Evening star., 1950-03-27
Owen baltimore Predicted Rise of Reds in Asia


into a key role in the Senate in
vestigation of charges against the
State Department, is regarded as
one of this country's foremost au-
thorities on Far Eastern affairs.
Now director of the Walter
Hines Page School of Interna-
tional Relations at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Mr.. Lat
timore has been close student of
Chinese and Asiatic affairs for
nearly 80 years.
He has travelled extensively
throughout the Far East and at
present is in Afghanistan on a
United Nations mission in connec-
ton with President Trumans
Point -Four program to aid under
developed countries of the world.
AS a newspaper correspondent,
businessman and research Scien-
tist, Mr.. baltimore lived in China
for many years. Through his resi-
dence in the Far East, his travels
and studies, he gained an intimate
insight into the underlying forces
behind the political, economic and
social tug-of-War now going on
there
Helped Living Buddha."
In his Far Eastern travels Mr..
baltimore met DeloWa, the Living
Buddha." and leader of his re-
hgious order in Outer Mongolia.
After invasion of the country
by Communists in the early 30s.
the Living Buddha was convicted
of Communist activities, but
managed to flee.
Through the efforts of Mr.. Lat
timore and the State Department,
the religious leader and two young
anti-Communist Mongols were
brought to this country in the
late 30s.
Friends of Mr.. baltimore said
he lodged them in his own home
near Baltimore. The young Mon
gols later were joined by their
wives, each of whom since has
borne a child. Believed to be the
only Mongols born in this country,
one was named Owen, after Mr.
baltimore, and the other Eleanor,
after Mrs. baltimore.
Now the Mongols are at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Their story of anti-Communist
activity is being recorded for use
by Government agencies.
Author of Numerous Books.
He is the author of the nu-
merous books and magazine ar
ticles dealing with the Far East.
His writings and his speeches have
made him somewhat a contro-
versial figure. He has been out
spoken in the past against Amer
lean policy in the Far East, OF
lack of policy, and has taken to
task, at times. commentators and
so-called experts for what he con-
sidered their uninformed views on
conditions in China.
For two war years. 1941 and
1912, Mr.. baltimore, on the rec
ommendation of President Roose-
welt, served as political adviser
to Generalissimo Chang Kai-
shek.
Later he became director of
Pacific operations for the Office
of War Information, position
he left toward the end of the
war.
In 1945 he published one Of his
most widely-read books. 1t was
called Solution in Asia" and
even then, while the war was still
going on. Mr.. baltimore forecast,
or warned against, some of the
events that have come to pass in
China and other countries of the
Far East.
Proposed Accord With Soviet.
He proposed then that the Unit
ed States, Great Britain and
France, Western nations with the
greatest stakes in China. under
take with Russia to work out a
peaceful solution of Chinas prob
lens. Asia, he said. would deter
mine the degree to which the cap
ttalist and the collectivist worlds
could cooperate. He also saw Asia
as testing ground for the Ameri-
can way of doing things.
Mr.. baltimore said then that
both Russia and the United States
had powers of attraction to coun-
tries of Asia He wrote that
America had the clearest power
of attraction for all of Asia. One
reason for that was that this
country had promised and set an
early date for freedom for the
Philippines. Another was that
this country stood for democratic
processes of government under a
republican form of government to
which most Colonial peoples as
pired.
In his discussion of Asia, Mr.
baltimore said the Marxist idea