Senator GILLETTE. Was it some member of your staff that made it? Ambassador JESSUP. Yes, sir. Senator BREWSTER. Is he here now? Ambassador JESSUP. The actual person who arranged the photostating? I do not think so. Senator BREWSTER. Would one of your assistants know who did that? You have some assistants with you, I wondered whether they might know who handled that particular matter for you. Ambassador JESSUP. I can find that out and I will return to it later, if you wish, sir. DINNERS IN 1944 AND 1946 Some of the confusion may arise, Senator, from the fact that as I have been able to compare the lists, Senator McCarthy in his exhibit No. 2, "Communist-Front No. 2," on pages 3 and 4 includes the cover sheet of the 1944 dinner, but the list of sponsors of the 1946 dinner, and that may cause some confusion. In the documents which I have submitted, I have tried to give the complete thing, which is four pages devoted to the 1944 dinner, ending up with a list of sponsors, and then three pages for the 1946 dinner, ending up with the list of spon sors. Senator SPARKMAN. Do you offer that for the record? Senator SPARKMAN. Then it will be printed. (The documents referred to appear as follows:) DINNER INVITATION, 1944, OF AMERICAN-RUSSIAN INSTITUTE "The destiny of the world, in large measure, will depend upon the understanding and cooperation that will exist between Russia and the United States."— Eric Johnston, president, United States Chamber of Commerce. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF AMERICAN-RUSSIAN INSTITUTE Basil Bass William W. Lancaster V Vilmjalmur Stefansson V Harriet L. Moore PROGRAM VARTHUR UPHAM POPE, Chairman Honored Guests and Speaker V DR. RALPH TURNER, Assistant Chief, Division of Cultural Cooperation COL. ILYA SARAEV, Acting Military Attaché, Embassy of U. S. S. R. PROF. Y. M. IVANOV, Doctor of Technical Sciences of U. S. S. R. LT. COL. WILLIAM MCCHESNEY MARTIN, Jr., Assistant to the Executive of the President's Soviet Protocol Committee PROF. B. G. SKRAMTAEV, Doctor of Technical Sciences of U. S. S. R. MARGARET WEBSTER, Producer, Director, and Author Archbishop Adam Herman Baron Lindsay Bradford Alexander Calder Capt. J. M. Chankalian SPONSORS Lucille Corcos V Norman Corwin V George B. Crossey Dahlerup V Dr. Henry W. L. Dana Daykarhanov V Albert Deutsch R. A. De Witt V Henry Pratt Fairchild Dr. Miron Fillurin R. Buckminster Fuller V Wanda Gag V William S. Gailmor William Gebert Sylvan Gotshal V Peter Grimm Charles Green Mrs. J. C. Guggenheimer V Dr. Julius Hammer Marian A. Hart Dr. Frieda Henkin Arthur H. Indell Dr. Morris Jaffe Dr. Philip C. Jessup Louis Kallish Dr. Emanuel Klein Hon. John J. Lamula Dean Langmuir Sidney Laufman fornia addresses, the southern California headquarters of the organization, and all the way through it makes reference to California and southern California. On his citation there is nothing more than simply a reference to the organization, the American-Russian Institue. There is nothing further descriptive of it. I believe it would be well to place that part of the report, starting on page 169 with the title "American-Russian Institute," and going down through the end of the first paragraph on page 172, in the record: [Excerpt from Fourth Report, Un-American Activities in California, 1948 (pp. 169–172)] AMERICAN-RUSSIAN INSTITUTE Throughout the life of the Communist movement in the United States the Communist Party has maintained front organizations and conducted enterprises for the sole purpose of carrying on propaganda on behalf of the Soviet Union. Some of the more important of these fronts and enterprises have been Friends of Soviet Russia, Friends of the Soviet Union, Soviet Russia Today, Russian Reconstruction Farms, Open Letter for Closer Cooperation With the Soviet Union, Golden Book of American Friendship With the Soviet Union, Trade Union National Committee for Russian Relief, American Federated Russian Famine Relief Committee, Russian War Relief, Statement by American Progressives on the Moscow Trials, Open Letter to American Liberals, and the American-Russian Institute for Cultural Relations With the Soviet Union. The American-Russian Institute interlocks in many ways with the American Council on Soviet Relations. This is strongly indicated by the official organ of the group, the American Review on the Soviet Union, previously published as the American Quarterly on the Soviet Union. Among its board of directors are Edward C. Carter, Henry Pratt Fairchild, John A. Kingsbury, Mary Van Kleeck, Henry E. Sigerist, and Vilhjalmur Stefansson (American Quarterly on the Soviet Union, January 193)). According to its folder prospectus, distributed freely at meetings of the American Peace Mobilization, the American-Russian Institute was founded in 1926 as the clearinghouse for "factual" information on the Soviet Union. It calls itself "nonpolitical" and "American." It "arranges language courses, lectures, dinners, and film showings" and permits the free use of its library containing an index of “10 Soviet newspapers." The semiofficial status of the American-Russian Institute is established by certain outstanding facts: (1) The description appearing in the August 1941 issue of the American Review on the Soviet Union (back cover inside) declares that "it aims to serve as an authoritative clearinghouse for factual information concerning the Soviet Union.” (2) The April 1940 issue of the American Quarterly on the Soviet Union (inside cover) declares that the American-Russian Institute furnishes information to the Soviet Union, which means to the Soviet Government, since there are no private agencies. (3) Without official contacts, the writers for the organs of the American-Russian Institute could not have access to the various sources of information in the Soviet Union. Basil Bass, Aaron Bodansky, Edward C. Carter, Samuel H. Cross, Mortimer Graves, William W. Lancaster, Robert S. Lynd, Arthur Upham Pope, Henry E. Sigerist, Ernest J. Simmons, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Maxwell S. Stewart, and Harriet L. Moore, constituted the board of directors of the American-Russian Institute at the close of World War II. A letterhead of the American-Russian Institute in the files of the Senate committee under date of July 14, 1938, carries the following names as constituting the Board of Directors: Mrs. Kathleen Barnes, Aaron Bodansky, Edward C. Carter, Mrs. Ethel Clyde, Louis Connick, George S. Counts, William O. Field, Jr., Lewis Gannett, Mortimer Graves, William S. Graves, Alan Hirsch, John A. Kingsbury, Mary van Kleeck, William W. Lancaster, William Lescaze, William Allan Neilson, Mrs. George F. Porter, Raymond Robins, Geroid T. Robinson, John Rothschild, Mrs. Richard B. Seandrett, Jr., Whitney Seymour, Henry E. Sigerist, Lee Simonson, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Graham R. Taylor, Allen Warwdell, Maurice Wertheim, and Mrs. Efrem Zimbalist, Harriet Moore is listed as editor and Virginia Burdick as executive secretary. A leaflet in the files of the Senate Committee reveals that the following are the directors in Southern California: Dr. David Appleman, Alvah Bessie, Edmund W. Cooke, Dr. George M. Day, Dr. Clyde K. Emery, Thomas L. Harris, Constantin C. Korneff, Dr. E. Wilson Lyon, Jerome W. MacNair, Lewis Milestone, Corinne A. Seeds, Dr. Harold U. Sverdrup, Clara R. Walden, and Michael A. Walden, PROGRAM V Hon. JOSEPH E. DAVIES, Former United States Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. VHon. CLAUDE PEPPER, United States Senator from Florida Hon. STOYAN GAVRILOVIC, Delegate of Yugoslavia to the General Assembly United Nations VDr. HENRY E. SIGERIST, Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University VDr. FRANK KINGDOM, Author, Educator, and News Analyst SPONSORS (PARTIAL LIST) Christian Gauss Mrs. William Francis Max Gordon V Peter Grimm V Langston Hughes V Hon. Stanley M. Isaacs Philip C. Jessup Mrs. Jas. Lees Laidlaw Dean Langmuir V John Howard Lawson Mrs. Philip Wyatt Mrs. Paul Phelps Agnes V. O'Brien Mrs. Edgerton Parsons Jr. V Hon. Claude Pepper Thomas G. Reynolds V William Jay Schieffelin Julia Marlow Sothern V Vilhjalmur Stefansson Alvin Udell Mr. and Mrs. Jacob V Albert Rhys Williams V Mary E. Woolley V Gen. Victor A. CITATION OF THE FOURTH REPORT, UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA, 1948 Senator SPARKMAN. I may say to the committee that I have here the Fourth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities of the California Legislature, Sacramento, 1948. The citation given by Senator McCarthy, on page 169, discusses the Amercan-Russian Institute under that name. It is several pages long. I think the first three pages would be pertinent to the record. At no time does it call it the American-Russian Institute of California. However, it does show the directors and the people and their Cali was named as a Communist organization in 1938 by the Massachusetts House Committee of Un-American Activities. Ambassador JESSUP. Yes, sir. Senator GILLETTE. That would have been, then, 6 years before this dinner was held? Ambassador JESSUP. That is correct, sir. Senator GILLETTE. Did you have any knowledge of that, sir? Ambassador JESSUP. I did not, sir, and I call attention, sir, to the fact that that citation in the Massachusetts committee is not repeated by the Attorney General or by the House committee, or by the California committee in the intervening period; that the next citation we have is 1948, California, and in 1949, Attorney General. Senator GILLETTE. Dr. Jessup, if I may complete the matter that I want to present, the fact remains, as of your statement to us, that on this 1944 dinner, at the request of a Mr. Lancaster, who was a friend of yours, you authorized your name to be used as a sponsor for this dinner, without having any idea what the organization was, its purpose, or the policies for which it stood. Is that true? Ambassador JESSUP. I would think, Senator, on that, that while I have no definite recollection, I assumed that Mr. Lancaster probably told me something about the organization. This was, as is indicated, a dinner in connection with American-Soviet post war relations, a subject which concerned us all very much as a result of the fact that we were allies of the Soviet Union during the war. That would have seemed to me to be an interesting subject. As a matter of fact, I did not go to the dinner, but I probably at that time understood that this was an organization which was studying questions of this kind, and my friend Mr. Lancaster was associated with it, and that seemed to me to be a badge of respectability and an indication of a good organization. AUTHORIZING THE USE OF A NAME Senator GILLETTE. Is that a custom of yours, to authorize the use of your name in connection with organizations that you know nothing about, their purpose, or their policy? Ambassador JESSUP. I would say, Senator, in connection with that, if a friend of mine in whom I have confidence tells me about an organization, saying "We are getting up a dinner for a discussion of a particular subject," and that seems to me to be a good subject, and the indication is that this is a reputable enterprise, I have frequently permitted my name to be included in a list of the sponsors. Particularly that is true when one sees the other people who are included, which are further evidences of the nature of the occasion. Senator GILLETTE. Had you been shown the list of the sponsors at that time? Ambassador JESSUP. I could not say at this point. Senator GILLETTE. I can understand your buying a ticket or two tickets or five for such an organization dinner, but the loaning of one's name as a sponsor seems to me to be a matter of such moment, because it is being used to influence other people in connection with the organization, that one should be naive indeed if they did not |