Evening star., 1954-06-06

corded telephone talks, made
public By Senator Mccarthy
betDeen htnsseIt and Secre-
tGrv> OF the Army StevenS
Which Senator Mccarthy says
iOtI be offered in evidence at
the Arny-McCGrthy hearings.
OSenGtor Mccarthy said that
as he understands it, fue dots
or dGSheS in the tert indicate
omissions OF tUords or SEN
tences BY the stenogrGpher
tDIto nlonitored the call.
Also omitted from the No
Dember 7 tert is a sentence
Which Senator Mccarthy said
he wiH ask the Subconmitte
not to make public. lest it
eRtbGrrGsS a third party. He
said it pould shed no light on
the controversy under inquiry.
Z November 1853 - 1919
p. Nj. - Senator Mccarthy
phOned Secretary Stevens:
Senator McCarthy-Bob, did
that work out all right to your
satisfaction yesterday?
Mr.. Stevens-Yes. it did,
Joe. And I appreciate your
taking a very broad view OF
the thing.
Senator McCarthy-We both
have the same interest, and
we both are working at the
same job.
Mr.. Stevens-I was worried
at first, but the way 1t wound
= up I was satisfied with it and
I want to thank you.
Senator McCarthy-I would
like to ask you one personal
favor. For Gods sake, don't
put Dave in service and assign
him back to my committee.
From three StandpointS: One.
I couldn't get away with any
more than a week. The news
papers would be back on us,
and you would have to send
him back into uniform any
way. Two: this thing has been
running along so cleanly so
far they have not been able
to beat your brains out. There
is nothing the left . wingers
would like better. They don't
like this cooperation between
the committee and the Army.
And the third thing, they
would say I asked for him.
He is a good boy. but there is
nothing indispensable about
him. From my desk today I
can pick up letters from, per-
haps a. half dozen letters from
mothers whose boys are in
worse shape than Dave; and
1t would be embarrassing if
held to me. If he could get of
week endS-Roy-it is one of
the few things I have seen
him completely unreasonable
about. He thinks Dave should
be a general and work from
the Penthouse of the Waldorf.
(Senator Mccarthy said the
dashes before and after the
word Roy" indicate the steno-
grapher did not copy down
some words or sentences. He
said he will testify that what
was omitted was his account Of
a vigorous argument he had
had with Roy Cohn about the
work load around the Subcom-
mittee. tF&
(Senator Mccarthy said Mr..
Cohn had insisted he needed
more help from MIR. Schine
than week ends would permit
in the writing of reports on
the subcommittee investigation
OF the United States informa-
ton program).
Mr.. StevenS-That is where
my problem has come from,
right from the start. You never
have done or said anything
that Spurred me on on this
situation at all, other than to
take a friendly interest.
'Adjectives' Withheld.
Senator Mccarthy. Take
that into consideration and ask
that he be Immediately as
signed. Roy was next to quit
ting the committee. He thought
] had gone back on the COM
mittee.
(Here is omitted the SEN
tence Senator Mccarthy said
he will ask the subcommittee
not to make public, as it with
held some "adjectives" Fri
day from the texts of conver-
sations between Senator Sym
ington, Democrat of Missouri
and Mr.. Stevens.)
Mr.. Stevens-I would rather
not tell anybody anything.
And as far as what you have
said. I am not going to do any
thing except to have him 60
through the regular thing
maybe a week end here or
there, or something of that
kind. Actually on the two
week thing. I said I had per-
Sonally arranged this thing be-
cause I wanted him to be avail
able to help your committee
get along further with this
thing. .. That is the way the