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Lene a mae ee A I ARC OO fe YLlVoaer NY 100-9061 Confidential Informant Affairs" » & quarterly magazine published by me Institute of Pacific Rel tions. as ) > eee The informant stated that His acquaintance with LATTIMORE was superficial, and hefeels positive that at that time LATTIMORE was not a Communist but was "completely naive politically". He stated that LATTIMORE at that time was interested solely in Mongolian research not in practical politics of any kind. As an instance of LATTIMORE's naivers he recalled that LATTIMORE, as editor of "Pacific Affairs", approved for pub eript sharply critical of bo evionalist Goverment and the Chinese ommunists. After the publication of this article, in the Fall of 1935, the magazine "Pacific Affairs" was banned by both the Chinese Nationalist Govern- ment and the Russian Government and a great deal of consternation was caused among IPR officials. The informant stated that LATTIMORE had apparently been blind to the political implications of the article, and this proved to him thet LATTIMORE was not first in, and took no interest in, political philo- sophies. . 1 \o7 p The informant stated that since his contact with LATTIMORE in China, he has never corresponded with hia in any way and never met him again igexcert for e brief encoynter was connected with - Office a The informant stated that his personal opinion is that LATTIMORE has become increasingly political-minded since their first acquaintance and is an opportunist. The informant felt that LATTIMORE was prone to borrow ideas from various quarters and stated that a close reading of LATTIMORE's published works would reveal a dewildering variety of opinions, mny of them mutually irreconcilable. The informant stated that from his knowledge and observation of LATTIMORE, he would ‘onsider it most unlikely that he would act as an espionage agent or a paid propagandist of the Soviet Government. He stated that he based this opinion on his knowledge of LATTIMORE's published writings and subsequent career.