McCARTHY AGAIN ATTACKS STATE DEPT. OFFICIALS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23218, 1 April 1950, Page 5

McCARTHY AGAIN ATTACKS STATE DEPT. OFFICIALS

(N.Z.P.A. —Reuter —Copyright.) (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 31. Senator McCarthy yesterday continued his attack on the State Department when he displayed papers in the Senate which, he said, were “documentary evidence” to back up his charge that Professor Owen Lattimore was a Russian agent. Professor Lattimore, who is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University, is at present on his way home from a United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan to reply to Senator McCarthy's charges. Senator McCarthy said the papers were affidavits showing Professor Lattimore, firstly, was important in Communist Party circles for years; secondly, was a Soviet agent and was or had been a member of the Communist Party; thirdly, had been in Moscow in 1936 receiving instructions from the Soviet Government.

Senator McCarthy said he would turn the documents over to a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent. He said that Professor Lattimore had a position of tremendous power in the State Department’s formation of Asiatic policy. Senator McCarthy, at one point in a long speech, said he perhaps had placed too much stress on the charges that Professor Lattimore was the “top Russian espionage agent” in the United States. He added; “More important than whether Professor Lattimorde is or is not a spy is Professor Lattimore's great influence on the State Department policy and whether his aims are American aims or coincide with the Soviet aims."

Senator McCarthy renewed his attack on Dr. Jessup who has denied under oath that he has Communist sympathies.

Senator McCarthy described Dr. Jessup as “a very willing stooge” of Professor Lattimore and a “very valuable tool to the Communists.”