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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 21
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: Bags More Witnesses
» — ¥ Listed by McCarthy
10 Support Charges
Senator Won't Reveal
Names of Pair, Says
Both Worked for FBI
By Cecil Holland
——_epntinued From First Page.}
,? { :
In a letler te
esterday. Mr. & weed fel
Aisgnever been ‘a Communist. ad-;
sete of communism, a saboteur|
of American policy, an espionage!
Agent, or any of the other things:
_of which I have been accused,’
The State Department official,
Lattimore ealled hack from the Orient to aAp-
Pear before the department's loy- |
aliy board and to answer the!
‘McCarthy charges, offered in his’
| letler io assist the Senaie investi-
Ration as soon as the review of
his record has been compieted.
A group of Maryland Repub-
licans declared that Senator Tvd-
‘ings has acted “in an extreme-
ly unjudicious manner” in hand-
ling the investigation and asked
for his withdrawal as chairman
of the inquiry egroun.
The demand was made by the
Republican Activities Committee
in @ fetter to Vice President Bark-
ley. It referred lo Senator Tydings’
oe urning
From Afphaias--. atly de -
‘nied the charges in a puvlieess
| pearance before the investigating
_ committee and said that any one
swearing he is or has been a com:
jmunist would be guilty of
Jijury or worse. ;
“Byidence in the
‘lea ase,” Senator McCarthy said to-
| (See. COMMUNISTS, Page _A-
Communists
day on his return from New York,
“is progressing in 8 satisfactory
WAY.
Notes Tydings Statement. i
He also noted that Chairman
:Tydings, of the Senate group, had|
‘announced yesterday that a secret:
investigation will be made into all
: H +Senatc, McCarthy announced
' today he het lrned up two more
f witnesses be “aid will support his:
charges that the State Depart |
rf ment harbors Communists and
4 fellow tiavelers
H He moecdte ‘the announcement!
; shortly after returning frem New |
York wroein he sald he conferr 0d eS eparement. Fes against the
with the witnesses. ; ‘I won't believe it until I see
The ‘Wiscon-in Republican re- it" Senalor McCarthy said. “But
fused tn reveal their names. He jy jg a good sign. IL is the first
° said one is » former undercover sion we've had that Tydines and ie power of his fellow commit-
* agent {o: the Federal Bureau af sen~ihraon aren't completely dedi- The letter, si d py Executi e
f Investigation who joined the Com- cated to the pr iti that the rene my
2 § OR ° ne Proposition Lia Secretary David A, Halley, said
f imunist Pavty to carry on his work. truth about Communists and per- Senalor Tydines announced the.
o The cther, Senator McCarthy verts must not came out.” aaa
clearance e the se against.
said, is a former FBI agent who Senaior McMahon of Connec- Prof nee “before ee ete pre-
Was engaged In counter-espionage ticut is one of the three Demo-
worl, cratic members of the Investigat-
Will Giese Nimes to Counsel, ing subcommittee. He and Sena-;
Sena‘or McCarthy said he would or McCarthy have clashed heal-
_ give their names this afternoon to edly at times.
"Edward ©. Mcrgan. general coun- In his announcement vesterday |
‘sel of the Senate Foreign Relations Senator Tydings: said the * ‘new 4
‘Subcommittee investigating his avenues of investiga tion will in-.
icharges. clude ihe Amerasia Magazine case:
He aducd that he would ask that Muey inert of secret State’ ia
Ae tha.
TRE oF Ss sued for och. I
pariment documents and other
‘also said plans to give the papers.
committee me names Of one a Senator Tvdines refused to say
two more witnesses “In the next. Jia: prompted the investigators
few davs."
Senator MeCarthy said the two to turn to the Amerasia case or
subpoe: Pst
he
witnes:cs would “correborate and’
of the Investigation,
mv testi- ;
} een ‘the Budenz te . “For obvious reasons,’ he said,
“the facts will be more easily de-
voloped wilhout their being pub-
licized.” ‘
Senator McCarthy had brought
ts)
up
This was in reference to Louis-
F. Buar «*. 59. former Communist
Party aecmbrr who has been sub-
poenacd to testify before the Sen-
ate group Thursday.
thea Apsaavacin anes in ahaa
te NEPASIA TASC fi CAL E-
Win Ay wee
: . . ing before the committee that
Called ir Lattimore, Case. Jonn S. Service, veteran State
Mr. Buden?, now pe Department ‘eer officer, had
University professor, was called at —°P ; career otncer, na
Communist leanings. Mr, Serv-
Senator McCarthy's request. The
Wisconsin Republican said ,that
Mr. Budenz would support his
charges that Owen Lattimore, Far
Eastern expert, is or was a mem-
ber of the Communist Party.
2
ice was Involved wilh five other
persons in the Amerasia case. A
Federal Grand Jury exonerated
him and he was restored to duty.
jin tae State Department. Two of |
# he aw,
Scuator MeCarthy also six were fined on oharzesc#f
chareed that Mr.
Lattimore was conspiring to remove Gover nment:!
Russia's top spy in this country documents. vo .
and has exerted an important in- oe —
is |
fluence In the shaping of Ameri-
Tee 950.
can policy in the Far East. He
has-said he would let his charges
against the State “- t
“stand or fsil” on the Lattimore
MNT aie cH yp ond yo pling s rarngeipiige
4
rye .
a“ a Te ee ae
dete te
ee eas aT
slatement that FBI records had
cleared Mr. Lattimore of the Mc-
Carthy charges and said thal. the.
Marytand Senator had “abrogated
sented.” Two Republican members
of the investigeting committee,
i to issue with Senstor Tydings
Yer his announcement that. the
La ttimore,
fles had cleared Mr,
‘to comment on the secret phases ~
NOT RUcORDED
85 JUL 121950
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