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Forrestals Role t eee L/AiSClIOSea D Tried Only Ke {Secretary Sought ¢ {To Notify Truma Of Arrest Plans By Cecil Holland ’ Information has been found in the secret rsonal diary of the late James V. ‘Morrestal dispelling the mystery of\who reportedly sought fo delay arrests in the i045 Amerasia magazine case, it was learned today. The material will confirm re- ports thal it was Mr. Forrestai —_ ee eae neal Gcld to Be Returned te Brooklyn if He Pege A“ “Follinformation of all the facts in Wants Trial. ee nnn een himself. then Secretary of the Navy, who imervened in the case to be sure that President Tru- man was fully informed of the matter and not, apparently, with any inirniion of delaying the ar- rests. Tip deta, fi is expected, wil! be mo: ee dletle Wandev te th ile se & wah 6 Tha tae a Ree Viate eer ah PE Lu aa case ast patio ood (tS investigation at -harges of conmimunism in tBe tate Deparimenit, 'Feared Truman Embarrassment. ("t will show: 1. Mr. Forrestal acted on hi pwn initiative and from the high est motives since he feared arrest, at that time in the alleged theft of classified Government documents would “greatly embarrass” Presi- dent Truman in his dealings with Russia during the critical days during which the Untted Nations was being established at the San Francisco Conference. 3. Mr, Forrestal telephoned FBI trector J. Edgar Hoover and urped him to have Tom Clark-—- then in charge of the the Justice Department's Criminal Division and now a Supreme Court justice —see that the President was “in the matter as well as their impli- cation.” 3. That Mr. Forrestal said he directed James BNaraaman, then the White House val aide, “to see that the President was in- formed on the matter,” Informed of the notes in Mr. Forrestal's papers, Mr. Vardaman,: roverner of the Federal aba UF elie ee row 9 | These eed. Lake ree -o” BPO Chal 28 Gadd not See COMMUNISTS, Page _A-2.), OnLt Tolson Ladd Clege Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Roum_ Neéase Gand" erasia Case 7 VL j ‘WOT RECORDED. ‘Times-Heraid _.. Wash. Fost _. Wash, Star ALl&2 K.Y. Mirro: 1950 Date; yt?