Evening star., 1952-11-02

Program" by Wilson Wyatt, which
appeared in The New York Times
Magazine on July 27, 1947:
"The reckless and indiscriminate
assaults committed by the House
IUn-American Activities Committee
have created resentment and
martyrdom. They have obscured
the real issues. The loose standards
and inadequate safeguards sci
forth in the loyalty order fol
Government employees and the
Rees bill represent an ominous
Iretreat. We live in daring times
We need bold, imaginative men in
Government. There is grave dam
|ger that such men will be driven
out of public life by this sweeping
order which far tranScends the
legitimate purpose of identifying
foreign agents"
MCCARTHY SAID:
I'm Detroit, Stevenson referred
to statement by the Justice De-
partment which / previously read,
pointing out that there are Com
munists in the State Department
He said that I was reading from
testimony that was 20 years DID,
y
II hold in my hand, and you
people in the television audience
can see it, Docket No. 51-1O1, case
of James p. McGranery, Attorney
General VS.. The Communist Party
dated July %, 1852, that is after
the Truman Party nominated
their candidate. This was in an
action brought against the Com
munist Party to force them to
register as subversive organiza-
tion. 1t is signed by seven attor-
neys in the Justice Department.
.. I will read to you the passage
to which the Democrat candidate
took exception:
"Illegal passports have been
used to expedite travel in foreign
countries by members of the Com
munist Party. Plans have been
discussed by leading members of
the party and agents of the Soviet
secret police, to obtain blank
American passports from the Uni
ted States State Department, from
Communists employed in the State
Department -.
"There is nothing in this docu-
ment to indicate that those seven
lawyers meant that Communists
were employed in the State De-
partment 20 years ago and not
today, as Stevenson indicates
The evidence upon which these
finding of fact were made to my
Knowledge have never been made
public"
THE FACTS:
From April %. 1851. to July /.
1852, the Justice Department pre-
sented witnesses and evidence to
the Subversive Activities Control
Board to show that the United
States Communist Party is con-
trolled by the Soviet Union. At
the conclusion of the hearings the
Department summed up its case in
a document which included the
two sentences quoted by MacCar-
thy about illegal and blank pass
ports. At the end of those two
sentences in the Justice Depart
ment summation was the follow
ing citation: Cummings T 6719-
20: Crouch T 3190; indicating
the sources for the statement.
That citation in parentheses
was to published testimony by two
Justice Department witnesses be-
fore the SACB. Thus McCarthy's
statement that the evidence for
the Justice Department findings
had never been made public" was
of course false. We assume that
Mccarthy checked the citations
and read the testimony. These
were the two witnesses cited and
what they said:
/. William Garfield Cummings,
who joined the Communist party
at FBI request in 1912 and stayed
in the party as an FBI informant
until he testified against the
eleven party leaders in their New
York trial. In the testimony cited
(pages 6719 and 672O Cummings
told Of hearing from another Com
munist party member that Com
munists misused passports in the
early thirties.
2. Paul Crouch, Communist
party member from 1925 to 1912,
who dropped out voluntarily and
became an FBI informant there
after. In the testimony cited (page
3190) Crouch told of a conversa-
ton with a member of the Soviet
Secret Police in 1928, when Cool
idge was President. Crouch &C
tually testified as follows:
"This Soviet official asked if
any members of the Young Com
munist League had jobs in the
State Department where it might
be possible for them to secretly
obtain possession of blank pass
ports which he stated were needed
very much by the Soviet govern
ment and I replied there were no
such members" Emphasis sup
MCCARTHY SAID:
Zone of the witnesses they re-
fer to is Harvey Matusow He
is in the audience here tonight
and am going to ask him to stand
up. and you decide if he is old
enough to have testified as Steven
son indicated in the 1905. His
birth date is October 3, 1926. So
certainly he was not testifying
about the Communist party when
he was 2 years Of age. He only
Joined the party in the 4O's.''
THE FACTS:
Harvey Matusow is a former
Communist who joined the party
in 1947 and became an FBI in
formant in 1850. The Justice De-
partment did introduce him as a
witness before the Subversive Ac-
tivities Control Board. But he did