Word: owen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writing of Owen Lattimore, you say: "Those ideas did not constitute a crime, and they did not constitute disloyalty." The hell they didn...
...bellicose woman in a figured blue dress. She was Dr. Bella V. Dodd, onetime legislative representative for New York's Teachers Union. Until she was expelled from the party in 1949, she implied, she had been a considerably bigger Communist functionary than Louis Budenz. "I have never met Owen Lattimore," said Dr. Dodd loudly. "In all my association with the Communist Party I never heard his name mentioned . . . either as a party member or as a fellow traveler, or even as a friend." But, as her subsequent remarks made clear, she herself had not repudiated Communism-she had only...
...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 as agrarian reformers? Snapped Browder: "There never was such a meeting...
Four Answers. But none of this advanced the investigation of Owen Lattimore much. While the week's testimony tended to prove that Lattimore had kept some bad company, e.g., Field, it did not yet prove him a Communist, as Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy had charged he was. What about McCarthy's assertion that Lattimore was "the principal architect of our Far Eastern policy?" Seeking an answer, Senator Tydings wrote to four Secretaries of State...
...when Lattimore, as OWI chief in the Pacific, accompanied Henry Wallace to China, Jack Stachel, a top Communist functionary, "advised me to consider Owen Lattimore as a Communist. To me, that meant to treat as authoritative anything that he said...