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nS ak te ener Pon omy. v see ey aL. ae cae hele Dal te an ne ee ee ae i, ‘ tei. “He returned to Newsweek as a ‘op editor and was appointed atoistaintatie secretary Jast De- cember, taking office in February jude fo Be Heard Luliimore, a State departmen adviser on Far East policy, was Named by McCarthy as a top Com| munist arent. Louis F. Budengz. former Communist editor, testi- fied Jast week that Lattimore was knewn in high Communist circles @s a. valued agent. The Tydings |, fubcommittee again hears Budenz!: in @ closed session tomorrow. \ When Mctarthy's Against Lattimore were made pub- lic, Brewster said, Barrett began ding memoranda to Kenneth 4 rawford, Newsweek’s national aifpirs editor, accusing the maga- zine of not giving the State de- pariment a fair break. In the March 20 issue of News- week, an item appeared concern- ing the “leak” of a secret State department document to a Wash- Ington columnist. The story said “investigation later disclosed that the leak had been contrived to éerve the publicity purposes of one side in a bitter department feud over policy toward Russia.” Crawford Offered Names | d The State department nounced the story as untrue. Craw- sord, said Brewster, offered to sup- ply names and affidavits to prove the story but Barrett told Craw- ford the whole thing had been a mistake and to let the matter drop. On March 12, Brewster con- tinued, the Crawfords were visited in their Ne ork City apartment by Edwin D mnnerts, division of security, State department. Len- nerts said the State department, understood that early in 1942, Crawford, then a correspondent for the left-wing New York tdb- loid, PM, had written a series of articles “unfriendly” to Sen. Tydings. Lennerts asked if the Crawfords could supply him with! files containing the articles. Retninded that such files could’ be found in the congressional 1i- brary, the New York City library or New York newspaper files,: Tannerts said he had heen unahie Lennerts said he had been unable to find therm . —_—_ | war t and deliberate purpose of intim- ffating an editor of our free charges, ' | @ Susp'<ts Intimidation Le “I rom reach only one conclu- gion from this incident,” said Brewster. “Either Lennerts is one of the stupidest investigators that ever worked for the povernment his call was made for tre pold | Barrett Jater assured Crawford _ that a “terrible mistake” had been made. But on March 39. an- 9 man called at the home of Sap texner another former PM worker, and asked for the files which might contain Crawford's articles on Tydings. This man, it was said; gave the impression that was an FBI agent. nee FBI assured Crawford that the man was not one of their agents and they were still investi- gating to determine if there was false impersonation. “This appears to be the method a of a Gestapo,” remarked Sen. Mundt. ‘The State department seems to be setting up & Russian- azi local police force.” ge to Investigate “T will take it on myself to § re a full and prompt explana- tion of this incident,” declared Lodge, member of the Tydings subcommittee. “We were instruct. ed today to conduct a full inquiry into the State department's inves- tigative setup.” Mundt recalled that when he: was a member of the House com: mittee on un-American activities investigating the Alger Hiss case, “the same chorus of calamity- howling” arose from the President end sAdeminictration followers that Bn ACIMMGes Beaves svat now greets the charges against Lattimore. He expressed the hope the Tydings committee would not be “frightened off the trail.” ; “We are following up every bit of evidence,” asserted Tydings. “tf we find any Communists in the State department, IT make a aclemn pledge we will say 50. Lam; not going to shield or prosecute! Ladd Clege. _ Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbe Mahkr see ass Tele. Room__ Nease wppiernrG Se —_ o SR eee aie al Cat f BT Og aade hey Tear Oy oO pemorm % AL a hee HO eae ¢ cq. ro LO ADI pe -”“, a . . 1 UE we Ce am mate the State department. Whatever the truth js, good or bad, T will lay 4¢ on the line with as little bias as 4s humanly possible.” Questioned by Wherry whether homesexuals were not as great gecurity risks as Communists. Tydings said he thougnt they were but the-eweeommiltee was WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD he _ re ee ee pata ane ° re wes AML: Page WASHINGTON POST _— WASHINGTON NEWS WASHINGTON STAR —— Date: