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wo at ine’ hae EM a Se + it was the period in which Vice-President Wallace— an ideological captive of the Left-Wing—was sent t China to re-write our policy. ju his report, made in 1944, Wallace followed the Com. munist Party line. “Chiang,” he said, “at best is a SHORT TERM inveat- ment.” The Vice-President’s advisers in China were Oven J. “Pbattimore, John CartemYincent, State Department “career man,” and Joh#Nlazard, the State Department's Chief Liaison | Officer for its Division of Soviet Supply. Some other activities of Lattimore’s merit cursory atten- tion. On October 15, 1945, Lattimore became a member of the Pauley Reparations Mission to Japan. Also detailed were John Carter Vinvent and John Hazard. On October 30—sfter protests—Commissioner Pauley ; announced Lattimore’s demotion, BEFORE THE MISSION |; HAD DEPARTED. | Jn an interview published in September, 1945, Lattimore opposed MacaArthur’s policies in Japan, proposing that the Emperor be interned in China—among the Communists, pre- sumably. . In an article in The Nation on September 2, 1949, Latti- more condemned U, 8. “intervention”? in China, praised peviet _ nou-intervention” and ADVOCATED RECOGNITION OF ; THE COMMUNISTS. Lattimore also opposed the Troman Doctrine in Greece and Turkey, and wanted the United Nations to operate the Marshall Plan, with Russia ‘‘assisting.” Tn conelusion, it may be noted that two of Lattimore’s recent books—one especially anticipating A SOVIET ASIA have been enthusiastically praised in the Moscow press. {To be continued)