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100-1630 Baltimore LALTINOR iS, according to this sane infornant , thon asked HACAULAY whi the nonce LASRY“ADLEA, the harmonica player of Baltinore, wis listed by the Arerican Legion, MACAULAY statod that he aid not know and that there worc o nunber of nenes on tho list that left hin mystific4d, The informant was unable to furnish any furthcr infornation as to wrat MACAULAY meant when he told LATTINONS that it wos his own foult that his nance appeared on the list, but expressed the opinion that it is because , MaCAULAY ig acquainted with the fact LATTIVORE has idontified hinsolf in tho post with Communist front groups, which have been publicized in the press, Concerring LATTINORE's most recent book "The Situation in Asia’, T-l1 advised on April 12, 1949, thot he hai a discussion with Mrs, OVEN LATTIGRS conccrning reecnt book reviews on this book, Mrs, LATPINORS on this ocension informed him thet she thought all of the book reviews were soo excent the one which appeared in the "New York Tines", which she considered very criticcl, The book review which opnearcd in the "New York Tines" of April 10, 1949, is by STUART/LILLICO, fornerly a newspapermnon in China and Jepan, In part his conrents on LATTIMORE!'s book are sct out as follows: i "Tho trouble with Asia, according to OWEN LATTIUORE, is that the whole contincnt is out of control, Nothing thet the United States or its | allics eon do, he contents, will cver put the Yost back in control of < the lands and peoples fron "Suez to the western Pacific, However, in \ he Situation in Asia! he cxplains what can still be s-lvaged and how it can be donc, His progran calls for rcorientation of American \ES particularly our insistence on tlaw and order! in prefercnce to denocratic progress, "It is doubtful whether the United States has another man so well inforned on northeastern Asie~—ani at the sanc tine so litorato— as OWEIT LATTIMOSE, "Scores of students of the Far Enst ore indebted to Mr, LATTINO2s for their knowledge, their theorics andi their sympathios, ‘Tho Situation in Asin,'therefore, ig likely to have n definite influence on inforned Ancrican thinking, "Yt is difficult to reduce Mr, LATTINORE's reasoning to a fow words, but it is approximately thist The West can no longer control events in Asia, In all but a few negligible statcs notionnlisn is in the saddle, The West simply docs not have the strength to restoro the old colonial order under any disguise, and the United States is doing