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‘Kennan Analyzed Data —inetrest testimony as to what his point of view was, and how well and objectively he did his work, Service argued, was cer- tainly the memoranda he wrote while in China. Therefore. he said. when he recently appeared before a State Department Loyalty Board resurveying his case, he had those memoranda produced and analyzed. The analyst was George F. Ken- nan, councillor of the department and by general repute the Govern- ment’s foremost expert on Com- munist theory and practice. Ken- nan reviewed ail the documents Service wrote In his three years in China, more than 125 of them, and testified to the lovalty board: ' “) find no evidence that the re-| ports acquired their character| from any ulterior motive or asso-' ciation or from any impulse other, than the desire on the part of the reporting officer to acquaint the department with the facts as he saw and interpreted them. “T find no indication that the r-. pprts reported anything but ¥is/ lest judgment candidly stated [oj e department. ot From "4 Closed Mind” “On the contrary, the general level of throughtfulness and intel-| lectual flexibility which pervades {he reporting is such that it seems to me out of the question that it could be the work of a man with a, elosed mind or with ideological pre-, conceptions, and it is my conclu-' sion that it was not.” 1 In questioning Service, Morris: sought to make the point that Serv-'- ice had in his possession various - statements of Chinese Communist’ leaders showing they were clearly linked to the Kremlin, whereas. Service had reported that the Chi-| nese Communists had an independ-| eqt orientation and would look p, Alnerica, not Russia, for materid!) hdip. ervice contended that some ft * {Kennan’s judgment that Servicas reporting was objective. Cites Defense by Byrnes Service also dealt with charges against him by Hurley, which he answered with an equally vigorous public defense that former Secre- ltary. of State James F, Byrnes’ 'made of him five years ago when Hurley sounded off. To charges by Emmanuel 5. Lar- Isen, a former State Department, jemploye who was fined for his part: in the Amerasia matter, Service: ‘produced recent loyalty board tes-' timony of Larsen admitting he had' no evidence. Larsen jad said in. the past that Service tried to saho-, ‘tage Hurley and did not like him. | | Senators appeared more inter- tested in the second set of charges against Service, those relating to | Amerasia. . | Jaffe Had U. 8. Documents This was a case in which Jaffe. ‘as editor of the now defunct mag- azine, was found to have amassed some several hundred classified Government documents. Many were passed to him by Larsen. Some were copies of Service's ‘the leaders’ statements were sheer own reports but nese Larsen ha pro forma vows of feaity to Rus-| hres supplied. t sian communism, and some werel bd ‘4 me were tn Kat dated very early in Chinese Com- une 6. 1945, along will Katq munist history, when they were Mitchell, Jaffe’s co-editor; Mark indeed bound to the Kremlin. Gayn, a free-lance writer and as- The argument was involved, and sociate of Jaffe, and Navy Lieut. ttle Senators appeared to be ieft Andrew Roth, who seemed to have th a choice between Morris’ been the man who introduced, agalysis that Service perpetrat i" a aa many of his Washington 8 nted, Inaccurate reports, agri grand jury voted unanim ously ~ a —-Japwinst indicting Service. But the question the subcommittee wanted to have answered was what were Service's relations with Jaffe and the others and what information he supplied. The FBI, which kept pe re poder surveillance [or weeks weeks before the arrests, had__found - Associated Press Phote JOHN §. SERVICE .«. explaing Amerasia link: Se Se Service in about half a dozen con: Tacts_ with Jaffe, esterday, Service insisted he had done nothing wrong nor ir- regular, He said he was intro- duced to Jaffe after his return ‘from China by Roth, and thought ingim to be simply a journallgt cializing in Far Eastern ee t | { “dinning a small, special-inter japagazine. JUN Or 27a, vee