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Browder refutes accusations by Mr. McCarthy

Washington, April 27, --

Earl Browder, deposed leader of the American Com- munists, swore under oath today that ho knows of no Communists in the State Depart- ment.

He also branded as false, ex-Communist Louis

Budenz, sworn testimony that he (Browder) had officially described Owen Lattimore, as o Communist.

He then invited possible the Chinese Communists actual- did represent fundamental contempt action when hely flatly refused to tell Senate agrarian reforms. However,

insisted that in 1937 the investigators who, besides himself and a Chinese Red leader, was present at a meeting before the formation of the United Nations at San

Francisco.

Mr. Browder testified before the Senate Foreign Relations sub- Committer investigating charges made by Senator Joseph Me

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1930.

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

The town of anxious dread

When I registered at the Carl-one takes the charges seriously." ton Hotel the elegant Englishman Even the Dally News, not the behind the desk Bald: "Are you most sensitive or scrupulous going to write Washington up?" newspaper, says editorially: I said "Yes," That was before I had looked around.

I regret that I have to wille Washington DOWN. I Hollywood is the city of dreadful anxiety, then Washington is the town of anxious dread.

The two places have much in he common. Both are crammed with

strutters. Party Actors,

headline-hua- line was one of unity with Chiang ters, windbags. phoneys, social Kai-shek and it stressed the mill Beckers, pressure groups, Press- tary power of the Communistsmen, intriguers, five-per-centers, who were doing the fighting and whispering campaigners. against the Japanese.

Sensation every day

Mr. Browder referred to Mr. Budenz as a former Party func-

Both are over-populated with tionary whose chief responsibility pretty girls and uniformed flun- was to pursue Communist work | keys, overladen with drug-stores, among Catholics, in which he is sandwich counters, traffic signals, considered an

of world democracy, the hope and inspiration of the free world, have no vote is because there arò "too magy Negroes here." The coloured vote might control the city.

"What with our State Depart- ment accused of harbouring Com- So no one voles-not the tax- munists and queers, and the payers, not the political pundits Truman crowd now bespattered who tell everyone else how to with Binaggio's and Gargotta's vote, not a householder, ever go gare, so to speak, the United near a ballot-box. States, and particularly the poll- ticians in power at Washington, must look just dandy to the rest of the world,"

Well, they said it, I didn't. What is happening is that the enemies of the President and of the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, are doing everything to smear the present Administra- tion.

Clean-up needed

Carthy. He became deflant, when slate without the pert. He could and traps for tourists, and over-ton needs a clean-up. The White

Senator Bourke Hickenlooper asked who was present at meeting with him and a Chinese Communist teatter

The before United Nations was formed.

"I do not remember, and did I would not give you information," he said.

if I

that

Senator Hickenlooper prompt ly noted for the record that all five members of the sub-Com- mitter were present to hear Mr. Browder's testimony. This usually is the Congressional prelude to a contempt ellation, which could! possibly result in a gol sentence

and fine.

When the witness said he could not be forced to answer. Senator Hickenlooper said, "That deter mination will tre mute by the Committee." "Possibly,"

shrugged Mr. Brow- der. Then, raising his volee for which he later

apologisedhe added: "I Just wanted to make it to be clear that I am not

guing intimidated by any person.”

whether

Senator Hickenlooper then

asked the witness

the meeting in question was attended by the career diplomat, John Ser- vice, who has been accused by Senator McCarthy of bring poor security risk.

After saying

would

hung with too many parties.

District Commissioners run the city, and not too well.

The anomalies of the elty have a lighter side. There are so many Government girl workers that the town teems with pretty women. outnumbering the men by two to

one.

And, in order to keep drinking down, there are no stand-up bers in. the city (except in the Na-! tional Press Club). Only cocktail' Jounges are allowed.

There is no doubt that Washing-

The result has been that four House is being renovated, and times as much alcohol is con- Blair House, another, offelal resumed in Washington "You could swap all the charac-stdence, is being repainted, but average American city..

as in the ters in Washington characters in Hollywood and no

the spring-cleaning should be ex- one would notice the difference,

for all the

tended.

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the slightest healta. tion that he did not know the State Department alde, Haldora Hanson, or the former Uniled Nations official, Dorothy Kenyon, either as members or friends of the Communist Party. John Ser- vice and John Carter Vincent, There are the stars or Senators,

On the surface the capliat looks U.S. Minister to Switzerland, had before the cameras; the support-spacious avenues, the magnificent resplendent. There are the never had any connection, directing players. or or indirect, with the Communist backstage; the Klieg lights

Congressmen, Government bulidings, the glossy Party,

thehotels-kut the fana, The reporters,

opulence and He had never met Alger Hiss, gossip-writers. former State Department official who was convicted of lying for And there is a sensation every saying

surned day. Currently the Kansas City top secret documents over to a shootings are

making everyone Communist ring for transmission breathless.

had he

never

and the

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Another result has been the non-stop cocktail party which flourishes here from dusk until tigresses to catch social lions. dawn. Hostesses fight like

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All this Jubrication is probably beauty are skin-deep.

responsible for the extraordinary whispering campaigns which Washington is a city of dread-sweep the city regularly. Every- ful slums. The squalor within sight of the Capl- capital.

Negro lives in one has his ear cocked in the tol dome. And Washington has the largest per capita Negro that he had never met Hiss' action was "Spies in the Stute De-United States. Thirty per cent. Last week the featured attrnc-population of any city in the euser, Whittaker Chambers, but knew knew that Chambers had been a

partment." Senator Joseph Mc-of this town of 1,300,000 popula- Communist.

Carthy got top billing. This week

tion are coloured. the box-office smash hit is "These Guns for Hire."

to Russia. Mr. Browder added

He refused to answer questions about whether he knew Elizabeth Bentley, John Abt, Nathan Witt, Jacob Golos, Ludwig Uhiman and Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, all of whom have figured either as witnesses or as the target of charges in recent Communist in- vestigations.

this underworld feature-only u There is no particular star in group of talented gangster types who try to be politicians,

I think this masterpiece about mobsters will have a long run.

Honest views

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Everyone is on the inside, owns the body is buried..

personal pipeline, knows where The gossip is gargantuan.

Whispers are prompted by ambition, rivalry, and sometimes by hatred. They are often highly personalised.

get

They are condemned to filthy shacks. They are effectively segre- gated, kept out, and kept down.

No one, not

AR even the globul planners, knows what to do about here use the whisper and use it Government departments them. The subject is not wel-regularly. If you are deaf you

cocktail do not thrive in comed as a teacup

Washington. party topic.

The British, being quick-eared and tight-lipped usually In touch with Mao

When in the National Press along well. Club perhaps the best nows- Under questioning, witness

paperman's club in the world-I At the moment we are being also said that any wartime change. The honest and decent people asked John O'Donnell, the given soothing syrup. A few days not in the polley of the United States bere, who, of course, comprise ferocious and sometimes Anglo- ago we were being told who was Government toward

09.0 and about

per cent, of the phobic columnist of the New York should be our War Minister, when wit the Chinese Communists was not population, are getting

Dally News, why no one in Wash-und why the partition of Ireland have dictated by the American Com-tired of all the sensation.

ington had the right to vole, he should end, what to do with Mar- form.munist Party but by the necessi

if we got i Several have said to me: changed the subject to Sir Basil shall Plan money "The Brooko and the partition of and how to behave. shoatings in Kansas City are a Ireland.

It was asked: Who did we think we were a Sovereign State, an Independent Nation, an Ally, or a kept woman?

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China

rather

Chiang looking for

These polico questions have ended. Our friends now realise they went too far.

answer the question of who or was not at the meeting, ness remarked: "Now we the question in general Ordinarily would have

nolics of global war. hesitancy in answering such t The Committee counsel,

Ed- question, except

that experience ward Morgan, asked witness national scandal, but don't make has taught me that once I start he had communicated with Chi-"This Red hunt is

It an International one." And The reason, of course, why re- answering such questions I am nese Communist leaders embarked on

rubbishnosidents of Washington, the capital during ashing expedi-the war. Witness replied that he tion."

had communicated

with

Mao Tse-tung to inform the President of the United States about the military situation inside,

China. He had reported to the late Pre- sident Roosevelt that Chiang Kai- Up to a few months ago Mr. shek had diverted 1,000,000. Na- Browder was an open, registered tionalist troops from the Japanese Soviet agent," he said. "I had no front to blockade the Communist

London, Aprli 27. ed with Russian shipping, and postpone the Irish decision Ullusions but that he would be a aren. This resulted, he added, in Reports from responsible possibly with Russian aircraft, long as we finally follow reluctant--witness. What-Iad releusing 1,000,000 Japanese authorities in Tokyo and Tal-which-might-provoke--incidents in advice; and also we can hoped and sill hope is that mes-soldiers for war on other fronts. wan indicate that Chiang Kai- ed intervention in the Far East.

cutright Russian arm- drink

tea, though not too many tioning will elicit from him the

It was at his meeting with shek is seeking bases in

This is progress. I tell you the British are doing well here."

Mr. Budenz Issued a statement in New York saying it was no surprise to him that Browder had told investigators his (Budenz') testimony was false.

story of the Communist cell in the Institute of Pacific Relations."

China policy

Mr. Browder was questioned statement about Mr. Budenz'

that Mr. Browder had praland Mr.. Lattimore's contribution to solling the Party

air bases in Korea

the then Under-Secretary of Southern Korea from which tionalist Chinese mission led by

to bomb Industrial areas in

Reports claim that the Na- General

Yu Teh-chen vislied Tokyo, whence they proceeded to Southern Korea on April 19. It is believed they discussed the project o bases in Southern Korea with General Douglas Mac-

headquarters,

The reports said that the Chi- nese Nationalist delegation, in cluding Generals Wu Teh-chon, Chu Shih-ming and Tsao Shih-Arthur's chen, at presept in Southern whom, it is presumed, permission Korea, is seeking permission to would have to be obtained, establish bases there."

Stato, Sumner Welles, In the State Department in 1942 that he received information of the Manchuria. change in United States Gov. ernment polley toward Chine. He had promptly cabled that information to Madame Chian Kal-shok in Chungking. Communiata were agrarlag red Mr. Browder as

Earlier, Mr. Morgon had press. formers. Mr. Bowder sald this the Institute of Pacific Relations to whether was not so. At that time, ho

was an organisation Communista sald, the maintaining that the

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China In 1937-that the Chinosa

word

military struggle In China against Japan.

"Unity in China was the key word," he said, but added that

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If we like we can choose Our own Ministers as long a Wo don't tell them anything; we can

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Informed; sources here believe toit is Chiong's intention to inten- Chiness project the Communist view taify the blockade of the

ward China. Witness sold the

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with it. He admitted

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Some quarters here said it has tion they, contained about the These reports were received long been anticipated that Chiang war along to President Roosevelt with some apprehension here be-intonded in some way to throw and had been informed that, in cause it is feared that the move down the gauntlet to Russla in formation was confirmed by the would result in Nationalist order to provoke World War III American High Command.

China's bombers becoming involv as the best means of restoring his assume that this information:

Nationalist regime to power. played a decisive role in reform-

London, April 27. ing the American position in who is now engaged in advance that Chiang might declare war on

These quarters even suggested unionista left London by air to- Two parties of British trade China," he added.

Senator Joseph McCarthy

planning for President Truman's Russia H the United States show. day to tour Communist countries. told "Point Four programme, cume laed signs of recognising Mao Tse- the Senate today that the State Senate debate on the foreign tung's Communist Government. Department alde, Halbore Hanson, aid bill. It was interjected when By creating a situation wherein was named by Louis Budenz on Senator Robert Taft agreed with He could accuse Russia of active Tuesday as an active member of the suggestion that the "Point Intervention, he could the Communist Farly.

make 日 Four" programme be subtracted declaration of war, and thereby Senator McCarthy said fr from the bill pending Commission hope to force the United States Budenz so identifled Air, Hanson study-United Press.

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