The Key West citizen., 1954-11-23
ors Are Puzzled Over What Mccarthy Next Move May Be
sy JACK sELL

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WASHINGTON u Is Sen. Nc.
Carthy (RWis) planning to strike
out with fresh blows at his critics
or is he ready with some sort of
retraction designed to soften the
censure charges pending against
him in the Senate:
Senators puzzled over this ques-
ton today even though Mccarthy
was refused the forum he sought
Is minutes free television time
over the National Broadcasting Co.
network on Thanksgiving Day.NBC
late yesterday turned down, with
out explanation, the senator's re-
quest.
Mccarthy himself wasn't an
swering calls placed to him by re-
porters although he posed for news
pictures yesterday with his wife
Jean at Bethesda (Md.y Naval
Hospital, where he went last week
for treatment of an injured elbow.
In his absence, the Senate is
marking time until next Monday,
with a likelihood that debate on a
censure resolution would be de-
layed beyond that date If he is not
out of the hospital.
Mccarthy was said 10 have un-
dergone minor surgery yesterday,
although there was some confu-
sion over the question perhaps
because Of different definitions Of
the word operation"
A hospital spokesman, declining
10 elaborate, said ''No operation
was performed today"
However, Mccarthy was quoted
by AL Muto, photographer for In
ternational News Photos, as saying
that doctors operated on his in
jured right elbow. TO remove
fragments of glass; and might do
90 again today.
Mccarthy has said he incurred
the injury when q well-wisher
shaking hands with him jammed
his elbow into q glass tabletop.
McCarthy's attorney Edward Ben
nett Williams said he also UNDER
stood Mccarthy had undergone
surgery yesterday and would do
20 again today. Other associates
said surgeons were probing to see
Il bits Of glass remained In the
elbow.
Muto quoted Mccarthy as say
ing he felt much relieved but didn't
think he would leave the hospital
until Monday. Muto was chosen
by lot to make pictures of McCar-
thy which subsequently were dis
tributed under a pool arrangement,
by the Associated Press, United
Press and International.
The pictures showed McCarthy's
right arm heavily bandaged from
the knuckles almost to the shoul-
der.
None Of McCarthy's aides or
close friends in the Senate pro-
fessed to know what motivated the
request to NBC for free air tirae,
made yesterday by Mrs. McCar-
thy.
Two schools Of thought devel-
oped as to what he had planned to
say, and presumably will now say
On some other occasion.
Sen. Mundt (R-SD), who headed
the Senate Invetigations subcom-
mittee when it delved into the Nc
Carthy-Army controversy, said in
an interview he thinks Mccarthy
would like to indicate a willing
ness to make some amends to SEN
ators and others he has assailed
In the past.
On the other hand, Sen. Nc
Clellan of Arkansas, top Demo-
crat on the McCarthy-'army in
quiry group, speculated that Nc
Carthy may want to rally his
friends and assure them he plans
to fight the censure movement to
the bitter end.
A six-man special committee,
headed by Sen. Watkins (R-Utah),
recommended that Mccarthy be
rebuked for alleged contemptuous
treatment of q Senate elections
subcommittee and for what the
group called "abuse" of Brig. Gen.
Ralph w. Zwicker, a witness be-
fore McCarthy's Investigations
subcommittee.
Mccarthy has predicted he viii
be censured and has said he won't
apologize.
Sen. Dirksen said, meanwhile,
severity Of McCarthy's ailment, as
Sen. Fulbright DARK has done,
doesn't realize that Mccarthy has
been under great physical strain.
He said Mccarthy has suffered
from a ruptured diaphragm which
"never completely healed" that
he has trouble with one hip and
that sinus infections for which he
has received frequent hospital
treatment may have lowered his
general resistance.
Mcclellan said. however, that
McCarthy's relayed request for air
time "is some indication that.
Chez 10 not incapacitated."
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