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It is strange that Horowitz has not either read or mentioned the Amerasia affair.

Owen Lattimore was up to his neck in espionage with the spies in that case. Communist Lattimore took a big hit during the MacCarran hearings over his complicity in engineering support for the communists in China.

It is misleading to continue to make a big distinction between CP party members and others who 'act like' communists because major spy Whitaker Chambers was ordered by his handler to drop his communist party membership when he began his spying. Communist traitors did not have to have CP membership cards and many did not.

I also should mention that Lattimore's supporters smeared and harassed those revealed his duplicity.

The question of support for Mao instead of Chang Kai Shek is one facet of history I need to explore from WW2.I know Lattimore had too many commie friends and the Soviets considered him a friend!I grew up with Dem parents passionately in favor of Chaing.