Evening star., 1950-03-20
Partial Text of Attack on McCmts Charges by Dr. essup

A partial tert of Ambassador
at Large Jessup'S statement to-
day before the Senate Subconl-
mittee on Foreign Relations fol-
loUs::
Mr.. Chairman, I greatly appre.
clate the opportunity that youl
committee has given me to ap-
pear before you in connection with
the charges and insinuations which
have been made against me by
Senator Mccarthy. On March
Senator Mccarthy made the fol-
lowing statement to this COM
mittee which I quote:
Although l shall discuss the
unusual affinity of Mr.. Philip C
Jessup of the State Department
for Communist causes later in this
inquiry, I think it pertinent te
note that this gentleman now
formulating top-f1ight policy in
the Far east affecting half the
civilized world was also a sponsor
OF the American-Russian Insti-
tute."
No one can be loyal to COM
munism and also loyal to the
United States. This attack on me
by Senator Mccarthy is obviously
intended to give the impression
that am disloyal to the United
States. When Senator Mccarthy
made that statement, I was in
Pakistan completing an official
mission throughout the countries
OF Asia. This mission was carried
out as part of the effort of this
country is making to strengthen
the free and democratic forces in
Asia and the capacity of free
Asia to resist subversive or anti
democratic forces.
During the course of this mis-
sion it was my duty to speak on
behalf of the Government of the
United States to the chiefs of
state, prime ministers, foreign
ministers, and other high officials
Of almost all of the countries of
that area In the course of that
mission also made various public
statements in an attempt to make
clear to the peoples of the East
that the solution of their problems
does not lie in the false hopes
dangled before them by the agents
OF Communist greed and i'm
perialism.
For example, at New Delhi on
February %. 1850. I issued this
statement to the press:
Since the end of the second
world war, history has recorded
the extension of new imperial
ism that has brought more than a
dozen countries under the domi-
nation of single expanding
power. The device used by this
expanding power in extending its
imperialism is to hold out the
glittering promises of communism
as a beacon light for the rescue of
peoples who are suffering from
economic underdevelopment or
who are trying to remove the
shackles of the old traditional
kinds of colonialism However,
where communism gains control,
1t becomes Immediately apparent
that the peoples are not allowed
to determine their own future, but
must conform to a single policy
laid down in Moscow
Fraud Could be Inferred.
If Senator McCarthy's innu-
endoes were true, the representa-
tives of the foreign governments
with whom I spoke would be en-
titled to believe that my state
ments to them were deceitful and
fraudulent. They would be en-
titled to believe that no conf
dence should be placed in the
declarations which made on be-
half Of our government. If it
we're true that the President and
the Secretary OF State had sent
on such a mission a person who
was a traitor to his own govern
ment they might feel that they
could place no confidence in the
statements made by any of the
representatives of the United
States abroad.
It may be relatively unimport-
ant whether the character of a
single American citizen is black
ened and his name is brought into
disrepute, but in the present
serious situation of international
relations throughout the world
today it is a question of the ut
most gravity when an official
holding the rank of Ambassador
at Large of the United States of
America is held up before the
eyes of the rest of the world as a
liar and traitor I am aware, Mr..
Chairman, that Senator Nc
Carthy has not used these words.
But If his insinuations we're true,
these words would certainly be
appropriate.
1t is impossible for any one to
estimate the harmful effect that
these innuendoes have had on the
success of my mission and the for
eign policy of the United States
It is clear that if these inSinua-
tions remain unanswered, they
will further weaken the United
States in its conflict with world
communism. For that reason ]
flew back from Europe and asked
this opportunity to be heard by
this committee.
1t is obvious that an individual
holding the high position of Sena-
tor of the United States would not
venture in this way to undermine
the position of the United States
in its relations with the rest of
the world unless there was some
reason for doing so. I have tried tc
figure out what the reason behind
this attack might be.
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