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Show t'EIiPWpUliD kj ORB W PEARCN General Donovan's Interview SENATOR MCCARTHY and Boy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspapers didn't know it, but General "Wild Bill" Donovan, famed wartime chief of OSS, let them down on the Amerasia stolen documents case. General Donovan, a fellow Republican, Re-publican, was ballyhooed as backing back-ing up the McCarthy-Scripps-How-ard charges. When interviewed by a senate committee shortly before be-fore leaving for Europe, however, , he talked much more like Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, who decr.'es McCarthy extremism. In fact, Gen. Donovan inferenti-ally inferenti-ally criticized his own OSS investigator, inves-tigator, Frank Bielaski for illegally illegal-ly raiding the Amerasia office, and the FBI for illegally raiding Emmanuel Em-manuel Larsen's apartment. As a result of these illegal raids, the justice department could not prosecute. pro-secute. Here is exactly what the senate Investigators reported to the committee com-mittee after their interview with Donovan at his New York apartment. apart-ment. "General Donovan asked if we had talked with Archbold Van Buren (his wartime deputy), and. when we replied in the affirmative, he indicated that his information was no more than that which Van Buren probably gave us ... . "General Donovan discussed his belief at the time that 'John Doe' warrants should have been obtained and statements state-ments under oath gotten from the principals," the investigators' investiga-tors' report continues. "He indicated in-dicated that he felt that the matter was incorrectly handled, hand-led, because when any agency conducts an investigation, the matter does not remain confidential confi-dential and opportunity to cover cov-er up arises. "General Donovan mentioned that in discussing the matter with Fred Lyon (of the state department), depart-ment), he asked if the state department de-partment had any idea who might have been responsible for this material ma-terial (secret documents) emanating emanat-ing from the state department. When he pressed Mr. Lyon for some suggestions or suspicions, Mr. Lyon Ly-on suggested that it might have been John Carter Vincent. General Gen-eral Donovan then queried us as to whether Vincent did not have a wife who was a Communist." Throughout the interview, Donovan Dono-van made it clear he had no new evidence but that his attitude was that of a Margaret Chase Smith republican re-publican who didn't relish unfair accusations. Continuing, the investigators' report re-port declares: "Donovan suggested suggest-ed that we should see Pat Hurley (former ambassador to China). Shortly after the discovery of the Amerasia case, General Donovan went to London and met Pat Hurley Hur-ley at the airport there. Hurley being be-ing on his way to Moscow and China. Donovan told Hurley what Fred Lyon had said about Vincent because he knew that Hurley thought Vincent was 'his boy.' " That was about all Donovan had to say. In fact, he seemed in a hurry to get off to Europe. Trygve Lie and Truman Here is the inside story of what happened when U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie met with President Pre-sident Truman and Secretary Acheson following Lie's return from Moscow. Lie first reported on the strong desire for peace which he found everywhere from Moscow to Washington; Wash-ington; then asked the President to consider sending Acheson to a special meeting of the United Nations Na-tions security council in Geneva this summer, a meeting which he said was imperative to keep the United Nations from collapsing. Mr. Truman's reaction was immediate. im-mediate. He promptly said he could do no such thing; that it would be a cruel hoax to play on the American people when there is absolutely no chance of agreement with Russia. , The only thing Russia understands, under-stands, the President argued, Is force, and the West is going to build up its own force until Russia realizes the democracies democra-cies mean business. After that, perhaps a meeting with Russia might produce some good. As it s now, Truman told the U. N. secretary general, Russia is boycotting the United Nations because be-cause it won't seat Communist China just like a little boy who says he won't play in the game unless un-less he can be captain of the team. Capital News Capsules Ambassador Kirk has cabled the state department that the Russian general who was suddenly recalled from Japan with his entire 52-man staff has suffered the same fate as Marshal Zhukov. He's being demoted de-moted and disgraced because he was too chummy with Ame-ican 8nd British personnel in Tokyo. Kirk says General Kuzma Derev-yanko Derev-yanko committed what is the supreme sup-reme heresy he actually believed the east and west could get along |