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“We are told that Professor Schuman's views have changed, but how thoroush is the change and is it wise to employ men to speak for the Service Committee who have such long, unsavory records? William Hovard Hinton was a Service Committee speaker at the 3: Annucl Institute of International Relations held at the Pennsylvania College tor Women in March, 1954. After nearly seven years in China, this man crossed Russia and obtained in Czechoslavakia, under suspicious circumstances, a permit to * , to the United States. Later, before the sub-Committee on Intevnal Security, 3 wr rt ° tf . he refused to testify concerning his representations to the Passport Divisica waea oe + + t ifith \mendments, sce. be, sceKing re-entry to our country. He cited the first and refuge behind the latter more than once in order to avoid testifyin Wen me ad at Reena ao tained his pPuos pet {Go re-en The notes, diaries and correspondence of Mir. Hinton which were inthe “. Inited States Custome Were read pelare the SOrmmitte be Reb a te ae Sk ak Mak Se Ltn Dh oe 4. = i aiilte. a are described as a day-by-day, family-by-family, village-by~village chronicle of the sovietization of China's farmers. They include schedules, tabulations, interviews and charts to inform communist authorities just wno Was reobed anc how often, who was beaten and how often, who ran away and how often. Troy were written by one who began as an observer, later joined a ‘work group’ new to ‘purify the party’, ‘purify ' being a Marxistterm for ‘purge’, tis zealousness, his passionate, repeated, fully expressed determination to wipe out ail anti-coramunist thought elevated him finally to the post of ‘Upper Cadre". Ag Hinton himself makes clear, this means that he occupied a place in the communsist comrnaand,