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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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pont —- ; { é @ ys ss aon cere HVE iin, Pr Cire oe PI q Roseo ii | | wie One Chairman Taft of the. Senate —_—_— i icCarthy pail asis | gepubligth Policy Comfittee said Tracy. u | Republican Senators are going te ‘Harbo : | continue to “help McCarthy in his br fight.” After a meeting of the yn —_ rumdii, ays ail committee Senator Faft told re- Tele. Room, porters that support is not a mat- Neane ter of party policy but that he en \ Gandy an _ —~. 1 had suggested to Senator: Mc- mperl § ecurl Vie Carthy that “if one case didn’t ork, to bring up others:” or Werdel Defends McCarthy. Sends Telegram a ae 3. Representative Werdel, Re ( ? yo. i Changing Refusal {) publican, of California said Sena? te j é ) | tot McCarthr is being made the i IS | To Release Files \. | victim of “an organized smear” py ‘ ! gnq@ added: “I think he must be j . By Cecil Holland 1 Se the right track.” me Senator McCarthy Republican. 4, Deputy Undersecretary of ats ater Ge gf Wisconsin, charged today tat giote John E. Peurifoy said that a resident ‘Truman 18 endangering an nemed by Senator McCarthy e Nation's security by what ne aas being the top Soviet espionage estribed as the he President's “a aPENt Ti Ehls couritiy—a ms rogant refusal” to release lo aU dentlfied publicly —n 08 has rel denned —ahever nas mara ate been an employe of the State De- eBenator. McCarthy made the Palbment. Sena for McCarthy ‘said | accusation in a telegram sent to: The Tian, whose name he has given | Mr. Truman at Key West, Fla. to the committee, was “connected”, and said the President is delaying; "!!P woe on te eee an investigation of his charges} , Tn wis egram to Mr, Truman’ ‘ that Communists and fellow trav-| the Wisconsin Sonata oe ect - ee anes nalbrated the State by reports irom Key West that i Actually Mr. Truman has n the President might make a por ! -efused to turn over the files to g; ton of the files available to t enate Foreign Relations Subd: investigating committee. Pathe ¢. Cas Prerefent, ater a erica og cada amy 04 , o_o TAPES bree rae rere _— Se rtd ube , tei ie itehittns Wap a Neher lean Sk AE iin ommiittee, The matier is étiip Feus 4 GCC cereus foe consideration and Chair* ‘This,’ he added, “serms dan: fif- oa 7! han ‘Tydings of the subcommittee! gerously in line with your original caid he believes a procedure will| statement that you would co-ap- —_—.. be worked out by this week end erate with the committee to ‘dis- TN ee to to make the files avaiable. | prove’ MeCarthy’s charges.” VOT RBOOR LH ~fydings Refuses Co omment, Senator McCarth ssid no Paes PR 21 19bb Senator Tydings said he had ecedent would be established by vA ‘absolutely no comment” on Sen- leasing the files, since such data ator McCarthy's charge. But an- d been made available to other meet other Democratic Senator who vestigating committees. ™ withheld the use of his name e telegram @ blasted Senator McCarthy's eriti-! “You are also aware of t cism of Mr. Truman as such alow: fact that when the Senate void attack “that I can’t think of « unanimously for the subpoena “Let the American people be. from you a favor which you have ee reply,” and added: those files it was not requesting E ¢ judge of that kind of criticism | the right to withhold, but rather - f the President of the United) demanding the information which Times-Herald ates.” e Congress is entitled to under The exchange came amid thes e Constitution. It should be other developments: ignifiicant to you that not. even Wash. Post 1, Representative Nixon, Re- ne Democrat voted against the publican, of California, a member] Hesolution providing for the sub- Weck Wer ot the House Cominittee on Un-| poena of the files.” Wabi. NOWS American Activities, said the Sen- Senator Tydings said he is seek- ate inquiry is “rapidly degener-} Ing to work out arrangements fo Wash. St ating into a political squabbie.”| obtain the Ales without resort fo ash. ar He suggested that Mr. Truman} subpoena. The committee, e name an “impartial, non-political] mdded, would have no power N.Y. Mirror _tompiission of outstanding jurists ehfercsathe subpoena. t | to make the investigation. — __ ne “yu : D
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