Word: browder
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Briskly and unemotionally and with advice of counsel, Witness Field turned back a stream of questions because they "might lead me into areas" where he might incriminate himself. He declined flatly to say whether he was a Communist, whether he knew Browder, whether he knew Budenz. He admitted he had known Lattimore since 1934, had worked with him as a "professional colleague" at the Institute of Pacific Relations. They saw each other at international conferences, he explained-that sort of thing. It had been five or six years, he thought, since he had seen him last. As to whether Lattimore...
Next the lights picked out a fly-blown old Communist. Earl Browder, 58, Kansas-born head of the U.S. Communist Party from 1930-45, was fired for thinking that Communists could get along even temporarily with capitalism (the Daily Worker now refers to him as "the pro-Titoist renegade"). In a reedy, tired voice, Browder testified that he had never met Professor Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopkins University, did not know him, had never heard him mentioned in Communist circles. Had there been, as Budenz had testified, a U.S. Politburo meeting in 1937 which ordered Lattimore to picture Chinese Communists...
...Browder grew querulous under questioning. He snorted: "If I had known Communists in the State Department, I wouldn't give you their names." Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper tried him out on a series of names. Shouted Browder: "I refuse to answer. I will have no part in a fishing expedition." Connecticut's Brien McMahon tried another tack. "You don't have to answer if you feel your answer might incriminate you," he said wheedlingly, but there were some names that had been publicly mentioned. What did he know of Dorothy Kenyon, Haldore Hanson, John Carter Vincent...
Busy Angel. The next man in the lights was as sleek as Browder was shabby. Frederick Vanderbilt Field (TIME, Jan. 9) great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is a busy, bright-eyed angel of Communism. His most recent wife was formerly married to Dr. Raymond Boyer, convicted participant in Russia's wartime spy ring in Canada. Field has given thousands of dollars to the Institute of Pacific Relations, wrote articles for its magazine, served as staff man and trustee from 1928-47. By Budenz' testimony, he was the spearhead of the Communist infiltration of the institute...