Evening star., 1952-10-28

ConSin Senator"
Answers Five Charges.
The political organization cate
gorically answered five charges
made against it by Senator Nc
Carthy.
Among them. ADA denied it de-
sired recognition of Red China
at the present time, asserting that
1t had urged consideration of such
steps before Chinese Communists
entered the Korean war.
ADA denied it condemned the
FBI for exposing spies, but in
stead had always insisted the
FBI was the proper agency for
such work. ADA did oppose wire
tapping for gathering evidence in
the Judith Coplon case, and this
was upheld in the courts, the
statement said.
AS to Senator McCarthy's charge
that ADA opposed the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities.
the organization said it had been
sharply critical of an organization
that acted as judge, jury and in
quiSitor.
Articles Are Quoted.
Senator Mccarthy quoted from
articles written by Mr.. SchleSinger
which, the Senator said, showed
the writer thought Communists
should be allowed to teach your
children" and was against religion.
He said Mr.. Schlesinger wrote in
one article that the present syS-
tenn in the United States makes
even freedom-loving Americans
look wistfully at Russia"
Mr.. Schleslnger, an associate
history professor at Harvard Uni
versity, replied in New York:
"On July 20. 1916, I wrote an
article for Life magazine exposing
and indicting the Communist con-
Spiracy in the United States. It
was one of the first such indict-
ments published in a national
magazine. Among those who as
sisted in its preparation was
Whitaker Chambers.
1T was from this article that
Senator Mccarthy tore a sentence
out Of context for the purpose of
insinuating that I am pro-Com-
muniSt.
"At the same time some Of us
were alerting the American people
to the dangers of communism,
Mccarthy was accepting Com
munist support in his fight against
Bob La Toilette in Wisconsin.
Il am tired of these Joe-Come-
Latelies in the fight against COM
munism.
"The suggestion that I have
even ridiculed religion is another
of Senator McCarthy'S falsehoods.
My first book was, in fact, a Sc
lection of the Catholic Book Club"
Brings in Gen. Smith.
Another Mccarthy charge was
that Gov. Stevenson, on 1943I
mission formulating Americas
postwar policy in Italy" pre-
scribed a plan for "foisting COM
muniSm" on the Italians. The
Senator said that Gen. Walter
Bedell Smith, now head of the
Central Intelligence Agency, in
his book and in sworn testimony
told what that policy vas
namely, to 'connive' to bring Com
munists into the Italian govern
ment and to bring the Italian
Communist leader. Togliatti. back
from Moscow" Senator McCar-
thy added that Smith did not
take any part in formulating that
policy"
Gen. Smith was chief of staff toi
Gen. Eisenhower, allied COM
mander in the Mediterranean,
when the Italians surrendered in
1943. After the war, he was made
Ambassador to Moscow and later
wrote a book entitled my Three
Years in Moscow"
Reviewing briefly his first con-
facts with Russian officials I'M
North Africa after Italy's sur
render, Gen. Smith wrote on
pages 1919 of his book:
1--WE of the West were deter
mined to establish a democratic
government with as broad a base
as possible. and this made it easy
for us to accept Communist parti-
cipation in the Italian govern
ment. and even to accept, and
indeed to facilitate, the return
of the Italian Communist leader,
Togliatti, who had been in Mos
COW.
Even had we been contrarily
disposed, it would have been diff
cult to deny Communist partici-
patton in the Italian government.
Disciplined, militant Communist
groups, particularly in the indus
trial areas of northern Italy, had
been the rallying point for Ital-
ian opposition to the Germans.
The Communists were the hard
core of the Partisan movement,
and their initial participation in
the reconstructed Italian govern
ment was on a cooperative, col
laborative basis"
Stevenson Not Mentioned.
Gov. Stevenson's name is not
mentioned in connection with the
Italian policy in Gen. Smiths
book.
Senator Mccarthy also brought
the Institute of Pacific Relations
into his charges against Gov. Ste
venson. He said document his
agents found in files of the Or
ganization indicated that AlgerI
Hiss and a man named Frank CoeI
had recommended Gov. Stevenson
to a conference called for formu-
lating foreign policy in Asia. He
also alleged that the Senate In
ternal Security Subcommittee,
headed by Senator McCarran.
noroonrot of Novo6o I,od found