Evening star., 1950-07-18
Red Inquiry Ended
After Filing Of Report
Blasting Mccarthy
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lie" in pressing his charges. and
added:
1--WE have seen how, through
repetition and shifting untruths,
it is possible to delude great num-
bers Of people"
The result, the report added,
has been to confuse and divide the
American people, far beyond the
hopes Of the Communists them
selves, at time when the people
should be strong in their unity"
AS severe as the majority's de-
nunciation Of Senator Mccarthy
was, consideration was given, it
was learned, to even more drastic
condemnation. This included
finding accusing Senator McCar-
thy Of having perjured himself in
testimony before the committee
and q recommendation of censure
and trial before the Senate for
conduct unbecoming a United
States Senator.
These proposals were abandoned.
as one member said, through "the
restraint" Of the Democratic
Senators and on the recommen-
dation Of the committees chief
counsel, Edward P. Morgan, who,
with his staff, played substantial
part in the investigation and the
drafting Of the report.
The report charged that Sena-
tor Mccarthy had made wild
and baseless" charges against the
State Department and some of
its officials and had mo facts"
or only "diScredited allegations Of
facts" to support them.
'MisIed' and Deceived
1t said he ''misled" and "de-
ceived" the Senate into authoriz-
ing the investigation by present.
ing, as new information, in a.
Senate speech on February 20,
material on 81 cases he described
as security risks in the State De-
partment.
That material, the report added,
was "a colored and distorted ver-
sion" of information previously
studied by four committees of the
Republican-controlled 80th Con-
gress and deemed unworthy of a
report.
The majority said no evidence
was found to support the McCar-
thy charges that several State De-
partment officials and others were
pro-Communist."
AS for Senator McCarthy's
charges that Owen baltimore, Far
Eastern specialist of Johns Hop
kins University, Baltimore, was a
Communist and Russia's top spy
in this country-charges on which
the Senator said his case would
stand or fall"-the committee
said there was no evidence to sup
, port such an accusation.
Lodge Report Separate.
Senator Lodge, in his separate
report, agreed Senator Mccarthy
had not proved Mr.. baltimore was
a Communist and Russia's top spy
in this country. But he insisted
there was an incomplete investi-
CATION and said any conclusions
are "inescapably tentative"
The majority report described
as completely unfounded and un-
justified" the Mccarthy charges
that United States Ambassador
at-large Philip C. JesSup had "an
unusual affinity for Communist
causes. Such charges. the report
added, have done ."irreparable |
harm to the prestige Of the
United States"
The committee also said there |
was no evidence to support the
pro- Communist" charges made
against other State Department
of1cials-John s. Service, John
Carter Vincent, Haldore Hanson
and Mrs. Esther Caukin Bru-
nauer.
In the case of Mr.. Hanson, the
majority said it discounted as
hearsay the testimony given by
Louis F. Budenz, former Commu-
mist, in secret committee ses-
sion, that this official was a mem
Der Of the party.
Report on Amerasia Case.
The committee also made a de-
tailed report on its Investigation
OF the 1945 AmeraSia magazine
case. involving the alleged theft
of classified Government docu-
mentS, and said there was mot
one shred of evidence" to support
the charges made by Senator Nc
Carthy and others that the case
was fixed" in any manner. Sena-
tor Mccarthy had said the case
would afford a key to an espion-
age ring operating within the
State Department.
The report commended the JUS
tice Department for the way it
handled the case and blamed IL
legal searches by agents of the
wartime Office of Strategic Serv-
ices for prejudicing its successful
prosecution.
Deliberate Untruths.'
The majority report assailed
Senator Mccarthy for making
what it described as unsupported
charges and accused him Of de-
stroying the reputation of private