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‘Amerasians” rim? . Can Be Tried By Internation! News Service Sen. McCarthy (R) of Wis- onsin told the Senate today that iefendants in the 1945 Amerasia ase still can be prosecuted under fecicral espionage law which arovides penalties ‘up to and in- ‘hiding death. McCarthy's assertions were! ‘nade during debate marking a. neech by Sen. Knowland (R) of alifornia, who demanded that MM documents seized in the Amer- «ia Case be made public immedi- aLely. McCarthy contended that the ‘atute of limitations has not run! out on the Amerasia case. He said ie case comes under section 794 af the U. S. criminal code, under ; which wartime violations may! <till be prosecuted. (Earlier Story on ———— Poor ¢)_ Hull's Amerasia Cable Reveals «| Pro-Red Slant | : Acheson was assistant secretary of _ Btate. By WILLARD EDWARDS A secret wartime cable, one of | the top exhibits in the Amerasia stolen documents scandal, came to light last night. Dated July 28, 1944, and hidden for six years by the Truman administration for obvious reasons, the document bares pro-Soviet influence in the State department at top levels. The cable is marked “Hull to Chungking” and is a confidential Inessage to the American ambas- sador in Ching. Cordell Hull, then state secretary, resigned in No- vember 1944. Now ailing, he was not available for comment on whether he authorized the dis- patch, which bore! his name, with its startling impliqations. At the time tlie message was sent, John Carter Vincent, now minister to SvWiteerland, was head of the office of Chinese af- fairs. Alger Hiss, convicted re- information from Chinese Com. munists which he passed on to the late President Roosevelt. The message also shed light on testimony before a House commit tee in [946 that Amerasia was circulated in the State and other departments as “an important textbook.” The Hull message was one of 1,700 secret governmen papers locked from the public gaze since they were seized by the FBI in 1945 in the offices of Amerasia in New York City. A huge photostat ing apparatus was discovered and investigators reported there was no doubt that the magazine was being used to funnel a constant stream of confidential papers to Soviet Russia. Jaffe and five others, including two State department officials, John S. Service and Emmanuel Larsen, were arrested in what | FBI termed an “alrtight” case, Seven months later, all six were free, Two had been fined and the our _othey cases were cToppeu-vy included one, bearing the signa- This paper learned the text of| the Huil document shortly after James Mt” McInerney, chisfsct+ne Justice department's crimifa] di- vision, told reporters he had studied all the documents in the Amerasia case and denied they ture of Hull, plugging Amerasia cently of perjury to conceal espionage, was deputy director of special political affairs. Dean The dispatch quoted the pro- Soviet magazine, Amerasia, in out- lining policy for China and Japan... Earl Browder, then head of the Communist party, had a hand in the founding of Amerasia. Philip datffe, its editor, was arrested less than a year later for the theft of hundreds of secre documents drom government departments. He finally pleaded guilty but received the light penalty of a $2,500 fine 4o a deal with the Justice depart- ment into which an investigation was recently reopened. The contents of the cable sup- ports Communist leader Browder’s: boast before a congressional com:| mittee recently that he was a war +a White House agent, securing an authoritative policy source. ‘The “Hull to Chungking” cate, fhllows: “July issue of Amerasia ste: gests possibility of using Japanese Susomo Okano in the rule of ‘Tite of Japan’ to help Japanese people: to establish a government which | will discard aggression and the present ruling oligarchy. | “The magazine however voices, uncertainty as to whether the United States State department will support the program advo- cated by Okano and his followers or whl prefer to favor the s0-| ealled liberal elements in Japan’s present ruling class. Red Tieup Plan Cited “The same issue proposed that the opposition to Japan through- out eastern China should be strengthened by the Allies through establishing a close worFing rela- tionship with the guerrilla Com. munist forces now operating be- hind the Japanese lines and to bolster the activities with material and financtal aid. I “Amerasia advocates that the ellies follow the policy adopted toward the guerrilla group of Yugoslavia where political consid- erations were eventually super- seded by military necessity. “Amerasia claims to have in- formination proving the northern; guerrilla forces (COTIMUTISt) | have carried on their resistance! teneom, 4-26 Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin a Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Room__ Nease _ Gandy Lo Page a . ¥ Times-Herald / 0 SPAN LAST Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star .__ N.Y. Mirror —_— Date: GS b9 ”