Evening star., 1953-01-05
Ferguson Expected
To Lead Search for
More Reds in u. n.
BY the Assoelcssd Press

Senator Ferguson, Republican,
of Michigan, will head q Sen
ate Investigations subcommittee
task force" hunting for Com
munists in the Government and
the United Nations, well-placed
sources said today.
The sources, refusing to be
named, said Senator Williams,
Republican, of Delaware, may
abandon his lone-wolf role as a
sleuth for scandals in the In
ternal Revenue Bureau to head
another of the groups task
forces which will investigate
that agency.
The informants said an
nouncement that Senator Fergu-
son will take the post will sig
nal the official decision to shift
the Senate's Communist in
vestigation out of the hands of
the Internal Security subcom-
mittee" on which the Michigan
Senator was the senior Repub-
lican member
The Investigations and In
ternal Security subcommittee
have been vying for assignment
as the Nations official Red
hunters.
Mccarthy Heads Group.
Senator Mccarthy, Republi-
can, Of Wisconsin, who will head
the Investigations subcomlnit-
tee. and Senator Ferguson tcld a
reporter it was too soon to make
any announcements.
But it was learned that SEN
ator Ferguson has decided to
quit the Judiciary Committee,
parent of the Internal Security
group. and join both the Senate
Foreign Relations and Govern
ment Operations Committee. The
Investigations subcommittee is
branch of the latter.
Under Senator Mccarthy, the
subcommittee's tax force method
would assign various members to
specific Investigations
However, Senator McCarran,
Democrat. of Nevada predicted
last night that the Internal Sc
curity subcommittee which he
headed in the last Congress, will
have more questions to ask the
State Department about its 10y
atty check of Americans en-
ployed by the United Nations.
Senator McCarran contended
in a statement that information
from the department itself shows
that loyalty to the United States
was a secondary issue-if con-
sidered at all-in such checks
Senator McCarran's statement
was based on a State Depart
ment memorandum dealing with
secret arrangements made in
1949. The arrangements gov
erned how the department would
fill U. N. requests for data on
United States citizens employed
by or applying for jobs with
the. U. N.
Copies of the memo. as distri-
buted by Senator McCarran,
said in part:
THE department will decide
whether any information of a
derogatory character is of suffi-
cient substance to warrant the
conclusion that the individual
would appear to be so disposed,
through political affiliation or
sentiment, as to be a poor risk
in terms of adherence to his
oath as an international civil
servant. and to therefore con-
stitute a probable source Of fu-
ture injury to the U. NJ"
Hits at Standard.
This standard, Senator Nc
Carran protested, "at least rele-
gates the national security of
the United States to a secondary
position, if it does not in fact
ignore entirely the question of
United States security"
He called it startling, to say
the least" in view of testimony
from State Department officials
that, in such cases, prime con-
sideration was given to America s
interest.
Another State Department
document, Senator McCarran
said, showed Alger Hiss had
initial control over selection of
employees of the United States
delegation Recent Communist
probes have been aimed at U N
staff members, but not at en-
ployes of the American delega-