Evening star., 1951-10-11
'Nassen Again Insists
Jessup Joined Move
To Halt Aid 10 China

| Harold E. Stassen is not salts.
fed with administration evidence
that Philip c.. Jessup had nothing
| to do with a 1949 proposal to
suspend military aid shipments
to Nationalist China.
Secretary of State Acheson SAID
yesterday that he joined other
top military and civilian advisers
in recommending such a move tc
President Truman for fear the
American munitions would fall
into Communist hands, but that
Mr.. Jessup was mot involved ir
any way in this matter"
Mr.. Stassen, Republican former
governor of Minnesota and now
president Of the University OF
Pennsylvania. has testified before
ia Congressional committee that
the late Senator Vandenberg, Re-
publican. of Michigan, once told
him that both, Mr.. AcheSon and
Mr.. Jessup advocated cutting of
aid to the Chinese Nationalist
as a dramatic peace move.
Cites White House Farley.
This advocacy occurred, Mr.
Stassen first said, at White
House conference with congress
sional leaders late in 1949 or early
in 1850.
In a statement on October 2,
the State Department said it had
been unable to find any record of
such a meeting as MIR. Stassen
described. The next day, how
ever. it said further check dis
closed a meeting did take place
early in 1949-on February 5-but
that Mr.. Jessup did not take part.
Before Mr.. Acheson's statement
yesterday. Warren R. Austin, chief
United States delegate to the
United Nations, disclosed that
records of his Office show that
Mr.. Jessup was in New York on
the day in question.
The question of Mr.. Jessup's
participation in the White House
conference has been made an is
sue in a Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee consideration of
his nomination as a delegate to
the forthcoming U. N. general as
sembly. When Mr.. Jessup first
denied Mr.. Stassen's charges, the
latter said the issue should be a
major test of Mr.. Jessups veracity
Stassen Not Satisfied.
Mr. Stassen expressed his dis
satisfaction with the administra-
ton statements on the point in a
telephone call from PHILADELPHIA
TO the Associated Press in New
York last night.
If DR.. JesSup was not present
on February 5. 1949. in the White
House" the Associated Press
quoted Mr.. Stassen as saying, "he
must have joined in the docu-
ments recommending the move or
the President or Secretary Ache
son must have told Senator VAN
denberg that DR.. Jessup supported
the move.
Otherwise. Senator Vanden-
berg would not have told me that
the move was recommended by
both Mr.. Acheson and DR.. Jessup. :"
Taking note of Mr.. Austin's
statement about Mr.. Jessup's
presence in New York on the day
OF the conference. Mr.. Stassen
said:
i will send a member of my
staff to Senator Austin's Office to-
morrow to check United Nations
records from the day Secretary
Acheson became Secretary of
State up to the day of the Feb
ruary S, ls4s. Vandenberg con-
ference"
Says Acheson Should Quit.
In comment on Mr.. Acheson's S
statement yesterday. Mr.. Stassen
said:
Secretary Acheson. after first
denying all that I testified to
has now admitted almost every
thing that I testified from my
recollections of what Senator
Vandenberg told me-"
He added that Mr.. Acheson "can
hardly continue in his present
office after confessing that
his press release of October 2 was
false and deceptive" Mr.. Acheson
was on vacation at his nearby
Maryland farm when the October
2 statement was made by Michael
J. McDermott. State Department
press officer.
Mr.. Acheson, in his statement