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se oe v : 4 , 9. Scnptor McCarthy said at Chicago: "First take the case of F- Philipyycseup, the State Departinent's Ambassador at Large. Now, & here whs really a great joiner, especially Comaunist front. 3 orgenizations.,.organizations which the President's own Attorney M4 General and Congressional committee have labeled as agents of the #2 Comminist Party." 99. | PE ARV E NW Be at i i” a: “+ st 2 a wer ‘The Facts. . In view of Senator McCarthy's repeated assertion: - the Department wrote to Mr. Morgan, Counsel of the Sutcommittec o: the Senate Foreign Relations Comaittee, investigating Senator MeCarthy's charges, to see if Senator McCarthy had gupplicd them with any information to back up these charges. Mr. Morgan replied that Senator McCarthy has net supplied any such material. The only documentary material supplied to the committee cancernin: the organizational affiliations or assecintions of Ambassador Joscsup was provided by Senator Hickenlooper, a photostat of one ictterhead of the Amcrioan Law Students Association listing | Professor Thilip Jessup of Columbia University on the Association! "Pacuity Advisory Board." The Anertean Law Students Association tle ooh disted by the Attorney Gcneral and does not appear on the . of "Citations by Official Government Agencics" issued in iz+3 by the House Committec on UnAmerican Activities. , ,~he correspondence with Mr, Morgan is attached. (See pp, 10 and jl.) br, dossup testified, before the Subcommittee, that he had Joined no Connunist-front organizations, whereas the organiza- tions to which he did belong included the following: The fuerdean Legion (He is a former commander of Utica Fost #229 cS feu The Amoriesn Philocorhical Sasicty The Forelen lolicy Association The Arériecan Bar Assoaintion Cn April 6, 1950 the Utica Fost #229 passed a resolution concerning Scnator MeCarthy's attack upon their past commander, Fhilin ¢c#dessup. A copy of this resolution is attached. It will be yoted that a copy of it was sent to Senator McCarthy with the admonition that "his reckless and despicable conduct in this instance cannot te cenconcad by any wvicht-thinking American and should néver be repeated if he hopes to retain « shred of public ee reancet. (For cory of resolution, sect pp. 11 and 12) 10. Senrtcr McCartny catd at Chicago: “Jessup ... was largely - in charge cf a nublicatica known as the Far Eastern Survey, the Publication of the riean Counsil of the Institute of Pacific Relations; that he wa perfubes Communist Pa Wake Tr weave Wh RCV AL LY n charge while it was spewing forth the The Facts. Senator McCarthy erossly exaggerated Pr. Joecsup!; relationehtp with "Far Eastern survey" based on the single fact ‘that in 1944 Dr. Jessup served on the Research Advisory Committee of the American Council -of.the Institute of Pacific Relationa, Senator McCarthy's allegation that UFar Eastern Surey" follewed the Communist Party originates [n discredited contention: made by one Alfred Kohlberg in 1944, The American Couneil of the Institute of Pacific Relations investigated Kohlberg's charges. In a document circulated to its members, it was demonstrated that Kohlberg had ignored the overwhelming number of facts that did not support hia contention