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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 20
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On Me(arthy Charge |
Of Subversive Ring |
Uproar Marks Speech;
Senator Lists 81 Reds
In State Department
By Cecil Holland
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in the State Department were!
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said he would move
alg
Senate Foreign,
He Indicatrd this course is course after;
Senator McCarthy thy aired his
Charges in a_ five-hour Senate,
speech tasi might and said that:
nox Sore w Work: for_the department.
enators Rounded Up Twice.
an uproarious and acrimon-
iol session that saw the sergeant.
at arms twice ordered to round up
absent members, Senator Mc-
Carthy refused Democratic de-
mands that he name those sus-
pected of being members of what
he described as “an espionage ring
in the State Department.”
In_his racitai of cases, the Sen-
ator_charecd:
1 A
A member
pa “big three irettin:
Is een epy Tine. in_the ciale
| De epariment, and their ouster
| operations.
i Shadowing Described.
3. One of the trio is “one of our
{posts in & “Europe.”
4. An individual now working
Bb ec
that
“contact with,
an espolnake
whe “were later fired.
he deseyibed -
minister"
| was found to found to '
tact with a Sr
The” Senate
woman as a fe fovmer_top. official of
the department's Office of Inter-
national Education, which handles
ee oice_ of Ametica broadcasts.
Connecticut, Lehman of New
nn sel
‘and Withers
Charecs by Senator Mcfarthy, |
yublican, of Wisconsin that’ a
epueaean of Wisconsin aj mit names. Senator Lucas shout-
needed toduy for a full “cOnBres- |
| BL Bue,
1
Relations Com-.
mittee invest gate the accusatiot accusations.
mittee Wee
BI “Comin unists have worked 0 _ oy! | @cULiy
——
1 Bona,
| files.
| could not commit the President:
he organization wno_faned to
‘pel security clearance in the sip gcn-me
‘House speech writer. He said this
‘individual has a _relative wi with thal
‘financial interest in the Daby,
orker. Communist newspaper
2. Two men ana a woman make
foreign n ministers” who holds “one
1o of the iicsr “important listening won, to adi
‘in the Sofice of ap Assistant Sec-
rélary_of State was shadowed by
une Pedaval Bureau_of. “Inveslig -
nin 1946 aud was found to_be
espoina Al {
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foe
UN Seid tbe mar
iLshadowed and
ve _been in con-
agent.
“described the ibed
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had. t
pale the
of
ork
of Kentucky all!
Democrats, demanded time and
again that Senator McCarthy sub-
Senators Lucas, McMahoi
:ed that the charges had “put a
cloud” over the State Department
ana oaddad:
“IT want to get the honest-1to-
Senate Marjority Leader Lucas! Gog Americans there out from:
©. under that cloud. The pr oper com.-,
mittee wil] ferret this out.”
Senator McCatthy said he would:
giye the names to ap investigating |
he
commiitee. But ref used
disclo e then _o
its Presic nt_Tr Cuma n Jitted an
OL
c
Senator
Lucas said
lon that point.
Senators Wherry of Nebraska. |
the Republican flor leader, and:
Ferguson, Republican. of Michi-|
pan, and Munal, Republican, at!
South Dakota, souzht to have the:
| Appropriations Committee make:
the investigation. :
Rules Qui GOP Demand.
An Appropriations Subcommi
tee is scheduled to beain consict |
of a Communist | eration today of the departments
| budeet. Senators Wherry an!
Ferrveon said the department's
‘ Department “turned Up asa Whitelfunds should be withheld “until
they clean out the Communists.”
But Senator Lucas ruled out
such af investigation in favor of;
one by the Foreign Relations’
Cormmittee headed by Senator |
~ Connally, Democrat. of Texas.
Senator Lucas said he wanted
public hearings. He charged that
Senator McCarthy was seckine to
Imake political capital out of jis,
" pecusations that were first aired:
last week on a speech-making tour.
‘across the country.
Once Senator Lucas tricd
break up the session witb a mg-|
ut this logt!
by an 18-to-16 vote. i
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Wash. News
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N.Y. Mirror
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