SkipCaptcha, Automoderated users, edit
7,178
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 62:
Line 62: + + +
→Senate investigations: added Legacy
Lattimore was indicted for perjury in his testimony before the [[McCarran Committee]], but Judge Luther Youngdahl dropped the charges against him in 1955 on "a purely technical finding, wholly unrelated to Lattimore's activities."<ref>William F. Buckley, Jr. , "[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n13_v41/ai_7722313/ Why are the Liberals Whitewashing? Owen Lattimore in the Liberal Press]," ''National Review'', July 14, 1989</ref>
Lattimore was indicted for perjury in his testimony before the [[McCarran Committee]], but Judge Luther Youngdahl dropped the charges against him in 1955 on "a purely technical finding, wholly unrelated to Lattimore's activities."<ref>William F. Buckley, Jr. , "[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n13_v41/ai_7722313/ Why are the Liberals Whitewashing? Owen Lattimore in the Liberal Press]," ''National Review'', July 14, 1989</ref>
==Legacy==
Even on the left, many of the most knowledgeable observers agreed that Lattimore was a propagandist for Party line. The [[socialist]]<ref>Barry Maine, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=wymQbWXUaZYC John Dos Passos]'' (Routledge, 1997) ISBN 0415159350, p. 243</ref> (and ex-[[Communist]])<ref>Warren F. Broderick, "Granville Hicks: Champion of the Small Town," in Granville Hicks, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3AnzwTdvxroC Small Towm]'' (Fordham University Press, 2004) ISBN 0823223574, p. xvii</ref> Granville Hicks, for example, was dismayed by the spectacle of [[liberal]]s "rallying with such absolute assurance to Lattimore’s defense."<ref>Ronald Radosh, "[http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/archive/2000/4/radosh.html The Legacy of the Anti-Communist Liberal Intellectuals]," ''Partisan Review'', Vol. LXVII, No. 4 (2000)</ref> Lattimore “defends every item of [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] justice," wrote "unabashedly liberal partisan"<ref>Douglas Martin, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/washington/01schlesinger.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Arthur Schlesinger, Historian of Power, Dies at 89]," ''The New York Times'', March 1, 2007</ref> [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]] When Lattimore wrote that the [[Stalin]]'s [[Great Purge]] "sounds to me like [[democracy]]," Schlesinger commented that those words "sound to me like [[fellow traveller|fellow-traveling]]."<ref>Ronald Radosh, "[http://hnn.us/articles/1154.html Sidney Hook Was Right, Arthur Schlesinger Is Wrong]," ''The New York Sun'', December 16, 2002</ref> Lattimore got his views adopted by "the entire body of respectable opinion—[[conservative]] as well as liberal—on the Far East," wrote self-described former communist<ref>"[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/19/political-writer-irving-kristol-dies-at-89/ Political writer Irving Kristol dies at 89]" ''The Washington Times'', September 19, 2009</ref> [[Irving Kristol]]. "His ingratiating pseudo-[[Marxist]] platitudes became the stock-in-trade of all the ‘experts’."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=C7wRAAAAMAAJ ''The Twentieth Century'', Vol. 152, No. 909] (November 1952), p. 323</ref> Lattimore "consistently and consciously undertook to do what the Soviet Union wanted done," wrote the former Communist fellow-traveler<ref>Patricia Bosworth, "[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/29/magazine/a-life-of-significant-contention.html?pagewanted=all A Life of Significant Contention]," ''The New York Times'', December 29, 1996</ref> Diana Trilling. Though perhaps not a [[CPUSA|Communist Party]] member, she wrote, he was "something far more dangerous"—an ostensibly independent 'idealist' "whose idealism just happened to coincide with [[Russia]]n realism."<ref>Diana Trilling, ''Partisan Review'', Vol. 20 (1953) p. 27</ref> Sol Levitas, editor of the socialist<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812346,00.html The Press: The New Leader Steps Out]," ''Time'', May 1, 1950</ref> magazine ''The New Leader'', wrote that Lattimore was worse than a spy—he was a "LitAg" (literary agitator) of the [[Kremlin]] who sought to harm [[US|American]] foreign policy by molding public opinion to favor a pro-[[Soviet]] course—and was therefore more valuable to Stalin than a thousand Communist Party members.<ref>Sol Levitas, "Lattimore and the IPR," ''The New Leader'', March 31, 1952</ref> Far from being simply "a well-meaning liberal martyrized by [[Joe McCarthy|McCarthy]] for telling unpalatable truths about [[Asia]]," wrote the socialist<ref>Thomas J. Main, "[http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/7026 Fearless Sidney Hook]," ''Policy Review'', No. 120</ref> Sidney Hook, Lattimore, "at the very least, was a devious and skillful follower of the Communist Party line on Asian affairs" who had more influence on American foreign policy in Asia than “all anti-Communists combined.”<ref>Edward S. Shapiro, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Z9gebSW0XF8C Letters of Sidney Hook: Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War]'' (M.E. Sharpe, 1995) ISBN 156324487X, p. 207</ref> As the American Committee for Cultural Freedom concluded in an article in ''The New Republic'', "Lattimore was indeed a willing instrument of the Soviet conspiracy against the free world."<ref>Mary Sperling McAuliffe, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=dCKDAAAAMAAJ Crisis on the Left: Cold War Politics and American Liberals, 1947-1954]'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1978) ISBN 087023241X, p. 127</ref>
==Further reading==
==Further reading==