THE MYSTERY OF AMERICA
The Mystery of Amerasia AMERASIA magazine (founded, 1937; circulation, 1,700) consistently plumped for the Communis! Far East line. Its board chairman was Communist angel Frederick Vanderbtlt...
...Two of Amerasia a editors were Owen Laitimore and William T. Stone, vicechairman of State's Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific a^ad Cultural Cooperation...
...Attorney Robert Hitchcock...
...tha grand Jury which considered the cases of Service, Gayn and Miss Mitchell heard only a small portion of tha evidence tha FBI had collected...
...Among its regular contributors was Guenther Stein, whom General MacArlhur's headquarters labelled a Soviet apy some time back...
...the OWI and the FCC) in the offices of Amerasia...
...Philip Jaffa, headed scores of CP fronts under various names...
...Larson, who haa since cooperated with Congressman George Dondero in efforts to reopen tha case, entered a plea of nolo contendere, and was fined $500...
...According to Congressman Dondero...
...Moreover, U.S...
...Ha Is now propagandising for Ho Chi Minn...
...Its managing editor...
...It la hard to tell how and why the Government dropped tha Amermim case...
...On September 29, the wealthy Jaffe pleaded guilty and was fined $2,500 (Title 50 of the United Stataa code, under which he was tried, provides for a $10,000 fin* or two years in prison or both...
...Within a week, Under-Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew (who was known to favor vigorous prosecution) resigned...
...Its board chairman was Communist angel Frederick Vanderbtlt Field...
...writer Mark Gayn, and E. S. Larson and John Stewart Service of tha Stale Department's Far Eastern Division...
...On June 7, 1945, the FBI announced it had discovered more than a hundred tiles of secret Governmant documents (from the State, War...
...But this was 1$45, at the height of the "war-time unity" craze...
...and Navy Departments, the OSS...
...The charge was espionage and the possessession of documents stolen from secret governmant files...
...He was succeeded as Under-Secretary by Daan Acheson...
...Since grand iury proceedings are secret...
...Navy Lt...
...At the end of June, It was announced that additional evidence would be presented by the Justice Department, implicating even mora people...
...But J. Raymond Walsh, the fellowtraveling radio commentator, gave a strong hint on August 13, 1145, whan he declared that John Service's arrast "brought soma exceedingly powerful people within tha Government to his defense...
...The FBI arrested Jaffe and his co-editor Kate Mitchell...
...1st the case against Jaffe, "told tha court there was no element of disloyalty In connection with tha case...
...Roth was released whan the Government dropped charges...
...On August 10, the grand iury hearing the case announced it had dropped tha indictments against Service, Gayn, and Miss Mitchell...
...Andrew Roth...
Vol. 33 • April 1950 • No. 13
