Evening star., 1954-05-08
Hearing
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hover administration has not
gotten rid of "the Truman black
out directive"
Instead, the subcommittee met
yesterday afternoon in closed
session and agreed that Chair
man Mundt. Republican. of
South Dakota, write a second
letter to Mr.. Brownell asking if
there are any. portions of the
Mccarthy document be believes
can go in the record. Senator
Mundt told reporters Senator
Mccarthy said he would prefer
to have Mr.. Brownell called as
a witness, but would agree to
the subcommittee procedure.
Senator Mundt said the sub
committee would defer until
after receiving Mr.. Brownell's
reply a decision on whether to
call him as a witness.
Another Decision Delayed.
The subcommittee also put
aside temporarily final de-
cision on another major issue
the monitored telephone CONVEX
sation which the Army says will
prove its charges that Senator
Mccarthy and his staff sought
preferential treatment for Pvt.
G. David Schine, former chief
staff conSultant to the subcom-
mittee.
Both sides of the controversy
have been asked to make tram
scripts of all monitored conver-
sations available so that the
subcommittee can determine
which should go into the record
as evidence. Senator Mccarthy
has indicated he is ready with
his. However. the Army's law
yers failed to appear at yester-
days meeting, and therefore the
matter had to be put over.
Fridays public hearing. con-
fined to a. morning session so
that Senators could be present
in the Senate to vote on Taft
Hartley labor law reviSionS dur
ing the afternoon, was devoted
principally to the major charges
before the subcommittee - the
Army's charge of preferential
treatment for Pvt. Schine, and
Senator McCarthy's counter
charge that the Army had sought
to use Pvt. Schine as a "hoS-
tage" to halt the Senator's in
vestigation of security risks at
Fort Monmouth.
Senator Mundt said he thought
this session of the hearing "ac-
compliShed more than any other
session" Of the IL days to date,
because they stuck to the
charges"
Stevens Repeats Charge.
Under intensive crosS-exami-
nation by Senator Mccarthy and
his chief counsel, Roy M. Cohn,
Army Secretary Stevens again
testified. as he has several times
before, that he felt threatened"
when Mr.. Cohn told Army Gen.
eral Counsel John Adams that
unless Pvt. Schine got special
treatment Mr.. Cohn would
wreck" the Army and Mr.. Stew
ems would be through" as Sec
retary.
Senator Mccarthy, on the
other hand. sought to bring out
again one of his main points:
Senator McCarthy-Mr. Sec
retary, much as I dislike taking
this additional time on a private
who got successfully promoted by
you to the point that he is a pri-
vate, think in view of your
charges regarding him we should
go into that. Do you know what
AAAo AotAAA6 was 1lC WAS
promoted to private? Is there
anything lower than a private
in the Army? I mean in rating.
I don't mean any other way. Is
there any rating lower than the
rating of private?
Secretary Stevens-No. Pri-
vate.
Senator McCarthy-As long as
it didn't interfere with his train
ing. do you think that was spe-
cial consideration given to the
private?
Secretary Stevens-I definitely
do.
COhn's Father Mentioned.
Senator Mccarthy also sought
to diSprove another assertion in
the Army'S charges-that on
one occasion Mr.. Cohn was much
disturbed at the way Pvt. Schine
was being treated.