The Contented Colombian

For a small-town Nova Scotia boy, Lauchlin Currie traveled far. He studied economics at Harvard and remained to teach; he became a U.S. citizen, a Treasury Department economist, eventually administrative assistant, friend and close adviser to President Roosevelt. After Roosevelt's death Currie, at 43, bowed out of Government, opened an import-export firm in Manhattan.

In 1948 Elizabeth Bentley told the

House Un-American Activities Committee that Lauchlin Currie had aided the Communist underground in Washington; Currie hotly denied her accusations, but his name kept turning up in FBI reports and congressional investigations.

In 1950 Currie left the U.S., became an economic adviser to the Colombian government, later resigned to buy a 500-acre ranch, where he raises cattle and supplies milk to Bogota. He avoids the U.S. colony in the capital, has announced that he considers Colombia his "real home," and is seeking citizenship there. Last week the State Department said that Lauchlin Currie, by staying abroad five years, had automatically forfeited U.S. citizenship.

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