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...between times produced some first-class fighting men. Examples: the Revolutionary War's Nathanael Greene, the Marine Corps' late Smedley Butler...
Died. Agnes Smedley, 56, Missouri-born journalist, Daily Worker contributor, fervent propagandist for a Communist China (China Fights Back), free-lance foreign correspondent in Soviet-dominated lands; after long illness; in Oxford, England...
...blundered, the Army admitted, in dishing up a fortnight ago the warmed-over, spiced-up story of pre-Pearl Harbor spying for Russia by Japanese and German Communists in Japan (TIME, Feb. 21). Most of all, it had blundered in charging, without documentation, that leftish Journalists Agnes Smedley and Guenther Stein were actually Russian spies...
...Division, called the whole thing a "faux pas." Said the colonel: the report had been "improperly edited," and should never have been put out "with the philosophy that Americans might well look askance at their neighbors." The Army, he said, had no evidence of spying by Stein or Miss Smedley, and it was not a U.S. policy to "tar and feather people without proof." Journalist Smedley said she was grateful, but added: ". . . the retraction rarely catches up with...
What made the story headline news in the U.S. was that MacArthur's G2, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, whose staff prepared the report, had included (as had Plain Talk) the names of two old workhorse propagandists for a Communist China. They are U.S. Journalist Agnes Smedley, who does most of her writing for leftish U.S. publications, and German-born Foreign Correspondent Guenther Stein, a British subject, who has written for the Christian Science Monitor. Willoughby's report charged that both were spies in the Sorge net, but it did not document the charge and both hotly denied...