Evening star., 1954-06-08
The. Political Mill
Mccarthy Moy Find.
Obstacles in Path
Administration Moving
To Block Future PIuns
By Gould Lincoln

drive toward O concluSion-perhaps-
two questions present themselves. First.
will Senator Joe Mccarthy be free to
go right ahead with his inquiries into
Communist infiltration In the Army and
the Central Intelligence Agency as he
proposes? Second. what effect will this
row between Senator Mccarthy and
the Eisenhower administration have on
the coming congressional elections?
The Wisconsin Senator may find two
obstacles in the path Of his hitherto
unchecked Investigations of the Eisen.
hover administration. Republican lead
ers In the Senate have said they expect
the permanent Senate investigating
committee to have the final say on
what investigations the committee will
undertake. and how and where, and not
Chairman Mccarthy.
Second. President Eisenhower has
issued already q strong directive re-
garding the disclosure to the Mccarthy
committee. or the Senator, Of material
which might affect the security of the
Nation. Further, 1t has been clearly
intimated the President will not stand
Tor Mccarthy Investigation of the
CAA. The C1A, Senator Mccarthy has
charged. has q serious situation, crow
ing out OF Communist infiltration. This
charge has been vehemently denied bv
Allen w. Dulles, head Of the agency
ana brother Of Secretary Of State John
Foster Dulles. The President, 1t is
said, will not retreat one inch.
Eisenhower vs.. Mccarthy.
The Army -McC Carthy row-which has
finally developed until It is a row be-
tween the President and the Wisconsin
Senator-already has driven q deep
wedge into the Republican Party. II
IL is to be followed by another row
over the proposed investigation of the
CIA, the wound may become even
deeper. Senator Mccarthy is a Re-
publican. Assuredly, he is not Demo-
crat. He spoke at Ripon, Wis. last
sunday, which claims to be the BIRTH
place Of the COP. So bitter has be-
come the feeling that Republican Ma
tlonal Chairman Leonard w. Hall has
let 1t be known the national committee
is not planning to use Senator McCar-
thy in the coming campaign.
On the other hand. Senator McCar-
thy is free, of course. to 60 into any
States or congressional districts to
speak for Republican candidates who
ask for his aid and think his support
Will help them. Supporters of Senator
Mccarthy are issuing I'm For McCar-
thy buttons, and match folders. On
the other side. stickers saying: "Ike's
Republican-Are You?" have ap-
peared. A Mccarthy Republican. tax
ing q shot at the President, sent this
out; Il protest! I am a Republican.
is Ike? The Republican National Com
ing"
Row Hurts G. or.
Republican political leaders high In
the party councils admit that the row
Is doing the G. o. p. no good. They
are glad the election is not today. They
nope that the hearings will soon be
over; that the Senate investigating
committee will tie Senator McCarthys
hands so that his future investigations
VIII not be into Government agencies.
put into industry and defense plants.
Thats their strategy. They will have
TO hogtie Senator Mccarthy to get
away with it, however.
Recent developments in the Army-
Mccarthy hearings have not lightened
the hearts Of these Republicans. They
do not hesitate to say that the Army
department. made q terrible mess of
the whole Mccarthy Cohn- -Schine af.
fair. They are sick over a Republican
secretary OF the Army calling on Demo-
cratic Senators for advice and aid in
handling Senator Mccarthy. Their
hope is that after the inquiry has been
concluded, the country will begin to
think about something else; that i'm
portant happenings will push the mem
ory OF the Mccarthy hearings into the
background, to be forgotten.
If Senator Mccarthy keeps up his
attack on the Eisenhower administra-
ton, and the President declines to let
hlm have his way, a Mccarthy charge
that the Eisenhower administration is
coddllng Communists is likely. It's
untrue, OF course. The administration
record, recently published, in getting
convictions of Communists, throwing
Communists out Of the country, is re-
markable. But the charge will be the
same as that leveled by Republicans.
including Senator Mccarthy, against
the two previous Democratic admins
trations. 1t will in considerable measure
destroy the Red issue of the G. O. p.
against Democratic candidates.
The Democrats don't like Senator
Mccarthy, but they surely like what
ne is doing to the Republican Party.