Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-10
Senator Humphrey
Saws ADA Preceded
Mccarthy as Red Foe
BY the Associated Press

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Humphrey, Democrat of Mime
sofa, said today the Americans
for Democratic Action fought
communism in America long be-
fore" Senator Mccarthy, Repub-
lican of Wisconsin, and before
it became fashionable for let
of politicians to do So"
Long before Junior Senator
from Wisconsin found his way in
Wheeling, w. Va, we had in
f1icted great and decisive defeats
on the Communists in the United
States" Senator Humphrey told
the ADA's national convention.
Senator Mccarthy. in
speech at Wheeling in 1850,
had said there we're "a stable
number of Communist" H. the
State Department.
I'VE had simultaneously rail-
lied millions of our countrymen
to the support of those programs
of resistance to Communist ag-
erosion such as the Truman
doctrine and the Marshall plan
which may some day be re-
membeled as the turning points
in the annals of our century,"
Senator Humphrey said.
Two edged Fight.
Senator Humphrey. in pre-
pared address for the conven-
tons second day, said that in
1916. when the ADA was
founded, I'VE had to fight both
isolationists and Communists"
But the distinguishing fact
about the isolationists of 1854"
he added, ''is that they pretend
to be the leaders of nti-commu-
nism and the saviorS of our lib
erty.
What they have actually sue
ceeded in doing to an appalling
degree is to divert our national
attention from the clear and
present danger of Soviet agrees
sion. to undermine the respect
we once held in the world COM
munity of free men, and to stif1e
the processes of national debate
through which a great democ-
racy should be confronting the
desperate issues of our time.
AT a moment when all our
national wisdom should be en-
ployed in the quest for Solu-
tions to the awesome terrors of
the hydrogen-age, we find our
selves plunged into venomous
and often irrelevant fratricidal
conflicts that dishonor and de-
base our traditions.
I'VE are compelled to spend
so much time challenging the
big lie that we seem to have lit
tie chance to search for the
basic truths that might help
lead mankind out of the present
world impaSse. Worst of all, at
an hour when we should be ex-
alting the institutions of free
dom, we are allowing them to
be furnished by this madness of
know nothingness."
Smear Attack Assailed.
Senator Humphrey told the
delegates to the ADA, a liberal
political group not affiliated with
any party, that I'VE in ADA
abandon any spirit of defensive
ness in the face of continuing
smear attack against our or
ganization."
Some of the 600 delegates
representing a claimed member
ship of $4,000 yesterday sug-
gested recommending policy
statement opposing the tactics
of Senator Mccarthy. who is
chairman of the Senate InveSti-
cations subcommittee
Senator Lehman, Democrat, of
New York, said in a letter to Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, ADA honorary
chairman, last night that Senator
Mccarthy is relatively u'inl-
portant as a man and that SEN
ator McCarthy's power is waning.
1T is the forces which he
(Senator Mccarthy represents
that have made him the threat
to our civil liberties" Senator
Lehman said.
Contending Senator McCar-
thy's power is waning, Senator !
Lehman said however that the
forces behind Senator Mccarthy
still, are strong.
Must Overcome Hysteria.
"These forces must be OPP
posed" Senator Lehman said.
THE motley assembly of groups
who comprise these forces must
be opposed The underlying ele-
ments of public fear and hysteria
which give opportunity to these
forces must be overcome. This