Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-28
Mr. cohn Departs

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Mr. CHIN Departs
It would be definitely premature to
bid adieu to SO young q processing
Democrat as Roy Cohn, but the
day Of his announced resignation from
the staff of committee whose chair
man is Mr.. Mccarthy Of Wisconsin,
can be only one of rejoicing. even
though he is resigning under fire!
Christian charity requires that he be
given the benefit Of the doubt, and his
resignation be considered in the light
that, as Democrat. he has suddenly
seen the error of his ways, and re-
formed! Further, he stayed so long.
in capacity Of counsellor and confidante
of MIR. Mccarthy. In the hope Of con-
verting Mr.. Mccarthy away from a
pseudo epublican heresy and back to
the Democratic Party he abandoned.
This view would lend nobility and spir-
itual quality to his conduct.
The road Of moral uplift is not easy
when the burden grows heavier the
higher one climbs. as witness the stone
bruises being suffered by Senator
Flanders in his uphill struggle back
to the pinnacle of true Republication,
up above the shelter Of the tree line
and out into the rocky open where
there is no cover. The towards never
start; the weak die on the way; the
unprincipled are uncovered and driven
out Of camp; only the strong and high
principled survive and win through.
Vermont, and Wisconsin, were eStab-
hshed and settled by the survivors
and equally viii be SO continued and
maintained. by their descendants.
The line has suddenly been drawn
in this internal struggle within our
Republic IF. there is no skirting it
now 81. !, one must, step across it or
skulk aside i. there can be tnly one
choice for an American.
Thomas Quinn BeesIey.
Anyone being pleased by Roy COINS
resignation from Senator Joseph Nc
Carthy's staff must be someone asso-
ciated directly or indirectly with a
Communist or a Radical Liberal
M. Reinhardt.
There are none so blind as those
who won't see"
flew up to Washington from Fort
Worth, Texas. Early the next morn
ing, while getting dressed, I heard
an announcement over the radio that
Roy M. Cohn had resigned. Had !
been Communist, would have re-
joiced. as no doubt The Daily Worker
and every Connie did, but. being a
patriotic American, the announcement
stunned me.
If men who devote and dedicate
their lives. toward fighting communism
are as rewarded as Roy M. Cohn has
been there seems to be little sense in
striving to maintain Our capitaliStic
system Of economy in the face of po-
litical rebuke and Communist smear
ings when the very representatives of
the Government you are fighting for.
for the sake of their political careers,
knife you in the back.
If knew of Communist who was
working for overthrow of this Govern
ment. ! would hesitate before report
ing him for fear that reprisals would
be exerted against me.
It may even develop now that mas
much as our Government has through
some of its high offices repudiated Roy
M. Cohn, The Daily Worker may
take this as an Endorsement Of re-
pudiation for all Roy NJ Cohn has
accomplished and institute charges
against the Government for the prose-
cution and execution of the Rosen-
bergs. This wouldn't surprise me. You
don't praise and indorse what man
does and then repudiate the man.
We should have more McCarthys.
Mundts and Dirksens and less Syming-
tons, McClellans and JacksonS.
C. Arthur Kinchela.
Roy M. Cohn is no longer an employee
of the United States Senate. A general
sigh Of relief can be heard up and
down Capitol corridors among other
Senate employees.
For Mr.. Cohn was just about every
thing that an employee of the Senate
should not be. Unfortunately. in the
opinion Of this writer. his short stay on
Capitol Hill did much to formulate pub
lie opinion, particularly among televi-
sion viewers, as to the work done by the
Senate committees and the caliber of
committee employees. The typical, hard
working, seldom -heard-from Senate
employe is nothing like the departed
chief counsel of the Senate Permanent
subcommittee on Investigations of the
Committee on Government Operations.
For, indeed, this young man was a
strange phenomenon within our ranks |!
In the years it has been my honor to
be an employee of the United States Sen
ate it has been my observation that my
fellow-employes. Of all political faiths.
are very fine people, an honor to their
country, and with high sense OF duty
to their Senator's, the Senate and the
United States. Most of us are inspired.
not "disillusioned," by our public serv-
ice. Mr.. Cohn asked for any bitter
lesson" he received.
There are few among us who are
sorry to see Mr.. COINS departure; there
are many among us who hope we will
not soon see his like in our midst again.
Senate Servant.