William L. O'Neill, A Better World, the Great Schism: Stalinism and the American Intellectuals (New York, 1982), pp. 129, 163-69, 186-88, 259, 290

New York Times, March 28, 1949; MacDonald, Politics, p. 32C

F.B.I. 61-6580-127, p. 278. On the conference see Dwight Macdonald, »Waldorf Conference« Politics (Winter 1949): 37A-D. Freda Kirchway »Battle of the Waldorf,« Nation, April 2,1949, pp. 377-78; Margaret Marshal, »Notes by the Way,« Nation, April 9, 1949, pp. 419-20; Joseph Lash, »Weekend at the Waldorf,« New Republic, April 18, 1949, pp. 10-14; William Barrett, »Culture Conference of the Waldorf,« Commentary (May 1949): 487-93

New York Post, March 16, 19, 1949; Charles A. Willoughby, Shanghai Conspiracy (New York, 1952); the secondary literature on Harold Ickes (1874- 1952), progressive politician and journalist, and secretary of the interior from 1933 to 1946, is voluminous. For a recent popular portrait see T. H. Watkins, »The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Ickes,« Audubon 86, no. 2 (March 1984): 94-111. Relevant Smedley to Ickes correspondence, dated February 25, 26, March 6, and March 28, 1949, is in Ickes papers

Excerpt from T. H. White letter quoted in Smedley to Harold Ickes, March 6, 1949, in Ickes papers

F.B.I. 61-6580-89, 94, 121, 127, 135, 142, 164, 180, 223; 100-68282-130, 190

F.B.I. 100-68282-103, p. 14, and 61-6580-127, p. 254; for 1945 interview see 61 - 6580-61; also sources in the footnote on p. 325

F.B.I. 100-68282-129, 130, 132

F.B.I. 61-6580-52

F.B.I. 100-9125-102