The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-06
SENATORS STEP OUT ON
MCCARTHY RED EXPOSE

Washington (LPA)-Sen. JOSEPH
Mccarthy OR, Wis., presented to
the Senate March 80 what he call
ed Recommendation" that Owen Lat
timore ''is a Soviet agent and also
that he either is, or at least has
been, a member of the Communist
party" But his Recommendation
proved neither point.
McCarthy's "evidence" consisted
of a series of quotations from un-
named individuals and documents
whose authors he did not disclose.
From some of the documents he
read only phases, leading to pro-
tests from Republican as well as
Democratic Senators.
The Wisconsin Senator deliber-
ately bypassed the special commit
tee set up by this Senate to investi-
gate his charges. Instead he made
a well advertised appearance be-
fore a crowded Senate chamber
and packed galleries. But many of
his Senatorial listeners had left
before he was half through.
Under questioning by his col
leagues, Mccarthy admitted that
practically alp of his evidence
must be in the hands of the FBI."
Only a few days earlier j. Edgar
Hoover, Director of the FBI, had
strongly limited that his agency
had no case against baltimore.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey Cd,
Mimi said Mccarthy was in effect
suggesting that Hoover was $50
anxious to keep his job" that he
would not resign his post rather
than let Soviet spy remain un-
disclosed.
Mccarthy started out on the de-
fensive, trying to pin on Chairman
Millard Tydings Cd, Md, of the
investigating committee response
bility for disclosing the names of
those he was charging with dis,
loyalty, and trying to explain the
discrepancy in the figures he had
used.
He also backed away from his
charges that the people he
was accusing were either card
carrying Communists, or bad Sc
curity risks. He said which charge
applied to a particular individual
would require investigation to dis
close, but suggested new phrase
."bad policy risk"
McCarthy's first unnamed wit
ness against baltimore was a form
er Communist who said his busi-
ness in the party was to know all
members of Importance and who
would testify that baltimore was
known to him to be a member of
the Communist party, a member
over whom they had disciplinary
powers"
Another document, which McCar-
thy said he was turning over to the
FBI, quoted another unnamed in
dividual as saying he had known
Lattimore in Moscow in 1886 when
he and another individual were
obviously receiving instructions
from the Soviet government con-
cerning the line which the Insti-
tute of Pacific Relations ought to
follow"
Other documents presented by|
were of the guilt-by-as-
ISOLATION type of evidence, and al
letter allegedly written by Latti-
more himself, which the Senator
refused to read in full, but insisted
on reading only in part over the
protest of Sen. Tobey OR, NH).
When Tobey quietly suggested
he make the entire letter available,
Mccarthy flatly refused, saying heI
would develop each case as II
.hink wise"
Sen. Lehman 10, N.Y. protest
I'd that Mccarthy was making al
spectacle" before the galleries and
he Senate, instead of presenting
MS evidence before committee set
up to investigate the charges.
Lehman protested that when al
mans loyalty was questioned, theI
charges against him should bel
made in a forum where he had a |
chance to reply at once.
Sen. Mcmahon Cd, Conn., chal-
enged Mccarthy to say whether
ne was charging Judge Kenyon,
Philip Jessup, and others who havel
refuted his charges, as traitors.
But the Wisconsin Senator would
not reply directly, merely asking
he Senator to stay and hear hisl
speech.
He tried to make himself out a |
martyr, who knew when he started
he ;,uoctiootiop that he would he