Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Back in the U.S., Field devoted his attention to Asia. He worked hard for the respectable Institute of Pacific Relations. He took no pay; he was, in fact, one of the institute's most generous contributors...
Then Norman Thomas' Socialism began to pall. Field decided it was time to get up in the vanguard of the proletarian revolution. Whether he became a Communist card holder or not, he acted and talked like one, throwing himself with furious concentration into Communist activities...
...concentration was interrupted when his wife left him, divorced him and married his old crony from Harvard days, Joseph Barnes, who later became Moscow correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, then editor of the leftish, ill-starred New York Star. But the interruption was only momentary. Field poured money into Red activities, put on $100-a-plate dinners for C.P. causes, slavishly followed the party line-and married wealthy Edith Chamberlain Hunter of California, who was once a diligent worker in Red vineyards, but who describes herself vigorously as not a Communist...
...Roof. A little miffed when the U.S. Military Intelligence turned down his offer to serve as an expert in Far Eastern affairs, Field spent the war echoing Moscow's demands for a second front and helping plan and finance a scheme to bring the most active Red fronts under one roof. A busy hive of half a dozen front groups is the old three-story Astor office at 23 West 26th Street. Field supports it with his inherited wealth...
...Field who was the most conspicuous of the delegation which turned up last fall with bail for the eleven Communist leaders in New York; he and friends of the Civil Rights Congress put up $260,000 in Government bonds. This is the role -angel of Communism-which Field still plays most satisfactorily for the Reds...