The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23
Mccarthy Hongs Self With Rope
Intended For Reds" In State Dept


auer had once been executive secre-
ltary of the American Association
lof University Women, and accord
ling to Mccarthy, had lined that ma
ltionally-k nown organization up
with such dangerous communist
front outfits as Consumers Union
| and the League of Women Shopp-
ers. The committee couldn't get
very excited about the communist
activities of the Association OF
University Women.
Senator Mccarthy also noted
that Mrs. Brunauer had once been
signer, back in 1888, to the call
for an annual meeting of the Am
erican Youth Congress. Sen. Tyd-
ings looked over the exhibit and
found other signers had included
former Senator Capper Or, Kans.),
James A. Farley, the Catholic
former chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, and other
Senators, Congressman and state
governors.
McCarthy's final case was better
known. He was Owen j. baltimore,
director of the Walter Hines Page
School of International Relations
at Johns Hopkins University, whom
the Senator painted as an import
ant policy-forming consultant to
the State Department. To indict
him, the Senator read at length
from newspaper story from the
Washington Tmes-Herald of 1916,
and 400 words from a priest whose
status as an authority he didn't
even attempt to establish. 1t was
during this that the klieg lights
went off and the audience began
wandering out.
Most damaging evidence against
baltimore was that he was truS-
tee of the Institute of Pacific Re
lations. Senator Tydings noted that
another name on the same exhibit
was Henry Luce. Senator Hicken-
looper OR, Iowa. objected that
Tydings was being unfair just to
pick out one respectable" name.
Tydings noted that Mccarthy had
picked out only the names of those
he suspected as communists, and
insisted ON reading all the names
and bad.
The good ones included Robert
G. Sproul, president of Stanford
University of California; Ray Ly-
man Wilbur, former president of
the same institution and a former
member of President Hoover's cab
met; John Hersey, the noted auth
or; Paul Hoffman, head Of ECA
and former president of Studebaker
Corporation; A. w. Robertson of
Westinghouse; sumner Welles,
former Undersecretary of State;
and Juan Trippe, of Pan American
Airlines.
AT this point, Mccarthy wanted
to stop-although the committee
had offered him all day. He con
tended the Senate was debating the
housing bill in which he was inter
ested and he had to be present. 1t
turned out the Senate was debat-
ing something else, and TydingS.
proposed to continue. But McCar-
thy refused, insisting he needed
more time to prepare the cases he
was supposed to have had all ready
long ago.
Chairman Tydings, who was the
acme of courtesy and consideration
all day, pointed out Mccarthy had
agreed to finish his presentation in
a single day Of given five hours.
He asked him to continue. McCar-
Thy still refused obviously he had
shot his wad, and needed more
Tine to prepare" further Cases.
He disclosed that tips were stil
coming to him-although according
to his original speeches he had all
the evidence in hand that there
we're 2C0, or 81, or 81 card carry
ing communists in the State De
The "big" day was over. 1t turn
ID out to be one of the biggest
lops in Senate history,