May Not & May Never Have Been His Office 
A China excursion including a Lattimore relative prompted participants to try and track down where Lattimore lived during his brief period in Shanghai.
Lattimore was employed in the city by the British firm of Arnhold Brothers & Co., before wanderlust sent him North to Tientsin.
Great Nephew Greg Lattimore Andrews and friends despaired of finding Lattimore’s house, moved on to looking for his office, and may or may not have found it.
The Court In Unhappier Days 
Washington’s Federal Courthouse was the scene of some of the final acts in the Lattimore drama, where twice the presiding judge in the case threw out the government’s principal charges, gutting the case.
On May 12th the court will revisit Lattimore, with the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit and the Litigation Section of the District of Columbia Bar staging a re-enactment of parts of the case, and an overview of its significance. Â Several participants played small rolls in Lattimore back in the day:
Patricia M. Wald, former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit who was with Lattimore’s Arnold, Fortas & Â Porter defense team,
G. Duane (Bud) Vieth, still with Arnold & Porter, the firm’s successor,
Berl Bernhard, former clerk for Judge Luther Youngdahl, who sank the government’s case.
Also participating will be conservative legal legend Miguel Estrada, whose DC Appeals Court nomination by George W. Bush was filibustered by Senate Democrats.  Despite his nomination’s failure, the Estrada is still in the fight, writing a stirring defense of the 2009 coup in his Honduran homeland.
I’m gonna guess he plays the prosecution.
Which Hunt? 
Months after the deed was done, establishment Republicans have discovered that Texas’s textbook commission made the state look foolish.
Early last year the elected body’s majority of dinosaur cavorting flat earthers and plain old Republicans provided countless hours of entertainment. They drew up lists of textbook publishers Do’s & Don’ts, banishing deist suspect Thomas Jefferson from the Founding Fathers while shoehorning Phyllis Schlafly into political science.
And perhaps most infamously, bringing back Joe McCarthy.
Texas Republican House Committee chairs are now shocked to discover all this is going on, vowing vaguely to do something about it. The conservative Fordham Institute found the Texas guidelines deficient, stirring the Public Education Chair Rob Eissler to a ringing expression of concern.
Fordham is probably right on the unwieldy tangle part, but when they get to McCarthy they distort the textbook mandate language in order to make the charge. Kind of like Old Joe!
Fordham said:
But Texas actually says this:
“… describe how McCarthyism, the House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC), the arms race, and the space race increased Cold War tensions and
how the later release of the Venona Papers confirmed suspicions of
communist infiltration in U.S. government “
….which does not tie Venona directly to HUAC or McCarthy. And McCarthy is obviously mentioned by name in the standard, while the Fordham reviewers for some reason pretend he’s only evoked by inference.
The Texas commission has an at least defensible position: the Venona intercepts certainly cover a vast menagerie of federal employees who cozy with people provable as spies.
McCarthy Was Right cranks get in trouble when they wander into the claim that Venona vindicated McCarthy, which is a crock. Cranks almost always do, and at least one commission member wanted to. 
But Texas stopped short.
Why we may never know. Maybe they meant to go all the way and the wording got muddled in the chaotic horse trading which produced the standards.
So now we have apparent unhappyness over textbooks on the part of some Republican leaders, giving wing to the disgruntled many unhappy with the adopted standards.
But given the glacial pace and murky expressions of concern they shouldn’t get their hopes up.
Situated  
Anti-Israeli archive sniffers have uncovered a cryptic reference to Owen Lattimore in the FBI files of Abraham Feinberg, Zionist activist and Democratic party fundraiser.
Feinberg was a connected guy, accompanying Israel’s first president to a Harry Truman meeting, and supposedly financing Truman’s whistle-stop train tour in the come from behind 1948 re-election fight.
During the late 40s the Bureau was monitoring both Feinberg and Lattimore, producing summaries of Feinberg’s phone conversations with some direct quotes.  In January 1949 Feinberg was frantically calling the Israeli embassy, speaking with Israeli Ambassador Eliahu  Epstein and a deputy. Feinberg urgently needed a name to forward to the White House, someone to chair an export commission of interest to Israel, and sought to clear it with the Embassy.
The apparent favorite for some time had been Bartley Crum, a New York lawyer and non-Jew who dabbled in Middle East causes. Â Epstein felt Crum’s personal troubles would make him a poor choice [Crum was a renowned drinker and pill popper who latter committed suicide].
Other names floated about, but Feinberg’s bottom line was “It’s gotta be a goy.”
Lattimore, he assured Epstein, was “reliable.”
It would appear so, judging from Lattimore’s 1949 Situation In Asia, where bracing contact with those whip-smart Israeli’s was prophesied to provoke unrest against their rulers amongst the teeming Arab masses:
Israel exemplifies the best culture ofÂ
Europe at a very high level of evolution,
but it is not revolutionary. Israel'sÂ
presence in Asia, however, is revolutionary.
Nowhere else in Asia is the scientifically
skilled and culturally mature European in direct
contact with the ragged, depressed, andÂ
oppressed peoples of the East as a farmer andÂ
artisan, a worker with his hands. The nearestÂ
equivalent is where Russians and Asians meet;Â
but the average attainments of the Russian inÂ
Asia are not as high as those of the average
Israeli. And nowhere, outside of Russia, isÂ
it possible for working Europeans to ask AsianÂ
workers to join their labor unions with equalÂ
rights, as has happened in Haifa, where theÂ
Israelis have extended their labor rights to Arabs.
Later in ’49 and in 1950 the Bureau knew from mail cover that Feinberg had written Lattimore at his home, contents unclear.
Not clear who got the commission job.
Thanks to the oddly webpaged Public.Resource.Org we can once again enjoy McCarran Committee counsel Robert Morris doing a victory lap the day the Committee called Owen Lattimore a “conscious, articulate instrument of the Communist conspiracy” .
It was downhill from there, as the Committee’s careful assemblige of free-floating factoids and fanciful history failed to withstand scrutiny or contact with the courts. Â 
Right Answers   
The hallucinatory fringes of the American right just can’t quit Bill Ayers, who of course ghost-wrote all of Barack Obama’s stirring tomes.
Obama serial fantasist Cliff Kincaid is digging deep for the cause, claiming Ayers is but the latest example of Red infiltration of academia, where they aim for the children!
Introducing a tiresome run-through of Ayer’s troubled career, Kincaid returns to a simpler time, when Louis Budenz could write articles for the American Legion with even less reference to facts than his Congressional ramblings. Somehow Ayers’s bringing down America was foretold by Budenz’s fifty year old authoritative blather.
Kincaid even ropes in Bella Dodd, 
a former New York Communist teachers union leader who refuted Budenz’s Lattimore hearing testimony. [They both ended up in the Catholic church, it all comes out well.]
There comes a time in the life of every political concept when it loses touch completely with reality, when its cliche-strength overpowers whatever descriptive power it once held.
Others have whined before, but for me the day has now come:
The pages of “The Browser” book blog feature an appreciation of Owen Lattimore from Michael Dillon, author of  “Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Far Northwest.”  Dillon discusses Lattimore’s never surpassed writings on China’s inner-Asian frontiers and Xinjiang  The Browser interviews an area expert touting five books in their field, and  Lattimore accounts for two of Dillon’s five.
Dillon mistakenly has Senator Joseph McCarthy chairing the House Un-American Activities Committee and poking Lattimore from that venue, but otherwise seems a sound fellow. Â If anything I think he kind of undersells Pivot of Asia, Lattimore’s Xinjiang book issued as McCarthy’s fraud was beginning to unfold in 1950. Â The book figured in the many investigations, with FBI wiretaps picking up conversations in Mongol between Lattimore and Mongol scholars he’d brought to Johns Hopkins to work on the book project. Â Also involved on the book was the Chinese scholar Chen Hansheng, whose Comintern affiliation played a role in the McCarthy and McCarran hearings.
The Browser shares with us an image they appeared to have lifted from Amazon of a snappy 60s paperback cover for “Inner Asian Frontiers Of China,”  Amazon’s coming from a bookseller offering pricey editions of the tome.  The other Lattimore book mentioned, “Pivot of Asia,” is available free online.
The Chinese Roots Of A Kenyan Anti-Colonial Worldview
Barack Obama Birthers continue to seethe and churn, and now their obsessions have reached a moment which comes to every crackpot crusade: their enemies’ sneering mockery has become further proof of the righteous cause.  Birthers now embrace random assertions linking them to McCarthyism, because McCarthy Was Right too!
Elitist contempt only makes them stronger, and getting called out on facts only spurs them to greater feats of makebelieve history.
Owen Lattimore has now been joined to the Birther defense in the dusty corners of America’s internet, if only indirectly.
The commentariat argument is that Birthers and McCarthy have both been called fact-challenged, but Joe was right and so are they.
One “BarryObam” takes to the pages of the Glen Burnie Forum, claiming Lattimore and others named by McCarthy were found out by subsequent historians, ergo, nanny nanny boo.
As your correspondent has reported, endlessly replicated assertion does not make fact, and the case against Lattimore remains a vague hash of McCarthy/McCarran charges sprinkled with claims unnamed historians or Soviet documents vindicate the cause.
Lattimore’s previous afterlife brush with presidential greatness came when he took some of the blame for turning a boyish Bill Clinton into the Soviet’s willing servent.
Bill Clinton’s “Road To Moscow” is one of the highlights of recent crackpot history, with the ’88 campaign’s dark muttering about Bill’s student travels taken to insane levels. The glancing reference to Lattimore shows how the deed is done.
Well, sort of. Starting in 1952 Fall was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. Up in Baltimore, Lattimore was on leave fighting McCarthy and McCarran’s charges. And in 1953 Hopkins abolished Lattimore’s Walter Hines Page School of International Relations in an effort to get rid of him altogether.  But other than that he and Fall worked in lockstep for America’s downfall.
Tubular!
For connoisseurs, footagefile13 has uploaded a Lattimore clip from the 1950 Tydings Committee hearings, in which our favorite subject denies the usual once more.
Meanwhile, Frenchmen have for some reason posted Lattimore exiting DC Federal Court in the early days of the eventually dismissed perjury charges.
As a true American ignorant of foreign tongues I can’t show you the clip, being unable to figure out if the site allows embeds.
