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Lattimore's memorandum, which he still sticks to is for non-support of any government against which communists are carrying out revolution. This is not a point of tangency; it is a fundamental denial of the best in our foreign policy. As to periods of agreement with the sentiment--whether anyone on your staff "remembers" them or not--they never were...
Maybe Wrong. Lattimore spoke with the smooth assurance of the experienced lecturer and he had the crowd with him. A few days before, he had made public his August 1949 memorandum to the State Department on U.S. policy in Asia (see INTERNATIONAL). At the hearing, he testified that the whole question raised by McCarthy actually got down to an argument over the best course for the U.S. to follow in the Far East. After restating his opposition to Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists, he urged one of two courses: 1) encourage Chinese nationalism even though it be Communist...
Another was the opinion that it was the West itself which provoked Russia into her truculent attitude-through such steps as the Truman Doctrine-and that it was not Stalin but Churchill, in his famous Fulton speech, who "rang down the Iron Curtain." Lattimore's policy memorandum last autumn to the State Department, which McCarthy cited as evidence of Lattimore's disloyalty to the U.S., did not prove any such thing as disloyalty, but it did prove that Lattimore was still on the side of a soft policy that could result only in a Russian victory in Asia...
...memorandum, Lattimore specifically urged the U.S. to 1) pull out of Korea; 2) forget Japan as a potential chief ally in Asia; 3 ) hurry up recognition and trade with Communist China; 4) divorce itself from America's European allies in the Far East, i.e., Britain, France, The Netherlands; 5) avoid local entanglements-meaning, presumably, military assistance to non-Communist nations-that might annoy the Russians if & when the U.S. negotiates an overall deal with Joseph Stalin...
Most of the reaction to McCarthy's charges has been unfavorable but much of it has fallen into McCarthy-like lines of thinking. The New York Daily Mirror, for example, ran an editorial after the release of Lattimore's memorandum on China policy which said, basically: while this doesn't prove Lattimore is a spy, he certainly has followed the Communist line here, and therefore looks very fishy to us. And an unfortunate number of other commentators have strung along with the Mirror's position...