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...prepared to repeat his charges in public, as Lattimore had demanded, and dared anyone to sue him for libel. But what he produced was a far cry from his original talk of Communism and espionage; it was simply a weasel-worded statement that Owen Lattimore, Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup and the State Department's John Service sometimes agreed with policies that paralleled the Kremlin line...
...Philip Jessup, who went to the Far East in December by slow boat, had hurriedly flown home. The U.S.'s long-nosed, soft-eyed roving ambassador had traveled 26,000 miles, looked in on a dozen Asiatic countries. He had nothing to say about his trip for publication. But last week, by obvious coincidence, the newspapers car ried reports about the Far East emanating from a "well-traveled source...
This week, behind closed doors, Jessup will report to members of the foreign affairs committees of both houses...
This week, roving Ambassador Philip C. Jessup hurried home from a round-the-world trip to answer McCarthy's roundhouse accusation that Jessup has "an unusual affinity for Communist causes." He brought with him a letter from General George Marshall, who wrote Jessup that he was "shocked and distressed by the attack on your integrity," and another from General Dwight Eisenhower, saying that "no one who has known you can for a moment question the depth or sincerity of your devotion to the principles of Americanism...
...Said Jessup: "While I was [in the Far East] I was attacked by two sources-Izvestia and Senator McCarthy. Anyone who believes in the concept of guilt by association might draw some startling conclusions from this fact. However, I do not believe in the concept of guilt by association. I do believe that anyone who, without adequate proof, levels a charge of conscious or ignorant support of Communism ... at an official of the United States Government, is irresponsible...