Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-19


Republican, of Vermont is
planning to address the Senate
on his resolution cenSMring
Senator Mccarthy, Republic
can, of Wisconsin. This 1oiH
be a privileged resolution, not
subject to committee action
and not requiring delay before
the Senate acts upon it.
Senator Flanders released
the following teri of his Tues
day speech for publication to-
day 1Dith the explanation that
he a0GntS his colleagues and
the public to understand his
reasoning before time for ac-
ton on his resolution.
The objective of the junior
Senator from Vermont in re-
cent speeches and motions has
been to end the harmful in
f1uence of the junior Senator
from Wisconsin in the affairs
Of the Senate, the Nation, and
the world. His activities have
not always been harmful. He
has done some useful work in
his chosen field of hunting out
Communists but this has been
greatly overadvertiSed and
overestimated.
For evidence of this I would
call the attention of the Senate
to the series of articles which
appeared last week in the
Scripps-Howard newspaper under
the byline of Frederick Woltrnan.
The material which Mr.. Volt
man presents is factual and is
taken from the record.
While my purpose is to end
the harmful influence referred
to, it is conceivable that the
Senator might do this on his
own account by probably an
nouncing a complete change OF
method and policy. That OPP
portunity has been offered in
a spirit of Christian charity.
In the absence of such a public
statement we must proceed to
whatever means may best be
devised for keeping him from
continuing in the future the
damage which he has done in
the past.
Many times the Junior Sen
ator from Vermont has been
asked why do you raise these
matters now? Why did you not
raise them long ago instead Of
at the end of crowded session
of Congress?
The answer to that is that I
have long been uneasy with
regard to this matter and it
was the accumulation of I'M
easiness which led me to make
my first speech on this subject
on the floor of the Senate on
March 9 as reported on Page
2726 of the Congressional
Record.
From that time on, however,
events and evidences have ac-
cumulated and particularly
have been falling into patterns
of a most disturbing sort. Per-
hapS a better way of explain
ing it is to say that the figure
of the Senator has been fitting
into a series of frames which
will now proceed to describe.
The first frame is that of the
history of civilizations and our
own civilization in particular,
and leads to the reasonable
speculation that ours has
passed through it's maturity
and is approaching it's end. Let
me say at once that this is a
personal opinion.
I DO not expect others to
join in this thought with me
unless they too have been
studying the life history of /,
civilization in the works of
such historians as Flinders
Petrie, Oswald Spengler and
Arnold Toynbee.
Death or Continuing Decay? .
These authors arrange the
facts of history in different
ways and give it different in
terpretationS. All three, how
ever, agree that civilizations
are born, go through a period
of youth, come to maturity,
and then decline into an old
age which ends in death or
continuing decay.
In particular Arnold Toyn-
bee expresses the conviction
that all civilizations end in a
time of troubles through which
none has successfully passed.
We seem to be in our Une of
troubles now. One of the
aspects of the time of troubles
of our country is that, willy
nilly,. our country exercises the
leadership of the world during
this period of crisis. 1t should
SO act that the world looks to
it with confidence and support
for leadership. This is the
frame. What picture shall we
put within it?
We put within it a picture OF
confusion in leadership to
which the Senator from Wis
consin has made a major con-
tribution. The picture is that
of the Senator's two assistants
--MeSSrS. Cohn and Schine-