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ae. es, 3 . Shes ‘him orally that Hanson was a Com- Tydings Committee Majority F indings gs! _ Below is a summary of the fiind- ings of the Democratic majority— San enalors Tydings (Md.), Green (R. Li) and McMahon {Conn.}—of the special inv tigaling subcommittee OTT nae so aTao Watarthe on we persons Senator MeCarthy, “charged with having Communist, leanings. or_a. Communist 7 ~Fecord. i? n addition, there is a_ summary énator Lodges (R.. Mass.) findings on the two individual cases he chose to discuss. i Mrs. Esther ukin, ,Brunauer:. “The evidence against*Mirs, Brun-. auer, under impartial examination, reduces itself to the fact that she, was a member of one organization five years before it was cited as a! ommunist front, and that in 1934: nd 1936, over 14 years ago, she articipated in two meelings spon-" red by a pro-Soviet organization which she was not 4 member... “The conculsion is inescapable, on the basis of our inquiry, that there is no evidence that Mrs. Brunauer is disloyal, a Communist sympathizer or a security risk.” pe cea “In view of th fact “hat mis “eniployment in t (State) Department ceased (in O1 dober, 1946) before the loyalty pré gram was instituted, we do not feel: that a discussion a, him is me-| rited. . .” ul Haldo, anson: “owe. are con-| ‘strained tg point out that the in-| formation used by Senator McCar-; thy to uphold his allegations that: ‘Haoson is a man of ‘pro-Commuuist | Feoclivities’ and has ‘a’ mission to| ommunize the world’ fails inj freasoiey relevancy, and compe- ancy. .. “The quotations from Hanson's k, unfairly presented and gross- _]y misinterpreted in the first in- stance, when subjected to examina- tion, fail miserably as proof of an pro-Communist leaning on his par’ “The only testimony before indicating that Hanson may ha had any Communist connections that of Louis Hudenz, which leaves us, to a degree, in wonderment. “He testified that it is his strong q , impression’ that Jack Stachel told Munist. He recalls no details. He first reported to the FBI his al- Jeged conversation with cH relATIVE to Manson ahnit a wee Hefure kaalltsiug Mepis ae and reiore. “geveral weeks after Han- ta: Quicized as a_pro-Com- _Ntagsnit yar URLS, tegAlee aes my Jaims of communism by deeds as ‘and trust of great Americans, such jas Generals Marshall and Eisen-| “In the fi res of the éstigation and the yi 8 review of the . . , case, ang iff CONnsiGération UL evi- dence before us, we can “We cannot accept urenz hearsay testimony as: SOR I “We do not find Hanson to be disloyal, or a man with pro-Com- munist proclivities or a mission to communize, world.” ; Philip sup: “The facts be- fore us fail/tompietely to establish that (he) has ‘an unusual affinity five Communist causes’ or is upe’ of anyone .. + i ine Tecora contains BLFLAL : pridece of concrete facts or onclusively demonstrate that Jessup is actively opposing the well as words. He has the faith hower, whe know him by his ac- tions during recent years when | men’s loyalty and integrity have been put to the test. ecninet th are completely unfounded and un- justified and have done irreparable harm to the prestige of the United States.” ; Dorothy t/ : “While the’ number of admitted affiliations by Miss Dorothy Kenyon are sufficient | to suggest at least a high degree of naivete and perhaps gullibility, . ate align e bees the poifit that our citizens Decor disloyal on the. basis alone of thee affiliations with organizations foun ta be subversive several years after the affiliations, particularly i@ the case of Communist fronts ‘which are deliberately designed to ‘deceive and hoodwink the unsus- ‘ peciing. “In the case of Miss Kenyon, we have been especially impressed by the fact that, during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact, she ‘opposed dhe program which the Communist, arty insisted be acquiesced in by" i ipliowers. We do not find that! her employment in the past by the; State Department is evidence of, M fget That the ile yrartisnent has e disluyal persomal! a.» “This subcommittee feels tha’ NN the accusations made against (him})y NOT OT RECORDED 76 auG 19 1950 se i ra American standards of justice red fair play have not deteriorated WZ. + f = é Times-Herald —._ Wash. Post . Wash. News. Wash. Sta N.Y. Mirror”; | N. Y. Compase.—-. acer ars Ty ie 1 ty 5bG ae gf z fA Date: anrene amnedell