Joseph Fels Barnes

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

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] Barnes was an editor of PM, which he bought from Marshall Field III with Bartley Crum and renamed New York Star.

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....[4] 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.

[citation needed] Barnes' papers at the Library of Congress contain an unpublished biography of Wendell L. Willkie plus correspondence with Irita Taylor Van Doren, George Bergal, Norman Corwin, Bartley Cavanaugh Crum, William Fitz Gibbon, and J.L.