Preferred Citation: Newman, Robert P. Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft296nb15t/


 
Notes

Chapter Twenty-six Rover, Asiaticus, and BDPT

1. Harvey, "Owen Lattimore," 9; author interview with David Spring, October 26, 1982.

2. "The Page School Is Being Closed," New York Times , April 17, 1953.

3. FBI/OL, 4769.

4. Author interview with Smith, June 25, 1984; with Harvey, October 24, 1982; with Shaffer, May 6, 1982.

5. FBI/OL, 4274. Lattimore the Scholar was privately published in Baltimore; copies are located in Arnold and Porter files and LP.

6. "Lattimore Defense Funds Sought," Baltimore Evening Sun , January 10, 1953; Esbjornson, Luther W. Youngdahl , 268.

7. Author interview with Owens, May 6, 1982.

8. FBI/OL, 5052.

9. FBI Headquarters File 100-400471. Owen Lattimore Defense Fund, Serial 6.

10. Ibid., Serials 18, 20.

9. FBI Headquarters File 100-400471. Owen Lattimore Defense Fund, Serial 6.

10. Ibid., Serials 18, 20.

11. Author interview with DeFrancis, November 30, 1977.

12. This is as Lattimore remembered it in 1981.

13. Author interview with Kahin, August 10, 1979.

14. Schrecker, No Ivory Tower , 89.

15. Lazarsfeld and Thielens, Academic Mind , 93; Schrecker, No Ivory Tower , 340.

16. FBI/OL, 4795, 4764.

17. FBI/OL, 4796.

18. "U.S. Files an Appeal in Lattimore's Case," New York Times , May 15, 1953.

19. "Some Questions for AF&P," May 1953, LP.

20. See the description of Flynn in Radosh, Prophets on the Right , chaps. 7-8.

21. "Lattimore Case for the Supreme Court," New York Times , May 17, 1953.

22. FBI/OL, 4872, 3599.

23. FBI/OL, 5135.

24. FBI/OL, 4031.

25. FBI/OL, 5003, 5076.

26. FBI/OL, 5115.

27. FBI/OL, 5169. FBI clearance practices are capricious. Hundreds of documents are denied in toto to protect individuals named in them who may have done something illegal. Yet the incriminating document that shows Rover and Hummer attempting to blackmail a witness to get him to cooperate was released with only the name of the person blackmailed denied.

28. "U.S. Says Quashings in Lattimore Case Violate Basic Law," New York Times , August 25, 1953. For the full text, see U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. v. Owen Lattimore, No. 11849, Brief for Appellant, filed August 24, 1953.

29. FBI/OL, 5263.

30. FBI/OL, 5259, 5292.

31. FBI/OL, 5304.

32. FBI/OL, 5304, 5370, 5504.

33. Major stories appeared in the New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Baltimore Sun on October 2, 1953. For the full record, see U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. v. Owen Lattimore, No. 11849, Brief for Appellee, filed October 2, 1953.

34. FBI/OL, 5289.

35. FBI/OL, 5188.

36. FBI/OL, 5322.

37. Ibid.

36. FBI/OL, 5322.

37. Ibid.

38. Memorandum for the Attorney General, November 4, 1953, Ann Whitman Diary Series, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas.

39. Ibid.

38. Memorandum for the Attorney General, November 4, 1953, Ann Whitman Diary Series, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas.

39. Ibid.

40. FBINY, Budenz, 66-6709-B-119.

41. Herbert Brownell Oral History, Columbia University Library, New York, 297-98.

42. Olney Oral History, 364.

43. FBI/OL, 5600.

44. "U.S. Again Urges Lattimore Action," Baltimore Sun , November 13, 1953; FBI/OL, 5336.

45. "Second Book Banned in Town," New York Times , November 14, 1953.

46. FBI/OL, 5365.

47. SISS/IPR, 3131.

48. SISS/IPR, 3132.

49. FBI/OL, 1380, 5718.

50. FBI/OL, 5059, 5855.

51. FBI/OL, 2288; MacKinnon and MacKinnon, Agnes Smedley , 228; and Steve MacKinnon to author, September 1, 1988.

52. FBI/OL, 5263.

53. FBI/OL, 5455.

54. FBI/OL, 5546.

55. FBI/OL, 5547.

56. FBI/OL, 5752.

57. FBI/OL, 5842.

58. FBI/OL, 5921, 5946.

59. FBI/OL, 6347.

60. FBI/OL, 6348.

61. FBI/OL, 6347.

62. The FBI files have five major reports on the Holabird investigation: Serials 5455, 5460, 5505, 5519, 5551.

63. "Court Weighs Plea in Lattimore Case," Baltimore Evening Sun , January 26, 1954.

64. "U.S. Fights Ruling in Lattimore Case," New York Times , January 26, 1954.

65. Eleanor Lattimore to Barretts, January 29, 1954, LP.

66. See Adams, Without Precedent . This is the best and most accurate account of the Army-McCarthy fracas.

67. Eleanor Lattimore m Stefanssons, March 10, 1954, LP.

68. "M'Carran Warns on Reds," New York Times , May 2, 1954.

69. FBI/OL, 5874; "Lattimore Upheld on Battle to Kill Key Count in Case," New York Times , July 9, 1954.

70. U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 11849, U.S. v. Owen Lattimore, decided July 8, 1954, 2-4.

71. Ibid., 10-13.

72. Ibid., 14, 29-30.

73. Ibid., 31-33, 37.

74. Ibid., 40-43.

75. Ibid., 2-4.

70. U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 11849, U.S. v. Owen Lattimore, decided July 8, 1954, 2-4.

71. Ibid., 10-13.

72. Ibid., 14, 29-30.

73. Ibid., 31-33, 37.

74. Ibid., 40-43.

75. Ibid., 2-4.

70. U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 11849, U.S. v. Owen Lattimore, decided July 8, 1954, 2-4.

71. Ibid., 10-13.

72. Ibid., 14, 29-30.

73. Ibid., 31-33, 37.

74. Ibid., 40-43.

75. Ibid., 2-4.

70. U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 11849, U.S. v. Owen Lattimore, decided July 8, 1954, 2-4.

71. Ibid., 10-13.

72. Ibid., 14, 29-30.

73. Ibid., 31-33, 37.

74. Ibid., 40-43.

75. Ibid., 2-4.

70. U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 11849, U.S. v. Owen Lattimore, decided July 8, 1954, 2-4.

71. Ibid., 10-13.

72. Ibid., 14, 29-30.

73. Ibid., 31-33, 37.

74. Ibid., 40-43.

75. Ibid., 2-4.

70. U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 11849, U.S. v. Owen Lattimore, decided July 8, 1954, 2-4.

71. Ibid., 10-13.

72. Ibid., 14, 29-30.

73. Ibid., 31-33, 37.

74. Ibid., 40-43.

75. Ibid., 2-4.

76. New York Times , July 9, 1954.

77. "Dismissal of Key Lattimore Perjury Charge Upheld," Baltimore Evening Sun , July 8, 1954; "Court on Lattimore," New York Times , July 11, 1954.

78. FBI/OL, 5959.

79. FBI/OL, 5972.

80. FBI/OL, 5985.

81. FBI/OL, 5992.

82. FBI/OL, 5993.

83. FBI/OL, 6045.

84. FBI/OL, 6054.

85. FBI/OL, 6057; "Lattimore Facing a New Indictment," New York Times , August 20, 1954.

86. Fortas to Lattimore, August 25, 1954, LP.

87. Lattimore to Barbara Holgate, September 19, 1954, LP.

88. FBI/OL, 6065.

89. FBI/OL, 6069.

90. FBI/OL, 5536; Records of the SISS, Memo from Ben Mandel to Jay Sourwine, June 20, 1952, RG 46, Box 139, HA.

91. Charles B. Murray to Hoover, January 30, 1953, Lattimore File, Justice Department.

92. FBI/OL, 4271.

93. FBI/OL, 4680, 4974.

94. FBI/OL, 5040.

95. George to author, February 9, 1985.

96. FBI/OL, 5040.

97. FBI/OL, 5134, 5154.

98. FBI/OL, 5426, 5362, 5426.

99. FBI/OL, 5512.

100. Ballantine Oral History, 215, 216.

101. Dallin, Soviet Russia , 220, 229, 330; Dallin, "Writings of Owen Lattimore," 11; Dallin, "Henry Wallace and Chinese Communism," 14; Wallace to Daniel James, October 23, 1951, Alsop Papers; Alsop to Arthur G. McDowell, October 25, 1951, Alsop Papers.

102. Poppe, Reminiscences , 214.

103. See the listing in Who Was Who in America , vol. 3, 1951-60 (Chicago: Marquis, 1961), 841.

104. Emerson, review of War and Peace , by Taracouzio, 569; T. A. Taracouzio, War and Peace , 259, 273.

105. FBI/OL, 6089.

106. FBI/OL, 6163.

107. Joseph W. Ballantine Papers, Box 2, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. This document is not paginated.

108. Lattimore, Solution in Asia , 158-59, 170, 173, 191, 198, 205.

109. FBI/OL, 6069.


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Preferred Citation: Newman, Robert P. Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft296nb15t/