Block, Siteadmin, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, delete, edit, move, nsTeam2RO, nsTeam2RW, nsTeam2_talkRO, nsTeam2_talkRW, protect, rollback, Administrators, template
293,832
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 4:
Line 4: − +
wikify
==The ''Amerasia'' Affair==
==The ''Amerasia'' Affair==
Ex-Communist Louis F. Budenz, former managing editor of the Communist Party organ ''The Daily Worker'', advised Federal Bureau of Investigation agents that Jack Stachel, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, referred to ''Amerasia'' as "our paper." Budenz stated that Stachel told him the magazine was founded on orders of the Politburo, which appointed Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Philip Jaffe, and others "in the Communist cell within the IPR to direct ''Amerasia''."<ref>FBI report: "Institute of Pacific Relations, Espionage - R," July 13, 1950 [http://education-research.org/PDFs/IPR28.pdf FBI file: Institute of Pacific Relations, Section 28], p. 22 (PDF p. 23)</ref>
Ex-Communist Louis F. Budenz, former managing editor of the Communist Party organ ''[[The Daily Worker]]'', advised Federal Bureau of Investigation agents that Jack Stachel, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, referred to ''Amerasia'' as "our paper." Budenz stated that Stachel told him the magazine was founded on orders of the Politburo, which appointed Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Philip Jaffe, and others "in the Communist cell within the IPR to direct ''Amerasia''."<ref>FBI report: "Institute of Pacific Relations, Espionage - R," July 13, 1950 [http://education-research.org/PDFs/IPR28.pdf FBI file: Institute of Pacific Relations, Section 28], p. 22 (PDF p. 23)</ref>
[[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]] testified that he had discussed with associates in the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR) the project of starting ''Amerasia'' in 1937. ''Amerasia'' was established with the full approval of the Institute leaders. This property belonged to Fredrick Field and [[Philip Jaffe]], with Field holding the controlling interest. Field testified that he owned 50 per cent of the stock, while Jaffe owned 49 per cent. A good many of Field's associates in IPR were on the editorial board of ''Amerasia''. Field named [[Owen Lattimore]], [[Kate Mitchell]], Harriet Moore, [[T. A. Bisson]], Benjamin Kizer, a trustee of the Institute, and Philip Jaffe, who also was a member of the Institute and a contributor to its periodical.
[[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]] testified that he had discussed with associates in the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR) the project of starting ''Amerasia'' in 1937. ''Amerasia'' was established with the full approval of the Institute leaders. This property belonged to Fredrick Field and [[Philip Jaffe]], with Field holding the controlling interest. Field testified that he owned 50 per cent of the stock, while Jaffe owned 49 per cent. A good many of Field's associates in IPR were on the editorial board of ''Amerasia''. Field named [[Owen Lattimore]], [[Kate Mitchell]], Harriet Moore, [[T. A. Bisson]], Benjamin Kizer, a trustee of the Institute, and Philip Jaffe, who also was a member of the Institute and a contributor to its periodical.