Evening star., 1950-03-15
Peurifoy May Permit
Study by Senators
OF Loyalty Case Files
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20 Senate speech as being securit,
risks. It was this speech that LEI
to the investigation.
No Information. Tydings Says.
What I want to know is why
can't get the 81 names" Senate
Tydings added.
Senator Mccarthy has said /
would take some time for him Il
developed the cases.
Senator Tydings said the list O
rs given the committee yesterda,
contained only names and no i'll
formation at all to support tht
charges.
He said, however, the commit
tee would proceed with its in
vestigation of the names that hav,
been turned over by Senator Nc
Carthy despite the fact that tn,
charges are not spelled out. H,
pointed out that the Senate reso.
luton authorizing the inquiry
called for an investigation only
on whether persons "disloyal" tt
the United States "are or have
been employed by the State De.
partment.
Refuses to Discuss Subpoena.
He was asked if the subcom.
mittee would subpoena Senator
McCarthys files. He replied thai
he liked to show every considera
ton" to a colleague and that this
was not discussed at today's
closed meeting.
Senator Tydings had one refer
ence to the testimony yesterday
by Dorothy Kenyon of New York,
who appeared before the commit
tee to deny Senator Mccarthy S
charges that she belonged to %
Communist front organizations.
Il think" he remarked, I'VE all
learned from yesterday, maybe,
that serious harm can be done
by broadcasting allegations that
may not be supported"
Senator Tydings said the in
vestigating committee will hear
DR.. Philip Jessup, United States
Ambassador at large. whenever he
wished to be heard. Senator Nc
Carthy charged last week in testi-
mony before the committee that
DR.. Jessup had IAN unusual affin-
ity for Communist causes"
Jessup Due Here Today.
DR.. Jessup is due to return to
Washington today from a trip
abroad. Senator Tydings said he
had not heard from him, but that
II he wished to appear on Friday
or Monday he could do so.
Mr.. Jessup was asked in New
York on his arrival by plane from
Europe if there was any substance
to Senator McCarthy's charges
that there are Communists in the
State Department. He replied
There is no substance to them at
ALL"
Senator Tydings emphasized
that, if there are disloyal persons
In the State Department, as Sem
ator Mccarthy charges. "the
longer we are put off getting their
names, the longer they will have
access to confidential files"
Yesterday, Senator Mccarthy
said it might be ''8 or 10" days
before he could accumulate ma
terial to present more cases.
Reporters tried unsuccessfully to
get him to say whether he would
name the 81 card-carrying Com
munists he was reported to have
said recently were employed in
the State Department.
Three named by Senator Nc
Carthy in his testimony yester-
day gave quick and angry denials
to his accusations.
DR.. Harlow Shapley. 64, noted
Harvard astronomer and lecturer,
accused of being connected with
at least So Communications or
ganizations. called the Mccarthy
charges grossly untrue" At
Cambridge, Mass, he said he was
frankly bored with such non-
sense"
Duran Also Denies Charges.
Another one of the accused,
Spanish-born Gustavo Duran, for
mer State Department official now
working with the United Nations,
said:
I'm not and never have been
q Communist
Mr.. Duran denied Senator Nc
Carthy's statements that he was
secret Soviet agent with the
international Brigade in the Span
ish civil war, that he Is with the
international Refugee Organiza-
tion screening refugees entering
this country, that he was recon-
mended for his present position by
a member of President Truman S
cabinet. or that he resigned from
the State Department in 1916
under pressure.
He said that, as a Spanish citi-
zen, he served as lieutenant
colonel in the legal Spanish Re-
publican army and not in the
international Brigade. An Amer
lean citizen now, he said he sus-
pected that the source of Senator
McCarthy's information was moth
ing more than a translation of an
article that appeared four years
ago in the Spanish newspaper
Arriba, the official organ of the
FalangiSt Party.
Relationship Denied.
With regard to Senator Nc
Carthy's statements that Mr.
Duran is a brother-in-law oil
Michael Straight of the New Re.
public Magazine, Mr.. Duran sale