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Aa Asked how many new leads Sen-' ator McCarthy had given on pas- sible subversive employes. Mr,, Humelsine replied ‘very few in- djeqi.” He said the Senator fas. be Picking up old lists of qm-- plopes already cleared. He adBed thaf Senater McCarthy pravifled “a Couple of new names” but each! of these cases was carefully in-| vestigated and the employes were. vlieared. Mr, Humelsine said it’s irue) that because of Senator Mc- Carthy’s repeated charges, some, employes—even high officiais—' “are becoming afraid to make: candid reports to the State De-. partment.” He said in some cases, “it de-: Fends on circumataices,” em-, sloyes mentioned by Senator Mc-; ;Carthy and others as possibly sub-| 'versive, wha have been cleared,; ‘have access to secret papers. | Aid to Nationalist China. | i At one point in the Acheson-: ‘Knight exchange the State De-| ‘partment said approximately $90,-| 900,000 im arms and ordnance has ‘been given Chiang Kaii-shek’s Na-! sionalist Chinese forces on ‘Formosa, and $300,000,000 more 1s" scheduled this year. ; In addition, the department. mentionea a “609-man"” United: States military mission on Fer-' mosa “assisting in the reorganiza-: tion of Chiang’s forces.” On June 24, Maj, Gen, Wilham c. Chase head of the mission, said in Taineh, Formosa, the United States group had 1,250 members. Apparently the State Depart-: .ment information was based on. figures obtained several weeks or: months earlier, indicating a rapid increase in size of the United! States mission, Propaganda Directive Cited. Here is a summary of t el Here is & summar he} charges and replies: } 1. Charze—“on December 23. Acheson sent out instructions to! diplomatic and consular personnel lin Asia that Formosa was doomed, and expendable.” | The rep] yis that what the de-, jpartment sent out was a propa- ‘ganda directive designed to mini-, ‘mize the unfavorable reaction in- lease Formosa should fall. i | 2, Charges-Mr. Acheson approved Poland” in 1946 against the advice! jof United States Ambassador Ar-), 'thfr Bliss Lane. Counsel in t dgal was Donald Hiss, a brother cer Hiss and a member of heson’s law firm, and the fix got a $50,000 fee. The State Department said the 1 | “inferences” of this charge were -“falgee” and based upon 2 “distor- bor the public record.” | Denies Reds Are on Staff. | | Istatement has. since praved to_be 22¥Docy.” ‘completely false and untrue.” | he “State” Department replied ithat Mr. Acheson said only that jhe “knew "of no Comraunists’ in ‘the State Department. Further- ‘more ‘the department said ose. . Charge—Mr. | Acheson said'*" Toe ; July 20 there were no Coramunists. “ th the job” in Japan and khad} jin the State Department and ‘this. [0 disposition 2 /Swered that the records showed! ino such statement by Mr. he-|: ison. It said he had testifi in| ;September, 1945, that the Urhted! :Statés was trying to “go for ard! . to exclude’ The department added that the} jfact is the machinery for admin- listration of Japan “completely “Yecognized the major role of the ‘United States.” 9. Charge—Mr, Acheson insisted curity Investigation staft_of400 cn a veto in UNRRA organization persons which has, opéraied witho piease Russia and supported all } : the FRI also does not know of any Soviet demands “thus leaving the. -Reds in the Department. 4. Charge—Mr. Acheson “has never repudiated his support of Alger Hiss.” The State Department said Mev “Acheson's answers to auesticns about Hiss, now in prison on a perjury conviction, had been “widely misinterpreted,” 5. Charge—Mr. Acheson “rec- ommended the abandonment of Formosa” after the Chinese na-: tionalist government had fled biOTaISt CPrMCliy au 40 The State Department said tha. Charge “is entirely false.” References to Lattimore. &.—Charge—Mr. Acheson joined with friends “including, Owen Lattimore” to encourage a, Cammunist rebellion, in China and they referred to the Com-. Munists as “agrarian reformers.”, The State Departmen: reviewec American aid to Chiang Kai-shek, from the end of World ‘War I It said Mr. Acheson ‘has testified’ that he does not remember even; meeting Owen Lattimore; also | that a check of his speecleiem, shows he does not refer to the. Chinese Reds aS agrarian re- formers, T. —Charge—Myr, Acheson act-: ed as counsel to Lauchlin Currie’ when Mr. Currie appeared before, a congressional committee look-’ ing into Communist espionage ‘charges. The State Departmeit said Mr. Acheson was retained by Mr, ,Currie in connection with a vol- ‘unteer appearance the latter made before the House Committee on Unamerican Activities in August, 1948, to discuss statements made about him ty Elizabeth Bentley. The department added: “The committce unanimously observed. that no charge of Communist. Party affiliation was made agamst: Mr. Currie... . T is a fact that since Mr. Currie’s testimony . . no further action has been taken”/ on the Bentley charges. it Views on Japan Cited. 8] Charge—Mr. Acheson told a iUnited States impotent ta control, UNRRA although the United! Stutes put up all the money. The State Department replied at “ths allegation is ‘false.”! said there was no vil7 in UNRBRA deci::on making excent oo a few specific Matters such as ‘amending the charter and nomi-! Ineting a director general. i oe ieereay 30. Charge—Mr. Acheson obtained appsintment of Alger Hiss “to Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta.” asserting tnet Mr. Acheson, i : Hiss Appointment Denied. -} | | ‘ ! never recommended Hiss fer', e.tner of these missions to inter-', national confirences, the depart-| mer, said “ihis .statemernt ashe fase.” ‘ I Charge—On Decemoer 16! scene “esas Mr. Acheson “received Juan}, Negrin, head o: the Spanish Com-'|, munists, while he refused at the}. 52, time to meet Pernandoxge): omRios, head of the anti-Com-;- munist group in Spain.” } Tae Stlae Department 7:8 fr, Acheson did .eceive Be Le 2 on December 2i, and both the op- posing Spanish leaders talked to | him “in @ private capacity.” | 12. Chatge—Myr. Acheson Rave; an intervieur ONT le Wold an of li. 1945 1945, inferylew to avai lOll ¥ i commander of subversive Musas{ ham Lincoln brigade and ;ro-; Communist Vito Marcantonio, promising them to intervene with Franco on behalf of two con-/ demned Communists in Spain. | To this the Stdte Department! said that Myr. Acheson had re- ceived) oa deicgation of three House members—Representatives, Healy of Caufornia, Savatc of Washington and Mareantomo of | New York-~and five other persons} ‘including Wolf but that Fe: “made no special promises of in-; tervention to the group.” The State Department said Mr. Acheson explained that the ty Seyfate committee before he was'men were Argentine and Cia corfirmed as Undersecretary of nauonals and any action py State that Russias should share in State Department would have the administration of Japan. bc limited “to expressions of ink: The State Department an- terest on humanitarian grout 1s.” ar rr CR ae ees ee