Toward Trial

The Justice Department won a round last week in the case of Owen Lattimore, once an important influence in framing U.S. policy in the Far East. Last summer a U.S. Court of Appeals voided the key count in Lattimore's perjury indictment --for denying that he was "a sympathizer of Communism"--because the word "sympathizer" has too many differing dictionary definitions.

Last week a Federal Grand Jury indicted Lattimore for denying that he had been 1) a "follower of the Communist line" and 2) a "promoter of Communist interests." The new indictment lists 132 instances where, it says, Lattimore's writings and the Communist Party line coincided.

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