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Illusions Die Hard. The diplomats, says Utley, were buttressed by "a minority of writers, professors and lecturers representing the pro-Chinese Communist views of the State Department." Upon many of these publicists, "Yenan, the Chinese Communist capital, exerted a fatal fascination." The proCommunist, or anti-Nationalist, coterie in the 1940's "enjoyed what amounted to a closed shop in the book-reviewing field . . . Week after week, and year after year, most books on China were reviewed by [the same people] with the same point of view." They included Owen Lattimore; Theodore (Thunder Out of China) White and his collaborator...
...Senator William Jenner seemed to think that MacArthur had opposed military aid to Europe: "Ex-President Hoover and the Republicans in Congress bought us 85 precious days in their fight on troops to Europe. MacArthur has bought us another, perhaps a final chance, to destroy the Administration's proCommunist, pro-Socialist foreign policy." Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, who had understood what he heard, announced that "I have long approved of General MacArthur's program," though Taft had fought to weaken the draft, to restrict troops for Europe, to scuttle the North Atlantic pact on the ground...
Under the surface lay a deep split in the Labor Party on the rearmament issue. A few of its members were proCommunist, more were anti-American, and still more were bemused by the pacifism which had a longtime influence on British Christian Socialism. Last week 19 Labor M.P.s signed motions calling for reconsideration of plans to arm Germany and for a world peace drive by Britain...
Hitting the Road. As he rolled through the Central Florida citrus belt last week, Congressman Smathers was doing everything possible to label Pepper a proCommunist, an apologist for Joe Stalin and a backer of that Yankee monstrosity, the FEPC. He ominously quoted Lenin as saying that the "best way to communize any country is to socialize its medical profession," and then implied that Pepper was a Leninist for supporting the Administration's national health-insurance bill. Smathers' supporters carried dislike of their opponent to the dining table, where the gag was to say "Please pass the black salt...
...present whose records he thought worth investigating. Of those still at work in State, the biggest name in the net was not exactly king-sized: Haldore Hanson, 37, who handles cultural jobs for the department, and technical work under the Point Four program. Hanson, said McCarthy, was guilty of "proCommunist activities," and hero-worshiped Chinese Communist Boss Mao from his days as a correspondent in Asia. The State Department replied that it was convinced of Hanson's patriotism. McCarthy still had a long way to go before proving that there are 57 Communists at work in the State Department...