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. yee ee meant and Altay and Nasal imtet Yyrenee cecards found tn dis offices as editor of the miugavine The Government reconumended ‘against a- jail sentence, Conse- quently ie kev figure in the Aim- herasta case escaped with a $2500 fine aGer pleading guilty. And $ the Sensational evidence painstak- ee aa tingtty dug up by the FBI was kept JUNGE PROCTOR \fyvem the pubtic. Make it bricf ' tara Mv. Jaffe pleaded guilty here in ¢ . WDC! Washington an Sept. 23, *445. pe | ftides the court in fixing the pen. ‘ ‘fore Justice James M, Proctor, a |#!ty- ry (respected member of the Federal When Aibert Arent, defense at- -f bench who now sits on the U.S. [torney, asked permission to make |Court of Appeals, a Statement, Judge Proctor re- . i The charge was “violation of | Blied: . f \ ‘Section Title XV888, United States “Please make it brief because IT (Code, which is conspiracy to em- |do not expect to hold any extended it r {bézzle, steal and purloin property, [Session here this morning.” pe ‘Vevards and valuable things of rec- Later, when the judge suggesied ‘ord and property of the United | the Government explain where States,” it stood and asked how long that * would take, Mr. Hitchcock replied: Conduct of Case Was “Less than five minutes.” Unusual From Outset Not ‘Disloyal Purpose’ 7} The hearing took place on a Sal- ‘ oe 5 ‘ { ‘urday morning, when the District but ‘Journalistic Zeal Court rarely sits. It got Hitle at- Mr. Arent described his client as tention, “for many years a student of Far Robert M. Hilchceck, Special | astern affairs"; a graduate of Co- Assistant Attorney General, per- |lumbia with A. B. and M. A. de- mitied Mr. Jaffe’s lawyer to make / grees; a lecturer ai Harvard, Vas- the “statement of facts.” Ordi- |Sar, Yale, Dartmouth and other narily, in a guilty plea, that's the | schools, fob of the prosecutor since it Among co-founders of his maga- - : ezine Amerasia, the defense counsel , ve said, “were distingiiizhed academic people, scholars, potitical scientists like Owen Lattimore, head of the Walter Hines Page School of Di- plomacy and International Rela- tions at Johns Hopkins .. .” For eight years, he wen! on, Mr. Jafie edited Amerasia “without compensation and at considerable sactvifice.” It circulated “amongst scholars and specialists in Far Fastern af- fairs and has found a place in the leading libraries und cducationat in- Stitutions of the country. “The Government does not con- tend thal any of this material was used for any disloyal purpose,” said Mi. Arent. “Tf Mi. Jaffe has transgressed the law, it seems he has done so from an excess of journalistia zeal... Judge Proctor, interposing, re» marked: "There is no doubt but what he has.” an oy The indictment, declared Mo, MR HITCHCOCK Jaffe’s attorneys, “charges a relan Got @ new, job... .- AContinued on Page 46)