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, aioe sian near Heal, but Little Light, { See ae or Massachusetts, In Report Crificizing © iheaJJprcteseses, He said that McCarthy Charges \ ’ Hit ‘Political’ Motives By Davila Lawrence There's plenty of heat but not very much light in the report made by three Senate Democrats’ criticizing the charges made by Senator McCarthy, Republican, concerning Communists in the Government. It is most unfortunate that Sen- ators Tydings, McMahon and Green, who signed the report, al- lowed the staff who composed it to phrase the document in the Ac as Invective Phrases Give G. O. P. Ammunition to Vee ete oe af sinlitinal invective 4HTIBURRE UL pitas dco. such it ean only furnish further ammunition to the Republicans). and condemn the report as po-| tical in motive rather than judicial. As & document expected to re- veal whether there are or have been Communists in the Govern-! ment and what damage they have. done to American foreign policy; in the Far East, the report is in-' adequate and fragmentary. ct, Would have peen ial Deller li LNe hearings had been open to the public, because now the selection: of excerpts out of context tends’ only to confuse the reader and atrengthen suspicions of “white-: wash.” i People Want to Know. It does not help matters just to focus attention on Senator Mc- Carthy’s recklessness of statement, as if this were a contest between. two sets of politicians making. charges and accusations on the stump. What the American people’ want to know is how the Commu-: nists got into the Government, how they were eliminated if they are now extinct, and how it hap- pens that valuable Government’ papers were stolen and put into, the hands of Communist sym- pathizers. Te accept the denial of Com- munist sympathizers on the wit- ness stand is to accent statements from persons who are trained to lle. Testimony that is based on mere denial is neither proof nar: Miaprent. Toa mich of the un Ribose Went ase volte " P the devivde awede ty porene ie DY Alipelly afoot ed " u iN) ys Hy We ailulual de ily) Ppp) Vi dines wo \¥ they were not conclusive, He Talsed some pertinent questions, Particularly about the mysterions handling of the Amerasia case during wartime early in 16945. Speaking of the stolen papers in way NGOE, LIC BAYS, “That meny of these docu- ments were of great importance is ahown by the following brief de- scriptions of some of the docu- ments: A ‘top secret’ document dealing with targets in Japan: “top secret’ document on Japanese’ resources: a ‘top secret? document —¥eport. Rights Reserved.) which revealed the"Untted -Btates. breakdown and ‘mastery of‘ Jap- anese codes; a ‘strictly’ Sonfident- ial’ Office of Naval InteDigence re- port on the orgunizition of Jap-' anese na irees*'a ‘strictly con-; fidential’»“ communication from Am or.."Gauss on the reor-. g tion of the Chinese air’ force;:a ‘classified’ report on air-' plane and seaplane anchorages in’ Japan, Formosa, and Korea pre-' pared by Military Intelligence: an. Office of Naval Intelligence ‘con-! fidential report’ on China coast Physical geography and coastwise shipping routes, bearing pencilled notations ‘war plans, coastal areas, inner passage, mined areas’: a ‘very secret’ document containing & Memorandum to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington; two docu- ments of the Military Intelligence | Division entitled ‘changes to order of battle of Chinese army’: a docu-|. ment marked ‘top’secret for eyes only,’ the very highest classifica- tion given; a ‘confidential’ forecast of the Pacific war which indicated the location of American subma- Tines: together etth sthan atecci | as a, UW REV, Wall UWUEL CiBSSL= | fied documents dealing with the! composition of United States’ forces in Manila and an opera-| tions plan for Naval Intelligence: for their entire counter-intelli- gence organization in the United. States. ; Questions Unanswered. . Why were the Americans who perpetrated this theft allowed to escape jail and punishment for treason? Why was the prosecu- tion of this case so ineptly han- dled? Why were documents of this kind taken away from his office by a State Department em- .Ploye? Why, indeed, didn’t the Tydings committee do s public Post-mortem of this case before the American people so that they could learn all the facts? :' Senator Lodge exposed same of re Tang exousoa and alihia giren, ‘ive wilAhlivatvationt for farhwre| PA Pyeoute ie anaa, Tho whole papier iiseds yeopening by an paral Lijhunal. Surely the Ben- i oo Telsen — Ladd q Clegg J Glavia If the Amcrasia Nichola earelessly handied, will no cases be handled the same wayi Can there be any confidence tr security measures if the way the Amerasia case was handled is now suppressed for fear of political consequences? Is it more impor tant to win an election or to pun- igh traitors? ‘These are the questions which along with dozens} of others have been. left unan-| swered by the Tydings_commitieg ———— i Dee Tne esa aiahemnentnateihdnieammmbatia abmhmmetemdienimeiined aren ata te : a eee - ae eccemes , f. rd ~ os bb} 7 pio fe BOD /Ye-, j + on Cal nA Ae NOT LMOOR bY . 76 AUG 19 1950 . ™ i eee Lee ee . \ —— ao Page Times-Herald —_ . A. — os =... / . hn Wash. root —_— {i Wash, Meee y w we ak PA 7 ~ / Wabile WES | axe K.°. Mirnrar -—--