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Department of State are most exacting. One can almost hear ihe bellows of righteous rage bs a high judicial body as “sullty of an infraction of the moral code," and guilty also of vidlation of his oath of office. Senator McCarthy has not teen able to prove anything of the sort. So far, in his attempt ta support his charge that ther are “57 card-carrying Commun iste” in the State ied po NST ponent NE pret yeni fen the Senator has failed to prod duce solid evidence of anythin but his awn political ambition, Yet if Senator McCarthy really wants to find in the American Government the man identified ahcve, he need not look very far. He will find him in the Unted States Senate, in the person of Senator Joseph Me- Carthy, The official records of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, McCarthy's native State, make fascinating reading. There have already been reports of certain Tatlet ynlovely aspects of Senetor McCarthy's car. -r in Wisconsin. But stories of the Senator's peculiar ailitude to- ward the income tax, and the od { circumstances surrounding con wtiibvtions to his campaign, ar fess convincing than the col Ahi recap RMN NMEA CN ett. © ave. bese. to put it mildly, nwise, — we tty bt eae On was appealed to the Supreme Court, McCarthy had this part of the court record destroyed. Under ordinary circumstances, McCarthy's destruction of the record might have been written off as the hasty, ill-advised adh a young man. But what makel the case interesting is simply th ct that McCarthy, with a grea Stow of righteousness, has re. peatedly intimated that “higher- ups” were preparing to destroy the records which would sub- stantiate his charge that the State Department is riddled wit! tential traitors, , ons IN VIEW of the high mora né which the Senator habitu- ly assumes, the record of Me- Carthy's second brush with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which _Came to a head iast year, is even more interesting, When McCarthy ran against Senator Robert La Foillette in 1944, he . remained on the Wisconsin bench during the tampaign, taking his pay and trying cases. He thus doubled in brass as a judicial officer and an active jjcandidate for political office, and for obvious reasons, the Wis- ‘yconsin Supreme Court was asked o disbar him. “No valid excuse or justificae —— ( Tolson_ i 6 /pises— Glavin__ Nichbfa -——___ , } Rosen__ Matter Of Fact-— Ly Tracy \ ° . Harbo__ "| By Stewart Alsop | Mobr — : ele. O McCarthy Past And Preseni—s | Nease__ y ar | Gandy cordate toe enh McCarthy o—ttacy rate, when the case Inthe, end, after long consid- ‘eration, the court détide at “the failure of the defendant to keep his solemn promise to sup- . . ‘+; che Supreme Court, according or stitution,” infrac- oe ae which the Senator would emit, to the official record, angrily row of the mnraution.” thougk A Ki a . i ve could prove that the State Tuled this action “highly im- jt was, nevertheless did not “dis- | ie a enartment pe atunly ibed Proper,” and “an abuse of close such a degree of moral (/ “f risyed a man official'y describe judicial power.” turpitude as to disbar him from the practice of law.” McCarthy a can thus still legally operate as an attarney in Wisconsin. But it is not difficult to guess what - McCarthy would have to say if e could discover a State De- artment employe on whose onduct a State supreme court ad made a similar ruling. prey WHEN this record is taken into account, the atmosphere of moral squalor and downright nastiness which’ surrounds th current goings-on on Capit Hill is perhaps not surprising, The issue of interna} security in these times is a desperately serious one, as the Hiss and Fuchs cases have clearly shown, There could be no more serious charges than those McCarthy has made. As of this writing, instead of proving his charges, McCarthy has produced as weary, stale, flat and unprofitable a perfor- mance ag Congress has wit- messed for a very long time, Here are all the familiar trim. Mings—guilt-by-association, oc- casional fuzzy-mindedness a+ beled disloyalty to the country,! reputations ruined by unsup- | } /-s SOY REOC must he made if the fr ee world Ja ge roy ive. N.Y. Mirror Le ee ye Ee eit ght dh ea ee + iiack and white of the “iHclaB tion,” the court ruled when the Ported charges hurled from be- ae AY record, , case finaliy reached it last year, hind the comfortable protection 1 “can be offered for the defend. Of congressional immunity, Pe THE WISCONSIN Supreme ant’s violation of the oath which | No doubt, in view of McCar- toe mm ee Court hag twice reviewed the he took... as a circuit judge." thy's personal Standards, as ambitious Senator's activities. : McCarthy's act, the court recorded by the Wisconsin Su. Times-Herald The first time was in 1941, when charged, was “a clear violation Preme Court, nothing more _ 1 McCarthy was a circuit judge. |: of the provisions of the Constie Could have been expected. Yet 9 "At that Ume, McCarthy decided | tution.” and it proved that “the the McCarthy matter has » cer- Wash. Post ~/- @ certain case in favor of the | defendant is guilty of an ipfrace gin ominous significance, For ; plaintif. and against the State. | tion of@thesmeval code.” Some eat Rams One: like Vhen he rendered his decision, —_ — * roe . News. he dictated certain remarks from ate political neve act tis wre ; Wash ~ the bench to the court stenog- Nahar : ‘apher. These remarks must * hard and painful effort which Wash. Star “a 1 . Ls rn Ae CKipibemn nds cd nk tebe