“Manners” Also Considered
Of his designs on the indoctrination of the scholars to be chosen from the colonies [now dominions],
Rhodes said in his final will:
“I consider that the education of young colonists at one of the universities in Great Britain is a great
advantage to them for giving breadth to their views, for their instruction in life and manners, and for
instilling into their minds the advantages to the colonies as well as to England of the retention of the
unity of the empire.”
Rhodes started in 1877 with the idea of leaving his wealth, obtained in the exploitation of South African diamond lands and from other sources, for the creation of a secret society. This society would extend British rule thruout the world. The idea persisted thru the first five wills, and the American scholarships did not materialize until the last one.
Log-Rolling Employed
In this country Rhodes’ men banded together in a tight organization called the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. It is not a secret society, but many of the scholars are working so fervidly to carry out the dreams of their educational benefactor that the ultimate goal is the same.
From 1904 to 1917, when World War I halted the migration across the seas to Oxford, scholars were selected by college and university presidents in the various states. The result was a lot of log-rolling, with one school getting a scholar one year and throwing the plum to another school the next.
Therefore, in 1919 committees of selection composed of .American Rhodes scholars were formed. These committees have picked the scholars ever since, making the association a closed, self-perpetuating fraternity.
Dr. Frank Aydelotte, director of the institute for advanced study at Princeton, N. J., and since 1918 American secretary to the Rhodes trustees, attaches “great importance” to this system.
“The result has been to unify the whole body of Rhodes scholars in a natural way, without recourse to the artificial get - together schemes commonly used by alumni secretaries of American universities, which rarely appeal to the ablest or busiest men,” Dr .Aydelotte wrote somewhat snobbishly in his book. “The American Rhodes Scholarships.”
“It meant, furthermore, that older men were often able to assist their young proteges, just back from Oxford, in finding suitable posts in the United States.”
Up-to the end of World War II, the trend of the scholars was to go into education. More than a third of the total output became teachers, professors, educational administrators, and college presidents. Now the trend is toward government jobs, or public life, as Rhodes willed it.
RHODES’ WARDS HAWK GLOBAL SCHEME IN U. S.
Peddle Propaganda for ‘One World’
BY WILLIAM FULTON
[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
New York, July 19—Rhodes scholars, returning from schooling and indoctrination at Oxford university, England, are the principal hawkers of globalist propaganda in the United States.
The American scholars obtain their education abroad thru terms of the will left by the late Cecil Rhodes, British empire builder and South African despot. Rhodes aimed at the return of the United States to the British empire and a world federation dominated by Anglo-Saxons. He hoped his scholars would be instilled with “political bias” toward these ends, according to his intimate friends.
Previous articles in this series have disclosed that many of the 1,185 living American Rhodes scholars have obtained key positions in the state department, the United Nations, the economic cooperation administration, the mutual defense assistance program, and other government agencies where they have worked toward fulfilment of the schemes of their imperial patron.
Active in Global Groups
Scholars outside the government are engaged assiduoualy in promoting public opinion and building up political pressure for modern day variations of the Rhodes grandiose scheme. A survey of 10 globalist groups reveals the activities of Rhodes’ posthumous proteges as follows:
1. Federal Union, Inc., Clarence Streit, former correspondent for the New York Times at the ill-fated league of nations and author of Union Now, is president of this outfit. Federal Union says it is purely an “educational and research” organization, thereby escaping taxes. The objective is a world government of “matured democracies” federated along the lines of the United States constitution.
2. Atlantic Union Committee, tax paying offshoot of the Federal Union. This is the “political action” group which sponsored the recent congressional resolution asking President Truman to invite the North Atlantic treaty countries to meet this year “with deligates of the United States in a federal convention to explore how far their peoples, and the peoples of such other democracies as the convention may invite to send delegates, can apply among them, within the framework of the U. N., the principles of free federal union.
Scholars on Council
Streit is a member of the A. U. C. board of governors. Other Rhodes scholars on the A. U. C. council include Frank Aydelotte, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton and since 1918 American secretary to the Rhodes trustees: William Yandell Elliott, professor of government at Harvard, and John W. Nason, president of Swarthmore college.
3. Foundation for World Government. Rhodes Scholar Stringfellow Barr is the president and another Rhodes savant, Scott Buchanan, is the secretary. Barr is the author of Let’s Join the Human Race, described as a study of world peace, and The Pilgrimage of Western Man, which is subtitled His Search for One World from 1500 to Armistice II.
The financial angel for the foundation is Mrs. Anita McCormick Blaine of Chicago. She put up a millIon dollars in 1948, saying Henry Wallace, Progressive party candidate for president, was “deeply interested” in the foundation and “his philosofy and that of the foundation are similar.”
4. United World Federalists, Inc. Vernon Nash, a Rhodes scholar, is program vice president. Another scholar, G. C. Holt, editor of The Democrat, publication of the Democratic party of Connecticut, is a member of the national executive council of the U. W. F. Still another Rhodes education ward, Robert Lee Humber, is on the national advisory board.
Humber promoted the first action by a legislative body toward world government by pushing thru the North Carolina legislature in 1941 a resolution declaring “that all peoples of the earth should now be united in a commonwealth of nations.” The U. W. F. has succeeded in getting other legislatures to adopt the doctrine, but several have repented and repealed the action.
When the Maine senate voted to rescind its previous support of the world federalist movement, Cleveland Sleeper Jr., Republican state senator, said the U. W. F. has been found to be “Non-American, Communist in tone, and directly opposed to anything we call American.” The charge of a communist taint arose when the federalists refused to entertain a program of building an organization that could function without the soviet union.
Gets Ford Funds
5. Pubic Administration Clearing House, Don K. Price Jr., a Rhodes scholar, is listed in the official directory of the scholars as associate director of the P. A. C. H. at the transportation building, Washington, D. C., and 1313 E. 50th st., Chicago.
The P. A. C. H. is a privately endowed group organized to “untangle snarls in international relations.” Drawing a grant of $500,000 from the Ford Foundation, the clearing house recently established headquarters in New York because “this city has become the best spot in the world to operate in the realm of foreign affairs.” Quite appropriately, the new offices are on the second floor of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
6. Woodrow Wilson Foundation, New York City. The foundation, formed in 1922 “in recognition of the national international services of Woodrow Wilson and to promote valuable service to public welfare, liberal thought, and peace thru justice,” turned over its memorial library to the U. N.
Harvard Man Heads Study
Clyde Eagleton, a Rhodes scholar, professor of international law, director of program of graduate studies in U. N. and world affairs, New York university, is a director of the foundation and also a member of its literary committee. Another Rhodes scholar, Prof. Elliott of Harvard, was placed in charge of a new study for promoting global thinking recently. This research project searches into:
“The problem of how the structure and practices of our government might be improved to permit the full and effective discharge of American responsibilities and obligations in interrelated domestic and international affairs and the stimulation of popular thinking along these lines.”
7. Council on Foreign Relation. This is a highbrow group of globalists in New York. Whitney H. Shepardson, a Rhodes scholar, is a director.
Hiss on Roster
It might be pointed out the council’s membership roster includes: State Secretary Acheson, not a Rhodes scholar but a well known Anglophile; Prof. Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopkins, who was accused in the senate as one of the chief promulgators of the state department’s procommunist policy in China, and Alger Hiss. Hiss, adviser to the late President Roosevelt at the Yalta conference, is serving five years in a federal penitentiary for perjury in a case involving spying for the Russians.
By-laws for the council on foreign relations limit membership to 600 living within 50 miles of the New York city hall and 500 nonresident members outside this charmed area. The residents pay $125 a year. Nonresidents pay $30. There also are $25 memberships for professors, writers, and newspaper men.
British Provide Speakers
8. Foreign Poilcy association. The F. P. A. is one of the most powerful propaganda organizations in the country. Thru its interlocking groups, speakers are provided by the British information service and state department to disseminate the Roosevelt-Truman foreign policy in all parts of the United States. Prof. Eagleton is a director, and many of his scholar colleagues assist in the nation-wide network
9. United Nations association. According to Dr. Aydelotte, the Rhodes secretary in this country, the scholars have taken a “prominent part in the work” of this association.
10. Union for Democratic Action. This originally was a splinter group formed from the progressive citizens of America, the Henry Wallace organization, because the latter permitted Communists to remain within its ranks. The U. D. A. is a radical organization created with avowed purpose of carrying on the ideals of the late President Roosevelt. That the U. D. A. decided to go global is shown by the fact that it has a European director in the person of one David C. Williams, an American Rhodes scholar, according to the official register.
Tells How Schemes Advance
Dr. Aydelotte, in his book, the American Rhodes Scholarships—a Review of the First Forty Years, discussed the influence of Rhodes scholars and how the empire builder’s dreams were being carried out.
“Rhodes’ plan was as broad and as daring as the spirit of the university which he chose for its center,” wrote Dr. Aydelotte. “He founded his scholarships in the faith that if men of the type he wanted were brought together in such a place they would think about these problems of international government, and discuss them, and in their after careers be a force toward bringing about some better plan of peace and order in the relations between the nations, and that this plan would have as its basis the Anglo-Saxon conceptions of justice and liberty and peace.”
South Africans Suppressed
Dr. Aydelotta did not dwell on the point, but other historians have noted how Rhodes’ idea “justice and liberty and peace” was one of suppressing the various peoples of South Africa, where his diamond properties lay, and placing them under the British yoke.
There should not be any “organized political action” by Rhodes scholars, according to Dr. Aydelotte. He added, however, that altho there was no statistical account of their joint effort in fostering Rhodes’ ideas, the “sum total is important.”
RHODES’ WARDS HEAD GLOBAL FOUNDATIONS
Dole Out Cash for One WorldersBY WILLTAM FULTON
[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
New York, July 20—American Rhodes scholars, who are spoon fed doses of internationalism a la mode British imperialism at Oxford university, England, are prominent back home in the affairs of the big foundations doling out funds toward globalist schemes and one world propaganda.
Higher echelon offices in Carnegie, Rockefeller and other privately-endowed foundations are held by Rhodes scholars. This is in keeping with the aims of the late Cecil Rhodes. British empire builder. He left his fortune for the conversion of scholars who would promote his dream of an Anglo-Saxon federation to dominate the world, in this way Rhodes hoped to return the United States to the empire.
So far the Rhodes will has underwritten the education and indoctrination of 1,400 Americans at the English university since 1904. The annual output is 32. They have fastened onto key positions in the state department and other governmental agencies, just as Rhodes hoped it would happen.
Funds Further U. N.
Both the Carnegie and Rockefeller institutions have contributed heavily toward “international” studies to further the United Nations and other supra-governmental plans designed at chipping away American sovereignty. They have also financed organizations and students which according to congressional sources, smack of communism, in itself a form of internationalism.
The foundations have been big moneybags for globalist propaganda thru the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, World Peace Foundation, Foreign Policy Association Council on Foreign Relations, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Former president for the last-named, it will be recalled, was Alger Hiss, the state department adviser for Roosevelt at the Yalta conference. Hiss is now serving sentence in a federal prison for perjury involving war time espionage for the Russians.
Two Carnegie top executives are Rhodes scholars. They are Whitney H. Shepardson, director of the Carnegie Corporation British and Colonies fund, and 0. C. Carmichael, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Assistant to Col. House
Shepardson was secretary of the league of nations committee and assistant to Col. E. M. House at the 1918 peace conference. During the first World war Carmichael disclosed his anglophilic sympathies by serving with the British army in India and became an honorary captain in his Britannic majesty’s East African forces.
An example of how Rhodes men stick together was furnished recently by the $800,000 Carnegie corporation grant to Harvard university for the Russian research center. Largest and most extensive research setup of its kind in the western world, the center is directed by a Rhodes scholar, C. K. M. Kluckhohn.
Carnegie corporation also started the new department of Russian civilization at Darthmouth college this year with a $50,000 gift. The foundation contributes toward Russian study programs at Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore colleges. Swarthmore’s president, John W. Nason, is a Rhodes scholar.
Carnegie-British Born
From the start the huge Carnegie corporation—with assets today valued at 173 million dollars—had a pro-British tinge. Andrew Carnegie, British-born steel magnate, left funds “for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States and of the British dominions and colonies.” His ideas paralleled those of Cecil Rhodes.
Rockefeller Foundation, with book assets of 153 million dollars, is studded with men who went to Oxford by courtesy of the diamond fortune left by the South African despot. Among the Rhodes scholars passing out Rockefeller money are the following:
A. W. Packard, executive assistant to John D. Rockefeller Jr., in matters of philanthropy, and director of Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
E. F. D’Arms, associate director for the humanities, Rockefeller Foundation.
Chadbourne Gilpatric, assistant director, the humanities, Rockefeller Foundation.
J. L. Hydrick, member of the staff of the international health division of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Rusk Member of Board
D. P. C. Lloyd, member Rockefeller Institute for medical research.
Assistant United States Secretary Dean Rusk, a member of the board of trustees.
Henry Allen Moe, a Rockefeller trustee and member of the executive Committee.
Dean A. Clark, M. D., member of the board of scientific consultants, international health division, Rockefeller Foundation.
Rockefeller Foundation achieved notoriety last year by giving grants of $60,000 and $50,000 respectively to the American Institute of Pacific Relations and the Pacific Council of the IPR. The outlay was made primarily for an international conference at Lucknow, India, in October of last year. The conclave turned into a sounding board for anti-Americanism.
The institute was formerly headed by Prof. Owen Lattimore, Johns Hopkins professor of international relations who was accused of being the “top soviet agent” in the country by Sen. Joseph P.. McCarthy [R., Wis.].
Study Files of IPR
Lattimore hotly denied the accusation. A senate judiciary sub-committee is studying files of the IPR taken during a raid on a barn near Lee, Mass. In addition to Rockefeller Foundation, one of the contributors to the IPR was Frederick Vanderbilt Field, millionaire agent for the Red Chinese in this country and bond fund raiser for indicted communist leaders.
On the IPR board of directors is a prominent Rhodes scholar, John K. Fairbank, professor of history at Harvard university. Fairbank has racked up a record as one of Lattiinore’s chief apologists.
According to the IPR’s own published figures, it received from 1925 thru 1950 a total net income of $2,536,000, of whIch 50 percent was furnished from foundations, chiefly Rockefeller, Carnegie and Carnegie Endowment.
Rhodes scholar Moe not only serves as trustee for the Rockefeller Foundation but also doubles in brass as secretary general of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Parsons a Kingpin
Another Rhodes scholar who figures as the kingpin of a foundation of a difierent sort is Critchell Parsons, wealthy oilman from Dallas, Tex. Parsons is vice president and a trustee of the China International Foundation. The foundation has an interesting history which government investigators are still trying to piece together.
China International Foundation holds the stock of the United Tanker corporation. Col. Arthur G. Syran, head of the economic cooperation administration’s transportation division, stated on April 2 of this year in Washington that two of the tankers owned by United had been involved in the profitable surplus ship deal engineered by former congressman Joseph E. Casey [a deal investigated by the Reconstruction Finance corporation] and that they had also carried oil to communist China and to Russia in 1949.
Morris Heads Foundation
Newbold Morris, New York lawyer and unsuccessful candidate for mayor in the last election, is president of the China International Foundation. He denied allegations of any illegality about the tankers and destiny of their cargoes. He claimed proceeds were aiding Chinese students stranded in this country, as well as Americans studying Chinese subjects.
China International Foundation, like Carnegie and Rockefeller, is allowed to carry on global operations and propaganda, in the furtherance of Cecil Rhodes’ aims, but without having to pay taxes. That means it is another “non-profit, charitable organization.”
RHODES GRADS INFLUENTIAL IN EASTERN PRESS
Aid British, Global Propaganda
BY WILLIAM FULTON
[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
New York. July 21—The picture of the American Rhodes scholars network in the United States—a rabid movement toward internationalism—is completed and glued together by their numbers in the field of molding public opinion. They are highly influential in the eastern press, magazines and radio chains.
Rhodes scholars in this country represent 32 campus leaders carefully selected each year to go to Oxford university, England. for supplemental schooling. Their patron, the late Cecil Rhodes, British empire builder and diamond tycoon, aimed at instilling in his proteges “political bias” rather than education, according to his intimates.
This bias, as revealed by the Rhodes seven wills and writings, was to recover the United States for the British empire in the form of an Anglo-Saxon federation. The federation would be powerful enough to dominate the world and enforce the “peace.”
Time Follows Rhodes’ Line
Closely following the Rhodes’ line of propaganda is the Time, Inc., magazine group headed by Henry Luce. Luce was not a Rhodes scholar but he did spend a year at Oxford where he sponged up some of the imperialistic doctrines carried later in his rnagazines. Several of his top brass editors have been Rhodes scholars.
From the start Luce followed the Anglophile trail, whooping it up for American intervention in war when the British were in trouble and damning pro-Americans as “isolationists.” He is a charter member of the “Eisenhower-for-President” cult, favors entrapment of Republicans by Truman’s so-called bipartisan foreign policy, and the Marshall plan, which has paid off his magazines.
In addition to pushing the British concept of policing the world with American soldiers and economic aid, the Luce publications have been infiltrated by another form of globalism. Whittaker Chambers, devotee of world communism and confessed courier for a soviet spy ring, was a senior editor [$30,000 a year] for Time magazine. Chambers informed on Alger Hiss, Roosevelt adviser at Yalta. Hiss is now in a federal penitentiary for perjury in a case involving soviet espionage.
Rhodes Men on N. Y. Times
The New York Times, which has been pro-British since the First World war, also has its share of Rhodes scholars on the staff. An interesting footnote in journalistic history is that at the time Rhodes’ final will was published in 1902, the New York Times condemned the idea of American scholarship.
“Why should an American youth go to Oxford when he can get a better education at home in respect of those attainments which chiefly make for national greatness?” inquired the Times in 1902.
The New York paper also declared American newspapers were emancipated from the “sterile classicism” of Oxford and Cambridge in England. Times have changed editorially on the Times.
Rhodes scholars are also found on the New York Herald Tribune. This paper has been a fawning pro-British organ ever since its one-time publisher, Whitelaw Reid, became ambassador to the Court of St. James in London. The family later acquired in-laws in the British nobility.
Smear Artist on P-D
Altho the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is not geograflcally an eastern newspaper, it is following the eastern internationalist line without deviation. One of the Rhodes scholars on the Post-Dispatch is Robert Lasch, former smear artist for a Chicago paper.
In the radio medium one of the principal apologists for the New Deal and its blunders in foreign policy is Elmer Davis a Rhodes scholar and left wing commentator. In 1943 he was placed at the head of the office of war information. The OWl was constantly criticized in congress as a communist ridden agency which deliberately misinformed people for propaganda purposes. Most of the 125 millIon dollars of taxpayers’ money spent by Davis’ OWl on pamphlets, films and broadcasts went toward adnauseam glorification of Roosevelt. The agency also publicized Henry A. Wallace’s statement that “the People’s Revolution is on the March.”
The American Oxonian, publication of the Rhodes scholars in this country, lists 22 savants who went to Oxford with the bills paid by the British empire builder and who are now prominent in magazines, newspapers and radio.
Welles, Lindley on Roster
The roster Includes:
Luce Publications — Samuel G. Welles, associate editor, Time; C. T. Solberg, contributing editor, Time; H. B. Hering, on Time New York staff: and Hedley W. Donovan, associate director Fortune magazine.
Newsweek—Ernest K. Llndley, chief Washington bureau, also political commentator for Des Moines Register and Tribune syndicate via radio.
Saturday Evening Post—Beverly Smith, Washington editor.
Kiplinger magazine, Washington — H. L. Brown Jr., managing editor.
New York Times—Thomas J. Hamilton Jr., chief of United Nations bureau and successor to Clarence Streit, Rhodes scholar, president of Federal Union, Inc., a globalist outfit, who covered League of Nations for same paper; Robert Aura Smith, editorial staff; John B. Oaken, editorial board; W. F. Fowle, foreign correspondent.
New York Herald Tribune — William L Nichols, editor This Week Sunday supplement; J. M. Minifie, correspondent Washington bureau, and B. W. Dunlap, writer, New York.
List Monitor Editor
Christian Science Monitor — E. D. Canham, editor, and Donovan Richardson, chief editorial writer.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch—R. P. Brandt, head at Washington bureau, and Robert Lasch, editorial writer.
Baltimore Sun—F. W. Beirne, associate editor.
American Broadcasting company Elmer Davis, news ana]yst.
Columbia Broadcasting company Howard K. Smith Jr., European director, and Charles C. Collingwood, White House correspondent and news analyst.
Rhodes scholars in the public opinion field constitute a faithful claque for their colleagues in the government, primarily the state department which they dominate. With this tie-in, they are attempting to bring about the fulfilment of the lifelong ambitions held by their educational benefactor, Cecil John Rhodes.
CANADA OFFERS FINE FIELD TO RHODES’ WARDS
Exert Influence on United StatesBY EUGENE GRIFFIN
[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
OTTAWA, July 22 — scholars and other British educated Canadians are in a unique position to serve Britain thru Canada’s influence on Washington as a next door neighbor of the United States.
Canada acts as a connecting link between England and the United States, helping to hold the neighboring republic in line with the dominion’s mother country. The linch pin role has been easy for Canada with Dean Acheson, son of a Canadian mother and an English father, serving as American secretary of state.
When Gen. MacArthur displeased Britain and Canada by his efforts to win the Korean war, Canada’s Oxford educated minister for external affairs, Lester B. Pearson, complained that American-Canadian relations had become “difficult and delicate.” Mac Arthur was fired the next day.
Twenty-three on Pearson’s Staff
Pearson’s foreign office staff is packed with Rhodes scholars. There are 23 among 183 staff officers, or one out of every eight, who were educated at Oxford university, England, on scholarships created by Cecil Rhodes, empire builder and diamond mogul who wanted the United States taken back into Britain’s fold.
Other Canadian foreign office members also were educated in England, altho not as Rhodes scholars. Pearson went to Oxford [St. John’s, 1922] on a Massey scholarship, endowed by a Canadian millionaire.
Arnold D. P. Heeney [St. John’s, 1923], undersecretary of state, and Escott M. Reid [Christ Church, 1927], deputy undersecretary, who are Pearson’s principal advisers, are Rhodes scholars. The list of 23 Rhodes scholars in Pearson’s department includes only three French-Canadian names.
Hold Many High Offices
Canadians with an English education fill key positions in official contacts with the United States. They are at the top of the department of external affairs, sit on the department’s American desk in Ottawa, are in the Canadian embassy in Washington, in charge of Oxford educated Ambassador Hume Wrong, and are at the United Nations. Rhodes scholar Arnold C. Smith [Christ Church, 1935] is senior adviser to the Canadian delegation at the U. N.
John W. Pickersgill, leader of the Ottawa government’s palace guard, with the official title of special assistant to the prime minister, went to Oxford on a scholarship given by Canada’s Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire. Pickersgill is a political handyman, speech writer, and contact man for the prime minister, and wields immeasurable influence on Canada’s American relations.
He has been on loan to the prime minister from the department of external affairs since 1937. The Montreal Gazette recently recalled that Pickersgill once was considered “a little left of middle.”
399 Canadian Rhodes Scholars
Norman A. Robertson, a Rhodes scholar (Balliol, 1923]. sometimes called the most brilliant member of the British trained inner circle in the government’s East Block, headquarters of the prime minister and the foreign office, is another important figure in Canada’s relations with Britain and the United States.
He is clerk of the privy council and secretary to the cabinet, and has been undersecretary of state and high commissioner [ambassador] to Britain. He was in the same class at Oxford as Heeney, one year after Pearson.
Many of the 399 Canadian Rhodes scholars have moved to the United States, where 30 are professors or otherwise connected with education. In Canada, 33 work for the dominion government, in addition to the 21 in Pearson’s department; 11 have jobs with provincial governments, including one provincial premier; 72 are in educational work, 65 are practicing law, 28 are in business, and 16 are practicing medicine. Clarence S. Campbell of Montreal, president of the National Hockey league, is a Rhodes scholar [Lincoln, 1926].
High Socalists Included
Edward B. Jolliffe [Christ Church, 1931], leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth federation [Socialist party] in Ontario, where he is a member of the provincial legislature, a n d David Lewis [Lincoln, 1932], former national secretary of the CCF, are Rhodes scholars. With the Socialist party losing strength in Canada, Lewis recently resigned his party job to join Jolliffe’s law firm in Toronto.
George V. Ferguson [Christ Church, 1920], editor of the Montreal Star. and James B. McGeachy, associate editor of the Toronto Globe and Mail, are the only Rhodes scholars in Canadian journalism. The Montreal paper was founded by a man who was made a baron for his services to the British empire. It is noted today for its stodginess.
James Minifie, a Rhodes scholar from Saskatchewan [Oriel, 1923], writes regularly in the Montreal Star, an associated week-end paper, the Standard, and broadcasts over the Canadian government’s radio network as the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune.
Pearson’s department of external affairs controls the type of news that is broadcast over the Canadian radio’s international service thru Arthur L Pidgeon, another Rhodes scholar [New college. 1938], who has the title of “coordinator of policy.”
Canada sends 11 Rhodes scholars to Oxford each year, chosen, as in the United States, by a committee. Each province may send one scholar, except Prince Edward Island, which has none, and Ontario and Quebec, which may send two scholars per year.
The first scholarships were allotted in 1904, and Quebec’s French Canadians were suspicious of this form of British gift. The Catholic university, Laval in Quebec, waited a year before sending a scholar to Oxford in 1905, sent none in 1906, and then the school’s officials quietly offered the scholarship to Louis S. St. Laurent, Laval’s brightest student, who turned down the Rhodes scholarship to continue his study of law in Quebec. He now in Canada’s prime minister.
Back Rhodes’ Dream
Rhodes wanted America brought back into Britain’s empire and Canada’s Rhodes scholars today are among the Atlantic federation dreamers who want the United States to lose its sovereignty in a union with Canada, Britain, and other countries.
The Canadian senate, whose members are appointed by the government and who could not pass the time of day without the government’s approval, last year passed a resolution calling for an international convention to discuss plans for creation of a “federal union” of the Atlantic pact countries.
Prime Minister St. Laurent whose advisers are Rhodes scholars, expressed a hope in a speech last fall that the federation of Canadian provinces might be followed some day by a world-wide federation. Pearson has said that the North Atlantic alliance should be developed into a federation going beyond mere defense.
It may one day become a political commonwealth,” he has stated. In parliament, however, he has cautioned “one world” enthusiasts that they must not get too far in front of American public opinion.
BRITISH TREAT RHODES MEN AS PRIZED GUESTS
BY ARTHUR VEYSEY[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
LONDON, July 23—Rhodes scholars educated at Oxford university during the last 48 years under bequests from Britain’s African empire maker, Cecil John Rhodes, now number 2,674. Before Oxford closed for the sumrner vacation, 181. students were studying there as Rhodes scholars, 91 of them from the United States.
All facilities at the university are made available to them and they are special guests in Britain. This enables them to became acquainted with most of the important Britons, if they wish. Three years of this favored, flattering, kindly treatment is almost certain to make them friends of Britain and of the British people.
Receive $1,400 a Year
“Don’t be stingy,” was one of Rhodes’ few instructions and the scholars now receive 500 pounds [$1,400] per year. Originally, students were chosen from the empire, the United States, and Germany. Rhodes said his object was to tighten ties within the empire, among the English speaking races, and between the English speaking people and Germany “so war would be impossible.”
Both World wars caused breaks in the election of German students. None has been chosen since 1939. Of the 85 earlier German scholars, two were leading Nazis, two became anti-British historians, two were executed for the plot against Hitler, another died at the hands of the Gestapo, and two are members of the West German legislature.
None lives in Germany’s Russian ruled eastern zone.
Rhodes ordered selection of youths who would “esteem to the performance of public duties as their highest aim.” His administrators believe he meant that his scholars should become active in all fields, not only in politics and diplomacy. The largest number of former scholars—about 700—have become teachers, 20 of them rising to the presidencies of colleges and universities.
450 Now Are Lawyers
Four hundred and fifty have become lawyer’, about 20 of these becoming judges. Scores are bankers and business men. The British colonial service has recruited several score. One British scholar has become a lord and 12 have been knighted. The scholarship fund administrators boast of their “strong representation” in the American state department.
More that 550 former scholars served in empire units or American armed services during World War II. Of about 350 American former Rhodes scholars of military age, 250 were in uniform.
Rhodes laid down four qualifications for prospective scholars: [1] literary and scholastic attainments, [2] fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports, [3] truth, courage, devotion to duty, and sympathy for the weak, and [4] forceful character and instinct to lead. He suggested that items [l] and [3] should outweigh the other two.
The scholars are chosen on a regional basis by committees made up mainly of former Rhodes scholars. Most students arrive at Oxford at ages between 19 and 25 and remain for three years. Until the post-war years. students could not be married—Rhodes died bachelor. Since the war, wives and babies have been a part of Oxford life but the school is regaining its bachelorhood quickly.
Most Popular Subject
At Oxford, the scholars flood over the classrooms and lecture halls. Before the war, law was the most popular major, but now philosofy, politics, and economics are most sought after.
American scholars, however, have reversed the general trend. Before World War I, 15 per cent of the American scholars majored in philosofy, politics, and economics — known locally as “the modern greats” — but last year the subject attracted only five of the 91 Americans. A random list of favored subjects shows: Mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, geology, physiology, jurisprudence. modern history, English language and literature, oriental studies, modern languages, forestry, and agriculture.
Fewer than 10 per cent of the scholars win top honors at Oxford. Scholastically, they rate below the average home bred Oxford scholar. They are a strong force in collegiate sports, however. Oxford’s chief rival, Cambridge, tends to blame Rhodes for all athletic defeats.
The Rhodes administrators say their main object is to develop young men who will make good, decent citizens. Most foreign scholars leave Oxford with kind memories of Britain, but the administrators say most also return to their homelands better citizens of their own countries.
RHODES SCHOLAR RULES CONGRESS REFERENCE UNIT
Bureau Branded Source of Propaganda[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
Washington, July 25—The main fount of information for congress is under the control of a college professor who was indoctrinated in British ideals under a Rhodes scholarship, inquiry revealed today.
When a senator or a representative wants material for a speech or a report. he frequently calls upon the legislative reference service of the library of congress.
Approximately 35,000 inquiries for information were forwarded thus during 195O and answered by a staff of 174 experts in international economics, international relations, taxation, fiscal policy, government and administration, American law, labor economics, national defense, housing, money, and banking.
In Britain 5 Years
The head of this service, which cost the taxpayer $790,000 last year and for which $922,000 is being asked this year, is Ernest S. Griffith, whose education at Oxford university in England was financed thru payments from the estate of Cecil John Rhodes, British empire builder. Rhodes sought to bring the United States back under British domination thru issuance of scholarships to young Americans.
Griffith spent five years in Britain, acting as warden of the university settlement, Liverpool, England, while he was getting his Oxford education. He later was a lecturer on government at Harvard university, dean of government at Syracuse university, and dean of the school of polltical science at American university. He was appointed director of the legislative reference service in 1940.
Influential In East
Much of the vast flow of information provided members of congress yearly by Griffith and his staff of research experts finds its way into the congressional record and is the basis for numerous newspaper reports.
The same staff prepares reports and pamphlets on a large variety of subjects at the request of congressmen. Most congressmen are unaware that this service, for which they dutifully appropriate large annual sums, is an important part of the American Rhodes scholars propaganda network in the United States which is highly influential in the eastern press, magazines, and radio chains.
According to his intimates, Rhodes aimed at instilling “political bias” rather than education in American youth benefiting from the scholarships which he established. The success of this aim has been outlined in previous articles by William Fulton, the Tribune’s eastern correspondent, who traced the widespread influence of Rhodes scholars in government, in education, in the United Nations, and in privately endowed institutions which further one-world government schemes designed to undermine American sovereignty.
“Scholars” Work Quietly Investigation revealed that Rhodes scholars in key positions in Washington, such as that occupied by Griffith, function so quietly that the effectiveness of their operations goes unnoticed.
The legislative reference service, however, has been subjected to congressional criticism for bias in connection with the spreading of socialist propaganda.
Charges have been made that the service harbored men of communistic tendencies, but no official investigation ever has been made and no definite evidence has been developed.
In 1947, the Griffith staff, at the request of Rep. Patmnn [D., Tex.], compiled a 325 page pamphlet entitled “Fascism in Action,” which was the subject of heated controversy.
Branded Smear of Business
Rep. Busbey [R., Ill.) charged that the document was an attempt to smear American business with the fascist label. He noted that the pamphlet paralleled the communist party line and soviet policy. He cited pro-communist sources and authors relied upon by Griffith’s researchers in the study.
Griffith admitted that a veteran economist had resigned from his staff in protest of the pamphlet’s contents when changes were made in chapters he had written.
Patman, a left-winger, asked for the study of fascism after the library, at the request of Rep. Dirksen [R., Ill.], had made a survey of “Communism in Action” which was assailed by the New York Daily Worker, official communist journal.
One of the “authorities” quoted in the “Fascism in Action” pamphlet was Gunther Stein, named two years later by the army as a communist who was connected with the soviet spy ring in Japan headed by the notorious Richard Sorge.
The pamphlet finally was issued as a house document after it had been revised substantially to include “18 points of similarity in naziism, fascism, and communism” prepared by Busbey.
This revision made the document unpalatable to communist elements and thousands of copies are lying unclaimed in a congressional storeroom.. The project cost the taxpayer thousands of dollars.
RHODES’ WARDS HELPED BRITAIN GET U. S. BILLIONS
Channeled Flow of Gold Under Aid Program BY PHILIP WARDEN
[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
Washingtan, July 26—The Mar shall plan for spreading billions of American dollars all over the world scarcely had been started three years ago when American Rhodes scholars, hold-
ing key government jobs, became active in a campaign to get the lion’s share for Britain. They achieved huge success.
In advance of the first allotments to foreign nations, Lt. Col. C. H. Bonesteel 3d, a Rhodes scholar of 1934, flew to Europe on May 2, 1948, to prepare the way for W. Averill Harriman, who would direct the distribution of American aid dollars in Europe. The flow of American gold to Britain began shortly thereafter.
Since 1940, more than 37 billion dollars have been given the British at the expense of the American taxpayer in the form of “lend-lease,” a gift-loan, and assistance under the economic cooperation administration program for Europe. In securing this amazing amount for Britain, Rhodes scholars in the United States played a prominent part.
Sought Return to Empire Cecil John Rhodes, the British empire builder who established the Rhodes scholarships in 1904, wanted to bring the United States back into the British empire. In his wildest dreams, it has been noted, he could never have envisioned the tremendous financial contributions by the United States to Britain which British-educated Americans helped to secure.
Sentiment for American financial support of Britain was built up by Rhodes scholars occupying prominent posts in the eastern press, in the educational world, and in privately endowed institutions with widespread propaganda organizations. Meanwhile, Rhodes scholars in the government worked quietly to stimulate the stream of American cash to the British.
Bonesteel, the advance agent for the Marshall plan, has remained in London since 1948. During this period, Britain obtained 2 billion 706 million dollars, by far the largest allotment, under the spending program. President Truman is asking another 8.5 billIons for foreign aid.
Aid Also Rhodes Man
Bonesteel is executive director of the European coordinating cornmittee for the mutual defense assistance program, the MDAP. He has another Rhodes scholar—H. L. Merillot—as his assistant.
Working from the start with Richard M.. Bissell, assistant deputy administrator, was Samuel J. Van Hynlng, another Rhodes man. Bissaell’s office decided how much money each Marshall plan country should be given. Van Hyning did much of the paper work.
Working beside Van Hynlng was Theodore Geiger, who left ECA Oct. 20, 1950. Geiger has been named by Sen. McCarthy [R., Wis.] as a Communist. On leaving the government, Geiger said he was becoming a free lance writer.
Altho Bissell, who is now deputy ECA Administrator, is not a Rhodes scholar, part of his education was obtained in Britain. He attended the London school of economics in 1932 and 1933. Bissell attended Kingswood school, Groton, and Yale, and was a member of the Yale faculty before launching on a government career in 1942. He was executive secretary of the President’s committee on foreign aid before going to ECA.
Directed Trade Division Rhodes scholar Lincoln Gordon was the original director of the ECA “trade” division. This division had been given a new designation and handed over to another Rhodes scholar by July of 1948, however, and Gordon had gone to Paris to direct the program review and recovery division. In that job, Gordon was doing in Paris what Bissell and Van Hyning were doing in Washington. Gordon now is back in Washington as assistant to Bissell.
Succeeding Gordon as chief of the new “fiscal and trade policy division” set up on July 10, 1948, was Arthur Smithies, a native of Australia and the winner of a Rhodes scholarship after his graduation from Tasmania university. Smithies also earned a doctor’s degree in economics from Harvard. He came to ECA from the budget bureau.
One of the younger men of the New Deal top flighters, a Rhodes scholar who has made a career in the government’s give-away programs, is Harlan Cleveland. He attended Oxford In 1938 and 1939, returning to the states to take a job as writer with the farm security administration.
Assisted Henry Wallace
Cleveland went with Henry Wallace to the board of economic warfare and its successor, the foreign economic administration. He went to Italy with the allied control commission in 1944 and graduated to a membership in the allied delegation to the third session of the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration [UNRRA].
Cleveland headed the UNRRA mission in Rome and then was given a promotion to head of the UNRRA mission to China. When ECA was set up and new American aid voted for China. Cleveland was put in charge.
When the Communists took over most of China, Cleveland was temporarily out of a job but ECA quickly switched him to a “point 4” job which involved planning technical assistance programs for the “dependent areas” of the Marshall plan countries. Cleveland now has the title deputy to the assistant administrator.
Others in Aid Jobs
Rhodes scholar John M. Cassels is director of research on the staff of the ECA mission to Britain in London. Wilfred Martin Kluss, another Rhodes scholar, went to Paris as a special adviser to Harriman. He is a New York City investment banker by profession. B. E. L. Timmons, another Rhodes protege, is deputy head of the ECA mission to France. A. B. Daspit, another Oxonian, is a top man in the ECA office in Paris. Felix I. Shaffner, a Rhodes man, directs ECA aid to Indonesia.
Dr. Alan Valentine, who headed the ECA mission to the Netherlands in the Marshall plan’s formative years, is another Rhodes man.
Alex I. Henderson, first general [council?] of ECA, altho not a Rhodes scholarship student, studied in England. He attended Trinity college, Cambridge, before his graduation from Harvard law school.
Eric H. Biddle, who went to Europe as special assistant for overseas administration of ECA early in the Marshall plan, received an Oxford education. Biddle was active in the establishment of UNRRA and the United Nations. Later he went back with ECA as special assistant to the chief of the ECA mission to Greece.
EVEN CONGRESS NOT IMMUNE TO RHODES’ IDEAS
2 Scholars There Help Support Program
BY PHILIP DODD
[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
Washington, July 27—Two of the three Rhodes scholars in the United. States congress—Sen. Fulbright [D., Ark.] and Rep. Albert [D., Okla.]—have followed the teachings of their British-financed education, a survey of voting records showed today.
The other Rhodes scholar in congress, Rep. Hale [R., Me.], frequently strays from the path outlined by the late Cecil Rhodes, British empire builder whose fortune has underwritten the Oxford university training of 1,400 Americans.
Rhodes’ dream was an Anglo-American federation which ultimately would return the United States to the British empire. In keeping with that aim, Rhodes scholars fill many key positions in the United States government.
Can’t Resist Indoctrination Rep. Short [R., Mo.]. who studied one term at Oxford university in England—on an American-financed scholarship—shortly after World War I, told a reporter today that Rhodes scholars “can’t help being indoctrinated” in empire philosofy during their three years at Oxford.
“Rhodes scholars are supposed to be mature men and should be able to resist such indoctrination,” Short said. “But when they are at Oxford. everything they hear has an empire slant—the glories of the British empire and all that. In other words, there’ll always be an England—as long as we take care of her.”
Short said he was casting no reflections on his congressional colleagues who are Rhodes scholars. He said his observations were based on talks with Rhodes men who were at Oxford when he studied there. The Missourian said he felt that some of the Oxford teachings are worth while, particularly in the classics, but he said he found Heidelberg university in Germany “more objective.”
“Look Down on Americans” “The main trouble with Oxford,” Short said, “is that there they look down on Americans.
They feel superior to us. Some Americans try to overcome that by assuming the British attitude.”
Fulbright’s record in congress is one of all-out support for the internationalist activities of the Rooseveit and Truman adrninistrations. As a member of the house in 1943, he sponsored the “Fulbright resolution” which favored American participation in a global organization to “maintain peace,” and was a staunch supporter of the United Nations movement.
His support of internationalism won Fulbrlght a seat on the powerful foreign relations committee when he came to the senate after the 1944 election.
Despite his Internationalism, Fulbrlght has been a thorn in the side of the Truman administration because of his votes on domestic issues. He has thrown his support to the southern Democrats in such matters.
Urged Truman Resignation Two of Fulbright’s actions have particularly irked President Truman. One was his assertion in 1948, when all signs pointed to Mr. Truman’s defeat, that the President should resign. Another was his conduct of the Reconstruction Finance corporation investigation during the past year, which turned up many facts embarrassing to the administration.
So far this year, in spite of his party line defections on domestic issues, Fulbright has a record of 89 per cent support of administration policies.
Albert, a third termer in the house, has gone down the line for administration policies, foreign and domestic, and has a record of 97 per cent support of the administration in his votes this year.
Hale’s Enthusiasm Wanes Hale is the oldest of the Rhodes scholars in congress—he took his master’s degree at Oxford in 1921 —and the years appear to have dulled whatever enthusiasm he may have had for the aims of Cecil Rhodes.
The Maine congressman has a record of 82 per cent support of Republican policies in his house votes this year. Altho he has backed global spending schemes in the past, his recent house speeches have indicated doubt as to the wisdom of the course the state department is following.
Hale is author of a resolution, bottled up in the house foreign affairs committee, which would declare that the Yalta agreement of 1945—which gave Russia freedom to gobble up additional areas of Eurupe and Asia — is no longer binding on the United States.
Hale also took issue with the state department in the case of Gen. MacArthur, when the former Pacific commander was fired by President Truman last spring.
Late in May, Hale gave a pat on the back to another Rhodes scholar, Assistant State Secretary Dean Rusk, in a house debate, but it was in support of Rusk’s speech in which Rusk spoke kindly of the Chiang Kai-shek government of China and charged the Red regime in China was a “colonial Russian government.”
Hale said Rusk’s statements had been “disavowed” by State Secretary Acheson, but that the Rusk, not the Acheson, policy should be followed.
THEIR OWN CODE GUIDES RHODES SCHOLARS IN US
State Dept. Aid Gave Support to Hiss
BY WILLARD EDWARDS
[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
Washington, July 28—The code instilled in American students by education at Oxford university did not deter a Rhodes scholar from suppressing evidence affecting the security of the United States, inquiry revealed today.
Another Oxonian, not a Rhodes scholar, became a spy when he entered the state department and made the amazing confession that he felt “a glow of pride” when he began feeding the nation’s secrets to a Russian agent.
Some Americans who obtain supplemental education and indoctrination in England, these two incidents indicate, gain an arrogance which permits them to establish their own rules of behavior, setting them above the moral and legal standards which guide the conduct of their fellow countrymen.
”Political Bias” the Goal Rhodes scholars are men whose education at Oxford is financed thru payments from the estate of Cecil John Rhodes, British empire builder. These scholarships were established for the primary purpose of instilling “political bias” in young Americans in favor of a world federation involving surrender of American sovereignty.
In absorbing this philosofy, at least one Rhodes scholar, the record shows, did not hesitate to conceal evidence against a protégé, even tho such concealment permitted betrayal of American secrets to a foreign government.
One of the Rhodes scholars who penetrated the state department more than 20 years ago was Stanley K. Hornbeck, who became chief of the division of far eastern affairs and political affairs adviser, a top ranking policy post. Along with scores of other Rhodes scholars who infiltrated the state department, Hornbeck played a prominent part in formation of the program which resulted in the loss of China to the Communists.
Defended Hiss’ Character Hornbeck’s name has cropped up frequently in the present investigation of the McCarran committee on internal security which is disclosing a close working relationship between high government officials, known soviet agents, and fellow travelers.
Hornbeck’s assistant was Alger Hiss, now serving a five year prison sentence for purjury to conceal espionage. Hornbeck had been a lecturer on the far east at Harvard university when Hiss was a student there.
Hornbeck appeared as a character witness for Hiss at the first trial of the state department official, asserting that Hiss had an excel1ent reputation for loyalty, integrity, and veracity. He escaped cross-examination at that time, but when he again took the witness stand at the second trial, Prosecutor Tom Murphy was armed with new evidence.
New Evidence Offered Hornbeck, who had retired in 1945 after a period as ambassador to the Netherlands, again swore that the reputation of Hiss had been unquestioned in the state department.
Murphy confronted Hornbeck with information that William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to Russia and France, had labeled Hiss a Communist party fellow traveler in 1939 in a report sent directly to Hornbeck.
Hornbeck, much perturbed and frequently appealling to the court, finally admitted reluctantly that Bullitt had made the charge against Hiss to him, based on information received in Paris. But Hornbeck kept the report to himself and never told anyone else about it, he said, offering the excuse that “His was very close to me.”
Not until nine years after Bullitt reported to Hornbeck was the truth about Hiss made known in the testimony of Whittaker Chambers, admitted soviet courier. Hiss was convicted on evidence that he gave secret state department documents to a Russian spy ring.
Wadleigh Testimony Recalled
During the same period, Henry Julian Wadleigh, a state department economist, was funneling approximately 500 confidential documents to Moscow, according to his court confession in 1950.
Wadleigh, American-born, was taken abroad by his father, rector of the Episcopalian church in Paris for a long period. Wadleigh received his master of arts degree at Oxford and his bachelor of sciences degree at the London College of Economics. He returned to the United States in 1929 and entered the government service in 1930. He joined the state department in 1936.
Wadleigh gave a startling, candid account of his reasons for engaging in espionage soon after he entered the state department.
In his own mind, he said, he was neither a thief nor a traitor. He insisted from the witness stand at the Hiss trial that he did not “steal” documents. He was aware, he said, that he was violating his oath of allegiance to the United States, but he considered himself guilty of neither espionage nor illegal activity.
Defends His Course
“I was doing the right thing in accord with my convictions at that time,” he told the jury. “I was not spying against the United States. The information I gave Russia was to be used against Germany and Japan, not my own country.”
When he entered the service of a Russian agent, he continued, “I felt “a glow of pride.”
“I was doing something practical to protect mankind from its worst enemies,” he said. “The risks involved in the undertaking made me nervous, but more often they were exhilarating.”
Hiss and Wadleigh were unaware of each other’s espionage. Chambers, following well known espionage tactics, never told one about the activities of the other.
OWI PROPAGANDA MACHINE LINKED TO RHODES MEN
Influence Goes Back to Elmer Davis[Chicago Tribune Press Service]
Washington, July 30—The influence of American Rhodes scholars in the public opinion field has been traced in part to the operations of the biggest war propaganda machine in history —the 1942-45 office of war information.
The OWI served as a training school for 10,000 experts in swaying public opinion thru the radio, press, magazines, and books. Its graduates have spread out thru the eastern publishing world, the motion picture industry, and the radio networks.
At the head of the OWI was Elmer Davis, Rhodes scholar and New Deal commentator, who presided over the agency during the three years of its life and spent 125 million dollars on films, broadcasts, pamphlets, and books.
Back on Radio Now
Davis resumed his radio work when the OWl was dissolved in August, 1945, and consistently exhibits a pro-British, pro-state department, and pro-administration attitude.
President Truman wanted to keep the OWl functioning after the war and asked 42 million dollars to maintain it. When congress slashed this fund to 18 millions, he yielded to public pressure and ordered it abolished, altho he denounced congressional critics of the agency in so doing. He sent Davis a letter, commenting that plenty of brickbats had been thrown his way but complimenting him for a job well done.”
Davis received his higher education at Oxford university, England, under a fund established by Cecil John Rhodes, the empire builder. Rhodes sought to bring the United States back under British domination thru educational awards for young American students and other “colonials.”
Biggest Propaganda Setup
During World War II, Davis operated the biggest radio network in the nation; the largest single enterprise disseminating news, pictures, and features; the world’s largest pamphlet and magazine publishing organization. The agency turned out hundreds of millions of pamphlets, motion pictures, transcribed recordings, magazines, and newspapers. Davis had been news analyst for the Columbia Broadcasting system when selected by President Roosevelt to head the OWI. His socialist views preceded those of the present Labor government in Great Britain. He publicly supported the Socialist party candidate in 1932 and helped found the leftist American Labor party which later came under the control of Communists. Communist penetration of the OWI under Davis was aired repeatedly in congress.
He’s a “News Analyst”
Davis is now “news analyst” for the American Broadcasting Company. When communist allegations were bared last year concerning Owen Lattimore, a state department consultant, Davis became one of the most violent critics of Sen. McCarthy [R., Wisj, who brought the charges. Lattimore had been a deputy director of OWI Pacific operations under Davis during the war.
When the OWI broke up, many of its 10,375 employes drifted into the state and other government departments but a majority sought jobs in the radio and publishing fields. There, those who absorbed the Davis training have pushed the British concept of policing the world with American soldiers and economic aid and have fought for a world federation under which the United States would surrender its sovereignty.
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