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AS Riek leds ae A le Goi EES ata Reveals | Red Inside On China Policy State Dept. Trusted Friend of Commies By WELLARD EDWAKDS The contents of a sceond secret Cocument tia theAmerasia scandal, indden from the public by tha Truman administration and the Tydings subcommittee, was mads Lnown to this paper yesterday. Ii reveals that the State depart. inent in 1944 trusted Agnes Smed- ey, twice accused of espionag. by UU, 8. authorities during a 20-vear ‘areer working for the 8c et reuse in China, es a reliable so ice “fo information on condition in (hina. A bulky report by Miss Smedicy, sho died last month in London at ihe age of 54, was one of the 1,700 capers stolen in 1945 from gov } -rument files and discovered in + je offices of Amerasia, a New | Yorn City magazine which if , veen described as a chanhel fbr { Fapanelttie American secrets bo woe tl a! ED —_—_—_——_ ~SECRET VT IERASIA a aaa Tomes ows Delailed j1t details in great length he ws on China, her proposals fo sistance to Chinese Communist lier program for building up the Soviet guerrillas against the Na- tionalist covernment of Chiang Kal-siiee, which was an ally of the United States. , Ti: extent of pro-Russian in- Quence an the Siate department ‘al that time was indicated by a nolation that Miss Smedley was reparded as a reliable informant. The document thus followed closely the line taken in a cable sent in July, 1944, to the Ameri Can embassy in Chungking’ under the nanie of the then State secre- lary, Cordel} Hull, which out ‘jined a policy advocated by Amer- .usia for building up the Com- | munists in China. The existence of the Full to- Chungking cable was denied by the dustice department. but, con furned by the State department, which added there was no indica- tion that Hull either saw or signed tet Tr tL a ~ 47 OM) : “ Paf of Russ Spy his cable and the Smedley reffort were provided for Americalt ‘officials in the Far East at th time when Earl Browder, head of the American Communist party, according to his testimony, never contradicted by tne Adminisira- tion, was supplying information reccived from Chinese Cotn- munists to the iate Presidcnt ‘Roosevelt. Browder recently told ‘a Senate committee that he was i irely satisfied with the State “department’s policy during the 1942-1946 period. The loss of China to the Red armies followed four years later. When an unidentified State de- partment official informed the wT to Page 26, Cal. 3) _—_"s EE * Ch —_—_——— a 4-26 Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Room__ Nease _Gandy Pa ay r INDEXED - 126 —— |< -pecoRDED NO 45 FEB” 1952 ——_—— — Page “Times-Herala _/ Sunday Eg’ te Pa] Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.¥. Mirror __—