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authority in the Department
of Defense of the United
States. AS understand what
Senator Mccarthy has said,
these grave charges are not
being withdrawn except for
the fact that the President Of
the United States has issued a
directive which makes it i'm
possible to get the truth. I
don't see how that could be
known until and unless Mr..
Hensel defended these charges.
In his position he probably
has as much or more to say
in the Department of Defense
which. incidentally, is not
the Department of the Army
with respect to the spending
of billions and billions of dol
lars, and it has been said, and
I believe in complete justif1-
cation. that a public Office is
a public trust. He was ap-
pointed by the President of the
United States to this high Of
flee. I have no reason to think
that he is guilty in any way of
the charges that have been
made against him. but join
with my colleagues that to dis
miss these charges at this time
and leave this man as the No.
/ legal man in the Defense
Department of the United
States, where everybody is
looking for corruption and
problems, and leaving hanging
over him these charges, to me
is just unbelievable.
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Mr.. Bryan - The learned
Senator from Missouri has just
advanced what to me is one
of the most extraordinary
theories that have ever
heard advanced in an Ameri-
can public hearing. That
theory is, apparently, that
when charges are made against
some one and those charges
are unSubstantiated, he has
the burden of proving him
self innocent. That is a new
one to me.
For over a thousand years
of Anglo-Saxon law. We have
proceeded on the theory that
a man was innocent until proof
was brought forward that he
was guilty. I cannot believe
that the Senator from Mis-
souri, really meant to advance
any such theory before the
American people.
Senator Symington Mr..
Chairman, I would like to
continue the colloquy just to
this extent: I deeply regret
having shocked this eminent
counsel and delightful gentle
man from New York. want to
say that in turn he has deeply
shocked me, and I hope when
I am ever represented by a
counsel and am innocent. that
the counsel agrees to give me
a chance to prove my inno-
cence before the people. A
lot of people think that-four
to-three voting will be COM
plete vindication. For a public
servant, ! do not agree. For
the first time, I am beginning
TO worry about whether or not
this committee was the right
committee before which these
charges should have been
presented. I remember that
the chairman himself con-
sistently stated that it was
not and that he preferred not
to be a judge in this case. I
would like to respectfully re-
mind him Of that, as he decides
to cast his vote. But I want
to say that based on the many
years that I spent in the
Pentagon, it wouldn't be pos
Sible, in my opinion, for Secre-
tary Hensel to operate on the
basis he must operate on in the
best interest of the security
of the United States unless
these charges are brought up.
Therefore, I would like to say,
with great respect to my COL
leagues on this committee, that
if there is to be a whitewash-
ing of these charges and put
ting them under the rug before
the charges are even listened
to, and before Mr.. HenSel, who,
I believe, is a great American,
has the opportunity to answer
the charges, I shall take the
matter to the floor Of the SEN
ate and shall alS0 recommend