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VF, Ta aoe Saat tae a ite nid eh Raia eet lee ca TE CE RMN AR NLR NE me ONE 5. wee Administration-to Sift NicCarthy’s Charges Wisely and Judicially Truman Knows Incident Can Cause Real Trouble In Coming Campaign/ By David Lawrence KEY WEST, Fls., Mar. 24— Just where is the episode of fhe, loyalty files and the Senate in-| quiry into Communist sympathiz~ ers in Government departments getting us—what is back of it, and what direction will it take? nti FF a. the back of thei Ti could Stine bat Secretary of State and prevent the development of the very flexi- bility of approach toward Russia hich may be found necessary In these critical times. To brush the entire incident, aside as the charges of just_e Ingle Genator is to take a st ficial view. “The affair supe many political sspects to_be7 aii nilssed_ as irrélevant, and if he's ‘some international aspects as weu_| “Senaior MeCariny is ieaiaed by Ris colleagues 1n the kind of person_who venally| Ras backing fer charges he makes, and it is significant that_several Republican Senators—to to whom he” he Hes confided some of the e things he tlaims_are_to be found in_the loyalty fi files—are ‘standing by him. Advised To Be Cautious. So far as President Truman ts Loncerned, he is a more-than-in- erested bystander. He knows. he incident can make political rouble. To him if can be a “red herring" coming campaign. So the Preqi- dent has been advised to be cauli- position against revealing what is in the files. For if he didn't Auciarize same form of insapec- tion, then Senator McCarthy would just take the floor in the Senate some day and spill more detalles that, would foree the re- velalion of all the flea rather Mie ommaply thon reaoric. can corned with particular persona. again and divert a&-- tention from other issues in the i | ous and not to take an adamaht! The policy of letting Senate dorrimiicce members“see—inre’ files wHl satisfy them as to what is there. If, by chance, anything damaging is in them, it will be confined to these particular cir- cumstances and not smear in- nocent persons. But everyone here fs in the dark as to what's back of it. The rincipal surmise is that Senator McCarthy isn't really concerned about individuals as such and that he hasn't any ny _persons like Whittaker aE Chambers 0 any pumpkin papers is to prodige- hat the Wisconsin Senator und doubl- edly is trying to do Js show that ommunist sympathizers Inti-| enced the” formulation of “Stiite Department’ policy from” the ds Vs when Patrick Hurley, Americgn Ambassador {fo China, publicly charged that certain_ individuals in the State Department were un- dermining American aid for Chiang Kai-shek. Charge Stirs Up People. It so happens that a large group f chureh people in America—Pro- estant as well as Catholic—think hiang was weakened by Amrican licies in the last few years. Some of the Republicans od taken up this cause. Their eff i now is to show that the Sta Department really gave up Chi to Russia. Hence the P chips procedure appears to be to tie in the alleged Communist symathiz- ers with sevttling of Chiang Kai-shek in the Department of State. The China problem by itself isn't a good political issue. It is something too remote for the average man to bother himself bout. But a charge of com- frumistic influence in a Govern-' ent department is something Ise. It has in it more drama nd it stirs up people, especiflly with the Chambers-Hiss case jas a background of disloyalty. Curiously enough, the Ho se Un-American Vities it- teé Started” “off “with c charges against Innocent persons and was ridiculed and bitterly criticized, but TE wound up with 9s coupic_of jury trials and a conviction_for perjury which Ji the populer mind has been translated into treason. Under stich” tirttinistances, the wise course is to sift the charges carefilly and judicially, The ad- ministration is prepared to go fsliead on that baala, even tf in the course of the inquiry some dam- ‘ping Information does emerge, It. coints on the common sense of: the American people ta evaluate ticarhretters fairly and_in per- spective, nd_in vers 4-2 gison M.. ania ia ' /Chegg - / Glavin : Nichols vi 77 Rosen ‘ Tracy Harbo Mobr, Tele. Room ___ Nease Gandy i. i | yi ia na int —— ee sratedh “ pei ae bere Times-Herald —___ Wash. Post _ Wash. News _ Cs Wash. Star —_j.. N.Y. Mirror —_