- Günther Stein
Günther Stein or Gunther Stein was a German print journalist.
Stein was a foreign correspondent in China for the
Manchester Guardian , theChristian Science Monitor , and theAssociated Press .Erwin D. Canham, editor of The Monitor during this period wrote later in his 1958 history of the newspaper, "Commitment to Freedom," of Stein's brief contribution to the paper from Japan and China which ended in 1945. He refers to reports of Stein as working for the Soviet Union while in Japan and the connection with the Sorge spy ring. He refers to Stein as "enigmatic" and says that "too little was known."
Senator
Joseph McCarthy accused Stein of spying for China during the Red Scare, as part of the Sorge spy ring. [http://www.prin.edu/users/els/departments/poli_sci/articles/MCCARTHY.HTM]Bibliography
*"Made in Japan",
Methuen , 1935, 206 pages
*"Far East in Ferment", Methuen, 1936, 244 pages
*"Chungking Considers the Future", American Institute of Pacific Relations, 11 pages, 1942
*"The Challenge of Red China", Da Capo Press, 1945, 490 pages (ISBN 0306707365)
*"American Business With East Asia: A study of economic relations between the United States and East Asia, 1946-1947.", American Institute of Pacific Relations, 1947
*"The World the Dollar Built", D. Dobson, 1952, 288 pagesExternal links
* [http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_38.htm Mao's Interview With German, Journalist, Gunther Stein]
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