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Hint of Espionage. It was left to General MacArthur's former intelligence chief, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, to introduce a hint of espionage into the I.P.R. hearings. Willoughby testified that I.P.R. writer Guenther Stein and the late Agnes Smedley (no I.P.R. writer, but an I.P.R. member) were part of the notorious Sorge Red spy ring in the Far East. When Richard Sorge, masquerading as a Nazi newsman, arrived in Japan in the early 19303 to set up his Red-spy network, he used Miss Smedley's contacts as his Japanese coconspirators, said Willoughby. The Sorge ring...
...urged that the U.S. make friends with China's Communists as a matter of self-interest. Born and educated in China, he joined the State Department in 1931, served in U.S. consulates all over China, at one time was a friend of pro-Communist Author Agnes Smedley. He is married to the daughter of Henry Grady, U.S. Ambassador to Iran (see below...
...apparently come from old hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, in which ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers testified that he had once seen Clubb calling at the Communist New Masses office. Clubb vaguely remembers being there in 1932 and taking a letter of introduction from Agnes Smedley to Robert Morss Lovett...
Filed for probate last week: the will of Missouri-born Writer Agnes Smedley, workhorse propagandist for the Chinese Communists. She had ordered that her ashes "be laid to rest" in Communist China, that her U.S. Government bonds and royalties from published works go to General Chu Teh, commander of Red China's armies...
...once heard his men had coined a nickname for him. He lined them up and shouted: "I hear you so-and-sos have taken to calling me 'Dopey.' All right; only don't forget that I'm also Wise'." ¶ The late Major General Smedley D. Butler, made a captain at 19 for bravery during the Boxer Rebellion, once walked alone into a rebel camp during a Nicaraguan revolution, seized the rebel general by his mustache, and ended the revolt. Years later, having retired after an uproar over his burning criticisms of Mussolini, he wrote...