Evening star., 1950-04-06
Partial Text of Owen Lottimore's Reply

VI OVCH LUZ
tensive use Of the propaganda O
the so-called China lobby, he i.
at least its willing tool. The Sena.
tor seems to feel that everyone i!
disloyal whose opinions do MOI
agree with those of himself ane
the China lobby with respect te
total and complete commitment
of the United States to the Ma.
tionalist Government of China.
Some of his denunciations are
Understandable only on the
theory that he believes that any.
one is disloyal whose opinions or
China policy during the last OF
10 years parallel or support those
of the Government of the United
States. In the latter category
the Senator would have to in.
clude Gen. George C. Marshall
Gen. Stilwell. and presumably the
various Secretaries Of State
Messrs. Hull, Stettinius, Byrnes
and Acheson.
In fact, I wonder a bit how 9
man so young as Joseph McCar.
thy, whose acquaintance with ma.
tional and international affair,
is so recent, can have become such
a great expert on the difficult ano
complex problem of China and
the Far East. My wonder on this
score increased when I read his
speech on the Senate floor. Some
of his material is from Chinese
and Russian sources. Or perhaps
should say that some of his
exotic material on Mongolia ap-
pears to trace back to some Rus
sian source of distinctly low cal
iber.
I did not know that the Sen
ator was a linguist. But really,
the material that the Senator
read is so badly translated and
so inaccurate that I am sure that
I should not like to place the
blame for it on the learned Sen
ator. Indeed, I fear that the sound
and fury come from the lips of
Mccarthy, but that there is an
Edgar Bergen in the woodpile
And I fear that this Edgar Ber-
gen is neither kindly nor disin-
terested.
In any event, the Senator has
stated that he will stand or fal.
on my case. I hope this will turr
out to be true, because I shall
show that his charges against me
are so empty and baseless that
the Senator will fall, and fall fiat
on his face.
I trust that the Senator's pro-
mise that he will retire from the
arena if his charges against me
fail is not as insincere as his
twice-repeated promise to resign
if he should fail to repeat his
libelous accusations in a forum
which would expose him to suit
hope the Senator will in fact
lay his machine gun down. HI
is too reckless, careless and IRE.
sponsible to have a license tt
use it.
Difficult to Pin Down Charges.
1t is somewhat difficult to pin
down the Senator's accusations
against me. He first mentioned
me on March 13 in a statement
before this subcommittee. At
that time, according to Senator
Mccarthy, I was merely a humble
fellow who was just "pro-Commu-
mist" The specific charges in
support Of this. included just
about the same things that ap-
peared in McCarthy's final sum-
nation on the floor of the Senate
on March 80.
p On March 81, Mccarthy told a
press conference that an unnamed
man connected with the State
Department was-I quote-"the
top Russian espionage agent in
the United States"
Subsequently, Mccarthy identi-
fed me as this top espionage
agent in a meeting attended by
various persons. If the Senators
will excuse me, I shall not give
them the details of this meeting
because it has a bearing on an ac-
ton for libel which I propose to
discuss with my attorneys at the
earliest possible moment.
1t is significant to note that my
eminent position as "the top es-
lpionage agent" was apparently
an afterthought. When Mccarthy
first made his sensational charges
on February 20 in which he saic
that there are 81 Communists ir
the State Department and ZOE
bad security risks-not one o1
which he has produced-he ap.
parently did not have me ir
mind. directly or indirectly. In.
deed. he referred to three cases
No. /. No. 2 and No. 81, as "the
big three"
These cases, as the Senator de-
scribed them, did not relate tx
me. Subsequently, he referred tx
Mrs. Esther Brunauer as "the
most important case" AS be.
lieve the Senators will agree, Mrs
Brunauer has completely demon.
strated that McCarthy's charge.
against her were characteristic.
cally untrue.
My eminence therefore, as tn,
top Soviet espionage agent
dawned on the Senator rather
late in his crusade. It didn'
last very long. I was prett,
quickly denoted from the posi-.
ton of big fish to relatively small
fry.
In his major broadside on tn,
Senate floor on March 80, tn,
Senator, quite UNDERSTANDABLE
showed that he was getting a hae
case of weak knees. In tina
speech the worst charge that h
falsely made against me was tina
I was lone Of the top Communis
agents in this country" You will
| note that was merely ono opoop.