Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-18

OF the UnGE statements Wuue
by the principal figures tn the
Army-McCGrthy hearings:
Senator McCarthy-The only
statement have to make. Mr..
Chairman. is very brief. We have
now finished this investigation.
There has been demonstrated, I
think, considerable irritation and
iIl-feeling at times here. Unless
we can get the four Republicans
and the three Democrats work.
ing together in this task which
/ think is important beyond
words, there isn't too much we
can do. It will be completely i'm
possible for me as the chairman
to do an effective job of digging
out the communism, corruption
and treason that our staff has
been working on unless we do
have finally at this late date
some type Of wholehearted CO.
operation between my Democrat
friends.
This is not going to be parti-
san, I assure you. I have been
very, very happy at the COM
plete wholehearted cooperation
of the Republican members on
the committee. have asked
them over the past year, more
than that. to take on very dis
agreeable jobs. In fact, I have
asked them to take on the most
disagreeable jobs, the ones that
I didn't want to do myself. They
have agreed to do that. They
have done those jobs well. I
just sincerely hope that now my
Democrat friends and can for
get about the-I don't like to
use the word bitterness" but
I think it approaches that, that
has been demonstrated here, and
that we can all get down to doing
this job.
Mcclellan Example"
Take for example Senator
Mcclellan, the ranking Demo-
crat member, and I have worked
very closely over a number Of
years, while he was chairman
and then while I was chairman.
We seem to have lost that. I
think the fact that we lost that
cooperation has been a great
damage to the country. I just
hope that we can regain it.
All I can say, as far as I
am concerned, is that I will lean
over backward, I will do every
thing humanity possible to work
with our Democrat friends so
we can have a good going
working committee which I
think we must have, Mr.. Chair
man, which I think we must
have if this Congress is to do
the job that we are supposed
to do, namely, act as the watch
dog and let the American peo-
pie know what is happening. I
think unless the American peo-
pie know what is going on, then
the Republic does not have long
to nve-period.
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Senator Mundt - The chair
on the very first day of the hear
ing read a statement in which
q line or two appeared that I
would like to reiterate now. I
said these hearings at best COM
prise an unpleasant business.
Nothing has occurred since that
date that has changed my eval-
uation of the kind of business
in which we are engaged. I
said the members Of this sub
committee are, however, resolved
to accept our individual and
collective responsibilities and do
our best to adjudicate and re-
solve this unpleasant affair. I
think that the members of the
committee each according to his
own likes, abilities and talents,
has endeavored, conscientiouSly,
to do that. The chair would say
that insofar as he is concerned,
he believes we have adduced the
essential facts that are essential
and necessary in the writing Of
a report. The chair believes that
insofar as he is concerned, the
American audience, some 20 mil
lion, we are told, on radio and
television, nobody knows how
many more millions in the press,
have followed these hearings
more carefully and more gen.
orally than any hearings ever be-
fore held on Capitol Hill.
Pledges Factual Report.
I can assure our friends in the
audience that they know what
we know, and that our report
will be based on facts which
have met the eye or hit the ear
of everybody interested in fol-
lowing the record. Insofar as the
chair is concerned, he wants for
himself to sit down quietly with
the printed record, to search out
certain statements and facts to
be pieced together along certain
chains of evidence. When those
chains of evidence have been
carefully analysed. he believes
that he will be able to do his part
in writing the report, whether
happily we can agree to have a
one-package report or whether
more realistically, perhaps, we
will find ourselves writing two
reports or perhaps different
viewpoints from different indi-
vidual members. -.
Disputed Authority.
I think, too, we should rec
ognize that we are fortunate in
this country that we can adjud-
icate a difference of this kind
openly, publicly, even though 1t
takes a tremendous amount Of
time. -.
One other thing, I think
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