THE HAZARD STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300520016-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 10, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Hazard Story
Re your editorial "Hazardous Com-
pany" [July 30]:
in a zone eograp ,zc magazine
December 1944, there is an article
1 Owen Lattimore entitled "New
oad to Asia," which deals with the
f mows Wallace mission to Chung-
ng. Mr. Lattimore wrote:
"The journey was precedent-break-
i g and precedent-making in many
ays. Never before had an Ameri-
c in of such high rank visited Soviet
territory. . . . Of the civilian person-
1, John N. Hazard,,,,,wlao....did- the
ost or an in erpreting in Rus-
s an, was especially well equipped
cause of his experience in the
viet Lend-Lease section of the For-
e gn Economic Administration. I
r presented the Office of War Infor-
ation and did the interpreting in
ongol and part of the interpreting
i Chinese. Jpi art Carter Vincent,
ief of the Division ole Gh nese` Af-
firs of the Department of State, was
the Vice President's [Wallace] politi-
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Baltimore, Md. MRS. FRANCIS HAMILL
Was pained by NATIONAL REVIEW'S
recent list of insinuations against Pro-
fessor John Hazard of Columbia Uni-
versity in its discussion of the Powers
trial in_ Mosco&v,_While I agree t rat
t5ere are many enigmas connected
with this case I can hardly concur
that Professor Hazard's presence in
Warsaw is one of them: Eastern Eu-
rope is a rather suitable place for a
specialist on Eastern Europe to visit
during the summers.
Although I am not qualified to pass
judgment on the question of Professor
Hazard's early scholarly endeavors,
it might at least be pointed out that a
writer on Soviet law by the nature
of things has to lean heavily on Soviet
aadpts, just as a writer on U.S. law
would have to start from material
ropagated in Washington. The evi-
dence of defectors has its value, but
onservatives (of whom. I account
myself one) have an unfortunate
endency to accept their every word
^s gospel.
Furthermore, could the busy editor
f NATIONAL REVIEW have spared the
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ard's The Soviet System of Gov=ernment (1957), he might have found
it a strain even on his imagination to
picture the author as a Soviet sym-
pathizer, as the book's chief aim is
the description of how outwar,ily
democratic Soviet institutions ire
manipulated to serve the interests of
the leader hlip.
New York Pty_ CHARLES A. MOSER
NATIONAL- R vIEW's busy editor has
discovered that, on seeing our edi-
torial on Mr. Hazard one of our reud-
ers-tfpeareorea_.congressiozial
coiiimi'1lee and there testified that he
had known J o in azar as d member
of the Comin,at Party in the late
thirties. Mr. Hazard may well have
defected since then, in which case we
and others-including, presumatUly,
the FBI-would welcome an account
of his background and associatir,ns
during the period when he was In-
structing us on Soviet law, presurn-
ably under the discipline of the Soviet
Union. - F.dt
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