Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02
Senators toQuiz
Sears on Views
On Mccarthy
Probe Counsel Faces
Inquiry on Remarks
Pruising Red Hunter
BY Cecil Holland

BY Cecil Holland
Investigating Senators found
themselves with a new problem
on their hands today in the
selection of Samuel P. Sears of
Boston as special counsel for
the inquiry into the controversy
between Senator Mccarthy and
the Army.
They said they would ask Mr..
Sears, So, a Harvard educated
lawyer, for an explanation of
statements praising Senator Nc
earthly and whether he still feels
he can conduct IAN impartial
investigation" involving the Wis
consin Republican.
The members of the Senate
Investigating subcommittee said
they knew nothing of these ut
terances when they selected Mr..
Sears yesterday to end two
week search for counsel that had
delayed the investigation.
The explanation will be sought
when Mr.. Sears, three times
president Of the Massachusetts,
Bar Association, meets here with
the subcommittee Monday to
discuss rules for the investiga-
ton. Mr. Sears, who flew back
to Boston after a meeting here
yesterday with the subcommit-
tee. said on his arrival there he
feels he has mot done anything
that would disqualify me-"
Denies Taking Stand.
At a news conference here
when his appointment was an
nounced, Mr.. Sears was asked if
he had ever taken a stand on
Senator Mccarthy or "McCar-
thyism."
mot publicly and not pri-
Vately," he replied.
Subsequently. it developed:
l. Mr.. Sears told a Boston
newspaper after Senator Nc
Carthy's reelection in November,
1852, that the Wisconsin Repub-
lican has done a great job and
will continue to do so as he
drives the 'pinks and Commies'
out of the Government"
2. Files of the Harvard Grim
son, undergraduate newspaper,
revealed that Mr.. Sears, then
head of the Massachusetts, bar,
apparently sought to start a 1852
fund drive in behalf of Senator
Mccarthy as a protest against
an anti-McCarthy Embarrassing
campaign staged by three Har-
ward professors. The Crimson
quoted Mr.. Sears as saying, 81
feel that attempts to defeat SEN
ator Mccarthy are ill-advised."
Sears Debate Cancelled.
3. Only three weeks ago, Mr..
Sears was scheduled to defend
Senator Mccarthy in a debate
at the Columbus Forum in BoS-
ton against Rabbi Joseph S.
Shubow of the Temple B'Nai
Moshe. the question being rs
Senator Mccarthy an Influence
for Good or Evil?" The debate
was Cancelled for reasons not
given.
4. The Boston Herald said that
Mr.. Sears. in a public debate
last fall, said: "If Kidding the
Government of hundreds of
traitors, if bringing home to the
American people the threat of
communism is called Mccarthy
ism, then I am glad it has a
place in the dictionary. I
wonder sometimes if the smears,
vilification and barrage of let
tiers to the press directed at one
Mccarthy who is American
enough to stand up for the coun-
try we know and love are not
part of the Soviet system. Ger
tainly if not part, they are just
what the Red doctor ordered"
5. The news of his selection
took Massachusetts lawyers by
surprise and one of them, Mark
De Wolfe Howe. Harvard law
professor, once criticized by Mr..
Sears for seeking the defeat of
Senator Mccarthy, called the
appointment incredible"
6. Two weeks ago Mr.. Sears
expressed to a Massachusetts,
member of the House his in
tereSt in the appointment and
his name was forwarded to the
Senate subcommittee through
Senator SaltonStall, Republican,
of Massachusetts,. Subcommittee
members said they were not
aware of this.
Members of the subcommittee
indicated they were particularly
interested in having Mr.. Sears
reconcile his news conference
statement that he had never
taken a stand on Senator Nc
earthly or "McCarthyism" with
the later revelations.
Potter Expects Impartiality.
Senator Potter, Republican, of
Michigan, subcommittee mem
Der, said he had mo reason to
doubt" that Mr.. Sears would
be impartial. But he added that
the public is entitled to renewed
assurances in view of the re-
ports that Mr.. Sears had praised
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