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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 20

91 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: Cold War & Communism · Topic: Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy · 91 pages OCR'd
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Te Aen git, « Beg? Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo oO ror seCarthy’s description ote leCarthy identified -hig position, however. it appeared: that he was a subordinate official’ tin what is slilk a shadow organiza-. ‘tion, He is to be chief of a staff for “Technical Cooperation Prej- vects” in an as yet interim office of “Technical Cooperation and De- ivelopment,” headed by a_ former Agriculture Department official. jase Against Hanson The case_against_Hanson_ was, jthat after two years as an Associ-| lafed Press reporter_and “stringer” iin the Far East, he wrote a "pro- Communist” book_in__1939, apd fofmerly edited a Communist mag- aane in Peiping. cCarthy said, early believes thatthe C thing #odd.” He added tha son “has the” attittidé of a hgra lworshipper for the Chinese Com- munist [eaders,” and is a “man with ‘a Mssion——a mission to communize ‘the world.” ' “The quotations that MeCarthy! cited from Hanson's book do not! ile paint This picture. Tn passages MCCAY cited. Han- son praises the discipline and in- itegrity of the Communist leader- ship in their war against the Japa- ese jin 1937-39. finds much to atmire in (he characler of Mao e-tung. present head of R Idhina, and says that some of tife her Red generals made “go jeompany.” | At the State Depa \day, Hanson_said pas_2 ke wrote the book, and although he 'did_not apologize Tor the kind of newsman he was. he did not know whelher he would write the same ithing hows, “At thal time, he pointed out. he munist guerillas. them in tha context of their war ‘effort against Japan. His book 3186, [contained Ris description of nine, ‘months with thé gapdnese_ oops, srid_six with the Nationalist fortes. He said he was arrested by the apanese three times in 1937 and 938 while trying te smuggle his isnatehes to the Associated Press. His dispatches were_reprinted. he said in ‘a full page of Time magazine and again in the Reader's Digest, Hie denied he edited the Communist. magazine in Peiping. bul said his name appeared on the edioriab bpard on the last issue only, _ _ rad # | seriou Ty question her securit¥| { statu: . ; ‘ ya stly from 1936 to 1939, in or- {¢] Mrs. Bru- . Mobr nailer as an assistant to Alger ie T ar oval American éré“echopal en now convicted of perjury in con- ae wares State Department.” e. Room_ nection with a Russian espionage She went on to say that thepse. ‘Ting at the the line of tlie San Fran- Russians she has constantly tan-\qy disco_conference setting Wp The pied with in UNESCO meetings! United Nations. would scarcely consider her pro- Communist, She also said her hus- ” MeCarthy repeatedly told the isubcommittee that this case de€- pong was “vigorously anti-Com- jmanded “immediate attention,” but | muynist.” this actual charge against her was only that_her “Communist fron acbvilies . Her husband’s name was brought! up by McCarthy fm discussin, if jcase. He sald he would not go inp. sis | elails about _him in pupae sessiog. : : but implied he had been und Six Exhibits Given lo ant Government investigatio , He gave six exhibits to the sub-' /inkt he had admitted membership committee listing Fer affiliations, [infthe Gommunist Party and was 2 . triend and collaborator of lgfnizations subsequently classified iGemmunisiss =~ OS af subversive. ! he Wavy Department, Bru- Tydings took one of the exhibits, nayer vigorously denied this. He: isgowing her a signer of a call to ‘said his loyalty was checked three the annual meeting of the Ameri-) times by various agencies when he can Youth Congress in 1938, and) ‘took different jobs in the Govern- . ._ are suficient td: pointed out that other names in- cluded several Senators and Rep- resentatives, and former Postmas- ter General James A. Farley. The State Department, mean- while, yesterday sal she h Keen thoroughly irivestigated ai (out a statement 5: iment and when he became a com, ‘ missioned officer in the Navy. ‘| The Navy Department itself p aving that as t commander in the Na :cand as a_civilian_emplo ‘Bugeau of Ordnance, Dr. Brunauert and wrote ef-s vouched for by many people prowp-| had Dee n_ “thoroughly _investt- inent in public iHfe,and thatthe | gated. \ is "satisned That_ste i & added, “As a result of this in. igToyal to the United States and |veiligation, as administrative oes hol constitute a security || lston was made that there wa isk. == si sulficient evidence to_warra Tn a slatement issued through ||'Dr. Brunaver being charge wit he State Department, Mrs. Bru- (disloyalty. nauer said that she deeply resents, life a commissioned ; iMeCarthy’s charges and is confi- | during the war and later as civ dent the Senate investigation will'lian emptoye, Dr. J find he has “been very badly mis- made notewotthy contributions in informed.” . ‘the field of explosives. He is re- “Y am not and never have been! garded as an eminent expert ‘and and could not possibly be a Com-| ‘his ability in the field of research, munist," she said. “It would be) iis highly regarded.” completely foreign to my charadisra+—pr. Brunayer was born in Hun. a ___ Nigary and was naturalized as an | Aiietican citizen Te 1927.9 Pa Times-Herald — Wash. Post _. Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror
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