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tain the truth. The subcommittee’s record ia a tangle of Souse-threads, of witnesses who were not subpoenaed, of . Jeads which were not followed up... this business will & never end, clearly or otherwise, if the practice of having " “4 ’ 7 Tus “Heke DEMOCRATIC £ WHE STATE DEP'T - THE BUCKET BRIGADE the majority party investigate the majority continues to held sway.” [rs pretext of the Tydings New Dealers for giving clearance to all of the men and women whom Sen. Mc- Carthy had dubbed Stalin’s little helpers was that the State department loyalty files which the subcommittee, after months of Presidential obstruction, was finally per- mitted to inspect showed “nothing derogatory.”° Sen. McCarthy had anticipated this weak defense. He had produced, in advance of the release of the Ty: report, statementa from one present and three former employes of the State department that in 1946 the Ad- ministration had a team of eight persons working for five months to weed everything from the files which was 7 4, derogatory or incriminating. —_ 7 . : cee A deadline was set for this task: It had to be completed s before the Democratic congressional majority was. placed by a Republican majority, elected to the 80th Coy- gress. State department officials were even permitted to strip their personal files, so that the men who were de- J UL 19%