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® Ex-OSS Official Will Testity~ Tomorrow in Amerasia Case Van Beuren Subpenaed by Tydings After McCarthy Charges Whitewash . By WILLARD EDWARDS fA ere nds watalliganoan vhiaf wha hag ageailad tha mat sp fi Was Lime in Lege WhlLU Ly, Will dla @woas. 201 WEED SLAY b, hogs f Tydings subcommittee investigators, was summoned y erday to testify about the merasia stolen-documents ca >/Chaiman | _Tydings of M ‘the Senate foreign relations F Ncommittee a announced —t Rat eAfchbold van Beuren, former) teMigence. chief of. the “Office ot “Strategic Services, will be ques! tidhed at, a_chosed_segsiowt to- | morrow, ——~. Interviewed_ by Probers —_— a ee Van “Beuren previously had chiarged~that~ neMbers~ of at~—two—Inmembers— of Tydings” staff had__interyjewed him May 23 in an apparent at-; tempt to induce him to"discredit. the testimony of Frank Bielaski,' former OSS agent, who led the first raid in 1945 upon the offices ofSAmerasia, a New York Cityt Magazine, Bielaski discovered tolen government documents hich eventually led to the ar- st of six persons, including tyyfa| State department officials. | * When van Beuren refused 40; contradict the testimony of his subordinate and offered inste dq) to amplify it. the Tydings agents said he would not be called as a witness, he revealed. Tydings’ decision to call yan Beuren followed the assertion of Sen. MeCarthy (R) of Wisconsin’ that Tydings’ investigators were abusing and intimidating prospec- tive witnesses to bring about « | whitewash. The announcement represented another retreat : Tydings in the face of a Me Carthy challenge. Talks With President Tydings spent « half-hour with President Truman at the White House, presumably discussing ap- intment of a proposed threg- an commission to take over t rk of the Tydings group. Bot. ere silent on any decisio ached. fPeated to the President what he has told his friends—that reaction to the work of the subcommittee | has been so bad that its eventual | report already has been discredited | in the public mind. Some method | must be devised to take the he off Tydings and Sen. MeMahop nyaings was said to_have a (PD) of Connecticut, both up f SALTO ey eee ee re-election, Mr. Truman has ‘beet informed. Adm. Nimitz has been men- tioned as being considered by the' President to head this "non-parti- san” commission. Nimitz has been: awaiting the adjustment of condi-! tions in India to take a post as United Nations plebiscite adminis- trator for Kashmir. cCarthy meanwhile an. B. ig on the | a oA Senate floor today about c¢ sees m in the State coe d_bromised he will disclose a therto erto secret document whic wr ee ock both sides “of —3 sie" e. Larsen | to Tell “Al” The Tydings subcommittee at an” executive Session grilled &m- manuel S-Earsen, one of thé’si persons “Airésted In The AMETEMSI senaeie-” not contesting tn practise anid Was _ dined _ B50 “Nera Fn RAitar Af Amarnacin by hahaa tae Wa S240 Cg, age 500 on_« plea_of and ‘the four other cases ace wore cit old a reporter he was going to “tell all the facts in the case whether they lke it or not.” He has charged that there was “a mysterious whitewash of the ehief actors” in the espionage case. “There was a well-organized and successful campaign inside the State department to shift Amer-| ica’s Far Eastern policy to a pro-| Soviet line,” declared Larsen who was China expert for the State epartment until his arrest. (ended he was induced tom RO Siefiog Ware vig Hs; Ee biake 7 eiecieail Wash. N.Y. u-19 Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols _ Rogen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mobr Tele. Room__ Nease Gandy Page ra Times-Herald of Post ___ News _—_— aok Ma Quill. @eal —_—_—_— Mirror — —