Evening star., 1951-09-27


engagements, and a year later a
$4,000 royalty for preparing a
book on housing as a guide for
veterans seeking to purchase their
own homes.
did you write the book?"
"I had vast amount of help"
the Senator said, adding that he
did most of the preparation and
editing of the material.
Mr.. Roberts explained he was
asking the questions to show the
Senator was making speeches and
writing for hire and that this
activity was of a competitive ma
Iture. The suit charges, among
other things, that the defendant
employed unfair trade practices
against Mr.. Pearson.
The Senator said a large part
Iof his compensation for making
speeches was merely for expenses.
He said he could not recall off,
hand the exact amounts he re-
Iceived for talks in various parts
of the country after his election
to the Senate.
Says Divorce Forecast.
AS to the Senator's conduct at
the dinner dance last December
Mr.. Pearson had this to add in
his deposition:
when you go to a private party
and you proceed to embarrass
your hostess by picking a fight
with a guest, and when you spend
part of the time at the dinner
table telling another lady guest
namely, my wife-what you are
going to do to her husband the
next day, obviously it doesn't make
for a pleasant dinner party, and it
isn't the act of usually sane or
sober man.
During the dinner, Mrs. Pear
son was on one side Of the table,
Senator Mccarthy was over mere,
and he kept telling her, Mrs. Pear
son. what he was going to do to
me, how I was a Communist, how
he was going to prove I was a
Communist and how when he got
through with me she was going to
| divorce me-"
did you talk to Mccarthy be-
tween 8 and 10 pm.?" Mr.. Pear
son was asked.
81 can't fix the exact time as
to whether it was five minutes or
ten minutes after 10 or $50, but
on one occasion. during the dinner,
or perhaps after the dinner, when
we were still sitting at the table
perhaps drinking coffee, Senator
Mccarthy approached me and be-
gan a repetition of his badgering,
repeating what he had said before.
Considerably later in the
evening, he did the same thing.
came around and sat down be-
side me at the table.
Expressed Sorrow.
"He repeated the old tune. that
he had gagged his speech for to-
morrow, that he was so sorry he
was going to upset my evening to-
night, he was terribly sorry, he
was particularly sorry because he
had met Mrs. Pearson and she
was such nice lady, but he had
made this commitment to others
that he was going to go through
with this speech, and he was going
to do it. :.
He said he had told Jack
Anderson, my assistant, some time
Iago that he was preparing to at
tack me. He said, I am going to
get hurt in this fight'-refelr ring
to the speech, I think, am sure
he meant-he said, 7 am going to
get hurt some. but you are going
to get hurt more
"You were planning to leave as
soon as you could do so grace
fully, were you not?"
Senator Mccarthy made that
practically impossible.
How did he make it. impos-
sible?"
BY in a loud voice after the,
second conversation and after he
had challenged me to a fight, he
said, You are going to leave this
place just as soon as you can.
You will get out of here. Don't
let me see you around here. He
said You go on and get out"