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suit me and has not consulted me,
except as follows:
Cd was appointed by the
President as a member of the PAU
ley Preparations Mission to Japan
and served in this capacity for
three or four months, beginning
October IS, 1945. Although this
was a White House mission, I was
paid by the State Department for
my services.
CD I participated in a two-day
panel discussion of China prob
lens at the State Department in
October, 1949. The members Of
this panel included about Is or
80 specialists from universities,
business, and public life. Among
them were Gen. George c..
Marshall, Harold Stassen. and
John D. Rockefeller III. It was
while this conference was in prep
aration that I wrote a memoran-
dunn, at the specific request of
the State Department.. giving my
views on China policy.
90 On June 5, lectured on
japanese problems at the State
Department. It is my understand
ing that this was one Of a series
Of lectures to State Department
personnel presented by persons Of
various points of view.
Other than this, I have never
been a consultant for the State
Department or on its payroll.
do not have a desk in the
State Department.. I do not have
telephone there. I do not have
and never have had-access to
State Department files. The Sena-
tor must know that these state
ments of his are untrue, but it is
typical of him that the last time
he repeated this silly charge he
phrased it in a way that would
do credit to the most devious of
Communist propagandists. This
is what he said on page 4447 of the
Congressional Record: whether
or not the Secretary Of State will
ever admit that baltimore has
desk in the State Department is
comparatively unimportant." -
Now, gentlemen. I suggest that
that kind of language is not made
in Wisconsin.
Apart from those listed above,
my only employment record with
Federal Government is that dur
ing the war, from 1912 to 1945, I
was first deputy director of Paci-
flc operations and then a con-
sultant, for the Office of War In
formation.
With the stated exceptions, I
have held no positions in the
United States Government.
Took Post With Chang in 1941.
In July. 1941, I was appointed
as political adviser to Generals
simo Chaing Kai-shek. I was ap-
pointed by the generalissimo on
recommendation of President
Roosevelt. - In February, 1912,
I returned to the United States,
then went back to Chungking,
and about the end of 1912 offered
my resignation. The generalissi-
mo graciously refused to accept
my resignation formally, but asked
me. to consider myself on indefi-
mite leave.
Since one Of Senator Nc
Carthy's - astonishing affidavits
says that I was sent back to the
United States because the gener-
alissimo was displeased with me,
I ask permission to file as part
Of the record a copy of letter
from him to President Roosevelt
in 1942, expressing his apprecia-
ton Of my services insrather fiat
tering terms. I also file a cordial
letter from Nine. Chang in 1914
asking me to be their house guest.
I shall hereafter refer to the
Senator's great, but undeserved
compliment concerning the degree
of my influence on State Depart
ment policy.
At this point, I want to deal
with Senator McCarthy's charge
that I am the top Russian espio-
mage agent in this country. AS I
have said. the Senator has backed
away from this accusation and
would probably prefer that it be
forgotten. But I don't want it
to be forgotten that the Senator
made the charge. It is an &C
cusation Of a base crime, the crime
OF obtaining and supplying secret
information to a foreign nation.
In his entire four-hour speech, in
which he has dredged up and
Slung at me all the mud that he
could accumulate from all sources,
however polluted. Mccarthy does
not recite q single act or circum-
stance which even on its face
supports this vile accusation.
The nearest he comes to any
attempt specifically to charge me
with being a Soviet agent is to
refer to a trip that I made to
Point Barrow. Alaska, in May of
1949. He says that had two
cameras with me on that trip, and
that I have a room in Baltimore
devoted to special Photographic
equipment" Then he adds, with
sinister implications-I quote
that 1T would be interesting to
know wheer the pictures are to-
day which baltimore took with
those two cameras.
Now, Senators. did 60 to
Point Barrow. I went there as
alternate for the president of John
Hopkins University, to attend a
meeting of the Arctic Research
Laboratory Advisory Board. The
purpose of the meeting was to
discuss reseach work being done
there by various universities under
Navy grant. As I recall, one Of the
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