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Service through ‘the State De-| Career Diplomat John Stew-|

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art service any pieized Acheson Finally Fires Amerasia Case Figure [sinaimio on

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all-out fight, to clear himself]

of charges that led to his sudden By Scripps-Howard Newspapers |lic for an Amerasia case airing, returned home in a swirl of ac- Larsen, State Department speouster from the State Department] WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—O0n a touched off by The Indianapolis cusations. © Mr. Hurley said he|cialist on Far Eastern Affairs. after more than 16 years in diplo-|quiet Sunday night in April, Times and other Scripps-Howard had been sabotaged by a gang of Speedy indictments were ex-|that ended in October of 1950 {1945, four government agents newspapers in a series of news leftists in the State Department. pected. : matic posts. picked a lock and. slipped into a articles .a.d editorials which in One of the men he named wads Secretary of State Dean Ache- garkened office on the 11th floor early 1950 pulled the curtains on Jéhn Stewart Service. {Justice Department, which on'Mr, Service Rave been looked into son fired Mr. Service last night of a New York office building. - ithe smelly case. Mr. Service was called home June 21 began to present ifs carefully and found baseless.” What they found there was the. FOUR: A subsequent congres- himself—not for censure, but for case to a federal grand jury,| But last month. Mr Service ap{key evidence in one of America’s sional investigation led by the “important duties at-the State De-/suddenly announced ‘new devel- peared before the top Loyalty Restrangest apd most notorious war- then Sen. Millard Tydings (D. partment.” |opments,” The case was hauled view Board in what was billed as

later the FBI back and then present - | » It involved the theft. of cries of “whitewash.” Sen. Tyd- linked him to the Amerasia case.| 3 presented to an- ‘the final showdown.

It carried: him through one more state investigation—the one

But something. happened. The nouncement that “rumors about

ty review board said that the

| secrets case cast a ‘reasonable Case.’

: |other jury in July. st night the showdown came. doubt” on his loyalty. \sonte 1700 BOvernment u doku- Ings as defeated for re-election In Jate February of 1945, an office = 5 dicted Tas a Service — world . 1. ments, many dealing W war- last year. of Strategic Services agent] he Far East The surprise action was wel time secrets. | Mr. Service was borp in the!spotted an article in the small but| The new. jury cleared sg | LTBVEleT, expert on the Fa st,

« " wos i diplomat—stood within an comed as “good, good, good by | Twelve weeks later, the story northwest China city of Chengtu, influential magazine, Amerasia, Mitchell, Mr. Gayn and My [Sarees pony home a big winner

Mr. Service's chief attacker—Sen. broke with tne announcement Aug. 3, 1909. He attended the facts of which were identical to Service by returning no indict-| a |... . and then lost all his chips. Joseph. R. McCarthy. The ouster that the FBI had arrested six Shanghai American school from a secret OSS report sent to the ments against them. fas = SSuips represented a victory for the Wis- persons. 1920 to 1924, and then went to State Department. It indicted Jaffe, Larsen and consin Republican in his fight! One was John Stowart Service, the States to finish his high The alarmed OSS raided the Roth. i

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for more reviews of cases hither-| In the months that followed, lin College, . Ohio, in 19317 and Of them of the ‘“secret”.and “top morning court session, pleaded to .stamped OK by the depart-| John Service's long and carefully completed post:graduate work in secret” category, |guilty to conspiracy in taking ment. . {assembled career tottered pre- 1932. A year later he went to Amerasia Editor Philip J. government documents. He paid Calls It ‘Injustice’ |cariously. But it didn’t fall, work for.the State Department, |Jaffe and his associates were puta $2500 fine. | Firing Forced His first State Department job under surveillance. Among those Roth's case was dismissed by But Mr. Service, 42, said his| g : was as a foreign service clerk in "10 Came under the FBI's scru- the government. fight was far from over. He said’ Last night-—six years and eight Kunming, China—later to become tiny was Mr. Service. He had! Larsen, pleading nolo conten- . months after the Amerasia raid : returned from China on Apr. 12. {dere (not contesting th his dismissal was an “injustice’ the booming terminus of the Bur-| onlesting the charge) A £ - n £ and “suf —that ‘career finally ended. Serv-{ 1a Road, but then a sleepy Chi- Seen With Jafle |was fined $500. 2% came as a “shoc |ice’s boss and frequent defender, nese “hillbilly” town, deep in the On Apr. 17 he was seen with Mr. Service went to Tokyo, as-| prise. | Secretary of State Dean Ache- .,,.,1ain0us western interior Jaffe at Washington's Statler Si8ned by the State Department “I am determined to exhaust son, took the only course open. : : {Hotel, Mr. Service carried a 2S a political expert and adviser every possible avenue to achieve Service was.fired on recommen- \zipper ‘bag.~The two of them 52T Gen. Douglas MacArthur. | Ser fy i nas Bs SRHON-tan Rion! re yo orders By 1943, Mr. Service was sec- Went to the home of Navy Lt. NNO! of course, until he had been ervice said. —of President Truman's top loyMr. ‘Service scheduled confer- alty review. board.

Andrew Roth (also arrested investigated” by the State De- ' “ {embassy at Chungking, where the later). When they left at 11 Partment and “cleared” with ences today with his« attorney The board found “reasonable S8y BKIng, p. m., Mr. Jaffe was carrying a praise by his superiors. : ; that ‘could lead to an appeal to/doubt” of Service's loyalty be- embattled Chiang Kai-shek had manila envelope. | But the case kept coming up. President Truman, reconsidera- cause of his part in the Amerasia get up his last-ditch wartime cap-| Apr. 24° FBI ‘men trailed Mr, ,C0¢ Person or another demandtion of his case by the review case. lital. |Service to New York, where Mr cd Dew investigations. These] board or court action. State De-| To those who had marveled at| That same year, he was as- Service met Jaffe at a party and \ obligingly cranked out by partment officials, however, felt Service's ability to squirm free signed as political adviser to Gen. at the Amerasia office. the State Department. that the long-fought case prob- from trouble, the firing — from Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of On May 8, Jaffe visited Mr y Stuck to Story ably was closed, even though the which there is no appeal—was a|all American forces in China. (Service at th State Department in, Sevices explanation re-| department's junior-ranking loy- surprise. For he had weathered,, When President Roosevelt/in Washington, Ly asian} : alty board had cleared Mr. Serv- in these post-war years— lended a long and bitter Stilwell-|. On June 6, the FBI swooped a Jdental milit a tellig rel ice at least six times. | | ONE: His original arrest in the Chiang feud by abruptly sum-down on the Amerasia offices, Te a a el . gence The higher board, reversing the Amerasia case (he. was freed moning “Vinegar Joe” home, Mr. seized 1700 government roy vas ony

: . : docu- te 1 t.” State Department, said it did not Without being indicted); | Service became an adviser to Maj. ments, and arrested six Spot er jeally Searels as hey find Mr. Service disloyal nor did ’ |

TWO: Seven previous loyalty Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, sent to, They were Mr. Service, Jaffe, ly ‘ i - it find any evidence he was a investigations by State Depart- China as ambassador. mmefely 3 Iepuisble writer, en

|Lt. Roth, Amerasia co-editor Pp 1 ’ tl y Communist party member or at- ment boards; { Mr. Service first made the head-| Louise Mitchell, free lance writer which » gr Te |

tached to any subversive group.' THREE: A demand by the pub-'lines when Ambassador Hurley Mark Gayn and Emanuel Sigurd| This explanation carried Mr. |

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