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shes ‘tnt the Democrats’ teuede attacks on McCarthy and thelr cham: plonship of Sectetary of State Acheson. .-: --@ Senators now confide. thet a general . yoas wee offensive: along these linet : Lg Contributing to the losing of aa n ranks is the Mrs. Lattimore, was. able to. obtain the serv- er ee ae fees of the lawsfirm of Amoid, Fortas ; _ abd Porter, Thurman Arnel ts a for- 2. oe ae aK mer New Deal Assistant Attorney Gen- : 2 ae ae eral, Abe Fortas was Solicitor of t a Ci + Paar -Interior, Dept. under Harold Ickes, an ; ‘ Yh ua Paul Porter has held many govern ment posts and was publicity director of the Democratic National Committee in the 1948 campaign. | .. The chance exists exists to the ead that McCarthy may bring | sh will blanket his. errors, re pet the affair is. headed strictly to = the political arena. - ; "eCarthy atthe? thinks wo too or possibly han not Teed his Enhily Post lately. He arranged to have Sen. Hickenlooper read & letter apolo to the FBI director for faillng to attend the | McGrath: Hoover hearing but conspicuously omitted to merition ae | ney General and Hoover, the talrhalred boy ot Mr, Truman's. al ve in Congress, were a closed corporation. Both. | * strongly from precedent and conviction’ that the great principie. of a citizen's right to a confidential relation with nis g government " is involved. Hickenloopef triéd hard to make it appear that thls yefusal JNUEALD - gi rote NA ETO So pn tare OR «4 : — oy OAR tgs tee a add pag 4 is i _open the files reflected upon Senators. The witnésses ducked. Actually, as Thomas Jefferson said of judges, Senators are Bs | ij honest as most men and hot more so, : What they cannot be trusted to do, because it is ‘ts their GES eee ee rorn terest not to do, tt, is to keep political secrets. Fortunately for Oe “4. «, 1950 : =v { fh i . oF ‘Cover the resent hearlegs place the MoCarthy case tn the politica category. , 7 kn 7 : oo * . eee ee eee cGrath did not surprise anyone. His present itsiuites yeflect / aise the high level.of his career as a Senator, It is unusual, swever, for Hoover to dény Congress anything and vice ee “(Congress has just raised his pay to $21,111 a year, posting ‘the Cabinet and Supreme Court brackets.) But Hoover has just hung up a record of 28 years ob service Be athe time he has won a shining place in public esteem : 7 Tt fs a,ttemendous achievement for what is essentially ‘must be aware that. ‘thé country is behsitive wers, He testified, ii fact, that some. : Del Jest thelr comments be made puplic..:. Jot his agency's reputation ; A hardly be e eritielzed 1 for it ™