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 PROGRAM 1. 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 V Louis Adamic VDr. M. A. Atkinson Lindsay Bradford Alexander Calder Capt. J. M. Chankalian SPONSORS Lucille Corcos V Norman Corwin Jerome Count V George B. Crossey Samuel H. Cross Baroness Alma Dahlerup V Dr. Henry W. L. Dana Daykarhanov R. A. De Witt V Henry Pratt Fairchild Polya K. Fishman R. Buckminster Fuller V William S. Gailmor 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 Dr. Emanuel Klein Hon. John J. Lamula Dean Langmuir Sidney Laufman William Rabkin Edward Levine Nathan Lieberman Dr. Manuel J. Littman Dr. Herman Lorber John Middleton Mrs. Willis G. Mitchell V Harriet L. Moore V Samuel L. Novick Mrs. John Somerville Dr. Samuel Standard VVilhjalmur Stefansson Judge Adolph Stern Alma Garcia Suatmary VMme. Genevieve Tabouie Dr. Geza Takaro Anton Tanaskovic Hedros Tergian Vinal H. Tibbetts Michael Tkach Dr. Jesse Tolmach Reginald T. Townsend Solomon Trone Gertrude Udell Prof. Benton Vambery V Mary Van Kleeck Pierre Van Pascara George Vernadsky Bruno Walter Allen Wardwell Alice Holdship Ware Rev. Robert A. Watson Dr. Israel Wechsler Dr. William Weinstein Maurice Wertheim Rev. Wayne White Harry Wickey Nathan Wieder VAlbert Rhye Williams Mrs. A. Wolman V Gen. Victor A. Yakhon toff Dr. Gregory Zilbeorg William Zinkowitz William Zorach DINNER PROGRAM, 1946, THE AMERICAN-RUSSIAN INSTITUTE The fortitude, courage, and self-sacrifice of the armed forces and people of the Soviet Union in their terrible hours of trial have aroused the undying admiration of the American people. Our countries are joined together in a high cause, and I fully share your confidence that the unity and purpose which binds our peoples and countries together in the prosecution of the war will be translated into a close and lasting collaboration, together with other like minded countries, in the establishment of a just and enduring peace.-FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AMERICAN RUSSIAN INSTITUTE Frances Adams V Edward C. Carter V Mortimer Graves V Samuel J. Novick Carl M. Owen VArthur Upham Pope Richard B. Scandrett, Jr. Rose N. Rubin VHenry E. Sigerist V Ernest J. Simmons V Maxwell S. Stewart 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 Mortimer Hays V Langston Hughes VHon. Stanley M. Isaacs Philip C. Jessup Mrs. Jas. Lees Laidlaw Dean Langmuir V John Howard Lawson VJohn T. McManus 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 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 1930). 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. Scandrett, 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, |