The Detroit tribune., 1954-04-17


States. Convicted and sentenced prison for passport
fraud Eser jumped ball. escaped from the United State,
aboard the Polish freghter Baory and became Stall
ms chief propaganda agent in Berlin.
On May TO- l94S, the House committee reported to
Congress:
The Communist Party of the United States of America
advocates the overthrow of by and
violence The American Communist Party is now, and
always has been, under the direction of international
Communist organization dominated by the leaders of the
Communist Party in Soviet Union. In other words,
what the Chinese and Greek Communists doing today
is what the American Communists plan to do
under similar circumstances. The harm that be
done by the international Communist in the of
national emergency not be minmized
Evidence that American Communists are financed di-
ecy by Moscow found in the report of the House Un
American Activities Committee for December 81 194S
After 5-hour crossexamnaton of Whitaker Chambers
December 2S the committee reported:
Mr. Chambers said the espionage ring recruited its
personnel primarily the United States for operation
other countries, including Japan, Germany, France, Fin
land and China Mr.. Chambers also disclosed the
mtee that in his position courier for the party he
one occasion took money belt from New York to San
Francisco containing approximately $4,000 for the pur-
pose of financing coast spy operations.
Such the web and extent of Communist operations
in the United States Government disclosed up May
1850 when the details of the celebrated Amersasia
revealed unsupecting American public, through
long suppressed report of another committee of the
House
Shortly before midnight on Sunday, March H. 1s45,
Federal entered the Offices of the pro Communist
agazine Amerasa, 225 Fifth Avenue New York. They
seized 7OO secret documents stolen from the Depart
ment of State, War Department. Navy Department. Office
of War Information, Federal Commune Commis sson
and the Office of Strategic Services Security classified
ons these documents ranged from restricted" and
Confidential" o top secret
he official report of the House Judiciary Committee
on this raid however, not made public until May %,
1850 In presenting the report that date-Congres
sonsl Record, May %, 1850 page 7532-Chairman Sam
Hobbs of Alabama explained that the original report had
been filed with the Clerk of the House routine manner
on October %, 1916, during Congress- II had
beGn printed. :
Over the period of years and months between the
Amerasa raid in New York publications of the Judi
c'ary Committees all the essential in these
l700 secret documents had been available to Moscow
During those the orbit of Stains overord had ex
Panded from l70,00o00o population in Russia to more
than ooooOOOOO population in Europe and Asia including
roland Czechosovaka, Hungary Rumania eastern Ger
many Albania, the Baltic Provinces, China Manchuria
and North Korea But during critical years Of the
cold war the American people told by Presi.
oen' truman that the most vital military and diplomatic
secrets OF the United States Government had been stolen
by the kremlins spy ring in Washington
Informed observers have expressed the conviction that
this caseone Of the werdest in American political his.
ory-is the key to Americas postwar diplomatic debace
IN ASIA The suppression of the Ameras asa evidence for
years served great purposes sheltered and
me pro-Communs ring the State Department until their
reacherous work of national betrayal had been
plished fully.
About 10 am in the morning following the Amerasia
raid in New York-March IL, l945-some of the more inn
portant recovered documents laid before Mai Cen
William j. Donovan head of the Office of Strategic Services
and Secretary of State Edward R. Stetnius in Washing.
ton General Donovan instantly demanded that the m
teral be turned the district attorney
grand jury proceedings to be started that day.
Government officers involved suspected might be sub
Penaed en- mass without opportunity compare notes on
their testimony
But this plan did not go through President Roosevelt
then IN the last month of his fe directed that be
turned over to the FB for full invesgaton All public
discussion OF the Amerasia material be avoided dur
ing the FBI investgation
thirteen weeks later, May 29 1945 the FBI report
10 the Attorney General recommended six arrests in the
Amerasia case But on May 81 the Attorney General hast
ny informed the Bl the whole be held in abev
ance until the conclusion of the Francisco
then organizing the United Nations Publication of the re-
covered Amerasa documents, it contended officially
might embarrass the San Francisco conference of which
Ager HISS had been named Secretary General Owen Lat
more unofficial State Department adviser on Asiac af