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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 21
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5 bout the Wi mk ‘Muudt (K.. 3. Dak. was “a fraud) jteard ‘ “om “Dis owo
question about the Wisconsin Re- ips.’ ut, Jenner concluded, he
| pubiican's performance. , For ane * hoax “perpets ted the ot thought Tydings would one day get
Ives said, in complaining that the|4™eticen people,” since the full snother medal.
Tydings subcommittee had failed|committee had not adopted the re-| “It will be large and emblesoaat
to make complete investigation. j|port, but merely transmitted it to|with a single name: :
“Errors in commission by someé|the Senate. good old Joe for a job
should not blind us to errors in Senator Flanders (R., Vi} sub- I Tydings broke his s
omission by others.” " enner’s speech only 4
Senator Lodge (B., Mass), 2 mi mitted a resolution to withdraw the |Senator Connally (D.."%
nority member of the Tydings|Printed copies and correct the title |that Jenner be silenced
_Ipage. It h », (ing Rule 19, and a Reowl
subcommittee, followed Ives, prin-|Pag went to the Senate clerk's tion followed to permit
eipally to correct what he thought/desk where, it would appear, it ma: ‘
were misinterpretations of his po-jetay a long while. Meantime, the aid Tydings shouted
sition made by Tydings in his|reports are printed and in circula-| "— . _
speech the previous day. tion. ee nt
He insisted it was impossible,| Senator Jenner's excoriation of
from the loyalty files the subcom-|Tydings was prompted by remarks
mittee had been allowed to ex-jthe latter had made about Jenner
amine, to come to any conclusions/on | Thursday.
on the joyaliy of the persons; In a digression in his speech
listed in McCarthy's famous “8l;on McCarthy, Tydings had assert-
cases”, ed that in his votes Jenner had
Senator McMahon (B., Conn.),;consistently followed the “Stalin
also on the subcommittee, insisted/line.” He had voted z#gainst the:
that in effect Lodge was thus|Marshal] Plan, against the Atlantic!
leriticizing the work of the FBI.|Pact and against foreign military’
jLodge refused to agree. aid—all of which were also bitterly
A moment later, flushed, furious|opposed by the Kremlin and the
‘and with his fist shaking, McMa-jDaily Worker.
jhon upbraided Lodge for failing] Accordingly, Jenner's remarks
ito Ee Ambassador-at-Large Phil-|were woven about the refrain:
e
ip ssup of McCarthy's charges] ‘Let's see who's following the
th ee a ee ee ee eee ee eee had he ne Tedinegs
ing HEU PUM ACE LAL line, LIT VE 2 ULI. He,
in attempted to show that Tydings|
dge asserted he had no/was a “stooge” of the Administra-
doubts at all about Jessup’s loy-ition, one of its “tralned seals" and’
alty, and was delighted that per-/—in reference to Tydings’ earlier
‘sons who knew him, such as Gen-|attempt to play a recording of Mc-
erals Marshall and Eisenhower,|Carthy'’s speeches on the Senate’
‘said he was a fine American. But, floor—a “disc-jogkey.”
‘Lodge asserted, the subcommittee| It was easy toe call Tydings* hand,
had not made a real investigation| Jenner said, “for these cards he is
of Jessup. Therefore he, Lodge,|hiding are red with the blood of
was not going to pretend that it; treachery.”
had, nor “clear” him in the ab-| The Administration and State
gence of such an inquiry. Department for which Tydings was
Senator Lehman (D., N.¥.) ob-|covering up and supporting, said
served it was “somewhat ungen-|Jenner, were responsible for three:
erous” of Lodge not to have said|wars in a generation, the debacle
as much fn the minority reportiin the: Far East, the betrayal of
he submitted. China, the mess in Korea, the
At one point, Senator Magnus-jrecognition of Russia, and the at-. es
sen (D., Wash.) asked Lodge: “Didjtempted destruction of Germany ue
the Senator in his investigation|and Japan, “the only two powers in|
find any Communists in the State/the world which have been able to
Department.” stop the threatened aggression af
“No, I did not,” Lodge said, and) Russia’s oriental hordes.”
added further that he thought], He noted that Tydings had spon-
such Communists as the depart-lsored Acheson for his first pasi-;
:
SUCH LOIS eS 8S Be UP pase SVs setae
ment ever had’ came in 1945 and|tion in the Government. Pointing;
1946 when it absorbed severaliat the Marylander, he then:
wartime agencies. Since then, he|/shouted: { 4
said, the department had made aj} “Is it not true, Senator Tydings,. .
“ood approach to a good securily|that it is your father-in-law, Mr.
vstem. Davies, who as our Ambassador to;
There followed a long discussion,|Russia, wrote as foul a piece of;
ln-ostly among the Republicans, on|pro-Soviet propaganda ever de-. oe
t 2 fact that the subcommittee's|signed to corrupt the minds of the;
r-port, filed the previous day,|American people?”
af back from the printer with] Referring to a remark Tydings
a
over sheet indicating it was a|made the day before that he had
ort from the full Foreign Re-|been decorated for World War I
lali ons Committee, service, Jenner said ad no
his, ssid Senators Smith (R., medals himself. He adde he
7 ; ASH POST” a
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