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ON elite meneame 3 - . | 4 . Totpsng je Ladi Clegg ‘ Glavin 7 Nichols cA Service Says Rosen, ‘ | Tracy . China Charges Harbo_c Belmont{ My, Are Unfo unded Mohs Meat : By Alfred Friendly ane Room__ Post Heparier ! Tease tate Department ] Dipiomal John.._—- S. Sones yesterday firmly denied, ja ze eral and in detail, the two basic S accusations | that have been laid #gainst him: that. he : (osiered a_pro-Co “pro-Communist p policy whe “when_he i served in China, and 1 that he was inuilly oO of wrongdoing in the 1945 ‘Wee ! J vin effect that communism was the jtescrrepe of China. ‘cated that that “might be done Jater,| “Actually, as a reading of Iny ‘WHenIs subcommitiee made ifs,reports will disclose, such reeqm- ‘peport \mendations as 1 have made were Pree ee vata male A cei A ne di nme Milena eather a odo in ged LA rT Vihee a me 40 ‘iti i hz “ihe Aimerasia : stolen ( documents case. { The thin. youthful iooking career, 1 | ‘officer made his defense before fa Is ecial Senate Subcommittee i “ iv@stigating the charge of Senaipr. McCarthy (Rh. Wis. and e, Amerasia affair. In a last minute change of plans, the hearings were. lopened to the press and public. As they ended—seven hours of them—a major and new charge, ‘made by imputation rather than Idirectly, was still unsolved. It was the intimation, from the Republi- ‘ean subcomittee members’ counsel, that Service had passed “military jinformation” to Philip J. Jaffe, the jeditor of Amerasia magazine. the ‘principal figure who was convicted in that case. and who has been re- ported as having had close Com- munisi connections. [Service Flatly Denies It Service denied Aatly ¢ that _he had: ‘ever given Jaffe any “seerel mili- ‘ape fx inlormation™ In any or the: half-dozen contacts he had with! him in April and May, 1945, } t before he, Jaffe. and four others re arrested in the Amerasia cage. But the minority members’ ¢ - isl. _ Robert Moris, referred paints, iv to some FBI testimony and documents, "produced “_before_the isubconmitte_a at an earlier, secret session, “He asked to have this iWestimony or Bvidence made a part of the record in Service's hearing. From what he said aboud it. guard- edly. it apparently suggested that Service had. indeed, given classi- fied military daia to Jaffe. Subcommittee Chairman Tydings {D., Md.) refused Morris’ request, on grounds that the evidence had come out al closed hearings and thal he did not choose to put parts secret leslimony on the reco ecemest He said he wane e! hole story that the VBL 0 t qi afout the A Amegee ~e "Meantime, however, the matter Morris was pressing will be re- ‘sumed, this time in closed sessions iwtih Service, at 1:30 p. m. today. ‘Service Reads Statement For the first part of the long day. Service read in a slow, low voice, an extensive prepared state- ment in which he took up, one by; one, the various accusations made against him, dating back to the days when former Ambassador to f | designed to prevent the collapse of Chiang Kai-shek'’s government and to resist the domination of China hy communism.” “Senator McCarthy has charged that IT have been in the Far East trying to turn the whole business over to Russia. Actually, as my re- ports Written from China clearly jindicate. | had a full appreciation of the dangers of Russian domina- tion and sought means of prevent- ing such domination. “Senator McCarthy has charged China Patrick Wurley attacked him/that I am one of a dozen top policy in 1945. makers in the entire Departmept These were divided into twoiof State on Far Eastern poli categories. One related to his ac-)Actually, I have never occupied a ‘tivities and reports, as a State tq@ American Army headquarterg in ina during the war. The seeqnd cencerned his involvement in he, ‘Amerasia matter. With respect to the first period, ‘Service told how a major part of ny ‘his duty was gathering political in-+ ‘telligence in China, especially, tr om the Communists, and how all! jhis extensive contacts with them— ja matter of pride to him and not; ‘of apology—were on orders, und; were “a basic and vital’ part of his assi ent. Jo ge] Denies McCarthy Charze~ | He told he how | he was conimended for the work he did and the re- ports he rendered by his two Army chiefs, Generals Stillwell and We-! demeyer. In answer to specific! charges of McCarthy, and as a. "demonstration of his own position,’ he said: | “Senator McCarthy has charged ithat when Chiang Kal-shek was! ‘fi hting our war, I sent back ofi-! :eihl reports to the State Depaft- ment urging that we torpedo ‘aur jay, Chiang Kai-shek, and stating | Pe-:policy making position in the De- partment political adviser attaclted'partment of State.” _ Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror Page A WN. Y. Compass.__.