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1 ALPS panei RENE 6 ose LL PP ye is aoe nn Or en ee I ‘ gations. of of employes. He repea | Mi Carlhy Tett Trumanto ‘Put Up or Shut Up Delay in Opening Files Assailed by Senator © By WILLARD EDWARDS President Truman’s continued ' lay in “opening: govern mment files Senate “investigators . of of, com: unis in the State departme i SAS saueeean eon Car rthy, 0 img G1 R} of Wisconsin, in thes iT I words; rumtsnea te sank “*T have now furnished the nam of a man connected with the State espionage agent, Evidence in the prove this eéxtremely de Hane nm tn th them secret, Ib is now up to the esident to put up or shut up.” Word From Florida Chairman Tydings (D) of Mary: jsubcomimittee, ordered a month ago by unanimous Senate vote to obtain the files in order to check on McCarthy's charges, reported that no word had been received ifrom the President, in Florida. Tydings conferred with Assist- ant t Atton mey General Peyton Ford and Deputy State Undersecretary John E. Peurifoy In an un effort £0) secure t the records which carry de- =~ ee, U.S. Court of Appeals up- olds President's right to fire any government employe “of whose loyalty he is not com- vacationing | Pletely convinced.” Page 2, | mission, and lovalty. board inves tails oa a the FSI, civil service af what he has b been sa} saying for t weeks—that he is hopeful of o “i taining access to the files and‘ ithought an “understanding” would Teached eventually. i lk ror athe first time, Tydings 1§ cop whdad Uf wan & ‘adequate investing. | ‘Dn will necessitate opening all oer rnoient | fies. dealing Ww a 4 nol the. State t files alone. “WIeCurtry Nae repeUtetiy “etiphasized tha t guste department files are notip-, | dexed. are of the Teose- leaf variety, Ama department who is Russia’s top; government files themselves will | Serious | g member of the House un-Amer- charge. Unless Mr. Truman is, afraid of what the files will dis-: close, there is no reason to keep’ land of « f J tion : and of « Scuate foreign relations ‘conviction of 11 Comunist leadets, ily “be Temoved. a service commission records, which cBnfiot Be rifled withoui detection, - Must Also be Supplica he declared. No Comment on Lattimore Both Tydings and McCarthy | were asked yesterday if Owen Lat- timore, a State department consul- | tant now in Atghanistan, was The man named in secret s session Tu Tuls-: day as 6 Russian ; sian agent. “Both 3 fused to answer any questions th th G fight furnish a clue to the e idd tity of the man, Tydings said h he’ § recelved no word from Latti-. ore, publicly named last week by; McCarthy as a bad security risk. Rep. Nixon (R) of California, nd damaging evidence could éas- Soo Tee Fel and ¢ oh | 1 ean activities committee, _pro- Posed in a statement that the State department inquiry be turned over to an “impartial, non- litical commission” of well- Own Jurists headed by a2 man “the type of Federal Judge Har- edifia, who presided at e trial which resulted in the “The current Senate investigh- tion is degenerating into a polili- cal squabble,” Nixon said. “T Alger Hiss conspiracy could have been exposed years ago had Ad- Ministration officials not treated the case on a political basis. The Administration should follow the recedent set up in the Teapot Dome case and have an investiga- tion not hindered by political charges of the ‘red-herring' or any her variety.” At his press conference, State ecretary Acheson refused to dis- ss Republican demands thet he sign, Asked if there was a Rus sian espionage agent in the State department, as charged by Me Carthy, he answered that if the was, he didn't know it. He said did not expect to be called testify by the investigating su committee. Acheson indorsed the charges of Ambassador-at-large Philip Cc. '|Jessup that McCarthy's accusa- tions were injuring foreign rela- fene_ Jessup has denied charges that he was pro-Comifanisnws | | NOT RECORDED 135 APR 21 1950 ie or aed a “baw... f a _Folson a i" Ladd . Glege J Glavin Ni Tiehot aD fy Rosen__ Tracy. Harbo Mohr Tele. Room__ Nease 1] Gandy fy Is Lit (LYE oe f & nae Anti-Red Bill Advances The Senate judiciary commit- tee, Meanwhile, favorably re Ported a bill requiring the regis {tiation © of Communist political or- Senizations and Communist-front| ofznzations, defined on the basis os domination by a foreign gove ment or the world Comm movement. : Sen. Langer (R) of North De: kota ifled » minority report nj ing the measure as “the greatest threat to American civil Hberties since the slien and sedition jaws of 1798." Sen. Kefauver (D) Tennessee voted to report the fi with “grave doubts as to the oft stitutionality” and reserved right to vote’ against it unl amendments were adopted. Page f Times-Herald _/ Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror