Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-02
Senator's Plan 10 Quiz
Sears on His Views
About Mccarthy
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Senator McCarthy's fight on
communism.
: Senator Jackson, Democrat, OF
Washington. one of three SUBJ
committee members who picked
Mr.. Sears, also said he wanted
that done. Senator Mundt, Re-
publican. Of South Dakota, who
will preside at the public hear
ings to explore the controversy
said such assurances had been
given the subcommittee by Mr.
Sears before the appointment
was announced.
Both Senators Mundt and Nc
Clellan of Arkansas, ranking
Democrat of the subcommittee,
expressed doubt that anything
Mr.. Sears has said in the past
would indicate that he had any
prejudice in the current contro-
versy. They added Mr.. Sears
had assured them he had taken
no position on the row between
Senator Mccarthy and the Army
officials.
Asked if there was any dis
position to reconsider the Sears
appointment. Senator Mundt
said It don't think So"
Appointment Denounced.
However, Americans for Dem
ocrstic Action dashed out at the
appointment. saying:
THE integrity of the Senate
has been jeopardiZed by this OBJ
Vious first step to whiteWaSh
Senator Mccarthy. Mr.. Sears
public record of praise and sup
port of Mccarthy disqualifies
him on grounds of both ethics
and objectivity"
The investigation is faced
with the task of determining
who is lying in the Mccarthy
Army controversy. The Army
has accused Senator Mccarthy
and Roy M. Cotn, regular SIb-
committee counsel. of eXerting
pressure on it to obtain favored
treatment for G. David Schine,
former unpaid subcommittee
consultant and now an Army
private.
Senator Mccarthy and Mr..
Cohn. denying this, counter
charged in turn that Secretary
of the Army Stevens and John
G.. Adams. Army counsel, used
"blackmail" tactics in efforts to
head off an investigation of
Communists in the Army. They
said the Army officials sought to
turn the investigation to the
Navy. Air Force and Defense De-
partment, a charge Mr.. Stevens
called fantastic"
Mr.. Sears, stocky individual
with thinning hair and wisp
of a moustache. who always
sports bow tie, told reporters
he is Republican and a Uni
tartan. E
His first public defense of
Senator Mccarthy, according to
the files of the Boston news
papers. came on November, 9.
1852. just after the election which
saw the Wisconsin Republican
returned to Office. He said the
results proved that three. Har-
attacked Harvard on the Com
munist issue.
In New York, where he is re-
ported under treatment for virus
ward professors who had sought
Senator McCarthy's defeat
should stay in the classroom.
The three we're ProfS. Howe.
Arthur M. Schlesinger. ST.. his
torian, and Archibald MacLeiSh,
poet and former Librarian of
Congress.
Declaring he spoke as Re-
publican, Mr.. Sears was quoted
as saying he wouldn't be sur
prised if the actions of the three
professors had helped rather
than hurt Senator Mccarthy In
praiSing Senator Mccarthy, Mr..
Sears was reported as saying:
He won't sleep on the job
until he has finally accomplished
his aims. Why. there would be
200 more Communists in the
, Government if it wasn't for Sem
ator Mccarthy"
Tried to Raise Funds.
In the Boston newspaper in
terview, and also with the Har-
ward Crimson, Mr.. Sears was re-
ported as saying he undertook
to counter the fund raising drive
OF the Harvard professors, which
collected $4,000. by sponsoring
one of his own in favor of SEN
ator Mccarthy.
when I learned of the anti.
Mccarthy fund drive" the Grim
son reported him as saying, 81
chased the Senator all over Wis
conSin trying to reach him be-
cause wanted to start a fund
drive in his behalf. feel that
attempts to defeat Senator Nc
Carthy are ill-advised and that
the three Harvard professors
were barking up the wrong tree
in trying to defeat him."
Mr.. Sears, noted as a trial at
torney. has been carrying on a
little war of his own with Har-
ward, although he took both his
college and law degrees there,
Attacked University.
He took a leading part in the
attacks of some Harvard alumni
another was John Fox. f1nan-
cier and publisher of the Boston
Post-against the university be-
cause four faculty members who
invoked the fifth amendment
before congressional committees
were retained.
And back in 1851, Mr.. Sears
told the university to clean
house" and stop encouraging