Evening star., 1952-10-28
The Political Mill
Red Issue Is Revived
By Mccarthy Speech
DisovowuI of Statements
Sought From Eisenhower
By Gould Lincoln

By Gould Lincoln
BOSTON, Oct. Ex-senator McCar-
thy of Wisconsin, who has been charged
by the Truman Fair Dealers and by a
number of other people with being the
greatest mudslinger of all time, has
made his much publicized and long
expected statement on Gov. Adlai
Stevenson. He neither accused Gov.
Stevenson-whom he described as "the
man who wants to be your President
of being a Communist or a fellow
traveller. But bit by bit. and document
by document, he traced Gov. Steven
sons association with organizations
which Senator Mccarthy declared had
been Communist fronts, and with indi-
vidualS whom Senator Mccarthy de-
Scribed as being friendly to the Com
munists, if not members of the Commu-
mist Party or fellow travellers.
What Senator Mccarthy has done, in
the last week before the election, is to
bring once more into the foreground in
big way the so-called Red issue against
the Truman administration-and against
the presidential candidate who has given
that administration a clean bill Of
health. Not only was he heard by mil
lions on the radio and seen and heard
by millions on the teevision-and by the
group in Chicago who had contributed
the necessary $4,000 to pay for the
broadcast-but the text of his statement
has been widely published in the news
papers.
Topic Up to Election.
His statement will furnish food for
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ton. The charges he has made will
bring and have already brought sharp
denialS from some of those mentioned
by Senator Mccarthy. If the statement
was timed to stir up again the Com
muniSt issue, Senator Mccarthy sue
ceeded.
Senator Mccarthy said in the course
OF his remarks that he believed the
American people, after they had listened
to the speech and followed the links in
the chain which he was forging, would
not want Gov. Stevenson for President.
Whether he is correct in this estimate
or not, Senator Mccarthy probably had
his effect on some of the electorate. And
If there is any doubt Senator Mccarthy
has considerable following in this
country, it is only necessary to make
inquiry in such States as Wisconsin.
Massachusetts and New York-not to
mention Maryland.
The Wisconsin Senator produced
document after document to support his
statement. One of his sharp attacks
was on advisers of Gov. Stevenson, par
ticularly Wilson Wyatt and several Of
the men who have been helping Gov.
Stevenson with his speeches. To some
1t will appear that Senator Mccarthy
proved his case-proved that Gov.
Stevenson, who has said Judge him by
the people he has around him, has a
leaning toward men who have been
sympathetic, to say the least, to Com
munists in the past, no matter what
their attitude may be today.
Answers Ready on Italy.
One charge which Senator Mccarthy
levelled against Gov. Stevenson himself
was that he helped draft in 1943 a
planned policy toward Italy and it's gov
ernment which looked to bringing Com
munists in the Italian Government.
1t will be said that Communist Russia
was at that time fighting on our side in
World War II, as a reason for such a
suggestion. But it is on all fours with
the efforts made later by the Roosevelt
and Truman administration to have
Communists taken into Government Of
China. This effort was resisted by
Chang Kai-shek, head of the NATIONAL
ist Government which had been allied
with this country in the war-and his
resistance was one of the reasons why
the Administration cooled toward that
leader
Democrats, including Gov. Stevenson
and others mentioned in the Mccarthy
statement, have replied that the Nc
Carthy statement was just another
smear, another attempt to vilify inno-
cent Americans. The interences which
Senator Mccarthy drew from the docu-
mentS which he presented, they fatty
denied. They are contending that his
speech was "McCarthyism" all over
again-and at it's worst; that if the Re-
publicans gain control of the Govern
ment and Senator Mccarthy becomes
head Of an investigating committee Of
the Senate, no American who incurs
Senator McCarthy's dislike will be safe
from SANDER and worse.
And quite naturally, they have called
on Gen. Eisenhower, the Republican
candidate for President, to disavow the
Mccarthy statement What they hope
is to pin McCarthyism on the general.
too The fact that Senator McCarthy's
speech was not arranged by the Repub-
ilcan National Committee or given prior
approval by Gen. Eisenhower or his lead
ers, makes no difference whatever in the
minds of the Stevenson Democrats.