of the presenta ton of its
first annual award to Franklin D.
Roosevelt which was accepted on
behalf of his family. Senator
Mccarthy pointed out that the
names of Howard Fast, Saul
Mills, Ella Winter, John Howard
Lawson, and Langston Hughes
also appear on the list. He did
not point out that approximately
100 people were named on this
list of sponsors and that it also
included the names of H. v. Kali
tenborn, George Fielding Eliot,
Dean Christian Gauss of Prince
ton, and Mary Emma Wooley,
| former president of Holyoke.
From approximately February to
June of 1916, I was seriously ill
in a hospital in New York City,
so it is unlikely that I attended.
do recall, however, that l was
asked by Mr.. William Lancaster
a prominent New York lawyer, to
permit my name to be used as a
sponsor of dinner which was to
be held on October 10, 1914. ]
had met Mr.. Lancaster through
his activities on the Foreign Policy
Association, at a time when Gen.
Frank Mccoy was president and
Senator Alexander Smith and ]
were members of the board. ]
accepted but was unable to attend
the dinner. I shall be glad to
make the entire list of approx
mately $50 sponsors available to
the committee.
It is utterly irrelevant to the
charges or insinuations that I or
any one else agreed to sponsor
dinners of the American-Russian
Institute of New York City in
1914 or 1916. There was no rea-
son why a loyal American should
not have done so. The Attorney
General expressly excluded the
American-Russian Institute OF
New York from the first lists OF
subversive publications which
were published and did not in
clude it until April 81. 1949. The
committee may be interested in
knowing that I turned down invi-
tations to speak at dinners held
by this organization in both 194s
and 1949.
Jessup Lists Organizations.
During the course of my life
have participated in many organ
izations. They include the Amer
lean Philosophical Society, the
Foreign Policy Association, the
tAmerican Society of international
Law, the Sigma Phi Society. the
Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace, the American Bar
Association and the American lie.
gion. From 1888 to 1916 I was
closely associated with the Insti-
tute of Pacific Relations. I am
proud of my association with that
organization which was founded
by a group of leading businessmen
land scholars in Honolulu some
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