Whatever Happened to . . .?

P: Big, goateed Angus Ward, the man who spent a year of harassment and humiliation confined to the U.S. consulate general in Mukden by Chinese Communists, was assigned a new post by the State Department--in Nairobi, Kenya, on Africa's east coast. It was a job which seemed to have nothing to do with Communism or the Far East--the specialities on which he had concentrated in 25 years of foreign service at consulates in Mukden, Tientsin and Vladivostok. Outspoken Careerman Ward was outspokenly disgruntled. He had not even been officially informed of his appointment, he grumbled. "For all I know," he said "I might be going as first chauffeur or telephone operator." Actually, he would be consul general.

P: John S. Service, who was accused of passing out confidential State Department information to the party-line Amerasia magazine in 1945 (a jury refused to indict him), got his seventh loyalty clearance, this time by the State Department's Loyalty Security Board, headed by Republican Conrad E. Snow. On his way to India last spring, Service was summoned home from Japan after Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy had called him "a bad security risk" whose "Communist affiliations are well-known." The board's findings, said a spokesman, had been held up while it investigated "a rumor from the Far East." The rumor, he said, had been "found baseless."

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