Evening star., 1953-06-21
Lehman Condemns
'McCarthYism,' Asks
Eisenhower 10 Act :
BY the Asseeiofed Press

MILWAUKEE,, June 20.-Sen-
ator Lehman, Democrat, of New
York. in a gloves-of attack on
'McC Carthyism." said tonight he
prayed President Eisenhower will
'give US at long last the leader
ship we seek in offering battle
to the force Of ignorance and
inquiSition."
The New Yorker, who fire.
quently has tangled in the Sen
ate with Senator Mccarthy. Re-
publican. of Wisconsin, made his
remarks in a speech prepared for
q JefferSon-JackSon Day dinner
OF Democrats.
Senator Lheman said the ad-
herents of "McCarthyism" and
communism have the same tell
tale marks" and pictured both
as forces Of repression and evil,
capitalizing on fear and inse-
curity.
Hits State Department.
He said the State Department
had yielded to ''the grand in
quiSitors" on important issues
and he called this "shoddy and
lacking in courage"
He said he was glad that Gen.
Eisenhower "at long last" had
spoken out against book burners,
adding he wished him God-speed
'if he has chartered a new course
Of opposition to these threats to
our national life"
But words must be backed by
actions. Senator Lehman said in
calling on the Eisenhower ad-
miniStration to stand firm
against the inroads and depreda-
tions Of the irresponsibiles, the
forces of neo-isolation, of fear
and smear"
Gen. Eisenhower urged Dart
mouth College students last Sun
day not to join the book-burners
but at a subsequent news con-
ference, when asked if he was
referring to Senator Mccarthy,
he replied he never dealt in per-
Sonalities. He sanctioned the
burning Of any books in the
United States libraries abroad
which try to make converts to
Communism.
Senator Mccarthy, chairman of
. the Senate Investigations sub
comhaittee, has charged that
$4,000 volumes of Communist or
fellow-traveling authors were in
libraries run by the State De-
partment as part of its overseas
information program and had
demanded they be removed.
i Administration Yielding.
Referring to this in citing
examples of what he called ad-
ministration yielding under the
threats and proddings Of these
irresponsibles in Congress and
elsewhere" Senator Lehman,
said: II
I'VE have seen the State De-
partment's information centers
abroad engage in shameful book.
burnings, frantically removing
from their shelves books whose
authors do not happen to meet
the criteria laid down by the
little man from Wisconsin and
his fellow travellers"
Senator Lehman said "McCar-
thyiSIn" not only threatens civil
liberties, human rights and
dignity and orderly processes Of
government at home but also
subjects our foreign policy to
unbearable strain. frightens our
Allies and degrades our national
prestige and standing abroad"
He also asserted that ''the
hySterica1 activities Of the grand
inauisitors" make it impossible
for the President and the State
Department to carry on foreign
negotiations with the freedom
they should have. .
Referring to Senator McCar-
thy by name, Senator Lehman
said he "is undoubtedly the
leader and front-runner" of
backward-looking forces that
have joined ranks with those
concerned with gaining power.
They have little concern for
the real Communist threat" the
New Yorker added, "and are
quite ready to adopt the evil
means Of Communist strategy
in order to gain for themselves
the privilege Of power"
While Senator Lehman de-
scribed the Wisconsin Republi-
can as the front-runner for these
elements, he said "the devil in
this case is not a single individ-
ual but the entire spirit of evil
which broods over our land"
He said fear is the essential
element of this spirit, adding
that this fear has been whipped
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