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the Ford Foundation and the
Carnegie Endowment for Inter.
national Peace were among sew
eral foundations unduly "bellig
erent" or "intemperate in casti-
eating the committee.
Mr.. Hays and Mrs. Pfost said
they not only disagreed with the
report but believed it never
should have been written and
published. They called upon
Congress to reject and repudi-
ate it.
THE hard truth is,": they
maintained. that, by the man.
ner in which the proceedings OF
the committee were conducted
and by the self-evident bias OF
the majority report. the COM
mittee has failed in the most
basic way to carry out the man
date of Congress. The results
are of no value to Congress and
1t was, therefore, a complete
waste of public money.
AS the matter now stands,
the taX-eXempt foundations of
this Nation have been indicted
and convicted under procedures
which can only be characterized
as barbaric."
Back Continuing Inquiry.
The minority members agreed
that a. continued examination of
the tax-exempt foundation situ-
alton might be desirable. But
they insisted that any such in
vestigation should get all the
facts and hear all sides so that
1.-The foundations can be re-
lieVed Of the cloud of suspicion
placed upon them by the ma
jority report"
They denounced what they
called the majority's conviction
that a continuing investigation
be made sub rosa" They as
serted that the majority report
itself was written in a dark Gel
lar" and that some of the COM
mittee staff "tampered with and
altered the corrected copy of the
hearings"
Majority criticism of the Wash
1ngton Post and Times Herald,
the New York Herald Tribune
and the New York Times,
brought this protest by the
minority:
There is an integral relation
ship between the majoritys re-
fusal to accord the foundations
a public hearing and its broad
side attack on the press of the
Nation. Those who would abuse
the rights of the individual fear
the press and rail against the
right of the press to report the
facts and criticize wrongdoing. I"
Foundations Unheard.
Public hearings ended last
summer before spokesmen for
the major foundations had an
opportunity to be heard. Most
OF them later submitted lengthy
statements which were consid-
cred by the committee and pub
llshed at the time.
THE foundations touched BY
the hearings were thus given a
fair opportunity to put their best
foot forward at the same time
that they escaped the embarrass-
ment of discrimination" the
majority said.
Noting what it described as
1.-THE extraordinary criticism that
has greeted the committees
work" the majority report as
serted that the far-reaching
power of the large foundations
and the "interlock" among them
has so influenced the press and
radio and even the Government,
that:
1T has become extremely diff
ficult for objective criticism of
foundation practices to get into
news channels without having
first been distorted. slanted. dis
credited and at times ridicuied
Nothing short of congressional
investigation could hope to bring
out the vital facts, and the pres
sure against congressional in
vestigations has been almost in
credible"
Cite Sulzbergcr Link"
AS examples of what it re-
garded as links" between some
big foundations and some news
papers, the report mentioned
that Arthur Hays Sulzberger,
publisher of the New York Times,
is on the boards of the Rookie
feller Foundation and others. It
said the New York Herald -Trib-
une was an example of the "use
of a foundation to solve the
death tax problem and the prob
lem of how to retain control of
an enterprise in the hands of
the family" through the Reid
Foundation.
The majority report said the
New York Times has bowed to
no other newspaper in the vim
dictiveneSs of its attacks on this
committee" 1t said the Herald
Tribune ''leveled quite extraordi-
narily savage attacks"
Turning to the Eugene and
Agnes E. Meyer Foundation. the
report said this was an entirely
legitimate use of foundations. 1t
added:
However, the committee has
some doubts in connection with
the close relationship of the
foundation and the Washington
Post Company ). In view of this
intimate relationship. the in
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