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-7- - Ve axe told that Professor Schuman's views have changed, but how thorou change and is it wise to employ men to speak for the Service Commirtee who have such long, unsavory records? tee speaker at the } Villiam Hovard Hinton was a Service Comm Institute of International Relations held at the Pennsylvania College for Women in March, 1954. After nearly seven years in China, this man crossed Russia and obtained in Czechoslavakia, under suspicious circumstances, a permit to return to the ‘United States. Later, before the sub-Committee on Internal Security, he refused to testify concerning his representations to the Passport Divisica wnea scexing re-entry to our country. He cited the first and fifth \mendments, seeking refuge behind the latter more than once in order to avoid testifying concerniag the way ia whi h he obtained his passport to re-enter the United States. The notes, diaries and correspondence of Mr. Hinton which were in the possession of the United States Customs were read before the Committee. They are described as a day-by-day, family-by-family, village-by-village ch ° Py vhe sovietization of China's farmers. They include schedules, tabulations, interviews and charts to inform communist authorities just wno was robbed and how often, who was beaten and how often, who ran away and how often. They were written by one who began as an observer, later joined a 'work group’ hew to 'purify the party’, ‘purify being a Marxist term for ‘purge'. Nis zealousness, his passionate, repeated, fully expressed determination to wipe out all axii-ceramunist thought elevated him finally to the post of 'Upper Cadre", Ag Hinton himself makes clear, this means that ke occupied a place in the co comraand,