Evening star., 1952-11-02

was very good.'"
THE FACTS:
The complete paragraph of
Gov. Stevenson's speech October
23 from which Mccarthy quoted
follows:
Il said his reputation was good
and it was. I didn't say it was
very good; I didn't say he was a
great patriot; I didn't say any of
the things the Wisconsin Senator
says ! said. said his reputation
was good so far as had heard
from others, and that was the
simple. exact. whole truth. and all
I could say on the basis of what
little I knew of him."
MCCARTHY SAID:
"NOw let us pick up another
piece Of the jigsaw puzzle of Ste
venson's history. On September
% of. this year Admiral Station.
who is a holder of the Medal of
Honor. signed a statement cover
ing his experience with Stevenson
after he. Station, had been as
signed to the task of enforcing
Public Law Isl and removing the
Communists from the radios
aboard our ships.
swell. Stevenson was a special
assistant at the time in the Navy
Department. He called Admiral
Station to his Office and here's the
affidavit given to us by Station
about that meeting. 1t hasn't
been used until tonight. Let me
read Just one paragraph. He
says. On arrival Stevenson told
me that he had received six or
eight of the Communist cases
which my board had recon-
mended for removal and that he
wanted to discuss them with me.
"Still quoting the admiral:
Stevenson said that he could not
see that we had anything against
them and stated that we should
not be hard on the Communists.
The conference ended with Ste
vensOn disagreeing with our rec
concentrations to fire the Com
muniSts.'"
THE FACTS:
Rear Admiral Adolphus Sta
tons charges concerning Commu-
mist radio operators during World
War II were first published on Oc-
tober 81, 1850. in the Washington
Evening Star. The story did not
mention Adlai Stevenson. It said
that Admiral Station and other
naval officers had been called to a
meeting with Frank Knox, then
Secretary of the Navy. on May 10,
1912. According to Station, the
Star story continued. Knox read
an initiated memorandum from
President Roosevelt opposing au-
tomato dismissal of Communist
radio operators during period in
which Russia was allied with the
United States against Nazi Ger
many.
On August 7, 1852, the WASH
ington Times-Herald repeated the
Station story and added some fur
ther charges concerning events in
June. 1943. a year after the Knox
meeting. The Times-Herald quotes
Station: II received a call from
Mr.. Carey. counsel for the Cox
Representative Eugene E. Cox of
Georgia-committe of the House.
investigating the FEC in matters
related, in part, to certain aspects
of the foregoing. He asked me to
testify before the House commit
tee in preliminary private hear
ing. ] did testify in private. Soon
afterward Adlai Stevenson-then
Knox's assistant and now Demo-
cratic candidate for President
telephoned me that there were
White House orders that I should
not testify"
That was the first mention of
Adlai Stevenson. But the Times
Herald story added: "The re-
tired admiral noted Stevenson
transmitted the controversial
White House order as a member
of the Roosevelt administration.
He had to follow orders or get
out Station acknowledged, adding
bluntly: He followed orders
A story in The Evening Star,
August 7. 1852. made a SIMILAR
point about Station: 'tStaton said
he noted ;. that Gov. Stevenson
merely transmitted a message
from superiors in the department
and told him there were White
House orders not to testify"
MCCARTHY SAID:
"The Communist Daily Worker
Of February 13, 1947, reports that
Stevenson's man (Bernard) De
Voto headed a group seeking q
permit for q meeting for the wife
Of Gerhardt Eisler, the Commu-
mist who had disappeared behind
the Iron Curtain and who as of
tonight is heading up the anti
Communist (sic) group in East
Berlin.
THE FACTS:
Mr.. De Voto led a delegation
from the ti-Communist Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union in Feb
ruary 1947, protesting attempts to
ban a speech by Eisler's wife,
Neither Mr.. De Voto nor the Civil
Liberties Union had anything to
do with arranging the speech. but
tney upheld any ones right to talk
Acting Mayor John B. Kelley of
Boston concurred in their view,
and refused to revoke the license
Mr.. De Voto said october %,
1852: "I did nothing then I would
not do for Joe Mccarthy. I think
the United States will survive
both Mccarthy and the Com
munists."
MCCARTHY SAID:
"The next-One Of the men Sc
lected by Stevenson as one Of his
ghost writers-is a man jim
James Wechsler.- Wechsler and
his wife both admit-bOth admit
having been members of the
Young Communist League. :.
Some light is shed on the impOr.