| | In all these books Lattimore emphasized that Americans were reluctant to admit that the Soviet Union had any valid claim to be called a [[democracy]], "even when democratic procedures are as plainly stated as they are in the [[Stalin Constitution]]."<ref>''Asia in a New World Order'', by Owen Lattimore, Foreign Policy Report, September 1, 1942.</ref> Lattimore placed the three principals of [[Sun Yat-sen]], Soviet [[collectivism]] and the [[New Deal]] as all akin to one another. In the September 1938 issue of ''Pacific Affairs'', Lattimore described the [[Great Purge|Moscow purge trials]] as "a triumph for Democracy,"<ref>Subcommittee on S. Res. 231, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 81st Cong., 2d sess., [http://ia341005.us.archive.org/2/items/statedepartmente195002unit/statedepartmente195002unit_bw.pdf State Department Employee Loyalty Investigation: Hearings, Part II, Appendix] (Washington: U.S. GPO, 1950), p. 1532 (PDF p. 36)</ref> concluding that this orgy of mass murder "sounds like democracy to me."<ref>Paul Hollander, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=rhkswwoTg7MC Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society]'', 4th Ed. (Transaction Publishers, 1998), ISBN 1560009543, p. 165</ref> | | In all these books Lattimore emphasized that Americans were reluctant to admit that the Soviet Union had any valid claim to be called a [[democracy]], "even when democratic procedures are as plainly stated as they are in the [[Stalin Constitution]]."<ref>''Asia in a New World Order'', by Owen Lattimore, Foreign Policy Report, September 1, 1942.</ref> Lattimore placed the three principals of [[Sun Yat-sen]], Soviet [[collectivism]] and the [[New Deal]] as all akin to one another. In the September 1938 issue of ''Pacific Affairs'', Lattimore described the [[Great Purge|Moscow purge trials]] as "a triumph for Democracy,"<ref>Subcommittee on S. Res. 231, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 81st Cong., 2d sess., [http://ia341005.us.archive.org/2/items/statedepartmente195002unit/statedepartmente195002unit_bw.pdf State Department Employee Loyalty Investigation: Hearings, Part II, Appendix] (Washington: U.S. GPO, 1950), p. 1532 (PDF p. 36)</ref> concluding that this orgy of mass murder "sounds like democracy to me."<ref>Paul Hollander, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=rhkswwoTg7MC Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society]'', 4th Ed. (Transaction Publishers, 1998), ISBN 1560009543, p. 165</ref> |
| − | In July of 1938 IPR obtained a grant of $90,000 (equivalent to about [http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/Data/US-Inflation/inf_calculator.cfm?first=90000&year1=1938&year2=2012 $1.5 million today]) from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] to perform a study of Asia. Lattimore wrote to IPR President [[Edward C. Carter]], “I think you were pretty cagey to turn over so much of the China section of the inquiry to Asiaticus, Han-seng and Chi.<ref>"Asiaticus" was the pen name of a veteran German Comintern agent in Shanghai, Hans (or Heinz) Moeller (or Mueller), alias M. G. Shippe. Lattimore frequently published articles under this pseudonym in the IPR journal Pacific Affairs'' during his tenure as editor in 1934-41. (U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, [https://ia801406.us.archive.org/8/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit.pdf Report on the Institute of Pacific Relations], Washington 1952, p. 119) "Han-seng" was Chen Han-seng, a Soviet agent and member of Richard Sorge's Soviet spy ring. (Maochen Yu, "[http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ACF1AE.pdf Chen Hansheng's Memoirs and Chinese Communist Espionage]," ''Cold War International History Project Bulletin'', 6-7 (Winter 1995/1996), p. 274; Cf. Chiang, Yung-chen (2001). ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=IRQFRG8O8JYC&pg=PA159 Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949]. Cambridge University Press. pp. 159–163. ISBN 9780521770149</ref> "Chi" was Chi Chao-ting, a U.S.-educated Chinese http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADECCommunist spy who had infiltrated the Kuomintang.(Lifu Chen, [http://books.google.com/books?id=MOT_axUIWooC The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Chen Li-fu, 1900-1993] (Hoover Press, 1994) ISBN 0817992723, p. 181; Arthur Herman, [http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator] (Simon and Schuster, 1999) ISBN 0684836254, p. 126)</ref> | + | In July of 1938 IPR obtained a grant of $90,000 (equivalent to about [http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/Data/US-Inflation/inf_calculator.cfm?first=90000&year1=1938&year2=2012 $1.5 million today]) from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] to perform a study of Asia. Lattimore wrote to IPR President [[Edward C. Carter]], “I think you were pretty cagey to turn over so much of the China section of the inquiry to Asiaticus, Han-seng and Chi.<ref>"Asiaticus" was the pen name of a veteran German Comintern agent in Shanghai, Hans (or Heinz) Moeller (or Mueller), alias M. G. Shippe. Lattimore frequently published articles under this pseudonym in the IPR journal Pacific Affairs'' during his tenure as editor in 1934-41. (U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, [https://ia801406.us.archive.org/8/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit.pdf Report on the Institute of Pacific Relations], Washington 1952, p. 119) "Han-seng" was Chen Han-seng, a Soviet agent and member of Richard Sorge's Soviet spy ring. (Maochen Yu, "[http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ACF1AE.pdf Chen Hansheng's Memoirs and Chinese Communist Espionage]," ''Cold War International History Project Bulletin'', 6-7 (Winter 1995/1996), p. 274; Cf. Chiang, Yung-chen (2001). ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=IRQFRG8O8JYC&pg=PA159 Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949]. Cambridge University Press. pp. 159–163. ISBN 9780521770149 "Chi" was Chi Chao-ting, a U.S.-educated Chinese http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADECCommunist spy who had infiltrated the Kuomintang.(Lifu Chen, [http://books.google.com/books?id=MOT_axUIWooC The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Chen Li-fu, 1900-1993] (Hoover Press, 1994) ISBN 0817992723, p. 181; Arthur Herman, [http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator] (Simon and Schuster, 1999) ISBN 0684836254, p. 126)</ref> They will bring out the absolutely essential radical aspects, but can be depended on to do it with the right touch." |