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Tie etd ok Cal a , i Hurls Lie at — MeCarthy’s*” ‘Red’ Charge Miss Dorothy Kenyon. Denies Affiliations As Senators Clash Over Procedure By Alfred Friendly Post Reporter : In a stormy Senate hearing, full of angry repartee and partisan jockeying, Senator Joseph R.“MeCarthy (R., Wis.) yesterday began presentation of information to support his charges of Communist infil- tration in the State Depart ment. His first case was an added starter to the 81 he outlined in a Senate speech on February 20. at dealt with Miss Doroth¥Kenyon, former New York Municipal Court Judge and former United States ‘representative to the United Na- tions Commission on the Status of “Women. McCarthy said she Bad a long cord of “Communist activities” and has been affiliated with at least :28 ‘grganizalions officially labelled ey strersive. . v4 ay wa ane d x-Judge > [Tedings Enters Fray ' rom New York, where Miss Kenyon is now in private law prac- tice, she promptly retorted that MeCarthy is “an unmitigated Har." | In a session of more than two ‘hours .before a special subcom- inittee of the Senate Foreign Re- Jations Committee set up to look into his charges, McCarthy was able to complete only four pages of a ten-page statement he had pre- pared on Miss Kenyon. There were two reasons for the slow go ing. , | First, Subcommittee Chairma ‘Millard E. Tydings (D., Md.) wrap gled with McCarthy and the Re publican members of the subcom- mittee, Lodge (Mass.} and Hicken- ‘looper (iowa) for 40 minutes in an attempt to get MeCarthy to discuss . another case. It was, Tydings in- sisted, the “most important” of ithe B81 McCarthy had mentioned. :Mould Lead to Unfairness F Second, McCarthy ran up against ‘committee procedure of a sort that ‘Lodge accurately labelled as “most ‘extraordinary and unusual.” « It took the form of an on-the-spot and immediate examination by Tydings and his Democratic col- \ leagues, Senators Green (R, 1.) and : McMahon (Conn.), of gach piece of ‘jevidence on Miss Kenyon that Me- iCarthy offered as an exhibit. ' Usually, in congressional com- mittees, evidence presented is not commented on. nor the witness | ,, queried in detail on the evidence, untli he has finished his presenta- tion. Tydings made it clear nothing of the sort would be done in these hearings. For. he and McMahon repeatedly asserted, this could lead to gross unfairness. | Evidence presented with a “one- \WDERED * ¥ WASHINGTON POST Page a wet o-. e me Siete _f J Date BIE (x0 a See LOYALTY, Page 5, Column 1.64 TF f Tolaon Ladd Clegg Giavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harboe Mobr Tele. Room Nease_ Gandy