Joseph Fels Barnes

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Joseph Fels Barnes (1907-1970) was an American journalist, who also served as executive director of the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR).

Background[]

Barnes was born in 1907. he graduated from Harvard University in 1927, where he was managing editor and president of the Harvard Crimson. He studied at the London School of Slavonic Studies.[1]

Career[]

Institute of Pacific Relations[]

Barnes worked on staff in the Soviet Union and China at the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) from 1932 to 1934. He was a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune based in Moscow, Berlin, and New York from 1934 to 1948. That was interrupted by service as director of the Office of War Information overseas branch and Voice of America radio show (1941-1944).[citation needed]

PM / New York Star[]

Barnes was an editor of PM, which he bought from Marshall Field III with Bartley Crum and renamed New York Star. Barnes remained editor until the Star folded in 1949.[1]

Simon & Schuster[]

Barnes worked as an editor of Simon & Schuster and was a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College[2]

Allegations of Communism[]

Often affiliated with left-wing causes, Barnes was accused in the 1950s of being a member of the Communist Party USA by several witnesses, e.g., Whittaker Chambers as reported on in August 1951:

Whittaker Chambers, confessed former Communist courier, said that a Red leader in 1937 told him that Joseph Barnes, a member of the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, was a member of a Communist underground cell in New York. Mr. Chambers identified his informant as J. Peters... Mr. Barnes, former foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune and former secretary of the American Institute of Pacific Relations who is now an editor of Simon & Schuster, New York publishers, denied the accusation – as he has on three previous occasions....[2]

Chambers stated that Barnes had attended meetings regularly at a Communist group headed by Frederick Vanderbilt Field and held at the Central Park West home of Field's mother; Barnes dismissed the allegations by explaining that he had married Field's former wife.[3]

Personal life and death[]

Around 1935, Barnes married Elizabeth G. Brown of Duluth, Minnesota, former first wife of Frederick Vanderbilt Field.[3]

Barnes died in 1970 of cancer in New York City.[citation needed]

Awards[]

Legacy[]

Barnes' papers at the Library of Congress contain an unpublished biography of Wendell L. Willkie plus correspondence with , , Norman Corwin, Bartley Cavanaugh Crum, , and J.L. Jones.[4]

Works[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Reminiscences of Joseph Fels Barnes : oral history, 1953". WorldCat. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Chambers Labels Barnes a Red and Receives a Prompt Denial" (PDF). Herald Statesmen. 17 August 1951. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Hinton, Harold B. (17 August 1951). "Barnes Is Called Ex-Red 4th Time; And Editor Issues a 4th Denial—He Will Be Called Finally as Witness in Inquiry Field Serving Sentence Clubb Is Brought In Barnes' Fourth Denial". New York Times. p. 9. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Joseph Barnes papers, 1930-1952". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  5. ^ Barnes, Joseph; Field, Frederick V. (1933). Behind the Far Eastern Conflict. Institute of Pacific Relations. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  6. ^ Joseph Barnes, ed. (1934). "Owen Lattimore, John E. Orchard, Joseph Barnes, Grover Clark, Frederick V. Field, H. Foster Bain, Carl L. Alsberg, Pearl S. Buck, Tyler Dennett, Nathaniel Peffer". Empire of the East. Doubleday, Doran & Company. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  7. ^ Joseph Barnes, ed. (1970). "Owen Lattimore, John E. Orchard, Joseph Barnes, Grover Clark, Frederick V. Field, H. Foster Bain, Carl L. Alsberg, Pearl S. Buck, Tyler Dennett, Nathaniel Peffer". Empire of the East. Books for Libraries Press. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  8. ^ Simonov, Konstantin (1945). "Joseph Fels Barnes (translator)". Days and Nights. Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  9. ^ Barnes, Joseph (1952). Willkie: The Events He was Part of, the Ideas He Fought for. Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  10. ^ Paustovsky, Konstantin (1964). "Joseph Fels Barnes (translator)". The Story of a Life. Pantheon. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  11. ^ Platonov, Andrei (2000). "Joseph Fels Barnes (translator), Tatyana Tolstoya (introduction)". Fierce and Beautiful World: Stories. E. P. Dutton. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

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