Evening star., 1950-04-06

the Senator are reported by him
to have stated that they were
present at my house at the time;
that Roth, Service and I spent a
great deal Of time by themselves,
discussing certain papers or man
uscripts," and that their actions
seemed strange at the time. One
of these persons was reported to
have said that I subsequently, told
him that the three of us had been
declassifying secret documents"
This is one Of those fanciful
distortions that has remote but
perverted relationship to fact. On
the Sunday prior to the arrests in
the Amerasia case. Mr.. Service
and Mr.. Roth were at my house.
Roth had brought with him the
galley proofs of his forthcoming
book Dilemma in Japan, and
asked me to read them. The ma
terial for this book had all been
cleared by United States Navy Sc
curity officers.
The papers or manuscript that
the three of us were discussing,
then, were nothing but the galley
or script Of a young author who
wanted to get my opinion Of his
work. The allegation that I stated
that we were declassifying secret
documents is as absurd as it is un-
true.
Third, Senator Mccarthy tries
to prove my Red taint by connect
ing me with Henry Wallace. He
alleges that accompanied Henry
Wallace on a trip through the Far
East in 1914; he inSinuates that I
had something to do with an al
legged report that the then Vice
President made upon his return
from the trip; and he says that
Mr.. Wallace recommended to Pres
ident Roosevelt in 1941, that my
name be suggested to Generalissi-
mo Chang Kai-shek as his po-
litical advisor. The facts are these:
first met Mr.. Wallace in 1912
when as the Generalissimo's ad-
wiser. I took Gen. Hsiung Shih-hui,
head Of the Chinese Military Mis-
sion. to call on him as Vice Presi-
dent. I do not recall meeting him
again until 1914. the year when
was appointed to Mr.. Wallace's
mission to Siberia and China in
my official capacity as representa-
tive of the Office Of War Informa-
ton.
Excluded from Top Parleys.
Throughout the mission, not be-
ing q member of the diplomatic
service, I was quite properly ex-
cluded from high-level interviews
and discussions, except on one ac-
casion when I served as supplen-
mentary interpreter.
did not know about the exist
ence of wallace Report" until it
was mentioned in the newspapers
and certainly was not consulted
about it.
returned from the mission, as
other members Of the mission can
testify, convinced that Mr.. Wal
lace was not man I would sup
port politically. I opposed his
candidacy for the presidency.
Fourth. Senator Mccarthy bases
his charge that am Communist
Sympathizer on the fact that ]
was listed as a sponsor of a con-
ference called by the Maryland
Association for Democratic Rights
I confess that remember nothing
about this. I checked. however
with our local library, and I dis.
cover the following facts:
The conference was in 1910, moi
1944-three years before Senator
Mccarthy says its parent organi.
zation was declared subversive
Fifth, Senator Mccarthy alse
mentions secret letter which HI
says wrote to my boss" Joseph
Barnes, when I worked for the OF.
. flee of War Information, dealing
with Chinese personnel in the New
York Office. Barnes was not my
boss.
I do not recall writing a letter
on the subject of Chinese peronnei
but I may well have written one
We afforded facilities to Alliec
, governments to send out their owr
broadcaSts. under their own names
but we also employed foreign-borr
personnel for Voice of America
broadcaSts, sand we maintained 6
strict watch to see that these lat.
ter programs were under complete
American control, not Influenced
by the politics of the home coun.
tries Of those who worked for u.
as language experts.
This meant that they could no
be in the pay of their own gov.
, ernments and at the same time
act as the Voice of America.
All of the Chinese employed by
me in San Francisco, where VIZ
had a Chinese staff of 10 or 1:
. people, naturally had Kuomintane
Sympathies, or were Nationalist
in their views, and our relations
, with the Chinese Consulate ano
, Information Service were cordial
but we had to make sure with
. the Chinese, as we did with other
| nationalities, that they were ir
Jour pay.
II I wrote the letter from which
} 'lMr. Mccarthy has read quotation,