Evening star., 1954-04-04

News reports quoted him as
saying he had a list of 205 per-
sons, Communists and SO known
to the Secretary of State, who
were working in the State De-
partment. He says he said 81
who would appear to be either
card carrying members or GER
tainly loyal to the Communist
Party"
Truth seems lost in a maze of
conflicting statements; the only
recording of the speech appears
to have been erased soon after
he spoke.
In any event Senator McCar-
thy went ON from there to the
| more shocking claim that a
monstrous conspiracy" was al
lowed to develop in the United
States. He accused men in high
places, and men of greater pres
tige. Later. he was to speak OF
100 years of treason"
| His following grew apace.
He has grown in strength in
spite of severe and unremitting
attacks on most of the things
he says and does. Senator
Mccarthy says the attacks do
not bother him, and his actions
indicate this.
AS he said in a recent speech,
referring to his critics. Il don't
give a tinker's damn how high
or how low-how high or how
low in either the Republican or
Democratic Party how un-
happy about our method. This
fight is going to go on as long
as ! am in the United States
Senate" j"
He Has Many Methods.
His admirers like to hear
this from him. In their letters
they tell him. you've got CUTS"
The great source of opposition
to him stems from criticism of
his methods. His reply: "Show
me a better method"
Senator Mccarthy has many
methods. It is difficult. there
fore. to single out any one case
and call it completely typical.
However, the case of Theodore
Kaghan illustrates some of the
factors that have stirred white
hot feeling against Senator
Mccarthy.
Mr.. Kaghan came to New
York in his early 20's from the
University of Michigan. He had
won five prizes for writing plays
in college. His ambition now
was to write professionally.
In the years Immediately prior
to 1899 he admitted having
shared an apartment with a
man he assumed" was a Com
| munist, signing a nomination
petition for a Communist cam
didate in an election, attending
Communist meetings, and writ
| ing some plays that could be
called radical"
In 1945, he went to Austria as
an information officer. He was
there eight years. In his last post
he was deputy director of the
Office of Public Affairs of the
United States High Commis-
sioner in Germany. He handled
news, information and propa-
ganda and came home with i'm
pressive testimonials to his eff
cheney, ability and anti-commu-
IliSm.
One of them, from the Austri-
an Chancellor Leopold Figl. ex-
pressed astonishment over his
appearance before Senator Nc
Carthy. and recalled. among
other testimonials, that he had
risked his life fighting commu-
nism in Austria.
Kaghan Case Cited. "
Another, from the late Ernst
Reuter-, mayor of West Berlin.
told him:
II know how decisively you
have always acted to further true
Democratic interests and how
You decisively fought every
Communist undertaking."
Senator Mccarthy, however,
examined Mr.. Kaghan extern
sively on his background"
years of his youth in New York.
Senator Mccarthy asked him to
give some concrete proof of "re-
FORM" and suggested that nam
ing the people Mr.. Kaghan knew
to be Communists during this
period could be considered evil
dence of a change of heart.
Mr.. Kaghan refused on the
ground that he could not say,
with certainty, who was a Com
munist and who was not. He said
he did not want to run the risk
of injuring anybody.
He offered his work in Europe
as the best proof of his anti
Communist sentiments.
His plays came in for con-
siderable attention.
Senator Mccarthy read pas
sages spoken by Communist
characters in the plays. Mr.
Kaghan countered with passages
from the anti-Communist char
acters. Senator Mccarthy con-
tended that the anti-Communist
arguments were weak" and that
the Communists always won. Mr.
Kaghan said it was just the other
way around. And so on.
OF that period in his life, he
told Senator Mccarthy:
II had a case of political
chicken pox then, which I think
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