supporting evidence of Mrs. Jessup's activity in this tea business on behalf of Madame Chiang's war orphans, which I have described. The relevance of the emphasis here on the politics of Mildred Price somewhat eludes me. What also appears from the exhibit, as I think was brought out here, is that in 1941, when Mrs. Jessup was active in this organization, Mrs. James Roosevelt was honorary chairman and the Chinese Ambassador representing the Chinese Nationalist Government, Dr. Hu Shih, was vice chairman, and Dr. Claude Forkner was chairman. In regard to this citation in 1942 which Senator Brewster asked me about, neither Mrs. Jessup nor I have any information on this alleged relation. We have tried to recall whether at the time we knew anything about its being a subsidiary of this organization. We have not been able to find in any records or in our memories anything in that connection. Whether it was one of these hidden connections, whether it existed, is something to which I cannot testify of my personal knowledge. But in any case, as I have said, this date of the citation is subsequent to her active participation, and I note that it was not cited as a Communist front until 1948, after her resignation had definitely taken effect. PERSONS ACTUALLY HELPING THE CHINA AID COUNCIL IN 1941 AND 1942 But again we get, Mr. Chairman, into a situation in which I think it is important to see what the general attitude of leading citizens was about an organization at a time when it is called into question. It is cited June 25, 1942. But certainly I would assume that it was not generally known that it was a subsidiary of a subversive Communist organization, because this is what we find as to the facts in that period: We find that people like Paul Hoffman, James G. Blaine, Artemus L. Gates, and Wendell Willkie were helping to raise money for this organization in 1942. I would like to give the history of this, and I will introduce into the record a series of exhibits after I have referred to them, to sustain the points which I am making here. In April of 1941 seven or eight organizations, which included the China Aid Council, combined with the American Committee for Chinese War Orphans, were affiliated in an organization known as United China Relief. When United China Relief was formed, its chairman was James G. Blaine. Artemus L. Gates was its treasurer, and Paul Hoffman was a member of the campaign committee. In the following year, in 1942-and I shall support this by submitting photostats of letterheads and letters-in 1942, the year in which it was cited, we find Paul Hoffman as chairman of the board of directors, with Mr. Blaine as treasurer, and Mr. Willkie as honorary chairman of the board. We also find that there was a national advisory committee at this time which had Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as an honorary chairman, Pearl Buck as chairman, and T. V. Soong as chairman of the National Committee on Chinese participation. Now I am going to offer for the record, Mr. Chairman, first, a photostat of a pamphlet which is called Outline of United China Relief, Inc., for Board Members of Participating Agencies. It bears down in the corner "United China Relief, Inc., 1790 Broadway, April 2, 1941." This is a descriptive pamphlet describing the organization, mentioning these officers that I have mentioned, and then listing these organizations which were participating in it, including the China Aid Council and American Committee for Chinese War Orphans. It appears at page 6 of this pamphlet. Each one of the participating organizations is dealt with separately. In the letter head which I have here of 1941 we have these officers to whose names I have called attention, and we also find that the campaign committee, the people who were raising money for the China Aid Council-this is September 6, 1941-were Pearl S. Buck, William C. Bullitt, Colby M. Chester, Paul G. Hoffman, Rufus M. Jones, Thomas W. Lamont, Henry B. Luce, John D. Rockefeller 3d, Raymond Rubican, David O. Selznick, Robert Gordon Sproul, Charles F. Williams, and Wendell L. Willkie. Then I have here the letterhead for 1942. This is dated March 14, 1942, and it is headed "1942 campaign, United China Relief, Inc.," and here we find the officers I have mentioned: Wendell L. Willkie, honorary chairman; Paul G. Hoffman, chairman; W. R. Herod, president; B. A. Garside, vice president and secretary; James G. Blaine, treasurer; G. L. McCoy, comptroller, and I think most of the same names I have read on the board of directors, formerly listed as part of the campaign committee. There are some other names added here, such as Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Eugene E. Barnett, and others. One point which I would like to call attention to, because I will refer to it later, is that we find in the people active in this United China Relief, which was raising money for these seven organizations interested in the welfare of people in China, many of the people who were active in the Institute of Pacific Relations at the same time. We find Robert Sproul who became chairman of the American Council; we find W. R. Herod, who was active as an officer; we find Edward C. Carter; we find Henry Luce, who was at one time a trustee of the American Council. And I think the committee will find, on comparing the names, that this shows the reason why. As a person active in the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations I also had some contacts with this organization known as the China Aid Council, because here were all of these people interested in this who were actually officers, directors, members of campaign committees engaging in raising money for this and the other organizations active at the same time. Now, lest there be any doubt as to whether all of these gentlemen knew that the China Aid Council was involved, I would like to call the committee's attention to the fact that on the bottom of each one of these letters there is printed the participating agencies, and in each case among them is "China Aid Council.”* PERSONS SUPPORTING CHINA AID COUNCIL IN 1943 Now we go on into 1943. This is well after the citation by the Special Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities saying that the China Aid Council was a subsidiary of the American League for Peace and Democracy. Again I am led to believe that all of these gentlemen were either unaware of this citation or perhaps had further information which I do not have at the moment which led them to disregard this citation, but in any case, on May 1, 1943, we find that "United China Relief, Inc.," still with these participating agencies, still raising money for them, carries on its letterhead Wendell L. Willkie, honorary national chairman; Paul G. Hoffman, chairman of the board; W. R. Herod, vice chairman of the board; James L. McConaughy, Governor of Connecticut, and also active in the Institute of Pacific Relations, president; James G. Blaine, treasurer. And if we go over to the board of directors we find many of the same names: Henry R. Luce, Thomas W. Lamont, Paul Hoffman, and so on and so on. I won't try to read them all into the record at this time to delay the committee. Merely for purposes of substantiation, Mr. Chairman, I should like also to put into the record at this point the Second Annual Report of United China Relief, Inc., which on its cover says "with the following agencies participating," and it lists them all, including China Aid Council combined with American Committee for Chinese War Orphans. This is the report for 1942. It contains the list of the directors and officers to whom I have called attention. I mention particularly that on page 1 of the report it has a line under "Major projects aided by the United China Relief during 1942"; "Orphanages sponsored by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, $561,651.97." This contains the financial accounting, a balance sheet, receipts and disbursements, et cetera. I think it is interesting to the committee in this connection. UNITED CHINA RELIEF, INC., LETTERHEAD, JUNE 19, 1945 And finally, Mr. Chairman, I want to put in one final letterhead, "United China Relief, Inc.," June 19, 1945, 3 years after this citation. There are some changes in the names of the board of directors. We have, for instance, now, in the left-hand column, "Honorary members of the board of directors," and I find there two names in juxtaposition: Thomas W. Lamont and Owen Lattimore. I find also Henry J. Kaiser; Mr. Herod is still there; William Green is there; William O. Douglas is there; and so is a name which has been referred to in connection with other matters recently, the name of Lauchlin Currie; Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt; a great variety of people. I won't miss them all. Admiral Yarwood is here. Then we have on the other side the board of directors itself. These others were honorary members. But in 1945 the board shows Paul G. Hoffman as honorary chairman; Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey, as chairman of the board; Eugene Barnett as vice chairman; and I find in looking down the list that among other people who are on the board was Walter H. Judd, whom all of the committee, of course, know very well. Senator SPARKMAN. Is that Congressman Judd, from Minnesota? Ambassador JESSUP. That would be Congressman Judd, from Minnesota. At least the name is the same, and I assume it is the same man. Senator SPARKMAN. Is Mme. Wei on this list, the wife of the Chinese Ambassador? Ambassador JESSUP. No; Ambassador Wei himself is here: His Excellency Wei Tao-Ming, to whom you referred as the Ambassador who succeeded Hu Shih. Mme. Wei was on the China Aid Council, and her husband was one of the honorary members of the board of directors of the United China Relief, which was raising money for the China Aid Council. A further point in regard to this last exhibit, Mr. Chairman. This letterhead, with these officers-and I won't repeat all of them although I note that the president this time was James L. McConaughy, the Governor of Connecticut, says that this is the "UCR advisory committee on child care and development." This is June 19, 1945. It is a letter addressed to "Dear Participant in the Child Care Conference.” Now, this letter is signed by Mildred Price, executive secretary. She is apparently executive secretary of the Committee of United China Relief, in which all of these gentlemen to whom I have referred as being active on the board apparently were active participants. Some point was made of the fact that my wife's name appeared on something of which Miss Mildred Price was executive secretary, because Senator McCarthy said testimony had been introduced by Miss Bentley, I think, that Mildred Price was Communist. But I call attention to the fact that all of these people are here as members of the board of this organization, with Mildred Price appearing on this as the executive secretary of one of their subcommittees. And I mention that because in 1945 Mrs. Jessup did go to a meeting of this organization, or rather its subsidiary committee. She went as a member of the Quakers, a representative of the Quakers, the American Friends Service Committee, and she went in connection with this Child Care Conference. As I have shown from her record, that was a subject to which she was devoting a very large part of her time, both professionally and as a volunteer during this period. I should like, if I may, to introduce these for the record, Senator. Senator SPARKMAN. Without objection they will be admitted to the record. (The documents referred to appear in the record, as follows:) OUTLINE OF UNITED CHINA RELIEF, INC., FOR BOARD MEMBERS OF PARTICIPATING AGENCIES, UNITED CHINA RELIEF, INC., 170 BROADWAY, APRIL 2, 1941 I. THE UNITED CAMPAIGN United China Relief has been formed to merge the appeals of the seven major American agencies engaged exclusively in the raising and distribution of funds for relief and rehabilitation in China, in a campaign to raise $5,000,000 between April 3 and July 31, 1941. Representation in the United Campaign Organization is provided each agency through one or more members of the coordinating committee of 17. Active supervision of the campaign is vested in a board of directors consisting of James G. Blaine, chairman; Eugene E. Barnett, vice chairman; Pearl S. Buck, William C. Bullitt, Paul G. Hoffman, Thomas W. Lamont, Henry R. Luce, John D. Rockefeller 3d, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., David O. Selznick, Robert G. Sproul, and Wendell L. Willkie. A national advisory committee has been formed with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as honorary chairman and Pearl Buck as chairman. Among others who have agreed to act as chairman of various national commitees (see attached organization chart for entire list) are the following: T. V. Soong, chairman, National Committee on Chinese Participation Dean Luther A. Weigle, Rabbi Edward L. Israel, cochairmen, National Committee of Churches and Synogogues Raymond Rubicam, chairman, National Radio Committee Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, chairman, Committee of City Mayors B. A. Garside is the executive director of the campaign. National headquarters occupies the sixth floor of 1790 Broadway, New York City. Local campaign organizations are being set up in more than 100 communities in order to obtain Nation-wide participation. Each local organization conducts its own campaign under a local chairman, in cooperation with national headquarters. A staff of field agents maintains liaison between national and local headquarters, synchronizing and coordinating the national and local activities. A campaign portfolio is furnished to every local campaign chairman. Detailed plans for the campaign are outlined in this portfolio, together with ideas for organization, solicitation, publicity, and advertising, which will be supplemented from time to time. II. THE PARTICIPATING AGENCIES Each of the seven participating agencies has up to now made its own independent and separate appeal for funds. Now for the first time, through United China Relief, Inc., a means for joint action in raising funds is provided. This united approach to the problem should result in enhanced effectiveness. A strong national effort by all seven agencies should have a much greater impact upon the public consciousness than could seven individual efforts. A description of the seven agencies follows: 1. The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China is a national organization, founded in September 1937, with chapters in 74 cities and some 200 "bowl of rice" party committees, many of which will become chapters at the close of the current "bowl of rice" drive. Its officers are Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, honorary chairman; Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., national chairman; Dr. Co Tui, first vice president; and Helen Kennedy Stevens, executive director. The bureau's aim is to aid free China in all its medical needs; to lessen war casualties, among both soldiers and civilians; to aid in rehabilitation of the permanently crippled; and, further, to promote a permanent health program in free China. Its aid falls into several categories: A. It sends ambulances, medicines, and surgical supplies for distribution by the Chinese Red Cross. B. From time to time it has sent supplies, clothing, and medicines, particularly vitamin tablets, directly to Mme. Chiang for her orphanages. After one of Chungking's severest bombings, it cabled funds for the erection of six first-aid stations which will be maintained as health centers after the war. C. The bureau has cooperated with the National Health Administration of China in fighting epidemics, having shipped tons of quinine to fight malaria, and vaccines and sera to fight other diseases. Dr. F. C. Yen, former health administrator, gave the bureau credit for breaking the cholera epidemic in 1938. Later, the bureau sent a complete vaccine-producing plant which is functioning at Red Cross headquarters at Kweiyang. D. The bureau has sent supplies of all kinds, including an electric-driven lathe, for the orthopedic center where crippled soldiers and civilians are restored to usefulness. E. The bureau aids Chinese Red Cross emergency training schools by sending microscopes, surgical instruments (new and used), textbooks, and medical journals (collected here from doctors' and college libraries). F. Its purchasing committee, and a special committee of physicians and scientists, keep on the lookout constantly for new medical discoveries and procedures which can be used for the betterment of conditions in China. 2. American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (Indusco, Inc.) was organized on September 1, 1940, under the chairmanship of Rear Adm. Harry E. Yarnell, Retired, to raise money in this country for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. On January 1, 1941, Admiral Yarnell resigned to resume active duty in Washington, and Richard J. Walsh, editor of Asia magazine, was elected to take his place. Chinese Industrial Cooperatives has two major purposes-industrial reconstruction and refugee rehabilitation. The first CIC workshop was organized in August 1938. Today almost 3,000 small-scale, decentralized workshops are scattered throughout 18 provinces of free China, giving self-help jobs to more than 70,000 workers and producing more than $500,000 (American currency) worth of goods monthly. |