The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-01
Legion Committee
Wants Mccarthy
Put Up Or Shut Up


Put Up Or Shut Up
| Philadelphia (LPA)-Sen. Josepl
r. Mccarthy OR, Wis., is going t,
have a rough time pinning th
connie" label on his latest tw,
lcritics - the American Veteran
Committee and the American Leg
lion.
| AVG wants the Red batting sena
tor impeached while the Legion
lcommittee on un-Americanism has
gently limited that he put up o.
shut up concerning charges thai
columnist Drew Pearson "is the
spokesman for international Com
munism."
Charging that McCarthy's "big
lie technique" is threat to Am
erican freedom of expression, AVG
called on the new Congress to i'm
peach him, charging he subverted
lAmerican justice; successfully held
Iup execution of sentence upon Ger
lmans accused of the massacre OF
american soldiers; accepted the
support of the Communist Party
while running for Congress; re-
manned a circuit court Judge dur
| ing that campaign contrary to state
law and bar ethics; destroyed work
| of the State Department through
|"unsubstantiated and improved
charges against department en-
Iployes.
AVG saw a danger to free ex-
preston in the dropping of Pear
sons radio program by his sponsor,
Adam Hats, following an attack on
Pearson by Mccarthy. The hat
company claims it planned to drop
Pearson before McCarthy's talk.
The Legion's approach was more
subtle. Walter E. Allessandroni of
Philadelphia, chairman of the or
ganization's committee on un-Am-
erican activities and a former vice
commander, asked gently upon
what facts have you based your
conclusion that Mr.. Drew Pearson
is Communist affiliate ?"
Pointing out that Pearson spon-
sored such projects as the Free
dom Train, Democracy-for-I Italy
letters, Tide for Toys, and "smok-
ed out corrupt government Off
cials", Allessandroni said, "to often
charges of Communist affiliations
are brought against individuals
without regard for facts"
Meanwhile, in the Capital, sup
port for Pearson appeared to be
gaining. When Mccarthy first as
sailed the columnist under the
protection of Congressional inn
munity, which means a senator
cannot be sued for libel for things
be says on the floor of the Senate,
many newspaper and radio men
felt Pearson was "just getting
back little of what he's been
handing out"
However, when Mccarthy really
got rolling, they began to wonder
what would happen to them if this
"g vernmen by vilification"
caught hold.
Here, for example, is how Nc
Carthy proved Pearson a Com
,,,"It appears" said Mccarthy,
chat Pearson never actually sign
ed up as member and never paid
dues in the Communist Party. How
ever, that has not in any way af-
fected his value to the party. :"
That type of reasoning takes inl
a lot of people +. it takes in you
and every other person in thel
country who "never actually sign
ed up as a member or paid dues toI
the Communist Party"
"The heads of our intelligence
agencies will testify" the SenatorI
declared, "that one of the principalI
aims of the Communist Party is to
gain control of our lines of COM
that is, newspapers
radio, television, and so forth"
BY the same reasoning Col. Rob
art Mccormick, Chicago publisher
who owns "The Worlds Greatest
Newspaper" and the Washington
Herald, would be more underI
suspicion than Pearson, who onlyl
works for newspapers. And how
about Sen. Robert A. Taft-his
family's in the newspaper business
n Cincinnati
McCarthy's latest campaign is
20 find who in the Pentagon is
leaking" secret messages to Pear