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“r, Hanson was writing as a war Correspondent of the Asscciated Press, that he carried Press Credentials from both the American ~iuba.sy anc, the vhinese Hationsl government, and that the assccie- ated Press assigned him to cover the North China front, which wes dafended by the Comn.nist Armies, "cr, Hansen's despatches, as well as his book, pointed out thet tha Uninese Comminists were still engaged in proselytising, des pits the Japanese invasion, "rr, Kent Cooper, General llenager of the Associated Tress, sent ‘ye, Sanson his personsl comrancation on these reports from the \ ve. aniuist front, and ir, Eonson's reports vere reprinted at . | Jonstn in both 'Time' sagazine and 'Reader's Li,est'." | The washing, toa Times Herald of Uey 22, 1947 carried an editorial on page! 4 entitled, "Voice of what?" This article reads in part: "Conducted by @ group: of pro-Commuist fallow-travealers and muddleheeads, they fill the ether with tons | of mstcrisl fevoreble to tha Soviet Vaien and the Corninists, or just plain twadcle. the quotation is fron a recait speech in the Ucuse by Representative Fred E. Busbey (2) of Tilinois about the "Voico of Aterica'." This article further reads in part: "Benton's threes top assistants in cherge of the ‘Voice of Azerica' broadcasts hav¢ been ilaserse csilliem T, Stone, Palcore 3, Hanson, (Bad ensrles =, Thomson, \ “Stone is an ux-membur of the Editorial “Roard of ':ncrasiat mayezine, which 4a5 printe larze arounts of pro-°ussien copy, Fenson was fer leng a soldier of : fortunes in Ghina, where his best frisnds and confijants wsrs Chinese Communists. . Ke was shifted hurriedly to another Strate Legartnent niche when the Conzressionel . hest was turaad on the 'Voicet. Thomson has had considerable to do with procuction of pro-Comzunist movies, and is on record with soma loud praises of the Comsanists! activitiss in the Spanish Civil Var.” Hention was meade in Sonsressman Busbey's speech that Hanson joined @ group in Peiping, China, headed by Edvar Snow end his wife, who were organizing a new political magazine. oo