Evening star., 1954-05-02

the inference was clear that this
was a picture of the two alone
and that the Secretary either had
been testifying falsely or had had
a memory lapse.
The following morning the Sec
retary's counsel, Mr.. Welch,
charged that Mr.. Jenkins had
been imposed on" in introducing
the picture, which Mr.. WEIGH called
"a doctored or altered photograph,
produced :. as if it were honest"
In his turn, Mr.. WEIGH handed up
a large picture showing Mr.. Stevens
and Pvt. Schine in the same pose
but with a third man and part Of
a fourth to Pvt. Schine's right (or
his left from the viewpoint Of one
looking at the photo). This pic
ture Mr.. Welch termed "the origi-
nal undoctored, unaltered piece of
evidence"
Mr.. jenkins made 1t clear that
he knew nothing Of the existence
OF the more extensive photo when
he introduced the first one. The
committee undertook to find out
the whole story.
Here occurred an amazing de-
velopment. Apparently the two
pictures were made from portions
Of the same Photographic negative.
But 1t was not until late Friday
afternoon, after q querulous Sh
days, that the negative ever was
placed In evidence. And even then
the point was not made, or at least
not made with any degree of force,
that neither the first nor the Sec
ond picture was a true representa-
ton Of the entire negative.
Charges Fly
But In the space of these 315
days charges and countercharges
flew. The Army side contended
that the submission (by Mr.. Cohn.
as it turned out) of the two-man
photo was shabby piece of busi-
ness designed to hoodwink tho
committee. The Mccarthy side
tried to get the idea across that
the exclusion of one man from the
picture made no real inroads on
the photos authenticity.
In the course of the lengthy
hassle over the picture, the Army
Secretary was directed to stand
aside, while the following witnesses
were called and told the following
stories:
. Mr.. Cohn, that he had SUBJ
mitted the picture in good faith.
. Pvt. Schine, that he had gone to
New York to get the picture off
his office wall and knew nothing
more about it. (This picture had
three men in it,
. Mr.. Anastos, that he had chauf-
feured Pvt. Schine and his picture
from the airport to the Senate
Office Building, and later had car
ried the picture from Mr.. Cohn's
office to the Senate caucus room,
still wrapped in its original
package.
. Mr.. Juliana, that he was the
man who, single-handedly and
without advice from any one, de-
cided to have the third man
cropped out of a photostatic en-
largement and give Counsel Jen-
kins the resulting two-man shot.
Only an hour before the hearings
recessed for the week end, the COM
mittee finally dropped the subject
of the picture and got back to the
seemingly interminable examina-
ton of Secretary Stevens.
A week had gone by, with little
added to the substantive case for
or against either side. The man
who undoubtedly got closest to the
core of the matter was Senator
Jackson, who cited the perjury STAT
ute and then, point by point.
asked the Secretary to affirm or
deny the opposition's charges.
Since the committee had set out
to determine who was lying, this
line of questioning appeared to
make as much sense as-if not
more than-anything else that
happened during the week.