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FJMzame NY 100-94061 The Informant further advised that LATTIMORE subsequently re- turned to the United States to be employed by the Office of War Information. Le A DRM This Informant further advised that he did not believe that LATTIMORE wag_a the Communist Party. He said that LATTIMORE, when he knew hin » Was a believer in the resurgence of Russia i as a world power ening of colonial peoples. The Informant went on to explain that LATTIMORE, having been raised in northwestern China, : considered that part of the world to be his nation in the same way that an immigrant to the United States from a foreign country feels a sympathy for his native land. Informant went on to explain that northwest China had been persecuted by the Chinese people and had looked to Russia, even before the Communist revolution, for protection. Informant said that LATTIMORE had a hese people end taconism toward the "Chinese persecutors. . LATTIVFORE felt that his soul belonged in that part o e world and Informant compared him te a religious, who with the same feelings would be sent to that part of the world to do his wrk. Informant said that he believed that this attitude of LATTIVORE's had colored all his writings, that an analysis of it would show that LATTIMQRE believed in the inevitability of Russian domination of the world and it was therefore better that the United States make some agreement with Russia while there was still tine. 179 The Informant advised that he did not know the origin of the relationship between ices VANDERBILT. FIELD and OVEN LATTIMORE, The In- cad CK VANDERBILT FIELD, was a Marxist and attach é principles of Soviet Russia. LID crn ae HORE “TRCN AY SOREL REA -NRRYMITS oh + 24 | "