Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-30

figure for whom Chevalier was
a translator. Malraux in the
later years of his political life
has been an active anti-Com-
muniSt advisor to Gen. deGaulle.
These short visits were followed
two months later by Chevalier's
use of DR.. Oppenheimer's name
in connection with clearance for
employment by UNESCO. DR..
Oppenheimer'S action in this
matter seems quite correct. When
Chevalier mentioned the prob
lem, DR.. Oppenheimer suggested
that the proper place for advice
was the American Embassy and
that DR.. Godfrey Wyman, the
scientific attache, might be in
position to give the advice. Be-
fore seeing Chevalier, DR.. Open
heimer had 1unched at the
Embassy with DR.. Wyman, a
former classmate, but it is clear
from DR.. Wyman'S affidavit in
the record that DR.. Oppenheimer
did not at that time or later
mention or indorSe Chevalier.
Oppenheimer'S Associations.
Associations-It Is stated that
persistent and continuing as
ISOLATION with Communists and
fellow travellers is part of a pat
tern in DR.. Oppenheimer's &C
lions which indicates a diSre-
gard of the obligations of Sc
curity. On examination, the rec
ord shows that, since the war,
beyond the two visits with the
ChevalierS, DR.. Oppenheimer'S
associations with such persons
have been limited and infre-
quent. He .Sees his brother,
Frank Oppenheimer Can ad-
mitted former Communist who
left the Party in 194D not
much more than once a year"
and then only for IAN evening
together" BY chance, while re-
turning from the barber, he ran
into Lomanitz and Bohm on the
streets of Princeton in May,
1919. DR.. Peters called on him
once to discuss testimony given
by DR.. Oppenheimer before the
House Committee on Un-Amer-
lean Activities. He has seen
Bohm and one or two other for
mer students at meetings of pro-
fessional groups. I find nothing
in the foregoing to substantiate
the charge that DR.. Open
heimer has had a persistent
and continuing" association with
Subversive individuals. These are
nothing more than occasional
incidents in q complex life, and
they were not sought by DR..
Oppenheimer.
Significance has been read into
these occasional encounters in
The light of 'Dr. Oppenheimer'S
activities prior to 1943.
The Gray Board found that
he was an active fellow traveller,
but that there was no evidence
that he was a member of the
party in the strict sense of the
word. DR.. Oppenheimer's con-
Sistent testimony, and the bur-
den of the evidence, shows that
his financial contributions in the
193Os and early 194Os were di-
rected to specific causes such as
the Spanish Loyalists, even
though they may have gone
through individual Communists.
Never o Communist.
The Communists with whom
he was deeply involved were all
related to him by personal ties:
his brother and Sister-in-law, his
wife (who had left the party
before their marrisge), and his
former fiancee. Jean Tatlock.
Finally, while there are self-serv-
ing claims by Communists on
record as to DR.. Oppenheimer's
adherence to the party, none of
these is attributed to Commu-
niSts who actually knew him.
and Steve Nelson (who did know
him) described him in q state
ment to another Communist Is
not q MarxiSt. The evidence sup
| ports Dr.. Oppenheimer's consis-