Evening star., 1955-06-22
Mccarthy to Modify
Bio Four Resolution
BY ]. A. O'LEARY

BY ]. A. O'LEARY
Senator Mccarthy, Republi.
can. of Wisconsin, announced to-
day he will modify his resolution
to have the Big Four conference
discuss the freedom of Soviet
satellites, which the Foreign Re-
lations Committee overwhelm-
ingly rejected last night.
AS the Senate prepared to vote
on the unfavorable report today,
Senator Mccarthy said he would
change it to ask the Senate to
merely express itself as being in
sympathy with the humanitar-
ian objective of freeing the sa-
telites, and urging the President
to work to that end. He took
this language from the testi-
mony of Undersecretary of State
Herbert Hoover. jr.. who opposed
the Mccarthy resolution as ad-
ministration spokesman. but
testified he felt certain that the
President and Secretary Of State
are in complete sympathy with
the ultimate humanitarian OBJ
jectives" of the resolution.
LANCER Votes No
The committee vote to report
the original resolution unfavor-
ably was announced last nigh4
as IA to 0. with Senator LANCER
Republican, of North Dakota
given the opportunity to vote
later. Senator LANCER said today
he voted against reporting un-
favorably making the vote IA
to /.
Although the six other Re-
publicans finally voted to report
the resolution adversely, they
first sought to table it in COM
mittee which would have averted
an all-out floor debate. This
failed, 8 to 7, on strict party
vote.
Mr.. Hoover told the committee
the adoption of this or similar
resolutions might be misin-
terpreted as establishing pre-
conditions to these important
and delicate discussions"
Mr.. Hoover also told the COM
mittee that, in the preliminary
conversations that have already
taken place "it has been agreed
that each of the participants
would be free to take up any
subject which it believed to be
a contributory cause Of world
tension"
Dulles Quoted
The dersecretary also
quoted Mr.. Dulles as having
said of the forthcoming confer
ence after his recent return from
Vienna:
lit may at least set up new
processes for a solution of some
Of these great problems-prob-
lens like the unification of Ger
= many, the problem Of levels OF
armament, the problem of
atomic weapons, the problem of
the satellite countries, the prob
lens created by international
communism.
Democrats were more vigorous
than the Republicans in de-
nouncing the Mccarthy move,
and Democratic Floor Leader
johnson of Texas took the lead
in urging the committee to re-
port it unfavorably so that the
entire Senate could express it.
self.
Senate Republican Leader
Knowland joined in disagreeing
with Senator Mccarthy at the
hearing on the need for his reso-
luton. and in taking the view
that it trespasses on the Execu-
tive function of conducting ne
gotiations between governments.
But he made the unsuccessful
motion to bury it in committee
rather than take it to the floor
for debate.
Senator johnson, who was in
vited to address the committee
in closed session after the hear
ing. said he told the committee
he wanted no doubt left in the
capitals Of the world that, re-
gardless of who is President, I'VE
are not going to send him to an
international conference in q
ait-jacket, or with a vote of /
no confidence"
He told reporters that If the
resolution had been tabled in
committee some would have in
-terpreted the action as "bottling
: it up" and some would have
construed it as an effort to pro
tect any individual here or
there" In a prepared statement
Senator johnson also argued the
resolution would:
place a loaded gun at the
Presidents temple; insist that
none of the tensions leading to
war can be settled until one Of
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