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And Still He’s With Us

Last week this column took note of Senator Jenner’s concern over the possibility that foreign service officers who had helped evolve a disastrous policy in China during the forties, and who now have their hands in the Middle East pie, might be up to their old tricks. Jenner’s speculation had focused on a number of individuals, including John K. Emmerson, present U.S. Counsellor of Embassy at Beirut. Shortly after we went to press, Mr. Emmerson was called by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security to explain, among other things, his efforts to promote U.S. collaboration with the Japanese People’s Emancipation League, a group of Japanese prisoners in China that had been organized by Chinese and Japanese Communists for wartime propaganda purposes, and for the ultimate purpose of spearheading a postwar Communist takeover in Japan.

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And Still He’s With Us

Last week this column took note of Senator Jenner’s concern over the possibility that foreign service officers who had helped evolve a disastrous policy in China during the forties, and who now have their hands in the Middle East pie, might be up to their old tricks. Jenner’s speculation had focused on a number of individuals, including John K. Emmerson, present U.S. Counsellor of Embassy at Beirut. Shortly after we went to press, Mr. Emmerson was called by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security to explain, among other things, his efforts to promote U.S. collaboration with the Japanese People’s Emancipation League, a group of Japanese prisoners in China that had been organized by Chinese and Japanese Communists for wartime propaganda purposes, and for the ultimate purpose of spearheading a postwar Communist takeover in Japan.