Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service

Much heat was added by the results of the 1948 elections, one of the great upsets in electoral history, in which an all but assured Republican triumph turned into defeat, as Harry S. Truman was elected with substantial Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. [...]in June 1957, the Supreme...

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Published in:The China quarterly (London) 2010, Vol.202 (202), p.465-467
Main Author: VAN SLYKE, LYMAN P.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Acheson, Dean (1893-1971)
Careers
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)
Criminal investigations
Espionage
Exoneration
Hoover, J Edgar (1895-1972)
Indictments
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
Oppression
Personal profiles
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Summary:Much heat was added by the results of the 1948 elections, one of the great upsets in electoral history, in which an all but assured Republican triumph turned into defeat, as Harry S. Truman was elected with substantial Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. [...]in June 1957, the Supreme Court found unanimously in his favour, and directed the State Department to return him to duty with back pay for his years in the wilderness. In two puzzlingly different reviews by Jonathan Mirsky, appearing a week apart in different editions of The Wall Street Journal (14 and 20 December 2009), Mirsky says that her book resurfaced his recollection of two phone conversations, forgotten for more than a decade, in which Service confessed that he had passed top-secret material to Philip Jaffe.
ISSN:0305-7410
1468-2648
DOI:10.1017/S0305741010000512