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With an embarrassed air, the State Department admitted last week that it had suspended two of its topflight officers. Reason: they are under investigation as security risks. The men are Oliver Edmund Clubb, the department's director of the Office of Chinese Affairs, and John Paton Davies Jr., a longtime China hand who has been serving on State's Policy Planning staff...
...Mosses. Clubb is another old China hand with a reputation as a member of the opposite camp who stoutly supported Chiang. As a Class One foreign service officer, he outranks Davies (only career ministers rank higher). Born and educated in Minnesota, Diplomat Clubb speaks both Chinese and Russian, served two years as consul general in Vladivostok. He was consul general in Peking when the Communists took over in 1950, was ejected when they seized the consulate over official U.S. protests. The charges against him apparently come from old hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, in which ex-Communist...
State said that Davies and Clubb are only two of "several" officials who have been suspended pending hearings in a general review of some 500 individual cases...
They had warned him first by issuing a military proclamation: the People's Government was claiming all military barracks of foreign powers. Consul Clubb had written daily protests pointing out that his office hadn't been used as a barracks since 1947, and as diplomatic quarters it was protected by treaty. All his protests were returned, unacknowledged, and looking as though they had been opened and read. Then Washington warned Peking that the U.S. would answer seizure of its consulate by removing all U.S. consular officials from China. Again no response...
...coup was businesslike and icy on both sides. Nobody was arrested. Consul General Clubb destroyed some of his codes and dispatches, moved the rest without interference into his residence next door. In Washington, the Department of State signaled for the orderly closing down of consulates in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Tsingtao and Nanking. Nobody was sure when or how the 135 members of the consular families would be granted exit permits. For the first time in 105 years, the U.S. would shortly be without listening posts in China...