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| ee gh Oe « run ramet wo. 94 *, Office Mev: © dum ¢ UNITEL G TO : Director, FBI : DATE: May 2, _. + F? seo auy HOTTEL, SAC, Washington Field V4 : —_ y SUBJECT: SUB-COMMITTER OF SENATE FOREIGN Pers art ATS SOUT Pee ude eh — er. Cd / ALLEGATIONS OF SENATOR JOSEPH MoCARTHY ’ LOYALTY OF GOVERNMENT EXPLOYEES ; X | Reference my previous memorandums this date concerning t 5 * of OWEN LATTIMORE. | ™~ Yon In answer to questions by Senator MoMAHON, LATTIMORE stated he 1 4 had been denounced in Moscow. He stated he had been called “bad as Hanlet* $ nN = and a “learned lackey ¢ of Imperialism", LATTIMORE stated Western writers ra | TOR BB asuatay get the cold shoulder in Russie end that their publications are | y le merely ignored. LEX LATTIMORE was asked if be ever had a discussion with the President is « * of Johns Hopkins University relative to LATTIMORE's association with the : % . Secretary of the Commmiat Party in Baltimore. LATTIMORE stated that tq t [ y, : dest of his recollection he had never had such a meeting. ¢ t * . s 7 Counsel MORGAN then questioned LATTIMORE relatives to his ati aigs arise “ 5 . association with various organizations. When asked about the National X + ¥ Emergency Congress for the Protection of Human Rights, Counsel FORTAS s o MS that this organization was the Conference of Demooretic Rights, which was y he affiliated with the above named organization. LATTIMORE stated that he had been a sponsor of a meeting on June 14 and 15, 1940, but that he had never belonged to the organization, He was “further questioned as to his association with the Washington Committee to Aid Free China. LATTIMORE stated he spoke onee in Washington in 1939 or 1940, but at that time he had no reason to be- lieve thé organization was subversive. : i | Counsel MORGAN then questioned LATTIMORE relative to a nusber of statements appearing in the latter's book, "Solution in Asia", whioh was Z published in 1945. MORGAN called attention to Pages 95 and of, in whi LATTIMORE had made the statement that the White terror was as bad as the Red. LATTIMORE stated that this was a factual statemoat of the mature of civ}? war in agricultural countries. He stated a war of this type is characterized by extreme brutality and slaughter on both sides. MORGAN then questioned the witness as to whether or not Chinese Communists would participate in a ooali- tion government. LATTIMORE atated the answer to a question like this is - different “in 1950 from what it was in 1945, He stated that in 1946, the Com wmunists did cooperate in the coalition government. —_— a RECORDED - 114 (al; 33398- Hf. ee ee . —_ / Nee BRE tee {