Evening star., 1954-06-10

yesterday afternoons session
OF the Army-McCGrthy inUesti-
cation:
Welch-May I add my small
voice, sir. and say whenever
you know about q subversive
or a Communist or q spy,
please hurry. Will you remem-
ber those words?
McCarthy-Mr. Chairman.
Cohn-Wr. Welch. I can as
sure you. sir, as far as ! am
concerned, and certainly as
far as the chairman of this
committee and the members,
and the members Of the staff,
are concerned, we are a small
group, but we proceed as ex-
peditiouSly as is humanity pos
Sible to get out Communists
and traitors and to bring to
light the mechanism by which
they have been permitted to
remain where they were for
so long o period Of time.
McCarthy-Mr. Chairman.
in view Of that question
Mundt-Have you a point OF
order?
McCarthy-Not exactly, Mr..
Chairman, but in view Of Mr..
Welch's request that the in
formation be given once we
know Of any one who might
be performing any work for
the Communist Party, I think
we should tell him that he has
in his law firm q young man
named Fisher whom he recon-
mended, incidentally. to do
work on this committee, who
has been for a number OF
years a member of an organ
ization which was named. oh,
years and years ago. as the
legal bulwark of the Commu-
mist Party, an organization
which always swings to the de-
fenSe of any one who dareS to
expose (Sic) Communists. I
certainly assume that Mr..
Welch did not know of this
young man at the time
he recommended him as
the assistant counsel for
this committee. but he has
such terror and such a great
desire to know where any one
Is located who may be serving
the Communist cause. Mr..
Welch, that I thought we
should just call to your at
tention the fact that your Mr..
Fisher, who is still in your law
firm today, whom you asked
to have down here looking
over the secret and classified
material, Is a member of an
organization, not named by
me but named by various COM
mitteeS, named by the Attor-
ney General, as I recall, and
I think I quote this verbatim.
as "the legal bulwark Of the
Communist Party" He be-
longed to that for q sizable
number of years. according to
his own admission, and he be-
longed to 1t long after 1t had
been exposed as the legal arm
of the Communist Party.
Knowing that, Mr.. WEIGH. I
Just felt that I had o duty to
respond to your urgent request
that before sundown, when we
know Of any one serving the
Communist cause, we let the
agency know. We are now let
ting you know that your man
did belong to this org4nizatiOn
for either three or four years.
belonged to 1t long after he
was out Of law school.
Pro- Communist Organiza tion.
I don't think you can find
anyplace, anywhere. an organ
ization which has done more
to defend Communists am
again quoting the report-to
defend Communists, to defend
espionage agents, and to aid
the Communist cause. than the
man you originally wanted
down here at your right hand
instead Of Mr.. st. Clair.
I have hesitated bringing
that up, but ! have been rather
bored with your phony re-
quests to Mr.. Cohn here that
he personally get every Com
munist out Of Government be-
fore sundoWn. Therefore. we
will give you information
about the young man In your
own organization.
I am not asking you at this
time to explain why you tried
to foiSt him on this commit
tee. Whether you knew he was
a member of that Communist
organization or not. I don't
know. I assume you did not.
Mr.. Welch, because I get the