Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-09
Testimony Studied
As Senate Security
Inquiry Recesses
By Robert K. Walsh

Senate investigators today Sifted
varied testimony to learn whether
United States foreign policy was
improperly influenced from inside,
as we'll as outside, this country.
The Senate Internal Security
subcommittee began an indefinite
recess, and its staff started study
ing these main developments from
yesterdays hearing:
/. Former Ambassador William
c. Bullitt's disclosure that he was
told in France, in 1889. that Alger
and Donald Hiss were Communists
in the State Department.
2. DR.. Stanley Hornbeck's state
ment to the press that he remem-
bered Mr.. Bullitt mentioning the
matter to him in a casual CONVEX
sation. He declared he did not
recall that Mr.. Bullitt urged him
to investigate. Mr.. Bullitt told
the subcommittee he did suggest
an inquiry early in 1910.
8. A charge by Igor Bogolepov
that relations between Joseph E.
Davies, one-time American Am
baSsador to Russia, and the then
Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim
Litvinov went far beyond" those
between most foreign diplomats
and government ministers.
General in Russian Pay.
4. Testimony by Mr.. Bogolepov,
a former Red Army colonel now
working for the United States
Army abroad, that the late Gen.
Feng Yu-Hsiang was in the pay
of Russia while serving in the
Chinese Nationalist Army.
5. An opinion by Mr.. Bullitt,
who was this country's first Am
bassador to the Soviet Union from
1888 to mid-1936. that Chinese
Communists under control of
Russia are poised to strike" at
1ndo- China. Mr.. Bullitt advised
against sending American ground
troops there in the event of a
Communist invasion. But he
urged that adequate and
speedier" military supplies be sent
to the China Nationalist forces on
FormoSa.
The names of Alger and Donald
Hiss came suddenly into the hear
ing when Mr.. Bullitt told of a
visit with French Premier Edouard
Daladier in Paris in the fall of
1899.
The Premier warned him. he
said, that two brothers named
Hiss" were Communists in the
State Department, according to
French intelligence service re-
port.
when he said that, I, in my
ignorance. laughed" the witness
said, II never heard of a Hiss in
the State Department and said
hiss was q noise made by a
snake"
SAYS He Informed Hornbeck.
The, following February, while
In the office of DR.. Hornbeck. then
State Department chief of Far
Eastern Affairs, Mr.. Bullitt con-
tinued, he noticed "a nice looking
young man" who came in. DIR.
Hornbeck identified the man as
Alger Hiss, his assistant. Mr..
Bullitt said he told DR.. Hornbeck
of the Harris report and urged that
an investigation be made.
That was almost nine years be-
fore Whitaker Chambers, former
Communist agent, hurled charges
against Hiss at House committee
inquiry. Hiss now is serving a
f1ve-year prison sentence on
charges of having lied in denying
he gave secret documents to Mr..
Chambers.
In Paris today former Premier
Daladier said he did not recall
having talked with Mr.. Bullitt in
1889 about the Hiss brothers in
the State Department.
DR.. Hornbeck, notified of Mr..
Bullitt's testimony, told The Star
he had a very clear recollection"
Of the February, 1910, incident in
his office.
What happened" he said, "is
that my very good friend, Bill
Bullitt, and I were chatting in
my Office when Alger Hiss came in.
When he left, Bullitt observed that
some one in France, some one in
government, whose name he did
not mention, had told him that
the Hiss boys were fellow trav-
elers. I am positive he did not
name his informant. and I know
he used the words fellow traveler
Saw 1t As Casual Information.
1T was a perfectly casual thing
dropped in the midst of our con-
versation just as a piece of in
formation. have no recollection
at all of an investigation even be-
ing mentioned during our con-
versation."
Asked if he thought the desig-
nation of Alger Hiss as fellow
traveller warranted an inveStiga-