Evening star., 1950-05-28
McGrath Denies Reds
Get Soft Handling
By Administration
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is that these things have beer
done to American citizens and
they are things that are done ir
police states but should not be
done in a democracy"
The Attorney General told his
audience that President Truman
and he-were greatly exercised
over what has been going on. This
concern, he felt. too, by !"respon.
sible leaders of both parties"
Insists on Democracy.
The President and he, Mr.. Nc.
Grath said. are fighting COM
munism at home and abroad.
I'VE are aggressively working
to prevent disloyal persons from
tnflltrating our government. But
at the same time we are trying
to protect the rights of the in
dlvidual in this loyalty check
program.
The President does not want a
Gestapo in the United States, nor
do you and I. And I can assure
that j. Edgar Hoover has no desire
to have any police state secret po-
lice duties imposed upon the FBI,
and such duties will not be i'm
posed on that organization at
the direction of President Truman
or at my direction"
Mr.. McGrath said that if Ameri-
can democracy is to survive, lit
must survive as democracy-not
as something else"
Yet right now," he continued,
there are individuals who for one
reason or another would have us
embrace the methods of the secret
police and wrong innocent men
and women in the name of natl
onal security.
Reviews Prosecutor Record.
There are those who are being
goaded by an hysterical fear of
possible war, who are being fright
ened by the implications of the
possession of an atomic weapon
by our enemies, people who are
willing to allow witch-hunts and
frantic name-calling to endanger
our national liberties"
After describing in detail the
loyalty test program of the Gov
ernment, Mr.. McGrath said that
it was the Truman Administra-
ton and the Justice Department
which prosecuted and obtained
convictions of II Communists in
New York-the Communist lead
ership for the United States-con-
victions against 16 alleged Com
munists in California and seven
in Colorado.
He also laid claim to the sue
cessful prosecution of Alger Hiss,
Harry Bridges, Judith Coplon,
Carl Marzani and many others
for crimes related to communism
He said that the Government has
commenced action to revoke the
citizenship of Harry Bridges. and
has under investigation 700 other
persons to determine whether
their citizenship should be re-
voked. E
There are already 2 1000 or more
deportation orders to countries be-
hind the Iron Curtain, and. 88
were issued on grounds involving
communism" Mr.. McGrath con-
tinued.
Barkley Ridicules Republicans.
Vice President Barkley, ad-
dressed a Jefferson-Jackson din
ner in Austin, Tex. He ridiculed
Republican charges that the Tru-
man administration is leading this
country to socialism and pointed
to long line of progressive meas
ures, for the improvement of the
condition of individual American
citizens, all enacted under Demo-
cratic administrations.
Mr.. Barkley said that jefferson
had been called "a visionary and
oemagogue" because he advo-
Gated equality of the people, and
public education of the children
by the state. Jackson, he added
was called a dictator" Epithets
had been applied, too, to Wood
row Wilson and Franklin D.
Roosevelt-and now to Harry Tru-
man.
But we do not believe in gov
eminent by epithet." said Mr..
Barkley. I'VE do not believe in
government by slogan. A little
segment of the reactionary Re-
publican leaders has issued a slo-
gan for the 1850 congressional
elections-liberty versus social
ism But the American people
are no more frightened by epi-
thets than are the leaders of the
Democratic Party.
Prosperity Called UnequalIed.
In spite of two world wars with
In quarter of a century, Mr.
Barkley insisted the American
people are now enjoying a pros
perity which is unequalled in any
period of their history.
Republican mouthpieces. he
said, claim we are on the road
to bankruptcy and we are on the
last mile to the police state. No
nation is on the road to bank
ruptcy which in one year produced
$3.50 billion worth of goods and
services, for which it finds ready
market, and whose people enjoy
national income of 1920 billion
per year. No nation is on the
road to bankruptcy which has
more than 500 billion of savings,
which it has accumulated since
the dark days of the late 1920s and
the early 1930s. No nation is on
the way to bankruptcy which is
able to guarantee the deposits of
the people in its banks without
crippling the soundness of its