Evening star., 1954-10-04
Mccarthy Indicates
He'll Base Defense
On His Fight on Reds
BY the Assoeioied Press

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Senator Mccarthy seemed cer-
tain today to put stress on his
Eight against Communism" as
a cornerstone of his Senate de-
fense against move to censure
him for his conduct.
The Wisconsin Republican hit
on this theme time and again
during radio-TV interview on
NBC last night--l1is first per-
sonai reply since special Sem
ate committee a week ago recon-
I1lended his censure.
And he predicted the Senate
definitely" won't vote for CEN
sure when 1t meets to take up
the issue November 8, provided
the legislators consider the facts
and the setting of dangerous
precedent" But the vote will go
against him, he said, if sena-
tors base their judgment on
politics.
Senator Mccarthy also listed
President Eisenhower and the
Democratic National Committee
as vote-swinging factors, with
out saying what he thought
either would do for or against
him.
Change in C0mpOSure.
The Senator, seeming less at
ease than usual during the radio
TV quizzing, declared that
vote to censure him would be "a
warning that no other senator
should go out and fight against
communism or treason"
He said no committee would
have investigated him if he him
self had not started investigating
communism.
II went broke in this Com
munist fight" he added.
Asked if he expected DEM
ocrats to follow up the eensure
move with an effort to expel him
from the Senate, he said he ex-
peeted almost any type of mo-
ton" unless he shut up" about
communism. That, he said, he
would never do.
Senator McCarthy's emphasis
on his Red-hunting activities
contrasted with the more legal
istic tone of the bill of excep-
tions" he and his lawyer filed
last week with the special cen
sure committee headed by Sem
ator Watkins, Republican, OF
Utah. That document stressed
Senate precedents and said the
charges against Senator Nc |
Carthy were not censurable in !
any event.
Letter from Eisenhower?
In naming Gen. Eisenhower !
and the Democratic National /
Committee as "unpredictableS"
but definite factors in the GEN. /
sure vote, Senator Mccarthy |
said last night that Senator /
Flanders, Republican, of Ver- /
mont has Dragged" of receiving
q letter from Gen. Eisenhower /
congratulating Senator Flanders
for his initial attack on Senator !
Mccarthy.
Il don't think Eisenhower
would send a letter of commen-
dation." Senator Mccarthy said.
IF that's true. that would cer-
tainly swing some votes against
me-"
Senator Flanders, at Pebble
Beach. Calf. said last night he
had received a brief note of
approval" from Gen. Eisenhower
last March.
Senator Flanders added that
he has mo way of knowing
whether the White House has
approved or disapproved of what
I've said since against Senator
Mccarthy because 1 haven't
heard from the President" The
White House has refused to
comment on the censure issue.
Senator Mccarthy also told
his intervieWers:
He had expected 4-2 vote
for censure by the Watkins COM
mittee instead of its unanimous
verdict. He said he figured Sen
ators Watkins, Edwin c. john
son, Democrat of, Colorado, and
Erwin, Democrat of, North Caro-
lima. were against him. OF the
other three-Senators Carlson,
Republican of. Kansas, Case. Re-
publican, of South Dakota, and
StenniS. Democrat, of Missis-
sippi-ne wouldn't say who were
the two he had expected would
be for me-"
That any one VINO lntimates
Senator Mccarthy has misused
any anticommunist funds by so
much as a penny lis grossly un-
truthful"
That he would not give a
public financial accounting.
In related development.
Lewis w. Douglas last night
praised the Watkins committee
report as lone of the most no.
table achievements of the legis-
lative branch of our Govern
ment" in the last 80 years. Mr..
Douglas, a former Ambassador
to Great Britain, spoke in New
York at the 18th anniversary
dinner of Freedom House.