Closing the Ring

Fired up by the Brownell-Hoover presentations, Indiana Senator William Jenner's Internal Security Subcommittee did not intend to get sidetracked. Chairman Jenner swiftly revived the case of Harold Glasser, who was brought to the Treasury by Harry Dexter White in 1936 as an economic analyst. Last April Glasser refused, on grounds of selfincrimination, to answer any of the Jenner committee's questions about Communist associations and espionage.

Last week Jenner Committee Counsel Robert Morris read into the record some facts and documents about Glasser's career in government. Between November 1945, and August 1947, the FBI distributed twelve reports mentioning Glasser. In August 1946, more than six months after J. Edgar Hoover's warning about White, Glasser and others, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder promoted Economist Glasser to director of monetary research, a post long held by White. Sixteen months later, when Glasser resigned, Snyder wrote him: "We will miss the fine work you have done here. Best wishes for happiness and success."

Then, to the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, Inc., where Glasser had applied for a job, Snyder wrote, "We have relied heavily on his judgment, his estimate of situations and his recommendations . . . He has no hidden facets to his personal qualities." When Elizabeth Bentley publicly charged in 1948 that Glasser was a spy, the economist's worried employers requestioned Snyder. The Secretary's reply: "All I can do . . . is reaffirm the appraisal I made of him in my earlier letter."

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