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va . — ¢ ee ete a TS ee ne eee eee WFO 121~15947 Yn introducing kr. BEST, Senator TYDINGS established, through BEST 's ; answers to his questioning, that BEST has deen a Foreign Correspondents = ---- | - for the past twenty-five years and spent ten years in China and fow 980% years in Russia. Mr, BEST theroupon proceeded to read the letter sent by him previously by Senator TYDINGS, The main oontert of BEST‘’s letter”. was to the offect that LATTIMORE had been a house guest of BEST at Moscow in 1936, and had had some contact with a Russian official whose name hp caeey recalled as KANTOROVIGH or KANTROVICH, At this point the hearing room "+" 7” becare extremely noisy and the entire content of BEST'S letter could nob ~~ |): be ascertaineds however, it is believed that BEST stated that LATTIMORB ©. ] had somehow ascertained some information from a Soviet source and had f. later furnished this information to agencies of the United Btates Govern= . ment. BEST further stated that during the late 1950's he recalled many. |. individuals who had the reputation of being "parlor pinks", but, based on ee his knowledge of LATTIMORE, he never would include the letter even in this + — oategorye 2 nes er ne oe wl : . : Pr ae Se Wa ~ a * 7 the hearings edjourned at 5:45 Pal. at whioh tine senator qvpime | announced a continuation of the hearings at 10:30 AcMe, May 2, 1950, ab whieh tine OFTEN LATTIMORE is soheduled to address the Committee, on his own behalf, | re co eee eee ee en wet