Evening star., 1950-04-24
Mccarthy, Lattimore
And Budenz Called for
Closed Senate Hearing
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with the Truman Tydings-McMa-
hon line that the real criminals
are those who try to expose and
get rid of Communists and per-
verts in the State Department"
This was regarded in some
quarters as including a blast
against President Truman's re-
mark some time ago that Senator
Mccarthy was one of the Krem-
Inns greatest assets.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland, heads the Senate For
eign Relations subcommittee in
vestigating the Mccarthy charges
that the State Department harbors
Communists and fellow travellers.
Senator Mcmahon, Democrat, of
Connecticut, is a subcommittee
member.
The committee scheduled a
closed session today to discuss the
inquiry. Chairman Tydings said
all evidence dug up by the COM
mittee will go to the FBI.
If they come up with a spy or
Communist" he declared, they
will notify the proper prosecuting
authorities of the Government.
The result will be the same as if
the FBI had tackled it at the start.
Looking back on it. it might
have been better if the Senate,
instead of conducting this inveSti-
cation itself. had turned it all over
to the FBI with orders to investi-
gate all charges thoroughly and
then make a report to this COM
mittee. They would have done
a much better job, in my opinion,
than we can do with our limited
time and small staff. to run down
q lot OF clues that have very far
reaching possibilities.
Tydings Will Push Inquiry.
The Maryland Senator added,
however, that such a course has
gone by the boards now" The
committee will push the inquiry
ito conclusion as fairly and
fully and completely as we can,"
he promised.
Secretary Acheson's attack Sat-
urday night on Senator Mccarthy
began with a remark that he
wanted to clear away some
trash" He announced that he
would "go on the offensive and
not the defensive" in dealing with
charges and insinuations affecting
the State Department.
In biting, increasingly angry
tones he described the right way
and the wrong way" of handling
any attempted or existing sub
versive inf1ltration in the State
Department. The right way he
explained, is through the loyalty
. program.
THE wrong way" he continued,
''is to smear everybody's reputa-
ton to make charges on the basis
that if one is not right you try
to find another one you hope will
stick; to try to destroy the con-
fidence of the people in their
foreign Office and in their Govern
ment in one of the most critical
hours Of the Nations history"
He likened such a method sto,
wholesale ringing of false fire
alarms.
""It is as though you said to
yourself that the best way to find
a fire is to ring every fire alarm
in the city," he remarked. mot
that you know of any fire, but if
you get all the apparatus out and
have it wheeling around through
the city you might find one"
He compared the attack on the
State Department to the Camden,
N. j.. incident and also recalled
Robert BroWning's poem, "Caliban
Upon Setebos."
"Caliban is talking about this
horrible amoral god of his" Mr..
AcheSon explained. "He says that
his god operates in the way that
Caliban himself does on the beach.
Along comes, says Caliban, pro-
cession of crabs going down to
the sea across the sand, and he
says something like this:
"'I stand there and I let 20 go
by. The 21st I pick up and tear
off a clipper. I let three more
go by. The next one I crush in
order to watch it wiggle in agony
on the sand
"It is that degree of vicious
madness which has been going on
here"
Praising the foreign service per-
sonnel for refusing to quit in the
face of dangers and discomforts ir
many overseas posts, particularly
behind the Iron Curtain, Mr.. Ache
son continued:
Il should like to suggest to yoU
that you would find it very in.
teresting exercise to try, in youl
papers, an open letter to those
foreign service officers of the
United States who are now in the
front line of defense.
Explain to them the attack!
which are being made upon then
and upon the service of which
they are just as proud as you arr
proud of the profession to which
you belong. Explain to them, i
you can, what is happening tt
this country behind them.
Explain to them why it wa