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Henry a Wallace — Part 4
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Memoranda for the Director
lattimore is listed as a member of the American Geographic Society, Royal
Central Asian Society, American Oriental Society and as the author of "Desert Road
To Turkestan" published in 1929, "High Tartary" published in 1930, "Manchuria,
Cradle of Conflict" published in 1932, "The Mongols of Manchuria" published in: 193k,
"Inner Asian Frontiers of China" published in 190 and "Mongol Journeys" published
in 191. He is also listed as a contributor to "Atlantic Monthly," theta," "National
Geographic" magazine and others and is noted in Whots Who as a Medal £
Philadelphia Geographic Society in 1933,
The files of the Bureau disclose that Lattimore is the Vice Chairman of
the Maryland Civil Liberties Committee.
(100=20685],—1 )
On February 12, 1941, he appeared on the same program with Frederick V.
Field, Secretary of “Amerasiat and Executive Secretary of the American Peace Mobiliza~
tion, at a rally held in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the American Peace Vobilisation.
Re is also noted as a member of the National Federation of Constitutional Liberties.
During February of 19), Lattimore att (300. Jone y. Field sponsored a meeting
of the "Washington Committee to Aid China." In testimony before the Dles Comnittee in
executive hearings, Zola Ardene Clear stated that the Washington Comittee to Aid
China was a Communist Party front organisation. She furnished the Dies Committee with
a publication called "China Aid News" for March, 19h1, deseribing a necting sponsored
by Held at which Lattimore paid:
This country, although pledged t to become the arsenal
of democracy has, In fact, been the arsenal of aggression."
Field, at this same meeting, stated that the United States should aid China
but should withdraw aid from England and should give full cooperation with the policy
of the Soviet Union. It is to be noted that thie statement parallels the policy of
the American Peace Mobilization at that. tims, which was prior to the Soviet~German
ci ict.
Owen Lattimore has been associated with the *Amerasia" pu « It is
noted that Frederick Fleld is the Executive Secretary of this organ advised
the Bureau in 19,1 that the "strings behind Amerasia were pulled by ommunist
Party." He | boar] that Owen Lattimore, Frederick ¥. Field and others were on
the editorial board Bef
Owen Lattimore and hie wife have been prominent in Russian War Relief
activities in the vicinity of Baltimore. Mrs. Lattimore is a sponsor of Russian War
Relief in Baltimore, wt and is be Advisory Board of R.W.K., Inc., a Commmist in-
flltrated group. Bad that Lattimore attended a Russian War Relief dance
in New York, Py eat was te attended by many prominent Commmists and Ambassador
Litvinoff of the U.S.5.R. Robert Wu atated 4 that lattimore "plays around with Communists—
and has excellent Washington connections." (61-7566-3299 )-
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