Carlson to Smedley, March 26, 1943. For a detailed discussion of the agrarian reformer idea see E. J. Kahn, Jr., The China Hands: America's Foreign Service Officers and What Befell Them (New York, 1975), pp. 112-14, and Shewmaker, American and Chinese Communists. For Freda Utley's relationship with the China Lobby and Guomindang see Ross Y. Koen, The China Lobby in American Politics (2d ed. New York, 1974)