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...bantered affably with Pat McCarran and refused, on the ground of possible selfincrimination, to say whether he was a Communist or had written for Communist publications. Ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers took the stand to testify that Field was a member of the Communist underground in 1937. Louis Budenz, onetime Daily Worker managing editor, described Field as the transmission link between the American Politburo and the I.P.R...
...Budenz testified, Barnes was one of "a few" newsmen admitted to the inner sanctum of the Communist Party convention. (Barnes, now an editor with the publishing house of Simon & Schuster, denied all implications that he was under Communist influence.) Ex-Soviet General Alexander Barmine, an officer in Russia's prewar G-2 and now head of the Voice of America's Russian-language broadcasts, testified that Red intelligence regarded Barnes and Owen Lattimore...
Lattimore was the I.P.R. voice best known to the public. As editor of the I.P.R.'s Pacific Affairs (1934-41) and a prolific author in his own right, he guided the I.P.R. line on China. Budenz testified that Lattimore worked under Communist Party direction, and "his great value lay in the fact that he could bring the emphasis in support of Soviet policy in non-Soviet language." Morris flourished Lattimore's letter of 1938 congratulating Carter on the men he had selected to conduct an I.P.R. survey of Chinese and Japanese affairs (TIME, Aug. 6). Wrote Lattimore: "They...
Lattimore also suggested to Carter that the survey back Russian "international policy in general, but without using their slogans and above all, without giving them or anybody else an impression of 'subservience.'" Budenz inspected the letter, called it a "splendid example" of what he was talking about...
...then, we would have fired him in five minutes . . . If we had found one thing wrong in all those six years-one attendance at a meeting, one subscription to the Daily Worker-it would have been different. I said to one of the Senators, 'Are Bentley and Budenz the only people that can reform...