The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-27
I'll ESE DAY s
GEORGE l.. SOKOLSKY
LETTERS TO THE GREAT--In

GEORGE l.. SOKOLSKY LETTERS TO THE GREAT--IH Senator Theodore F. Green
 United States Senate
 Washington, D. c.
 My Dear Senator:
 Perhaps in your Rhode Island environment, you do not meet con- spirators. In fact, I never really met any good ones, except Leon Trotzky, until I went to see a revolution back in 1917.
 I witnessed the seizure of the largest territorial mass on this Earth. I was. actually in Petrograd at the time. Now, Senator, please do not get me wrong. I was never Communist, a Bolshevik, or a Marxist-whichever word you want to use. But that revolution all tered my outlook on human liberty. It brought me very close to your forebears.
 I can see by the way you inter- rogated Louis Budenz that you have no familiarity with revolutions or revolutionary disciplines. In Rhode Island, there have been no funda- mental Revolutions since the days of Roger Williams, who believed in human liberty. Since then, the plantations of Providence have been going their quiet way as an ap- pendix to Massachusetts.
 The atmosphere and technique of revolution must therefore be strange, fantastic and unbelievable to you.
 Yet, you must recognize that the revolutionary conspiracy which your committee is Investigating has been astonishingly successful. In 1917, when it seeded itself in Russ ia, it blossomed into a vast im- perialism. In 1917. there were about 170,000000 persons under the control of the Russian Czars; to- day, about 8OO000,000 human be- ings are enslaved to the Soviet Commisars. It is large increase not only of land, but of territory and resources.
 That fact stands. Your prQtege. MT. Owen Lattimore, asks for an investigation of the Chinese Lob by." know of nothing that l would welcome more heartily. Why do you not undertake such an in- vestigation?
 You might be shocked to Gs- cover that large numbers of Am ericans are devoting themselves ar- dently to any kind of investigation that will uncover the crimes con- mitted against the Chinese people by our own government to appease Russia. You see, if you investi- gate the friends of China, what the enemies of China have done must come out. too. It will emphasize what Budenz was trying to tell you.
 But that is not what we began to discuss in this letter. It waS, I believe. why you and so many fine Americans are confused about the Communist conspiracy Let me put it this way: All sorts of per-. sons are involved in this conspir- acy, some knowingly, some unwit- tingly. Let us put them into cate gories:
 l. International Communist oper- atives, including special cells;
 2. Communist party members;
 3. Marxists but not party mem- bers
 f. Fellow Travellers;
 5. Innocents;
 6. Doctrinaire believers in two sides to every question.
 You were shocked, Senator, that Louis Budenz put Owen Lattimore into a Communist cell in the In- stitute of Pacific Relations; yet, he said that he did not know Latti- more. Had you paid any attention to the trial of the eleven. which you apparently did not. you would have known that Budenz testified in it as the Governments chief witness. You would also have known, from the Alger Hiss Case, that Communist cells work inde- pendently of each other. Hede Massing, for instance, nearly got into trouble by trying to steal Noel Field from Alger Hiss. She should not have spoken to Hiss or known him.
 Conspiracies, Senator, are not or ganized to make 1t easy for the conspirators to be caught. In fact, the conspiracy is often fouled up to avoid detection. It is important then to be clear about what Budenz did say:
 1. There was a Communist cell in the Institute of Pacific Relations headed by Frederick Vanderbilt UHoys o-d nt,i1{v, ToFfa.