Evening star., 1954-11-30
Jenner Delivers
Personal Attack
On Senator Flanders
Continued From First Page.)


He speculated that the greet
ing which he said ''has so many
of the earmarks of the peaceful
co-existence propaganda" may
have been prepared by the Com
mittee for an Effective Congress.
The committee, has helped Sem
ator Flanders in the censure.
fight.
Senator Flanders interrupted
to suggest that Senator Jenner
was not aware that he put his
speech in the Senate record, and
he accused the Indiana Senator
of not having read it.
Flanders Shouts Back.
II have read it," Senator Jen-
ner shouted. II want to know
what justification the Senator
from Vermont had for making
that speech. BY what reasoning,
by what process of mind, by
what course of twisted think
ing, did the Senator refer to
those tryants, those murderers.
as my friends, my Soviet BROTH
ers?'"
1.-THE Senator from Indiana is
beside himself" shouted back
Senator Flanders.
Il am not beside myself. but
I want to know what goes on in
the United States Senate" Sem
ator Jenner answered.
"The Senator has taken leave
of his intelligence" Senator
Flanders replied. IF he had
read the message. if he had
understood it :"
Il have read it," doomed Sen
ator Jenner. waving his fist at
his colleague. "Will the Senator
answer my question"
"Just a minute" Senator Flan-
ders said.
Answer My Question :"
Answer my question" de-
manded the. Indiana Senator
loudly. why did the Senator
refer to the Communist tyrants
as my friends, my Soviet broth
ers?' Will the Senator from
Vermont answer that simple
question:"
"The Senator gives me no time
to do so," Senator Flanders said
"He constantly interrupts. Let
me say that that message, as any
one who has not taken leave of
his intelligence would see, was
an appeal to the people of Rus
sia over the government that
rules them"
MY intelligence is my own"
snapped Senator Jenner. 1T
does not come from an organiza-
ton called The Committee for
an Effective Congress-
Senator Flanders then eX-
planned that he had first pre-
pared his message to the Russian
people two years ago and had
been trying ever since "to get it
across to the people of Russia"
Says Script Was Changed. /.
/. He said that in editing his
message, those in charge Of the
VOA had replaced the words
Russian people" with a refer
ence to Soviet people" He
added that this wording was not
in his script but that he had
accepted it.
Whose script was it that was
not yours?" demanded Senator
Jenner. "Who wrote it?" i
II wrote it two wears ago."
Senator Flanders replied. -
"At a time when our boys
were freezing and dying in Ko-
rea you still referred to my
friends. my Soviet friends
Senator Jenner shouted: Why?
Senator. tell this body why?"
Senator Flanders then said
he was asking every Senator to
read his Thanksgiving message
and "pass his own judgment on
It,"
"I've passed mine on it, -
shouted Senator Jenner, as he
sat down.
Senator Brown, appointed to
succeed the late Democratic
Senator McCarran of Nevada,
quoted Senator McCarran-and
agreed with him-as saying that
censure of Senator Mccarthy
would violate the Federal Con-
stitution.
It was his first speech to the
Senate, where he will serve only
until next January 3.
McCarran Friend and Rival.
Senator Brown, although a
political opponent of the late
Senator McCarran in Nevada
told the Senate that he was a
personal friend and talked with
him about the censure resolu-
tion only a short time before his
sudden death last month.
IF that great constitutional
lawyer were here today" Sena-
tor Brown said, II know he
would take part in this debate
and look through the purported
issues beyond personalities and
seek out the great constitutional
problems involved" d.
He related that, in his last
conversation with Senator Nc
Carran, the late Senator warned
that if the Senate voted censure
1t would create two major un-
fortunate results. One of these
Senator Brown quoted Senator
McCarran as saying, would be
to "relegate to the Senate q
judicial power not given to II
under the Federal Constitution
The second result, he said
would be to limit the powers o1
the Senate, under the Constitu-
ton, to make Investigations nee.
essary to assist the Senate ir
legislating. u