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Highlights of Probe Report-| Some of the highlights of the report of the three Democratic ee al ll ad BM ee ed TP a es ee ntsneae haaewanadddae anhaah ee members of the Senate foreign Relations Subcommitttee wich vestigated . Senator McCarthy's “charges of of Communist infiltration in the State} Department: ° “Ata ‘time ‘when American blood is again being shed to pre- serve our dream of freedom, we are constrained fearlessly and frankly to call the charges, and the methods employed to give them ostensible validity, what they truly are: <A fraud and a hoax perpetrated on the Senate of the United States and the American people. “They represent perhaps iné mos i trutbs and untruth in the history of this Republic. “For the first time in our history, we have seen the totalitarian, technique of the ‘big lie’ employed on a sustained basis...” . * * “It is, of course, clearly apparent that the charges of Commu- nist infiltration of and influence upon the State Department are false. This knowledge is reassuring to all Americans whose faith has been temporarily shaken in the security of their Govern- ent... cee deve have seen the character of private citizens and of Gqv- nment employes virtually desiroyed by public condemnation pr . the basis of gossip, distortion, hearsay, and deliberate untrufhs .. This has been done without the slightest vestige of respéct . for even the most elementary rules of evidence or fair play, or, indeed, common decency. - “Indeed, we have seen an effort not merely to establish guilt by association but guilt by accusation alone. The spectacle is one we would expect in a totalitarian nation... It has po place in America...” ' “The false charges made in this case have succeeded in ac complishing to a great degree what the Communists themselves: have been unable to do. These charges have created distrust and suspicion at home and raised serious doubts abroad.” a . “From the very outset of our inquiry, Senator McCarthy has sought to leave the impression that the subcommittee has been investigaling him and not ‘disloyalty in the State Department’. The reason for the Senator's concern is now apparent. He had no facts to support his wild and baseless charges, and lived in mortal fear that this situation would be exposed ... \"Slarting with nothing, Senator McCarthy plunged headlong fqrward, desperately seeking to develop some information, whgch ch.cred with distortion and fanned by a blaze of bias, would fbrestall a day of Feckoning."* »AL-Z Be A KOT F RYWwOOR % AUG 18 1950 Times-Herald —__ Wash. Post b Wash. News _ N.Y. Compags___ pasdUL 1 81950