How a China Hand Lost to McCarthyism

• By Byron C. Tau
• Roll Call Staff
• Sept. 29, 2009, Midnight

John S. Service ended up on the right side of history. The front-page charges of Communist sympathy leveled against this former foreign service officer and China expert after World War II have mostly been reduced to a historical footnote in a more sordid tale involving such notables as ex-Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs.