Evening star., 1954-04-04
BY Relmon MORN
Associated Press Saoff Writer

BY Relmon NORM
Associated Press Saoff Writer
One of the great controversies
in America today whirls about
the figure of a burly, rk-haired
man Senator McCarthy-and
the effects of his one-man gang
method of searching for Com
munists in Government, the
Army, and industry.
It is only four years since SEN
ator Mccarthy, from a platform
in Wheeling, w. Va, held up
q sheet of paper and said, Il
have here in my hand list"
He told his listeners it con-
tanned the names of known Com
munistS working in the State
Department. He said these peo-
pie were shaping, or helping to
shape, American foreign policy
at a time when the Western
democracies, led by the United
States, were locked in desperate
struggle with the forces of inter-
national communism.
Between that date, February
9. 1850, and today, Senator Nc
Carthy has become national
issue. The inclusive term for the
man and his works. Mccarthy
ism, has become common term.
He proudly accepts it.
His charge that day-that
the American Government was
cancerouS with Reds and sub
versives-touched off chain re-
acting blast of controversy. 1t
stirred great passion, cast q
shadow over the regulations OF
many men, encouraged the in
former, brought such terms as
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." into the
consciousness of a startled and
frequently bewildered citizenry.
Crossroads in Career.
: Today, nobody knows the size
of his following. Nor can the
dimensions of his opposition be
gauged with any certainty. He
is the object of intense admira-
ton and fierce hostility.
But the evidence is strong that
the Wisconsin Red-hunter has
reached a crossroads in his
furious career and that now he
is confronted by forces of re-
straint stretching from the White
House through both the Repub-
lican and Democratic leadership
After three spectacular years
of blazing Mccarthy headlines,
the word is spreading here that
he has gone too far" For the
first time, influential figures in
the conservative ranks of both
political parties are saying
privately that Senator Mccarthy
has become a liability. to the
Republicans.
This time it isn't the bleeding
hearts and the "pinkos
Senator MsCarthy labels his op-
poSition-who are moving force
fully into the controversial area
in which the Wisconsin Senator
operates. The real strength of
the forces seeking apparently to
restrain him, and altering the
methods of roofing out Com
munists and their followers, is
that they are anchored in the
White House.
Today. political analysts are
asking: Has a turning point
been reached?" Some see Sena-
tor Mccarthy as on the defensive
now, and believe his position less
formidable than it has been.
Turning Point Is Cited.
The turning-point speculation
developed out of Senator Nc
Carthy's reverberating collision
with the United States Army.
He had extended to the Army
his investigation of Communists
in-Government. At a closed
hearing. he rough h-tongued Brig.
Gen. Ralph T. Zwicker, a much
decorated combat officer. He told
Gen. Zwicker he was unfit to
command and. by implication,
unfit to wear the uniform of his
country.
Even some powerful newspa-
pers that usually support Sena-
tor Mccarthy rebuked him for
this.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
said "tommyrot" to Senator Nc
Carthy'S claim that the Army
was "coddling'' Reds. Secretary
of the Army Robert T. Stevens
heatedly told Senator Mccarthy
he would not countenance hav-
ing Army officers abused and
''browbeaten."
Shortly afterward, the Army
evidently with the Presidents
knowledge-issued a report that
carried the fight into Senator
McCarthy's Office.
It asserted that Roy Cohn, the
Senator's young, fast-talking
chief counsel and at times the
Senator himself had attempted
to use Senator McCarthy's influ-
ence to obtain special treatment
for G. David Schine. a draftee.
Pvt, Schine had been an unpaid
conSultant with Senator McCar-
thy'S Senate investigating sub
committee before he was taken
into the Army.
Sen. Mccarthy and Mr.. Cohn
not only denied this. but accused
Mr.. Stevens and Army Coun-
selor John G Adams of black
mail" They said the two had
tried to persuade Senator Nc
Carthy to break off his hearings
on the Army, using Pvt. Schine
as a hostage" and offering to
furnish the Senator with dirt
on other branches of the Armed
Forces. Mr.. Stevens said this
contention was fantastic.
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